The Romans in their Decadence by Thomas Couture 1847. Displayed a year before the French Revolution Most people don’t want freedom, they just want comfort, and that’s ok. They don’t have time for it. They are just trying to do the best they can in this world with the circumstances they were given, and have a […]
Bitcoin Part 2: The Future Of The First World
The Course of Empire- Painting 4, Destruction by Thomas Cole, 1836 Buying bitcoin in the first world is like buying a boat ticket in Pompeii when Vesuvius started smoking. In Part 1, the focus was on the value Bitcoin brings to the billions of the unbanked, which are oppressed in the third world. In the not so distant […]
Watching Institutions Set Their Ambush For Bitcoin
Thinking bitcoin will not go exponentially higher is betting a $44 billion empire will fail. For the last eight months of this crypto nuclear winter, I’ve watched this dance of the red candles on the chart and just grimly smiled. Instead of continuing to build the $USD value of my portfolio, I’ve realized that’s not the […]
China BlockChain Part 1-Winning the most Important Race in 500 Years
Blockchain is virgin territory, a new frontier. Getting there first, exerting influence, and dominating the market matters. England, France, Spain, and Portugal all knew this when the New World was discovered. America knew this with global force projection after WWII, and most recently, the internet. But like all history, the empires of the past are […]
Bitcoin Part 1: Stores of Value
The 4,600 year old Meroe Pyramids from the Kingdom of Kush in the eastern Sahara desert, Sudan. A store of value hasn’t changed much since then in parts of Africa. Bitcoin is changing that. Picture is mine. The unbanked is really just a polite word for the oppressed. There is an important but overlooked difference in […]
China & Blockchain Part 2 : The World’s Most Undervalued Market
Imagine if Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google had just gone public. You were a programmer building the platform — but you couldn’t own any shares. That is exactly what is happening in China today. Mr. David Li, the founder of Trinity recently explained on an AMA an interesting difference on how blockchain projects are valued between China […]