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Bitcoin hits 95000 today
#Bitcoin is repricing theworld!
BITCOIN PUMP IT UP ↑
11/20/24 TODAY #BITCOIN BREAKS $95,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY!!!
It’s going to be hard for new adopters to buy the all-time high in #bitcoin. But they will. Yep. Once Gresham’s Law kicks in no price will seem too high. What is the value of making it thru the door in a burning theatre?
YESTERDAY #Bitcoin hits $94,000 for the first time!
BlackRock’s #Bitcoin ETF options traded $1.9 billion in notional exposure after launching yesterday
Imagine not being bullish when we’re on the brink of the greatest #bitcoin bull market of ANY generation.
Tom Lee says #Bitcoin is a Treasury reserve asset, and it’s going to $150,000 this year.
Max Keiser @maxkeiser
A break above $100,000 will trigger buy-stops and we’ll see $115,000 very quickly. Then all Hell breaks loose.
Bitcoin Policy Institute @btcpolicyorg
Research and advocacy to better our understanding of Bitcoin and monetary networks. Our mission is more important than ever, so we’re growing our team. Apply to work full-time with us in Washington, D.C.
https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/were-hiring-at-bpi
#Bitcoin ETF options trading on Day 1 (YESTERDAY 11/19/24) indicates the price of $BTC will double in the next month – Bloomberg’s @EricBalchunas just to clarify, there’s one contract that has people betting on double. Overall tho 83% of the betting was on the price higher in future. Thats the more reasonable, yet still optimistic, takeaway I think. A few hundred million so far in options volume on $IBIT (a ton for Day One).. here’s a rank of the contracts by volume, it’s almost all calls. Seems very bullish, esp the Dec20th C100, which is basically betting price of btc will double in the next month.
https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/1858916477384225005
MSTR Updates @MSTRUpdates
Michael Saylor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ7fjpqzUS4
“When I found bitcoin, I was in despair. I had worked for a decade. I had spent 20,000 man years attempting to do everything under the sun. I could not get ahead. And I was the same me. I wasn’t stupid, right? You look at me and say well this is Michael Saylor worked as hard as he could for a decade and could not get ahead, right? And the most pernicious thing you can do to someone is you make them think that they’re just not smart enough and the reason they’re failing is because they’re not smart and they don’t work hard enough. And then you realize, no the system is rigged against you.”
Saylor is all of us on a bigger scale.
A misfit among peers who finally found an edge against the rigged system with bitcoin and has been thriving ever since.
“Watching people’s retirement funds shrink while banks got bailed out in 2008 pushed me into Bitcoin, and Saylor just validates what many learned the hard way.”
#BitcoinReserve
$90 BILLION VanEck is now endorsing Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve.
HERE WE GO
$11 TRILLION BlackRock is now endorsing Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve.
IT’S HAPPENING
Rumors that President Donald Trump is considering an Executive Order for Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve ASAP.
HERE WE GO
Explained: The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Breaking down the BITCOIN act — the bill introduced by Senator
@CynthiaMLummis
– Buy 1m BTC over five years
– HODL for 20 years
– Proof of Reserves
– Protect Bitcoin property rights
Shareholder activists have secured Saylor a 3-minute slot to present to the Microsoft board on adding Bitcoin to their treasury.
The big story here is how a single small shareholder managed to get the board of one of the largest public companies to consider a Bitcoin strategy—simply by submitting a proposal.
I get the sense that the cyberhornets are about to take shareholder activism to a whole new level. @Microsoft board is opening the company up to significant liability and shareholder lawsuits by recommending shareholders vote against adding #bitcoin.
MicroStrategy just smashed $100 BILLION market cap is now valued at $108B
MicroStrategy Announces Pricing of Convertible Senior Notes Offering
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-announces-pricing-of-convertible-senior-notes-11-20-2024
MetaLawMan @MetaLawMan
FTX Wang Gets NO JAIL TIME!
According to the criminal complaint, “Wang created the software code that allowed Alameda to divert FTX customer funds.” He was the most critical player (next to SBF) in one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history.
