Point of View regarding Bitcoin and Coinbase

POV POINT OF VIEW

THANK YOU SATOSHI WHOEVER YOU ARE

This is only the beginning. We are in the Age of Digital Finance, where money and  software is native to the internet.
This is the single most important event in the history of money and humanity. It is optimism for everyone. Crypto redefines money and information, the two fundamental ways the world coordinates.

Think of Satoshi’s White paper and Bitcoin as a startup.

The public includes anyone who learned about investing in bitcoin.  Citizens around the world invested. People hoped to make bitcoin become accepted as something real – viable currency  – store of value. For the past 12 years they endured having  the startup go down and pronounced dead then watch it come back to life many, many times. This was a struggle for normal people, and a normal struggle that every startup expects to goes through.

Think of these normal people as investors who had to believe in something. They believed this bitcoin was a  way to change the world and make it better for mankind. This is exactly what they believed when they released the internet also. Satoshi’s white paper came after the 2008 world collapsed because of the disgusting bankers and politicians.  This idea could free everyone from a manipulated market where everything always crashed and only the .01% untouchable made  more money while never paying taxes.

The lone voice versus all the smart people across the table.

Think of all the years  the normies  told their friends and family about the opportunity  they had to make the world a better place, if they just bought bitcoin. And then be  told “no” – they would never do it- that it was garbage, a stupid scheme, con job, and that the law will come and shut it down. It would never be worth anything.

These initial normies, the investors, who managed to stay in the fight and endure the pressure of losing all their money happened over and over again through the years. Bitcoin never died.

Ironically,   the smart money is only getting in now cause that wasn’t legal for them to invest in the first place. Isn’t that funny?  Only the hoi polloi decided to buy bitcoin. Now all the “smart” money knows if crypto isn’t in their treasury the value of $$$$ USD puts them at risk, so they have to buy it!

This  is a very good result. This is the opportunity of lifetime. This is transformational wealth and  we get to  watch life change for everyday people who in the beginning had a good heart and wanted the internet to make the world a better place. ~ Amen

It’s like 1994 all over again. It is THAT exciting!!!!
From the Hippies in the 60’s who envisioned the internet and tried to make knowledge / information be free that created a blockchain financial platform that used the power of 1’s and 0’s  to free the digital energy  changed humanity.

Coinbase is unlike any market debut Wall Street has ever seen.

The Industrial Age

The money of humanity in the industrial age was  gold, silver, stocks and bonds artifacts left over from Monarchy,  Colonialism, Piracy and War.

The Internet is born

the first domains

The Digital Age

The The Dot.Com Era
Goggle 1997
May 15, 1997 Amazon an online bookstore held it’s IPO. It was valued at $438 million.  In 2017 it was the fourth largest public company in the United States with an annual revenue  that exceeds $150 billion.

The Information Age

Where the digitization of money built for the internet changes humanity forever.

CryptoEconomy is Born

Bitcoin is 12 years old.  Coinbase, was founded in 2012 has preliminary results for the first quarter of 2021, with revenue surging to US$1.8 billion. The IPO will trade under the ticker COIN and list 114,850,769 shares on the NASDAQ with an initial valuation of US $100 billion.

Coinbase’s rich valuation is tied to bitcoin and ethereum prices.

The long-term value of the company goes way beyond those two currencies and will come from a shift in the structure of finance and online marketplaces.

Coinbase Global Inc COIN:NASDAQ

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/COIN

Coinbase Global, Inc. is a financial technology company that provides end-to-end financial infrastructure and technology. It is primarily focused in building cryptoeconomy, a transparent financial system enabled by crypto that leverages crypto assets, a digital asset that is build using blockchain technology. Its platform enables approximately 43 million retail users, 7,000 institutions, and 115,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries to participate in the cryptoeconomy.

C/O The Corporation Trust Company
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, DE
19801 United States

https://www.coinbase.com/

Coinbase Current estimate

Coinbase shares will now open at $340, not $250 like widely expected. The last time “I” remember an IPO disparity this big was Amazon. If you had invested $10K in Amazon back then, you would have around $29 million today.

