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🫡 government bonds are a shitcoin

What amazes me was that NYCB was a respected bank. They weren’t some backwater outfit. They were a fairly large and well respected bank. The bank runs continue atop the fiat ponzi.

Absolute banger!!

Fair to call out that hostages must be released and those conflicts are always underreported. I would agree there.

I should have mentioned I am commenting on American tax code as an American. Other countries may be different, I only know our system.

It has long been an American presidential primary tradition to give a speech after Super Tuesday. President Biden awkwardly mumbled that he would get in trouble if he answered questions and declined to speak further. It’s painfully clear this guy is senile and the people around him are unconstitutionally running the show.

https://youtu.be/b2ObyO5wsBg?si=cRyugzsvnQdNlgpd

*not a Trump endorsement, and I hate I have to say that, just stating objective reality

Yeah, timing doesn’t matter.

There is a possible exception for certain kinds of real estate if you do it in a certain way, but for everything else any sale, exchange, or transfer is considered a sale unless it’s to a legally registered charity as a donation with a donation receipt.

I’m not a huge Elon musk fan, but some haters are totally deranged. The Tesla Model Y is clearly far better than its similarly priced competitors. You are hurting yourself by paying the same or more money for a competitors’ clearly inferior product. Don’t try to convince me your MachE or ID4 is better, just be honest and admit you bought it because you hate Elon. That’s fine in a free society, just don’t lie about it.

PGP verifier is crazy exciting! Thanks so much. So excited to uncle Jim one download for family members and they’re set there after 👍🏻🫡🫡

Changing from Bitcoin to stablecoin is considered a sale. It’s like if you sell Walmart stock to buy Costco stock you have to pay taxes on that.

Unfortunately I think he’s probably fucked and about to get an expensive lesson in why self custody is superior. No judgement, I feel bad. That sucks super hard. Coinbase is just known for refusing to fix this kind of fuckery. Share my sympathies.

I have heard Repeated Social media posting sometimes has limited success. Probably just trying to relentlessly bother them for a few weeks, and if that fails take the other comment’s advice and sell and pull out the cash and buy elsewhere. The tax bill will just be an expensive lesson.

Enjoying it and finding it fun is totally cool. I love economics and financial analysis. People just shouldn’t lie to themselves and believe learning macro will make them great traders and thus rich.

Anyone who does this is going to hate themselves in a decade or two and later your kids and grandkids will really hate you. You basically sold land in Manhattan during the Great Depression.

Be honest with yourself: Know you are gambling and statistically highly likely to lose all or most of your money. If you want to gamble with your own money that’s okay, but don’t lie to yourself and try to claim it’s an investment. You just bought a lottery ticket from a scam and are supporting that scam.

I don’t know. It’s obviously incredibly hard. I just can’t get over tens of thousands of civilians dying and two million basically starving. Let’s stop the killing first and we can figure it out. Better options could include defunding/boycotting hamas and economic & diplomatic pressure. Maybe limited military operations to specifically rescue hostages are permissible, but mass bombing of civilian areas must be deemed unacceptable imho.

I don’t have all the answers, I just want mass civilian death to stop.

Ultra high net worth individual, aka very rich person

Important for non-Americans to know: a majority of US voters have since November of last year supported a ceasefire in Gaza, and support has only grown since then. The US government is acting in direct opposition to what its people want, and this is looking increasingly likely to cost President Biden the election. Please know the average American does not support this war. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/15/poll-us-israel-support-hamas-war

GM sir 👍🏻

Everyone is sleeping on Liana Wallet. Outstanding imho. Ability to lock coins against any access for a set period of time is even better than geographically distributed multisig for some threat models.

While I totally get it may limit what on the internet you can access, I think this dramatically increases interest in satellite based internet and communications, boon to Starlink

High quality experienced coders are still in desperately short supply. However people fresh out of a boot camp with little practical experience are in oversupply. There’s some nuance here

Super agree. The choices cannot only be a fully hermit life that’s private but you can never leave your home or the instant you set one foot outside everything about you must be known to all. I refuse to accept that. If we accept that we will never become a broad movement and we will never win. Bitcoiners are real people with families and lives and passions outside the home. We must find a better way.

Dune 2 is amazing. Drop what you’re doing and go see it.

We are lucky to have you doctor

I would’ve assumed you were an Arch man. POP OS? This changes everything

It’s rough! I work in finance and still pay someone to do my taxes.

If you have cold storage this can’t affect you. I also agree either way with John C we should always run our nodes with a few versions of core behind out of an abundance of caution (though I realize there can be specific exceptions just a general rule).

HODLing is hard and people who dunk on HODLers are just jealous imho. Evidence: last 2 Christmas I gave out a total of 6 opendime/satscards with $100 worth of Bitcoin at the time. They would be worth about $150-336 today. Asked recipients what they did with them: 2 panic sold almost immediately, 2 lost/can’t remember, 2 held. Anecdotally only 1/3 of people seem capable of HODLing. Simple but not easy.

Being bored is reasonable and logical if your situation is boring, and especially if you’re also used to social media and Netflix dopamine hits at the push of a button.

👍🏻👍🏻 even quality aside they just look cool af

Eternal shoutout to the Bitcoin wives and families. Love mine and they make this both possible and worth it!

Congrats! Great to hear. Am I the only insane person who works in corporate finance and actually likes it? Love me some excel spreadsheets 👍🏻