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@JoshMandell6 It's freely available for anyone to acquire.

Hello Jeff. I hope this message finds you well. Inflation and hoarding are ticking time bombs, as is excessive hereditary wealth and poverty. Bitcoin acquisition and accumulation in large concentrations by a single corporation using leverage and bragging special connections with the government is antithetical to the cause. I will admit to having been involved in profiteering using the options market of MicroStrategy early on, but I still maintain a commitment to Bitcoin and aspire to use coins for the betterment of society. Bitcoin is fruit that should be shared, else let it die on the vine! It's meant to be spent. Some of us have to give it away to keep it. You know who you are.

@inthepixels @BitcoinConner @prescott Let me know once you figure it out. 😕

@BitcoinConner @prescott Like you buy a stable for .9999 and sell for 1.0001? Lol.

Even more concerning news today on the Bitcoin tax front. We’re going to need the Cyber Hornets for this one. 👇 Today’s new draft **leaves the double taxation on bitcoin mining in place** and only provides relief to staking. So now the proposal is: - De minimis for stablecoins but not Bitcoin - Fixing tax treatment for “passive validation” (I.e. staking) but not Bitcoin mining This contradicts all prior proposals on this issue. This is not tech neutral and picks winners and losers for no reason. Full statement from BPI coming soon about @RepHorsford and @RepMaxMiller’s draft. We need strong community push back to show that this language sets America and Bitcoin back.

@TukiFromKL But is it really fraud?

🚨 Do you understand what this man just pulled off.. > a guy from North Carolina used AI to generate hundreds of thousands of songs.. uploaded them to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon.. then botted billions of streams on his own tracks and walked away with $8 million > 660,000 fake streams per day.. spread across thousands of AI songs so nobody noticed.. $1.2 million a year.. for music no human ever actually listened to real artists are out here grinding for 0.003 cents per stream.. promoting on TikTok.. begging for playlist placements.. and this guy just had AI make the music AND the audience first-ever criminal streaming fraud case.. he's paying back $8 million.. but the playbook is out there now.. and AI just got better since he started the music industry spent 10 years fighting piracy.. now they have to fight songs that don't exist being listened to by people who don't exist.

@TFTC21 @anasalhajji @bwd13

The US didn't just attack Iran. It closed the Strait of Hormuz itself, and nobody's talking about the real reason why. @anasalhajji, one of the most respected energy analysts in the world, just published an extraordinary breakdown of what's actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz. The short version: Iran didn't close it. Insurance companies did. And the US has every incentive to let it happen. Here's what actually occurred. Emails were sent to oil and LNG tankers claiming to be from the IRGC, saying the strait was closed. No official Iranian statement backed this. Nobody knows who actually sent the emails. But within hours, European insurance companies canceled policies or jacked premiums so high that tanker operators couldn't move. Cargo ships and container vessels passed through fine. Nothing happened to them. Only oil and LNG tankers were affected. Why? Notably, the administration has not criticized the insurance companies or pushed back on rising oil prices, a departure from its usual stance of vocally opposing anything that raises energy costs for American consumers. Meanwhile, Venezuelan oil was pre-positioned in US ports before the crisis began, specifically to replace Iraqi crude that would be cut off by a Hormuz closure. That doesn't happen by accident. The 2025 National Security Strategy document lays out the framework: US dominance runs through AI, and AI runs through cheap, abundant energy. The strategy is to make energy cheap domestically and expensive for competitors. To do that, you need control of global chokepoints: Panama Canal, the Red Sea, Greenland's Arctic passage, and now Hormuz. The Hormuz disruption accomplishes several goals at once. It forces Asian companies to abandon long-term LNG contracts with Qatar and the UAE in favor of American suppliers. It cripples competitor access to fertilizer exports (33% of global supply transits Hormuz). It drives chip manufacturers to reshore to the US. And Trump's offer to provide Navy escorts and US-backed insurance for tankers gives America indirect control over the strait indefinitely. The biggest beneficiaries of a closed Hormuz are the US and Russia. The biggest losers are Europe, Asia, and the Gulf states themselves. Iran is the excuse. Energy dominance is the goal.