He walks out of court a free man.
John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1
We need an SEC & DOJ that protects consumers and retail investors. We do that by implementing a ZERO TOLERANCE for fraudsters, thieves and criminals. We should throw the book at them and prosecute them to the maximum, while fostering innovation and rewarding the good guys.
Little known FACT:
#Microsoft $MSFT was deeply researching THE SOLUTION WHICH BITCOIN SOLVED28 YEARS before the #Bitcoin White Paper was released and THEY COULD NOT FIGURE IT OUT!
#BitcoinNetwork & $BTC = miracle!
THE OFFICIAL BITCOIN WHITE PAPER READ IT PEOPLE
https://bitcoinwallets.com/bitcoin_white_paper.pdf
JUST IN: MicroStrategy is now in the top 100 US publically traded companies. The #Bitcoin effect
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-announces-pricing-of-convertible-senior-notes-11-20-2024
MicroStrategy has increased the size of their latest raise from $1.75B to $2.6B.
$MSTR has also entered the top 100 stocks by market cap as it passed $100B for the first time.
$BTC is also making yet another all time high today.
Saylor can’t stop winning.
Why Bitcoin Will Rise to $420,000: It’s not a prediction. It’s simple arithmetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fv6Lpa6FhY
Episode 84: Bitcoin Retirement Planning We look at
@BitcoinHornet’s FIRE Calculator http://bitcoincompounding.com
Different CAGR Models, Power Law
Retire after a certain amount of years
Try it with 10BTC, held for 10 Years
1 BTC held for 20 Years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koptwRLk23c
And … 34 BTC in 2034 will give you “private jet lifestyle”
@apsk32 Apr 17
I did a little retirement exercise assuming 4% rule and a person looking to replace the median US family income. Used power law to estimate future bitcoin value. Found that you could retire with 3.4 BTC in 2034!
Felix @maradiaga is a leading advocate for Bitcoin as a tool for protecting human rights and a past Bitcoin Policy Summit speaker.
His recent essay in the Journal of Democracy shows why the U.S. should embrace Bitcoin as a tool for spreading freedom:
How Dictators Use Financial Repression Against Their Opponents
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-dictators-use-financial-repression-against-their-opponents/
The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. RT ≠ endorsement.
https://x.com/JoDemocracy
BITCOIN STRATEGIC RESERVE
Adam Back @adam3us Nov 18
if the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve happens prepare for 7 figure bitcoin. this cycle. the market is skeptical on meaningful follow through for now, so that is not at all priced in.
Dennis Porter @Dennis_Porter_
Step 1: Trump appoints pro-Bitcoin Treasury Secretary.
Step 2: Trump signs an executive order (EO) to create a ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ also ending the auction of the Bitcoin held by the U.S. Marshall’s.
Step 3: The Treasury absorbs the Bitcoin held by the US Marshall’s & places it into the Exchange Stabilization Fund at the Treasury.
Step 4: Treasury continues to add Bitcoin to the SBR.
Step 5: Because an EO can be wiped out the stroke of a pen, Congress acts and passes the SBR bill by Senator Lummis.
This is how we win.
When he says “this is how WE win”, he’s talking about everyone on the planet, now, and in the future.
Adding #Bitcoin as a strategic reserve would be a decisive win for America and for #Bitcoin, but some wonder “how it can be done”.
The most obvious way forward: Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) at the U.S. Treasury.
>> How can #Bitcoin be added as a strategic reserve in the USA via an ESF?
For starters, let’s talk about the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF).
This fund is a special fund operated by the United States Treasury Department. It was established by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, with the primary objective of stabilizing the value of the U.S. dollar.
The ESF provides the Treasury with a tool to engage in currency and gold operations to influence exchange rates and promote stability in the foreign exchange markets.
https://x.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1814063064142250229
POLITICS
Danish Navy Detains Chinese Ship Over Baltic Cable Incident
Last updated
The Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 was intercepted and detained by the Danish Navy in the Baltic Sea, suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea telecom cables. This incident has led to investigations by Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Lithuania, with the cables involved connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania. Authorities are examining whether this act was intentional sabotage.
