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Arthur Hayes
Personal blog · cryptohayes.medium.comeconomicsbusiness
Arthur Hayes's personal blog at cryptohayes.medium.com covers economics and business. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Pumping Iron”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Arthur Hayes's Medium posts as sources or counterpoints on crypto, stablecoins, bank lending and Fed policy. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Pumping Iron2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-05
- Kaiseki2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-17
- Number Three2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-01
What Hacker News says?
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/archive/ - not just one individual but a few. Entrepreneurship, finance, tech. "Every investor is making bets on the future. It’s only called speculation when you disagree with someone else’s bet. In hindsight there was as much speculation in the 1990s that Kodak and Sears would keep their market share as there was that eToys and Pets.com would gain market share. Both were bets…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted White Man as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOthers disagree: https://cryptohayes.medium.com/stablecoin-triptych-7a062e745...
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on “The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies”Submitted Number Three as a story · 2 points
HN discussionyou've been able to sell the quarterly basis for 2-4x that much for years. See here: https://cryptohayes.medium.com/all-aboard-4d50435190d6
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on “The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme”Submitted The Doom Loop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionArthur Hayes, the founder of Bitmex, argues that Trump tries to manufacture recession to get lower interest rates (for his real estate empire) https://cryptohayes.medium.com/kiss-of-death-916ae30fedc5
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on “Wall Street stocks tumble as investors fret over US economic slowdown”Submitted Yes I Read the Whitepaper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf they haven’t yet, they will eventually. Once banks realize that utilizing BTFP is kosher, they’ll run it all the way to its cap (which encompasses a little over $4T of distressed assets [0]) and reinvest the cash wherever they can. The mortgage rate will become pegged to the one-year rate and the housing market will resume its climb. Banks will still take a massive hit but they’ll bleed out slowly instead of cras…
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on “Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week”Submitted Pumping Iron as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pumping Iron as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Denominator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kaiseki as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speechless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Number Three as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Financial) Maelstrom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thanks for Nothing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Ye Faithful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bloomberg terminal, run FARBAST Index as a story · 1 points
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