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Weekly Points – January 3rd, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The We Tempt Fate (Again) by Disagreeing with Nassim Taleb on Bitcoin Issue
Happy New Year to everyone. We’re going to kick off 2025 by re-releasing an expanded and improved version of our 2021 white paper where we challenged Nassim Taleb’s assertion that Bitcoin was worth zero. The official release will be on Twitter/X in the middle of the week. We’re asking everyone to like and repost so … Read more
Weekly Points – December 5th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Bitcoin to $100k Issue
The long-awaited moment came late last week when Bitcoin crossed $100k. Being a volatile asset, it’s already crossed that level multiple times in the few days since giving anyone who missed the first crossing ample opportunity to celebrate. Despite being wrong by 100x (10,000%!!!), Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff comes up with a novel excuse for why … Read more
Quantum Computing and Bitcoin
Every few months, I see warnings that quantum computing is about to become a reality and that it will enable code breakers to solve password and encryption keys in minutes that previously would have taken millions or billions of years. This is a potential threat to Bitcoin, but somehow, people tend to focus only on … Read more
Weekly Points – November 15th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Everything Points to Inflation Issue
A while back, we tried to transition to more stock-related “Things” for this piece. Then, we get a week like this one where all the news is macro and inflation. We’re nothing if not flexible so that’s what we have this week. Inflation indexes come in above expectations and above last month. DKI warned the … Read more
Weekly Points – November 8th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The President Elect Trump Loves Bitcoin Issue
The polls have been inaccurate for the past three US Presidential elections. Knowing that, DKI was watching Bitcoin, the prediction markets, and a few other select stocks and economic markers to see that a Trump landslide was coming long before the network announcers could do so. Could we get a sound money advocate as Federal … Read more
Weekly Points – October 18th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Central Bankers Are Delusional Issue
Central banks shatter irony meters as a Fed Governor insists they have unlimited dollars, but it’s Bitcoin that has no value. Not to be outdone, the European Central Bank lowers interest rates and at the same time, warns of coming higher inflation. They’d be better off admitting they’re trapped than saying nonsensical things in public. … Read more
Weekly Points – October 11th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The We Warned You About Rebound Inflation Edition
Most of this week’s 5 Things relates to government mismanagement of the economy. We draw two conclusions. First, the government should involve itself in less of the economy. Second, we should have called this “The Government is Mismanaging Things Edition”. One month after DKI told you the Fed cut rates too soon, the Core CPI … Read more