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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/bitfinex-bitcoin-price.html

Q4: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2018/Facebook-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2017-Results/default.aspx https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2017/Q4/Q4-2017-Earnings-Presentation.pdf

https://stratechery.com/2018/amazon-health/

First deal in Norway: Constellation Software’s Vela Software acquires the ProArc Technical Document Management unit from Tieto Oyj https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/01/31/1329267/0/en/Constellation-Software-s-Vela-Software-acquires-the-ProArc-Technical-Document-Management-unit-from-Tieto-Oyj.html

Q4: investor.siriusxm.com/investor-overview/press-releases/press-release-details/2018/SiriusXM-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2017-Results/default.aspx

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/sec-seeks-to-freeze-crypto-assets-of-600-million-coin-offering

Exactly. But on top of that, Musk is known for actually doing other people's jobs. The Vance bio has anecdotes about people telling Musk that they can't do something he asked, that it's too hard or would take too long or impossible or whatever, and if Musk thinks they're not trying hard enough, he's been known to say something like "Ok, on top of being CEO of two companies, I'll also do your job" and then actually does the thing for a while until he's proven his point. Obviously he's busy and can't study everything, but there's little doubt that he has the brainpower to do almost anything if he could actually dedicate the time to do it. The dude's running two large companies that he grew from basically nothing using the hundreds of millions he made with his startups in totally different fields (where he coded and designed complex systems), is lead rocket designer at the first private reusable rocket company, has overseen every detail on the first aspirational EV company, and in his free times he's trying to improve infrastructure-scale tunnel digging (a field that basically has been stagnant for decades, like rockets were) and designs things like the hyperloop.. But yeah, some random engineers are saying they're better than him ::)

Funny, I was just writing about this here 2 days ago... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/crypto-exchange-bitfinex-tether-said-to-get-subpoenaed-by-cftc https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/958420215301394432 Also: https://www.recode.net/2018/1/30/16950926/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-bans-crypto-advertising-bitcoin-james-altucher

I think Amazon probably brought forward the idea but even them didn't have the critical mass of employees to make this make sense, so they went to BRK and JPM.

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to partner on U.S. employee healthcare https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005676/en/Amazon-Berkshire-Hathaway-JPMorgan-Chase-partner-U.S.

New book by Steven Pinker. Not out yet, but Bill Gates wrote a pretty glowing recommendation for it: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enlightenment-Now You can pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525427570/

There's a lot that is technically interesting, though I think that's probably overhyped at this point. There's also a lot that is incredibly worrying, wrt to the amount of fraud and scams and BS flying at high velocity. Looks like Tether might be a giant fraud that might blow up a lot more than just itself later on since so much of it is recycled into other things... I've been interested in cryptography since the late 1990s, I've first looked into BTC and cryptocurrencies in 2011. It's interesting stuff for sure, but the mania around it is getting tiresome. It's mostly getting a lot of attention because of the price action, not so much because of any actual products or problems that are being solved, which is always worrying. There's some stuff in there that I agree with: http://www.investorfieldguide.com/preston/ I prefer investing to speculating anyway (I don't have that gambler gene -- don't get pleasure out of it even if I win), so I keep an eye on it for the entertainment value. Or I might change my mind at any point as I gather more info, but so far I'm following it the same way I follow CPU architectures and EV technology.

Humans are social animals. Those lower in the hierarchy always have to try to take pot shots at the top dog to try to raise themselves up. It's pretty stupid, and makes them look weak and insecure, IMO.

Entertainment. That's the main way to be assured of getting net positive value out of this show right now. So your opinion is that that the worlds first judgment resistant + trustless asset isn't worth anything? I didn't say anything of the sort.

Thread:

For owners of the debentures: http://www.csisoftware.com/2018/01/constellation-software-inc-announces-annual-interest-rate-for-series-1-debentures-4/

I've now watched it. Worth seeing, especially if you've followed the saga.

There's a new series on Netflix called Dirty Money. Episode three is about Valeant. I haven't seen it yet, so no idea if it's good.

Sears' market cap is getting ever closer to what what Eddie paid for his Yacht :-\ https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht-fountainhead.html

Entertainment. That's the main way to be assured of getting net positive value out of this show right now.

"Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400 Million" Oops I guess.

You can follow him on Twitter here, if interested: https://twitter.com/saurabh_madaan

https://hackernoon.com/extortion-police-raids-and-secrecy-inside-the-venezuelan-bitcoin-mining-world-6e97a25e7402

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/jd-enlists-tencent-as-it-prepares-to-take-on-amazon-in-the-u-s