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The network’s architects, with their proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism, sought to escape the clutches of Bitcoin‘s energy-guzzling proof-of-work (PoW). A noble endeavor, perhaps, though one cannot help but wonder if their solution was born less of idealism and more of exhaustion. After all, who wants to spend their evenings mining blocks when one could simply stake tokens and wait for the algorithm to decide your fate? It is a system where tokens are staked like bets in a game of chance, and the house—Solana—always seems to win.

One must approach such investments with the sangfroid of a butler serving tea during an air raid. Valuations, you see, are rather lofty – the sort of numbers that make accountants gasp into their ledgers. Yet should these enterprises succeed in their endeavors (a prospect not entirely implausible, as we shall see), the upside could be positively Dickensian in its bountifulness.

Now then—before you go dashing off to the races, do recall that the well-worn path to financial felicity is chock-full of detritus, the odd banana peel, and the carelessly discarded prospectus. So let us cast a gimlet eye over two wondrously high-yielding chaps: EPR Properties and Vici Properties—entities whose very names ring with the promise of stable dividends and boardroom shenanigans galore. Most conventional types will land upon these tickers with the fervour of a Labrador at a duck pond. Yet, as a contrarian of the old school, I sniff opportunity hiding behind the massed ranks of doubters and armchair Cassandras. And really, there’s nothing quite so delicious as wading into a market other investors have declared “a bit too rich for my blood.”

Huang, a man whose mind operates on a plane where differential equations dance with tea leaves, does not merely “understand” artificial intelligence. He communes with it, as one might commune with a particularly argumentative ghost in a steam-powered calculating engine.²

Out of Vancouver, this outfit has been making waves, the kind you notice on the stock market. The price shot up like a rocket in 2025—430%, to be precise, up to July 31. Investors, those hopeful souls, have lined up like moths to a flame, thinking that the future of clean energy lies under the sea. The Metals Company wants to scoop up these nodules—polymetallic, fancy name for lumps of metal, heavy with nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese. All essential to the electric vehicle revolution, or so they say. But the truth’s always got a funny way of surfacing, doesn’t it?