[was] Coinbase gets reference price of $250 per share from Nasdaq ahead of today’s direct listing

Nasdaq gave Coinbase a reference price of $250 a share ahead of Wednesday’s planned direct listing, which would value the cryptocurrency exchange at about $65.3 billion on a fully diluted basis.

Currently —-> $COIN Coinbase Global, Inc.  $337.28 3:20 pm 4/14/21 https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/coin

Coinbase is set to become the first major crypto business to go public in the U.S. and, should it reach a $100 billion market cap, will instantly be one of the country’s 85 most valuable companies. The company’s value has soared in the past year alongside bitcoin and ethereum, the primary currencies traded on the site.

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Why Bitcoin Could Rocket To $400,000 In 2021 ~ Forbes

Would you still think you were too late to buy #Bitcoin if you read that it was going to $1 million over the coming years?

Perspective “trickle-down economics”
Stock Market crashed 1929, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2007-08,

1997 Bernie Madoff was the perpetrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history.  He cheated clients out of billions of dollars.

2007-8
TARP, the federal government rescued hobbled financial institutions; it also assumed control of other agencies, like troubled mortgage-market-makers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 regulated swaps and other exotic investments for the first time and led to the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 

THE BANKERS AND POLITICIANS HAVE  ROLLED BACK & OVERTURNED ALL THE CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE BACK THEN.

2008 SATOSHI WHITE PAPER RELEASED

The COVID-19 Crash of 2020

The definition of inflation – has nothing to do with what THE BIS, IWF, Yellen, Powell or any politician tells you.

You know what inflation is when you have to buy food, buy energy, buy a house or a car. We know what inflation means.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on CNBC calls for Bitcoin to surpass gold market cap. “I think Bitcoin is on an inevitable path to have the same market capitalization and then a higher one than gold. It’s how fast adoption is happening. Adoption is happening faster than I had predicted.”

#FOMO = FEAR OF MISSING OUT #BITCOIN

PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG

Love,

ECP

Bitcoin should go into Pension Funds, and personal IRA’s

THE REVOLUTION
WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

IT WILL NOT BE CENTRALIZED

“Corporations – and thereby capitalism – are a direct product of the colonial exploitation of wealth from other nations. It was a legal assurance by the king that shareholder profits would be properly enforced by the sword or imprisonment. Cryptocurrencies don’t work this way.”

America’s Richest 1% Dodge Taxes On More Than A Fifth Of Their Income, Study Finds

Satoshi dropping the #Bitcoin whitepaper after the financial crisis of 2008…
Fiat value proposition: backed by government #Bitcoin value proposition: divorced from government

Since 2010 bitcoin has been announced as “dead”, “failed”,  or”worthless” .

Year-to-Date Performance: +100%

Historically April is a good month for Bitcoin.

If you don’t understand saving money for the long term, you can’t understand the value of #bitcoin.

Bitcoin is just getting started.

Bitcoin has now transferred over $4 trillion around the world without needing a bank, government, or company.

Bitcoin is now larger than the Australian Dollar (M1).

Did the bears really think billionaires would buy #Bitcoin and then do nothing to help adoption, stimulate interest & defend its value?

Banks offering products for bitcoin is incredible because they spent 10yrs campaigning the world to ban it. Visa using USDC via eth is amazing because that was always the benchmark. “how do we get to VISA size tps” Turns out, being able to reliably finalize is what was needed.

Tesla is using only internal & open source software & operates Bitcoin nodes directly. Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency.

Fidelity’s Christine Sandler is campaigning to make digital assets part of everyone’s lives. As the head of sales and marketing at Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS), the investment giant’s bitcoin custody and trade execution business for institutional customers, she’s bridging gaps between old and new finance one partnership at a time—with clients, other companies and her own colleagues. In 2018, Sandler had come out of her two-year retirement to become head of institutional sales at Coinbase. She’d first learned about cryptocurrency years earlier in 2011.

Brazil officially has a 100% Bitcoin ETF approved by the regulators. Yes, one of the biggest exchanges in the world will have a Bitcon ETF

Bitcoin Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) Are Growing Fast; What Should Investors Know?

