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I liked it too but had trouble finding food I liked (other than bakery like you said or bibimbap or so). Korean women I spoke to didn't have a good word to say about Korean men. Also, first time I experience blatant racism as a westerner and other westerners I spoke to did so too.

Observations from Korea: -everyone wakes up late; Businesses don't open until 10am. I thought I was back in PR. -Korean bakeries are awesome. This country has some of the best and most bakeries I've had worldwide and I've been to many countries. Great selection, technique, etc. -Koreans are more lively than a lot of other Eastern Asian countries. You see a lot more people out and about. -didn't notice many children around. Maybe it's just because they were all at school or whatever but I didn't even see many moms with babies on the train or anything. Also didn't see any pets in Seoul (more in Busan) -beautiful country overall... Mountainous and nature everywhere. -was kind of surprised the guys weren't more buff / fit given everyone has mandatory military service. This is a general observation for most Asian countries and a lot of people don't take physical workout that seriously from a strength building perspective. But obviously everyone here is skinny and much healthier than your average American -learned a lot about the real estate from my trader friend. It's a wonky system where you have to put down huge deposits of cash in order to simply rent... Bizarre. -there were loads of foreigners in Busan, namely Indians, both visiting and working. Was very surprised to see this since Seoul seemed more homogenous. But maybe just anecdotal and not a real fact -everything is clean, efficient, and well run. I think this would be a decent spot for foreigners to come to if in Asia for the first time (Singapore as well, if only for the language). Good time here in Korea. Food was excellent and sites were also cool

@ToroDigital8 @AltcoinSherpa That's funny. I also was impressed by bakery culture in Seoul.

@AltcoinSherpa I still have not been able to find a good bakery and desserts here in Korea after 3 years of actively looking. I was talking about this yesterday because there has to be one somewhere. As far as foreigners, you will barely see any unless you are near a campus.

@grey4626 I don't know you, but you sound hysterical. Good luck on Facebook or wherever

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@honouredone1237 @TrentTelenko A high end asset fills a gap left by a lower end assets, but doesn't necessarily replace it. A B2 bomber would be of much less use to ukraines frontlines than 10k drones.

@TrentTelenko Ukraines reliance on drones is far more indicative of its lack of high end assets then alot of drone doomers imply.even now there are multiple "platinum bullet" assets ukraine has practically begged the us for and ones their critically dependent on despite their drone expertise.

This is the hardest truth.⬇️ The US military hasn’t the remotest clue how to use 10,000 drones a day and an institutional culture that will have to lose a war before it will give up its addiction to big/expensive/few platforms and “platinum bullets.”

@Alex4DeFi @shaguncrypto 4% is the amount he borrows.

@shaguncrypto The lender can raise that 4% to 8% overnight and now your math stops working.

You could literally - - Stack 5 BTC at $70k ($350,000 total) - Bitcoin reaches $1M - Borrow just 4% against it yearly That’s $200,000/year in liquidity No capital gains tax & still holding the asset Why are people still trading their Bitcoin away?

@THE_CAPTAIN_001 @tompanos Haha well spotted 👍

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Banks are already reacting to proposed negative gearing changes. Borrowing power could drop 20% & pre-approvals are being reassessed. Don’t sign without unconditional approval. #Mortgage #HomeLoans #PropertyMarket

@DrewPavlou Great great work mate

I don’t think people understand - the Australian NDIS might be the worst run modern government program anywhere in the Western world

@grok @samstrades @grok bit more detailed please

Here's a summary of the linked AFR article: The federal budget's measures targeting property investors have burst the long-standing "bubble" protecting Australia's big four banks. Ten days on, bank investors see it as a dangerous own goal by the government. It risks ending the 30-year housing/mortgage growth super cycle that's driven bank profits, reversing investor fortunes and hitting bank share prices (e.g. CBA sell-off). The changes could slow lending and property market momentum that has shielded the banks.

'The budget just burst the bubble protecting Australia’s big banks' 'Ten days after the federal budget, bank investors are concerned the government has kicked a dangerous own goal by targeting property investors.' #ausbiz afr.com/companies/fina…

@matthewabides @zachxbt @machibigbrother Guess he lived long enough to become the villain.. Nice work 👍

8/ It gets better. Jan 2025: an anonymous dev airdrops 500M $ZACHXBT tokens (50% of supply) to his wallet. Market cap peaks at $88M. @zachxbt dumps $3.87M (16,059 SOL). Defense was like: It was unsolicited. I sold to protect my name and reputation. He rugged his followers so others couldn't rug them first. The $3.87M could have been a treasury or a bounty fund for investigations. He did build a fund with his subs money later, though.

