Frank Curzio Podcast- Whats really moving Bitcoin?

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Frank welcomes Edward Karr onto his show to discuss Bitcoin and other crypto currencies

1978 Berkshire Hathaway Letter to Shareholders

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Key Points:

• Accounting issues of consolidating results between wholly owned and partially owned companies
• Optimism about long term equity holdings 
• Inability to predict short term equity prices
• Discussion concerning textile business being a commodity business with no differentiation between competitors
• Expresses Sentimental attachment to textile business, management,and workers
• Insurance business produces excellent results
• Difficult to "buy good insurance businesses"
• Stock selection criteria; businesses we can understand, with favorable long term prospects, operated by honest and competent people, priced attractively
• Buys stocks at perceived low valuations in large concentrations
• Prepared to wait for market to re-value share holdings higher
• Discussion of disposition retained earnings of companies in portfolio

Tim Ferris Podcast- The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency

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Interview with Nick Szabo

"Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes"- Nick Szabo

Wide ranging conversation on cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc... including their origin, utility, future uses and applications.

1977 Berkshire Hathaway Letter to Shareholders

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Key Points:

• Measure of management performance should be return on equity capital.
• Continued struggles in the textile business; some related to industry and some self inflicted.
• Shareholder questions about staying in textile business.
• Buffets sentimental comments about management and workforce.
• Discusses the successes and mistakes of Berkshires's Insurance business.
• Emphasizes the non-proprietary nature of Insurance business and the importance of managers.
• Emphasis on long term holding of investments and description of stocks as "small pieces of a company"
• Selection criteria for stocks