putting out there as a meta comment that i used to feel vaguely gross about thinking about money in any form and was privileged enough that that didn't impact my life much and it's fun to stretch myself a bit and learn a little more about it today
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the closest i ever came to really needing to care about money was trying to get an internship at jane street in... this was maybe 2016? i made it as far as flying to new york for an on-site interview but i flubbed it lol could not make good bets fast enough
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the next closest was getting into crypto in 2017 for the lulz, it was fun to learn about how blockchains worked and i spent a day trading $1 worth of ETH which was helpful for building some intuitions about order books and bids and asks
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then i had to pay crypto taxes on all those tiny transactions 🙃
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I've thoroughly enjoyed seeing my TL suddenly become fintwit so thank you for facilitating
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i bought 100 EUR worth of bitcoin in like 2012 and then sold it all shortly later
i regret not HODLing
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Money is a hell of an interesting topic. Even weirder than stocks and other assets. Most people never think about it, like fish in water.
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don't let any nasty Bitcoiners tell you that the dollar isn't backed by anything, when we know full well it is backed by self-referentially mispriced toxic loans and stabilized by a military and commodity cartelization pact with Saudi Arabia 
allenfarrington.medium.com/the-capital-st
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Here's another great essay if you're looking to dive into the deep end
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Superb essay from @LynAldenContact on the inevitable breakdown of global dollar dominance.
Packed with insights like this. In college 15 years ago I took many courses on US foreign policy and the invasion of Iraq, but my professors never mentioned this.
lynalden.com/fraying-petrod
