Liberty

https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/fundamental-challenges-with-public-blockchains-253c800e9428

As far as I know, Bitcoin doesn't have the ability to perform smart contracts natively, not without layering a third party on top. You might be thinking of Ethereum.

https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100

Have a good one everyone!

This is cool:

I remember seeing a video of this guy a few months ago being mega-bullish on BTC.. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-22/michael-novogratz-shelves-plans-to-start-crypto-hedge-fund

What's the exchange equivalent of a banana republic? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/22/coinbase-one-of-the-biggest-bitcoin-marketplaces-says-buying-and-selling-temporarily-disabled-amid-price-rout.html

BTC hit 10,700 a few minutes ago.

https://electrek.co/2017/12/20/usa-cheapest-solar-austin-texas-2-5¢-kwh/

First off, a warning: This isn't about investing. I think there are lessons to be learned from this history that can be applied to investing and thinking in general, but this is on a second level reading. https://www.amazon.ca/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006 This book won the Pulitzer prize. Part of what was impressive about it was the depth of research. “The book is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.” Unless you are already super familiar with the agency and it's declassified history, you're bound to learn a bunch of things, as it's very different from the common image that is portrayed in books and movies. I thought a lot in this book was fascinating and shocking. Recommended. I've also just learned that the same author has written a history of the FBI based on recently declassified materials, but I haven't read it yet (h/t Jamie Pastore): https://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812979230

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/how-do-machines-learn Good introduction for those not familiar with machine learning/neural networks.

https://towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was-the-best-general-ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb H/t Tobias Carlisle

This is some Black Mirror shit...

Scary big brother stuff.

http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/12/14/a-twist/

Here's the 30-min video: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/12/13/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-legendary-investor-stanley-druckenmiller.html

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Batteries-could-replace-three-California-power-12428238.php https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/battery-storage-is-threatening-natural-gas-peaker-plants

It's been going in and out the past few days. Hopefully they just leave it on in parallel with the new thing, and over time do some maintenance on it to keep it going (HTML5 charts would be the obvious thing to make it more future-proof).

Part 1 of a podcast interview with Diller: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-being-infinite-learner-helped-barry-diller-become-reid-hoffman/

If I have to I'll go to Excel, but I didn't have to so far because I don't do anything that Google Docs can't (couldn't) do. Pretty simple. Different people have different needs. So far I didn't need the bloated thing that is Excel.

My investing journal is in Pages, and I have some stuff in Numbers, but most of my spreadsheets are in Google Docs. I guess if they stop having Google Finance live updating in Google Docs I might switch over entirely to Numbers...

Simplicity + portability + free. It meets my needs. Excel's overkill for what I'm doing.

Thanks, sounds good. Have you found a guide on how to use it in a Google Docs spreadsheet? I've Googled around a bit and couldn't find much... I don't want to do anything too fancy with it, just get some stock prices to auto-update in a Google Sheet to track my portfolio...