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Bitcoin: From Pizza Money to the Biggest Bubble in History

We started this whole series with a guy paying a house price for three flower bulbs in 1637. Forty-one chapters later, we end with a guy paying 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. Chapter 42 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” (ISBN: 978-1-63299-227-7) tells the story of the biggest financial bubble in human history. Bigger than tulips. Bigger than gold. Bigger than anything we covered in this book. And it happened in our lifetime.

Ordinary Men Chapter 1: One Morning in Józefów

Imagine getting woken up before dawn, loaded onto a truck, and driven for two hours down a bumpy gravel road with no idea where you are going or what you are about to do. Now imagine being told, once you arrive, that your job today is to murder 1,500 people.

  • Dec 20, 2025

Battery Metals: The New Gold Rush for Electric Cars

In 2017, cobalt went from $25,000 to $100,000 per ton. Quadrupled in a single year. Not because someone cornered the market or because a mine collapsed. It happened because the world suddenly realized that electric cars need batteries, and batteries need metals. Lots of metals. Chapter 41 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” tells the story of how Tesla, Elon Musk, and the EV boom turned obscure industrial metals into the hottest commodities on the planet.

Battery Metals: The New Gold Rush for Electric Cars

In 2017, cobalt went from $25,000 to $100,000 per ton. Quadrupled in a single year. Not because someone cornered the market or because a mine collapsed. It happened because the world suddenly realized that electric cars need batteries, and batteries need metals. Lots of metals. Chapter 41 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” tells the story of how Tesla, Elon Musk, and the EV boom turned obscure industrial metals into the hottest commodities on the planet.

  • Dec 13, 2025

The 2016 Oil Crash: When the World Was Drowning in Crude

In February 2016, a barrel of WTI crude oil cost less than $26. That was the lowest price since 2003. Just 18 months earlier, the same barrel was selling for $110. A 76% drop. Chapter 40 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” tells the story of how the world literally ran out of places to store all the oil it was pumping, and what happened when OPEC and Russia finally decided to do something about it.

The 2016 Oil Crash: When the World Was Drowning in Crude

In February 2016, a barrel of WTI crude oil cost less than $26. That was the lowest price since 2003. Just 18 months earlier, the same barrel was selling for $110. A 76% drop. Chapter 40 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” tells the story of how the world literally ran out of places to store all the oil it was pumping, and what happened when OPEC and Russia finally decided to do something about it.

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