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@BlockchainComms @SullyMichaelvan You're better than him?

@SullyMichaelvan Chamath is Srilankan Tamil Loser

Chamath: "You know my VC firm was one of the first to buy bitcoin back when MSTR was just a software company." Saylor: "So why don't you own more than me?"

@nailbiting4fun @user762 @SullyMichaelvan @chamath Chamath just invested passively in Bitcoin without any conviction. He said "it's schmuck insurance" Saylor is in a different league. He understood Bitcoin truly and threw his full weight behind it. They're not in the same league

@user762 @SullyMichaelvan @chamath To be fair, if he did a 100x that’s pretty legendary

@CryptoFix__ @rohanhirani @saylor @chamath @DavidSacks @Jason @friedberg @TheBlueMatt Most people are just FUDing the quantum threat. They really haven't thought through it at all

@rohanhirani @saylor @chamath @DavidSacks @Jason @friedberg Saylor is generally not a good guest, though. He doesnt like to be pushed. For example, if someone would ask the challanges Btc is facing against the looming quantum threat, he'd just say everything will be fine and if you pushed he would snap. @TheBlueMatt is the perfect guest.

Invite @saylor on the All-in pod Long overdue @chamath @DavidSacks @Jason @friedberg

@JEChalmers Why don't you waive the petrol cess for the next few months?

Today the independent Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Board increased the cash rate by 25 basis points. We already had an inflation challenge in our economy but the war in the Middle East is making this challenge worse. At a time of immense global instability, this will put even more pressure on families and businesses. Many Australians were already doing it tough and are now feeling the impact of conflict in the Middle East through higher petrol prices as well. That’s why we’re rolling out responsible cost of living relief and taking action to give consumers a fair go at the bowser, through higher penalties, more surveillance and more supply.

@DrNeilStone Does it mean every vaccine is equally effective or harmless?

Why do some people have such a hard time accepting the immense good and millions of lives saved by vaccines over the decades? Why? What hurts them about that fact?

Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success. He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them. It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil. If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that? Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No? But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS. The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do. Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting. I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil. I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.

@TFTC21 You think the US will have difficulty in sinking the ships that pass through the strait? Will china be able to protect the ships? Don't be delusional

An Indian oil tanker just crossed the Strait of Hormuz safely by paying for its cargo in Chinese yuan. Iran let it through. Ships paying in dollars get nothing. The world's most critical energy chokepoint is now being used to enforce a parallel payment system. Pay in yuan, you get safe passage. Pay in dollars, good luck. The Strait has been closed for 19 days. Twenty percent of global oil supply flows through that 21-mile gap. Dubai crude hit $152 a barrel. WTI in the US sits at $94. That is a $55 spread for the same commodity. In February it was 75 cents. SAS canceled 1,000 flights. Gas stations in Bangkok are dry. The IEA authorized the largest emergency oil release in history: 400 million barrels. JPMorgan says that buys weeks, not months. The Fed meets today boxed in. Oil-driven inflation means they cannot cut. A weakening economy means they cannot hike. The US national debt is at $39 trillion. The strategic reserves are draining. The petrodollar is not dying in a boardroom. It is dying in a shipping lane.

@chamath @saylor Making Bitcoin quantum resistant is simple. It's a small piece of software, the solution is well known and there is already consensus that the change is needed. Quantum is basically FUD

@saylor BTC would need to be quantum resistant by then

@osbourne1504 @Oxandrolonely @ValerieAnne1970 What are the main reasons for elevated LDL ? I know it's diet. Is it high because of high cholesterol content in food or is it certain foods trigger your liver to produce higher levels of cholesterol

Cholesterol isn’t a disease, atherosclerosis is. And LDL cholesterol is one of the main causal drivers of it. The ‘goalposts moved’ because science improved. Early medicine didn’t even understand lipoproteins properly. Once large epidemiological studies, genetics, and randomized statin trials accumulated, the relationship became crystal clear. • People with genetically high LDL develop premature heart disease. • People with genetically low LDL rarely do. • Lowering LDL with statins, PCSK9 inhibitors, or diet reduces heart attacks and strokes in randomized trials. That’s not a conspiracy, that’s causality demonstrated from multiple independent lines of evidence. Also, cholesterol is so “essential” that your liver makes 80% of it already. You don’t need to eat piles of it to survive. Claiming cardiology invented LDL targets to sell statins is like claiming gravity was invented to sell parachutes.

