The Parable of Your First Sat

A fiction built on real market data

This is a work of fiction. The characters are invented; the prices, dates and market data are real.

Gouache illustration of an open hand with a small coin glowing in the palm, in front of a table with a birthday cake and a window split into the four seasons
Original illustration generated with AI (Adobe Firefly). Fiction: not a real scene.

Jake is 42, has a mortgage, a twelve-year-old daughter and no particular interest in technology. In October 2021 bitcoin comes up at a family dinner, and over the next five years he makes almost every mistake there is to make, with the odd good call of his own along the way. It is fiction: the people are invented. The prices, the dates and the market mood in every episode are real, and you can check them on our charts. Each episode answers one specific question and ends with a practical box that answers it in full, in case you landed on a single episode.

4 episodes · A new episode every Sunday.

Season 1: The Discovery

  1. S1 · Episode 1

    Seventy Candles

  2. S1 · Episode 2

    Thirty Business Days

  3. S1 · Episode 3

    Memo: Roof

  4. S1 · Episode 4

    Sixty-Four Times