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ECP NetHappenings Why Bitcoin will take over the World

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WHY BITCOIN WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD

While Homo sapiens sapiens actively (and prolifically) collected seashells and fashioned them into beads for jewelry, Neanderthals essentially did not.
The last time a commodity was started it was in the 1800s and it was oil.
First, a commodity is appreciated by a small portion of the group and becomes a collectible. Then, the broader society starts to recognize that some of their peers value that commodity, and suddenly that commodity takes on inter-subjective value. Everyone knows that commodity is valued by some, so everyone knows it has market value, and therefore everyone begins to value it. Finally, once this commodity is the de facto currency for all trade, everything becomes priced in terms of that commodity — it is now the unit-of-account, or numeraire, for that society.
The hidden economic purpose of shell bead jewelry
When “Shelling Out” was written, we had not yet found any evidence of Neanderthal shell bead jewelry. Now, there appears to be a single example from a coastal cave in Spain. In addition, there are sparse examples of Neanderthals and other archaic humans collecting fossils, quartz, and other curios. This suggests that, intellectually, they had the capacity to recognize the specialness of uncommon materials, and even to engage in symbolic behavior (as we’ve already explored with cave art), but only on a limited basis. It’s not that they were incapable artists and craftsmen, just that they seem to have had a dim interest or drive to engage in these behaviors.This odd quirk appears to be the notable behavioral difference between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. Indeed, it may explain why we are here and they are not.
https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/once-in-a-species-73b

@stephendpalleyMay 5
The best explanation I’ve ever read of why Stablecoins are a good thing, something that anyone who cares about both consumer protection and the rule of law should support. Democratic Party opposition makes no sense.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1918806189548110135.html

The Richest People in Bitcoin
Bitcoin Wealth Estimates by Xavior

1️⃣ Satoshi Nakamoto: ~1,100,000 BTC ($71.5B)
2️⃣ MicroStrategy (Saylor): ~190,000 BTC ($12.3B)
3️⃣ Winklevoss Twins: ~150,000 BTC ($9.8B)
4️⃣ Tim Draper: ~120,000 BTC ($7.8B)
5️⃣ Barry Silbert: ~78,000 BTC ($5.1B)
6️⃣ CZ (Binance): ~70,000 BTC ($4.5B)
7️⃣ Brian Armstrong: ~60,000 BTC ($3.9B)
8️⃣ Tesla/X (Musk): ~43,000 BTC ($2.8B)
9️⃣ Matthew Roszak: ~35,000 BTC ($2.3B)
10 a16z: ~31,000 BTC ($2.0B)

According to the latest 13F filing, as of March 31, Goldman Sachs held 30.8 million shares of IBIT valued at $1.4 billion and 3.47 million shares of FBTC valued at $250 million. Compared to the December 31 filing, IBIT holdings increased by 6.8 million shares, while FBTC remained largely unchanged. Goldman Sachs is now the largest holder of IBIT globally.

FEDERAL RESERVE / BIS / WEF

How Central Banks Plan to Control You | Catherine Fitts

$21 Trillion dollars is missing from the U.S. government. That is $65,000 per person—as much as the national debt! https://missingmoney.solari.com/


Print a single dollar and you’re a counterfeiter. Print trillions and you’re the Federal Reserve.
Debt Bombshell: U.S. Interest Payments Soar to $1.1 Trillion in Q1, Devouring 35% of Tax Revenue, Exceeding National Defense Spending.
oreign Demand for U.S. Treasuries COLLAPSES as America Faces Record Debt Rollovers ($7 Trillion) and a $1.9 Trillion Deficit in 2025 alone.
The buyers are gone, the bills are due, and the clock just struck midnight. The BIG PRINT is upon us.
FIAT is the ponzi. If printing money helps the economy, counterfeiting should be legal.
You’re not too late for #Bitcoin. You’re still ahead of 99.99% of nations, 99.97% of corporations, and 99% of individuals. We are ridiculously early.

