Thiel and company founder Max Levchin “envisioned a cashless mobile world,” author Jimmy Soni wrote in “The Founders,” a 2022 book about PayPal.

Peter Thiel’s investment in Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc has undeniably lit a fire under its stock price, and Tom Lee’s Ethereum-first strategy sure has captured market imagination.

I highly recommend Ross Douthat’s podcast this week in which he interviews Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor and thought leader who has started to warn the world about the coming of the ...