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∞/21M Bitcoin Bitcoin only. If you are Bitcoin only, I will follow you back. Views and opinions are my own. Not financial advice.

Joined February 2016
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I am surprised more people haven't figured this out yet. When they do, the price/value of #Bitcoin will explode.
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Years ago, I saw him on video saying that if he ever ran for president, he would run as a republican so he could destroy the republican pary. I NEVER forgot that he said that. Everything makes sense when you see it.
On the next episode of America: Unhinged - Trump announces he is a democrat and has been all along, like he was most of his life, and the midterms actually went his way. Then starts screaming about having tiger blood and winning.
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🚨 Binance has been hacked for $5.8B. • 17,985 Bitcoin drained, worth $1.42B • $2.41B in USDT and USDC frozen • Claims users will be made whole. 👉 Total loss $3.4B, biggest hack ever!
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What can a company with, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bitcoin do in the future? The answer is anything they want.
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Why have so many bitcoin YouTube channels and podcasts turned into AI channels? Are they just getting bored with bitcoin? I mean AI really doesn't have that much to do with bitcoin. To some extent yes. But so many channels now, most of their broadcast is mostly about AI.
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The financial mechanics of the Mr. Robot scenario could theoretically play out if a systemic cyberattack paralyzed today's banking system. Instead of a corporation stepping in with a private stablecoin, global central banks would likely deploy a (CBDC) to rescue the economy.
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When ever I hear "North Korea hacks" What I really hear is "Chinese hacks"
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Comments are hilarious...
Las Vegas' new professional women's hockey team got a jersey before it got a name. What should the name be?
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To believe that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value means: 1. Believing that having a decentralized, global payment and settlement network outside the conventional financial system has no value. 2. Believing that having a way to protect your purchasing power from inflation has no value. 3. Believing that being able to store your wealth without counterparty risk has no value. 4. Believing that the ability to send $5 or $50 million anywhere, anytime, with minimal fees has no value. Yet, people say bitcoin has no utility or value.
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So there you go. if you were wondering. Got bitcoin?
The Clarity Act is broadly bullish for BTC. It locks in commodity treatment under the CFTC, protects self-custody rights, shields non-custodial developers, and lets banks/institutions custody, lend against, and service Bitcoin without extra approvals—potentially unlocking major capital inflows and reducing regulatory uncertainty.
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Scott Bessent:
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Orange ties are coming.
Millions of galaxies already obliterated
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the number of people who understand Bitcoin keeps growing while the number of Bitcoin NEVER does.
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that amount buys approximately:~26,250 BTC at $80,000
The Fed printed $2.1 billion this morning 🎉
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China has banned the use of bitcoin. Technically, you can hold it. But you can't buy or sell anything with it. There are no exchanges. So, you can't buy with fiat, or sell btc for fiat. So, even though it is not "banned", it effectively is.
"The government will just ban Bitcoin." Cool. Which government? That's the part nobody answers. A ban only works if everyone bans it, at the same time, forever. Here's what actually happened: China banned mining in 2021. Hashrate dropped by about half, then fully recovered within a year, the machines moved to Texas, Kazakhstan, and Paraguay. El Salvador made it legal tender. The US approved spot ETFs, then started holding seized coins as a strategic reserve A ban in one country is a subsidy for the next one. That's not a prediction. That's the last five years. And you can't ban a number. Your private key is 256 bits. Memorize it. Write it on paper. Carry it across a border in your head. Governments can make Bitcoin expensive and awkward to use. They've done that. What they can't do is switch off a protocol running on tens of thousands of independent machines across a hundred jurisdictions with no company to subpoena. They banned alcohol once, too. People kept drinking.
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