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Jesse Myers
Personal blog · onceinaspecies.comeconomics
Jesse Myers writes Once-in-a-Species, a personal blog at onceinaspecies.com about economics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jesse Myers' posts on Bitcoin's value, store-of-value economics and the 2% inflation target. Commenters present his Bitcoin analyses as clearer explanations than their own.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Stanford MBA and fund manager helps you understand Bitcoin.
What Hacker News says?
To understand why Bitcoin fixes the issue takes hundreds of hours of research - much more than I can explain here. Here are some good starting points: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jAZ0x9H0bQFY6wIbQfnrnIl... (listen to at least the first 7 episodes - absolutely fascinating - the most interesting lectures I ever heard. Prepare to have your mind slowly blown) https://youtu.be/Z6qzEYxBYcQ https://www.onceinaspec…
Comment linking /p/bitcoins-full-potential-valuation
on “Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)”Submitted Monetary Bizarro World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAll stored value is looking for the best store of value. Until bitcoin there was no clear winner - gold, real estate, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, pensions etc. have all got their own significant drawbacks. People don't need to think beyond fiat, they'll simply store their wealth where its nominal value goes up the most, especially if it offers the most liquidity, portablilty, divisibility, etc Here's a good ana…
Comment linking /p/bitcoins-full-potential-valuation
on “Ask HN: What do you think will happen to Bitcoin?”I think this is a far better analysis: https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/bitcoins-full-potential-val...
Comment linking /p/bitcoins-full-potential-valuation
on “What Is Bitcoin Worth?”Ok true, maybe I don't explain it very well; this guy does better than me: https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/the-crypto-catch-22-why-bit...
Comment linking /p/the-crypto-catch-22-why-bitcoin-only
on “SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except Bitcoin (FT)”