unstable ink

unstable ramblings about stability topics, particularly around the US dollar and stablecoins

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  • Unstable: From Meme to Movement
    2025-07-09·fiatmovement+2 more
    At the beginning, Unstable was just a funny joke. We laughed because it was true:
  • An Unstable Journey
    2025-07-03·fiatlife+2 more
    Wow. The Unstable meme is already 45 days old. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from these past 45 days --
  • Max Instability (yes, lean in)
    2025-07-01·instabilitymindfulness+1 more
    There are moments where you feel like you’re coming apart. Not dramatically; just… fraying.
  • Volatility Is Utility
    2025-06-28·marketslife+2 more
    People hate dips. In markets, they trigger panic.
  • Social Media Is a UI for Fake Peace
    2025-06-25·social mediastability+1 more
    Everything looks calm. Nice photos. Happy people. Latte art. Wins.
  • Why 'Unstable' Hits Especially Hard in Today's World
    2025-06-23·cryptostability+2 more
    If you’re just looking for assets that hedge against inflation or collapse, there’s Bitcoin. There’s gold. There’s all the usual suspects.
  • Why Leaning into Unstable is Productive
    2025-06-21·cryptofiat+2 more
    I believe value-adding, productive, win-win activities are the best kind to lean into. So why might writing about and growing the unstable meme be net-positive for the world?
  • The Risk You Can’t Model
    2025-06-17·cryptostability+3 more
    Some shifts are so rare, they defy easy modeling. A reserve currency losing dominance.
  • Learning to Sit with Instability and Why You’ll be Better Off for It
    2025-06-16·stabilitymindfulness+2 more
    In 2015, I signed up for a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Myanmar. Vipassana. No speaking, no phone, no distractions. Just your breath, your mind, and whatever came up in the silence. I didn’t make it to Day 10.
  • Instability, Vision, and the Power of Belief
    2025-06-14·philosophycrypto+1 more
    Every founder, whether launching a protocol or a meme, begins in the same place: instability. Not just market volatility or technical uncertainty, but emotional, existential instability. The kind that comes from seeing something the world doesn’t see yet. From feeling like you're betting against reality itself.
  • Why Unstable Feels Right, Right Now
    2025-06-12·fiatcrypto+2 more
    I hugely respect the dollar and what it has done for the world. It’s not just a currency -- it’s a symbol of trust, coordination, and decades of global alignment.
  • Why I Don’t Hold Stables Anymore
    2025-06-10·stablecoinscrypto+1 more
    I’ve been thinking a lot about stability lately -- not just as an economic concept, but as a way of living, of choosing, of navigating the world. There’s this idea in computer science: Greedy (stable) vs. Exploratory (unstable) search strategies.
  • Everything is unstable.
    2025-06-09·philosophycrypto+1 more
    Everything is unstable. The coins. The charts.
  • AI, Productivity, and the End of the Old Economy
    2025-06-08·AIcrypto+2 more
    AI is advancing at an exponential pace. And with it comes a paradox.
  • Bitcoin Is Our Big Bro. Unstable Is Your Crazy Cousin.
    2025-06-07·bitcoincrypto+1 more
    Bitcoin showed the world what freedom could look like. A hard cap. A neutral network. A decentralized way to move value that couldn’t be printed, paused, or permissioned.
  • 1 Big Mac 🍔 = 1 Big Mac 🍔
    2025-06-06·economicsinflation+2 more
    The First Real Stablecoin Everyone says the dollar is "stable."
  • Embracing Instability Amid the Changing World Order
    2025-06-05·stabilityresilience+2 more
    Inspired by Ray Dalio's Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order Ray Dalio didn't just describe trends.
  • The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank - Lessons about 'Stability'
    2025-06-04·bankingstability+2 more
    In early 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed. (Yes, the same collapse that caused the depeg of USDC) Not because of crypto. Not because of fraud.
  • Lessons from the 2023 USDC Depeg
    2025-06-03·stablecoinscrypto+2 more
    In March 2023, USDC, a stablecoin with over $40 billion in circulation, did the unthinkable. It broke its peg.
  • Freedom, Decentralisation, Unity
    2025-06-02·philosophydecentralization+2 more
    Ross Ulbricht told a story about wasps at the Bitcoin conference this weekend. He removed their hives one by one.
  • We are Addicted to Stability. And it's Holding us Back
    2025-06-01·stabilitypsychology+2 more
    From childhood, many of us are taught to chase one thing: A stable income.
  • Unstable - A Game Theory Approach
    2025-05-31·game-theorystrategy+2 more
    In clean models, equilibrium rules. In real life? Chaos wins.
  • Stability and Evolution
    2025-05-30·evolutionpsychology+2 more
    Humans didn't evolve in steady conditions. And neither did our economic behavior.
  • Stability, Quantum Mechanics and The Principle of Least Action
    2025-05-29·stabilityphysics+2 more
    In classical physics, you push a thing, it moves. Simple cause and effect.
  • Stability in an Entropic Universe
    2025-05-28·physicsentropy+2 more
    Here’s the thing about the universe: It doesn’t do stability.
  • Stability and lessons from the 2008 Housing Crisis
    2025-05-27·financecrisis+2 more
    In 2008, the world learned a brutal lesson: Back then, economists, bankers, and rating agencies believed the U.S. housing market was inherently stable.
  • Stablecoins Are Not What They Seem
    2025-05-26·stablecoinsrisk+2 more
    There's a narrative we've all bought into -- that stablecoins are the safe corner of crypto. A way to opt out of volatility. A digital dollar you can trust. But look closer, and that safety starts to feel like a story we tell ourselves.
  • Debt, Dalio, and the Dollar’s Crossroads
    2025-05-25·debtdalio+2 more
    Ray Dalio has spent decades mapping the deep mechanics of economic empires: the rise and fall of nations through debt accumulation, shifting power, and the erosion of trust that inevitably precedes reserve currency transitions. According to his framework, we’re well into the final phase of the Long-Term Debt Cycle.
  • Stablecoins, Statecraft, and the Illusion of Control
    2025-05-24·stablecoinsregulation+2 more
    This week, the U.S. moved forward with the GENIUS Act, a federal framework for stablecoin regulation. At the same time, giants like JPMorgan, BofA, Citi, and Wells Fargo are reportedly exploring a joint stablecoin venture.
  • The Tariff Trap & the Unstable Truth
    2025-05-23·tariffsusd+2 more
    Trump just announced 50% tariffs on the EU. It’s not just a policy move. It’s a signal. It is a crack in the illusion of stability that props up the U.S. dollar.
  • The Fragility of Forced Stability
    2025-05-23·stabilityfragility+2 more
    Stability is not the enemy. When it emerges naturally -- through shared trust, resilient systems, and adaptive feedback loops -- it can lay the groundwork for prosperity, harmony, and long-term confidence. True stability, like a well-rooted tree, bends in the wind and survives the storm. But the stability that is engineered, that is imposed by decree or defended at all costs, tells a different story. Forced stability is brittle. It masks weakness. It clings to control even as the ground shifts beneath it.
  • The Hegemony of the U.S. Dollar
    2025-05-22·usdhegemony+2 more
    The hegemony of the U.S. dollar is beginning to show cracks. Again. We've been here before -- 2008, to be exact -- when the global financial system unraveled under the weight of fraud, greed, and unchecked risk-taking. That crisis birthed Bitcoin, a decentralized alternative that promised a new way to store and exchange value without relying on institutions that had failed us.