For the record: The whole point of Wealth - THE WHOLE POINT - is to progressively separate yourself from all the other human beings who make you uncomfortable. Even Bitcoin OG’s will do the same. It’s the whole scorpion on the frog parable. Bill Gate’s was “new money” once. Stay humble is not just a brand(TM).

Vietnam has a population of just a hair over 100million people. Headlines of late claim 86million accounts may be frozen/confiscated because the populace is refusing the final steps toward overly invasive KYC leading to Social Credit/CBDC implementation. There are certainly overlapping business/personal identities in the 86million number, but if true it represents vastly more than half the population of adults. I don’t understand what cultural issues might bear on this story, and I’ve learned that trying to do 10-minute research to present an “expert” opinion on social media is not the way I want to live my life right now. But no matter how I size this up…if the story is even remotely valid on face, how could Vietnam exist as a country a year from now? So this is overwhelmingly likely a social experiment, pushed on the Government of Vietnam from outside, that will be walked-back, used as a banking wargame if not precedent, and will be forgotten until it reappears next year in a new form. But I can’t help wanting to see how things play out if none of the sociopaths involved in this blinks.

I’ve been exploring Ai video creation for a few weeks now, trying to probe its limits both bad and good, creatively speaking, to see where we’re at in the revolution. And while it’s early yet for me, what is glaringly obvious - across all legit platforms - is that the possibilities are seemingly incredible. Until you place a Vagina into the scene. Then AI loses its LLM-mind and goes full-on Monty Python. So. Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss.

Can anyone recommend the best AI Video generator? I’m looking to experiment creatively, esp Realistic video quality. I don’t want any AI censoring or second-guessing my prompts if they’re “sensitive”, not cuz I’m a perv, but because I want to fully experiment without being coerced back into a framework. Also, I’d appreciate an AI-congregator like Pollo.ai, which I’ve been playing with. Just wondering if there is something better to offer? Appreciate all responses, just starting a conversation to find my touchstone into AI video creativity. (Zaps will follow. And here’s a pic to get you to stop and read this.)

I admit I’m too scared to post this on TwitX, but: I have no idea who Charlie Kirk is/was. And haven’t spent any time learning since, sorry not sorry. But I can foresee that his death is not going to trigger anything in America but more social media dissipation/venting of pressure. Which is a good thing. America needs these events to stew and digest a healthy movement forward. To temper our steel for the next Turning. imo, your mileage may vary, not financial advice, don’t take if you’re allergic….

You begin by graphing price movements, and volume of course. What else is there? Only changes in those two things, that occur over time. Right? So you pretend there’s more. You create charts, graphs. And it make sense, you’ve dedicated your life to following. Never winning.

A non-profit is something rich people establish so their unemployable children will have a job. There are no non-profits for broken bones. Or cavities. Or anything else that doesn’t have a very emotional pull for middle-class Americans. But you can bet that someone, somewhere has filed a 401(c)3 for depressed kittens.

Bitcoin price/trading charts get “closed” on a daily basis at 8pm Eastern Standard Time. Why? Chartist/Astrologers religiously mark these “closes” to base their theories. Yet there is no close. There is no spoon. How did this decision come about? It doesn’t align with any Fiat market-closes. So what arbitrary arbitrator chose the Daily Close for Bitcoin? Did I miss an email? Yet it was chosen. Remember, pleb, when Bitcoin traded all hours, could breakout on holidays, weekends, anytime? Now it’s all about Mon-Fri (& late Sunday night to suck the non-Western “flyover” markets in for fleecing). I’m not judging, this is the world Bitcoin now lives in. I’m just taking a moment to declare that it is not real. And I’m not sure how we got told that it was.

Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin has already knighted it’s Kingdom. The rest of us are scrambling for fealty. And that is what’s being reflected in price action for years now. Your heros haven’t cared about sub-10 Bitcoin in years. The only care about navigating Fiat banking.

