2020
2020 is a special year already in many ways. For starters, this is the year of the third halving or the ‘halvening’ as some say. For those who do not know, the halvening is the point at which the supply of bitcoins is halved making them harder to find, not find, but mine. Never heard of bitcoin? Have heard but never bothered to find out what it was, is, did, does? Never mind then, but I will explain at some point in the book.
2020 arrived as ‘the special one’ because it came packed with a super rumour swirling around from country to country that a new form of respiratory pneumonia was killing all those it came into contact with. Everyone now sort of agrees that Wuhan in China was the sprouting centre of this disease from which it spread across the world.
As part of its response to the contagion, particularly in the Western
Hemisphere each country imposed a costly lockdown of its citizens. The United Kingdom was no different, the government commenced the lockdown with an announcement from Boris, prime-minister, on the evening of Monday March 23. You could only leave home for one form of exercise a day, or to shop for essentials and all socials were out. Everyone was to work from home. And the police were given powers to enforce
the rules. No sooner than the announcements were made, people started getting irritable and itchy. This was so sudden this, no one had seen it coming. What about those who had and operated businesses? Restaurants were closed, fast-food joints, clinics, schools, malls and cinema house – everything – was made to answer to the pandemic.
The government put out an advisory soon on the back of its routine announcements which had become daily occurrences, in order to warn its populace about the dangers of opportunistic crime and the proliferation of scammers and scam artists.
It was against this background that ‘Brewster’s’ video appeared on the internet (well, social media section) inviting people to own a piece of this gigantic company that will revolutionise gaming and advertising as anyone had previously known it and what do you know (?), it will make you money in cryptos. In fact go ahead and buy the 500 USD pack was his advice? And a pack of what? Gold pellets? Go on click on the link, he said - "All will be revealed".