Lovely essay about financial bubbles by Tim Harford in the FT.

Tim Harford

What the poet, playboy and prophet of bubbles can still teach us

One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast o...

Always wonder why people obsess over how strong MicroStrategy hands are. They've got around 130k BTC, and yet almost 330k new BTC are mined each year in this epoch - much of it by pro miners who need to sell to cover expenses.

Wondering how much GDP growth percent people would trade for national sovereignty? Keep seeing this "slam dunk" argument as if Brexit was a mistake because we might have 1% less GDP growth 🤔

#[0] Curious to know why Twitter never got close to something like zaps while you were still there? Was it a tech or regulatory issue? Seemed so close with lightning tipping. Apologies if you've already answered this elsewhere

777777 Good to see NgU tech still working 👌

The only way to celebrate 🎉🎉

"Bitcoin will do fine because Bitcoin maximalists are like cockroaches and even a nuclear war couldn't kill them" - Scott Alexander in his 2023 to 2028 predictions I guess I'll take this as a compliment 😅

Grading My 2018 Predictions For 2023

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🎉🎉🎉🎉😂 Been weeks and I've finally discovered how to type emojis with the GrapheneOS keyboard 😊🏋🔌

Bitcoiners will literally build a new censorship resistant communication protocol to prove it can be done without a shitcoin, instead of going to therapy

Wife: "What're you looking at there?" Me: "Nostr, its a decentralized uncensoraeble social network ... " Wife: Stares at me blankly, knows from experience how long I can talk about Bitcoin for, wisely walks away.

Oh man, new Michael Lewis book going to be mega midwit FUD if his latest podcast is anything to go by. Fawning over ChainAnalysis and claiming people who are interested in privacy are just sexist bros. #[0] #[1]

On Background: Bad Actors on the Blockchain - Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion

For his next book, Michael Lewis wants to find out how investigators manage to trace the murky trail of illicit crypto. Cryptocurrency started with...