An authoritarian regime would not want a more transparent currency, or even less, a currency where they are not the sole controllers.
China buying gold is merely a power play so their citizens hold less.
Unfortunately the direct Kremlin links do not work but here is a transcript below from 2013
After that clown Pistorious' retort to JD Vance's brilliant speech.
The US should just leave Europe alone and completely withdraw. Fuck em
Europe is going to hell, if they realise it they are evil, if they do not, they are retards.
#Munich
#Vance
Received a credit card offer today;
Balance transfer up to 20k, at 1% interest for 26 months
#bitcoin
I've found as the laughing recedes, the saltiness increases.
This in turn causes me to go dark on the subject...normies can be unpredictable.
„If U.S. democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you can survive a few months of Elon Musk.“ - JD Vance, U.S. Vice President https://video.nostr.build/0df06b69ab661cb9b102b3f419f05ddd349220df8a66594b2901c7aaf37551b6.mp4
The retards are thick here though, How did nobody laugh?
And once you stand on the other side of the veil, you realise being a normie is the risk!
The funny thing is bank employees are fucking lemmings who don't even have the slightest idea how big the grift is and how tenuous the whole system is holding together
People's default face that is smiling....look younger
Smile
Grifters come in all shapes and sizes. This is a story about one of the worst I have met...
About 15 years ago I was engaged to do some work for a person called John living on their own.
John seemed a nice enough guy, he was always at home and always very busy on the computer and phone. John rang me one day to tell me that he was thinking of turning his home, which was a very modest rural estate into an animal rescue retreat. He also mentioned that he was suffering from multiple sclerosis and has engaged local youth to help redevelop the estate to care for many different types of animals. For a time it looked like it was very good. There were at least six to 10 volunteers each day working there. There were always free range animals roaming around
He always called me when he had an idea about a new building or development going up and whether we would be willing to provide commercial services for this. As far as pricing goes we never did John any favours, As there was always something extra to be done at the end before payment was remitted.
A little while after this he called me to say he had removed all the animals from the farm and is going into a different direction with the property. He was now providing halfway house services for people not long removed from the prison system. I made him aware that there were some services that we provided that are no longer legal if he is replacing the animals with people. He just seemed to simply ignored the legalities/morality of it.
By this time he had used the volunteers to build a series of self-contained cabanas, which the ex inmates were to be housed in and reintegrated back into society. Swimming pools and saunas were also provided. A couple of garages for vehicles. To my knowledge no ex inmates were ever residenced at this property. However I did see listings on AirBNB.
I lost contact with John, sometime in around 2016. I told him I will no longer be providing services for him, which is the first time I've ever told somebody this who pays all their invoices. He was very painful to deal with by this stage. He even accused me of being too capitalistic towards a registered charity. He would cite examples of other contractors, plumbers, electricians that had provided free or discounted services for each build. I've seen him on more than one occasion start to cry and become very emotional almost instantaneously. Then once the person folds to whatever he is demanding, he instantly snaps into full of praise for that person.
I was able to look up the real estate history and discovered that the whole property in its entirety with detached buildings garages and land plot, sold for many millions. A majority portion of it was built under the guise of charity and volunteers, these people were scammed.
I also do not believe he had Multiple Sclerosis!
Yeah I cut my own hair, people are surprised when I tell them. Mustn't be too bad at it
Want to know how humans eventually fractionalize something over time?
25 years ago I worked as a shift manager at a fast food company. We kept a safe float of 4,650. This remained that way for some time.
Then sometime later the safe float became 4,400. I left that job shortly after but that was the last figure I remember it being.
A couple of years after this I caught up with some people for drinks, Only to hear the safe float was now at 3,850. One of the OG's who was there from the beginning who had also left before me, piped up with surprise that the float amount should be 5,000. As that was what it was when he started.
Shortly after this, there was an audit by owners looking to sell the business. Each of the current managers were investigated about where was the missing money from the float. What they were able to ascertain is there wasn't any direct theft that they could be attributed to the current management. Rather it was a series of crisises over a number of years that necessitated borrowing from the safe float to prop up maybe a bank deposit here or there. I bet there was always the intention to pay that back at some point. Just that point never arrived
The point of this is, it was normalized from the beginning. I've only ever known the safe to be 4,650, then later 4,400. I never even thought it was ever 5,000
Over a long enough time horizon, without audits and checks in place, is what will happen to your #Bitcoin if left with a custodian.
We are also seeing over an even longer time horizon it now happening with gold, and to a worse extent some government departments that are about to be exposed. We will call it theft, they will call it how it's always been done...
What about horses?
This is also why I believe that in kind redemptions on #Bitcoin ETFs is a grift. It might work for the short term, but as people just "leave it there" Over time it is too easy for humans to fractionalize it
Run of the mill with no regard for human life
