Cameron Otsuka

I am Head of Data and Analytics at Build Asset Management, where I've helped launch a private credit fund investing into over-collateralized bitcoin-backed loans, a fixed income ETF and related vehicles, and built the internal tech stack that glues everything together.

I record a weekly podcast, discussing geopolitics, technology, and markets through the lens of competing monetary systems—mining, printing, and hashing—as the forces that shape which empires rise and fall.

Latest Articles

TPUs Advance on Nvidia

newsletter What happens when AI accelerator demand is no longer synonymous with "Nvidia GPUs"?

Bitcoin Mempools Cleared: Is Nobody Using Bitcoin?

essay Bitcoin mempools have cleared before and there's no immediate reason to panic.

R1 vs. o1: AI as Commodity or Moat

essay Is DeepSeek's R1 an existential threat to OpenAI?

Monetary System Enshittification

essay Is the US monetary system experiencing enshittification? And how do we solve it?

Minimum UTXO Value

note A look at what Bitcoin dust is, historical fee rates, how fees are calculated, and a decision on a minimum UTXO value to stay above the dust threshold.