Julian Winkler is the co-author of the paper “Reddit’s self-organised bull runs: Social contagion and asset prices” about the subreddit Wall Street Bets. The paper makes a “theoretical case for how ‘hype’ among retail investors can drive large asset fluctuations”. The paper was written before the GameStop Saga kicked off, but the interesting…
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Chatter #206 – Steve Topple On Fighting The Establishment, Poverty, and Independent Journalism
Steve Topple is a journalist at the Canary who specialises in issues surrounding disability, health, housing, class, economics and government. ‘Mr Topple’ is also now making waves as an innovative music journalist, breaking the mould in terms of his approach to the industry. He regularly writes for one of the world’s leading music…
Chatter #205 – Joël Valenzuela on Dash, Dogecoin, and Living Unbanked For 5 Years
Joël Valenzuela has been living without a banked account (or “unbanked”) since 2016. Hes began with Bitcoin, but when that became too expensive he began transacting with Dash instead and now he actually works for the firm! Dash is part of the digital cash race, alongside Dogecoin, Bitcoin Lightning Network, BCH, BSV, and…
Chatter #203 – Professor James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Part 1: Does Freedom Lead To Prosperity?
Why Nations Fail may be the best book I have read this year, so I was absolutely delighted when both of the authors agreed to speak to me on my podcast! This is the first of these interviews, with Professor James A. Robinson. The main idea that I took from the book was…
Chatter #202 [Live] – Kurt Wuckert Jr. On El Salvador, Bitcoin Cash, and The Bitcoin Civil War
The civil war raging within the bitcoin community is one that I first came across in my interview with Brad Mills. Kurt Wuckert Jr is a strong advocate for Bitcoin cash and has written extensively in support of BSV, in opposition to many Bitcoin Maximalists like Anthony Pompliano. So I wanted to get…
Chatter #199 – Professor Paul Frijters: Lockdowns, Science, And The Great Covid Panic
A lot of the discussion about an inquiry into the covid response has been, in my view, poorly framed. There are massive lessons to be learned from this pandemic, but I believe that a huge segment of this is being ignored – what the cost of lockdowns will be and has already been….
