Lyn Alden

Bitcoin & Crypto

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lyn@primal.netwww.lynalden.com/

Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy. Partner at Ego Death Capital. Finance/Engineering blended background.

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My experience on the PDB show in-studio was positive. The whole team was friendly. I limit travel for shows in general, but have no qualms going on in the future. The challenge was that the format of this part of the show is basically news commentary. It’s not an interview; four of us discuss news items as Patrick brings them up. So, sometimes I’m asked to comment on things I have no major interest/edge in talking about. Other times it touches on an economic topic where I have more to say. The...

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Hopped on the PBD podcast live this morning to talk markets, energy, and the economy:

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One must always tip for good service. We live in a civilized society.

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Awful.

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-You’ve got to fly somewhere, but the only flight available that day leaves at 6am. You begrudgingly book it anyway. -Then the day before, you get an email from the airline saying “we regret to inform you that your flight has been delayed by two hours” to a far more reasonable 8am.

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Yeah.

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Never. We shall overcome.

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So I found another uber driver final boss. It’s like the secret boss you unlock after you finish the game. This guy has over 33,000 rides. And he’s also an older gentleman who drives a Corolla. Been driving for Uber nearly since they expanded nationwide.

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This is absolutely wild, lol.

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My half-hour animated Broken Money video now has 500k views on YouTube. Coming up on its two-year anniversary:

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People in-world usually call her Jade. Even cleaner. She doesn’t call herself anything. Doesn’t care what they call her.

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Yes exactly.

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There’s actually a genetically modified character in the book who gets certain abilities only when in ketosis, only when eating a ketogenic or carnivore type of diet.

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Here's a Nostr exclusive: the alternative cover of The Stolguard Incident. During the design process, I had two artists design covers, and went with Kim Dingwall's cover. The other one by Joshua Griffin was cool too, but it had "movie poster" vibes and many readers prefer to picture characters the way they want rather than be shown them, so we kept that one as concept art. Still, Joshua's work deserves people to see it. Ava, Stallard, and the Jade-Eyed Witch appear alongside Asim on this versi...

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Really sorry to hear that. ❤️ Hopefully the pain gets under control soon and that can start a flywheel of felling better and more positive. So many people are sending well-wishes, and I wish we could all take a little fraction of the pain to make it go away. 😔

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These headlines/titles kill me though. In context I never say anything as sensationalist as the thumbnail says.

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I brought out Nostr Lyn a bit in the second half of this chat. Talking macro on BTC Sessions w/ Luke Gromen:

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The weird aspect of the NYSE trading floor is that the whole thing feels kind of like you're on a set. There's the CNBC recording booth on the floor, there are the market maker stations, there's this bell area. The lighting is perfectly controlled. Security everywhere.

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A couple weeks back I was at the New York Stock Exchange for some meetings/events, and they were like "let's update your formal pic that you use for things, that's from 2022". So we do the classic "let's take a slick pic under the NYSE bell, the literal heart of capitalism" photo. Because that'll make it all professional and such. The problem is, whenever I smile, I inherently look like I'm trolling. Regardless of the setting, it looks like I'm just there for the lolz. So the pic seems kind o...

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He does great work. Liquidity has mint been great lately, but there’s a big difference between liquidity rolling over and liquidity breaking.

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Yeah. Pretty much the main thing. The gradual print.

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One of the few things *not* breaking these past few weeks is liquidity, actually. The Fed’s standing repo facility isn’t being used, the Fed’s swap lines aren’t being used, and the SOFR-IORB spread is only mildly elevated. #macro

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Had a great chat with Peter in London! The thumbnail totally makes it look like I’ve started my villain arc, though. 😅

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Over 80% of the chapters are recorded.

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No, but two fun facts: -The earliest version in my head for Asim’s character (over a decade ago) was Iranian-American, but later shifted him to be Egyptian-American since I’m just way more familiar with Egypt. -Mohamed loves detective scenes and has really great taste, so he helped stress-test and tweak Asim’s dialog in his interrogation/conversation scenes, among giving feedback on the novel broadly.

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Wow that sounds nuts, someone should write a book on that.

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Almost nothing in macro currently matters until the Strait of Hormuz opens. That’s the macro. It’s a binary analysis similar to Covid 19.

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Rekt from all angles.

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The epub on Amazon is set to have no DRM. But in the coming months we’ll expand to other ebook platforms as well.

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Which step did you run into an issue?

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Whenever I’m asked about private credit lately. On Fox Business, on podcasts, at conferences:

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A little while ago, gave a great fireside on this topic. Centralized algos replacing free will.

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You know what, so far it’s not going that badly so far.

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It would really help at this early stage, actually. 🙏

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Really not looking forward to flying today.

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Good evening. My March public newsletter is out now:This issue discusses potential macro impacts from the war on Iran, how sovereign debt bubbles and war tend to occur in clusters, the three pillar portfolio strategy, and updates on the model portfolio.

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Yep it's rough. They've had prior rolling brownouts and such, usually in summer months, so it's unusual for it to occur in spring.

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Unfortunately, Chuck Norris was the only person who could stop this train.

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Thanks for checking it out! Glad you enjoyed it.

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It is in paperback, ebook, and hardcover. Soon to be audio as well. However, the hardcover is from a different distributor and Amazon hasn't linked them all together yet. Also, the pricing for the hardcover is not great. Here's the hardcover:

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The Stolguard Incident was ranked the top new release in Amazon this weekend for both the cyberpunk and technothriller genres. (It’s also currently the best seller in the space marine category, despite a distinct lack of space marines. Which, I mean, okay.) Thanks everyone for checking it out!

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Last night when I finished work and joined my husband for movie night, he instead showed me a video about Newcomb’s paradox and we spent two hours debating it until bed. Anyway how is everyone’s weekend going?

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The audiobook is currently in production. And it’s coming together really well.

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Walker and Carla are doing the audio currently. Not out yet but on the way!

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On Twitter, there's a GIF library I can look up for memes in-app, and post them. Sometimes I use it, and sometimes I don't. As a memer, Twitter is easier than Nostr thus far. On Nostr, I have to be more conscious about it, and always upload an image or video. More friction.