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Understanding Crypto 7: Nicholas Weaver: A Computer Scientist's Perspective on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

The Rational Reminder Podcast

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The Smartest Way to Invest?

Short term day trading, robin hood, that's gambling. But on a long term basis, you invest in stocks and hold on to it. And then there's a lot of really advanced math that i forgot basically ten minutes after i took the glass that showed that you can't actually beat the market. The way to tie the market is with a index fund. Yet in our normal course of pod casting, we talk mostly about index funds. That's that's what we're doing. Some curious, nick, are there technologists that you respect who are proponents of crypto and block chain? There were a couple, but not any more, because they'v basically gone and drunk the

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