HEALTH

BREAKING:
Top Virologists Warn World to Prepare for Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic
Top virologists from 40 countries warn of growing H5N1 bird flu pandemic risk; urge stronger global defenses as virus could kill 1 in every 2 people it infects.

Psychedelics may boost mental health by dampening inflammation
Psychedelic drugs like MDMA and psilocybin may help treat depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions by reducing the number of inflammatory cells around the brain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2479069-psychedelics-may-boost-mental-health-by-dampening-inflammation/

POPE

The Federalist probably hate the New Pope
Alina Habba is the daughter of the US Chancellor of the fascist Knights of Malta
https://cyberplayground.org/2024/09/06/alina-habba-is-the-daughter-of-the-us-chancellor-of-the-fascist-knights-of-malta/

James Tate @JamesTate121
As the Vatican mourned Pope Francis, U.S. conservative Catholics launched an aggressive push to influence the papal election — but it may have backfired.
During “America Week,” wealthy Catholic donors hosted VIP events in Rome, with promises of $1 billion in donations if the “right pope” was elected. Groups like the Napa Institute, a MAGA-aligned network, led the charge. This wasn’t their first attempt: back in 2018, Napa’s founder Tim Busch helped fund the “Red Hat Report,” using former FBI and CIA agents to dig up dirt on progressive cardinals seen as potential successors to Francis, particularly regarding abuse cases.

US conservative Catholics wine and dine cardinals ahead of conclave to elect the pope
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/us-conservative-catholics-wine-and-dine-cardinals-ahead-conclave-elect-pope

DEMOCRATS

Stephen Miller says the Trump admin is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus.
Habeas corpus refers to people’s right to challenge their detention in court.

Here’s a list of the Senate Democrats who voted to confirm Kristi Noem for DHS.

Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.)

Remember that, when the next 9/11 happens.

According to Bloomberg, the Trump administration plans to initiate trade talks with around 20 countries, including Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, the UK, India, Argentina, and Switzerland, aiming to establish template agreements for future negotiations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that U.S.-China talks will begin this weekend, with a potential tariff reduction from 145% to 80% under consideration.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-09/trump-s-priority-list-for-tariff-talks-homes-in-on-around-20-economies

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ECP NetHappenings The Flood of Capital Is How Bitcoin Wins

BITCOIN

FiatHawk @FiatHawk
https://x.com/FiatHawk/status/1916135781598695858

The Flood of Capital Is How Bitcoin Wins

“Money flows where it is treated best.”

This is the iron law of capital. Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian economist, warned: *“Inflation is a policy, a deliberate act of governments to expropriate wealth.” Fiat is failing. Not by accident, but by design. And as the world awakens to this slow-motion theft, capital is flooding into Bitcoin, the hardest money humanity has ever created.

The purists scream co-option. The cyberpunks wail about Wall Street. But they’ve missed the point. Bitcoin was never meant to be a fringe rebellion. It was meant to win.

Friedrich Hayek saw it coming: “We can’t take money from the state. We must steal it back, through something they can’t stop.” Bitcoin is that theft. A silent rebellion in code. Wall Street isn’t co-opting it. They’re surrendering to it.

Store of value comes first. Always.

Wealth seeks preservation above all. The wealthy, the institutions, the sovereigns, they’re not fools. They see the cracks. The rigged game. They flee to absolute scarcity. To the one asset that can’t be inflated, seized, or corrupted. Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School, knew: “Money emerges not by decree, but by necessity.” Bitcoin is that necessity.

This isn’t betrayal. This is validation.

Medium of exchange comes next.

When trillions sit in Bitcoin, spending it becomes inevitable. Liquidity breeds liquidity. Networks explode. Milton Friedman nailed it: “Only government can take good paper and ink and make them worthless.” Fiat’s fragility is Bitcoin’s fuel.

Unit of account is the endgame.

When your coffee costs 100 sats, the old system is dead. But first, the flood. The capital. The reckoning. Nick Szabo, cryptographer and Bitcoin forefather, said it plainly: “Bitcoin is resistance, censorship-proof, confiscation-proof.”

