THREAD: I still can’t believe that what has happened to gilts has been framed so brazenly by the mainstream UK press as being a function of Brexit. Whatever your position on Brexit, if you endorse this framing you are an absolute disinfo agent.

Bitcoin conference stops accepting bitcoin for tickets because turns out bitcoin is a rubbish payment system.

Liz Truss’ greatest mistake IMHO was mistakingly thinking the office of British PM still held any power whatsoever. It clearly doesn’t. And that to me is a much bigger tragedy than any market wobble. Because it means the British political system has been usurped.

Unlike the outraged media consensus, I will be buying an $8 verification. I personally don’t believe a free speech public square should be funded by a handful of large corporate advertisers who then get to dictate what is and isn’t permissible to say on the platform.

I hope this is the point people realise that 99.9% of crypto and blockchain are total utter bullshit that do absolutely nothing technologically to reduce the need for trust in financial intermediaries. After all this becomes self-evident the only residue will be a CBDC.

Look, all I’m saying is that a private jet ban is the sort of radical environmental measure that 99.99999% of the world could easily get behind. And brings many unintended benefits: 1) no more davos 2) less contraband smuggling 3) Kardashian immobilisation.

THREAD 🧵 I see CBDCs are trending again, so I thought I would offer some insight and context to the whole story. How did this idea even come about? What are they good for? Are you getting the full picture? (I will probably keep adding to this thread as things evolve.)

THREAD: I’ve been reading this 1933 book by the FT’s former Lombard columnist Paul Einzig. While everyone is calling Truss’ economic plan Reaganomics, I have to controversially disagree and call it Mussolini-omics.

There are 87,146 thought leaders on LinkedIn. Just saying.