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🟪 How fake money built America

Jun 3, 2026

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4 min read

🟪 How fake money built America

Counterfeiters were the original shadow bankers

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 How manipulatable is too manipulatable?

Jun 2, 2026

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4 min read

🟪 How manipulatable is too manipulatable?

Onions and motion picture box office receipts

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 The persistent inefficiency of finance

Jun 1, 2026

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3 min read

🟪 The persistent inefficiency of finance

When technology makes finance more expensive

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 Formalizing disclosure in token markets

May 31, 2026

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2 min read

🟪 Formalizing disclosure in token markets

Token markets have an unsolved information asymmetry problem

Nick Carpinito
Nick Carpinito
🟪 Friday Charts

May 29, 2026

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4 min read

🟪 Friday Charts

Demographics are destiny

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 Thursday links

May 28, 2026

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3 min read

🟪 Thursday links

Event contracts are commodities, too

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 Disclosure is all we need

May 27, 2026

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3 min read

🟪 Disclosure is all we need

Trust starts with transparency

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 Summer reading list

May 26, 2026

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7 min read

🟪 Summer reading list

Nothing says "beach day" like a book about finance.

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 Laze against the machines

May 25, 2026

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2 min read

🟪 Laze against the machines

Reduced-words holiday edition

Byron Gilliam
Byron Gilliam
🟪 Just in case

May 24, 2026

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1 min read

🟪 Just in case

If you were busy on Wednesday, we got you covered

🟪 Make Mining Useful Again

May 22, 2026

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3 min read

🟪 Make Mining Useful Again

Nockchain's bet that proof-of-work mining can be value accretive beyond chain security

Nick Carpinito
Sam Schubert
Nick Carpinito, +1
🟪 The Fastest Horse

May 21, 2026

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3 min read

🟪 The Fastest Horse

Strategy's STRC is one of the fastest growing RWAs in DeFi

Luke Leasure
Nick Carpinito
Luke Leasure, +1
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