On Bear Markets and Nuclear Winters
読了時間: 4 分 I remember it well. It was November 2018, and the BCH/BSV hash war had just resulted in the entire cryptosphere crashing to new lows. From November to December, my BCH went from roughly $500/coin to $75/coin. And as if that wasn’t brutal enough, you’re talking to someone who once bought 1 BCH at the absolute peak of $4000/coin in December of 2017. It was around that time when I found myself standing on the corner near my son’s elementary school, waiting to cross the street to drop him off. Another dad apparently saw me, and the next time we ran into each other he asked me why I had looked […]
The Anti-1984
読了時間: 3 分 “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company Before I got into crypto, all I wanted was pretty much what everyone else wants. To improve my lot in life. You know the usual things: a better job, more money, nicer things for my family. But ever since falling down the crypto rabbit hole, what I’ve come to realize is that everything I coveted in the past was in the context of the current reality. In other words, what I thought […]
Intellectual honesty and why I believe in eCash
読了時間: 4 分 What does it mean to be intellectually honest? I would say it means being honest even when there’s an incentive for you to be dishonest. Let’s say you’re in a meeting and your boss suddenly asks your opinion on something. You’re up for a promotion and you know that all he wants to hear is you telling everyone he’s right. But what if you disagree? What if you think someone else’s idea is better? The intellectually honest thing to do would be to state your preference regardless of the consequences. Here’s another example. What if someone asks me if I think eCash is going to reach $1 by the end […]