1/ In the second half of the 16th century, Britain plunged into an energy crisis. At the time, the primary source of energy driving the British economy was heat derived from the burning of wood, and Britain was literally running out of trees.
This is mind-blowing. 🤯
The S&P 500 is mimicking the 2008 crash. Even the timing since the ATH is nearly identical.
The bottom is NOT in for #stocks or #crypto.
$SPY $SPX $BTC $ETH
You're 25. You work on legacy code at a startup with founders who are 28. You haven't seen a single unit test since 2014 and daily standup takes an hour. You stick around for a few years and learn nothing. Company eventually dies and you're almost 30 still coding angular.js
DALL-E 2 vs Midjourney vs StableDiffusion mega thread: photography, illustration, painters, abstract
these image synths are like instruments - it's amazing we'll get so many of them, each with a unique "sound" 🤯
rules: same prompt, 1:1 aspect ratio, no living artists
Most of us probably use Nansen, Dune, DefiLlama and Parsec quite frequently.
Today I want to share 10 research tools that are not that well known but I find particularly useful.
See below 👇🧵
If Central Banks only print bank reserves, why do they continue to engage in QE?
Because under certain conditions, QE sets up a virtuous cycle for capital flows towards risk assets.
A thread on the very important mechanics behind QE.
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My master's degree completely failed to teach me how to test trading strategies.
So I spent 40 hours looking for Python backtesting libraries.
Then I started using the best ones.
But unlike my quant finance degree, these won't cost you $90,000.
Here they are for free.
Recently Solana has introduced Fee-based execution priority, this allows users to bump the fees beyond the vanilla rate (0.000005 SOL) and get priority in a block.
Who is currently using this feature? and why? Can you guess?
Let's find it out using @DuneAnalytics 🧵