Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Slow Motion Train Wreck

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The most popular post on the CNBC website is about a guy who took his entire life savings, plus borrowed money, and put it into that most blue chip of conservative investments, Dogecoin. After putting $180,000 into it (which, again, was more than his entire net worth) he saw it explode higher, getting up to $1.7 million. Here he is (and just glancing at him, it’s hard not to think the words “cutting-edge financial genius“):

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Crash Protection For Coinbase

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Options Start Trading On Coinbase

Options started trading on Coinbase (COIN) on Tuesday, so longs can now hedge their shares in the crypto platform. We’ve posted a couple of hedges for the company below, in the event Anatoly Karlin’s prediction of a crypto crash this year comes to pass.

Before we get to those, let’s clear up a bit of misconception about the company’s IPO last week. 

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