Maybe hard to swallow but might be true nonetheless:

Hamas had a historical victory. It will probably be its last.

Israel was put into a geopolitical corner with only one option: destroy Hamas, turn Gaza into Carthage and take control of it.

There was a lot of support for the Palestinian struggle among the Western public, that's mostly gone now.

The world had enough of the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli conflict after decades of slaughter, they don't care anymore if both sides just go to hell.

Nobody wants the conflict to expand into neighboring countries, neither Arabs, the West, China, Iran or Russia, so they'll let Israel turn Gaza into Carthage.

Let's not start a witch hunt but. Eyes wide open.

It was a twitter spaces and it seems pretty clear that nobody was aware until after the fact. Nothing about some twitter spaces drama and some piece of shit joining (there are shitty/stupid people in basically 9/10 of the spaces I've been a part of) and then spouting bitcoin platitudes (there's a TON of those in bitcoin these days) - but nothing about that has me concerned about the bitcoin i buy through Swany. I wouldn't even want them to spend any significant amount of time micro managing the boatloads of morons on social media.

However, what that guy did though sounds fucking horrific and we should reeeaally consider the proposal for wood chippers as a preferred solution to people like that. Just holy shit did you read the details!? I'd have been straight to prison with a murder charge if it had been my kids. The fact that he is walking free and Ross Ulbricht will die in prison is such a profound indication of how fucking horrifically evil and useless our judicial system is.

Not gonna speculate but all now on the suss lists. Sharpening up some pikes and leaving them beside garage just in case.

The skepticism here is healthy, imo, but I'll share my thoughts on all the goings-on/drama with Swan recently...

On the first issue of being associated with ten31: I personally didn't have any perception that Swan was trying to associate with Ten31 or that people thought they were related. I also don't really get any messages from people on this sort of thing so I could just be hanging out in completely the wrong social groups, so honestly don't have much useful to share on that one.

As far as revenue, one thing that seemed clear over the last couple of years (which I felt iffy about anyway, i hate suits) was that they were targeting legacy finance bros in Cali and pushing Swan Private really hard in that market. I assumed this was their big capital inflow since they seemed to have been pushing it so hard. (no details, just had been my thoughts)

No idea about the investment numbers at all. But they say they will release in Feb (i think that's right if someone had more info) so i assume we will know then. If they don't release like they say, then obviously that's not a good sign.

Aside from the recent published numbers and whether they are accurate or not, I have found a ton of the drama over the past year or so around Swan has been a lot of making mountains out of mole hills. Maybe it's a "if you shoot 10 times you are bound to hit the target once" sort of thing, but the only thing that seemed like a legitimate concern to me was obviously the whole Prime Trust debacle. However this wasn't a direct issue with Swan (at least in the sense that Swan didn't invest customer funds in LUNA or some dumb shit), but that a crypto adjacent partner had made dumb decisions and Swan had to exit with client BTC. But all the service and withdraws I have had with them during that period and since then, have worked fine (doubly reason to ALWAYS withdraw tho) aside from a week or two that got paused while they were migrating.

I generally think things are overblown because some people just don't seem to like Cory's attitude on social. Which is fair for those to consider that as a concern if they don't get straight answers. Even if they or @`ODELL` are wrong, i don't think that's a bad perspective to entertain. Arguably it's the more robust view to take. Even if they are wrong, it would still have been a smart choice in largely any situation.

Scrutiny and skepticism are usually the most prudent attitudes for pushing to get information available when it isn't forthcoming. But in other situations Swan has been pretty open about when things go wrong (I have mostly just read their emails to find out what's going on, and it doesn't seem to have ever been contradicted when more details come to light later on unless someone has an example of this) - and when issues arise or when their partner actions affect their customers. Taking the third party email leak and recent banking partner policy changes as examples. (ie. I have no doubt every other company with a banking partner involved in bitcoin is dealing with those same policies about coinjoins, but we only got a memo from Swan.)

Just my thoughts. I don't have much to add on the latest info that is being contested though. Wasn't even aware of it until a couple of days ago.

(disclaimer: Swan started sponsoring my show again recently, so I have more incentive to defend them, but this has also been my feeling during the time we were not partnered as well, i didn't stop using Swan during the last year or two.)

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Not gonna speculate but all now on the suss lists. Sharpening up some pikes and leaving them beside garage just in case.

It'd be pretty wild, but not out of the cards, if Swan ended up being a legit front for a huge backroom, under the table scamming operation. Cory has the background for it and all their guys are from TradFi 🤔

What books have had the biggest influence on your life?

No accusations. Simple question. Would you let him babysit?

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The very same. His voice is dug into my memory. Best buds with Alex.

Jay suss for leaving it out of his initial post praising swan and then acknowledging my point immediately.

Good to see states finally standing up against federal overreach.

Feels monumental, a sign of the times.

FWIW,

You do you, but I don’t anticipate #bitcoin price action getting exciting again until 3Q 2024.

In the meantime:

- Head down

- Work hard

- Stack sats

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hey nostr. currently eating dinner and trying to wrap my head around this exchange I had with "Altcoin Daily"

if the truth makes people fearful, uncertain, and doubtful is that still FUD?

the fact that shitcoiners are like "nah yeah everything you said on TV is 100% correct, but by telling everyone the truth youre scaring people from buying our shitcoin" has really put my brain in a pretzel

The wall is to lock you in. They want your consensus to print a ton of money to build your own prison. They could police the border appropriately. They actively choose not to.

I’ve tried he won’t return my phone calls