I had no idea what I was doing the first time I bought Bitcoin. I mean that genuinely. I bought it, hoped the price would go up, and called it a strategy. That was it. That was the whole thesis. When someone asked me what the use case was, I had nothing. I changed the
Baby boomers are roughly 20% of the population in Australia and New Zealand, and they own more than half of private wealth. In New Zealand, half of household wealth sits in property, built through the buy, borrow, die strategy. A strategy dependent on banks’ willingness to lend against an asset they helped inflate. Then 2021
Most of us are still living inside the same three dimensions we were born into: time, space, and matter. We earn dollars that lose value, we buy houses that (mostly) go up because more dollars keep chasing them, and we hope the next pay rise outruns the grocery bill. It’s the same game our parents
The Overton window represents the range of opinions found in most everyday people. If you express opinions within this window, you can usually keep your social and professional status without much trouble. You only lose the friends who are a tad extreme. This might seem like a sensible strategy, but it also shows a kind
Traditional finance aims to keep you 'safe' from the next frontier; they're also protecting their revenue models. The wealthy of the past were always ready when new frontiers showed up. Today, we’d consider them crazy or conspiracy theorists for not thinking like the rest of us. But without them, there’d be no high priest of
2023's been a turbulent one in the digital asset space, but why should you care if you're not into crypto? Because what happens in the open with blockchain may occasionally happen in the shadows with traditional finance. Also, regardless of how you feel about it and considering the most likely scenarios: This is the future.
