If countries are stocks, which ones should you long & which ones to short? I used machine learning to grade the industrial health of…
People angry about a jpeg 🖼 selling for $1 mn fail to see the big picture. If you understand the nature of assets &…
In August 2021, I relocated and realized how much hassle there was to keep your valuable jewelries safe when moving. None of this trouble…
If you mint a NFT based on a physical asset, e.g. a 💎 , how much should it be worth? It seems a complex…
Me: I bought a diamond yesterday. Mom: Nice. They’re good investments. Me: I’m going to smash it & sell it as a NFT. Mom:…
#Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary policy. Many people think government printing too much is evil, so a fixed money…
Ethereum will be the new government bond. Staked ETH, or PoS asset of a dominant blockchain, will replace US Treasuries as the risk-free asset…
Your bank offers 0.2% APY but BlockFi offers 8%. Are high yields in crypto for real? The answer is yes AND no. Here’s my…
You think venture capitals are successful? The truth is 85% of VCs underperform the stock market. And 50% of them downright lose money. The…
The easiest way to de-risk bitcoin is to have governments become miners. Government needs revenue, bitcoin needs legitimacy. It’s a match made in heaven…
The US is in big trouble with twin deficits & high debt. But few realize that a Fed-issued digital USD token can change the…
Some say: “Central banks will start buying #bitcoin as international reserves and that’ll make price go up”. Totally false. Governments can’t use bitcoin as…
So, suppose you got kidnapped. Someone put a gun to your head and say “Go get 1000 Twitter followers this month or go see…
Amazon stock went up 100x in the past 15 years. Any idiot could have made money on it. Yet I managed to accomplish the…
So everyone seems to think Axie Infinity is the “next big thing” in crypto. After all, it’s making more money than ethereum and bitcoin…
Most business books are not worth the time, NYT bestsellers included. But once in a while you bump into a gem and it changes…
Unpopular opinion: Being an entrepreneur is a bad deal for most people. Having grown Soundwise to an 8-person team, I realize everything I was…
Most people can draw obvious conclusions about situations. But if you only think the obvious, you’re just like everyone else, with no edge in…
What would you invest in if you are to live to 120? Most people live life not looking too far ahead. That’s why their…
In 2012 I bungee jumped off a 111-meter tall bridge in Zambia.Think you know what fear is? When you’re free falling at 100 miles…