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!