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Bits about Money

About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.

  • By Patrick McKenzie
  • Based in Japan
  • Roughly nine posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 11
2023 16
2024 9

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Debanking (and Debunking?)
Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horowitz (begins at 7:42) and in an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. The venture firm they founded, …
On , by Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 23,619 words
Fiction and Finance
Programming note: Bits about Money has been a bit irregular recently.I’ve recently booted up the Complex Systems podcast. It is now up to more than a dozen episodes, including interviewing my dad on real estate …
On , by Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 1,603 words
Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Programming note: I recently launched a weekly podcast, Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie. About 50% of the conversations cover Bits about Money's beat. The remainder will be on other interesting intersections of technology, incentives, culture, …
On , by Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 3,149 words