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…
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…
As you do unto others, you do unto yourself.
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.
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…
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…
SPY & DIA holding up, but the breadth and volatility of the NASDAQ feels ominous. We haven’t seen this kind of action since July 2015, about a month before a memorable flash crash. Broadly speaking, when the blue line rises above the red, stay long stocks (SCHB). If red gets above blue, favor bonds (SCHZ)….
Looks like WordPress has put together a nice app to enable blogging from the phone… Maybe this will bring back the stream of barely literate drivel I used to write. Prepare for an ill conceived meditation on markets, machines and mainstream perceptions of reality. I’ve decided to do away with the process of editing, so…
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. -George Orwell, 1984 Despite my failure to regularly update this blog, my latest endeavors require that I express cogent thoughts on a topic that has held my fascination for the past several years. Old visitors to this space know that I…
Well the bounce was short lived and we are back to murdering longs with tales of Greek default and collapsing communists. Until the ECB can get member countries on the money printing wagon, Europe will continue to hemorrhage, killing Chinese prosperity and any hope of recovery. The Almighty Dollar will rise like a phoenix from…