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My silly Sunday project. I like numbers. Check wether yours, your friends or relatives' birthdays match some of the others' x1000 days age. The HTML file runs solely on your browser. No cookies, ads or any other bs. View quoted note →

Less than 5 years between both decisions. Just your timely reminder that business decisions are taken upon business goals. Nobody, even the wealthiest man on earth, weighs in any "environmental" considerations. Those are only the convenient excuses.

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Goldman Sachs, Citi and 19 Other Banks Plan a Dollar Stablecoin by 2027 - Startup Fortune

21 banks including Goldman Sachs, Citi and Bank of America are forming a company to launch a dollar stablecoin by mid-2027, challenging Tether and ...

If you thought that Trump's ban to CBDC was the end of it, think again. This is the first step of the big banks' plan to take over the Fed, owned by the wealthiest ancient families. Interestingly enough, JP Morgan is not in.

Money printers went brrrrrr. Stack and hold sats. View quoted note →

And now you can also understand why they chose the name Bankman-Fried forr a busted banker. We live on a scripted story

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem. Telegram channel: @COVID19VACCINEVICTIMSANDFAMILIES

Great summary from Laura: BREAKING: Iran says the strait is closed. BREAKING: Trump says the strait is open. BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open. BREAKING: Bloomberg says 3 ships crossed. BREAKING: Iran says those 3 ships are Iranian. BREAKING: Maersk says it needs clarity. BREAKING: The strait is a philosophical concept at this point. BREAKING: A fourth ship attempts to cross. BREAKING: The fourth ship turns around. BREAKING: The fourth ship’s captain says he “needed to think.” BREAKING: Insurance for the fourth ship is now $47M. BREAKING: The fourth ship is still thinking. BREAKING: Trump posts on Truth Social that Hormuz is “TOTALLY OPEN, BEAUTIFUL, LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN.” BREAKING: 800 ships remain trapped in the Gulf. BREAKING: Trump posts again that this is Biden’s fault. BREAKING: Iran announces tolls of $2M per ship. BREAKING: Iran announces tolls must be paid in crypto. BREAKING: Iran has not specified which crypto. BREAKING: Someone on CT says it’s XRP. BREAKING: XRP is up 34%. BREAKING: It is not XRP. BREAKING: Russia and China veto the UN resolution on Hormuz. BREAKING: Russia proposes an alternative resolution. BREAKING: The alternative resolution does not mention Hormuz. BREAKING: Nobody is surprised. BREAKING: Israel bombs Lebanon. BREAKING: Iran says this violates the ceasefire. BREAKING: Trump says the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon. BREAKING: Netanyahu says the ceasefire does not cover anything Netanyahu is currently doing. BREAKING: Ceasefire is now 11 hours old. BREAKING: Iran closes Hormuz again. BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open. BREAKING: Trump floats joint US–Iran toll venture to manage the strait. BREAKING: The White House clarifies Trump was “just thinking out loud.” BREAKING: Iran says it will consider the proposal. BREAKING: Trump says Iran’s 10-point peace plan is “not good enough.” BREAKING: Trump says it is “a workable basis.” BREAKING: Both statements were made within the same hour. BREAKING: 20,000 seafarers are still trapped on ships inside the Gulf. BREAKING: The IMO says the priority is evacuation. BREAKING: Iran says passage requires “coordination with armed forces.” BREAKING: Nobody has coordinated with the armed forces. BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open. BREAKING: The strait remains closed. BREAKING: JD Vance, Kushner and Witkoff meet in Islamabad. BREAKING: Talks last over 20 hours. BREAKING: No deal is reached. BREAKING: Officials say progress is being made. BREAKING: Officials provide no details. BREAKING: The situation is under control. BREAKING: The situation is anything but. Yep. This sums it up.

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I was curious to see how the major S&P 500 companies would have performed if their stocks had been denominated in BTC instead of US$. So I vibecoded a web page to find out. Here are the results. Interestingly, all of the listed companies sharply increased in value against the US dollar over the past five years, but they performed much worse against BTC, signalling a heavy 3-year bear market from 2023 through 2025 (NVIDIA being the sole exception), and now thay are levelling up during the btc bear market. For now the website is for internal use only, but if there's enough interest, I might deploy it. It works for any SP&500 ticker. Daily, weekly and monthly data. Goes up to 5 years back. Editable layout. Just let me know #bitcoin #finance #fiat #markets #inflation