Aaron Barker

What if insiders already know there's going to be no capital gains on crypto? Would explain why BTC is nuking to ETF entry, while ETH can't go lower or nobody is in profit.

@IAmClintMurphy @DarrigoMelanie Because the downstream effects of hyper capitalism are working so well for us

@DarrigoMelanie Another person who doesn't understand downstream effects of bad Socialist / Interventioniat taxes. Ultimately, most of the policies being put in place will be disastrous for housing. Good luck.

If one of the scariest things you’ve ever seen is a tax on a second home that you don’t live in that’s worth over $5 million, then you’ve lived a very privileged life.

@KeyboardMonkey3 WF have never once hassled me

Are there any crypto friendly banks? My Bank of America account just got closed because I took a wire from an OTC company lmao. Chase and Bank of America should be avoided.

@rUv "I just bought a car that can do 55-85 mph with ease. It's not just a vehicle -- It's a transportation engine that enables infinite mobility"

I told the guy at the shop what I was building and he just stared for a second and goes, “what are you building, Skynet?” Introducing ruVultra. My kids didn’t miss a beat: “yeah, basically.” And once you look at the numbers, it stops sounding like a joke. I built this entire system by hand, in an evening. It’s a sovereign AI node. A brain in a box. Ryzen 9 9950X with 16 cores / 32 threads, tuned with a custom Ubuntu kernel and over clocked thermal profile pushing toward ~6GHz burst behavior. With AVX-512, each core processes wide chunks of data at once, so vector comparisons, filtering, and boundary detection happen in parallel, not sequentially. The CPU becomes a real-time reasoning engine, not just a coordinator. Then the GPU takes over when needed. An RTX 5080 with ~10,000+ CUDA cores running in the ~2.5–3.0GHz range, handling dense math, embeddings, and batch workloads. It’s a split system: CPU for structure, GPU for intensity. Compared to a high-end Mac mini or even a Studio, you’re looking at 5–10x faster performance on real AI workloads. Not just because of raw power, but because of architecture. No shared memory bottleneck, no abstraction layers, full CUDA access, full control over scheduling and memory. This machine doesn’t wait on anything. You’ve got 128GB of RAM now, which keeps most working sets local, but there’s room to grow that to 1TB of RAM (estimated at $30k), turning it into a true in-memory system. Same with storage, plenty of headroom for multiple additional TB of NVMe, extending your dataset without killing performance. At roughly a $10k budget, you’re sitting in a sweet spot. Not cluster-scale, but powerful enough to behave like one node of a serious system. You can run meaningful local workloads, test ideas end to end, and iterate without waiting on the cloud.

@narayanarjun @TrungTPhan Jail.

@TrungTPhan I have an idea for a futures product so McDonald's can bring the onion ring to market while hedging their input costs.

Reminder that Ray Dalio is partially responsible for the creation of McDonald’s Chicken McNugget by convincing poultry farmers to buy corn and soybean futures. Here’s what he told Freakonomics podcast:

@SenatorTimScott @federalreserve Thank you for still pretending to lie to us. This means a lot in these trying times.

The American people deserve a Fed that is free from political influence. Under Kevin Warsh’s leadership, the @federalreserve will remain independent and will be focused solely on strengthening the American economy.

@watchking69 16 week cut and the old man is peak

yo why the old man built af tho

@TimFarrelly8 Just off the dome, I'd say maybe 1m books then

Where do you possibly find 100B+ tokens of code? That's ~1M books. How is that even possible?

@UNIFIL_ Shoot back

On two occasions today, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers rammed UNIFIL vehicles with a Merkava tank, in one case causing significant damage. The soldiers had blocked a road in Bayada that is used to access UNIFIL positions.

@EricBalchunas $8-10b AUM by end of this year, easily >$75m volume today

BIG BOY LAUNCH: Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF $MBST hits the market today, arguably biggest btc launch since they began. Here are our predictions: $5b in aum in first year and $30m in Day One volume. What do you think? Winner gets a QT and a feeling of pride.

@SenWarren We could afford that regardless. The government is going to print 2.5tn in new debt and we STILL won't do it. Fuck you all.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@cobie @AvgJoesCrypto @coinbase I got the same notifications and have never looked at sports or sports bets at all on coinbase. These are nuisance notifications and erode trust in the platform

Asked internally — apparently a small scale test that only went to a % of people that are actively making basketball predictions, they’re gonna dial it back, cheers for feedback, u should get openclaw to deal with ur notifications I have a 30 duolingo streak without opening the app at all

I have received three separate notifications about College Basketball from @coinbase in the past *hour* alone. It is absurd that, amidst arguably the worst collapse in trust in this industry’s history, the largest American CEX has completely pivoted to trying to get their customer base hooked on sports gambling, so that they can extract even more exorbitant fees. At this point, it is undeniable that Coinbase *is* part of the industry’s problem. I will be ending my Coinbase One subscription and moving my business to new a CEX, any recommendations?

@jackhuynh @AMD Could you guys work on making it so I don't need to go through 3 motherboards and 5 sets of ram to get a stable setup?

💥 We pushed the limits of desktop performance with X3D. Then we pushed them further. I’ve been testing the new unreleased Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition in the lab firsthand and it is incredible. The world’s first desktop CPU with dual @AMD 3D V-Cache delivers 208MB of total on-chip cache, the most we’ve ever built into a Ryzen processor. That’s several times more than most high-end CPUs had just a few years ago. Whether you’re building unreal game worlds or tackling massive content pipelines, this 16-core Zen 5 beast gives you responsiveness and power like never before, all on a consumer AM5 platform. Coming soon: Available starting April 22nd No compromises. No limits. Games. Creation. AI. Unlocked. 🚀

@functi0nZer0 @British_Airways Gealladh dúinn ár n-eitiltí saor in aisce 600 bliain ó shin Tiocfaidh ár n-eitiltí saor in aisce.

As an Irish citizen, feels worth asking: @British_Airways what is your policy on business class upgrades relating to the Great Famine?

@trading_axe Tell us one thing, Axe, did you at least get 7 figures for this?

I'll say what everyone is thinking out loud. SBF should have been the Vice President of the US right now [not JD Vance], if it weren't for FTX. With his tremendous leadership skills [he created FTX, don't forget - a feat far greater than running a country], WE could've easily prevented being in the mix with ALL of the Middle East nonsense atm. I, for one, say we should sign a petition to free him and bring him into the oval office ASAP. It is a damn shame to waste such a brilliant mind when we could be utilizing his intellect to advance America. #FreeThatNiggaSBF - LET'S GET IT TRENDING! ~ Dr. Axius.

@martypartymusic 2

#1 or #2?

@ToughSf We need to be looking at any country with access to seawater as a nuclear threat. Invade them all

There's ~3 micrograms of Uranium dissolved in 1L of seawater. It represents up to 240 kJ of fission energy if fully consumed. It only takes about 10 kJ to desalinate 1L of seawater. A desalination-reactor can fuel itself on seawater with very wide margins.

@RunnerXBT Running with the AP is peak 😂

proper post-run fueling (diarrhea starter pack)

@MKaylaUltra Least they could do is include a free Trump phone

“Reward of up to $5,000” They were offering $60k for info on Luigi but we can only afford $5k to stop 9/11 2.0 sorry

@JSeyff @grok Is swapping ETHA for ETHB considered a wash sale?

NEW: BlackRock is launching their Ethereum Staking ETF today -- $ETHB. It will have the same fee as $ETHA at 0.25% bps but has a fee waiver down to 0.12% for the first year or first $2.5 billion in assets.