Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
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Chief Strategy Officer: @HRF + @OsloFF / Author: http://CYFP.org + http://hiddenrepression.xyz / Nostr: npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu
My BPI keynote, delivered in DC to a hall full of American leaders "Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century" Please share with anyone who doesn't think Bitcoin has a use case ✌️
“Financial experts” actually think the best performing financial asset of the last 15 years is not appropriate to include in your retirement plans
Longtime crypto skeptic @allisonschrager has changed her mind: She no longer thinks it will crash and burn. But that doesn't mean Bitcoin is good for your 401(k) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Interesting piece by Matt Levine on the huge AI salaries: “I tell you what, if Meta Platforms Inc. paid me a $100 million signing bonus to come work for their artificial intelligence business, I would be the most dedicated worker they have ever seen until the check cleared!…
‘South Park’ depicts Donald Trump in bed with Satan in the Season 27 premiere.
you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt
NEW: A Florida Judge denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to unseal federal grand jury transcripts from the Southern District of Florida’s original 2007 federal investigation into the crimes of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Read more at:…
More than 100 aid agencies say 'mass starvation' is spreading across Gaza bbc.in/3TTQMa0
Excluding Joe Rogan is insane.
Introducing TIME's list of the best podcasts of all time: 100 podcasts that shaped the genre and pushed it forward ti.me/451XhfW
Engineers at the Khartoum Refinery are seen here celebrating after repairing the first unit within the heavily damaged industrial complex.
.@blocks will integrate all @Square users with enabled #Bitcoin payments on @btcmap and customers on @CashApp can easily search, find, and support them. ⚡️
Trump is going to the Federal Reserve tomorrow, according to his schedule. Only three presidents have visited the Fed. FDR when its HQ building opened in 1938, Ford when a buddy of his became a governor, and George W. Bush for the swearing in of Ben Bernanke.
We are excited to announce that Femi Longe will be one of the speakers at the Africa Bitcoin Conference Diaspora in Boston, USA! Femi Longe is a serial social entrepreneur, innovation consultant, service designer, learning scientist and startup coach. He is very passionate about…
With nearly 13,000 Bitaxe devices on Public-Pool, the pool is expected to find a Bitcoin block every 6-7 months! 🔥
Bitcoin may be for anyone, but it isn’t being adopted by everyone. Across 25 countries, we asked: Who’s actually using bitcoin? This week we explore WHO and WHERE people own bitcoin and HOW ownership compares to other assets. - Owners are more likely to be men, aged 30–44,…
Jack Dorsey’s Block joins the coveted S&P 500 on Wednesday, a symbolic milestone that puts the digital finance firm under Wall Street’s spotlight bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Walt Disney eating asado 📍Moreno, Buenos Aires, 1941
My guess is cutting rates to 1.5% would cut govt interest expense in the short term. Then it would spark a binge of private borrowing as mortgage rates fall to 4% or so. Then inflation would surge and the Fed would have to raise rates to counter it. Then govt interest expense…
Back of the napkin math: If the FFR was cut to 1.5% then 10 year term premium is typically about 1% which implies 2.5% 10 year. Average weighted maturity of govt debt is 6.5 years so avg rate of debt likely lands near 2.25%. Debt held by public is $30T so that delta is about…
At left is the Flamanville 3 Nuclear Plant in France which opened last year. This building can singlehandedly produce more energy than all of Denmark's 5666 onshore wind turbines (see map right) combined.
War Pigs might be the greatest anti-war song ever. Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerer of death′s construction In the fields, the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to…