I titled the last chapter in our first book for Wiley & Sons “How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market” which became a bestseller, “Trading is Life; Life is Trading”. I would update it now to read “The Metaverse is Life; Life is the Metaverse”. Even metaverses can have…

The term ‘metaverse’ is used liberally today, but it came into form at the start of the PC (personal computer) revolution in early 1980s. The Apple ][+ catalysed the movement with upper/middle class being able to afford such computers in the early 1980s. Hundreds of Bulletin Board Systems were born…

Powell’s change of heart from dove to hawk! We have a number of central banks starting to hike interest rates due to soaring inflation. Indeed, for the first time since 2018, Powell has changed his stance on QE by becoming more hawkish due to spiking rates of inflation. The CPI hit a 39-year high. As a consequence, we…

Most do not quite grasp the potential of web3 yet since it is so new. It is decentralised and permissionless and censorship-resistant. Tokens are the oil in the machine that align incentives among groups of people who don’t have to trust each other. DeFi is the backbone of a new…

Some of you may recognize these lyrics … And these children that you spit on, As they try to change their worlds, Are immune to your consultations, They’re quite aware of what they’re goin’ through. - David Bowie ‘Changes’ The newer generations are far more likely to agree with Bowie’s…

Money is a form of energy. Blockchain/crypto bull markets are spurring the transformation of wealth. Bear markets weed out the tourists. Crypto is socioeconomically transforming humanity while making the Industrial Revolution seem trivial by comparison. It is changing how we interact. It is leap-frogging man-made boundaries. In consequence, countries will…

Money is a form of communication that reflects one’s values and personal tastes. Money has been controlled and manipulated over the centuries by governments. This has had the effect of distorting, crippling, or abolishing freedoms. As part of this control, central banks are designed to inflate away fiat over time…

Modern society runs on databases that are run by TTPs (Trusted Third Parties). TTPs decide, in practice, your rights, from trivial to important such as whether your hotel airline reservation is cancelled, if you can only wire a limited amount to your crypto-exchange, that you are not allowed to use…

Originally published on https://www.selfishinvesting.com on 3 Aug 2021 05:44 ET Market Lab Report / Dr. K’s Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher Nation-state command-and-control will transform into a self-organized digital society: Viva la Evolution™ Tech Juggernauts Tech leaders such as FB and GOOGL have been trending higher in sloppy fashion despite…