https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/09/movies/the-25-best-films-of-the-21st-century.html

How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes (Technical)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jOJk30eQs&sns=em

How quantum computing will change the world
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/technology/2017/12/how-quantum-computing-will-change-world

Cryptocurrency: From Basic Definitions to Expert Issues in One Interview with Fred Ehrsam
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/15/cryptocurrency-from-basic-def.html

Why you can’t cash out pt 1: Why Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/12/17/why-you-cant-cash-out-pt-1-why-bitcoins-price-is-largely-fictional/

Joshua's Crypto Shorthand

http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/12/07/crypto-shorthand/

Awesome podcast

http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower/

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com www.bitcoin.org Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to attack the network, they'll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers. The network itself requires minimal structure. Messages are broadcast on a best effort basis, and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the longest proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they were gone.

Conclusion We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of ownership, but is incomplete without a way to prevent double-spending. To solve this, we proposed a peer-to-peer network using proof-of-work to record a public history of transactions that quickly becomes computationally impractical for an attacker to change if honest nodes control a majority of CPU power. The network is robust in its unstructured simplicity. Nodes work all at once with little coordination. They do not need to be identified, since messages are not routed to any particular place and only need to be delivered on a best effort basis. Nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they were gone. They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism. 

zzz...Here's what billionaire investors think about bitcoin
http://www.hl.co.uk/news/2017/12/8/heres-what-billionaire-investors-think-about-bitcoin

Crypto Charting: 5 fascinating charts that put the rise of Bitcoin in perspective

https://www.topdowncharts.com/single-post/2017/12/06/Crypto-Charting-5-fascinating-charts-that-put-the-rise-of-Bitcoin-in-perspective

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/bitcoin-and-bubbles.html

Bitcoin is not a very good money. It is a pure fiat money (no backing), whose value comes from limited supply plus these demands. As such it has the huge price fluctuations we see. It's an electronic version of gold, and the price variation should be a warning to economists who long for a return to  gold. My bet is that stable-value cryptocurrencies, offering one dollar per currency unit and low transactions costs, will prosper in the role of money. At least until there is a big inflation or sovereign debt crisis and a stable-value cryptocurrency not linked to government debt emerges.

A good run down..
Bitcoin Surges Over $9,500 After Korea's 2nd Biggest Bank Tests Crypto Wallet For Customers
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-26/bitcoin-soars-above-9000-hits-new-all-time-high-burst-asian-buying

very brief description of 100 crypto currencies
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/19/100-cryptocurrencies-described-in-4-words-or-less/


and a good little story
http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/11/21/i-got-a-story-to-tell/

Hedge Funders: You No Longer Have Any Excuse Not To Leap Headlong Into The Bitcoin Frenzy
https://dealbreaker.com/2017/10/hedge-funders-no-excuse-bitcoin-frenzy/

Understanding Segwit2x: Why Bitcoin's Next Fork Might Not Mean Free Money https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-segwit2x-bitcoins-next-fork-might-different/

Exploring the world of emerging blockchain & bitcoin tech {http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower/}

and episode 2

http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower-2/

A nice introduction how MBA students are taught about bitcoin

Tulip Crypto currency mania the flowers  ICO that cost more than houses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/story/20160419-tulip-mania-the-flowers-that-cost-more-than-houses

If I'd Known What We Were Starting
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/id-known-what-we-were-starting-ray-dillinger/
'Satoshi doesn't want the credit. Two years later he walked away and left the pseudonym behind. And hard as this may be to believe, it looks like he doesn't even want to be paid for it. As far as we can tell he mined approximately a million Bitcoins and has never sold a single one of them.'


"In Cryptography We Trust."
Searching for Problems? James Altucher to Bitcoin Critics: You're Dead Wrong
https://www.coindesk.com/searching-problems-james-altucher-bitcoin-critics-youre-dead-wrong/

Britain's debt time​bomb: FCA urges action over £200bn crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/18/britain-debt-timebomb-fca-chief-crisis


BITCOIN FOR (VALUE INVESTING) DUMMIES LIKE MYSELF
https://valueandopportunity.com/2017/09/18/bitcoin-for-value-investing-dummies-like-myself/

Two great Bitcoin articles

Distributed Ledger Technology
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3340-why-are-we-so-crazy-about-bitcoin

Spoofy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-06/mysterious-trader-nearly-unlimited-bankroll-said-be-manipulating-bitcoin-price?curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker

And IDB the movie...
chapter 1 the seminar

bitcoin sludge

book review Attack of the 50ft block chain
'Cost of the system is in the exceptions'
Bitcoin allows digital bearer assets, a central resistant mechanism to moving money around.
https://soundcloud.com/user-544122300/gerardpod

also wroth a listen , chat on Bitcoins
https://soundcloud.com/user-544122300/ftavchatsicos

next few weeks of bitcoin currencies 
http://www.icocountdown.com/

for later on trump ..if I can
https://www.vox.com/2017/7/20/16003218/trump-nyt-interview-ignorance

'The great truth is that cognition mimics sensation'

Charlie Munger full speach
http://www.tilsonfunds.com/mungerpsych

and video

http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/06/07/today-in-absurd-tribalism/

And this forces us to ignore unpleasant contradictions or to deny obvious facts outright. It causes cognitive dissonance and we resolve this uncomfortable feeling in our minds and souls in whatever way we can, just to make it stop.

Partisans from both ends of the political spectrum are constantly forced to do this and always have been throughout history. What’s different this time is the degree to which Republicans are being forced to twist their minds into pretzels in order to get through the day. It’s unprecedented. And it’s not just the degree – it’s the sheer amount of times they’re being forced to by their party’s choice for President. No other US President has ever put the members of his party through something like this. The psychological damage will persist long after the constant lies and controversy begin to fade.

