Pius the Banker

Good news. The peer-reviewed journal where we submitted the first Power Law paper has sent us the reviewers’ comments, and they are generally positive. They suggested that the paper could be published if we make some relatively minor revisions. It would be a major milestone when the Bitcoin Power Law is finally recognized as a scientific result that has passed peer review.

The view from my office at the Scientific Bitcoin Institute.

First day of work at the Torino, Italy Scientific Bitcoin Institute office. Amazing place

Was mir an Deutschland gefällt: Die Wälder. Was gefällt Ihnen an Deutschland?

الغرور هو من أسقط هذا التجمع الأسطوري 🔥

The current German football national team is the lamest one I've seen in my lifetime. Guardiola destroyed German football by popularizing Tiki Taka. The whole nation tried to copy Spanish football. But Germans have a different physique: They're tall, strong, stocky. Mediterranean bodies are more slender, have different limb to body ratios etc... German individual quality was never top tier, especially in technique, but they were disciplined fighters who could outlast opponents. The German spirit was their secret sauce. Now they've traded the German fighter spirit for wannabe spanish artistry. Team is now full of Kamala-voting schoolboys who are neither competitive in physical power nor technique nor spirit.

ETH is dead BTC is so slow SOL is filled with scammers XRP is for old people What’s the solution?

“You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.” — Milton Friedman

I’M SO TIRED OF THIS BULLSHIT 😭😭

Good Morning from Germany, where the road to socialism is paved with ever-rising govt consumption. Since 1999, state consumption is up 63%, while GDP has risen only 31% and capital investment a meagre 16%. The public sector keeps expanding, but the investment base is stagnating. Germany is becoming less of a market economy and more of a state-led redistribution machine.

Like many mathematicians, I’m a bit shell-shocked by the OpenAI breakthrough on the unit-distance problem, which was an 80-year-old one posed by Erdős. What does this mean for research mathematicians and for mathematics in general? A stream-of-consciousness thread