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by SilasX 632 days ago
There were two things going on: A) Betting more aggressively than the Kelly Criterion, which indicates a bad understanding of how to reason about risk and EV[1], and, separately B) taking unnecessary, negative EV risks that have no justification beyond laziness.

B) include things like "having such sloppy accounting that you simply forget about major accounts[2] and are unintelligible to potential buyers" and "storing critical private keys in a text file that lots of people have poorly logged access to".

[1] lay explanation: https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/why-infinite-coin-fli...

[2] the infamous "hidden, poorly labeled fiat account" for example