I was in LA for my friend Josh’s wedding tonight. Tomorrow I am in the Valley for a few days. I may start wearing a suit again after the positive feedback from this tux photo: Seeing that I am headed to the valley, it’s a good time to catch up on ‘bubbles’. The ‘bubble’ word …

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The finacial crisis of 2008 set in motion an epic transformation of money and investing. Two posts worth reading really bring this home for me. First is this post from Charlie Bilello titled ‘The Evolution of Money‘: But evolution is not something you can turn on and off. It may take longer, but technology and …

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I like this thought from Balaji: The rise of all these tokens and public blockchains means that the internet, in the long term, will become the biggest stock market just as it has become the largest library. If the stock market crashes tomorrow and Bitcoin plunges 80 percent, Balaji is still correct. In fact, a …

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While you were talking to your friends about the bubble in Bitcoin and the silliness of the blockchain, Equifax suffered a data brach that could affect half of the US population. I joked on Twitter: Just sent Equifax my Wells Fargo PIN number and Verizon password. I’m tired of being me anyway. Justin at Stocktwits …

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I walked around New York City today in my Stocktwits BTFD t-shirt. At least 30 people stopped me in the streets to ask me about it. Our Stocktwits store is powered by Shopify which makes it incredibly easy to sell merchandise. Stocktwits head of design (Chad Tempest) created the logo for it. Seeing this picture …

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Peter Thiel famously said ‘we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters‘. Personally, after watching Season 3 of Narcos, all I want is season 4 of Narcos. In the meantime, it seems we do have flying cars. Lilium sounds wicked cool. I will wait for the cheaper Lilium x and Liliumpool! Peter should also …

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Tren Griffin said this yesterday and it caught my eye: I’ve watched people consistently underestimate the power of Moore’s law over the years. And these people work with it every day. Moore’s law refers to an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. He noticed that the number of transistors per square inch …

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One fun thing about visiting with all my old friends in Toronto, is they could give a rat’s ass about what I do for a living. They are real estate developers, lawyers and accountants. During dinner, the topic of Bitcoin came up and since I am the friend that supposedly knows about Bitcoin, I came …

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Tomorrow I head to New York City for the fall. The summer is over. I have a big list of things to get done this fall and I am well rested and ready to go. To stretch the last bit of greatness out of the summer that was already fantastic I hung with my best …

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I grew up in Toronto. I went to school at The University of Western Ontario. Yesterday I flew home for the first time in almost two years. I got to see my mom and sister, one is off living in Florida now, and had a late dinner with all my best friends (still from high …

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