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
A Danish Navy vessel boarded the Chinese cargo vessel Yi Ping after it was discovered it had destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea.
Denmark exercised the right under Art. X of the Submarine Cables Convention. It’s been done only once before, by the USA in 1959.
“Chinese-flagged bulk carrier MV Yi Peng 3 appears to have deliberately dragged anchor to break two underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea.”
SINK THOSE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SHIPS FROM NOW ON. Get ready for other Chinese vessels to do the same to the other, more important, under sea communication cables.
EFF @EFF
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Jim Acosta on Trump’s non-mandate, “Republicans have repeatedly said that President-Elect Donald Trump has a quote, mandate after he won the presidential election. But take a look at the numbers. Trump has just under 50% of the popular vote.”
The guy who ran a major toilet scam is now Trump’s nominated US Ambassador to NATO. That is all.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-world-patent-marketing-scam
Donald Trump has selected billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education | American Federation of Teachers
https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-president-randi-weingarten-nomination-linda-mcmahon-secretary-education
Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon is being sued for allegedly enabling a pedophile to sexually abuse kids.
The victims’ lawyers have released video testimonies describing the abuse.
https://meidasnews.com/news/sexual-abuse-victims-speak-out-against-trump-campaigns-linda-mcmahon
Linda McMahon and her husband are being sued for knowing and failing to stop the sexual abuse of young boys. Only “The best people.”
MAGA is a death cult constructed by American traitors and Russian intelligence using psychological warfare. It’s about to take America over without firing a shot. If we do not intervene in the next 60 days, the United States will end.
WTF Donald Trump has decided to nominate TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.
Former @FBI assistant director of counterintelligence @FrankFigliuzzi1 just came up with a critically important, urgent, inspired and genius idea.
@POTUS @JoeBiden should *order* FBI background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks immediately.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-trump-cabinet-picks-fbi-background-checks-rcna180698
4,000 workers at the University of California San Francisco are on strike.
@UPTECWA healthcare, research, and technical professionals have walked out over unfair labor practices.
German car company taps Pittsburgh tech to deploy humanoids in factories
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2024/11/20/agility-robotics-humanoid-robot-digit-schaeffler/stories/202411200030
UnitedHealth used an algorithmic system to identify therapy overuse and then limited coverage to vulnerable Americans.
The practice was deemed illegal, but similar practices have continued due to a patchwork of regulation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm
If inspector general vacancies are allowed to remain, the executive branch will lack the internal expertise it needs to detect and eliminate corruption, waste and fraud. So it should be obvious why those posts need to be filled, now.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/letter-to-schumer-now-is-the-time-to-confirm-inspectors-general/
“Gaetz’s only experience in the criminal justice system is as a target of a federal criminal investigation.” – @JoyceWhiteVance
He’s no Arnold Palmer — Stormy Daniels
YOU ARE THE BRAND @mikepat711
Elon putting all his cards on the table openly for years has put him at such a massive advantage during this major pop culture shift occuring in USA.
So many major figures who have always had public and private opinions are being rapidly exposed for their bullshit. People like Kamala are avoiding long format, unfiltered environments where they know they will be forced to expose themselves for who they really are. Elon can go anywhere and say whatever he wants because that’s what he’s always done. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.This mofo always playing chess.
EDUCATION
Fun trivia.
The people who wrote our Constitution weren’t sure whether they were going to include a procedure for impeaching the President. Benjamin Franklin made the final argument to convince them.
Want to know how he changed their minds?
Franklin said, Imagine a president asked a foreign country to give him assistance in his effort to be reelected. That president would then be beholden to a foreign power.
That did it.
True story.
The idea of a president soliciting a foreign country to help in his reelection was such a massive abuse of presidential power that it convinced America’s founders we needed a way to remove such a president from office.
Just some fun trivia.
