Tracking core inflation, excluding food and energy, is like tracking core health, excluding cancer and heart disease.

Without cryptocurrency, a cashless society is a surveillance society coincenter.org/we-must-protec…

"What we understand is how little we understand about inflation"

Neeraj K. Agrawal Without #Zcash, a crypto society is a surveillance society.

Not a good look.

In the real free market blow ups and deleveraging have dominated. Do we not ascribe some reasonable probability that a similar event is on the horizon for financial markets?

This. But my play is skewed toward crypto assets.

Cryptodollars will replace Eurodollars.

Ironically labeling protocol tokens as securities might be a positive tailwind for the entire space. Disclosure requirements are already publicly available information to the inquiring party. Hard to fathom the flood of liquidity in light of sensible regulation.

In a world moving toward confrontation, seek coordination.

We already have unregulated stable coins in the form of Eurodollars.

And oldie but such a perfect definition of today’s monetary policy objectives written 90+ years ago. No wonder boomer economists are so comfortable with QE … the grew up with it!

LOL. As if the reality of two quarters of declining GDP doesn’t exist if we don’t use the word “recession”. It’s the epitome of Fiat World, where reality is declared, not lived.

1/ when I saw Grant "american grid" for the first time, I knew I wanted to make a generative version of it. simple at first glance but with some hidden complexities "generative american grid #1"

Walmart lowers forecast and shares tank after hours the message is pretty simple: regular people getting squeezed hard and can’t afford to buy as much as they used to

Yellow cake.

Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

The internet democratized access to information, but not intelligence. AI will democratize access to intelligence, but not creativity.

We can use zero-knowledge proofs to solve the dilemma of retaining privacy whilst staying compliant. If I can prove I’m not on a list and haven’t interacted with addresses that are, I should be able to keep my identity private and transact as I wish. Are any teams building this?