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Lyn Alden

@LynAldenContact1.1M followers

Author of Broken Money & The Stolguard Incident. Investor with a blended engineering/finance background. GP @egodeathcapital. Director at Bakkt & @Swan.

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1Jan 31, '23The U.S. Treasury Department actually published this.20.3×3.7M8.2k2k805
2Oct 22, '23The fact that Satoshi: 1) published the Bitcoin white paper before he launched it, 2) kept it on track for 2 years with upgrades, 3) disappeared without ever spending his own coins14×2.6M17k1.9k1.4k
3Apr 7, '25The most notable thing in today's market isn't what's happening in stocks, it's that bond yields went up despite what's happening in stocks.11.6×2.1M15k1.4k1.4k
5Jan 7, '23In the future, the idea of central policymakers purposely creating more unemployment as the primary way to contain inflation might be seen as the economics equivalent of bloodletti10.7×2M9k1.7k343
6Mar 13, '23Years ago, The Narrow Bank tried to do a business model of just taking deposits and holding 100% of them in reserves at the Fed. It would basically be the safest possible bank if a10.6×1.9M7.6k1.5k772
7Mar 16, '23The numbers are in. The Fed's balance sheet increased by nearly $300 billion last week.10.2×1.9M7.2k1.5k341
8Apr 7, '23It's really simple. Elon is afraid of competition. He's a cowardly cuck. He doesn't build things; he finds things that are already built and decides to market them. And he suppress8.6×1.6M6.5k787379
9Apr 8, '23Elon Musk criticized anti-censorship views, and then censored tweets more arbitrarily than the prior leadership did. Meanwhile, Musk won’t criticize Xi Jinping due to his own econo8.1×1.5M8.1k970163
10Jun 13, '25Sigh.7.0×1.3M5.9k388984
11May 9, '24I produced a half-hour animated overview of the Broken Money subject matter. It covers the history of money, the development of banking, and how new technology changes the way we i6.1×1.1M9.2k2.3k4.8k
12Aug 16, '24Grocery stores have razor-thin profit margins and people are talking about them price gouging. 🤷‍♀️6.1×1.1M9.5k1.6k728
13May 10, '24Here's an embedded version of the Broken Money video. -An analysis of the past, present, and future of money, and how technology impacts it over time. -How the current disequilibri5.8×1.1M7.4k2.2k6.1k
14Mar 21, '23The summary of people in my timeline right now5.7×1M6.2k64462
15Sep 15, '23Great news: if we exclude most of the essentials of life (shelter, food, energy, and the second-hand ability to get to work), then price inflation is back down to a 2% annual growt5.6×1M7.2k1.1k159
16Mar 10, '23To quantify it, US banks have $17.6 trillion in deposits, of which $3.1 trillion is backed up by cash, of which less than $100 billion ($0.1 trillion) is backed up by physical cash5.6×1M5.6k1.2k399
17Apr 10, '25After utterly massive outperformance in the years and decades prior, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is about even with simply owning gold since 1998, or about 27 years ago.5.2×948k8.4k9591.4k
18Nov 8, '22Imagine McDonald's makes its own money, let's call them clown-bucks, keeps most of it, and sells some to the market. McDonald's then uses their remaining clown-bucks as collateral 5.1×025k3.4k1.4k
19Mar 30, '23Anyway, goodnight.5.0×912k9.2k996146
20Jul 12, '25Oof.4.8×885k7k584531
21Jun 14, '22Good morning.4.4×020k3.6k705
22Feb 12, '25When you go to developing countries and see how many Chinese cars are on the road, it's shocking. They're not in the US, so we don't see them. Over the past four years, they sudden4.2×766k5.7k755674
23Jul 6, '25Okay then.4.2×764k7.4k419490
24Oct 24, '23If you are excited by bitcoin pumping in price, take a chill pill. You did this last cycle. Don't count every $1k please. If you are confused by why bitcoin is pumping, spend a cou4.1×750k8.4k1.2k240
25May 4, '25My 16-year-old Hyundai is finally starting to fail. So, I decided to join the rich life and get a Toyota.4.0×738k9.1k149132
26Jun 29, '25Basically what he’s saying is that nothing stops this train.4.0×729k11k993471
27Aug 23, '23My new book, Broken Money, is now available on Amazon. Paperback and hardcover versions are currently available, with ebook and audiobook versions on the way. It'll also be availab3.8×700k6.9k1k433
28Sep 14, '24Costco $COST is currently trading at a higher price/earnings ratio than Nvidia $NVDA. That's it. That's the tweet.3.6×649k6.8k374367
29Apr 15, '24View post on X3.5×640k5.7k962267