Never hold hands

'What are you wearing tomorrow?'
'Red and Black'
'me too'

Super Ponzi, it’s a ‘smart’ Ponzi
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/06/01/2189634/its-not-just-a-ponzi-its-a-smart-ponzi/

Contrast that with the United States, which saw emissions drop a whopping 3 percent last year as a result of the continuing (shale-enabled) transition from coal to natural gas.  {FACT CHECK PLS)

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/06/01/the-sound-and-fury-of-trumps-paris-pull-out/

Behavioural economics: What we know and how it could be mainstreamed
http://voxeu.org/article/mainstreaming-behavioural-economics

Interview With Marc Andreessen: Masters in Business
https://overcast.fm/+F21zqtZ84

'Blockchain technology may benefit the emerging economies more than the developed world as they leapfrog to latest solutions while implementing new systems for the first time. Read more...'
http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/05/21/blockchain-technology-emerging-markets/

Strava
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/10170185/Top-10-Strava-tips-and-tricks.html

Brexit Robbery , find Chris Wylie...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

Straw men in the debate on basic income versus targeting.
http://voxeu.org/article/arguments-against-basic-income-are-straw-men

Urban gardening

The five universal laws of human stupidity

https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity/

Book review
Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth, by Nick Murray
http://www.arcadiaia.net/pdfs/BR_Simple%20Wealth.pdf

the choice recommendation from Josh Brown on this podcast at Kitces
https://www.kitces.com/blog/josh-brown-ritholtz-wealth-reformed-broker-podcast-social-media-blogging-to-drive-business-growth/

A ‘cyber mythology’ has been created by the industry, to sell unnecessarily expensive solutions through fear
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/04/19/2187646/introducing-the-rise-of-cyber-mythology/

The Afterlife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.themillions.com/2017/04/afterlife-f-scott-fitzgerald.html

Five books on Brexit, nice consolidation
http://fivebooks.com/interview/jonathan-portes-brexit/

It is almost a truism, certainly among economists, that the big structural problems in the UK—to do with the labour market position of the low-skilled, the education system and the housing market—actually have little or nothing to do with the UK’s membership of the EU one way or the other. 

If Hannan upsets you , here's some 'Hannan fodder'
http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2017/03/calum-kerr-governing-digital-economy

15. Has anyone ever managed to read a tweet by Hannan beginning with the words “a reminder” without getting an overwhelming urge to do unspeakable things to an inanimate object, just to get rid of their rage?

HFT as an insight into where fintech is going

Markets are cyclical, Darwinian and subject to diminishing returns. Nothing new in that observation. But people do seem to forget it all the time https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/03/28/2186482/hft-as-an-insight-into-where-fintech-is-going/

“You see the world not as it is, but as you are.”

The Best Free Investing Tools on the Web
Data for back testing and investment links
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/03/the-best-free-investing-tools-on-the-internet/

Much of What We Think We Know Is Wrong
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eight-myths-about-migration-and-refugees-explained-a-1138053.html

Some handy economic terms
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-05/5-economics-terms-we-all-should-use

So there are five econ terms I think should enter our everyday vocabulary. As long as this doesn’t happen endogenously, the marginal increase in the aggregate present discounted value of our public discourse would have a high conditional probability of being positive!

Stop Reading Lists of Things Successful People Do
BS on peoples stories and success
https://hbr.org/2017/03/stop-reading-lists-of-things-successful-people-do





Some Lessons For Living From Older Generations
"No one – not a single person out of a thousand – said that to be happy you should try to work as hard as you can to make money to buy the things you want."

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/03/some-lessons-for-living/

ThisThis Article Won’t Change Your Mind
The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs Article Won’t Change Your Mind

The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/

The problem with facts
Tim Harford on how today’s politicians deal with inconvenient truths

Molière once wrote: “A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”

https://www.ft.com/content/eef2e2f8-0383-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9

Created by London-based data visualisation studio Kiln and the UCL Energy Institute

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blood stock - changing ideas about our evolution
https://mosaicscience.com/story/ancient-human-evolution-neanderthal-genetics

Data firms

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/

Awesome, highly curated directory of personal newsletters.(discover.getrevue.co)

Unlearning descriptive statistics

http://debrouwere.org/2017/02/01/unlearning-descriptive-statistics/

Probably the most important video on youtube

Why it’s plain stupid to buy a house in India

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/manu-rishi-guptha/why-its-plain-stupid-to-buy-a-house-in-india/?curator=alphaideas&utm_source=alphaideas

homelet.co.uk/homelet-rental-index

How alternative facts rewrite history

https://www.ft.com/content/3062d082-e3da-11e6-8405-9e5580d6e5fb

There is no progress in isolation :(

some thoughts to consider on trade deals

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/01/trump-wants-renegotiate-even-worse-trade-deal-australia/

 ...some light relief

How to keep your secret activist Twitter account a secret

GIF GEN

Game on in UK and the States💩

like all cubs , it takes time to climb

 AUSFTA
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/01/trump-wants-renegotiate-even-worse-trade-deal-australia/

Top 10 Free Alternatives to Expensive Software

Android Irig

{https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ikmultimediaus.android.irigrecorder&hl=en_GB}

Peter's Choice
I asked my student why he voted for Trump. The answer was thoughtful, smart, and terrifying.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/donald-trump-2016-election-oklahoma-working-class

A period of national isolation. worked for Japan's Sakoku

{http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/01/17/extreme-brexit-this-was-may-s-last-moment-of-control}

We’ve Been Hacking Elections for More Than a Century
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/14/weve-been-hacking-elections-for-more-than-century.html

The empty platitude by Teresa no mates
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-still-lacks-brexit-roadmap-a-1129194.html

{http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/charming-portraits-of-hong-kongs-shop-cats}