Taleb

I played a game called Tribond on a riverboat cruise through the Puget Sound on the Salish Sea. This is how the game works, take three words or phrases and find a commonality. It sounds easy and mostly it is. Here’s one: Dirty Little white Bald face Answer: lies So…

You’re probably the closest thing to my hero, and we’re like the same age, it’s so weird. This is my favorite shot of you. So, part of why I’m doing this is because I think I can defeat you. Of all the terrible things people say about you (we’re talking…

An idea that has been exposed to being argued against, contradicted, or polemicized for a long period of time is likely worth studying, yet more often than not the new, trendy ideas are the ones that get most of our attention. The concept of using the passage of time as…

Please note this article has been published with Bitcoin Magazine and can be seen here — Can Toxic Maximalists Hurt Bitcoin? June 4 2021, Bitcoin Conference, Miami, Florida: Max Keiser strides onto the stage, clad in a white suit, in triumphant…bitcoinmagazine.com June 4th 2021, Bitcoin Conference, Miami. Max Keiser strides onto the stage, clad in a white suit, in triumphant fashion. “YEAH! YEAH! WE’RE NOT DONE! WE’RE NOT DONE! F*CK ELON! F*CK ELON!”

A point-by-point refutation of Taleb’s “black paper” criticizing Bitcoin and predicting a future value of 0. — Bitcoin has created an asset class of its own in the financial world. It is so different from asset classes that have existed prior to it, that it is difficult to both: define it in terms of things that already exist. …

On preserving the symmetries of life — In his 2018 classic, Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb brilliantly shows how risk management applies to many aspects of life in the most practical terms. His is wide-ranging discussion touches on everything from academics to the Vietnam War. …

A short counter of Taleb’s Bitcoin analysis. Nassim Nicholas Taleb recently published his latest draft of Bitcoin, Currencies, and Bubbles: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Bubbles This discussion applies quantitative finance methods and economic arguments to cryptocurrencies in general and bitcoin…www.academia.edu This article is not intended to be a complete counter-thesis, nor do I believe that all of Taleb’s arguments are incorrect. …