Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Deglobalization Explaining the Weird Market: From Slow-Motion Business Cycles to Shifting Liquidity and the End of Global Synchronization
Economic Arguments Against Vibe Coding Opportunity cost, noise filtering, and the myth of productivity from DIY AI apps.
Common Futurist Fallacies Technological innovation depends on the underlying growth picture, it's not an independent driver of growth. Demographic decline is the limiter no one sees coming.
Rethinking The Economic Center Of Gravity From Rice Fields to Roman Aqueducts: False Models for GDP, Civilizational Complexity, and the False Narrative of a Balanced East and West
Why Mesoamerica Had Civilization and Sub-Saharan Africa Didn’t We must understand the past and the evolution of economies and civilizations to understand the tectonic shift that bitcoin adoption entails.
A World Without Inflation? Understanding how fixed supply transforms economic incentives and re-routes the natural pressure to inflate.
Have Retail Investors Abandoned Bitcoin? While retail search interest may be down, easier access and altcoin fatigue suggest Bitcoin engagement is evolving—not disappearing.
In Pursuit Of A New Economics: The Layered Agent This is a draft of my exploration into the layered economic actor, different from a blank-slate individualistic actor.
Can Anything Logically Be Done About Fertility Collapse? Navigating the most pessimistic and optimistic outlooks for tackling demographic decline.
Testing the Money Printing Hypothesis Exploring three hypotheses about money printing, QE, and the flow of funds in the modern financial system.
Augustus’ Fertility Laws and the Battle to Save Rome How Rome's first emperor tried to reverse a demographic decline with legal and moral reform
Bitcoin Insider #323 Trump takes office and we await his Bitcoin Executive Orders and hoping for Ross Ulbricht's freedom. A lot is coming for Bitcoin over the next few days!
Is Quantum Computing the Biggest Threat to Bitcoin? And Your Comments - E430 Debunking the quantum computing FUD about bitcoin
Will Trump's Tariffs Work? Reaction to Patrick Boyle - E429 I react to Patrick Boyle's tariff episode. It was a balanced take from Patrick, and I add my own color to it.
Bitcoin Insider #322 Slower week for the bitcoin news cycle, wildfires in California and macro take center stage. All awaiting Trump's inauguration.
Bitcoin Round Up - MSTR, IMF and El Salvador, China Stimulus, Price and more - E428 The main topics today are MSTR once again, the IMF hassling El Salvador and China stimulus.
They Finally See Bitcoin Coming, Some Are Trying To Stop It - E427 Listening and reacting to great Charles Schwab and Tom Lee takes on bitcoin and a terrible one from Bill Dudley.
Bitcoin Gets the Support of Powerful Elites, Major Statements from Powell and Putin - E426 I react to Putin and Powell public comments about bitcoin. I also read through one of my recent blog posts about Endogenous Money.
Bitcoin OTC Desks Drained, Geopolitical Chaos Erupts - Bitcoin Roundup - E425 LIVE stream from Dec 2, 2024 as podcast. MicroStrategy, Marc Andreessen on Rogan, and the start of the China collapse.
Bitcoin Fundamentals Report #321 Inside Bitcoin: Tax Rule Changes, $100K Trends, and Global Economic Upheaval
Bitcoin Is The Antithesis Of Fiat Debunking the claim that Bitcoin is fiat currency. We explore Bitcoin’s non-arbitrary design, market-driven value, and role as a distributed consensus system, while clarifying the true nature of fiat currency.
Bitcoin Fundamentals Report #320 A weekly roundup including Tether FUD, Russia using bitcoin for trade, Chinese yields collapse, price holding $90k and mining industry news.
Bottom Up Adoption: A Theory Based In The Inflation Argument In a follow up to last week's post on gold versus bitcoin monetization and monetary evolution, this post tackles the technical consequences of an inflation-hedge mindset and how it led to the scaling conflict.
Bitcoin Fundamentals Report #319 The bitcoin price cools as corporate buying slows, macro and geopolitical calm before the storm, bitcoin price analysis, and miners buying bitcoin instead of ASICs.
Why Will Bitcoin Be Monetized, If Gold Was Demonetized? Analysis challenging inflation-based narratives and examining the market's role in selecting money, offering a fresh perspective through Evolutionary Monetary Theory.
Gold vs Bitcoin Debate Reaction, with Peter Schiff and Robert Breedlove - E424 Reaction to Schiff vs Breedlove gold vs bitcoin debate