The New Zealand Pension Fund announced a $ 17.5 million bitcoin (BTC) investment in October
It has emerged that a New Zealand fund manager invested $ 17.5 million worth of Bitcoin in October 2020, when BTC was around $10,000. According to James Grigor, the company’s Chief Investment Officer, KiwiSaver Growth Strategy recently invested 5% of its money in Bitcoin.While several investors from KiwiSaver are unhappy with the decision, Grigor believes Bitcoin has become a commodity similar to gold and has many similar features, such as working as a store of value against Fiat hyperinflation. The official told New Zealand news agency stuff:“If you’re happy to invest in gold, you don’t see a discount for Bitcoin.”

Bitcoin is better than gold, it is easier to store, and easier to move.

MIAMI Mayor Francis Suarez @FrancisSuarez @MiamiMayor  @cityofMiami
Francis Suarez says the city should become a “clean energy” mining hub. The United States is able to improve Bitcoin’s environmental issues by providing a clean energy supply that’s “essentially unlimited,” Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has claimed. Francis Suarez believes that mining firms could benefit from Miami’s clean nuclear power sources. Miami is also exploring the possibility of paying employee salaries in Bitcoin. U.S. needs to mine more #bitcoin due to national security reasons, Miami mayor says. Miami Dade are sure to approve. The largest Bitcoin conference has moved to Miami, from LA and will take place in June. “Miami will always strive to be ahead of the curve. Expanding the financial freedom of Miamians is the first step forward towards our modern economy. The Miami mayor has also talked with local utility companies about providing #Bitcoin mining incentives. “Visions of Bitcoin City. Last month, the Republican mayor suggested Miami pay municipal workers and accept tax payments in Bitcoin, as well as invest city funds in the cryptocurrency. Local officials have agreed to study the proposals.”

Brazil’s central bank is revving up its years long effort to bust up the country’s clubby banking industry, using a pandemic-driven shift toward touchless payments to launch its own digital platform. The payment system, dubbed Pix, was set up and is maintained by the central bank instead of private payments players, unlike similar systems in other countries.

89% of bitcoin has already been mined!

Texas chases after Wyoming with crypto law proposal, but challenges remain

DIRTY GOLD
“This isn’t just some two-square-mile area; it’s an area five times the size of New York City, and the area is remote,” reporting on the subsistence mining community behind a multibillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy out of Peru.

EVERY CITY SHOULD ADD BITCOIN TO ITS BALANCE SHEET

  • Philadelphia Mayor should do the exact same thing, Tell the University of Pennsylania to use their computers to do it.
  • Pennsylvania State should do the exact same thing and give free tuition the everyone in the State.
  • Detroit Mayor should do the exact same thing.
  • Kentucky is doing it with coal – because of course they are.
  • NY City should do this immediately – ask the University to set this up for the city.

The Miami Heat and cryptocurrency exchange @FTX_Official have agreed to a $135M naming-rights deal for their arena. FTX will be the first crypto exchange to sponsor a major US professional sports venue. The world is changing.

Bitcoin’s mining hash rate just hit a new ATH

Bitcoin up today but stocks are down, why? Wall Street fked up again. Large hedge fund had margin called and got $30B liquidated last Friday. Caused major sell-offs last week. The ripple effect is continuing.

Banks warn of ‘significant losses’ as they exit positions with large U.S. hedge fund

SEC Commissioner Explains Why A Delayed Bitcoin ETF Has Consequences
My view has been that we’re overdue on approving one of these things. I also think we’ve dug ourselves into a bit of a difficult hole by setting standards for approval that are difficult to figure out how to satisfy. So I really don’t know where we’re going to go. I think that a new chairman with a fresh perspective can be helpful in rethinking the approach to approving exchange-traded products. What the price of bitcoin is doing is really not the business of the SEC. That’s not what we look at when we’re looking at other underlying markets.  MicroStrategy has returned about 600% to investors over the last nine months.

