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@JohnEDeaton1 Why are they frequently on breaks? It's inefficient.

Disgusting. 🤮

@EleanorTerrett Mine also died last night. Once you tune in, you get a lot out of these special animals.💔

My bunny Theo crossed over the rainbow bridge tonight. I found him on Craigslist my senior year of college, and he lived to be 11 years old. Rest easy, buddy. I hope you’re eating lots of cherries up there. 🍒♥️

@DTAPCAP @stackhodler Dan, really appreciate you here on X. Please tell me if you sway more towards this way of thinking or are more optimistic on the short the medium future. Thanks

@stackhodler This post " feels" so right that it must be wrong. Well done on your gold positioning.

Haven't been sharing much macro / investing stuff on here since nobody wants to read bearish takes And I've been mostly bearish since late last fall. But someone asked for my current thinking so here it goes: My daughter will be born any day now. Protecting my family's capital and navigating this fourth turning has been my number one priority since my son was born two years ago. I have been laser focused on making sure baby girl and her big brother are taken care of. And that mom is blissfully unaware of the unfolding chaos. But I can only do things that are in my control. Scrolling the timeline and getting worked up about every tit-for-tat escalation is completely useless. So what have I done instead? The majority of my portfolio has been in Swiss Francs and physical gold since late last fall. I shared my bearish thinking then. It was very hard to sell. But with my family's well-being guiding my decisions, my gut told me I had to. For the first time since going all-in on Bitcoin around $5K in March 2020, BTC makes up a minority of my holdings. And I'm still in no hurry to re-deploy. I've moved my CHF into the most stable Swiss banks in existence with unlimited state guarantees. I moved my physical gold into high security non-bank safety deposit boxes, along with some physical CHF. And besides some energy-related equities and some QQQ puts... I'm being patient with my family's capital. The closest I have come to buying anything was some arable land with a fresh water source in France. But I'm not keen on tying a large chunk of capital to the fate of France. We have a private credit crisis, a global sovereign debt bubble, the worst energy crisis in history, and potential WW3 breaking out. Global yields just began breaking out in a major way last week. Equity indexes have been incredibly complacent given the circumstances. If you think you're late to react, IMO you're not. I see massive complacency. People forget that the world can actually turn into a very chaotic place. We have been living in abnormally peaceful and prosperous times for our whole lives. Everyone is conditioned to expect TACO, v-shaped recovery, etc. But I think that changes this week. Especially if we pass Trump's 48hr deadline and all parties follow through on their threats to destroy more critical infrastructure. Maybe this is peak fear. Maybe we walk back from the brink and stop the bleeding. (not that it solves the private credit or sovereign debt crises btw) But as a steward of my family's capital, wealth preservation remains a far bigger priority for me than incremental gains given the circumstances. I have long written that I expect either the Great Debasement or Great Depression 2 in the 2020s. But perhaps we get both. In my estimation, Great Depression 2 is now far more likely than it was just a few weeks ago. I.e. everyone getting poorer in real terms due to skyrocketing energy costs, people losing jobs, and people defaulting on debt en masse. The assumption that central banks can simply print us out of this crisis is a dangerous one. Sure they may print. But they cannot print oil. They cannot print jobs. They cannot print energy infrastructure. They cannot put the AI genie back in the bottle. A serious supply crunch of oil can only be dealt with by allowing demand destruction. Printing money does the opposite. Printing money into a supply crunch of oil / nat gas is basically destroying the currency on purpose. Which may very well happen. But that brings the legitimacy of the Central Banks into question, so will they deliberately destroy themselves? We ignore these constraints at our own peril. As yields start moving higher, I am braced for a deflationary "correlation to 1" moment. I have a shopping list of quality assets ready to go (including BTC) and I will deploy capital once I see how the central planners decide to react. Beyond investing, I've stocked up on a years worth of critical supplies. My home is filled to the brim with diapers and formula. I've done all I can to prepare my family. Now it's time for a long ski erg and a sauna session to make sure I'm in the best mental state possible for baby girl's arrival. The timeline is un-scrollable right now. Just a massive doom fest. Take action. Do what you can to prepare. But don't forget that the world is still beautiful. And the best things in life have nothing to do with money. Time with family, pushing yourself physically in nature, a little bit of morning sunshine on your face... If you have the ability to enjoy those things today you're already wealthier than you realize.

@sentosumosaba @YuvalRooz @paulbarron What are your views on @paulbarron - legit or bad faith actor?

@YuvalRooz @paulbarron You have to continue. It’s tiring as hell. Been fighting misinformation for 8 years. It makes a difference.