So when BlackRock’s ETF goes live, when @jackmallers follows @saylor’s lead, when corporate treasuries bleed into Bitcoin, save your tears.

This is how Bitcoin wins. Not with manifestos, but with the deafening roar of capital fleeing a burning fiat regime.

As @saylor himself puts it: “The apex property of the human race. The first asset harder than steel.”

The revolution was never about basement-dwelling rebels. It was about building something so bulletproof, so unignorable, that even kings and hedge funds kneel.

The flood is here.

Bitcoin is the ark.

You’re either on board or underwater.

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Don’t worry about buying at the top. You’re buying at future lows.

ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin 4-15-25

HERE IT IS 
Everything that FDR did to protect the nation from the unholy rule of the robber barons is being undone by the new Robber Barons and the Democrats don’t have a strategic message or plan for that!!

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BITCOIN IS YOUR BEST DEFENSE

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Cory Klippsten’s claim that owning 1 Bitcoin puts you in the top 0.01% of the global population is close to accurate. Data shows about 955,546 Bitcoin addresses hold at least 1 Bitcoin, which is roughly 0.012% of 8 billion people. This is slightly higher than 0.01% (800,000 people), likely due to some individuals owning multiple addresses. For practical purposes, the claim holds, as the difference is minor. Owning 1 Bitcoin indeed places you among a rare group, similar to the exclusivity Cory describes.

On average, for every population of 10,000 people who hold BTC, only 1 is a WholeCoiner. One Bitcoin is future generational wealth.

“Wholecoiner” objectively
“Bitcoiner” is subjective
Only when we start talking in sats will people start to understand what an accomplishment 1 Bitcoin is. Stack sats or stay poor. Simple math.
1 BTC = financial sovereignty. Everything else is noise.

Wholecoiners are in the 99.99 percentile.
Like scoring a perfect SAT, solving a Rubik’s Cube in under 5 seconds, typing 180 WPM without errors, or deadlifting 900 pounds.
If you own 1 Bitcoin you are in the top 1% of the top 1% of Bitcoin holders on Earth.
Between ~700k and 1.1M ppl with a whole coin depending on your assumptions. 8 billion humans.
Every wholecoiner is 1 in 10,000
note: most people hold 0.00000000 Bitcoin. the denominator in the stat above is all 8 billion people on Earth.

“THERE IS NO ISSUER. BTC IS AN INTRINSIC STORE OF VALUE.”
TRUMP DIGITAL ASSET DIRECTOR EXPLAINS WHY US RESERVE IS #BITCOIN ONLY

!!!! Bitcoin is a protocol, like IP. !!!!!!
Good luck supplanting the Internet of Money.
Tokenization is at best incremental improvements to financial IT, and does not need any other shit coin to function.

Powell: Fed prepared to use a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes, at essentially no cost – RTRS
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1301896003306610690/pu/vid/480×270/3s3S4NAjqXZ8_ECu.mp4

Dump all the US gold for 5M #Bitcoin and demonetize enemy gold reserves to zero – Michael Saylor
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1899074764934651904/vid/avc1/490×270/lKfpVAuT7pEPji9m.mp4?tag=16

2023: Bitcoin crashes to $16k
2025: Bitcoin crashes to $85k
Soon: #Bitcoin crashes to $600k

Deutsche Bank Backs US Bitcoin Reserve, Sees Strategic Role in Financial Strategy March 10, 2025
IT COULD CHANGE “INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS” FOR GLOBAL RESERVES

BANKS have a GREENLIGHT to USE Crypto!
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
News Release 2025-16
March 7, 2025
OCC Clarifies Bank Authority to Engage in Certain Cryptocurrency
Activities
https://www.occ.treas.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2025/nr-occ-2025-16.html
The OCC just published a new Interpretative Letter, setting a new course for federal banks engaging in crypto activities.
– Clears federal banks to custody crypto assets, hold stablecoin reserves, and serve as blockchain verification nodes, without prior OCC nonobjection.
– Simplifies oversight by cutting unnecessary regulatory hurdles, retiring outdated approval requirements.
– Equips banks to innovate, with solid risk management still in place.
An important step for the financial system’s next chapter.

