Inside the trends that drove Bitcoin’s recent highs — Over the past year, Bitcoin saw large institutions — like banks, hedge funds, insurance giants, and tech firms — investing, providing storage solutions, and building trading infrastructure across the world. At the same time, Bitcoin significantly outperformed major asset classes. As of January 27th, 2021, Bitcoin is now the…

Global uncertainty, partisanship, and the volatility index — How do you measure fear itself? Fear is a powerful market force. If one could somehow quantitatively measure fear itself, one could theoretically gain an advantage over the market’s cycles. As Warren Buffett once wrote in a 1986 shareholder letter: What we do know, however, is that occasional outbreaks of…

Debunking sensational scientists amid unprecedented temperature, sea level, and atmospheric CO2 — 2020 has brought fires, floods and hurricanes across the world alongside novel forms of climate change denialism. Consider Patrick Moore, a so-called scientist with a significant Twitter following who claims: “Any effect of CO2 on temperature could easily be overridden by other factors. The long historical record does not support…

Confidence in institutions has been collapsing since the 1970’s. What happened? — “Uncertainty is an acid, corrosive to authority. Once the monopoly on information is lost, so too is our trust. Every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor.”

Analyzing the electricity it takes to mine digital gold — Bitcoin cannot be created on a whim, unlike dollars, yen, euros, etc. Similar to gold, creating new bitcoins takes work. Instead of relying on central bankers to determine money supply, Bitcoin is decentralized. Miners record transactions that are verified by a global network of nodes¹ enforcing Bitcoin’s protocol. As of…

Decrypting the most powerful trends in crypto — Bitcoin is the monetary base of the Internet. Unlike national currencies, new bitcoins are created by a fixed and finite supply.¹ In an era of unprecedented monetary expansion Bitcoin’s value proposition is unique. There will only be 21 million bitcoins amid increasing trillions of dollars, pesos, yuans, etc. Instead…

Since the 2008 Financial Crisis, global central banks have “printed” extraordinary amounts of fiat money — According to USA Today, “With a few strokes on a computer, the Federal Reserve can create dollars out of nothing, virtually ‘printing’ money and injecting it into the commercial banking system, much like an electronic deposit.” …

The 2020 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation “measures the degree to which a country’s laws protect private property rights and the degree to which its government enforces those laws.” …

How accurate is the term anyways? — Democrats have taken a significant lead in the PredictIt prediction market for the first time. Biden is currently priced to win the 2020 election with ~59% probability. The Democrats’ odds shifted at the beginning of June, catalyzed bya resurgence of coronavirus cases in the U.S. …