… and Silicon Valley has sadly become peak fiat Among all the chortling over the demise of FTX, one hilariously timed document stands out: Sequoia Capital’s puff piece from a mere six weeks ago. Now deleted, but archived here for your reading pleasure, Adam Fischer boasted to the world that…

or, what would Method Man think of Return on Equity? If a company’s cash conversion cycle halved, what would that do to its ROE? This question may seem peculiarly unanswerable. Surely, we need more information, assuming this information alone is relevant in the first place? In fact, we do not…

“ESG”, Big Finance, and a Category 5 Shitstorm of Economic Reality DO YOU SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING? I sincerely hope so, dear reader. I hope you at least pretend to support The Current Thing convincingly enough to keep the wokeratti off your back. Like Havel’s sign in the greengrocer’s window…

Changing the course of history — The Bitcoin Times Ed 4 is now available for download, free. We will be publishing each edition, in high quality hard cover this year. Keep an eye out for announcements and remember to follow and support each of the authors. Share their work far & wide. “I don’t believe we…

a cheeky little brainstorm on the methodological individualism of price inflation and capital formation OMG GUYS WE RECORDED OUR CLUBHOUSE FOR ONCE! What a glorious moment for culture and humanity. Thanks to the good folks at Swan Bitcoin, Aleks Svetski and I spoke to Izabella Kaminska for some ridiculous amount…

totes emosh, guys, totes emosh So that was pretty wild, huh? Did you guys sleep? I didn’t sleep much. To my eternal shame, at one point of my jet-lagged, emotionally-and-physically-drained-lying-in-bed-not-sleeping at five in the God-damned morning, we decided to have a little impromptu international diplomatic summit with the President of…

hedgehogs beware As Fragile Nassim’s public psychological breakdown continues apace, I recently took 15 hours out of my schedule to reread my magnum opus, A Tale Of Two Talebs. A Tale Of Two Talebs or, how to kick your addiction to the Internet’s biggest asshole.allenfarrington.medium.com In the end, I was interrupted by a person from Porlock, who insisted on talking to me about Samuel Taylor Coleridge…

a bitesize read on Taleb’s Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome to celebrate the one year anniversary If you are somehow unaware of this (and in which case, how on earth did you end up here?) …

an attempt to stir up hatred against the most evil law of which I have ever been a subject It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. - Alice Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland *** On March 11th, the Scottish National Party’s infamous Hate Crime…