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The Strauss and Howe Generations Model

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About a decade ago, I was introduced to the book “Generations” by Strauss and Howe. It’s a stylized social science model for interpreting and possibly predicting social/political/economic, and even military trends. While I put little confidence in the model itself (and wouldn’t bet on it maintaining predictive power in 60 years for example), the authors’ […]

Comparing and Contrasting: DeFi vs ICOs

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Comparing and Contrasting: DeFi vs ICOs Decentralized Finance tokens have been leading this general crypto bull run in much the same way that ICOs were a focus of the 2016-2017 bull run. But is that where the analogy ends? Here’s a walkthrough of some similarities and differences. Similarities They reduce ETH circulating supply. Bullish for ETH […]

“Is it priced in?” – thoughts on valuin

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Is the Bitcoin halving priced in?  If so, when did that happen?  Are all future bitcoin halvings priced in today?  I promise to come back to these questions, but first I’ll explore the idea of information and events being “priced in” in traditional asset classes. Pedantry Disclaimer: I oversimplify a bit in this essay, in […]