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Andre Leblanc
andreleblanc@iris.to
npub1j6un...rawp
Freedom and liberties advocate, bitcoiner. Austrian Economics, geopolitics and geoeconomics.
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
image Bezos´Yacht produces an astounding minimum of 7,154 tons of greenhouse gasses annually — roughly 447 times the entire annual carbon footprint of your average American, the Indiana researchers found. He pledges US$ 10 billion to HIS Bezos Earth Fund not because he wants to do something for the environment but for tax efficiency reasons and to leverage his investments in key sectors which will benefit from Climate Change narrative/policies, just like Gates does for his Pharma stakes. They have a vested interest in issues like climate change and carbon emissions, vaccines and health, that's why publicly, they are very vocal about that but privately they do not give a shit and do as they please, while you will be forced to travel less, should eat less meat, move in a 15min city prison, do that with a health pass etc thanks to the regulations they will force upon you. He should invest some money in renewable #bitcoin mining and he would do good for the environment and make the world a better place.
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
@preston makes a good argument about the largest #bitcoin supply being in strong hands and likely not made available to ETFs to enable the suppression of #bitcoin price for a long time like it happens with #gold. However, short term price manipulations can be still used to deter or delay adoption. Relatively little supply can be thrown to the market at any single moment to dump the price and a Blackrock ETF could do that easily. This can substantially achieve the same effects as if controlling the market. The second point to consider, which is very important, is that any such financial derivative product will deter the interested party from adopting the self-custodial bearer asset because opting for the financial derivative is the easier path for a beginner. Therefore, this will dilute the demand and still indirectly suppress the price of #bitcoin. I stick to my view that bitcoin financialization is a net negative because it means: 1. Diluted demand for the real bitcoin, the non-custodial, bearer, decentralized, censorship resistant asset. Money will rather flow into the black hole of fiat financial custodians. Anyone FTX & Co.? 2. Discourages self-custody and financial responsibility. You are not your own bank. You are not financially independent. In the long term this means they will be able to control the price like they did with gold. Paper gold claims are estimated at 1000times more than physical ounces. See how this has successfully capped the gold price. 3. Discourages learning about Bitcoin and becoming financially literate. 4. It is very risky. You will buy nothing else than counterparty risk. You will own nothing but a claim on a claim. Blackrock holds its bitcoin in a non-custodial wallet held by Coinbase. Therefore you have 2 counterparty risks and NO bitcoins: shares of the Blackrock ETF and IOU on the Coinbase account. 5. Censorship resistance is gone and the intermediaries can easily enforce third party claims or government/judicial dictats on your "paper" bitcoin claim via the intermediaries. 6. It encourages speculation, manipulation and discourages true adoption (i.e bitcoin real time monetization). I explain very clearly in the articles below why I do not believe in "Santa Blackrock". PART I PART II
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
Jews and Palestinians killed since 2000 image Both sides Children killed since 2000 image
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
Chris Hedges says the truth about Israel's campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. But he fails to explain why this happens. As usual, if one follows the money, then the true reasons become apparent. It is about old colonialism and the appropriation of precious natural resources and money. It is about energy, gas reserves and re-launching the 1967 Ben Gurion Canal project. Hundreds of billions are at stake, and Palestinians should not have any right to them. image 1. In application of Mackinder´s Heartland geopolitics the US has drawn Russia into the Ukraine conflict to drive a wedge between the EU and Russia for energy supply integration, thereby reducing Eurasian integration. North Stream sabotage was next. 2. The US could finance that war thanks to the "exorbitant privilege" of an unlimited supply of fiat US$. 3. The EU supports Israel because the new deal will be to supply gas from the Gaza reserves to the energy starved EU. EU companies have been awarded contracts for exploration of the Levantine basin. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-awards-gas-exploration-licences-eni-bp-four-others-2023-10-29/ 4. The US finances also the Israel war of appropriation of Palestine gas reserves and the development of the Ben Gurion Canal going through Gaza. This requires the deportation of all Palestinians from Gaza, one way or another. 5. The vested interest are so great that Israel can easily bribe the elites of the EU, US and other Arab states into either supporting Israel or simply turning the other side while Palestinians are ethnically cleansed. One way or another the payout will be massive and very country in the region has an interest from those deals. No one is interested in Palestinians being slaughtered. The bottom line is: Can we change the money and the incentives to war? Read here how #bitcoin can do that.
