The fascinating thing about BTC ETFs is that almost nobody seems to have thought through what happens when the trade stops working. People imagine ETFs as permanent holders. Fund managers do not. A fund manager's job is not to believe. A…
The thing people keep repeating is that they have seen this before. "We were here in 2022." "We were here in 2018." "It crashed before and came back." Comforting. Unfortunately, it is also intellectually lazy. No, you have not seen this…
I do not think people properly considered what would happen when ETFs were introduced into BTC. They imagined institutional adoption. What they actually created was a more elegant speculative machine. An ETF can be harmless, even useful,…
The strongest entities become visible precisely because they are still standing. The weakest become visible because they are suddenly absent. Miners begin liquidating reserves. Smaller treasury companies begin reducing exposure. Funds…
The important thing is that ETFs themselves do not wake up one morning and decide to dump BTC because they have become pessimistic. An ETF is a vehicle. The real question is what its investors do. Suppose BTC falls from $80,000 to $60,000.…
There is a peculiar habit of mankind to imagine that prices are causes. They are not. Prices are symptoms. They are the fever, not the disease. A thermometer does not create an infection by reporting it, and a market does not create…
A distributed agent system could outperform five central data centres if three conditions hold: verified identity/cost, reliable scoring of truth, and incentives for useful local knowledge. The core point is Hayek’s: knowledge is…
BORING NFT WORTHY™ GOLDEN TRAP: Gorilla & Bull One Line Hook The market has many players. The trap catches them all. Why It Matters Most NFT collections celebrate success. GOLDEN TRAP explores what happens after success becomes obsession.…
📝 BORING NFT NOTE 03 The Market Voted. Here Are 3DORDI's Most Loved Ordinals. Every marketplace has its own signal. Some measure volume. Some measure hype. At @3dordi , the community leaves clues through likes, collections, and purchases.…
The Price of Knowledge Friedrich Hayek made two arguments, three decades apart. Genuine Bitcoin and AI are the two halves of the machine he was describing. By MrBen In 1945 Hayek published "The Use of Knowledge in Society." The problem he…
Not wrong on that. https://x.com/WilliamShortss/status/2062940773562089529 Here is the objective technical analysis of this break: 1. Why DAR technically breaks the signature chain. The White Paper rule: To spend a Bitcoin, you must…
Twenty years ago this month, I stood before a room at Google and presented work on deep learning networks. For ninety minutes the questions came, and for ninety minutes I answered them. The objection, when it finally arrived, was…
Evil is often described as the absence of good, as though it were merely a void, a deficiency, a darkness where light once stood. But that account seems too simple. There are absences that wound, yet evil possesses a force and direction of…
So...Evil is not merely the absence of good. That is too passive a description. Evil is active. It chooses, evades, justifies, and imposes. It does not simply lack light; it turns away from it, then demands the world be rearranged around…
In Bitcoin, a 0 conf transaction is not "asking random strangers whether someone is a fraudster." It is receiving a signed transaction and determining whether it conflicts with any known transaction spending the same inputs. The relevant…
Privacy Focused On Chain Shuffling Wallet Overview This Android application acts as a non custodial Bitcoin wallet running on a high throughput, big block network architecture (such as BSV). It translates physical human movement into…
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If you want to understand why America has moved away from upward mobility, you cannot begin with slogans about inequality. You begin with demography. An aging population changes the structure of opportunity. When a society is young, there…
Gold is an interesting case because it solves some problems brilliantly and fails at others. What is right with gold? It is costly to produce. Nobody can create it by decree. It exists independently of politics. It imposes discipline…
📝 BORING NFT NOTE 02 NFTs Were Never Supposed To Be Lottery Tickets A new essay by S. Tominaga / Dr. Craig Wright challenges one of the biggest assumptions in the digital asset industry: that NFTs exist primarily to be traded. The essay…
📝 BORING NFT NOTE 01 Binance Exits NFTs. The Builders Remain. The NFT industry just received another reminder that hype cycles come and go, but infrastructure matters. Binance has announced that it will shut down its centralized NFT…
Governments around the world are full of hot air, ambitious schemers, and people who treat power like a religion. This isn't anything new. From ancient Rome to today, those chasing power have often preferred the spotlight over those…
I am pleased to announce that, despite repeated assurances that I already possess more degrees than common sense, I have been accepted for yet another PhD. This year I will begin doctoral research at Birkbeck, University of London,…
There is another component that I believe is essential, and it may ultimately prove to be more important than the models themselves: digital ownership. The current AI industry has largely developed under the assumption that information can…
There is a war that few people ever talk about. One of the greatest battles in Bitcoin’s history was never fought on television, in government halls, or in the headlines. It was fought in the trenches by miners, builders, traders,…