Did you know Allianz is at the center of the biggest racket in financial markets since AIG was insuring mortgage CDOs? Some of you are probably familiar with MicroStrategy. They are the software firm led by Michael Saylor that morphed into a Bitcoin hedge fund (that doesn’t hedge!). After Satoshi Continue Reading
Why Trump Sneakers Are The New Bitcoin
I’m sure most of you have seen the story of Trump selling $400 gold sneakers. Many probably rolled their eyes or took the clickbait and read the news stories or even went to the website (I won’t link it, sorry) to see if it was true. I had a different Continue Reading
The Bitcoin Investment Thesis Is Broken
Informed Tip of the Week: Take a look at our recent series of posts covering Informed’s premise and our business model. We will be adding additional content over the next few weeks. At the beginning of the year, I wrote about most of the obvious bubbles out there and how Continue Reading
No, You Shouldn’t Pay Your Insurance With Bitcoin
Elon Musk recently reversed course and stopped allowing Teslas to be bought with Bitcoin. He attributed this decision to his (long overdue) realization that Bitcoin mining is bad for the environment. My guess is another motivation may have been very few people actually were using Bitcoin to buy Teslas. We Continue Reading
A Safe Bitcoin Trade?
Note, that question mark is at the end for a reason. Is there really such a thing as a safe way to own bitcoin? There just may be! First, as always when I broach these topics, I am not giving investment advice. I am not suggesting you put this trade Continue Reading