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What if we had had Stone Age Cold Wallets?
Homo Erectus roamed the earth for over a million years with as his one and only tool a hand axe, glued to his hand like our mobile phones are today (let’s presume the females were carrying babies around). Then homo sapiens came along with plenty more tools and talents. What if an alien civilisation, let’s…
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Taleb and the art of proving nothing (against Bitcoin)
One of the tenets of Austrian Economics is that there is a sharp methodological distinction between social sciences and natural sciences as explained by Ludwig von Mises in his 1942 essay on this subject. Not so with Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s intellectual excursions. Reading his essays one feels just short of “being intellectually raped” by a…