George Soros’s investing maxim—“Don’t bet on hypotheses you can’t test”—is gaining renewed relevance in crypto markets, where narratives can travel faster than data and price volatility routinely punishes conviction built on little more than storytelling.
The idea borrows directly from philosopher Karl Popper’s concept of ‘falsifiability’: a claim is only meaningful if it can, in principle, be proven wrong. Applied to markets, it becomes a practical discipline—build positions around hypotheses that can be measured, monitored, and invalidated, rather than around predictions that cannot be… Read more







