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Today marks 53 years of the US temporarily suspending the gold standard, kicking off the beginning of clown world.
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Has anyone told her how taxing unrealized gains worked out for Norway?
Norway expected an additional $150M in annual tax revenue, but caused $54B in wealth to flee the country, costing them $600M in annual tax revenue.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Kamala Harris backs President Biden's 44.6% capital gains tax proposal, the highest in history.
The proposal includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals.
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Welcome to Bitcoin, newcomers! Here's your FAQ:
Q: Who should I trust?
A: Nobody.
Q: When should I sell?
A: Never.
Q: Is Bitcoin dying because ____?
A: No.
Q: What have I gotten myself into?
A: Nobody knows.
Q: How do I learn more?
A:
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Nothing to see here, just the President of Kosovo unlocking his computer that certainly doesn't contain any sensitive information.
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Imagine sitting on $4,000,000,000 in stolen bitcoin, knowing you're being hunted by nation states, and deciding that NYC is a smart place to hole up.
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IF YOU HAD INVESTED $1,000 IN BITCOIN 10 YEARS AGO...
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... you'd have sold, spent, or lost it all by now.
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"Bitcoin is too complicated!"
Oh, you think you understand how the dollar works?
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The final Bitcoin block with a subsidy of 12.5 BTC was mined by
@f2pool_official
and contained the following message in its coinbase transaction:
🐟NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue
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"Dogecoin is just made up meme money with an uncapped supply."
Central Bankers:
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Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick scheme, it's a don't get poor slowly scheme.
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Bruh it's like 5 lines of code.
$JPM's Jamie Dimon on bitcoin: "I'll just challenge the group to one other thing: how do you know it ends at 21 million? You all read the algorithms? You guys all believe that? I don't know, I've always been a skeptic of stuff like that."
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No good can come from revealing your bitcoin balance to friends or family.
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it's just two weeks
it's just a mask
it's just 6 feet
it's just the adults
it's just indoor activities
it's just the schools
it’s just a jab
it’s just a passport
it’s just your home
it's just a jab
it’s just your job
it’s just your life
it's just the beginning
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"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time."
- Henry Ward Beecher
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indisputable technical analysis that bitcoin is about to take flight
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Hospital bill for delivering a baby + 1 week recuperation in 1956.
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The Nobel Prize in economics belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto, not Ben Bernanke.
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Took a whole 2 weeks to make these "analysts" look like asshats.
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Imagine selling an asset because an authoritarian regime doesn't like it.
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This video of cops in Nevada searching a suspect and finding a seed phrase is pretty wild. Imagine having your seed phrase become part of public record due to it being captured by an officer's body camera!
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Twitter privacy tip: when you copy a tweet to share it outside of Twitter, a unique tracking ID may be appended to the URL. As such, Twitter can associate your account with those you share tweets with. You can stop this by deleting the "?" and everything after it from the URL.
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Bitcoin blows minds for many reasons.
Computer scientists say Satoshi solving the Byzantine Generals problem blew their minds.
Economists might be mystified by an asset that goes up in price without producers increasing production to increase supply.
Oil drillers say finding
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April 15 2018: Bitcoin holds 42% market cap dominance over 1,500 shitcoins.
April 15 2022: Bitcoin holds 41% market cap dominance over 15,000 shitcoins.
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Context: in her decade as a Senator, Elizabeth Warren has introduced 315 bills.
Only one has been enacted into law.
That's a 0.32% success rate.
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It only takes one independent thinker to trigger a revolution. Arise, friends, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!
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Try to move $100M of BTC: click a few buttons, wait a few blocks, and you're done.
Try to move $100K of USD: click a few buttons, wait a few days, get interrogated & treated like a criminal, get told you're not allowed to move your money.
#CensorshipResistanceFTW
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Bitcoin doesn't need institutional investors. Institutional investors need Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin is an adversarial network; by my count there were 68 attempts in the past week to feed an invalid block to my node. There was also an attempt to create 234,512 BTC out of thin air. This is why we don't trust, we verify.
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The all-time high Bitcoin exchange rate is not $69,000 - that was in 2021 dollars. For a true all-time high we'd need to break ~$79,000.
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Bitcoiners who managed to HODL through multiple market cycles:
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🚨PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Heather Morgan, AKA 'Razzlekhan' is a self proclaimed social engineer who pleaded guilty to hacking Bitfinex for 120,000 BTC back in 2016.
