David Waugh

@WalkerAmerica Praying for you and your family.

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

@FinanceLancelot Lyn Alden is great.

I'm not a big fan of Lyn Alden but this entire interview is absolutely correct Food shortages will cause civil unrest & energy shortages will cause sovereign debt crises across many nations This isn't a "short war." It's designed to destabilize the world youtube.com/watch?v=YYJ_Le…

Turns out, the debasement trade is going on for quite a while...

@BrianMcDonaldIE The Greek Voldemort MMT guy?

Guess it was always going to happen… Yanis Varoufakis dancing at a conference in Moscow to the viral techno track about himself, made by Russian DJ Sasha Melior.

@not_ellington @OfficeOfMrMomo Preppy Handbook

@OfficeOfMrMomo Where is this from

there is a lot of talk about wasps here on the everything app if you dont fall into one of these categories then youre out of your depth

Receipts.

this is basically the opposite of the EAs who donate 30% of their paycheck to shrimp welfare and need a decision matrix to order a latte

@reisnertobias Lumber

Next to List on HL CORN COFFEE WHEAT FERTILIZER HELIUM What else we need?

I walk toward the Whole Foods self-checkout with a tremendous long spot / short perp basis trade in Avocados, at 50x leverage. As I get closer the market swings violently, threats of World War Seven from a Trump Jr. tweet. I get liquidated. Levering up again I enter a new trade. Quinoa. 100x leverage. I feel nothing.

@sershokunin @DougieDeLuca I cannot wait to trade some guac perps

surprised no one's capitalized on the food trade yet on hl

can't wait to have a delta neutral dinner

@ThinkingUSD Yes, the most valuable listens are when the host and guest naturally reference ideas, history, and projects that become rabbit holes for the hungry listener. Mostly comes from experience but curiosity is the unlock

I want to interview scions of our industry in long form video content. I find myself watching some of the current podcasts and interview formats and there is a shocking lack of substance. We have so much lore as an industry that should be celebrated! Would people like this?

Cool, where's the strategic bitcoin reserve?

@shapelayer @GoDark Cool, liked one of your motion videos that came up in my feed

@GoDavidWaugh @GoDark Appreciate the tag! Currently only doing comission-based work so sadly will have to pass, tho I am more than happy to do a paid project for GoDark

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Architecture is theology in form.

"If everyone would just..."

@GoDark This is a great opportunity!

It will trade like a risk-on asset until the market treats it as risk-off. A more interesting question is what changes will cause that? Bitcoin being 24/7 with deep liquidity has made it easy to rotate in and out to put on or take off risk, making it risk-on structurally. As everything else goes 24/7, this could diminish..

NYC baddie asked me: "Why isn't bitcoin going up during the war?" I sat there and thought about it. And I said, that's legitimately a good question. I'm not sure I have an answer. In theory, Bitcoin is designed as a hedge against geopolitical unrest. But it's never actually traded like one. i told her the paradox of bitcoin is if we went to world war three, like REAL word war three bitcoin is probably candling green right now. does that make sense? she wasn’t too excited to hear that The better answer is: don't talk to hot girls about Bitcoin.

@mert Private execution is one of those dimensions. You can't out-engineer Hyperliquid on their own terms. You build what they don't have. That's why we differentiated @GoDark on privacy.

The Hanseatic League solved commercial disputes for 400 years without a single government court, police force, or regulatory agency—and they did it better than any modern state system. From 1159 to 1669, German merchants spanning from London to Novgorod created the most sophisticated private arbitration network in history. When a Hamburg trader accused a Lübeck merchant of breach of contract, they didn't petition some distant king or wait months for bureaucratic tribunals. They brought their dispute before merchant courts staffed by actual businessmen who understood trade, contracts, and reputation. These arbitrators rendered decisions within days, not years. The enforcement mechanism? Pure market discipline. The League maintained detailed records of every merchant's behavior and shared this information across all member cities. Cross a Hanseatic trader in Bergen, and you'd find yourself blacklisted from Riga to Bruges within weeks. No bailiffs, no jackbooted enforcers, no violence—just the inexorable power of reputation and voluntary association. And it worked spectacularly. The League dominated Northern European commerce for half a millennium precisely because merchants trusted their dispute resolution more than royal courts. But here's what modern lawyers and judges will never tell you: the Hanseatic system resolved disputes faster, cheaper, and more accurately than contemporary government courts. Why? Because the arbitrators actually understood commerce and faced real consequences for bad decisions. Screw up a ruling as a Hanseatic arbitrator, and merchants would stop using your services. Screw up as a federal judge today, and you get lifetime tenure. The League died when centralized nation-states crushed private governance with military force, not because their system failed. Every blockchain arbitration platform and private dispute resolution service today merely rediscovers what German merchants perfected 800 years ago.