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1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser
Since our last update, our fundraiser made a great leap forward to $63,947.87 thanks in large part to two donors. We very much appreciate it. We are now more than 20% of the way toward our total of $300,000. Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far. If you were planning to help soon, there’s no time like the present! Information on how to donate appears below.
2. This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio:
Greg Johnson welcomes Bitcoin guru and commenter Karl Thorburn back to discuss Trump, Musk, Epstein, and a whole lot more, including your questions. Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central European Time on:
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3. Jef Costello on Alain de Benoist
Don’t miss Jef Costello’s stellar review essay on Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism, “You Don’t Realize How ‘Liberal’ You Are” over at American Renaissance. It has also been reprinted at The Unz Review.
You can order Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment here
4. Keith Woods on the “Gnosticism” Dodge
Back in the 1950s, Eric Voegelin’s thesis that modern revolutionary ideologies were a version of ancient “heresy” of “gnosticism” was catnip to conservative intellectuals who thought Christian orthodoxy was the cure to all our problems. Keith Woods looks at an update of the gnosticism thesis offered to explain “wokeness.”
“Gnosticism,” of course doesn’t have the predictive or explanatory power of the crudest “every single time” meme. Our civilization is dying, and we simply don’t have time for such foolishness. Once again, movement conservatism looks simply like pseudo-intellectuals peddling pseudo-solutions to pseudo-problems to waste time and energy to the point that it is no longer possible to conserve anything at all.
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8 comments
Great stream as always. Finally got an Entropy account and will make more financial contributions in the future.
Greg regularly makes conservatives look like clowns. His comment that conservatives only really care about the budget was “jejune of them” was hilarious.
Playing the stock market, forex, or crypto market is an interesting problem. The main problem is to PICK a reliable stock, currency, crypto coin, and based on historical records (on a chosen time frame in the past) to decide whether it goes up or down (on a chosen time frame in the future), and act accordingly (buy or sell). Karl claims to have solved this problem to some extent. If the hostorical record of price fluctuations of the object under consideration (share, currency, crypto coin ) shows a power law behavior, then this is a reliable investment and you can act , putting your money on the table. That’s an interesting claim, but if it was true, we would all be millionaires. I suspect all the fluctuations under consideration show a power law behavior, that’s a characteristic of the game itself. So the act of PICKING the right one (stock, currency, crypto coin) requires a more subtle analysis than that. I am not a player, I am just fascinated by this problem from a mathematical, theoretical point of view. If he is right, then this would be a great discovery indeed, because there is software out there available for investors that would give the fluctuations distribution of historical records for any given time frame in the past.
Related to the last part of the discussion, the impact that counter-currents has on the readers can be resumed in one line from John 8:32 from the Bible, ‘ And the truth will set you free’.
The Bitcoin Power Law Theory. Bitcoin is more similar to a city and… | by Giovanni Santostasi | Medium https://giovannisantostasi.medium.com/the-bitcoin-power-law-theory-962dfaf99ee9
Really the analysis doesn’t need to be subtle, because Bitcoin has no close competitors – it is by far the most liquid crypto currency (meaning it has the biggest network effect, and has been since inception). After 16 years nobody has been able to create a cryptocurrency that has even come close to surpassing it. So unlike stocks, you don’t need to create a diversified portfolio of crypto coins. Not everyone will become millionaires, just those who understand the Bitcoin value proposition and are willing to wait 7 years for a 10x return while they accumulate. Most people can’t handle the volatility and the psychological demands associated with sitting on a large pile of money!
I got it, thank you. For bitcoin the price versus time power law is represented ( in a log-log graph ) by a straight line with a positive slope, that’s the baseline for the price lows. You can buy when you are on the baseline and wait it out longterm until you can sell for a big profit. The trick is to always buy when you are on the low baseline and avoid the bubbles. You can calculate the baseline based on historical records, so you should know when you are on it. As long as nothing major happens, like the FED taking China’s position on bitcoin, this dynamics should be stable. On the other hand, if China opens up to bitcoin, then you are set for some “Great Gatsby” time.
Greg Sir,
I have gotten access to some political donor lists that I think would be a good match for CC.
Could we private message to discuss?
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JR
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