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Deep in the West Sussex countryside, Highdown gardens has an enormous amount of horticultural history attached to it and rightly so. Originally a working chalk quarry it was purchased by Sir Frederick Stern in 1909 who, against the advice of the contemporary leading horticulturists created what would have been a world class garden in the wonderful countryside of what is now the South Downs national park.  Groundbreaking in his attempt to grow anything he could get his hands in his chalky soils, he managed to prove many of those around him wrong. Over the years he published several books on chalk gardens, on peonies and snowdrops and part-funding expeditions to China to bring back yet more exotic plants to try out at Highdown. He was rewarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s Victoria Medal and became vice president of said organisation. He was chairman of the John Innes Horticultural Institute from 1947 to 1961 and vice-president and treasurer of the Linnean Society from 1941 to 1...

An ICO is the best example of not only an exit scam but also of a wolf in lamb’s clothing . Nick Szabo (Nakamoto Satoshi) did not only create the first P2P electronic currency that made anonymous and unregulated transactions a possibility and but he also inspired thousands fraudsters to use his open source Bitcoin code to create a new cryptocurrency in less than 2 hours and then use the ethereum network to run an “ Initial Coin Offering (ICO)” crypto- crowdfunding campaign and sale these worthless cryptocurrency tokens for millions of dollars to non-techy investors! 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 For those who don’t know what ICO is: A n initial coin offering (ICO) or initial currency offering (derived form initial public offering (IPO)) is a means of crowdfunding centered around cryptocurrency, which can be a source of capital for startup companies. In an ICO, a quantity of the crowdfund...