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JAN 24, 2025
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Interesting Resources We Found for You

1. Podcast: Bitcoin Mining 101 w/ Adam Haynes (BTC218): [Click here]
Adam Haynes from SimpleMining.io breaks down Bitcoin mining fundamentals, energy innovations, and advanced technologies like AI and quantum computing. We explore hashrate growth, the debate between mining and buying Bitcoin, and strategies for engaging new adopters.

2. Podcast:
The Chopping Block: Trump's Crypto Shake-Up, Solana's Big Moment, that Changes Everything: [Click here]
In this episode, they dive into one of the wildest weeks in crypto history, unpacking the unprecedented launch of Trump’s memecoin and its explosive $70 billion valuation. They discuss how it broke every record imaginable, the fallout from Melania’s token, and the chaos it unleashed across the Solana network.

3.
Congress Trading Report 2024 (Unusual Whales): [Click here]
An in-depth analysis of Congressional stock trading patterns in 2024, revealing how lawmakers' portfolios performed against market benchmarks and examining potential conflicts of interest.

4. The Rebalancing Edge: Optimizing Target-Date Fund Rebalancing (Vanguard): [Click here]
Vanguard's TDF threshold-based rebalancing methodology can generate higher annual returns with reduced transaction costs.

5. Global Value Team Annual Letter (First Eagle Investments): [Click here]
For two years now, those seeking outsized equity gains likely would have been best served by focusing their investment on the most concentrated, highest-growth segment of the world’s largest stock market; that is, tech-oriented U.S. stocks. First Eagle's Global Value team argue that diversification has regained its reputation as a potential driver of attractive long-term risk-adjusted returns and an essential element of a well-balanced investment portfolio.

Conferences & Events

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IPEM Cannes | Wealth (Marseille)
Since 2016, IPEM Cannes has brought a different essence to the private capital industry by gathering its key decision-makers in a conducive environment for meaningful exchanges. The conference is on January 28-30, 2025

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    Global Alts ’25 (Miami)
    Global Alts '25 in Miami is the leading networking conference for the alternative investment industry. The conference is on January 27-30, 2025

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