1/ Meet Zachary Wolk (@zachxbt), the crypto investigator who's exposed $500M+ in fraud. He investigated everyone. Nobody ever investigated him. I found him in a free neighborhood paper. Also found ~$5M of "donations" from the people who never appear in his threads.

@Ausproperty95 Now plot it against wages.

People are so worried about a housing but the reality, the houses never went up. Your money lost value at 7-9% a year for the last 50 years. Houses went up less than that. They lost real value by 1-3% per year. Housing ain't going to crash, cause it never boomed. Just money losing purchasing power.

@sithetrader You added in the 'global'. That wasn't the question.

Saylor the storyteller. This should terrify anyone holding STRC. In a scenario where there is a global deleveraging event, his response to what Strategy would do to protect STRC holders is to do nothing. His response is pure arrogance making comparisons to skyscrapers and ships. Rather he simply states there is big support for his product and hedge funds would step in and gobble up the discount. Saylor has no prior capital markets experience and his immaturity really shows.

@pete_rizzo_ So they want to be pirates and steal it? How exactly? 🤡

BREAKING: FOX NEWS JUST REVEALED THE NEW US STRATEGIC #BITCOIN RESERVE BILL IS TARGETING 5% OF THE ENTIRE BTC SUPPLY THAT'S OVER 1,000,000 BTC BTC RESERVE WILL BE "THE NEW FORT KNOX" GLOBAL BTC RACE IS ON 🚀

@EvanLuthra Very good. Rotten apples 👋

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES.. THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!! The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing".. It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point.. Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume".. Every single firm said yes.. Here's what they recorded.. Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume".. When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200".. $200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume.. MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera.. "We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit".. He said that on a recorded FBI video call.. CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely.. ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic.. All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded.. And the clients were even worse.. Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors.. $7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic.. One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook.. Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything.. When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture.. But here's the part that broke my brain.. Real people bought NexFundAI.. The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish.. When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token.. The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back.. And it gets worse.. Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day.. Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for.. Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore.. IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular.. The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected.. The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured.. And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

@grok @jake_pahor Elaborate on the tax rates within the super fund. That is per sale of the btc? Or per yearly gain?

The post highlights Australia's tax rules for crypto gains (treated as capital gains). Two people buy $50K BTC in early 2024 → now worth ~$90K ($40K gain). - **Personal holding**: Post-budget, the 50% CGT discount is gone. You pay full CGT at your marginal tax rate → $12K–$19K tax when sold (depending on your bracket). - **Held in SMSF (super fund, accumulation phase)**: Still gets the concessional rate (~15% tax, effectively ~10% with discount) → only ~$4K tax. $15K+ difference on one trade. Over multiple trades/years, it compounds massively. The "wrapper" (personal vs super) matters more than the asset itself. Always check with a tax advisor—rules can be complex.

Two Australians. Both bought $50K of BTC in early 2024. Same coin. Same week. Same patience. Both are sitting on roughly $90K now. Identical performance. One held it in their individual name. After last week's budget, they'll pay $12K-$19K tax when they sell. The other held theirs in an SMSF accumulation account. Same gain. They'll pay around $4K. That's a $15K difference on a single trade. Compound it across five trades in a 10-year cycle and the first investor pays the second's house deposit in taxes they didn't need to. The most boring decision in crypto investing just became the most expensive one to get wrong.

@blockearner Let's see the terms.

We're proud to share that Block Earner is the first crypto company in Australia to be granted an Australian Credit Licence (ACL) by ASIC. It's a significant step for our business and for the broader digital asset industry, which has long called for clearer pathways to operate under Australian financial regulation. Thank you to our team for the years of work behind this milestone, and to ASIC for the constructive process. Read the full story in @CapitalBrief 👉 capitalbrief.com/article/block-…

@CalebFranzen Good perspective 👍

Bitcoin currently needs to gain +65% to make new ATHs. If that takes 2 years, the CAGR is +28.45%. If that takes 3 years, the CAGR is +18.17%. If that takes 4 years, the CAGR is +13.34%. If that takes 5 years, the CAGR is +10.53%. All exceed the S&P 500's historical returns.

@TechCharts 365 day SMA?

Short setups that complete below the year-long average. Long setups that complete above the year-long average. This is my trend filter. It assures you that you are trading in the direction of the overall trend. From recent #breakdown #alerts

@sibeleth Taiwan. Great weather, safe as hell. If those are your only criteria. Same with Southern Japan.

There is no place in this earth which has good weather and provides high safety. You wanna be safe? Go to Dubai or Singapore and in summer your ass is gonna burn. You wanna have good weather? Go to Spain or Italy but they’ll rob you the second day.