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The "Epstein was Satoshi" FUD going around is the dumbest take possible. Never mind that there is zero evidence for it, just think through it logically. The fiat money system is perfect for a blackmailer, he only needs to get dirt on the central planner or someone close. A decentralised system with no-one in control is the opposite of what they want. FOSS is like sunlight to these vampires. Total transparency and total openness is anathema to these dirtbags. Their crimes are comitted in the dark, their evil networks rely on contacts, influence and secrets. Open source and proof of work is the opposite of pull. Satoshi's anonymity was perfect because it prevented people like these from targeting him, as they have done with so many others. Don't trust, verify.

People keep asking me about the Bitcoin price, so here's what I think. First and most important: nobody knows the future. Markets are second order complex systems and anybody trying to make predictions is guaranteed to fail. Having said that, the law of supply and demand is the best long term predictor in markets. Limited supply and growing demand strongly suggest that the long term trend in Bitcoin will be up. Something very critical would have to change to alter that. Within that long term trend any further predictions are foolish. However... if we want to be foolish... I would guess that the 4 year cycle is still in effect. That would weakly imply: 2021 up 📈 2022 down 📉 2023 up 📈 2024 up 📈 2025 up 📈 2026 down 📉 2027 up 📈 2028 up 📈 If it is foolish to guess what the price will do next year, it is even more foolish to try to guess how much. Better to just stay humble and stack sats.

Lot's of room for arbitrage...

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50 empires x 50 centuries (+religions +coins +labels +dates) #timeline #history

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50 x 50 50 empires 50 centuries #timeline #history

50 empires x 50 centuries #timeline #history

Please help me list #Nostr advantages v centralized social media. 1. Censorship resistant 2. FOSS 3. User owns contacts 4. User owns content 5. User picks algo 6. User choose app 7. User picks relays 8. User picks moderation 9. Zaps 10. Web of trust What am I missing?

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Volatility? It's part of it.

50 Empires in 50 Centuries. It's starting to come together. Much improved data on km2, thanks to

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Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days. Empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics

Still some refining need, but things are lining up nicely. #history #timeline

Every time that commodity prices spike, the malthusians pop out of the woordwork. In the 1970s it was Ehrlich vs Simon. "The Population Bomb" vs "The Ultimate resource". But this time we are ready to reveal the wizard behind the curtain: rising prices are first and foremost caused by the money printers. Sound money is the solution.

Some days you are reminded how crazily bureaucratic our fiat lives are. The contrast with Bitcoin world is glaring. Once you've seen how a DAO works... automated accounting, no payroll, flat hierarchy, no regulation, no residency, no incorporation, no licenses, no bank accounts, no id for some collaborators, no labour contracts, no notary, no rent, no lease, no unreadable TOS, no witholding, no tax... Everything else looks like byzantine red tape. It really is amazing how many absolutely superfluous sillyness we put up with!

How the #silver market was suppressed. Very interesting explanation. (Twitter link unfortunately). Very relevant to #Bitcoin

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I Spent Eight Years Spoofing Silver I'm a precious metals trader at a major bank. Was. Am. Depends on which LinkedIn I'm updating. Between 200...

