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 Interest rates in the United States will normalise between 3-5% on the low end and 7-9% on the high end. Convince me I am wrong. 
 My Dad is dead and my Mom is a homeless person. Enjoy that. 
 TIL that when you burn fat the majority of waste products are exhaled as CO2 🤔

Adding this to... 
 Egg whites have all 23 branch amino acids the brain needs to function. Your body can also completely digest egg whites. Plausibly you could get one hour of physical exercise a day and eat only egg whites, And stop pooping. A completely efficient human. 
 AOC removes pronouns from twitter bio.

Are the Long 2020s over?

Is this a sign that the Long 20... 
 The extra time to superficially explain how you identify yourself made no difference. I met one trans person during this period and had no time determining their gender, But them taking a few seconds to explain their genitals was not offensive to me because I am not in charge of making humans and I’m not an asshole to people who are different than me on purpose. This is a common sense subject that doesn’t need to be forced on society, But here we are. 
 If there was a bidet in public toilets in the United States, Homeless people could wash themselves without asking permission. Just a thought. 
 Welp. That was fun. See you all in four more years. 
 Top in March after the Fed starts getting hawkish on Trump. 
 One time I went to Ukraine because my visa expired, And they would not let me in because I had no Ukrainian car insurance, And Poland gave me a new visa. Another time my visa was expired and I flew into England, And had no itinerary or accommodations, And England sent me back to the Netherlands, And they deported me back to the United States. 
 🤣 I just realized that the BITCOIN Act by Senator Lummis stands for "Boosting Innovation, Tech... 
 Legalese at its finest. Required language for being a politician. 
 You cannot speak freely about Nazism, Francoism and Fascism because they were regimes that were a... 
 You can speak freely about these things, Just people who are “conscious” about politics will not approve of you. Wearing communist regalia is a rebellious statement in western society, And most of those people actually do not understand what they are trying to support. Usually see the Che shirts around people who think they are Rastafarian because they smoke weed, But have never actually been to Jamaica, And they listen to Bob Marley too much. The millennial and under generations I feel will move further away from this because the status quo is becoming modernism, And people respect the rich or “the right” more than radical liberalism. Kids born today will do nothing but work and their cultural experiences will take place on the internet. 
 Yeah I think you need to go into debt and make a mainstream product to get sales over clearweb sources. Obviously that’s a terrible idea, But paying for ads on Facebook is definitely loosing money trying to make money. It is not a big deal if you don’t have a successful bitcoin company, It’s more important that you actually make a profit. Sounds lame, But I made more in bitcoin by working a FIAT job and stacking than anyone giving me bitcoin or liking my products. The “community” seems more like a giant grift than a group of people who care. From a venture capital perspective, You need a product that outperforms bitcoin. Something that generates bitcoin and an income in bitcoin. The “community” doesn’t give a fuck, It is a hyper competitive version of the antiquated banking system. The reason they present their products is because they need customers and users or they fail. The largest bitcoin holders are not walking around looking for people to give bitcoin to. 
 I understand your point, It is interesting. From my own perspective, My artwork and brand Is something I look at as my own creativity and selling in Bitcoin only drives exclusivity. Mushrooms are from nature and making your products exclusive doesn’t really have the same market effect. Instagram ads would probably do well also. 

I worked in snowboarding for a long time and it is ripe with self promotion and massive selloutish attitudes. Just getting your products out to people at a loss is basically how you advertise. I also look at the high end market and this is about foreign production and cost margins. The reason a Louis Vuitton bag costs so much is because the company has to service the debt in the supply chain to manufacture high quality goods at such a large scale. Smaller scale high quality products can appeal to a similar customer but market reach becomes the issue. 

I wish platforms like LNBITS had better self custody integration. The small business model in bitcoin is hugely underrepresented, I think because of this profit motive. LNBITS is basically one guy coding away integrating other clients in his platform, But I still see the rugabillity factor off the charts there. Very few bitcoin companies do little than incentivise people to pay into their product without any kind of return. Bitcoin is loosing the bottom up grassroots attitude it had as more institutional capital flows in. 
 Been playing around with FB ads because unfortunately I cannot shitpost on here and sell products... 
 Yeah I think you need to go into debt and make a mainstream product to get sales over clearweb sources. Obviously that’s a terrible idea, But paying for ads on Facebook is definitely loosing money trying to make money. It is not a big deal if you don’t have a successful bitcoin company, It’s more important that you actually make a profit. Sounds lame, But I made more in bitcoin by working a FIAT job and stacking than anyone giving me bitcoin or liking my products. The “community” seems more like a giant grift than a group of people who care. From a venture capital perspective, You need a product that outperforms bitcoin. Something that generates bitcoin and an income in bitcoin. The “community” doesn’t give a fuck, It is a hyper competitive version of the antiquated banking system. The reason they present their products is because they need customers and users or they fail. The largest bitcoin holders are not walking around looking for people to give bitcoin to. 
 A bit tedious having to type ".jpg" after every Blossom image URL in noStrudel. nostr:note1qqrvqw... 
 #firstworldproblems 
 LMFAO AT SUITS NEEDING TO WAIT FOR MARKET OPEN TO BUY THE ETFS 
 Cry harder boomer!!! 
 Considering my recent criminal activity I probably just will ignore the ads for work clothes. 
 gm