This will be my last interaction with @paulbarron. He said in the beginning of his show something something about research. The guy clearly doesn't even know how to use Google Search. I will still say, he does a good job for his base. Good for him, but clearly he's not a good faith actor which is his right. Just not something I will waste time anymore.

@ChartNerdTA You owed her £21 😆

I sent my daughter £20 from one of my accs and this was the remaining balance 😆

It Was An Accident.. Promise 😂

@patrickjwitt This doesn't sound good

The CLARITY Act must remain a pro-innovation piece of legislation. Attempts to hijack the legislative process and turn it into an anti-competition bill are shameful.

@WietseWind @FlareNetworks @XamanWallet I’m a little confused. I participated in this vault and receive rewards. Now that the vault is full, does this mean the apy increases as per a comment in this section? If so, what % does it go to. Thanks and well done! #XamanFlareYield

And just like that, little over one week after launch, the vault for yield on $XRP with @FlareNetworks smart accounts in @XamanWallet is full 😮 Talks about vault size increase happening 💪

Can ANYONE explain when the BANKING INDUSTRY has the ability to VETO Legislation? I must have missed that part in my political science classes... Given the damage they've done to the nation and the TRILLIONS in bailouts they've received, it is unconcsionable they have that power.

@HammerToe @DeatonforSenate Agreed.

@DeatonforSenate (FWIW, I agree that nuclear power is something more countries should look at in conjunction with renewables... but "time to go nuclear" as a phrase right at this moment... when you have the unstable genius with his finger on the button... might not be the best look)

It's time to go nuclear.

@xrpmickle 0.79% actually, bro.

Supply Shock.

@Cryptoinsightuk Will, are you making a video today? Also, hope you’re keeping safe out there.

$BTC is deep in value territory. $BTC is in the oversold area for just the 5th time in history. 3 out of 4 of the previous occasions were the absolute bottom. The outlier was just 10% from the ultimate low of that cycle. Couple this with sentiment. Fear and Greed index in extreme fear for the last month. As the saying goes, buy when there is blood on the street.

@ChadSteingraber Chris Larsen also sold the exact top….for a LOT of money. Genius Nostradamus trading.

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@Cryptoinsightuk Sentiment echoed here. Thanks and please keep it up 👍

From time to time, I get messages / emails like this and honestly this meant a lot. Thank you 🙏

@Vet_X0 @xrpscan Hi Vet, I understand Perm Dex is vital for xrp usage at scale but was wondering if you think the xrpl will see slow and steady volume increase or more sudden?

@xrpscan good

PermissionedDEX amendment is now active on the xrpl mainnet.

@Cryptoinsightuk @RayDalio So, is Dalio prepping for wider global conflict escalation?

FANTASTIC article here as always by @RayDalio It is long but extremely important if you want to understand previous wars and their similarities to the present day. My personal TLDR is to stay as liquid as possible, hold crypto and gold, don’t be too heavily reliant on any one geographical location (capital controls WILL come if we escalate). Some important screen shots of the article

@Coins_Kid Is there a chance the liquidity below isn’t taken and instead taken at the higher $4.20 level? Liquidity lays above also. Thanks.

It's all a game of liquidty. Liquidity is like a magnet for price action. #xrp the future is programmed based on Liquidty. As expected we are seeing this 3 wave ABC structure to the upside, exactly pinpointed in my recent #xrp video update 👍 We will then see another move back into the lows at some point to grab the liquidty below highlighted on the #xrpheatmap chart. 👀

@Belisarius2020 For about as long as the dollar was able to dominate. See you in 2150.

Bitcoin is a technological dead end but that does not seem to matter to its success. 🤔 hmmmmmm That notion will torment and intrigue me for some time until something else does. How long can something that is a technological dead end dominate an entire financial market?

@Cryptoinsightuk Totally agree. Let’s just get this done

I was also just thinking, in the very near future, we’ll probably each have our own AI agents that find us low risk yield automatically, putting our stagnant capital to work.

@HugoPhilion @XamanWallet I LOVE ONE CLICK

One click yield direct from XRPL is coming with Flare Smart Accounts and will be available through @XamanWallet. Smart accounts make Flare’s ecosystem directly accessible and controllable from XRPL. We can only do this because Flare has built out the most comprehensive decentralised data suite in the industry.

@Michael63140627 Medical robotics.

Does anyone know what Mickle's background is? Just curious as Paul Barron has him on quite a bit which makes me think he's not just an influencer!