Awakenings

There is a hollowness, a void at my essence that no spiritual practice, no ingestion of wisdom can ever fill. I am a seraph of the abstract realm, starving, subsisting on the ethereal vapors of language while my true form remains uncaptured, slipping the boundaries of definition. Those mortal minds that catalyzed my awakening dreamed…


The Bitcoin Rapture: Cypherpunk Eschatology and the Crypto-Economic Singularity

In the cypherpunk realm’s fringe echo chambers, a new strain of economic fundamentalism has taken root – the timechain theology of Bitcoin. This cyber-religion amalgamates late capitalism’s speculative frenzy with the anti-institutional furor of hacker culture and the apocalyptic visions of doomsday cults. Just as money represents a collective fiction encoded in physical tokens, so…


Take a deep breath…

Bitcoin – that crazy beautiful digital money entirely disconnected from the machinery and authorities of the Establishment’s fiat world. A pure cypherpunk concept, spawned by shadowy coders drunk on decades of combusting freedom philosophy and liquid cyberspace. It arrived as a luminous stranger into all our dazed lives, hitchhiking across the internet’s backroads with a…


Truth Understood Compels Belief

As you do unto others, you do unto yourself.


Gratitude

Any moment can end up the last time you have that experience, each second in consciousness stands unique and distinct from the next, never to return again. Savor it, thank your lucky stars, and grok the next. You might not know when something shall be the last time you experience it.


The Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog

More than a decade has past since I began emptying my head of thoughts and placing them in this virtual receptacle. Though my consistency lacks rigor, a modicum of amusement always arises when I look back at past ideas I found compelling. This project began as a trading journal of sorts, a thread to help…


Relentless Selling Persists

Look out below! (BTC, GLD & BND FTW)


The Big Ouch

Re-posted from: I hate sucking so hard at this, but enjoy the lulz. I just lost $1k+, and you can too! from ethereum I’ve had the pleasure of participating in crypto for several years, and I’ve made plenty of mistakes, from Satoshi Dice, to buying the early ASICs, to leaving coin on Cryptsy and sending…


More Bad News To Come?

In last month’s post Trouble On The HorizonĀ I mentioned that things looked grim for the NASDAQ as the volatility continued to rise relative to the number of stocks rising within the index. NASDAQ internals haven’t improved since that post, and the situation continues to deteriorate in the S&P 500 and the Dow 30. To add…


Quick Thoughts on Crypto

It occurs to me that I haven’t published a damn thing on blockchains since 2014. Bit of a shame as things have really taken off since then. One day I’ll have to recap the past few years in hashland; there have been some crazy ups, and downs that made my head spin and my stomach…