Bitcoin’s noisiest advocates are destroying themselves with freedom porn, bad economics & fake history. — Bitcoin began in 2008 as an idealistic mission to decentralize money away from governments. Something that remains little known to most, is that Satoshi Nakamoto actually cited the Bob Rubin Trade in the genesis block of Bitcoin. In short, Bitcoin was fundamentally designed to be the financial ejector seat to…

Literally everything you need to know about cryptocurrency in 37 minutes. — Cryptocurrency & the blockchain technology it’s built on can be a difficult series of concepts to wrap your head around. Crypto remains shrouded by over-complicated technical jargon and a cult-like following of investors that endorse cryptocurrency as the future of the modern financial world. Meanwhile, there are hordes of financial…

Amazon is a parasite & America is the host. — At first glance, it might seem a bit radical to suggest breaking up the world’s fifth largest company. Seriously, what good reason exists to break up Amazon? Should we break up Amazon because it pays next to nothing in tax? Or, should we break up Amazon because they refuse to…

Our brains are not computers; they’re far superior. — As your eyes roll across the words on this screen, one of the greatest marvels of biological evolution is helping you to transform the light waves emitted by thousands of tiny, flashing lights into useful information. Sitting less than a centimetre behind your eyeballs, a grey lump of muscle holds…

Don’t listen to Andrew Tate: you don’t “escape the matrix” by enslaving yourself to money. — Every now and again one of my social media feeds will be interrupted by a video from Andrew Tate, kindly informing me of how I should be sacrificing every last moment of my life to the pursuit of money and success. Only then could I ever hope to be free…

“Zero Knowledge” cryptocurrencies are getting ready to surge. — In January, we saw the crypto market go crazy for literally any token that could somehow tether itself to the ruling artificial intelligence (AI) narrative. All of these so-called “AI tokens” — many of which had little or nothing to do with AI at all — recorded some seriously impressive…

An “eshay turned trader”, Adlay.eth went toe to toe with Sam Bankman-Fried… And won. — In the early days of November last year, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, FTX, went down in flames. The crypto industry reeled from the unexpected and rapid demise of the exchange, and the revelation that FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried — who goes by the three-letter acronym ‘SBF’ —…

Artificial intelligence just sent crypto into overdrive, but where are the fundamentals? — Chatter around artificial intelligence seems to have overtaken every waking moment of public consciousness. Every day the headlines of all the major news outlet are dominated by stories of OpenAI’s wonder-bot ChatGPT acing exams from Wharton Business School, and even landing high-paying entry-level jobs at what should technically be its…

South Korean investors have been using Aptos (APT) to make a meme out of housing affordability. — The important stuff: South Koreans pumped Aptos (APT) because of a joke on housing affordability. Its not a rumour: trading volume of APT on South Korean crypto exchange UpBit was oftentimes higher than all trading volume on Binance. The Aptos Foundation have marketed Aptos to Koreans from day one, and they know what…