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1/3/25 Happy Birthday Bitcoin 16 Years Old.

16th anniversary of the day Satoshi Nakamoto launched #Bitcoin

THE GENESIS BLOCK IS THE TEMPLATE FOR ALL BLOCKS TO FOLLOW
It established the format for block data and structure, as its header includes a version, timestamp, target difficulty, Merkle root hash, and nonce.

All future blocks in the chain refer back to the Genesis block.
BITCOIN HAD NO VALUE AT THE TIME OF LAUNCH
The Genesis Block did not instantly give Bitcoin value.
It didn’t trade for any price at this time.
It took 9 months from the launch for users to price and trade Bitcoin, at which point it became “money.”

There is no CEO, there is no marketing department.

Gold was a great analog of perfect money until the technology (internet) existed for actual perfect money to be discovered. Gold was analog money for the analog age, Bitcoin is perfect digital money for the digital age.

Oldest BTC prediction.

The price of #Bitcoin on its birthday 1/3/25

16 years: $96,000
15 years: $45,000
14 years: $18,400
13 years: $44,000
12 years: $33,400
11 years: $7,319
10 years: $3,783
9 years: $14,764
8 years: $1,084
7 years: $432
6 years: $275
5 years: $816
4 years: $13
3 years: $5
2 years: $0.25
1 year: $0.01

From $0 to $100,000 in 16 years, all while being the most attacked, berated and smeared financial asset ever is incredible.
Jim Cramer calling #Bitcoin a “scam,” exactly 2 years ago. It’s up 500% and is the world’s best-performing asset ever since.

FUN FACT: 15 years ago 12/31/2001 , you could buy 150 #Bitcoin for $0.10

Top cryptocurrency by market cap:

2009: Bitcoin
2010: Bitcoin
2011: Bitcoin
2012: Bitcoin
2013: Bitcoin
2014: Bitcoin
2015: Bitcoin
2016: Bitcoin
2017: Bitcoin
2018: Bitcoin
2019: Bitcoin
2020: Bitcoin
2021: Bitcoin
2022: Bitcoin
2023: Bitcoin
2024: #Bitcoin

BTC makes the world a better place for all.

Life gets cheaper when you save in #Bitcoin. Bitcoin is obviously our future. Bitcoin rules them all, always has, always will.

Ad ”crypto” and ”cryptocurrency” to your blocked word lists, as the whole phenomenon is just meaningless obfuscation for what really matters, i.e. Bitcoin.

How Bitcoin Destroys The Economics Of Violence – Trace Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNPuGIX1xmY
“No amount of violence will solve a math problem.”
Trace Mayer interview for the eighth episode of his ‘Hidden Secrets Of Money’ series.
This clip is taken from an interview Mike Maloney conducted with Trace Mayer for the eighth episode of his ‘Hidden Secrets Of Money’ series. It is still one of Mike’s all-time favorite quotes on the importance of Bitcoin, but due to time constraints it was not included in the final edit for the episode.
5:29 @TraceMayer Trace Meyer HiddenSecretsOfMoney.com

“How much Bitcoin do you need to retire?”

That depends…..

How old are you?
Do you have any savings?
Start saving BTC – NOW no matter how old you are
Just Get off ZERO
Be prepared to hold this investment for 10 years or longer.
@regothetrader Oct 2, 2023 “i’ve bought 30$ of Bitcoin every single day since December 2016, regardless of price, many purchases made while i still had my old job. This is my return, and we are sitting at the lows of our cycle. He just crossed $1 MILLION in savings. This is the way. VIDEO

1/1/25 GARY GENSLER STEPS DOWN AT SEC
The cherry on top.

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SECURITY

“A Clash of Cultures Comes Together to Change Software” dives into how early hacker groups like the L0pht began collaborating with tech companies, reshaping software security.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6SAqT4ZQik
Day 1 Keynote: Chris Wysopal (AKA Weld Pond), VeraCode / L0pht

In case y’all don’t know, AARP is a scam non-profit who shills for one of the worst health insurance companies in America, United Healthcare.
Walgreens is reportedly in talks to sell to Sycamore Partners — a private equity firm with a track record of pushing the companies into bankruptcy.

ARTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 2025

A guide to the 124th Philadelphia Mummers Parade

@internetarchive
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
⚓️ Popeye
️ The Maltese Falcon
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell to Arms
A Room of One’s Own
Hallelujah
& more!

– The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – A profound novel exploring themes of time, memory, and the decline of the Southern aristocracy.
– A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – A classic war novel set during World War I, focusing on themes of love and war.
– All Quiet on the Western Front – The English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, first published in German in 1929, will become public domain.
– Tintin – The character made his debut in “Les Aventures de Tintin” by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, published in the magazine Le Petit Vingtième.
– Sound Recordings from 1924 – Although not from 1929, sound recordings from this year will also enter the public domain in 2025. Examples include Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” Ravel’s “Bolero,” and Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”

Please note that the exact list can vary, and for a comprehensive list, one should refer to sources like the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University or Copyright Lately.