I Spent Eight Years Spoofing Silver I'm a precious metals trader at a major bank. Was. Am. Depends on which LinkedIn I'm updating. Between 2008 and 2016, my desk placed orders we never intended to fill. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands. We'd flood the book with sell orders. Watch the algos panic. Cancel before execution. Buy at the bottom we just created. Rinse. Repeat. For eight years. We called it "spoofing." The regulators called it fraud. Same thing. Different business cards. My bank paid $920 million to settle. $920 million. Two of my colleagues went to federal prison. One year. Two years. They took it well. Better than you'd think. The bank paid their legal fees. And kept their pensions. Because that's what family does. Eight banks. Total fines. $1.3 billion. $920 million from us. $127 million from Scotiabank. $76 million from HSBC. $75 million from Deutsche Bank. The rest from the usual suspects. All for the same thing. Keeping silver where we wanted it. Not where the market wanted it. Here's what nobody understands about manipulation. It's not about making money on the trade. It's about making money on the *position*. We had shorts. Massive shorts. The kind that show up in CFTC reports as "concentrated commercial interest." That's regulator-speak for "these four banks control 68% of the market." If silver went up, we lost billions. So silver didn't go up. For eight years. Meanwhile, the world was changing. Solar panels need silver. 500 million ounces by 2030. Electric vehicles need silver. AI data centers need silver. Every green energy initiative, every climate target, every ESG presentation— All of them need the one metal we were suppressing. We knew. We had the research. We just didn't care. 2021: Supply deficit of 51 million ounces. 2022: 237 million. 2023: 184 million. 2024: 182 million. 2025: 166 million. Cumulative: 820 million ounces. That's 820 million ounces of silver the world needed. That didn't exist. Because mines can't produce fast enough. And we spent a decade convincing everyone silver was worthless. The prosecution came. The fines came. The prison sentences came. We paid. We restructured. We "enhanced our compliance protocols." That's how you say "we got caught" in a press release. Then we did something beautiful. We flipped. We closed our shorts. We went long. 713 million ounces. Not a typo. We now own more silver than we spent eight years suppressing. Silver in January 2024: $23. Silver in December 2025: $83. Silver today: $110. Up 260%. From the price we kept it at. To the price it should have been. All along. TD Securities tried to short it in October. Lost $2.39 million. In one trade. We laughed. Not because we're cruel. Because we *invented* that trade. And we knew when to stop. December 2025. COMEX registered inventory. 60% drawdown. Four days. 47.6 million ounces claimed. Physical delivery. Not paper settlement. Actual silver. Leaving the vault. The vaults we control. Chinese banks suspended new precious metals accounts. ICBC. Agricultural Bank. Construction Bank. Ningbo. Raised margins. Added circuit breakers. They saw what was coming. The same thing we saw. When you suppress a price for a decade— And the world still needs the thing— Eventually the spring uncoils. The board asked me how we're positioned. I said "constructive." Constructive means we're long. Constructive means we're making billions. Constructive means the same bank that paid $920 million in fines— Is now making $900 million in gains. On the same metal. In the same market. With the same traders. Just different positions. I'm updating my LinkedIn. "Led precious metals transformation at global financial institution." Transformation is accurate. We transformed from criminal. To compliant. To profitable. Same people. Same desks. Different direction. Someone asked if I felt guilty. About the manipulation. About the miners who couldn't get fair prices. About the investors who sold at the bottom we created. About the eight years of artificial suppression. I said I felt "reflective." Reflective means no. The next conference is in March. "Precious Metals Outlook 2026." I'm on the panel. "Silver: From Suppression to Surge." That's really the title. They asked me to speak. Because I have "unique insight." I do. I was the suppression. Now I'm the surge. $1.3 billion in fines. Two men in prison. Eight banks prosecuted. 820 million ounce deficit. 260% price increase. $110 silver. And I'm speaking at conferences. About what's next. You want to know what's next? $120. $150. $200. Not because I believe in silver. Because I believe in deficits. And I believe in the position we've built. 713 million ounces. The same hands that held it down— Now holding it up. The market isn't broken. The market is *working*. For the first time in a decade. Because we stopped breaking it. Not out of conscience. Out of position. That's the lesson. The same people who manipulate the bottom— Manipulate the top. We just change the sign. Short to long. Suppress to support. Crime to compliance. Same traders. Same desks. Same banks. Different LinkedIn. I'm going to make more money this year than I made in any year of the manipulation. Legally. Compliantly. On the rally we delayed for a decade. The spring uncoils. The price finds its level. The fines get written off. And I update my LinkedIn. "Precious metals expert." "Market structure specialist." "Transformation leader." Nobody mentions the eight years. Nobody mentions the $920 million. Nobody mentions the prison sentences. Silver at $110. Gold at $5,000. My bonus at ATH. Same metal. Same market. Same me. Different position. That's not irony. That's the system. Working exactly as designed

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