No, that tub will never get up Wootton Creek, nor berth at Keyhaven!

Agreed!

Must admit China fund (FCSS) helped buy my boat in 2008 but that was before I learned about the Uyghurs. Also invested in Russia via BEEP before selling the lot on Skripal shocker. Whatever happened to 1990s fond hopes of Wandel durch Handel?

Yes, cynicism is no substitute for science!

Well, it is less than 20 years since Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the world to Bitcoin!

Popular delusions and the madness of crowds. There is a circularity in markets and if you think it’s different this time, I have a tulip bulb to sell to you! thetimes.com/article/d4a25b…

Good luck, Gareth, but don’t forget to consider turning some pixel profits into real ones while they are still there to be had!

Bigger fools don’t grow on trees, you know!

Two views make a market. And never forget that fund managers and brokers don’t care if the price goes up or down, so long as the punters keep buying and selling!

Now that’s what I call a real return!

Thank you, Annabel, I do try to be positive most weeks!

Cynicism is not the same thing as scepticism. The latter questions everything; the former believes in nothing.

Cheers, Gavin, interesting times!

Is it too late to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon? You decide! Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/business-money…

Worried to see shrewd observer Ian King apparently warming to 'stablecoins'. So here are my thoughts on the whole crypto thing again. If you think it's different this time, I have a tulip bulb to sell to you. Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/business-money…

Thank you for flagging up this interesting development, Caleb. Uranium-backing sounds like it makes the Cameco token substantially different from any other crypto I have come across, which lack commodity-based backing, but I remain wary of unknown exchanges. I would still rather

Agreed, Chris, but I wonder how long we will have to wait to be proved right? Or wrong!

No guarantee is worth a penny more than the guarantor standing behind it. On the whole, I would rather rely on the Bank of England or even the increasingly-politicised Fed!

Random-reading to delay getting down to work led me to this, from a recent book review: “The genius of this war, but an old man made too irritable by exhaustion and a little too prone to take refuge in whisky.” Who said that about whom? No cheating!