If the dollar is under such a threat that the US has to go the extreme (by their standards) of making bitcoin legal tender - if it’s that bad - then who the hell is buying up all of the US treasuries? Yellen has been issuing ridiculous amounts of debt and, while there have been a couple of bad auctions, it’s still getting bought.

Please explain this. Because if the dollar is not wanted, then treasuries are even less valuable.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m all for what you describe. But that isn’t reality from what I can tell.

Finally got a chance to look at it.

Not a master manifest - just a plain one. You could grab all of the TS files referenced in it.

Standard VOD, so no concern about a live window. No encryption, either.

Worst-case, you could drop all of these files (in order) into any movie editor to stitch them together.

There are other tools out there, but can’t vouch for them. VLC could do this in multiple ways. Here’s a CLI option:

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Merge_videos_together/

Never used the extension. No idea how good it is, if at all. VLC can do a decent job. Video varies wildly, so there’s a ton of variables the influences chances of success with these tools unless they get deep into it (like the method I described, which is much more advanced).

Ok. Have you tried a capture from VLC?

Ah, ok.

The m3u8, if you have it, *may* be all that you need. It’s a text file playlist - based off of the original m3u playlist format. This is called a “manifest”.

It contains a list of files for the player to play, in order of playout. The files could be audio, video or both (muxed).

Sometimes, the manifest will actually be a playlist that links to other playlists instead of media files, often called a “master manifest”. This will be obvious, because it will reference different video resolutions and codecs. You likely want the highest quality, if so. These files exist to allow a player to jump between qualities (called variants/layers/renditions) if bandwidth changes.

A “container” is a file that holds the encoded content and metadata about that encoded content (codec, duration, audio/video timing, captions, etc). It’s the “TS” or “MP4” part of a video. Think of it as a sort of zip file (tho the compression happens on the encoding within the container).

So to download, grab the m3u8 manifest. If it’s a master, grab the highest quality m3u8 referenced within it. Then grab all of the ts files within the appropriate manifest. Now you just have to combine them. That, unfortunately, may be a bit complicated to go over in this post. FFMPEG can do it, I think. But I am not sure of all of the flags needed.

Now you said this was a live stream? Or is it a recording of a live stream? This matters because a live stream often only has a snapshot of the latest TS files. Ie, it gets rid of old ones and adds the new ones. If it’s a recording, it will contain it all.

Clear as mud?

Are you re-encoding? Because it’s TS, I’m guessing it’s muxed audio/video? If so, you can just stitch the underlying encoding inside the TS into a single TS container. This is much “simpler” (in terms of operations) and can be done as fast as you can download.

Is there encryption?

I dev for money or for myself. This means I don’t give a shit what others are doing. Ever.

Just rip the bandaid off.

In this case, it’s a matter of collateral. The car is the collateral, along with your credit. The personal loan is expensive because there is no collateral. You can lower the interest on a personal loan by adding collateral.

Your fiancé giving you the money either means you’ve just received income (taxable) OR your actin as a fiduciary for her and it’s her investment.

At least, that’s how the law sees it.

What’s simpler is to borrow against your own 401k. The interest rate goes right back into your 401k. Yes, you have a loan. But to yourself. You gain the interest. The only downside is these loans are usually pretty limited ($50k-ish for average account sizes and plans) and, if you default, the unpaid amount gets treated as a distribution.

Recognize that leverage/loans means you are borrowing from your own future to pay for today. It can work out fine - but it can also be disastrous. You can’t predict the future. There is no free lunch. Borrow a fraction of what you can afford to lose.

It’s a fair amount of paperwork to get started. But it’s not hard. And it’s totally worth it.

Check out Unchained Capital to help you through the process.

Alternatively, find a good lawyer that deals with estates and trusts.

Your next burden is to figure out how to protect your corn from the state. IE, being sued, seized, or otherwise.

With the keys under your control, you can prevent actively taking the coin. But that’s different than “seizing”, which is a legal term that says it now belongs to someone else. You can work around and avoid a lot of this by how and, most importantly, *where* your trust is created. Jurisdictions are a thing you can exploit.

Bonus points if you start to realize the difference between “controlling” an entity and being the “owner” of an entity. You can create overseas shell companies easily and cheaply that act as the “owner” of an overseas trust. All controlled by you, but legally not owned by you nor in the IS jurisdictions.

Like all security, think in layers.