TAXES

Over the past 2 years Republicans clawed back $40B that Joe Biden made available to modernize the IRS. It would have paid for itself by collecting overdue taxes. So, not only do they want the rich to pay no taxes, they want to make it impossible to investigate tax cheats.

Republicans Quietly Axed IRS Funding While No One Was Looking
Amid the chaos of the shutdown fight, Republicans snuck in a passage to gut funding for the IRS. And Democrats didn’t catch it.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189672/republicans-cut-irs-funding-government-shutdown
Wealthy tax cheats are robbing $150 billion — that’s billion with a “b” — from the public each year.
The Inflation Reduction Act gave IRS the tools it needed to crack down on rich tax evaders. And every single Republican voted against it.

Senator Chris Larson @SenChrisLarson
It turns out Wal-Mart is bad for the communities where they are located. Very bad.
Two new studies described in a recent article in @TheAtlantic found that when a Wal-Mart opens in a given county, total employment there falls by 3% within 5 years, and poverty rises by 8%.

ROYALS

Everyone But Trump Invited to Royal Funeral
Queen Left Explicit Instructions
Exluding “that fucking moron ”
Why Queen Elizabeth
Hated Donald TRump
She called him an “uncouth
ignoramus” and could never
understand how he got to
President of the United States.
“It does boggle one’s mind,” the
Queen said after their first en-
counter. “He’s a buffoon of the
highest order, a cretin, a rube,
an uncouth, stupid plonker!
https://x.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1872706889735389241/photo/1

BREAKING: The parliament of Greenland just introduced legislation that bans Donald Trump and all his descendants for 100 generations.

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Nikola Tesla describing a cell phone in an interview conducted by journalist John B. Kennedy and published in a Jan. 30, 1926, article in Collier’s magazine.

“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles, and the instruments through which we shall be able to do all of this, will fit in our vest pockets.”
Nikola. Tesla, 1926
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ECP NetHappenings Why are Red State Citizens Poorer Less Educated Sicker than Blue State Citizens?

Why are Red State Citizens Poorer, Less Educated, & Sicker than Blue State Citizens?

Republicans worship cheap labor — and having a steady and reliable supply of cheap labor requires widespread poverty…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-are-red-state-citizens-poorer-2ef

One of the enduring mysteries of America is why the citizens of Red states are generally poorer, less educated, and sicker than the citizens of Blue states. To that question, I step up as your hierophant with an answer to this deep mystery that you may not have previously considered.

First, that generalization is broadly true:

— Blue states account for about 71 percent of America’s GDP, whereas Red states only produce 29 percent of our income and wealth.
— The median family income in Blue states is $74,243. In Red states it’s $63,553. Individual states highlight the disparity: New Jersey’s median income is $89,703, while Mississippi’s is $49,111.
— Counties that voted for Biden in 2020 are more diverse, being 35 percent nonwhite compared to 16 percent nonwhite populations in counties that voted for Trump.
— Counties that voted for Biden in 2020 are better educated, with 36 percent of their population having some college education compared to Trump’s counties at 25 percent.
— Residents of Blue states live 2.2 years longer, on average, than residents of Red states.

And, second, it’s undeniably true (and documented with each hotlink below) that Republican-controlled Red states, almost across the board, have higher rates of:

— Spousal abuse
— Obesity
— Smoking
— Teen pregnancy
— Sexually transmitted diseases
— Abortion (at least before Dobbs; now it would be “forced births”)
— Bankruptcies and poverty
— Homicide and suicide
— Infant mortality
— Maternal mortality
— Forcible rape
— Robbery and aggravated assault
— Dropouts from high school
— Divorce
— Contaminated air and water
— Opiate addiction and deaths
— Unskilled workers
— Parasitic infections
— Income and wealth inequality
— Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
— Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
— People on welfare
— Child poverty
— Homelessness
— Spousal murder
— Unemployment
— Deaths from auto accidents
— People living on disability
— Gun deaths

But are all these things happening because Republicans simply hate their citizens and explicitly want high levels of poverty, ignorance, death, and disease?

Turns out there’s a much simpler answer.

The problem for Red states is that Republicans worship cheap labor, because it drives up profits for the fat-cats who own American businesses — and having a steady and reliable supply of cheap labor to maintain high profits requires widespread poverty, ignorance, death, and disease.

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TWO MORE REASONS

– THE LOW LITERACY RATE PROMOTES THE DROP OUT TO PRISON PIPELINE FOR CHEAP SLAVE LABOR

READ OR GO TO JAIL
Literacy and National Reading Statistics
Teaching Reading: Educational CyberPlayGround

THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT K12 READING PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO PUMP THE PRISON SUPPLY CHAIN PIPELINE THAT PROVIDES SLAVE LABOR FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.

– THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT DEPENDS ON THE POPULATION FOR RECRUITS , IT’S A FAMILY TRADITION.

Republicans worship cheap labor

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