Barbie is a Good Movie Made Great by the Fallout that Followed by Allen Farrington and Julia Tourianski * Barbie has generated as many takes as a Kubrick film, except they’re all bad. It’s asserted to be a podium for women’s rights yet it simultaneously doesn’t measure up to any…

The Market Price of Bitcoin and the “Number Go Up” Model Introduction Ever since Bitcoin has had a market price, and ever since scarcely imaginable Twitter clout has been up for grabs in attempting to predict it, such predictions have been readily forthcoming. We assume familiarity with a range of…

Trusts, ETFs, and Trojan Horses A precocious child once asked me, “Allen, do you ever regret cornering the niche market for bitcoin/crypto twitter shitposting about the exact legal, financial, and ethical nature of “securities” in an effort to simultaneously shill Only The Strong Survive and act as possibly the only…

… 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…