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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

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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.

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@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.

@PsyopAnime @Polymarket yes

@Polymarket You need a PsyopAnime feed in there

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GoDark. Coming soon.

Felix Somary. The genius who saw every major economic catastrophe coming—and the fools in power ignored him every single time. This Austrian-born banker and economist predicted the 1929 crash, both World Wars, the Weimar hyperinflation, and the rise of Hitler with stunning precision. While establishment economists peddled their mathematical fairy tales, Somary understood that sound money and free markets were civilization's only defense against political madness. He warned Wilson that entering WWI would bankrupt America and turn it into an empire. He told European leaders that printing money to fund war would destroy their currencies. And he correctly identified that central banking would create boom-bust cycles that would radicalize populations toward socialism and fascism. But Somary wasn't just another doom prophet. He was a practicing banker who made fortunes for his clients by betting against government stupidity. When everyone else bought German bonds in the 1920s, he went short. When politicians promised endless prosperity in 1928, he moved to cash. His memoir "The Raven of Zurich" reads like a masterclass in Austrian business cycle theory—decades before Mises and Hayek formalized it. The man lived through the collapse of four empires and watched central banks destroy currency after currency, yet somehow the lesson never stuck with the political class. While John Maynard Keynes was busy convincing governments they could spend their way to prosperity, Somary was documenting exactly how that path led to tyranny and war. His predictions weren't mysticism; they were logical conclusions drawn from understanding that governments always choose inflation over facing fiscal reality. Today, economists are essentially rediscovering what Somary knew a century ago: you cannot build lasting prosperity on monetary fraud.

@Xx_vybcoderz_xX Is that Max Richter? So good

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Smart move by Poland to use hard money as a defense financing alternative, and therefore reduce the slippage introduced by working with the Brussels bureaucracy