Financial Futurism

Check your change. Anything before 1964.

Dimes, quarters, and half-dollars minted pre-1964 hold real silver, not the copper-nickel mix used today. A pre-1965 silver dime runs $2-3 at melt, quarters around $5+, halves more. It is the same debasement that ended Rome: start with precious metal, dilute it, and eventually it is just paper, or numbers in a database.

Go through the coin jar. You may be holding real money.

There will not be one blockchain to rule them all. But one will likely take 80 percent.

That is how winner-take-most markets resolve. Google holds roughly 80% of search and everyone else fights for scraps. Settlement and back-end payments will land the same way. Whichever chain wins that race moves a staggering share of global value, even at 'only' 80%.

Where is your 80% bet?

They accumulate in the dark and sell in the light.

The entire crypto market cap is under three trillion, pocket change to the biggest players. They build positions through OTC desks where the volume never touches an exchange, then sell into the open market to press the chart down. Repeat until the OTC inventory runs out.

When the dark pools finally run dry, the only way left is up.

Borrowing against crypto today feels expensive. Real estate felt the same in the 1980s.

Mortgage rates were punishing back then, and people borrowed anyway, then refinanced as rates fell and values climbed, pulled equity, and bought the next property. The same loop works for digital assets now: high rates today, lower rates as the market matures and risk falls. Roll the collateral forward and compound.

Follow for more on infinite banking with digital assets.

Reframe first class. It is not a comfort upgrade, it is a paywall.

The people up front can afford to be there, and meeting the right one of them a single time can repay the ticket a thousand times over. But only if you actually talk to them. Sitting head-down on your phone like you would in coach defeats the entire point.

Keep this in mind on your next flight.