Michael Saylor ~ If you believe everyone has a natural right to life, liberty, and property, then it is only a matter of time before you believe in #Bitcoin

CFO of Square
“There’s a case for every balance sheet to have #Bitcoin on it.”
“Bitcoin is expanding access to financial services, especially when you think more globally. In January we had 1 million new customers to bitcoin alone”

Ark Invest CEO on Bitcoin: “1 Trillion is Nothing” Compared to Future Growth
“If we add all of the potential demand relative to the limited supply, we come up with incredible numbers over the long term. We have just begun. One trillion dollars is nothing compared to where this ultimately will be.” She stated that one of the most surprising developments for the cryptocurrency was the massive surge in institutional demand. As the United States economy faces inflationary pressures with potential interest rate hikes by 2023, analysts have predicted the dollar to depreciate.

“Aren’t central bank digital currencies competitive with Bitcoin?”
The Final Boss: Bitcoin vs Central Bank Digital Currencies

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund owns #Bitcoin. Temasek, a $306 billion Singapore sovereign wealth fund has been stacking #bitcoin since 2018.

Bitcoin Mining on almost-stranded hydro power to fund gorilla and nature protection in a big national park. Yes.

The Blocksize War – Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that works and will ever work get it through your thick fucking skulls already. Someday soon, every company and jurisdiction in the world will hold bitcoin.
Every #Bitcoin base layer tx involves 3 participants:
1) sender
2) receiver
3) miners

The miners are therefore the “3rd party”, and if they were trusted, they would be a security hole.
Thankfully, minimizing miner counterparty risk has a huge part of #Bitcoin protocol design. We don’t talk about the miners as counterparties often because the mining market is so healthy & competitive today that the risk of them 1) censoring txs or 2) reverting txs is negligible.

The market likes trustless miners. We have #UASF to thank for that.

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Purchasing Power of the Consumer Dollar in U.S. City Average

Government regulation increases economic growth. Who knew?

We want to get paid in Bitcoin! Pay me in Bitcoin.

 

AND ALSO

Hedy Lamarr – invented and patented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology for missile guidance in WW2 that became the foundation of all of our Antenna with bars wifi Antenna with bars technology today. Happy women’s history month

Civil Procedure Bonanza Results in Big Loss for Corporations

NYPD officers are no longer protected from civil lawsuits after city council passes police reform legislation

EVER GIVEN (MMSI: 353136000)

 

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TAXES

Mr. Biden campaigned on increasing the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, raising the top individual tax rate from 37% to 39.6% and increasing capital gains taxes on people who earn more than $1 million per year.

BITCOIN

Milton Friedman predicts the rise of Bitcoin in 1999!

Milton Friedman – Rights of Workers (Q&A)

The mainstream press has declared Bitcoin “dead” at least 500 times over its existence. They’ve been wrong every single time.

December close: $28,992
January close: $33,141
February close: $45,240
March 17 price: $55,000
We are only 3.5 months into the #bitcoin bull market.

Bitcoin is worth more than Visa and Mastercard put together, not to mention the world’s 3 biggest banks

Why central banks around the world want to get into digital currencies — And so it begins… At first, a mere crack.
A French parliament member has signed a petition to amend the legal guidelines to allow the central financial institution of France to purchase and maintain bitcoin in addition to different cryptocurrencies. The petition urges lawmakers to urgently take into account the matter, warning that not proudly owning bitcoin will put France “in a financially weak place inside 5-10 years.”

The Banks will be begging for bitcoin.

ENERGY

Federal Reserve’s Digital Dollar Push Worries Wall Street

3 bitcoin-mining experts explain why concerns around the cryptocurrency’s massive energy consumption are overblown

#MoscowMitch Kentucky poised to approve tax, energy incentives for cryptocurrency mining -THEY ARE BURNING COAL

Bitcoin uses more energy than American Airlines and each $1 billion in inflows is equal to owning 1.2 million cars, Bank of America says.
In 2019, American Airlines spent $9.395 billion on fuel to generate $3.065 billion in operating income. Energy intensity is 306% vs. 1% for #Bitcoin The primary use of BTC energy is to protect $1 trillion+ network assets.