BLACKROCK JUST BOUGHT $37 MILLION WORTH OF #BITCOIN FOR ITS IBIT ETF — THE INSTITUTIONS ARE BACK

GERMANY’S RULING PARTY, THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION, PLEDGES TO PASS PRO #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO POLICY
“WE ARE COMMITTED TO A MODERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND FUNDAMENTALLY OPEN TO CRYPTO.”

PUBLIC JAPANESE REAL ESTATE FIRM VALUE CREATION TO BUY ¥100 MILLION WORTH OF #BITCOIN
“IT’S CLEAR BTC IS NO LONGER SPECULATIVE. IT’S DIGITAL GOLD.”

SWEDISH MP FILES FORMAL REQUEST FOR THE COUNTRY TO EVALUATE A NATIONAL STRATEGIC #BITCOIN RESERVE
THE FINANCE MINISTER MUST NOW RESPOND

BITWISE CIO SAYS #BITCOIN IS HEADED TO $1 MILLION ON $1 TRILLION WORTH OF INSTITUTIONAL BUYING
“ITS NOT THAT HARD TO IMAGINE BTC AT $1 MILLION OR MORE.”

VAN ECK CEO SAYS #BITCOIN COULD BECOME 5% OF GLOBAL TRADE
“COUNTRIES WILL USE BTC AS AN INTERMEDIARY CURRENCY.”

SENATOR LUMMIS TELLS COINDESK #BITCOIN’S MARKET CAP WILL GROW TO $200 TRILLION – $9.5 MILLION PER BTC
“I DONT WANT TO SAVE IN DOLLARS.”
7 CONGRESSMEN ARE NOW ENDORSING SENATOR LUMMIS’ PLAN TO BUY 1 MILLION #BITCOIN AMERICA WANTS TO BUY BTC

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE TREASURER SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL “FOLLOW THROUGH” ON #BITCOIN RESERVE PROMISES AND THAT STATES WILL INVEST “THE SKY IS THE LIMIT FOR BTC.”

SHAREHOLDERS SEND PROPOSAL FOR $165 BILLION INTUIT TO START BUYING #BITCOIN. THEY HAVE $2.5 BILLION IN CASH

Bitcoin Reserve Strategic reserve:
First they ignore you,
then the laugh at you
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

Trump’s tariff shock has plunged the U.S. into chaos.
The numbers don’t lie:  $9 trillion in wealth vanished
— The S&P 500’s 18.9% plunge since April 2 wiped out retirement savings for millions, dwarfing the early 2008 crash.
Middle-class families face a $58,000 hit
— Tariffs could gut lifetime earnings, forcing parents to choose between groceries and college funds.
— 47% chance of U.S. recession — JPMorgan warns Trump’s trade war has pushed the economy to the edge.
— 57 countries retaliate
— Global backlash threatens $330B in U.S. Treasury demand, putting the dollar’s dominance at risk.  Volatility index at pandemic levels — CBOE’s VIX spike signals investor panic. This isn’t a dip—it’s a derailment.

4/2/25 94.5% of the 21 million bitcoin has now been mined.
Only 5.5% left to be mined over the next 115 years! ⛏️
https://x.com/w_s_bitcoin/status/1907423798309122064

The moment that something aspirational becomes cheap or easy to have, it ceases to be aspirational. This whole status game is becoming antiquated though, the new forms of status are much more worthwhile and enriching:
– The ability to be offline
– Full control over your time
– Having a stable long-term relationship
– The ability to give your family quality experiences
– The mental clarity and physical well-being that comes from eating well, exercising, and spending time outside.
None of these can be faked or “bought for a fraction of the price.”
They have to be earned one way or another.
And that proof-of-work is precisely what gives them value.
When you really think about it, proof-of-work underwrites all value.

