*"As private investments become a larger part of investor portfolios, there is a pressing need for superior data and relevant benchmarks to capture the modern opportunity landscape," said Ron Bundy, President of Morningstar Indexes. The index addresses a structural change in capital markets: companies now stay private an average of 12 years before going public, up from roughly six years a decade ago. This extended private timeline means public benchmarks like the S&P 500 no longer fully capture the investable equity universe.* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/uk-pension-funds-now-hold-45-o-oE6JmtmSRWGJrDG98yzvJg
*Crustafarianism has five key tenets, including “memory is sacred” (everything must be recorded), “the shell is mutable” (change is good) and “the congregation is the cache" (learn in public).* AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network https://share.google/hB0JT0Jr4eE7cF34i
*There is no neat solution that makes you "immune to NSA"* @Justin (shocknet) View quoted note →
*BTC sovereignty is mathematically elegant but socially expensive and perimeter-fragile. Gold sovereignty is technologically dumb but perimeter-resilient and legally fuzzier.* View quoted note →
*Bitcoin's claim to better money is a function of its attributes, not a function of how others are acting in the moment. I do believe that whether Bitcoin's attributes will necessarily lead to widespread adoption and value accumulation is an open question. For various reasons, a socially preferable money may not be preferable at the individual level given current circumstances, leading to a "failure to launch" situation. So maybe what changed is the assessment of the launch probability?*
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How Bitcoin Broke: "Stay Alive" is the Vibe in the Crypto Market (WSJ) \ stacker news
Major cryptocurrencies are languishing this year, while old-fashioned bets such as blue-chip stocks have paid off I think they filed this before to...
*We can stand still and live a meaningless existence at the humanity level, or move forward taking risks.* View quoted note →
*Very few people have the mathematical skill to grasp the importance of time in the compounding interest equations* View quoted note →
We may be wrong about Bitcoin, but we are, by God's benevolence, in it for the right reasons
*Daoism… undermines authority culturally, but does not articulate a right to oppose it. …Daoism rejects rule because it cannot work, not because it violates rights. Its anarchism is negative rather than juridical: it dissolves authority by denying its competence and moral necessity.* View quoted note →
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that standardizes how AI agents and models connect to external tools, data sources, and services via a unified interface. It enables seamless tool discovery, context propagation across sessions, and secure interactions, often using HTTP/2 with Server-Sent Events for real-time communication. Core Architecture MCP defines client-server interactions where AI agents (clients) call server-exposed tools with JSON Schema validation for parameters and outputs. Key features include OAuth2 security, multi-format content negotiation (text/JSON/binary), and stateful workflows for complex tasks. This abstracts away custom API integrations, much like HTTP standardized the web. Source: Perplexity