Month: September 2026
Portfolio Update
Last week, I sold 2% $BRR (now $SVIA) and bought 2% of $IBIT. The reason was $SVIA had gone from trading at a 33% discount to NAV to a 0% discount. That, combined with the increase in the stock price meant I had a 10% position in a start-up VC company (CFO Silvia) without the … Read more
ProCap Financial – Silvia Outperforms Again
ProCap Financial announced that it’s again outperformed the big-name expensive frontier models on personal finance questions. This demonstrates that smaller specialized models can outperform the big LLMs (large language models) in specific areas of expertise. I’ve started writing and speaking about this relating to Intel, and believe we’re going to see a shift to SLMs … Read more
5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Bitcoin is a Currency Issue
I just arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay. After that, I’ll have a week in Buenos Aires, a week in Florence, and will spend November in Japan. I’m open to a small number of in-person conversations. If you’re based locally, or know someone in those locations you think it would be worthwhile for me to meet, feel … Read more
ProCap Financial to be Added to Two Indexes
ProCap Financial ($BRR) is being added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes at the market open on Monday. Being added to an index means there will be some non-discretionary buying as anyone running an index fund or a closet index fund benchmarked to the Russell indexes will have to buy a small amount … Read more
Adventures in El Salvador – Is Bitcoin a Currency
Forward: Most DKI interns arrive with a clear understanding of macroeconomics and a justified suspicion of the failing fiat system. Even in that exceptional group, Alex Petrou stood apart. He was an early Bitcoiner and his pointed, polite, and reasonable questions of officials from the Bank of England have left them uncomfortable and unable to … Read more
Fed Hikes By 25bp – Doesn’t Matter
As expected, the Federal Reserve raised the overnight rate by 25bp (.25%). I think this was both the right move and irrelevant. Others disagree. – The Fed cited high inflation, high spending, high employment, and solid economic growth. – The dot plot shows 2 Governors who expect to keep the current fed funds rate through … Read more
ProCap Financial – Another Stock Buyback
ProCap Financial ($BRR) sold about 50 Bitcoin and bought back 2.2% of its shares outstanding at a discount to NAV. Since DKI established a position last month, the company has repurchased more than 4% of its shares outstanding which helped narrow the discount to NAV from 33% at the time of our initial purchase to … Read more