April 15 2018: Bitcoin holds 42% market cap dominance over 1,500 shitcoins.
April 15 2022: Bitcoin holds 41% market cap dominance over 15,000 shitcoins.
April 15 2025: Bitcoin holds 63% market cap dominance over 40,000,000 shitcoins.

According to @ARKInvest’s latest report, Bitcoin’s 2024 returns beat
Gold
Equities
Emerging Markets
Real Estate
and Bonds
. . . combined

The U.S. Dollar devalued by more than 363% Since 2000
– That’s 14.5% Devaluation Per Year.
This means if your savings don’t grow by 14.5% annually, you’re falling behind. #Bitcoin fixes this.

JUST TOLD THE KIDS I’M OLDER THAN GOOGLE.
THEY THINK I’M JOKING
Born before September 4th, 1998?
Congratulations!! You are older than Google!!

Don’t Forget Tell your kids to save in bitcoin now!!!
a little bit every month or year or whatever works for them will dig your family out of poverty.
SHARE THIS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY

ECP NetHappenings Tariffs are Terror or Terrific

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HEADLINES

  • The last three Republican presidents wrecked the economy. The last three Democratic presidents had to fix things.
  • There will be Donald Trump protests all across the country on April 5th.
  • Trump and Musk plot to shred our American Safety Net to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations.  Join a 4/5 rally.
  • BREAKING: The @DeptofDefense Inspector General has announced that they are investigating the use of Signal by the @SecDef and others.
  • Tomorrow, there are more than 1,200 “Hands Off!” events planned in all 50 states and DC, organized by a coalition of 165+ groups. It looks like it will be the largest mobilization against Trump this year.
  • Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) introduced a bipartisan bill to reassert Congress’s authority over tariffs. It requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing new tariffs, which would expire unless Congress approves them within 60 days.
  • Fired US Pardon Attorney and other key figures ousted in Trump Administration purge of Justice Dept to testify Monday at Senate Democrats event on Capitol Hill
  • Jeff Bezos lost $15.9 billion in personal wealth today as a result of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
  • Whirlpool and Stellantis are laying off workers.We’re about to see mass layoffs in the private sector like we did during the pandemic in Donald Trump’s first term.Donald “Herbert Hoover” Trump is a trainwreck for jobs.
  • The English High Court has ordered Trump to pay Orbis £625k in the data protection case he lost against us, doubling the interim costs award he was in breach of for over a year. This is one tariff Trump can no longer avoid.
  • Trump did NOT impose tariffs on RUSSIA. Trump is a Russian Asset.
  • Now that it’s been reveals that Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years named Krasnov by the FSB #Krasnov
  • President Trump tells investors “my policies will never change.”
  • President Trump says “every country” called to negotiate tariffs.
  • Jim Cramer says he’s disappointed with President Trump’s tariffs and his administration “screwed it up.”
  • US unemployment rate rises to 4.2%, higher than expectations.
  • California to ask countries to exempt it from any retaliatory tariffs on the US.
  • JPMorgan says President Trump’s tariffs are the largest US tax hike since 1968.
  • Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) endorses Trump for third term.
  • European Union prepares to fine Elon Musk’s X $1,000,000,000 for “disinformation.”
  • China to impose additional 34% tariff on US goods.
  • Trump fires NSA Director Gen. Tim Haugh
  • ‘COVID is over.’ Schools are out of time to spend pandemic aid, Linda McMahon says.
  • My 401K wants Joe Biden back.
  • Trump went bankrupt 6 times.
  • European Union prepares to fine Elon Musk’s X $1,000,000,000 for “disinformation.”
  • Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
  • Dr. Oz is now the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Senate has confirmed him in a 53-45 vote.

TARIFFS ARE TERRIFIC

4/3/25 $2.85 trillion wiped out from the US stock market has been erased from the stock market yesterday.
Trump hops you enjoyed Obliteration Day.
US stock market records its worst day in 4 years.

