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The MacGuffin, Part 2: The Story Arc of SBF and FTX

The MacGuffin is the object of desire. It is the thing around which the plot of the story revolves. Here is the story arc of SBF and FTX, and the M…
Ben Hunt November 18, 2022
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The MacGuffin, Part 1: The Corrupt Crypto ‘Revolution’

If you don't see that the crypto "industry" has become just as blindingly corrupt, just as oozingly fatuous, just as profoundly captured by the Nudgin…
Ben Hunt May 17, 2022
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The Green Protocol: A New Vision for Crypto, Pt 2

The Green Protocol is a set of rules for the tokenization of symbolic betting markets in positive social good. I think this is how crypto saves the w…
Ben Hunt September 8, 2021
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Proof of Plant: A New Vision for Crypto, Pt 1

I want to change the language of crypto from mining to growing. I do not mean this in a metaphorical sense. I mean a proof-of-plant method for literal…
Ben Hunt June 23, 2021
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ET Podcast #10 – In Praise of Bitcoin

Bitcoin has been subverted by the neutering machine of Wall Street and the regulatory panopticon of the US Treasury Dept. What remains is a construct…
Ben Hunt May 5, 2021
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In Praise of Bitcoin

What made Bitcoin special is nearly lost, and what remains is a false and constructed narrative that exists in service to Wall Street and Washington r…
Ben Hunt April 28, 2021
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The Spanish Prisoner

Mark Zuckerberg is not The Spanish Prisoner. He's the guy running the con. Libra, the cryptocoin promoted by Facebook, is a classic Spanish Prisoner …
Ben Hunt July 7, 2019
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Too Clever By Half

The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by half…
Ben Hunt February 5, 2018
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The Effete Rebellion of Bitcoin

In structure, Bitcoin is a bearer bond. In meaning, Bitcoin is the cautious expression of a rebellious identity. 
Ben Hunt February 17, 2015
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