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Mike Doan
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CPA, Co-founder of Basis 365 Accounting. Bitcoin.

Agreed. You can usually spot these people. They’re the ones that usually don’t take any notes or write down any follow up action items from a “collaborative” meeting. The meeting is just to demonstrate their “intelligence”.

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For those who wonder why we #Bitcoin  ers so passionate about #Bitcoin  is simple,

*** #Bitcoin eliminates "DOUBLE SPENDING" in central banking. ***

If those of you who have been through or learned about the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, then you know EXACTLY why #Bitcoin  is a game changer to our financial system.

Let me explain:

Before 2008, there was a program issued by commercial banks called subprime mortgage loans, aka "Ninja loans" (No income, no assets) which backed by the government.

It means that the home buyers DO NOT have to have any INCOME or ASSET or CREDIT to qualify for that mortgage loan, if the buyers are unable to pay for the loan. "don't worry, the government will HELP THE BANK pay for it. NOT for the home buyers"

Commercial banks saw this was a GREAT opportunity to make great profit for themselves.

With this "irresponsible" lending programs, banks found a new way to play GAME by selling their mortgage backed security (customers' mortgage loan papers) to other banks to make profits. They re-sell the SAME HOUSE for multiple times and with multiple profits. Resulted with millions of those toxic loans flooded into the market.

"People thought houses ALWAYS go up in price!" until they are not.

The result of 2008 Global Financial Crisis was catastrophic failure in banking system. It cause human lives, people lost $Trillions in market crash, high unemployment, people lost their homes, etc.

**** In the early of 2009, a person or persons with the name Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the idea to transmit value over the internet without relying on a 3rd party (the banks), which called #BITCOIN

This idea was to solve the "DOUBLE SPENDING" problem what commercial banks did which caused the monster financial crisis a year before.

It simply means that when you have 1 #Bitcoin  to pay for a $1 house, you lose that $1. You cannot spend that #Bitcoin  TWICE.

#Bitcoin  makes users to be HONEST, you cannot spend more than you have.

This idea is simple and elegant for accounting ledger for personal, community, companies, or even for nation states.

This is why #BITCOIN  is extremely important.

"I believe it's necessary to return control of money back to the people." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Excellent explanation. I think you mean to say they re-sell the same mortgage and not house? A single mortgage could wrapped up in different collaterized-debt obligations (CDO). They effectively “securitized” mortgages and sold them off.

This is still a thing?

I own an accounting firm. Out of all my clients over the years I’ve seen exactly one client who had #bitcoin on the balance sheet. He sold all of it a couple of years ago. 🙁

My wife and I share a car. We both work from home. The lease payment that would have gone to the 2nd car? #bitcoin

Someone is eyeballing my steak and eggs. A

What a beautiful doxie. You don’t see too many chocolate and cream coats. Mine is the same coloring.

Explaining to my daughter the difference between private and secretive.

She wondered why I asked that a Venmo payment be set to private and to put a “.” in the description. She asked me why I was being so secretive.

The shortage of accountants affects more than CPA firms and corporate accounting departments. Municipalities are impacted too.

https://fortune.com/2023/04/21/accountant-shortage-affecting-city-credit-scores/amp/

80,000 transactions coded to “Ask My Accountant” in FTX’s Quickbooks. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Just because you have software doesn’t mean you know how to use it.

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About 42 pages a day should hit that goal.

I grew up in Oregon in the 1980s when he and his commune set up shop. They cause quite a stir.

Unexpectedly spent some time today orange-pilling someone who bought bitcoin about 2 years ago (probably due to FOMO) and hasn’t considered it since. He still has it on Coinbase so I told him to get it off the exchange. He’s considering buy more regularly. A possible win if he follows through.

A superpower to develop: listen to an audio book at 2x speed while doing task by rote.

For the past two Sundays, I’ve listened to 3 books on 2x speed while meal prepping for a few hours.

This doesn’t work with every book (e.g. don’t pick von Mises’s “Human Action”) and the task is one you can do on autopilot.