Blockchain

Podcast: On The Brink with Matthew Le Merle & Castle Island Ventures

STATE OF BLOCKCHAIN IN 2021

Matthew Le Merle, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

  • Matthew’s views on The Rise of Generation C and some of the trends he foresaw ten years ago

  • Views on the GameStop / WSB saga and what this portends for the financial markets in the years to come

  • The state of the cryptoasset market and the infrastructure that is being deployed in 2021

  • How he thinks about approaching this industry as a leading fund of funds

Learn more about Blockchain Coinvestors at their website and follow Matthew on Twitter @mlemerle

Ray Dalio and "What I Think About Bitcoin"

Ray Dalio and "What I Think About Bitcoin"

I am writing this to clarify what I think of Bitcoin. Please pay attention to what I am saying here and not what those in the media are saying I said because this is reliable. I am finding that those who want to promote Bitcoin (which is most people) are characterizing it one way while those who are against it (which are a few scared souls cowering in a corner) are characterizing it another way. As with most things I comment on, the reality has pros and cons and I am trying to be as accurate as possible to communicate what I understand these to be.

Paul Jones & Lorenzo Giorgianni - THE GREAT MONETARY INFLATION

Paul Jones & Lorenzo Giorgianni - THE GREAT MONETARY INFLATION

The depth and magnitude of the economic drop-off took modern monetary theory—or the direct monetization of massive fiscal spending—from the theoretical to practice without any debate. It has happened globally with such speed that even a market veteran like myself was left speechless. Just since February, a global total of $3.9 trillion (6.6% of global GDP) has been magically created through quantitative easing. We are witnessing the Great Monetary Inflation (GMI)—an unprecedented expansion of every form of money unlike anything the developed world has ever seen.

Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder Letter

Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder Letter

Dear Fellow Shareholder,

Shortly before the genius David Foster Wallace died, he delivered a college commencement speech that opens with a beautiful critique of our “default setting.”

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over and the other and says,‘What’s water?’”

Wallace goes on to teach us that sometimes “the most obvious, most important realities are the ones that are hardest to see.” For Americans alive today, one of our ‘What’s water?’ questions is ‘What’s money?’. While Wallace asked the graduating seniors that day to think about fish and their relationship with water, I’ll ask you to think with me about our own relationships with money and, as Wallace also asked, “bracket for just a few minutes your skepticism of the totally obvious” and reconsider “what is real and essential, hidden in plain sight all around us all the time.”

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