30Jan 25, '25Robots doing backflips is cool, but wake me up when Roombas actually start replacing manual vacuum cleaners at scale. They've been out for 20+ years and haven't dominated yet. Once3.2×583k6.3k292469
31Aug 22, '25If you missed Powell’s speech, that’s okay. He basically said nothing stops this train.3.0×550k16k1.5k310
32Sep 27, '23You think you own your bank deposits?3.0×548k5.9k92796
33Feb 6, '25This is so much cooler than nation state buying.2.9×537k16k1.2k301
34Feb 2, '25NPC reprogramming currently in place across financial social media influencers.2.9×533k9.1k854348
35Jan 17, '22"ESG investing" in its current form is similar to people who take selfies of themselves in fancy locations to show they were there, while barely experiencing it for real. Mostly th2.9×012k2.3k1.3k
36Jun 7, '25Well, that escalated quickly. My Nothing Stops This Train keynote from Vegas has 200,000+ views on YouTube after the first week.2.8×511k6.8k5311.1k
38Feb 12, '23I unknowingly tweeted macroeconomic content during key moments of World Cup finals and semi-finals, so my vow today is not to do the same during the Super Bowl.2.7×489k5.7k26025
39Jul 30, '24Feels like we need a better way to audit elections. If only there was some sort of absolutely immutable and publicly available database for this.2.6×468k6.5k615129
40Nov 24, '21One reason I like reading the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever he was, is that there is zero hype in anything he wrote. He was the complete opposite of lambos, shills, flexing2.5×013k1.5k447
42May 24, '22People from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, Togo, Venezuela, and Afghanistan keep telling me here in person how they use bitcoin to deal with authoritarian bank control or persistent i2.4×010k2.3k578
43Jun 30, '23I don’t know what it will do over the next year, but the asset I am most interested in over the next decade remains #bitcoin.2.4×440k6k64280
44Feb 16, '25I do think they should audit Fort Knox. Now’s the time, if ever.2.4×439k9.2k58882
45May 2, '23View post on X2.4×432k5.6k62146
46Jul 19, '21The Matrix was the best movie of the past 25 years. Change my mind.2.4×012k546199
47Jun 4My June public newsletter is now available: The issue focuses on defining and planning for the more multipolar and volatile world we have moved into.2.3×429k1.3k391476
48Jun 25, '21It's a good idea to follow some people you disagree with. Otherwise you risk ending up in an echo chamber. Resist the temptation to tribalize and segment yourself, and instead focu2.3×013k1.5k188
49Aug 31, '24Disinformation is indeed rampant online, but the antidote to it isn't censorship. The antidote is teaching and promoting critical thinking skills at a deep societal level.2.3×419k8.4k1.4k315
50Jul 15, '23My biggest side project over the past year has been working on a book about the history of monetary technologies and the current technological shortcomings of the global monetary s2.2×400k5.8k29779
51Oct 28, '212021 in a nutshell2.2×012k1.3k90
52Dec 5, '24I wonder what the next one will be?2.1×385k7k855457
53Jul 21, '24If I had to summarize the past five years of world history it would be like:2.1×379k8.5k708270
54Feb 15, '22Proof-of-Stake is legacy tech. It's what corporations and banks have run on for centuries. It's outdated and oligopolistic. And yet, still useful for centralized systems. Proof-of-2.1×08.7k1.6k647
55Dec 20, '24Bitcoin has crashed to prices that are above what I even expected it to reach in 2024 in the first place.2.0×371k8.5k482100
57Feb 7, '25"I lost interest in Lyn once she pounded the table hard on bitcoin that went up over 1,400% since she recommended it. I prefer her underperforming value stocks. Those at least have2.0×358k6.5k21583
58Feb 17, '25Seems like the head of Ethiopia’s central bank has fine taste in books.2.0×358k7.6k272259
60Aug 20, '25In other words, nothing stops this train.1.9×348k5.9k715277
61Jan 26, '22View post on X1.8×09.7k1.4k101
62Oct 12, '22How it started vs how it's going a day later.1.8×08.3k1.7k146
63May 2, '22New profile pic. My prior one is three years old now, so it's time for an update. This new one was taken in April 2022.1.8×012k7132
64Jul 1, '25"Nothing stops this train" is not a cynical view at all. It's an acknowledgement to not stress about what you cannot control and what is nearly inevitable, so that you may instead 1.7×307k7.3k719343
65Sep 15, '23View post on X1.7×306k6.8k75548
66May 2, '25Broken Money has now sold over 100,000 copies.1.6×298k9.5k23486
67May 7, '22The policymaker dilemma:1.6×08.2k1.2k227
