Biden, Not Russia, Tried To Tip the Scales in Romania’s Recent Election President Trump’s special envoy for foreign policy, Richard Grenell, suggests Biden's administration may have tried to tip the scales in Romanian election. The rightist presidential candidate, Calin Georgescu, won the first round on November 24, but Romania’s constitutional court then annulled the results. The court made that unprecedented move amid general suspicions of Russian interference, which were, however, never substantiated. #Romania https://archive.is/3UrNG

Bitcoin dominance over shitcoins. How beautiful! 😍

The dominoes started to fall, one country at a time.

Bitcoiners 2025: KYC me harder, daddy!

Without a licence TikTok is worthless, without a licence nostr's value is immeasurable. 💎 😛

We still have time to build our own strategic reserve of #Bitcoin. It’s a race among institutions to acquire Bitcoin from us, while some of you wait for the right price to give them what was created to free YOU from their chains. Will you lay down your sword in exchange for golden chains?

Lagarde doesn't want EU countries to hold #Bitcoin reserves? So what, are you upset about that? Maybe you're here for other reasons, not for what Bitcoin truly is, but because you want to be rich. I want wealth too, but even more than that, I want to be FREE. I won't trade my freedom for wealth. So yes, the longer institutional adoption takes, the more time I and others have to acquire Bitcoin for ourselves. Bitcoin should remain with those who need it to free themselves from the deeply corrupt fiat system, rather than being controlled by banks or governments. So be careful what you wish for...

Regarding the MiCA, the Travel Rule, and other ongoing EU regulations, I see two immediate consequences. The first, related to users who will seek to circumvent these regulations, is the increased use of P2P platforms and the exponential emergence of new platforms. The second concerns companies in the EU that either do not want to or cannot comply with the regulations. We will witness an exodus of companies, a flight of human capital, and a migration of Bitcoin and bitcoiners to freer jurisdictions where they can innovate and conduct business without dealing with intrusive governmental actors who require them to provide all customer data and store it for five years at their own expense and time. Europe, as it stands now, is lost, there is no way for it to regenerate from within. There simply aren’t enough people opposing the status quo—there are not enough voices, no leaders. It’s every person for themselves, we are responsible for our own survival. Bitcoiners are inventive individuals, each will find their own solution to avoid the deeply corrupt and vile system. Some will bow down and conform, losing their backbone along with their anonymity and the rights they have relinquished. #TravelRule #MiCA #DORA #Bitcoin

Oh là là! The French Senate is proposing a tax that would mandate #Bitcoin hodlers to pay annual taxes, regardless of whether they sell their "unproductive" assets or not. 🤣🤣🤣 Subject This amendment aims to replace the "real estate" wealth tax (IFI) with a tax on "unproductive" wealth. Indeed, the calculation base of the IFI, which includes real estate assets that are unused in the owner's professional activity, seems economically incoherent. On one hand, "paper stones" and real estate investments are included in the scope of the IFI, while they constitute productive investments that contribute to growth and meet the needs of households and businesses. From this perspective, it is incorrect to consider real estate as unproductive investments. On the other hand, the IFI excludes from its base assets that do not evidently contribute to the dynamism of the French economy. Limiting the current base of the IFI to real estate assets leads to the exemption of certain heritage elements, such as liquidities and consumer goods, which represented a significant part of the ISF base and are hard to consider "productive." Paradoxically, an "anti-economic" strategy that consists of selling a currently rented apartment to leave the obtained sum in a current account or to buy a yacht currently allows for the avoidance of the IFI. Through this amendment, the following would be included in the base of this reformed IFI: Unbuilt land (e.g., buildable land) when not used for economic activity; Liquidities and equivalent financial investments (current accounts, savings, money market funds, etc.); Tangible movable assets (valuable items, cars, yachts, airplanes, furniture, etc.); Digital assets (e.g., bitcoins); Rights of literary, artistic, and industrial property when the taxpayer is not the author or inventor. With this base, economic incentives would align with the original objective of encouraging productive investments. For example: A person who decides to mobilize buildable land to make an investment in a rental property would be exempt from tax on that apartment, unlike the current situation under the IFI; A taxpayer who decides to invest in a small or medium-sized enterprise (PME) would be treated more favorably for tax purposes than one who leaves savings in a current account, which is not the case under the current IFI. Compared to the current IFI, the tax threshold would be raised to avoid taxing households that, without being considered wealthy, have become taxable due to accumulated inflation. We remind that this amendment had already been adopted by the Senate, at the initiative of the former general rapporteur of the finance committee, Albéric de Montgolfier, during the examination of the budget bill for 2020, with a delayed application (January 1, 2021). This amendment also provides for the replacement of the real estate wealth tax with a tax on unproductive wealth starting in 2025. This amendment was adopted by the Senate during the examination of the budget bill (PLF) and the first rectifying budget bill (PLFR) for 2022, as well as within the PLF for 2023 and 2024. Source:

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Thieves broke into the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, stealing valuable items from the exhibition 'Dacia - Realm of Gold and Silver', which showcases treasures from the ancient kingdom of Dacia. The theft happened just a day before the exhibition's closure.

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Ancient gold artifacts stolen in Drents museum robbery

A major theft at the Drents Museum in Assen has resulted in the loss of valuable gold and silver artifacts from the Dacia – Rijk van Goud en Zilv...