The team at Galaxy Digital Mining wrote an excellent white paper examining #bitcoin’s energy usage.
Did you know that 19x more energy is lost in transmission than Bitcoin miners consume? Great research here—and we open sourced our methodology.
https://t.co/bTR40GdiSP
#Bitcoin priced in the M1 money stock still very far from its ATH. In the face of unprecedented money printing, the bull market may just be getting started. This cycle could get very wild.
Do we have the wrong denominator?
Many of us believe that Fed money printing is creating an asset bubble. But when we switch the denominator to the Fed balance sheet equities looks fairly priced...
Temasek jointing Libra is a big deal. We might be witnessing a new NATO for financial unrestricted warfare (超限戰) in cyberspace being formed by the US and its allies in Indo-Pacific theater. https://t.co/d94segafXh
Our portfolio company @amityinsharing has released its Hierarchical Threshold Signature (HTSS) library to open source. A full third-party security audit is to be completed soon. You are welcome to use it for your projects! https://t.co/20dZUZcVOV
As bad as the virus shock is, consider how bad the situation would be if this had happened before the internet. The fact that the internet is functioning in the background with almost zero issues is truly remarkable. The internet will help the economy make it to the other side.
From @DeepMacro: The internet’s operational infrastructure suggests that the world’s largest telecommunications network is holding up just fine. Media reports that the internet cannot handle the demands placed on it by virus disruptions are wrong.
The internet’s decentralized design promotes scalability and resilience, and while some local last-mile providers may face capacity challenges, the internet as a whole does not face serious pandemic-related threats, and should not create additional bad surprises for markets.
The areas that have been hit first are also those that have implemented the tightest restrictions on working and movement. The decrease in economic activity in these places might initially be steeper, but could also be shorter-lived.
From @DeepMacro : This chart shows US retail visits using mobile phone location data. The week starting Tuesday 21 Jan 2020 is the base week. Each weekday of that week acts as the base day (set to 100) for the same day of the week after that to adjust for day-of-the-week effects.
The right panel examines the relative performance of different regions by dividing the index level of each state by the average index level of that day. To this point, the Southeastern states are consistently higher in their retail visits than the Northeast or West regions.