Tuur Demeester is the founder of Adamant Capital, a Bitcoin Alpha fund.|Demeester has an ‘out of the box’ approach, combining academic rigor, a focus on historical patterns, productive investment paranoia, and a knack for exploring new territories and opportunities.|Demeester has been publicly commenting on macroeconomic trends since 2008. His investment newsletter MacroTrends was launched in 2011 and ran until November 2013, when he passed it to a successor. He recommended Bitcoin as an investment to his readers at $5 in 2012. He is a regular speaker at Bitcoin conferences and consults for various startups and funds.|In 2006, Demeester co-founded the Belgian Rothbard Institute, an academic, research-oriented think tank.|Demeester was also co-founder of and staff member at the independent Sudbury school ‘De Kampanje, School voor Persoonlijk Ondernemerschap’.|In 2011, Demeester’s paper “The Business Cycle: A Definition” was published in the Spanish academic paper ‘Procesos de Mercado’ (see attachment below).|Demeester worked on this paper for many months, and he stands by it as his proof and illustration that the science of economics is meaningless without a fundamental connection to morality and natural law.