Based on the Biden regime’s recent work in Syria, US false flags today being attributed to Islamic Terrorism, the random resurgence of discussion about the systemic rape of underage girls in the UK, and the Israeli money which flowed to Trump - it looks like the Middle East will be the theatre for escalation rather than China as many feared. View quoted note →

“What would it seem like if it did seem like a global, digital, sound, open source, programmable money was monetizing from absolute zero?” - @npub1sfhf...ymqt Probably something like this:

A few Nostriches made it to Saylor’s yacht party, this reminder is specifically for them: View quoted note →

Most sports have changed a lot in the past 20-30 years, mostly for the worst (see AFL) but #cricket is the exception which has undoubtedly improved with how the game has developed. Incredible catch by Glenn Maxwell in the #AUStriches BBL.

City of Casey in Melbourne wants $400 in permits if you want to change the oil in your own car, on your own property. #AUStriches are bled dry by parasites everywhere they turn. This isn’t sustainable.

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This Australian city wants to charge people to work on their cars

A simple oil change could cost more than $400 for residents of this Australian city, which now requires permits for common acts.

The United States added $2.33 Trillion in debt for 2024, carrying $36.294 Trillion in to 2025. Congratulations to @BoomTown who wins the ⚡️10K prize for the closest prediction with $36.32 Trillion, just $25.8 Billion off! A prediction just 0.071% out is pretty incredible! Thank you to all who participated 🙏 I’m running the same competition again for closest prediction of US debt at the end of 2025 so reply to this note with your predictions by the end of January for your shot at ⚡️10K

#Democracy is for Boomers

Look at these numbers and ask yourself, would Iranians have the same “unit bias” as me? Unit bias is in the eye of the behodler. When your currency is already exchanging in 5/6/7 figure units against the USD, dealing with large denominations of Satoshis isn’t a problem, particularly when you realise they’re appreciating against yours and every other fiat out there. View quoted note →

Eric Trump in his Bitcoin MENA Keynote revealed he’s known Saylor for 20 years. The recent tear Saylor has been on about dumping Gold to buy Bitcoin would appear to be unofficial messaging from the Trump regime in this light. Luke Gromen’s thinking that the US might inflate Bitcoin as “the new oil” and bypass the BRICS efforts at a new currency ties to gold dovetails into this too. It is looking more and more likely that the nation state game theory is playing out. So long as it’s unofficial Bitcoiners will be ok but as I wrote in a recent thread, that’s going to place a huge strain on Bitcoiners in the West once other nations feel forced to stack. View quoted note →

A bunch of NDIS threads on Xitter today detailing insane levels of rorting going on. Grabbed a few so #AUStriches can see where tax dollars are going. View quoted note →

DANGERS OF THE BITCOIN STRATEGIC RESERVE Everyone thinks about the price appreciation that nation state stacking brings on, but I’ve seen ZERO discussion of the potential downsides. So allow me be the one to shit in everyone’s cornflakes.. If the US does announce a SBR, Bitcoiners, you know the people who actually give this network value, are going to become targets. We know: - other countries will be forced to follow lest they be left behind - they can’t print BTC - they can’t tax BTC to accumulate it - they have required KYC on exchanges in many countries So what are those other nation states going to do when they realise they have to get their own stack? They can’t print it. They can’t tax it. They’ve got a few regulated entities with lists of customers who have accumulated it.. Well they’re going to go knock on the exchange’s doors and demand lists of their customers who hold #Bitcoin. Then they’re going to use the legal system, which they control, to coerce the HODLers to cough up their stacks to the government. Expect to see: audits from the tax man. Unrealised gains taxes specifically on BTC. New legislation requiring corn addresses be declared or possibly joint custodied with Gov. When that fails (which won’t take long, months probably); fuckery with HODLers business interests, debanking, travel bans, additional audits, outright bans/caps on individual ownership. M5M will portray greedy Bitcoiners as worse than Satan. Leftists will protest in the streets against them. Running a node will be prohibited by ISPs. There will be hotlines to report Bitcoiners to the Gov for some fiat rewards. When they don’t get near their stacking target (they’ll all have delusions of grandeur of how they’re going to get some ridiculous % of the network assuming high rates of extraction from Bitcoiners on those lists + some open market ops) they’ll just go full Totalitarian. Invented crimes with convictions only avoidable if HODLers cough up. Extending the lawfare targeting to family who fucking ignored you and have no corn but are now debanked and having their business destroyed, etc. Within 1-2 years it will become impossible to hold BTC in nations like Aus, Canada, UK, and across Europe. Boating accidents won’t cut it in front of judges and your pleas that they’ve shown the man and found the crime will fall on deaf ears - this is existential for the parasites, they’re not going to follow “the rules”. Yanks will think they’re ok because they won’t face these pressures and their Gov were the “smart ones” who went first. NO YOU DUMB FUCKS Bitcoin is valuable because of decentralisation; you’re about to lose that when nation states make it impossible for individuals in large parts of the world to be part of the network lest they be destroyed. This is the single biggest threat Bitcoin faces and all I see is supposed Bitcoiners cheering it on like the Goldbugs who love it when CBs pump their bags. Bitcoin managed to cope with El Salvador adopting it. It won’t with the US - the knock ons are going to be immense. This is not some Whitney Webb skizzopost by someone who doesn’t really understand Bitcoin. This is something I’ve understood for a while and which has fallen on deaf ears whenever I’ve raised it because ppl prefer to think of the bag pumping. Yeah you’re going to be rich. Bitcoin is going to fork for regulation. You will have lost your allies who would have stopped it but can’t participate because you took the shortcut and they got removed to avoid jail. If you want to avoid this, then it’s time to start seeing the State as your adversary again. Not your State, all of them. They’re all a problem. Nation state game theory for Bitcoin, now, is bad for Bitcoiners.

Senator Cynthia Lummis suggests the Fed’s gold certificates should be revalued from $42.22/oz to current market prices and then sold to buy Bitcoin. Um, who is going to buy gold certificates?.. They’re literal pieces of paper 😂

I did it all for the nookie Please put this on my tombstone

Wise words for the ladies

How do the men of nostr use the urinals?