In fiction, the point of view from how we see the story can often color how we perceive the e... 
 But I think both are relevant. In the real life Western banking vs BRICS scenario, The western banks, IE Trump, Biden, Netanyahu, Are keeping the western empire mostly intact through posturing and social distraction, While the BRICS countries are catching up many nations that missed out on the progress the west created. This is why it is a totally new psychological paradigm in Bitcoin. People visit Europe to see the antiquated empire that developed after farming was industrialised. People visit China and Africa to see how the most ancient people lived or are living. People visit Brazil to see the most densely concentrated nature in the Rainforest, Or maybe what earth looked like when there were dinosaurs. Both play a relevant role in history and society. The last Trump presidency taught me to think like a banker, That if you bet on both sides, You win and lose every time. Just like the Jewish Bankers in Russia. Russia still exists, Russian people (except the oligarchs) are mostly miserable, But the bank both thwarted its largest threat and it also owns the second largest oil reserve in the world. Russian criminals are the loss the bank incurred to take ownership of Russian natural resources. 
 Absolute failure of the Soviet Union? Western Europe is about as liberal as it gets. Western democracy is based on Keynesian economics, East Berlin has a street literally named Karl Marx Straße. Fucking dumbass Trump supporters want to label democracy as “Marxist” don’t know their history. 
 There are no rules to signatures: As in when you physically sign a document you can use anything you want. Obviously signing bitcoin transactions is the opposite, You can only sign it with your private key, But legal paperwork can be signed with anything you choose at any time.

Change my mind. 
 Consensus amongst bulltards appears to be $150,000 by end of year. So that means we definitely ar... 
 120,000 by March. 
 Life hack: when you were born in a post communist country, odds are extremely high that you will ... 
 Born post communist as in you were born after communism ended? Because the friends I have that lived there during communism have a hard time believing in Cell phones. When they said they would meet you somewhere they were there five minutes early waiting. 
 One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is non-traditional story structures.

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 Graveyard of the Fireflies. Two children escape American bombing on rural Japan, Only to end up Isolated. Their parents are killed in the invasion and in a short lived effort to care for each other, One of the children dies. One of the saddest movies ever, But a glaring look at humanity and the injustice created by power. 
 Watching Dennis the Menace with my boys. First time they’re watching it and the first time I’... 
 Now do the little rascals. 
 I just spent 20 minutes with my 2 year old boy, pushing a plastic dump truck back and forth acros... 
 Truth about Bitcoin, It’s your business and nobody fucking else’s except the people you give it to. 
 Has anyone checked in Peter Schiff?  
 His kid sold all his gold for Bitcoin and now he is still richer than everyone. 
 Meh, I have seen crazier things. Ever see an elderly woman shit on a sidewalk? 
 Did you guys hear there was an election? Crazy huh? 
 Meh, I have seen crazier things. Ever see an elderly woman shit on a sidewalk? 
 This is pretty funny actually. The FBI has over 200,000 btc, The NSA over 250,000, The CIA over 215,000. Trump just has a big mouth, It already is the Crypto capital. 
 The FBI is the only agency that publicly admits to having confiscated Bitcoin. All types of people work for the NSA, And you can meet them at Defcon. Tor is one of the CIAs most used cyber proxy tools, And Bitcoin is of course a tool they use. Bitcoiners using military technology thinking they are participating in a revolution against the government, When actually they are participating in the government surviving central banks. Show me 200,000 bitcoin and I will believe you are more powerful than the Federal Government. 
 This is pretty funny actually. The FBI has over 200,000 btc, The NSA over 250,000, The CIA over 215,000. Trump just has a big mouth, It already is the Crypto capital. 
 It’s private capital, That’s the whole fucking point. So sad to see financial liberty pioneers falling for fucking politics. You have bitcoin? That’s your business, And nobody else’s. You know who cares? You and the people you give bitcoin to. Everyone else can mind their own business. 
 I would still buy use and hold bitcoin irregardless of who won any election, And I have no expectations that the government gives any kind of shit about my existence, Honestly I feel the same about Bitcoin. It is literally just an algorithm running in many computers around the world for me to use at my discretion. Nobody has ever given me a significant amount of Bitcoin and the people who love me most have given me more money than any government or protocol user. People do not care and governments do not either. Look out for yourself and the ones you love is the only game theory. 
 Aside from this, The US government “strategic reserve” is still not The Federal Reserve “strategic reserve”. Politics man, They make you think you are important to a person who just wants your support so they have a job, Or stay out of prison if they are a convicted felon. 
 If you can deal with the mafia and the intelligence community you know your place in the world. 
 Actual conversation with kids mom this morning. 