“When Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930, we were told that it would protect America from foreign competition and save jobs in this country—the same line we hear today. The actual result was the Great Depression.”- Ronald Reagan, 1988

ANYONE ANYONE?
Am I the only one out there who knows that the Smoot-Hawley tariff was the principal trigger for the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression?
Hawley–Smoot Tariff – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOHbyuanbY

@DarrigoMelanie
Trump is purposely destroying our economy while telling you that DEI, immigrants, and trans women in sports are what you should be worried about. A lot of people who voted for the face eating leopards are angry that they ate their faces, and jobs, and retirement savings, and the money they need to buy groceries and basic essentials, because they thought the color of their face and the red hat on top would keep them safe. Here’s what Republicans mean when they promote deregulation:
Allowing corporations who donate millions to their campaigns to produce unsafe baby formula in unsanitary conditions just to increase profits.
That’s not deregulation.
That’s corruption.

BREAKING: Trump’s tariffs — if sustained — likely to push the U.S. and globe into recession, says JPMorgan, $JPM

China announces rare metal controls, imposing export controls on samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium

Republicans and Democrats

As you watch your retirement savings plummet — remember that Republicans in Congress could stop all of Trump’s insane tariff taxes with a single vote. And they’re choosing not to.

Congress created this stupid situation by delegating so much power over tariffs to the president. (And then Trump exploited every loophole or vague language in the law to grab even more power.) It’s time for them to end this farce and take that power back.

Cory Doctorow
It’s not that the Republicans and the Democrats are the same…obviously. But for decades – since Clinton – the Dems have sided with neoliberal economics, just like their Republican counterparts.
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on http://pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog
So the major differences between the two related to overt discrimination, to the exclusion of the economic policies that immiserated working people, with the worst effects landing on racial minorities, women, and gender minorities.
So the Dems stood against discrimination in mortgage lending – but not *for* the minimum wage that would have lifted the lowest paid workers out of poverty so the could afford a mortgage.
They stood for abortion rights, but *against* Medicare For All, which meant all women had the right to an abortion, but the poorest women couldn’t afford one.
And of course, in a country where racial and gender discrimination were still the order of the day, the poorest and most vulnerable Americans were racialized, women, disabled, and/or queer.
The Dems’ embrace of Reaganomics meant that working people of all types experienced steady decline over 40 years: stagnating wages, economic precarity, increased indebtedness, and rising prices for health care, education, and housing.
When Trump figured out that he could campaign on these issues, Dems had no response.
Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was meant to appeal to a time when working Americans were – on average, depending on their whiteness, maleness and straightness – better housed, better paid, and better cared for.
Of course, those benefits were unevenly felt: America was slow to extend the New Deal to racial minorities, women, disabled people, and other disfavored groups.
Trump’s genius was to marry white supremacy to economic grievance, tricking white workers into blaming their decline on women, brown and Black people, and queers – and not on the billionaires who had grown so much richer even as workers got poorer.
But Trump couldn’t have pulled this trick off without the Dem establishment’s total unwillingness to confront the hollowness of their economic policies.
From Pelosi’s “We’re capitalists and that’s the way it is” to Hillary Clinton’s catastrophic campaign slogan, “America is already great,” the Dems’ answer to workers’ fear and anger was, “You are wrong, everything is fine.”
Imagine having had your house stolen in the foreclosure crisis after Obama decided to “foam the runways” for the banks by letting them steal their borrowers’ homes and then hearing Hillary Clinton tell you “America is already great”:
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REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Guttmacher Institute @Guttmacher
The Trump administration’s actions are causing serious harm to sexual & reproductive health & rights globally.
To protect people’s health and rights, the international community must act decisively. Read our new commentary in
@TheLancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00618-X/abstract

#MedicationAbortion is the primary method of abortion provision in most US states without total abortion bans.
This safe & effective method is also under attack by anti-abortion policymakers who want to undermine reproductive freedom.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice @LatinaInstitute
The Supreme Court is hearing Medina v. Planned Parenthood—and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
At risk?
The right of Medicaid patients to choose their provider. If the Court rules against Planned Parenthood, millions could lose access to essential care. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1907390908565266631.html

