Can Fate Be real?

FATE: CAN IT BE REAL?

This is not a frivolous question. I would be thankful if someone can clear my doubt.

When something bad happens to someone, everyone offers fate as the reason behind the happening. Is this acceptable? Is fate decided instantly or is it the result of some past action? Can it extend back to your last incarnation, if indeed there had been a previous birth? If the troubles you are going through now have been imposed on you for the undesirable acts of your last life, shouldn’t you be told of the fact? What is the point in punishing someone without informing him of why?

There is another intriguing question. if at all you believe in multiple births, not everybody who is born could have had a past life. A good number of people are born for the first ever time. They could not have committed any misdeed in their past life. They had not had any past life, had they? Why should they, then, suffer? Is there a difference between their sufferings and the sufferings of the sinners in the past life? Does it not mean that anyone who is born has to go through suffering? So, what has fate got to do with it?

                                      THERE IS NOTHING 'BIT' ABOUT BITCOINS

When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, he could not have foreseen the irony his creation has turned into. It is not clear whether Nakamoto is an individual, a real or assumed name or  an entity made up of several people.  Bitcoin was ‘bit’ only in name. It has become huge indeed. Something that was considered rather a joke in 2009 when it was introduced, one bitcoin is now worth $10,000.

Many people with either remarkable foresight or sheer recklessness had invested paltry sums in Bitcoins  are now ‘Bitcoin millionaires’.

Bitcoins are not accepted by many institutions as a legitimate transactional currency but those who do will make you sit up and take notice: Microsoft, Expedia.com, Wikipedia, Subway and WordPress.com, giants all!

Nevertheless, only a few people own bitcoins and use them for transactions as a routine. There is also a downside to the whole affair. With no central authority to keep track of the crypto currency’s travel, there is no way to check if some smart people use the same coin twice for payments to two different people.

The future looks bright though. The U S SEC is, in all probability, going to approve ETFs in 2018 and that is good news for bitcoin enthusiasts. Financial institutions will have no reservations in offering bitcoins as an option for investment.

Bitcoins may be what the future is made of!