Month: February 2022

The Drone Regulations 2021: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back

24 Feb 2022

by Nimrat Kaur Dhillon Introduction An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that is operated without a human onboard and is colloquially known as a ‘drone’. It is also known as a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV). This is in contradistinction to traditional aircrafts that are controlled remotely by human operators, or may even be guided … More The Drone Regulations 2021: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back

The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies: Can a cryptocurrency become a global currency?

10 Feb 2022

by Jitasha Bahl INTRODUCTION Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that operates on blockchain technology. In a white paper published in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym for a computer programmer or group of programmers, introduced Bitcoin as an open source, peer-to-peer digital currency (Nakamoto 2008, 2). Bitcoins have no intrinsic worth and are not backed by a … More The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies: Can a cryptocurrency become a global currency?