68Feb 19, '22Custodial financial services allow governments to freeze accounts first, and then sort out who is guilty or innocent later. Self-custodial financial services force governments to a1.5×07k1.4k313
69Aug 7, '22Every couple months I randomly check Japan tourist arrivals, say "alrighty then" and go back to working.1.5×08.1k658326
70Jul 23, '22The separation of money and state seems like a radical concept, but so did separation of church and state a few centuries ago. Such a thought would be considered outlandish then. A1.5×06.3k1.1k734
71Oct 25, '22When I was a kid, I used to get bullied at bus stops and schooling grounds. Rough neighborhood. Trailer park. Unlike many wimpy parents, my father said, "if someone hits you, hit t1.4×08.1k442358
72Feb 28, '22Maybe it will reverse tomorrow, but it's kind of remarkable that a week into a significant geopolitical/military event, bitcoin is outperforming gold.1.4×08k74879
73Feb 15, '25Europe classifying wood pellets as "green" and subsequently contributing to the burning of a lot of old-growth forests for energy, is one of the biggest energy scams of our day.1.4×261k7.2k974266
74Oct 8, '25Gold jumped from being worth like 2% of global assets to 3% of global assets and my feed is like1.4×255k6k320179
75Aug 28, '22The first rule of economic policy is to make sure you do not run into acute energy shortages. The second rule of economic policy is to make sure you do not run into acute energy sh1.4×07k1.1k103
76Nov 21, '24One of my goals with Broken Money was to specifically make sure it came out in a bitcoin bear market. I didn't want it to be one of those "toppy" books that comes out right near a 1.4×250k6.8k341204
77Apr 12, '22It seems rare these days, but remember it is possible to agree with someone in one area, disagree with them in another area, and go on with your life while respecting the other per1.4×07.8k72084
78Sep 19, '25This famous 1943 Norman Rockwell painting, which often makes its way around social media as a popular meme template, has an official title: Freedom of Speech1.4×249k6.6k613284
79Aug 4, '21Nassim I've not bashed you or said anything negative about you. I critiqued the set of arguments in your recent paper, not the author behind the paper, or your other works. I haven1.3×07.8k317128
80Jun 11, '21If you bought a 5-year Treasury note this time last year (yielding around 0.35% at the time), the rise in CPI in one year already outpaced all five years of the interest payments y1.3×06.7k1.2k77
81Mar 19, '25I’m a super introvert, so the fact that people want to hear me talk always shocks me, to be honest. Even all these years in. I don’t take it for granted, often feel it’s undeserved1.3×232k7.2k10397
83Oct 13, '21If you don't need to eat, use energy, or need some sort of home, then inflation is declining. So there's that.1.2×06.4k99358
84Jul 17, '22View post on X1.2×07.2k66262
85Oct 7, '21Some of the bitcoin bears on my timeline tweet more about bitcoin than the bitcoin bulls on my timeline do. I can't imagine hating an asset so much that I relentlessly tweet about 1.2×07.2k41319
86Sep 22, '22View post on X1.2×07.1k62274
88Dec 25, '24Christmas is a good time for us all to remember that behind most social media accounts (the non-bots) are… people. A lot of people still treat social media like a video game; total1.2×217k6.9k40950
89Dec 3, '22A pretty typical meal for two at Chipotle is coming in at almost $50 now. #inflation1.2×05.6k35950
90Mar 4, '25My account was compromised for a few days, but I'm happy to report that I've regained full control of it. I've verified this on my website and elsewhere. Love you all. Nothing stop1.2×211k6.2k17153
93Nov 14, '21Congrats to all those who worked on Taproot.1.1×06.9k33913
94Mar 3, '22View post on X1.1×05.8k74974
95May 14, '22People who delete tweets are not serious people. It's fine to delete in the first couple minutes due to typos and so forth, but if you write something that ends up being wrong and 1.0×06k40641
96Feb 15, '22Some bitcoiners consider me a "boomer" because I own diversified assets. Some traditional investors consider me "avant garde" because I recommended bitcoin at sub-$7k. Works for me1.0×06.3k32842
97Feb 22, '25I’m a big fan of freedom for people whom I disagree with. Anyone still with me on that, or nah?1.0×183k6.2k24946
99Dec 5, '24Of course bitcoin had to hit $100k in the middle of the night Cairo time so I’d miss it. Just woke up to a million notifications instead.0.9×164k6.5k16546
100Nov 6, '24We like the coin.0.8×154k6k26845

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