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A lot of people in traditional finance, certainly including me, like to make fun of crypto. There is a lot to make fun of. But who is traditional finance to talk? The uncomfortable fact is that the stock market will pay much more for crypto than the crypto market will: Packaging Bitcoin into a stock makes it *much more valuable*. The crypto enthusiasts on the stock market are more enthusiastic about crypto than the crypto enthusiasts in crypto. It looks a little bit like crypto keeps playing a prank on the stock market, and the stock market keeps falling for it.
Money Stuff: The Stock Market Loves Bitcoin
Matt Levine
AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array of jobs, seems like the apotheosis of post-scarcity existence, but in reality it just highlights how the dumb human component of so much work is that work’s essential and enduring quality. For years, it has seemed obvious to me that corporate PowerPoint decks should be the first thing we automate, but there’s one major obstacle: The purpose of a PowerPoint deck is to prove that a human knew enough about a topic to make the deck.
#200: All Tomorrow's Parties
Kneeling Bus
It's terrible, I used to be cute, that's the trouble. If I was always ugly it would have been fine.
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Let me just take a look in the mirror so I can get really nauseous.
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