Just getting of the second iteration of Operation Chokepoint

I'm not sure why Yellen is worried about bitcoin hurting the the dollar's status as the reserve currency. As much as I would love to see bitcoin be the reason the dollar gets dropped, the BRICS and the Yuan pose a far greater threat to the dollar's reverse status. If Yellen and her boss had any sense at all, they would be doing everything in their power to move to a bitcoin standard to avoid losing the dollar hegemony to another nation's currency. The US would certainly still loss lose a great deal of monetary and national power. But, if the choice is to lose that power to a foreign nation or to a decentralized ledger controlled by no one, it only makes sense to give that power to a no one. As it us going right now, the Administration is giving away its power to the CCP and I don't see advantage for the US in doing that. All of that being said, I've never been under the impression that the political class has ever been all that great at critical thinking or decision making. I'm not surprised by any of this. But it's still a powerful degree of "not smart" happening.

I was just able to zap a note. WoS may be back up.

So, I just shared some of #[0] and #[1] 's videos on Facebook, which is the only place I have any audience. I'm mostly off of the platform, but since a few people still listen to me there, I hope they help them. Thanks, Crypto Couple for producing those for me to share.

I keep asking myself how long the IMF will have any relevance. The International Mafia Fund exists on USDs, afterall. Once the IMF is functionally dead, I'm thinking it opens the door for more bitcoinazation for developing nations, who realistically need it the most. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

As someone with moderate colorblindness, I kind of hate the the nostr color is purple. Until I got some EnChroma glasses, purple was just some sort of conspiracy to me. I was 38 years old before I actually saw the color for the first time. But, I tend to not wear my glasses indoors or while looking at my phone, which is how I generally scroll nostr. So, all of this nostr art is just a bunch of giant blue birds to me. I don't need any blue birds in my life. Okay, okay... I don't actually care. I'm just bored and drinking a beer on a cold Saturday afternoon. Carry on.

My current favorite passtime is watching YouTube investment and trading channels. Not because I want their advice, but rather because I am getting a kick out of all the interesting ways they're seeing things breaking. The comedy is that I'm not sure that most of them are wrong even though a lot of them are focusing the blame of different things from one another. I mean, I don't think that people suffering is funny. But I do find it comical that so many things are broken that no one can agree on which broken things are causing problems today.

A good friend of mine owed me $40. She offered to pay me back today. I told her to buy herself some bitcoin with it instead. She just sent me a screenshot of her buy. Next, to teach her and her boyfriend about self-custody. Regardless, today was a good day.

I know that what I'm about to say flies in the face of what social media has become and thus how too many people (in my opinion) view the world, but I think a lot of people here, at least for now, will understand what I'm trying to say. I find it better to be the person that, in a time of fear and panic, others ask, "What can I do about it? What I can I do to be ready?" than the person that people are afraid to talk to when times get scary. To be this person, at least for me, requires being completely comfortable being called "crazy" more often than not. It also requires having a since of humor about most things. And, it requires being honest with myself and others regarding my mistakes. I hope that as things get rougher and scarier, which I'm powerless to stop, that people who know me feel comfortable asking me how to get though it. They already know my answers: have the skills of at least a fair amount of self sufficiency (grow a garden, own and know how to use firearms, some level of mechanical knowledge) , own and self custody bitcoin, and know how to peacefully interact with others. But, a lot of the time, people ask to hear what they know they need to hear, whether they liked it before or not.

Just because I feel like there needs to be some Zappa representation on nostr. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22yevoIBQSHrqG5rw1smIc7My7SjVd47

Yahoo Finance

Federal Reserve to launch instant payment service

The Fed

The Fed's years-long project to stand up an instant payments system, FedNow, will finally be launched later this year., we ask one this was coming. Now we have confirmation.

So, I keep asking myself if Credit Suisse will be bailed out or if they will be allowed to fail. And, if they're allowed to fail, will it happen on, say... Friday? You know, just after the markets close for the weekend... I'm really just wondering this because I have an irrational feeling that getting ahead of this will help me determine what kind of beer to buy for the weekend.

Has anyone checked to see how the "Inverse Cramer ETF" is doing?