This Bitcoin “bull market” has seen undeniably dwindling volume across all exchanges. That either means Bitcoin is making new highs via moderate purchases against smaller liquidity… …or Bitcoin is being purchase outside of all established Exchanges. To understand how the Cycles have broken is to understand this Volume / Price disconnect. It’s not US/Coinbase centric, Coinbase isn’t even near the volume of ex-US exchanges. As a Bitcoiner, I have to concede that massive amounts of Bitcoin are being purchased not just “OTC”, but fully off-exchange. In private transactions. El Salvador stuff. Which is beautiful and perfect. But fucks up all the fiat models. Yippee-kayeee!

When I became enamored with Bitcoin many years ago, I always clung to a belief I was told again and again: Quantum computing was years off, and Devs were already aware of and prepared for it. I’m now convinced neither of these things is true, especially my belief in the integrity of Bitcoin’s development community.

To Know, is to know All. To know All, one need know very little. But to know that very little, one must first know a great deal. Hans Christian Andersen’s brief story “The Princess and the Pea” tells us everything we need to know to be a successful Investor. No joke. Because it’s about being sensitive enough to spot the Lie, though it be buried beneath a mountain of comfy mattresses designed to make you sleep easy. Worth a ponder or two.

The princess and the pea (ENGLISH) - La princesse au petit pois (FRENCH)

Andersen ENGLISH: The princess and the pea. Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she woul have to be a real prin...

This came to mind to me this evening during a conversation with my best friend, one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever known. And I’ve come to see this often in my own life in recent years: There’s an old parable about a poor farmer whose horse jumps its pen and runs away. A neighbor hears and says to him “well that’s unfortunate”. The farmer answers simply, “maybe yes, maybe no”. A couple days later the horse returns, followed by 4 other wild horses. The neighbor says “that was very fortunate!” “Maybe yes, maybe no,” the farmer replies. While trying to break-in the wild horses, the farmer’s son is bucked off and breaks his leg. “That was unfortunate.” “Maybe yes, maybe no.” A week later an army marches through town and conscripts all the able-bodied young men to fight in battle, except the son with the broken leg….

Under Fiat, non-insiders scour the news & markets trying to glean what iss happening behind the scenes, before it is gleaned by others. Now, they check the price of Bitcoin and know all there is to know. I personally always thought hyper-Bitcoinization would begin when Oil was priced in Bitcoin. I was wrong. It’s happening. Because Bitcoin is right now becoming recognized as the authentic Indicator, the autonomous Compass, for all things affecting all assets, known and unknown. Absent the nagging “paper-Bitcoin” issue, there are no Insiders anymore. This new aspect of Bitcoin, alone, will undermine Fiat. And all its minions worldwide. The Revolution has begun.

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There will only ever be 21,000,000 - My Bitcoin.

Personally, I cringe at the use of the “V for Vendetta” mask to characterize Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s fanboi. However literal you need to think or believe, Satoshi Nakamoto was undeniably a Force. Not a revolutionary, or any other label. For instance, I’d offer that Elon Musk is a person of such destiny that it’s clear he will be enshrined in Human History. Yet even Elon doesn’t recognize that Satoshi Nakamoto acted in this world on a completely different scale from anything he is or could be capable of accomplishing.

I’m old enough to remember when Google was an internet winner, and they sent trucks out to map and photograph every square foot of American streets. And as an investment pro I thought “how can they ever monetize this info?” I would later learn they never paid for it in the first place. It was a contract from a 3-letter Agency. Still, Google Maps is pretty useful, on occasion, even if I paid for it in taxes.

Just commerce being transacted.

No Power wants Freedom, nor will support Freedom. But it WILL leverage the instruments of Freedom to buy time, and rug-pull the People. Rene Guenon labelled this “the False Return”, spiritually. Science might call it “blast wave reflection”. In the Arts its called a “plot twist”. Only the Remnant Maxis will prevail. If legend and myth hold any wisdom. All else will be very, very surprised at the moment they realize they were led astray. So the eternal dance repeats.