Colorado’s legal cannabis farms emit more carbon than its coal mines

“Quantifying #Bitcoin’s Carbon Emissions” by @BryceWeiner addresses the network’s power consumption in terms of renewable and nonrenewable sources.
One cannot solve a problem before one quantifies it.
Note: I *explained* my work but I did not *show* my work. This will force any detractors to perform the calculations on their own, which provides a basis by which any discussion might be had as to its accuracy from a position of direct knowledge.
Also note: this method can be applied to any network using any consensus method provided a proper engineering review is performed to identify the exact computer instructions required to complete a calculation.
Imagine thinking there’s a more noble purpose for that electricity than providing the means to exit the capitalist death machine.

REPUBLICANS ARE A LEPER COLONY

Nearly Half Of All Americans, Including Most Republicans, Say They Would Not Get Covid-19 Vaccine

US prison guards refusing vaccine despite COVID-19 outbreaks

Opposing the Vaccines: GOP has a Serious Health Issue

Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months before First COVID-19 Cases in Wuhan, China

Congressman calls for service members, veterans who stormed the Capitol to be stripped of benefits

FBI Director Wray Interview: Capitol Attack, Atlanta Shootings

New Proud Boys Charles Donohoe and Zach Rehl Busted for Capitol Riot Have Wild Police Ties

“A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Fox News Network Producer Eric Spinato COVID DEAD !
Media CEO Suzanne Scott, Fox News president Jay Wallace, and Fox Business president Lauren Petterson spreading covid lies.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/media/fox-business-network-producer-eric-spinato-death/index.html

DOJ official says there is evidence to charge sedition in U.S. Capitol assault

70% of voters support the Equality Act even as Senate Republicans try to stop it

DARK MONEY

The Money Trail to the Siege at the Capitol Leads to Charles Koch and Koch Industries

The IRS Now Audits Poor Americans at About the Same Rate as the Top 1%

The IRS collects just 39% of taxes owed by millionaire tax evaders. Tax evasion is usually a rich-people thing because regular people get taxes taken from their paycheck. If we collected what rich people legally owe, we could cut taxes for everyone else.

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who has written extensively on the corrupting influence of dark money on American democracy, chairs that Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights.
https://harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/05/Sen.-Whitehouse_Dark-Money.pdf

Lisa Graves, President of the Center for Media and Democracy, that was presented at this hearing, there would be no doubt in their minds that the Federal court system in the United States has been obscenely corrupted by dark money, coming predominantly from fossil fuels billionaire Charles Koch and his dark money network.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Testimony-of-Lisa-Graves-on-Dark-Money-Corrupting-the-Courts-March-10-2021.pdf

France to return Klimt painting sold under duress during Nazi era

Koch’s political arm, Americans for Prosperity (AFP)
“AFP is only one part of the influence machine Koch Industries’ CEO has built up to capture the Supreme Court—and, with it, the meaning of our Constitution. The network he funds includes the Federalist Society a pro-corporate anti-regulatory agenda. Leonard Leo, the Co-Chairman of the Koch-funded Federalist Society. Graves says that “more than $400 million” was received by this dark money network between 2014 and 2018.

Graves list the following as part of the dark money judicial nominations influence network, in addition to the Federal Society:

“CRC Advisors. In 2020, Leo announced he was moving from executive vice president to co-chair of the Federalist Society to lead a for-profit company called CRC Advisors. It advises wealthy donors on judicial appointments, state officials, and policies. Its CEO is Leo’s friend Greg Mueller, who led Creative Response Concepts (CRC), a public relations firm that Koch groups have hired. CRC has been a major contractor of the Federalist Society since at least 2007 and has been paid by numerous Leo organizations in recent years. Jonathan Bunch serves as its executive director and is a former Federalist Society staffer, according to a CRC press release.

“Judicial Crisis Network/Concord Fund. After the 2004 election, the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) was conceived at a small dinner party Leo attended with Neil Corkery and others. Justice Antonin Scalia was a guest. Launched as the Judicial Confirmation Network, it was created in anticipation of the Supreme Court vacancies that George W. Bush ultimately filled with Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Corkery was one of three original board members, with Gary Marx (a Ralph Reed operative) and James Hirsen (an advisor to Mel Gibson’s splinter Traditionalist sect). Corkery has acted as a treasurer of several Leo-linked groups, in addition to helping to lead the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage.

