The United States as the Global Bitcoin Leader

It all started with an Excel spreadsheet.

Of course, it always starts with a spreadsheet on Wall Street.

But my first office was technically on Park Avenue South, and in those early days, my world was a grid of numbers that supposedly explained everything. We built models, cathedrals of assumptions, to predict the future of stock prices or the trajectory of a small-cap med tech company. We were moving value around, slicing it, dicing it, taking a little piece for ourselves with every transaction. It was a good living, and for a while, I thought it was the whole game.

I even co-founded a hedge fund on the principle that we could build a better spreadsheet, a smarter model.

But then I discovered a different kind of model.

Not a financial one, but a machine learning one.

I stumbled into the world of data engineering and saw something that changed my perspective entirely. While finance was busy shuffling the same deck of cards, tech was printing entirely new ones. It was creating value out o…