Trump would not have to pardon his kids - or grandkids. Look at them. He's a good man. This 17 year old granddaughter has more class than the whole Biden family - https://youtu.be/ytrtFsXRXGY?si=44TxSUaVTEAjysIN

This is your son below - driving and doing crack, do you still give him more breaks?

I would not. The legal system is not just right now. BUT, Hunter is a criminal and caught in the act. He has done damage to himself, his family, and his country. He's a disgrace. https://m.primal.net/MmEx.bin

My point is if you are acclimated to buying ETF you can not buy when the market is closed (and you can not sell either).

#Bitcoin exchanges operate 24/7/365!

#Bitcoin crossing $100K when market CLOSED is all the more reason to NOT buy Bitcoin in the ETF!

LEARN to buy Bitcoin daily (strike.me is free if you set up recurring) and it's free to move it to cold storage if you wait 24 hours.

Move to cold storage every few grand, HODL 10+ years. ALL humans on earth can work and buy Bitcoin and beomce millionaires. It's just discipline.

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REAL American's are busy working. Being productive. Raising families. They are not in the news. Your perceptions are wrong.

Yeah - but the computer and phone you are on - and the internet in general - and most tech came from free markets....

history... as you say...

What you appear to see is not America. If it was, America would already be gone.

No doubt - America is down. But the count is not over and when it stands back up I think you will see another reality.

Freedom, if you can keep it, always brings the best to the top.

And BTW - if it's a good thing that America fails, what do you think replaces it? THAT is likely not what you really want.

With all the flaws (broken military, politics, social decay, it's still full of very smart, fit, people having lots of babies - we had 5 kids, 4 engineers and one not an engineer owns 3 properties in her 20s. All killing it - there is still an American Dream.

It's okay to worry, but it's part of the fiat disease.

#Bitcoin is a life of it's own at this point. And, those that want to take advantage of it will get their hearts ripped out at some point.

Sounds harsh, but Bitcoin will self correct ANY corruption over time.

Gold was doing this but Gov/fiat learned to cheat. Any Layer 2 protocol that does NOT comply with Bitcoin will be wiped out as fast as the Tulip Mania.

We all would do well to sit back, buy Bitcoin DAILY (not the ETF). Move to COLD STORAGE every few grand. HODL 10+ years but learn skills to add REAL value to others (gain energy/Bitcoin) and spend a little Bitcoin to live. Super easy process, but very hard to stick with us humans.

Trump did not go after the deep state - he thought he could influence them and win them over. He was wrong - let’s see if he gets it the second time. He has 6 months to truly drain the swamp - if he does not, he never got it.

Regardless, #Bitcoin will fix this but will take more time and pain.

Not to say it won’t be tough either way.

100%.

What's REALLY nice is those that don't respect it and use #Bitcoin correctly will lose it (get poor).

The great equalizer of VALUE. What we truly give to others in REAL energy/need/desire is rewarded.

They are, technically. But because Government controls the money supply (they say Fed is independent but history shows that's complete nonsense), inflation is controlled by the Government.

There are some great books on the history of the Federal Reserve - too many to name. But "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World" is a great start.

You say it will never happen, separating money/inflation from Government. But I think it is happening with #Bitcoin. Time will tell. But full on FOMO by Governments, Businesses, and Individuals has started. Every day someone new in all three categories emerge.

And now that BRICS is forming a multi-nation Bitcoin mining organization it's only a matter of time before all nations are battling for hash power (per the book Softwar by Jason Lowrey).

If we can get decentralized money, there are a lot of problems that get fixed since most wars have been funded by printed money, the first big benefit to humans is you can't print Bitcoin to fund wars.

Regardless of how someone feels about fiat/printing, printing is still redistribution of REAL ENERGY to those that don't/won't/can't work/produce in a FREE market.

This can be through Gov programs, welfare, regulations, etc... it really does not matter because ANY Gov program is by it's nature destructive to the 'greater good' (what it's intended to support).

Now, there CAN be a few things along the way funded by Government that should be ONE TIME events to ignite an industry. But be careful with that thinking. Why? Because they ALWAYS turn into longterm spending programs (think Interstate Hwy system that should have been privatized long ago).

My opinion is the destruction of central Gov programs FAR outweigh the benefits provided. Example: NASA was ruined by Government oversight and SpaceX swings in and does more in 10 years on a few percent of the spending as the entire history of NASA. There are 100s of examples.

