Some thoughts on a Bitcoin strategic reserve. I provide the economic rationale for doing this, but also discuss some of the potential costly pitfalls from doing so.

What in the World is a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve?

Thoughts on government debt, inflation, and the U.S. government purchasing bitcoin

Have you heard of this thing? Bitcoin? Everywhere I go people are talking about it. It’s really something. Some guy created it. Satoshi. Whoever that is. Nobody knows. Really. Nobody knows. Frankly, it’s a little surprising that nobody knows. I mean someone knows. We don’t know. But we really like the coin. It’s a terrific coin. We’ve talked to coin people and they said it’s probably the best coin. Some people have said I might be Satoshi. Can you believe it?

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Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) on X

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The Satoshi Papers, Forthcoming (and featuring me). https://t.co/RqrdvTRaAv

Some thoughts on A.I., its potential to make us all rich, and its existential risks.

Is A.I. Going to Make Us Rich Or Kill Us All? Or Both?

A guide to thinking about technologies with existential risks

I got rug pulled on the release date, but you can order your copy and get it at the same time as me. @Andrew M. Bailey @Craig Warmke @Bradley Rettler

As I said… https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoins-could-stave-off-a-us-debt-crisis-china-digital-currency-c491d717?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 View quoted note →

Don't call it a sign of the times when it's always been this way Forked tongues and voices behind curtains with no name Well they plot their wicked schemes setting fate for all mankind With evil that can fill God's pretty skies with clouds that burn and blind

Logging in to Nostr

Look at this figure and ask yourself which of these expenses will be easiest to cut.

If Things Are So Great, Why Don’t People Think So?

If Things Are So Great, Why Don't People Think So?

Many pundits say things are great. Consumer sentiment disagrees. What is going on?

Me, on the Macro Musings podcast.

Mercatus Center

Josh Hendrickson on the Treasury Standard and Global Dollar Dominance

Josh Hendrickson is the chair of the department of economics at the University of Mississippi and is the author of

From “The Genesis Book”

Still the greatest quote in the history of quotes.

A brief summary of my paper, “The Treasury Standard”

The Treasury Standard

Thinking about the international monetary system

Stablecoins and Government Debt

Stablecoins and Government Debt

The evidence for the Treasury Standard is flooding in

My keynote from the Bitcoin Policy Summit.