#Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: “Ultimately, the goal of crypto is not to play games with million-dollar pictures of monkeys, it’s to do things that accomplish meaningful effects in the real world.”

You take the day away from the terminal, no crypto assets on your mind, the fresh alpine air soothes your soul. You gaze into the lower valley admiring such natural beauty, a gut wrenching feeling hits you - why didn't you sell $ada at the top.

Have you ever taken the day to sit by a river and think about the next jpeg you're going to buy? #NFTs

Well, it's been of a hideous few weeks on the hack/exploit front, hasn't it - This needs to stop in our industry and we need to protect investors #Crypto

🚨🚨🚨 Curve Finance frontend is compromised, do not use it until further notice!

Brilliant 🤣

"There were so many feeble efforts to deal with inflation in the 1970s, they said ´don't tighten monetary policy too aggressively, you will get some unemployment,´- so we went a decade that way, and we ended up with more inflation and more unemployment." - Paul Volcker

I think we get a little puke down to between 17k - 18k #btc ... We lose that and we will be swinging a pick deep in the mines of goblin town. 🫡 The weekly looks trashy and the continued tightening of monetary policy causes certain headwinds.

#NFTs make me happy, but sometimes it's the simple things in life that put a smile on your face the most. #Nature

The late 1940s remain a decent analog to today’s market (and economy). If so, don't be shocked if the current rally gives back some of its gains. Fundamentally, that seems to be the most likely outcome.

🚨 Latest Zoltan 💰 War and Industrial Policy 🔹 "In today’s dispatch, we will articulate our vision for what a peaceful transition (à la post-Soviet globalization) to a new world order may look like." 1/2

🔹 "I think that the above four themes (re-arm, re-shore, re-stock, and re-wire the electric grid) will be the defining aims of industrial policy over the next five years." 2/2 H/T Randy Woodward

Happy #Jhole day ... let's see some vol!

Spicy article right here ... forbes.com/sites/roslynla…

JAZ Macro Forward Guidance JH was a performance, and it was performed well. IMO it doesn't change the character of the FOMC, nor the politics and culture that it finds itself in. I don't think they have the fortitude to go higher for longer, but they will try. So I don't think the bottom is in.

Best line of the week: "in Germany, $2 trillion of value added depends on $20 billion of gas from Russia… …that’s 100-times leverage – much more than Lehman’s." zerohedge.com/markets/zoltan…

FedEx is now down 52% from its high. The 3 prior 50+% drawdowns in its history all occurred during recessions (1991-92, 2008-09, 2020). $FDX Charting via YCharts

Ded

'The bomb was so bright I could see my bones' 💥 Veterans of nuclear testing in the Cold War say they – and their children and grandchildren – are still living with the health effects 70 years on they want to see recognition of their part in the missions inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

Curb Your FTX SBF #CurbYourEnthusiasm #FTX