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Have you had friends or family try to shill you bitcoin? well, whether you are here for the worlds first truly scarce asset, immutable transactions, revolutionary tech or just good old fashioned number

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Money, specialization and comparative advantage
The road to Bitcoin

Money, specialization and comparative advantage

Simply put, money has one use: exchange. It is possible to trade without money, this is called barter. However, barter does not scale because without a unit of account the number of prices

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Midwit

Midwit

"Midwit" was coined by Vox Day to describe individuals of above average intelligence, yet not too far from average. Essentially people smart enough to think about ideas, reason through them to some degree

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Is money make believe?
The road to Bitcoin

Is money make believe?

We use money all the time. What is it? A resource? a Technology? Is money just pieces of paper? Does it have objective value? Is it a social construct?Money is a medium

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"Who do you carry the torch for my young man?"

"Who do you carry the torch for my young man?"

"Do you believe in anything? do you carry it around just to burn things to the ground" People are driven to belong. We care about our communities. It is so natural to identify

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Saint Walmart

Saint Walmart

In high school I got a part time job at Walmart. I ended up working all over the store. I gathered carts from the parking lot, stocked shelves, unloaded trucks, worked the checkouts

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Anti Fragile

Anti Fragile

Anti Fragile is a term coined by trader, philosopher, statistician, Twitter belligerent etc. Nassim Taleb. The concept is simple and intuitive, yet thought provoking, deep and pervasive.Anti Fragile is not a synonym

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