“JCN is led by Carrie Severino, a protégé of Leo’s who used to clerk for Justice Thomas, out of the Federalist Society office. But, according to a former media relations director for Leo, ‘The JCN is Leonard Leo’s PR organization—nothing more and nothing less.’ The groups serves as a major conduit of money to the Republican Attorneys General Association, its sister group the Rule of Law Defense Fund, and the Republican State Leadership Committee (which has spent millions to try to capture state Supreme Courts, including on hundreds of thousands of ads in 2020).

“During the Trump administration, JCN received massive infusions of cash from one donor, whose identity was not made public. Subsequently filings by a group called the Wellspring Committee, discussed below, showed it provided similarly large grants to JCN, and Wellspring in turn received most of its funding from a single secret source. For example, in 2018, Wellspring made a $17.1M anonymous donation to Judicial Crisis Network (78% of total revenue of $22M in dark money that year). The year before that, it made a $21.5M anonymous donation to JCN (84% of revenue of $25.6M in dark money that year).

“Wellspring Committee. The group was created and run by Ann and Neil Corkery. Its origins are in the Koch donor network. Then, after Justice Scalia died, it got more than $28 million from one donor. In 2016-17, it gave JCN $38 million, as JCN blocked [Obama nominee Merrick] Garland and backed Gorsuch. After much scrutiny and Kavanaugh was confirmed, it closed its doors. In all, it gave JCN more than $58 million.

“Rule of Law Trust. As Wellspring was being closed down, Neil Corkery created this group in 2018. Leo is listed as its only trustee, and almost all its known expenses are related to BH Group reimbursements, another Leo group. Rule of Law Trust brought in three contributions (possibly from one, two, or three individuals) totaling $80 million in 2018. It distributed two grants in 2019: $500,000 to People United for Privacy and $895,000 to America Engaged.

“America Engaged. Leo is this group’s president, and Bunch is a director. Other board members are C. Boyden Gray and Todd Graves, a former state attorney general. It has given nearly $4 million to Charles Koch’s Freedom Partners. In 2017, it gave nearly $1 million to the NRA as it backed Gorsuch.

“Judicial Education Project/85 Fund. This is a Neil Corkery entity tied to Leo. JEP’s other fictitious names are the ‘Law and Policy Forum’ and the ‘Honest Elections Project’ (HEP), which has been criticized for peddling voter fraud claims. JEP has filed amicus briefs in Severino’s name siding with Trump on emoluments, and in cases on abortion, the Affordable Care Act, Deferred Action for Parents of Dreamers, the Voting Rights Act, and attacks on workers.

“BH Group, LLC. This was created by Corkery after Scalia died. As of the last known publicly filing, Leo controls 35% of it, and he has been listed as an employee. Since 2016, it received $2.37 million from JCN and $2 million from JEP. It also contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Wellspring gave it over $1.5 million for PR, yet it does not have a website.

“BH Fund. Leo is the president; Bunch is a director. It was launched with a secret $24 million donor and gave $20 million to George Mason University’s law school, securing Scalia’s name and Leo’s special influence.

“Freedom and Opportunity Fund. Leo is president, with Graves and Bunch on the board. It gave $4 million to the Independent Women’s Voice as it sought to keep Scalia’s vacancy open and supported the Gorsuch nomination. It received $400,000 from BH Group in 2017

The Federalist Society, Dark Money, and Trump’s Court – Pittsburgh Current

The Koch Coup: Charles Koch’s Political Machine Bankrolled Senators Who Will Attempt to Steal Election for Trump Tomorrow

The White Republican Political Machine

And there it is – election machine rigging claims by supporters of #TheBigLie determined “not credible.”

Investigation finds Pennsylvania postal worker’s mail-in ballot fraud allegation was hogwash.