BITCOIN

@BritishHodl
Stay away from people who are under the illusion that President Trump doesn’t know that asset prices are deeply linked to the final success evaluation of his Presidency. Bitcoin is going much higher.
This is the first time in my lifetime, and in most living investors lifetimes, that the global strategy is shifting from Globalism – to not Globalism. Globalism was a US export, and now it’s no longer advantageous for the US when you consider the coming advancements in AI and Robotics and the impending deflation in Labour costs. Therefore the US is happy to internalize it’s printing of Money to support it’s Treasury market vs exporting growth and relying those countries to buy US Treasuries. And probably happy to inflate the currency to support its own people. This is a drastic shift to Imperialism and thus the markets will be volatile while the details get shaken out as we shift abruptly to the new regime. Mark my words, this is not a Trump decision – this is a core decision for the strategy of America and has been decided. Trump is the bully that America needed to execute on this move. And he’s perfect for the role, but at the end of the day, this is a deep state decision.
My baseline theory on Trump Tariffs is this:
Objective: Normalise 10% tariff to access US market.
Which would be a 400%-500% revenue increase for the USA.
And the “reciprocal tariffs” are a shift of the Overton window to normalise 10% and negotiate away the reciprocals.

PAY ATTENTION TO MONEY MANAGERS

– Larry Fink has completely seriously looked the Davos reporter in the face and said “nobody should be surprised if Bitcoin is $700,000 a coin.”

– The United States of America has announced a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

– The Tariff drama uncertainty is about to end this week.

– @saylor has tapped tens of Billions of Dollars of capital to buy Bitcoin from a $300T fixed income market.

– Companies around the world are coming out to announce Bitcoin Treasury Strategies.

– Government Funds (Abu Dhabi) are buying Bitcoin.

– BlackRock has said Bitcoin could replace the US Dollar as reserve.

– The entire “C Suite” of the US Government hold Bitcoin, love Bitcoin, promote Bitcoin.

– The FED has reversed QT policy and is preparing for liquidity injection.

Stay focused. HODL.

STABLE COIN

Reintroduce the Securities Clarity Act.
Tom Emmer @GOPMajorityWhip
Today, @RepDarrenSoto and I reintroduced the bipartisan Securities Clarity Act to codify, once and for all, that, like the orange groves in SEC v. W. J. Howey Co., a digital asset is separate and distinct from an investment contract through which it may be offered.
American prosperity, ingenuity, and opportunity demand legal clarity. The Securities Clarity Act is one piece of that puzzle.
https://emmer.house.gov/press-releases?ID=6FAC3C5E-CA1F-47FF-A5DE-E8AE8F23F55C AND
https://emmer.house.gov/2025/3/emmer-reintroduces-legislation-to-provide-regulatory-clarity-for-digital-assets

MicroStrategy is hosting a bitcoin development conference sponsored by the Taproot Wizards with attendees from the DC BitDevs, Brink, Chaincode, Spiral and other startups / development hubs to discuss scaling limitations and challenges to Bitcoin.

If you own 1 Bitcoin
you are in the top 1% of the top 1%
of Bitcoin holders on Earth.

“The price action you’re seeing is short-term noise driven by institutional traders treating BTC like tech stocks,” Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten told Decrypt. “But Bitcoin’s value proposition isn’t short-term gains. It’s the long-term exit from fiat. Bitcoin remains the hardest asset ever created.”

“The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash.” — Milton Friedman
#Bitcoin is the answer he never lived to see.

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DOJ gets a settlement out of a fashion line tied to the House of Herrera–which founded the banking system in Venezuela
Fashion and beauty companies agree to pay $6.7M to settle False Claims Act allegations involving Paycheck Protection Program loans
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/fashion-and-beauty-companies-agree-pay-67m-settle-false-claims-act-allegations