I crossed paths with her in Nashville this week. After asking around I discovered she has been spotted at
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Bitcoin has entered the ranks of top 10 global currencies in terms of M1 money supply.
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Bitcoin's primary function is not "store of value" - that's a result of its primary function.
Bitcoin is "fuck you money."
For example:
You want to seize my accounts? Fuck you.
You don't want me to buy ______? Fuck you.
You want to steal my wealth via inflation? Fuck you.
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You know what the real news is from this incident?
Someone appears to have root level access to Twitter. They OWN this platform. They are in GOD MODE. They can do ANYTHING they want on it.
And their top choice is to trick you into parting with your precious bitcoin.
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IF YOU HAD INVESTED $1,000 IN BITCOIN 10 YEARS AGO...
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... you'd have sold, spent, or lost it all by now.
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If you switched off your laser eyes at $30K, you don't get to turn them back on, poser.
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Bitcoin has...
no charismatic leader
no funded foundation
no governance token
no vesting schedule
no steering council
no partnerships
no fancy offices
no VC backing
no legal team
no pre-mine
no roadmap
no rulers
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Bitcoin miners don't "solve complicated math problems."
They make 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 guesses per second @ permutations of an 80 byte block header until they find one with a hash that has enough leading zeroes.
Not complicated.
Not a math problem.
Just a lot of hard work.
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When I had no money I dreamt of all the things I'd buy some day.
Today I have none of those things and I only dream of things money can't buy.
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Event tickets should be NFTs. This would solve so many problems.
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I'm more bullish on Bitcoin today than I have been in the past 5 years. The developments underway that have been made public are only the tip of the iceberg.
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I stand upon the shoulders of giants and as such, invite you to stand upon mine. Use my work with or without attribution; I make no claim of "intellectual property." My ideas are the result of countless millenia of evolution - they belong to humanity.
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A metaverse owned by Facebook (or any company) will be a dystopian cyberhellscape.
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A year ago I began a new research project; the subject of this research was Craig Steven Wright. I finished my research a while ago but the article has been stuck in legal review by multiple teams of attorneys for over a month. Expecting to publish next week.
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Jamie Dimon thinks Satoshi will come back one day and print more Bitcoin.
"How do you know it will stop at 21 million?" He keeps asking YEAR after YEAR after YEAR.
Bro it's 5 LINES OF CODE and not even Satoshi can force us to change it!
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Bitcoin's primary function is not "store of value" - that's a result of its primary function.
Bitcoin is "fuck you money."
For example:
You want to seize my accounts? Fuck you.
You don't want me to buy ______? Fuck you.
You want to steal my wealth via inflation? Fuck you.
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80%-90% of all Solana transactions are internal consensus messages made by validators rather than actual user transactions. 🤦
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DID YOU THINK THE GREATEST WEALTH TRANSFER IN HISTORY WAS GOING TO BE A SMOOTH PROCESS?
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You shouldn't like Bitcoin simply because Elizabeth Warren hates it. You should like Bitcoin because people who want to control you hate it.
You shouldn't like Bitcoin simply because Trump hates it. You should like Bitcoin because people who want to control you hate it.
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If
@wallstreetbets
folks find fun in wrecking hedge funds, wait til they figure out how to wreck central banks.
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Bitcoin is money.
Every country will eventually have to admit it.
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These relatively quiet periods are the best, in my opinion. Haters are happy because they think Bitcoin is dead / dying. Builders are happy because there are fewer distractions. Traders are bored to tears. Trolls are grasping at straws trying to retain attention.
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No good can come from revealing your bitcoin balance to friends or family.
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Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick scheme, it's a don't get poor slowly scheme.
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I'm not anti-vax.
I'm anti-coercion.
I'm anti-surveillance.
I'm anti-authoritarian.
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This clip is a shining example of so many things that are terribly wrong with America.
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Remember, it's rude to evangelize Bitcoin at Thanksgiving dinner unless a related topic comes up such as
Food costs
Housing market
Pandemic
Politics
Energy
Inflation
Supply chains
Personal finance
Metaverse
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IRS: You owe us money
Me: How much?
IRS: You have to figure that out
Me: What if I pay too little?
IRS: We penalize you
Me: What if I pay too much?
IRS:
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