> stock is best inflation hedge working by sponging the overflowing inflational liquidity, and no wonder that Bitcoin behave similarly
Agree on the mechanics. Equities are a classic inflation hedge. But the reality is that if three people, in the last year, attempted an inflation hedge, one with TIPs or Series I bonds; one with equities; and one with Bitcoin, the last gained little over the middle. Both likely lost value relative to the first.
If your inflation hedge loses value during inflation because the Fed will raise interest rates because of inflation, yes, there were external factors at play, but no, they’re not to blame, you hedged badly.
This is the kind of boneheaded, "my division above all" move that should see someone removed off any product decisions whatsoever.
Reminds me of the people at Android that keep pushing big carrier SMS group chat protocols, where everyone can tell from miles afar they are just a blind caterpillar sensing their way along some local optimum gradient descent in whatever mismatched incentive hell their big corp job has landed them.
I think what you're looking for is https://ngrok.com/ - it's quite popular among developers.
> Another problem with vpnazure I had is that I'd have no way of seeing where the traffic flows inside the vpn interface. Thinking about it now, probably could be seen in traceroute. But at the time, I thought about looking into tcpdump of vpnserver or setting up a firewall. And that was too complicated for my hobby set up. The point of my concern was that I wanted to see whether any traffic is leaking onto third party servers managed by SoftEther or otherwise. Of course I'd want the traffic to flow across the internet, but I'd expect it to take the path it would take if one of the nodes was a natural server.
> Also, all the traffic is managed by vpnserver (softether's one), which makes it a little opaque in terms of where the packets go out of that process.
I see what you mean and I understand your concerns.
If you'd like to see the path from your connection to the VPN servers you can always do a traceroute to its public IP. However for concerns regarding what they do at the server level, if a 3rd party manages the VPN server, you only have your trust in them and their degree of transparency. Next step would be to go self-hosted, but then you need to trust the hosting provider too.
Agree on the mechanics. Equities are a classic inflation hedge. But the reality is that if three people, in the last year, attempted an inflation hedge, one with TIPs or Series I bonds; one with equities; and one with Bitcoin, the last gained little over the middle. Both likely lost value relative to the first.
If your inflation hedge loses value during inflation because the Fed will raise interest rates because of inflation, yes, there were external factors at play, but no, they’re not to blame, you hedged badly.