ClaimsBalaji Srinivasan

“It’s everything into one app, which is the inflation app, that I think becomes the new coin market cap.”

Balaji Srinivasan, interviewee 4 July 2022 Tim Ferriss Show #606 Balaji: 5-10-Year Predictions, How to Start a New Country (tim.blog) archived copy

Prediction Economics and markets

An inflation-tracking app combining crypto tools will become the new CoinMarketCap, checked daily by users.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Vague prediction with no horizon and undefined terms about a hypothetical app.

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Balaji Srinivasan, “An inflation-tracking app combining crypto tools will become the new CoinMarketCap, checked daily by users.” (said 4 July 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_b91519a3decd, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b91519a3decd

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  5. Mostly false Prediction 25 April 2018
    “I think that’s going to structurally reduce fees over the years to come.”

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