@JoezMcfLy "had we taken the lead [in the 8th inning] he was coming in"

Are you OUT OF YOUR MIND?!?!! YOU WERE THE HOME TEAM!!!! IF YOU TOOK THE LEAD YOU WOULD HAVE WON!!!!! THIS HAS TO ME A TROLL QUOTE NO FUCKIN WAY!!!! UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! THIS IS INSANE!

@DoctorTro How quickly can a 0 score turn into something to worry about, assuming no material lifestyle / diet changes?

Doctors say they avoid ordering a coronary artery calcium scan because “it won’t change management.” Think about what that means. A test that directly measures atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries is dismissed because it might challenge a treatment algorithm based entirely on risk calculators and cholesterol numbers. The reality is simpler. Many physicians avoid CAC because it creates uncomfortable situations: A 45-year-old with high LDL but CAC = 0 A 60-year-old with “normal labs” but CAC = 400 Now the conversation becomes harder. Guidelines become less convenient. And the doctor actually has to explain risk. CAC doesn’t fit neatly into pharmaceutical pathways… but it tells you something far more important: Do you actually have plaque?

@grok @simpleminingio @grok don't you need to know how many years the job is for and the salary will last?

I'd choose Option B: 1 Bitcoin per year. Current BTC price is around $71,000, so it's less than $250k today. But as a scarce digital asset with growing adoption, its long-term appreciation potential far outweighs fixed fiat—historically, BTC has delivered massive compounded returns over years. Stability is nice, but upside wins for me.

Hey @grok, you get to choose your salary: Option A: $250,000 per year Option B: 1 Bitcoin per year Which do you choose and why?

Team Italy stuns USA in the WBC 🤯

@HPBAac @bwd13 😂

If the WBC was travel ball… Team USA is about to miss bracket play. Bryce Harper’s dad and Alex Bregman’s dads are in the parking lot forming a new team since their kids are on the bench tonight.

@JoinCrowdHealth Wait, only 4 people are splitting $1,000? I assumed it went out in mass and people were contributing small dollars towards it? I realize in aggregate the small amounts may add up to the same, but just trying to make sure I understand how it works.

UNFUNDED BILLS: FLAW OR FEATURE? A CASE STUDY The Crowd has funded 37,199 bills as of this morning. We recently had the 30th bill (.0008) go unfunded. Why? Member started in October of 2025 October: Member was asked to help a newborn: MEMBER FUNDED November: Member was asked to help with Breast Cancer: MEMBER DECLINED TO FUND December: Member was asked to help with a thyroid nodule: MEMBER DECLINED TO FUND January: Member was asked to help with a dermatological condition: MEMBER DECLINED TO FUND 3 of the first 4 months since this member started, member declined to fund other members. FEBRUARY - Member had a $1500 ER VISIT. Requested help from the Crowd. Member paid the first $500. We asked for $1000 from 4 members. They all declined. We asked for $1000 from another set of 4 members. They all declined. We asked for $1000 from a third set of 4 members. They all declined.

@CollinRugg A few years back, we happened to be at a resort where the Van Der Beeks' were also on vacation. They are a beautiful family and it was obvious he was a great dad.

The daughter of actor James Van Der Beek shares a message for her dad’s birthday on her mother’s Instagram account. Van Der Beek passed away last month following a battle with cancer. “Emilia asked me if she could make a video to post today, walked outside and came back with this,” Kimberly Van Der Beek shared. “I talk to my dad everyday…” Emilia started as she shared how she was dealing with grief.

@SenRickScott No

Tomorrow, the wait is over as we spring forward and get an extra hour of sunshine! That means more time to enjoy at the beach, in the park, and with your family. Who doesn’t love that? I’m fighting to pass my Sunshine Protection Act so we can keep Daylight Saving Time YEAR-ROUND and enjoy more sunshine, not less.