Tk: Well trump got in 
M: i dont want to talk a... 
 I smell a divorce. 
 The old ropeadope. The old bait and switch. The old double cross. You lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. 
 “Enjoy the party, But dance near the door.” 💃🕺 
 gm

This weekend I finished the (very) rough draft of my hobby sci-fi novel manuscript.

115k wor... 
 Would be an interesting model to measure global liquidity against bitcoin miner holdings. Marathon sold down to 17,000 bitcoin in the last bear (November 2022) and now holds 10,000 more (27,000) give or take. I think price predictions and market cycles can best be predicted by measuring new supply coming onto the market against liquid dollar supply available for institutional investors to purchase with. Central banks are coordinated and Michael Saylors 42 billion is cute against a bank that can print 1 trillion with a few lines of code in a SQL database. The real market movers are the large miners, Holding and selling is the bitcoin equivalent of the Fed adjustment of interest rates. Thoughts? 
 Scenario:
#Hacking #Bitcoin #Cypherpunks

Say you had 10 minutes (minus finding it and setting up... 
 I think it would be easier to go after someone’s Apple ID. If you can log into the Apple ID, And their data is backed up on the cloud, You have access to pretty much everything. It’s just the stuff downloaded onto the hard drive that you would not see. Otherwise removing and backing up the hard drive to an external hard drive would be the easiest way, But you actually just need to take apart the computer and plug in the hard drive to a backup device, You would not actually need the password for the Lock Screen. Apple security is basically meant to prevent attacks from stupid gangbanger types that stole someone’s computer to sell for a quick buck. Trust me bro is a much more effective attack for actually getting someone’s data. But good luck taking apart and re assembling someone’s MacBook in 10 minutes without it looking tampered with. 
 A new trillion will be printed every 100 days, Says Forbes. 
 The house of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson, A two book series that explains in detail from the Frankfurt ghetto to the Battle of Waterloo, A first hand account of the history of the family. 
 Not sure if there is a jam band nostr but

RIP Phil

What a legend

Classy that Phish opened with... 
 Bitcoin is the solution to generational poverty in Kolwesii, Where children mine coltan for 200$ a month. Coltan is the essential mineral in the manufacturing process making electric car batteries, And microprocessors like ASIC chips. Bitcoin for Kolwesii. I think the bitcoin miners in Virunga Park are the key tipping point to educate these people about how to overcome their living circumstances. 
  🇺🇸 US Government launches investigation into $USDT crypto firm Tether.

So that they say t... 
 Yeah, They need Tether. Bad. 
 I generally try to avoid politics and I certainly don’t believe Trump or anyone else is coming ... 
 Yeah, Red or Blue 
 Yeah, Red or Blue, It’s still the same fascism. 
 Let’s get social security number tattoos on our forearms! Yaay! 
 In Berlin there would still be a group of people doing drugs in at least two of these toilets. 
 It is mind boggling to me how many people are just going about their lives living the illusion that they are rich and because they are rich you can not question them or their values or motives. 

Saw a 2 million dollar trailer with a Porsche in front of it today. 

The money illusion is entirely why and how people have no compassion for each other, Remain entirely self interested, And either politely or violently ignorant of each other. Nobody bothers anyone if everyone holds face: In practice works only under ideal economic conditions. 
 The world having so many problems is always going to be an issue, But I really do believe you are doing everything you can to try and solve them. Keep up the good work Alex! 
 Love and forgiveness are both unconditional, Or they are phoney. 
 If you bought a cryptopunk nft on Jan 1, 2023 for 60 eth (the “floor” at that time) your purc... 
 Yeah I mean If I want to overcharge someone for a cheap thing a computer made for me I would just work at the mall. 
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The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of medieval and Renaissance treasures bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild in 1898. It was redisplayed in a new gallery in June 2015.