Please Don’t Help Me, Government

One of my favorite economic and finance analysts is a green chicken. Yes, I’m referring to Doomberg, a team with strong backgrounds in energy and heavy industry, who started writing in May of 2021. They’re funny, super insightful, and filled with insider knowledge about commodities, energy, manufacturing, and finance. Their newsletter was free until recently, … Read more

Thoughts on the Crypto Crash, Blockchain, and the Real World

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve now seen, heard about, or personally experienced the market crash that happened and is happening right now. The crypto twitter is aflame. Reddit is a wasteland. Telegram and Discord are panicstricken. There’s a fair amount of dancing on graves, i-told-you-so and a fair amount of defensiveness. I’m … Read more

Buying a House with Bitcoin – A Real Example on YouTube

When it comes to topics in blockchain and crypto, real estate people often talk about transactions where a buyer used Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency to buy a house. For instance, here’s an article from BerkshireHathaway HomeServices called “Buying a home with Bitcoin.” Bitpay has a whole article on the same topic, which mentions Pacaso … Read more

Some Smart Rich People Have Reservations About Bitcoin

When it comes to Bitcoin becoming the world’s reserve currency to replace the dollar, it has a lot going for it. The price of Bitcoin has gone from $192 dollars in October of 2013 to $57,000 today. That’s an insane 29,587% increase in value. A lot of the world’s biggest investors have publicly mentioned their … Read more