BTW - for those that think we need welfare, talk to those that just got devastated from the Hurricane. We would be better off without Gov.

Cracking the whip of obscure fiscal slavery actually gets LESS done through lack of innovation and efficiency gains - which cause you to work even hard/longer on TOP of the inflation money printing creates.

Climate scientist are quacks. Most college professors are quacks. Economics is total Quackery and maybe the most corrosive of them all.

Why? NONE of these 'sciences' are based on a verifiable mathematical formula. So there is always interpretation.

A 'formula' has to be rooted in Physics for it to be validated. Even then, we often don't understand everything - like Gravity - we just assume it's there!

When it comes to the 'science' of the the mind, it's all Quackery - we really have no idea how the body or mind work (why we don't know exactly what to eat that is healthy and been wildly mislead on what is a healthy diet - it AIN'T grains, sugar, fruits, veggies - it's dark red meat, saturated fat, and eggs but we still don't know why exactly).

Luke - if Myers-Briggs looks bad, it's bad in general for all of the quack PhDs in the field of Psychology. It's all based on the SAME 'science' of nothing.

I find personality testing helpful for myself and others but absolutely not surprised when I find a personality type that does NOT fit their test type - although it's very rare. Maybe 1 or 2 times in my 40 years around these tests.

It should not be taken as biblical, but I have been doing these tests for nearly 40 years on myself and on others. If you own a business or manage other people, you get some very keen insight on why people react, do, or reject what is being said or done.

It's actually pretty accurate, but as I said, not biblical in the sense that everyone fits every one of the 16 categories as they test. And quite frankly, when you read about the test they state that clearly!

The second article at thoughtcatalog is actually funny. We are the 'expert scientist' and this test is not based because the people that created it are not in our little PhD brainwashed University system of 'qualifications' - so it's not real science. This sounds like the same garbage we hear from the Government Covid scammers. They need to get over themselves - actually Gov needs to quit funding these universities.

Take the test. It's GREAT insight. Take the test every decade or so and see if it changes. Most likely you won't change much if you are honest BUT you will slowly become aware of your short comings and how to compensate for them so you 'relate' to others better (or at least know when you are not going to relate if you don't change your approach).

Already there! Installed 17kW solar many years ago. Living on free energy now. Both house and cars are 100% solar powered on a yearly basis from sun energy!

I drive more miles than ever - because I have no fuel cost. I do wear out tires MUCH faster!

Privately owned solar with utility scale batteries would cut your electric bill in half (utilities don't like this setup since it disrupts their Government supported monopoly) but it will eventually win out.

This frees up energy and reduces prices for businesses. If business has more cheap abundant energy we all win.

Energy policies the last 30 years are horrific and misguided capital in the $100's of billions. Trillions. It's so dumb.

But some of that has to be directed at the individual that has options to produce their own energy now and we continue to rely on the Government run utilities.

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Why don't you start reading some books on #Bitcoin and on economics? "Broken Money" summarizes about 20 books.

I'v been buying Bitcoin since 2016, daily since 2017. I've read most books and yes, I have read the White Paper - I have it on my wall.

Bitcoin solves so many problems but the biggest is the transfer of energy purely from one individual to another with near infinitely small time preference (and that is not doing nothing, I assure you). But I won't convince you of that here - read LOTS of books. After 50 books you will have all the answer to the above questions.

Do you homework before nation state adoption cranks up.

There are problems with the Bitcoin P2Pools - why most have shut down.

Furthermore, they have not been needed and suffer losses.

Sometime in the future maybe.

You are in the weeds not seeing the big picture. I won't try to insult your intelligence - this is most people. We have become a specialized species.

Every problem you percieve, even if it does NOT need a solution today, does not need to be solved today. Even if you do, NEW problems with technology over time will create new problems that will need to be addressed.

Right now - you are chasing butterflies in Crypto.

In a decade when Bitcoin is $13 million/coin and = to roughly 7% of world assets you probably will be saying/doing the same thing.

Exactly. Fast and free. I use it all the time. Instant, no fee transactions.

What you see as a problem, I see as a benefit. Many other solutions on the way.

Oh - and network capacity on Lighting has doubled the last year or so. Why? Because more people are using it for payments AND storage! We won't even talk about all the other developments like Nostr, Paradigm, Fedi, etc...

See for yourself.

https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning