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Jul 16, 2024

🟪 Trust matters

History’s first known currency is thought to be barley, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia from around 3,000 BC as both a unit of account and means of exchange — a seminal first step away from barter-based economies and towards market-based ones.

Byron Gilliam

Jul 15, 2024

🟪 Memes matter

In 1841, William Henry Harrison caught a cold during his inauguration.

Byron Gilliam

Jul 14, 2024

🟪 We should be tokenizing assets with substance, not speculation

If we tokenize all assets in a speculative rush, the risk of creating illiquid markets and trapped value will manifest on a large scale.

Jul 12, 2024

🟪 Friday role reversal charts

It was revenge of the nerds in markets this week, with high-flying AI stocks hitting turbulence and long-suffering value stocks catching a rare bid.

Byron Gilliam

Jul 11, 2024

🟪 Thursday spellbinding mailbag

Q: Are we making much progress yet?

Byron Gilliam

Jul 10, 2024

🟪 Bitcoin mining in the time of AI

Natural ice — considered a necessity before electric lights, natural gas or running water — was a big business in the 19th century.

Byron Gilliam

Jul 09, 2024

🟪 Web2 learning: Software doesn’t sell itself

Bill Gates once referred to open-source software as “a new kind of communism.”

Byron Gilliam

Jul 08, 2024

🟪 Is one token, one vote a good idea?

When the all-time great salesman Trevor Milton first raised capital for his startup truck company dHybrid Inc., he chose to spend a chunk of his investors’ money on a promotional event that included 8,000 cans of silly string and $10,000 shot from money guns.

Byron Gilliam

Jul 07, 2024

🟪 The time for US stablecoin regulation is now

The time for US stablecoin regulation is now For the US to fully realize the benefits of these new technologies, we need Congress to pass a strong legal framework for stablecoins.

Jul 07, 2024

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Jul 05, 2024

🟪 USD, oil, bitcoin and baseball cards

Every single day I choose to have all of my non-invested fiat currency in US dollars, and every single day the value of my dollars change, not unlike my bitcoin wallet.