Hello and welcome to The Looking Glass, WBGS' very own Academic Blog. This year we are planning to breathe new life into this amazing blog as the Academic Head Boy team for 2025- 2026! However, at the Looking Glass we need your help to catapult this blog into it's GOLDEN AGE. We need your articles, your essays, your opinions and your finest work to MAKE THE LOOKING GLASS GREAT AGAIN! If you have read something interesting or watched something that sparked a thought on social media - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you entered a competition, however big or small - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you are interested in a specific field, issue or period - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you have produced artwork, a piece of music or creative writing - WE WILL PUBLISH IT! Your creative skills have been called to action - now we must muster to create, discover and explore. You are the creative minds of the future. The Plato's, the Newtons, the Angelo's, the Nietzsche's. This is your calling. This is Y...
Josiah Dunn May 22nd 2009. A programmer purchases two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin. This is the first commercial use of Bitcoins and marks the beginning of a financial revolution. Now those 10,000 Bitcoins are worth billions, a testament to the incredible potential of cryptocurrencies. May 22nd 2029. Twenty years on, in a bustling street market, sellers and buyers from all over the world trade goods without a central currency and use their digital wallets to transfer digital value instantly and securely. As impossible as this sounds, it is becoming a reality as cryptocurrencies challenge traditional banking by removing intermediaries and reducing costs. Decentralisation is a core part of cryptocurrencies, differentiating them from traditional financial systems that rely on central authorities like banks and governments. By operating on blockchain networks, cryptocurrencies eliminate intermediaries, allowing individuals to conduct transactions directly with one another. This peer-to-...