Danish Navy Detains Chinese Ship Over Baltic Cable Incident
The Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 was intercepted and detained by the Danish Navy in the Baltic Sea, suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea telecom cables. This incident has led to investigations by Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Lithuania, with the cables involved connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania. Authorities are examining whether this act was intentional sabotage.
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
A Danish Navy vessel boarded the Chinese cargo vessel Yi Ping after it was discovered it had destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea.
Denmark exercised the right under Art. X of the Submarine Cables Convention. It’s been done only once before, by the USA in 1959.
“Chinese-flagged bulk carrier MV Yi Peng 3 appears to have deliberately dragged anchor to break two underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea.”
SINK THOSE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SHIPS FROM NOW ON. Get ready for other Chinese vessels to do the same to the other, more important, under sea communication cables.
EFF @EFF
Love Privacy Badger? Be sure to donate to EFF today to support the project and to help us keep fighting on your side for years to come!
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4–s
Jim Acosta on Trump’s non-mandate, “Republicans have repeatedly said that President-Elect Donald Trump has a quote, mandate after he won the presidential election. But take a look at the numbers. Trump has just under 50% of the popular vote.”
The guy who ran a major toilet scam is now Trump’s nominated US Ambassador to NATO. That is all.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-world-patent-marketing-scam
Donald Trump has selected billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education | American Federation of Teachers
https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-president-randi-weingarten-nomination-linda-mcmahon-secretary-education
Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon is being sued for allegedly enabling a pedophile to sexually abuse kids.
The victims’ lawyers have released video testimonies describing the abuse.
https://meidasnews.com/news/sexual-abuse-victims-speak-out-against-trump-campaigns-linda-mcmahon
Linda McMahon and her husband are being sued for knowing and failing to stop the sexual abuse of young boys. Only “The best people.”
4,000 workers at the University of California San Francisco are on strike.
@UPTECWA healthcare, research, and technical professionals have walked out over unfair labor practices.
German car company taps Pittsburgh tech to deploy humanoids in factories
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2024/11/20/agility-robotics-humanoid-robot-digit-schaeffler/stories/202411200030
UnitedHealth used an algorithmic system to identify therapy overuse and then limited coverage to vulnerable Americans.
The practice was deemed illegal, but similar practices have continued due to a patchwork of regulation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm
If inspector general vacancies are allowed to remain, the executive branch will lack the internal expertise it needs to detect and eliminate corruption, waste and fraud. So it should be obvious why those posts need to be filled, now.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/letter-to-schumer-now-is-the-time-to-confirm-inspectors-general/
“Gaetz’s only experience in the criminal justice system is as a target of a federal criminal investigation.” – @JoyceWhiteVance
He’s no Arnold Palmer — Stormy Daniels
YOU ARE THE BRAND @mikepat711
Elon putting all his cards on the table openly for years has put him at such a massive advantage during this major pop culture shift occuring in USA.
So many major figures who have always had public and private opinions are being rapidly exposed for their bullshit. People like Kamala are avoiding long format, unfiltered environments where they know they will be forced to expose themselves for who they really are. Elon can go anywhere and say whatever he wants because that’s what he’s always done. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. This mofo always playing chess.
David Pepper @DavidPepper
It lost in all 120 counties. And by 60-40 or worse in all but 9 of those counties.
And—it did the worst in Kentucky’s smallestcounty: Robertson County. Population, 2,033 (as of 2023). It lost there 74-26!
ROAD TRIP: The Most Anti-Voucher County in Kentucky (and it voted for Trump 80-20)
A on lessons learned (way beyond education)
The Kentucky Amendment to add private school vouchers was absolutely routed: 65-35. (Trump won Kentucky 65-34).
Right Wing Watch@RightWingWatch
Appearing on a Christian nationalist podcast last night, Pete Hegseth said he’s creating a system of “classical Christian schools” to provide recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an “educational insurgency” across the nation.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/pete-hegseths-plan-create-christian-nationalist-educational-insurgency
These people don’t follow Jesus’ teachings. They are fascists using religion to subjugate people.In the past this would have been some whack job out in the boonies. This guy went to Harvard and Princeton. It doesn’t seem he’s cosplaying either, don’t think anyone would take an act so far as to get numerous tattoos. Dangerous threat as a private citizen, let alone as Secretary of Defense. Fuck this crazy motherfucker!
