Tag: crypto
2 posts tagged "crypto".
Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain networks behind them — digital, decentralised assets whose prices are famously volatile. On this blog crypto is treated mainly as a case study in asymmetric bets: a small, capped stake with capped downside but enormous potential upside, the kind of position Nassim Taleb's thinking on tail risk and the barbell strategy helps make sense of. It also serves as a vivid lesson in diversification and risk sizing — a way to court convex outcomes without betting the farm.
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Is Crypto Bullshit? Calling My Shots
Nothing in this arena can be taken at face value, which makes it unusually fertile ground for battle-testing your own critical thinking skills.
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Why Bitcoin is Not That Stupid
No, not even at these apparently ridiculous prices. Not even when financial illiterates are making grandiose claims about where it'll end up.
