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11 October 2017 Summary A subsection of the Bitcoin economy including prominent businesses such as Coinbase, Xapo, and BitPay have signed an agreement to adopt and implement a contentious hard fork of Bitcoin  sometime  in November. A hard fork is a backwards incompatible change to the Bitcoin network. This hard fork is not supported by the majority of the Bitcoin users and developers and is therefore a contentious hard fork. By adopting this hard fork, we believe the supporters of this agreement are shifting their users to an alternative currency (an altcoin) which is incompatible with Bitcoin. The signatories of this agreement wrongly believe that the currency created by adopting this contentious hard fork will eventually become Bitcoin. Therefore storing any BTC on services such as Coinbase, Bitpay and Xapo is strongly not recommended. By storing BTC on these services, you could find that after the hard fork, your BTC has been renamed to something else or replaced e...

August 4, 2016 •   The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has finally released property valuation tables for all the major cities of Pakistan. The property rates for the purpose of tax calculation were determined by FBR and real estate stakeholders after several meetings. You can view the valuation tables below: Lahore – I Lahore – II Karachi Islamabad Multan – I Multan – II Peshawar Faisalabad – I Faisalabad – II Gujranwala Jhang Gujrat Gwadar Abbottabad Hyderabad Mardan Quetta Rawalpindi Sargodha Sialkot Sukkur Now that the property valuation rates have been decided, no ambiguity should remain among investors and even genuine buyers. The real estate market, which has been on the rocks for the past one month, will now get back on track sooner rather than later. These valuation tables will also add transparency to real estate transactions. Furthermore, amendments in property taxes and property valuations will curb mar...