And, like all villains, the US can and will change the law at their pleasure and your destruction. Plan accordingly.

This begins a long journey for you. It’s a headache, but all LEGAL and with multiple levels of “fuck you” to the government and anyone else who might come after you.

For that last part, your trust can’t invest in your startup without invoking the IRS’ scrutiny.

You’re conflating bitcoin with money in the eyes of the US. They are not the same. Assets can exchange hands as often as a trust trades stock.

A distribution only occurs when the beneficiary of the fiduciary receives dollars (or any legal tender) from the value of assets managed by the fiduciary.

It’s only a taxable event if the dollars (or legal tender) have not yet been taxed as income. Penalties are a different matter altogether and have to do with the reasons behind the distribution as well as age and amount of distribution.

The trust can “spend” funds in any matter it wants so long as it meets the fiduciary responsibilities agreed upon by the beneficiary. If they’re both YOU, this is never a concern.

The only things you can’t do - or are a legal grey area - is have an entity “invest” funds in another entity controlled by the same person.

Wrong on all counts. A bank account and bitcoin hard wallet have nothing to do with assets managed by a fiduciary of a retirement account.

Saying “fact” doesn’t make it right - you don’t know what you are talking about.

Banks do not hold assets. Banks are NOT usually the directors of tax advantage accounts. The banks typically hold the *funds* prior to allocation into the tax advantaged account. They have nothing to with this.

Tax advantaged accounts belong to a custodian on behalf of a person - this part you have correct. What you don’t understand is that the custodian can be an entity controlled by the same person who is the contributor to the account. There is no law against this. This entity can take on a myriad of forms, but the easiest is to just set up a trust fund.

The fund has a checking account. The bank controls the checking account. The fund controls the allocation of, management of, and record keeping of the fund. This means that if the fund was investing in barrels of oil or artwork, it would be responsible for the storage, security, and maintenance of those barrels and artwork until it divests from them. There is no difference between an entity storing artwork in some rando warehouse or their garage vs storing corn in cold storage. All that matters is that the entity remains in control over those assets.

If the contributor and the owner of the entity are the same person, it’s irrelevant. They are two distinct “things” in the eyes of the law. In reality, however, you are effectively controlling your keys.

You need to spend some time reading up on how this works, amigo.

What are you on about? There are zero penalties or taxable events for rolling over any amount that is eligible per the plan. Zero. Nada.

All that’s required is that it’s vested and remain in the control of a tax-advantaged account. That account is under SOMEONE’s control. Could be Vanguard OR it could be a trust you set up where you are the director of it.

Educate yourself.

A self directed IRA with assets in cold storage is NOT a distribution. There are zero penalties.

It’s even more open and shut if it’s with a 3rd party involved but you still hold the majority of keys (like Unchained).

Almost no one has been building the same 401k plan for decades. That is dying with the boomers (out of a necessity they created).

This means most people should have 401k funds from prior plans that they’ve left available, IF they haven’t rolled them over to their current plan (in which case, they ought to know better).

For those funds that haven’t been rolled into an active plan, go create a self-directed (this is key) traditional IRA (or, if your tax burden is low enough, a Roth IRA), and roll the funds into that. Then, take said funds, buy corn directly, store corn in cold storage of your choice. Chill.

Anyone with retirement accounts is not likely to stay at their job for very long. When you leave, this is the first thing you do.

Just started a new gig or rolled over prior funds? Most plans allow a partial rollover as well as a rollover of contributions outside of your employer. Use this to do the above with the IRA.

There are even more options if you’re savvy. You just need to put in the work to learn.

Don’t feel like putting in the work? Cool.

We all buy at the price we deserve.

Lonely road, sometimes. But difficult to let it go - takes so much work, let alone passion, to remain in the edge.

If this isn’t remotely operated I’ll eat my fucking hat.

While the 10Y-2Y is positive again, the 10Y-3M is still inverted. BUT it’s been on a near vertical trajectory to 0%. If the months-long trend holds, it will uninvert right after Election Day.

Just an observation. Could be coincidence, maybe it doesn’t hold… but it feels right with reality.

If the yield-curve-steepening timer hasn’t already started (counting the time to a huge increase in unemployment and drop in the market), that would. Typically 3-6 months out (median of history).

March would be my best guess. It would rhyme with the eerily similar dates + events that occurred in 2007. Even the drops in the market then correlate to current supports/resistances now. It’s very peculiar.

Probably nothing.