AND THERE IS MORE
One person died and at least 38 got sick after an E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots. And it’s all from one company.
Just two carrot suppliers control 60% of the market, so when one has a problem it has a huge impact. Corporate consolidation hurts us all.
Trump picks Dr. Oz, who lost 2022 PA Sen race, to lead the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid. Trump said Oz “will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency” suggesting cuts to the healthcare agencies are on the table
Matt Fleming, Florida Expert
@Matt_Fleming321
Lmfao. If he’s IN the white house, and Republicans have control of all 3 branches of government, who the fuck is going to stop him? The people acting like this isn’t going to be as bad as it is, are out to fucking lunch.
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Laurence Tribe ⚖️@tribelaw Nov 18
Don’t buy into the illusion that Trump has a mandate to trample the rule of law or ignore the Constitution. He does not. Under 1/3 of eligible voters picked Trump. That is no mandate but a narrow victory.
Jon Cooper There’s no doubt that the Trump tariffs (i.e., import taxes) and his harsh deportation policy will drive up consumer prices and lead to increased inflation — just as prices have leveled off and inflation has eased. The only question is whether MAGA cultists will blame Trump or find another scapegoat.
Supply chains and labor markets matter. Tariffs and deportations hit both. The question isn’t blame; it’s how to stop economic self-sabotage. ⚙️
Media of course will both-sides all his lies.
@PrezLives2022
Aww farmers are having a big cry now that they realize that all the cheap labor they had been using is in great danger of being deported. Now those farmers will actually have to pay a living wage and the prices of their goods will go through the roof. To the liberal farmers my sympathies to you…to the farmers who voted Trumpalways voting against your best interests.
“The idea of mass deportations is frightening and scary, just on a humane level,” dairy farmer Jennifer Tilton Flood reportedly said. “With regards to our community, mass deportations could affect our entire dairy industry throughout the U.S.”
45% of 2.2 million farm workers are migrants. That is damn near half the workers. Now our meat, dairy, vegetables, and fruits will have to be imported and Trump will put tariffs on that. Only in America can we put idiots in charge of the country.
@BalouCat
I’m afraid there’s more to it; several steps. Farmers will lose farms. Farms will be bought by corporations. Corporations will bring back cheap labor and/or robotics. They want to own everything from property, food, housing, transportation. You name it.Art Candee @ArtCandee
https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1858897685102674341
Word is that Donald Trump tapped Howard Lutnick to be his Secretary of Commerce.
Here’s a little about Howard…
Four days after the 9/11 attacks, Lutnick announced to public outcry that he would have to stop the paychecks of his nearly 700 employees who were missing or had died.
In 2014, Lutnick for quietly pocketed a chunk of the $135 million settlement his company received from American Airlines over negligence related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed more than almost 700 of his firm’s employees.
In 2014, a subsidiary of his Cantor Fitzgerald, CG Technology, had to pay $5.5 million to Nevada gaming regulators, the largest fine ever leveled against a casino or affiliated company, for an illegal betting operation that had accepted almost $35 million in illegal wagers.
In 2016, Lutnick’s CG Technology agreed to pay $22.5 million to the U.S. government for its role in an illegal gambling and money laundering scheme. In 2022, Lutnick was sued in a complaint that said he improperly got a $50 million bonus for “blowing smoke” that he’d added value to the company’s Newmark commercial real-estate unit.
For over a decade, Lutnick brought five separate lawsuits in federal and state courts, together seeking upward of $80 million from the city of Bridgehampton, New York, because they weren’t letting him build a barn and a basketball court on his property.
Lutnick has been taking major heat most recently over his massive investment in Tether……A cryptocurrency that’s popular with groups like Hamas. Only the very best people…right?
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