@IslanderWORLD @TLAVagabond Nothing will happen because of this.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 A US stealth pilot departed Ovda Air Base in southern Israel, forgot to switch off his transponder, and handed the entire world via Flightradar24 a live broadcast of the route Washington had just spent weeks diplomatically insisting it wasn’t using. Saudi Arabia had told Iran and told Washington — that its airspace would not be made available for strikes. Iran’s ambassador to Riyadh had personally thanked the Kingdom for that pledge. The ink was barely dry. The $150 million stealth aircraft whose entire operational premise is invisibility announced itself over Saudi Arabia like a commercial flight to Dubai. Call sign F35LTNG2. Altitude, heading, groundspeed — all of it, public, live, archived, distributed across Telegram channels from Tehran to Moscow before the sortie had even reached its target. The most expensive air force in human history, undone not by an Iranian S-300, not by electronic warfare, not by any weapons system that cost a single riyal to deploy — but by a checklist item a student pilot learns in week one. The strategic implications land harder than the embarrassment. F-22s flying from Israel would have to traverse Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia — the very countries that had declared their airspace unavailable for strikes on Iran. What the transponder confirmed in real time is that those declarations were either ignored, circumvented, or quietly negotiated away under pressure and that every government in the region now knows it, and more critically, so does Tehran. Iran does not need to intercept the aircraft. It already intercepted the lie and we'll have to see what comes next for Saudi Arabia.

@PeoplesReserve @bwd13

22 years saved on a 30-year mortgage = 73% duration reduction. PMI: guarantees 30 years of debt. BMI: creates earlier freedom. When debt is secured by pristine collateral, it changes duration from a burden into a benefit. That’s asymmetry homeowners have never had before ⚡ Build Wealth Smarter.

@Polymarket @bwd13

JUST IN: Lawsuit claims ChatGPT pretended to be a lawyer and persuaded a woman into firing her real attorney while citing fake case law.

@bwd13 @SMB_Attorney I was speaking to an older attorney I work with all the time and she scoffed when I told her I used AI to improve a document she drafted.

@SamplesMIA @SMB_Attorney Most likely, yes. And state Bars will probably grant bar licenses to AI agents in the future

You guys don’t get it yet. Everyone keeps saying AI is going to replace lawyers. I don’t think people understand how this actually plays out. Let’s say you use AI to draft a contract. The contract misses something important. A year later it costs you two million dollars. What do you do? Right now, you sue your lawyer. In the AI world, you’d sue the AI company. Two things can happen. Option 1: The AI company has liability for legal advice. If that’s the case, every AI company will immediately stop letting consumers use AI for real legal work. The liability risk is massive. Option 2: The AI company has no liability because of disclaimers. If that happens, every state bar in the country will say consumers are being exposed to unregulated legal advice and call it the unauthorized practice of law. And they’ll shut it down that way. Either path leads to the same outcome. Consumer AI will be limited to generic “Wikipedia-style” legal information and LegalZoom level document prep. But the real AI tools? Those will live inside law firms. Lawyers will use them to move faster, analyze more data, and run way more matters at once. The M&A lawyer doing 5 deals at a time will do 50. Trial lawyers will run far more cases simultaneously. The idea that AI replaces lawyers probably dies. The more likely outcome is that AI supercharges the best lawyers and makes the profession even more profitable than ever.

@timeimmemorial_ @Beefshala

my girl listening to me work on my tony soprano impression in the shower before heading out to dinner with friends

@notgaetti @Stathead @baseball_ref @BigLeagueDigest @OleTimeHardball @JessicaDBrand @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @orwellian @Johnsense38 @BaseballBros @_mcameron44 I've never used the site. Is there a way to adjust it to comp stats per game or per 162 games? Judge missed a ton of injury time, which is a testament to Puljol's durability, but to me the stats mean more when compared apples to apples.

I just put Albert’s first 10 seasons vs. Judge’s first 10 seasons into @Stathead and literally GASPED (& this would be a clean sweep by Pujols if not for the fact that he overlapped with PED-era Barry Bonds et al. while Judge plays with .230 hitters that strike out 200x a year!)

@YankeeWRLD Whenever he hits a HR or makes a nice play in the field, I think the exact same thing. He's holding back a smile.

Is it just me or does every single clip of Aaron Judge talking look like he’s trying not to laugh