The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself
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A tidal wave of new primary sources from the ancient world could very soon be on its way - enough to keep scholars busy for decades! The first words have being read from digitally ‘unrolled’ carbonised scrolls from a Roman library in Herculaneum! (Image: Nat Friedman)
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JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, donated over $70 million in customer funds to politicians for midterm elections.
This is the most elaborate case of fraud in history with many people involved.
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I've been behind enemy lines, reading everything published by the Bank of International Settlements in 2021.
Here are 10 pieces that I found the most alarming and most relevant to Bitcoin.
"Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated." 👇
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*Trading Addiction* 🧵
Rewritten an old thread.
I'll start by outlining some feelings that I hope will make you feel as though I can see you and your behaviours through the screen, then I'll go into some tips I can give for trying to step back.
It is addiction and it's real.
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Cooking and building a portfolio have a few things in common:
1) A little bit too much or too little of one ingredient can ruin everything;
2) Fewer ingredients is easier and often better;
3) Following a recipe is a good start, but deviation makes the master.
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Price action is not determined by heads and shoulders or wedges or retrograde Venus.
Two principal factors explain 80% of short/medium term movements, even in such a complex system:
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China digital RMB/DECP wallet at work 👇
Swipe up to pay, swipe down to receive lol
Monetary tinder on steroid
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Haven't done one of these in a while: what happened in the crypto markets today?
A thread about the past and the future.
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/1 Every once in a while comes along a day where you pay your tuition as trader.
Today was one of those days for me.
The loss stings a bit, as does having been the fish.
But something subsumes all of this and makes it paltry by comparison.
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Just to put things into perspective: The S&P 500 may have hit a new ATH today, but if you put the index in relation to the Fed's balance sheet, it is trading at the same level as in 2008, so equities have traded sideways since 2008, basically counteracting balance sheet expansion
