FT Alphaville presented: The Contrarian Winklevii Index

Literal Bitcoin brothers, the Winklevii, have made it a habit in the past five years to make statements that at the same time question you how they came to Harvard and at the same time understand how Zuck supposedly stole the idea for Facebook.

Who can forget your claim that Bitcoin was a better value -conservationator than gold because Elon will finally reduce an asteroid full of brilliant things, which leads to a ruinous imbalance between supply and demand?

But we are not even sure whether this can be compared to this tweet from Cameron Winklevoss on Wednesday on another topic in which every Bitcoin brother is suddenly an expert: inflation.

The Dollar store increases prices by 25 %. The vast majority of the goods they have sold will be $ 1.25 from 2022.

If you use the dollar store as a proxy for inflation and not the consumer price index, inflation is 25 % closer than the widespread 6 %. Out of

-Cameron Winklevoss (@Cameron) 23. November 2021

ouch indeed.

If Cameron is right, inflation runs hot hot hot. Forget ShadowStats or The Chaapwood Index, we are on course for a new Weimar Republic. Wheelbarrow ready.

In view of this alarming discovery, we thought why not create an index so that this special Winklevii can follow the turbulent course of inflation since the foundation of dollar Tree in 1986?

we can introduce you to the Contrarian Winklevii Index:

If you are interested in licensing this protected data, please contact a team member of FT Alphaville to get more information. From Monday there will be a 25 percent increase in price to take inflation into account, so get it as long as you can.

hat tip: Joe Weisenthal.

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