Cholesterol is not a disease...Cholesterol is a nutrient.

@PiusSprenger It's not even 1 year old and you're already passing judgement

I don’t consider it a healthy sign if the rate on $STRC keeps increasing in order to keep the price close to par. Many people view STRC as a highly innovative product with the potential to revolutionize capital markets. Personally, I’m less convinced. I experienced firsthand the great wave of innovation in the credit derivatives space in the early 2000s. Some of those products had built-in mechanisms—not dissimilar to the STRC feature. Most of them ultimately turned out to be disasters for investors. I’m not suggesting that the same outcome will occur with STRC. But it’s important to be cautious around this type of financial innovation. In my view, Bitcoin doesn’t need financial engineering to succeed—just as credit markets didn’t require complex derivatives to finance great companies.

@AlenaNazarova_ Body uses carbohydrates first because there's is no way the body can store it and it's toxic to keep it around

Carbohydrates don’t cause weight gain. We are high-carbohydrate creatures, which is why the body uses glucose first for energy. Our brains also run primarily on carbohydrates.

@cardinal4ever @AlenaNazarova_ @grok please help answering this question

@AlenaNazarova_ Carbohydrates are sugars, how do they not contribute to weight gain? Please advise

@BorisJohnson Show us your short positions or just shut up

I've long suspected Bitcoin is a giant Ponzi scheme and now I'm hearing tales of woe that make me fear I'm right. mol.im/a/15643681

@SGBarbour What if someone bought all of gold or silver? Why is it any different?

Thought experiment. If Strategy bought all of the bitcoin in existence, what would the total network value be? Zero. Networks are valued based on their *distribution*. Strategy accumulating bitcoin is neutral at best, but likely bearish. :)

@AnonBTC21M @BitPaine @phongle @saylor You mean people are spending $100 just to collect $0.90?

@BitPaine @phongle @saylor Dividend buying today, tomorrow will show whether we have staying power or just a trade.

1000 $BTC within ~30 mins of market open. Unbelievable. $STRC Congratulations @phongle @saylor and team.

@paoloardoino The biggest driver for Bitcoin adoption is price. How can Tether help it? MSTR is helping the price by buying up $ billions every week

Tether built an internal Bitcoin dedicated dashboard to help our teams to support Bitcoin adoption and education across the globe 🍊🌍

@DerrickEvans4WV What do you think "MAGA" means ?

🚨 Gavin Newsom: "Trump wants to put America in reverse. To bring us back to a pre-1960s world."

@meglio @saylor I'm from Australia using Interactive Brokers. It worked just fine for me

@saylor Not true, Interactive Brokers disabled me from buying it from Australia because I'm not a wholesale trader. @saylor

Stretch is for everyone. $STRC

@CrisReed We're approaching a hockey stick 🏒 moment. This will take off vertically

I was bearish apparently

1200+ est today? STRC

@Devon_Eriksen_ The liberals just need to get on @X. But, then they're on bluesky

Conservatives understand liberals a lot better than liberals understand conservatives. That's because conservatives have most of the guns, trucks, and farms, while liberals have most of the cameras and microphones. So every time a conservative turns on a television, tunes the radio, or watches a film, he's hearing what liberals think, from liberals. Where does a liberal go to hear what conservatives think? All the radio, film and television version of conservatives are strawmen written by his fellow liberals. To hear what a conservative thinks from a conservative, he'd have to deliberately go and have a non-shouting conversation with someone he wouldn't normally talk to.