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
"The world's richest 1 percent emit about the same amount of carbon as the world's poorest two-thirds, according to an analysis from the nonprofit Oxfam International." The Climate Change narrative serves to: - transfer wealth from your pockets to theirs: EVs, ESG stocks, energy price speculation, etc - control where you are going and limit your freedom to move: future personal carbon footprint limits in your Digital ID wallet part of the Social Credit system. EVs are just like mobile phones, they are surveillance tools except that they can be remotely shut off when you reach your limit allowance on carbon credits or your 15min City Limit. - make you poorer
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
image Soon coming to your city. The EU is doomed because it is in the grip of a totalitarian bureaucratic elite fully controlled and fed by dogmatic Oligarchs (mostly Jews like Soros) who think that open borders and mass immigration of unqualified people will finally reduce the risk of nationalization which was historically the biggest threat for Zionist Jews. You see, now Jews can feel safe because you have another enemy to fight with, the mainly Muslim immigrants, while the Jewish elite can freely pick your pockets while you look the other side and continue feeding the EU bureaucrats. Do what I did, get your #bitcoin and leave for good. Here I tell you how I did it
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
Did you know that Jews hold on to the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians deceased during imprisonment just to torture the families of the deceased? I have heard yesterday a Palestinian lawyer mentioning that on Aljazeera. Looks like it is true. Think about the perversion of that. Jews store dead Palestinians in refrigerated cells for years just to continue torturing their families even after their death. Jewish hatred for the Goyims can go a looooong way. WE ARE ALL GOYIM. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-postmortem-detention/
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
image Yesterday F2Pool mining co-founder Chun Wang said that. He is right. Is bitcoin´s censorship resistance about to go down the toilet? Yes, if we don not take immediate steps to ensure that UTXOs are mixed by default at protocol level. Any developers copy that?????????????
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
image The conflict in Palestine is not about "terrorism", it is not about "right to self-defense", not about "race", not about Jewry nor about Islam. It is old colonialism and the appropriation of precious natural resources and money. It is about energy and re-launching the 1967 Ben Gurion Canal project. Do you think that changing the money could change the Israeli incentives to carry out the genocide of the Palestinians? Read it here to understand how #bitcoin can change the world. If fiat brings war, can #bitcoin bring peace?
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
image The common thread - from a sound money perspective - is that wars would not be possible without the ability to print money. But gold did not substantially reduce intranational conflicts; if anything it was one of the main reasons for the bloody colonization campaigns and the biggest massacres in human history. This is clearly the downside of money based on a natural resource which is both naturally scarce and limited to certain geographical areas. The geopolitical incentive there is clearly to appropriate such resources with violence in a never ending quest for money and power. But what if money could be based, rather than on a scarce natural resource, on a mathematically scarce digital asset, that no one controls and that gives no one on the planet an "exorbitant privilege"? A geopolitically neutral digital commodity? Now, that could change the world. Continue reading for free my latest article "If Fiat brings War, can Bitcoin bring peace? How Bitcoin can restrain the nations' drive towards war" on my substack link below.
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
image Sadly, Israelis and Ukrainians have many things in common: 1. A deeply corrupted and parasitic Jewish oligarchy. 2. A deeply corrupted Jewish President whose policies/actions are not dictated by rationality but driven by Jewish ideology and hatred towards their neighbors. 3. Both Presidents are increasingly unpopular. 4. Both countries´leaders have repeatedly refused peace offers with their neighbors which could have enhanced prosperity and economic growth. They have rather opted for corrupted militarized economies with a disproportionate role of the Military-Industrial complex and funded by massive inflows of fiat money under the form of aid or support from either the Jewish lobbies or the Western warmongers and MICs. The picture of a column of $10milion a piece Israeli tanks Merkava now on sale for $500 -destroyed inside Gaza by a rocket costing a mere thousand $ - is a remainder of the same pictures seen in Ukraine where columns of state of the art US Tanks Abrahams and other expensive western military hardware lies abandoned. It is a sad remainder of the failing culture of war permeating the West, of its decadence and that of the fiat system which encourages and feeds on war and destruction. Opt-out now. Let's build a new world with #bitcoin, with new incentives for peace and prosperity. Peace, love and #bitcoin.
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Andre Leblanc 2 years ago
Is bitcoin at 10 Million impossible? Not if you assume that it can gain a certain market share of other assets which have been monetized as a store of value because of the lack of better alternatives. @`petermccormack`whatbitcoindid podcast with Jesse Myers showed a couple of interesting slides which I copy below courtesy of @`petermccormack` image The above shows the value of several assets classes such as stocks, Bonds, Real Estate Gold etc to be cumulatively approx. US$ 900 Trillion. The second below shows Jesse Myers allocation of a % of any such assets classes to bitcoin. You can play with that as you like and come out with your preferred bitcoin market cap and divide that for 21 million (actually I would divide for 19 million to account for the lost keys and Satoshi holdings which never moved since inception). Say what is your forecasted bitcoin price and how far down the line you see that happening. image