Italy Can Evict Steve Bannon’s School for Far-Right ‘Gladiators’ From an 800-Year-Old Monastery, the Country’s Top Court Rules

The world abandoned COVID-19’s best antidote: Whistleblowers

278 GOP Lawmakers Voted for Trump Tax Scam, But 0 Voted for Covid Relief

Facebook Has Found a New Way to Ruin Media

$1.3 Trillion ‘Pandemic Profits’ of US Billionaires Could Pay for Two-Thirds of Biden Covid Relief Plan

Republican Racist Idiot Arizona GOP lawmaker John Kavanagh says ‘quality’ of vote should matter!

Rep. Paul Gosar’s siblings say he’s a white supremacist — but his GOP colleagues stay silent

Belief in white Jesus linked to racism

“Original Black Panther Party speak out in Minneapolis”

“Huge Victory”: Black Farmers Hail $5B in New COVID Relief Law to Redress Generations of Racism

ALSO TRUE

DoNotPay can file unemployment claims for every state

Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland

Scientists claim feeding cows seaweed could slash their methane emissions by a staggering 82 percent

Maine Dairy Drivers Settle Overtime Case That Hinged On An Absent Comma

SolarWinds Hack Compromises U.S. Courts Electronic Filings

A hacker who exposed Verkada’s surveillance camera snafu has been raided

Biden administration to cancel $1 billion in student-loan debt held by scammed borrowers

Biden’s Education Secretary cancels debt for about 72,000 students

Top NATO Scientist With Security Clearance Busted Spying for China

Most Americans say prosecuting Capitol rioters is ‘very important’

Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds

The world — as you know it—  is going to change in the next several weeks.
Bitcoin acceptance in the USA officially gets the green light tremendous accomplishment.

This is confirmation the 4th largest U.S. Investment Bank is gonna start shilling #bitcoin to its WEALTHIEST clients. Getting in bed with the very bankers that crypto is trying to disrupt.

 

BUT Bitcoin is for everybody!

The optics that somehow $BTC is only suitable for wealthy investors stinks everyone needs to own some. Hopefully retail of every level already knows they can enter and that institutional adoption gives credence to adoption. everyday people don’t need permission they can  buy at levels $1 and above including within their IRA.

Galaxy is thrilled to partner with Morgan Stanley, the first US bank to offer Wealth Management clients access to bitcoin funds.

WOW! Morgan Stanley is bringing two bitcoin funds to their platform. Galaxy Digital and NYDIG will both be onboarding millions of people to bitcoin via the largest US brokerage. Morgan Stanley is in the game. Bitcoin is inevitable.

That Morgan Stanley would offer access to an NYDIG fund is perhaps unsurprising, given that the Wall Street bank was among those to participate in NYDIG’s $200 million growth capital round earlier this month.

NYDIG’s CEO, Robby Gutmann, said during a podcast appearance earlier this week that “[i]n the next week, you’ll see game-changing milestones for bitcoin adoption in the financial landscape.”

“Galaxy is thrilled to partner with Morgan Stanley, the first US bank to offer wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds,” Galaxy founder Mike Novogratz said in a tweet after the news broke.

Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds

Galaxy is thrilled to partner with Morgan Stanley, the first US bank to offer Wealth Management clients access to bitcoin funds.

$2.3 trillion wealth manager Morgan Stanley has alerted its legion of ~16,000 wealth advisors that it will offer accredited clients access to Bitcoin-related funds. Source at the bank says it could offer access to at least one fund by NYDIG or Galaxy Digital.
The investment bank told its financial advisors Wednesday in an internal memo that the bank is launching access to three funds that enable ownership of bitcoin, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Two of the funds on offer are from Galaxy Digital, the crypto firm founded by Mike Novogratz, while the third is a joint effort from asset manager FS Investments and bitcoin company NYDIG.
The bank is only allowing its wealthier clients access to the volatile asset: The bank considers it suitable for people with “an aggressive risk tolerance” who have at least $2 million in assets held by the firm. Investment firms need at least $5 million at the bank to qualify for the new stakes. Investment firms need at least $5 million at the bank to qualify for the new stakes. In either case, the accounts have to be at least six months old.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/bitcoin-morgan-stanley-is-the-first-big-us-bank-to-offer-wealthy-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds.html