⚡️🚨📈 NEWS - Gold hits $3,200 for the first time in history.

Had an interesting interaction with a cashier today.

This young man in his 20s was ringing people up. His voice and mannerisms were basically like Napoleon Dynamite.

In front of me, the customer said “thank you, have a good day” and he said back “that would be impossible, but you have a good day ma’am.” I was only half paying attention so I assumed I misheard.

He then rang my products up as I focused on packing my bags. I pay and say basically “thanks, have a good day”. He says, “that would be impossible ma’am, but you have a good day.”

I paused, hearing the repeated statement. He started scanning the next customer’s items. Part of me wanted to ask why it’s impossible to have a nice day. It’s so specific. But doing so would interrupt his focus on the next customer. I took my bags, walked out, and looked back a couple times.

In hindsight, I wish I’d asked. That would be more important than risking the next customer’s checkout time by a couple minutes.

Next time I’m at the supermarket, I’m going to do a scan of the cashiers to see if he’s among them.

⚡️🚨 STORY - His partner throws away his USB drive containing $3 million in cryptocurrency.

This is the incredible story of Ellie and Tom Hart.

During a spring cleaning session, Ellie tidies up a drawer filled with old mail, receipts, dead batteries, tangled cords, and an old USB drive.

She ends up throwing away everything in that drawer, thinking it was just old junk.

A few days later, Tom can't find his USB drive and asks Ellie if she has seen it.

"He asked if I had seen a small black USB drive he uses to store his Bitcoin. I froze. I knew instantly. My heart sank. I told him, 'I think I threw it away.' I felt terrible."

The couple immediately tried to find the USB drive by emptying the trash bags, but to no avail.

"There was this horrible mix of panic and hope, but deep down, I knew it was already too late."

The USB drive contained the Bitcoin Tom bought in 2013...

Tom explains that over the years, his e-wallet stored on the USB drive was now worth over $3 million, but without the device, the funds are inaccessible.

Ellie considers her action "the worst mistake of all time."

The couple says they struggle to move on and think about it constantly...

"You keep replaying the scene, the moment I picked it up, the second the drive landed in the trash. I did everything to cancel it. I never thought something so valuable could seem so ordinary."

Today, they are sharing their story to encourage people to be careful to avoid such incidents.

"If someone keeps money or something important on a USB drive, please label it, lock it up, don’t make the same mistake I did."

⚡️👀 NEW - The traditional 4-year #Bitcoin cycle doesn't appear to be holding.

Are we witnessing the beginning of a new Bitcoin paradigm? #asknostr

As for me, I now like the stock.

Good, what asses did you buy?

They never loan any value consideration, you give them your labour for free. That’s a fraud. You where lent a bank liability that cost 0 dollars to the bank.

GameStop’s board unanimously approves to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.

Stockpile skills, not just supplies.

⚡️😌 Just to say, I love you. You can keep scrolling.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - North Carolina has introduced House Bill 506.

If passed, the bill would establish an independent Investment Authority, led by the Treasurer.

It would also permit up to 5% of state funds to be invested in digital assets.

Niche appeal is usually not financially self-sustaining. So often times the only alternative to at least *reasonably broad appeal* is collapse and disappearance.

How does evaluating any aspect of social media outside of the context of overall usage make sense?