The Blockbuster Portfolio
Why 60/40 is dying—and what Bitcoin reveals about what we really trust
paulweaver34
Christian. Grantmaker. 20 years in Istanbul. Philosophy → MPA → Grant Making → Bitcoin & AI. Writing about where trust lives — and what happens when it moves.
The Coroner and the Closed Door
AI Is the Coroner. The State Locks the Door.
Honest Money. Honest People.
Why humility alone isn’t enough — and what Bitcoin and the Gospel share
Bitcoin Fixes the Money. What Fixes the Human?
Why the trust stack needs something no code can provide
The Oracle Problem: Who Gets to Say What Happened?
A Bitcoin-native architecture for moral prediction markets
When Opportunity Has to Be Carried
What it takes to move opportunity across boarders
From Jerusalem to the Network
How the Gospel Traveled—and What It Reveals About Trust
A Taste for Rainy Days — and Something Deeper
Raining weekends— sometimes the best way to spend the day is with a book.
The Alchemists Won...for now.
For millennia, kings and popes made alchemy a capital offense. Then governments decided to do it themselves.
Bitcoin's Honest Costs
Volatility, responsibility, and the cost of holding your own money
The Scale Where Responsibility Breaks
When systems grow faster than our ability to see one another as persons
Fix the Money, Fix the World
How a signed book, a dystopian novel, and a lemonade stand might be the best Bitcoin education stack ever assembled — discovered somewhere between Dallas and Indianapolis.
Fiat, Bitcoin, and What We Cannot Keep
Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, and the question beneath money.
Bitcoin, Generosity, and the Future of the Church
For the past several years, I’ve been thinking more seriously about how generosity actually works across borders. For much of my life, I’ve been part of communities that care deeply about supporting others—often in different countries, cultures, and economic realities. But the systems we rely on to do that are surprisingly fragile.
