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.@saylor should pay a $BTC dividend for $STRC. Make the shorts buy some Bitcoin.

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@DavesEchoVerse @zerohedge There is something to this.

@zerohedge Solana VCs manipulating the markets again because they’re scared of Ethereum.

ETH slammed as naked perp shorts more than offset BitMine's constant buying

Fee pressure is creeping back up on Ethereum, which is why the issuance debate is the wrong fight right now. Don't touch the incentive structure while the fee environment is subject to spikes. The case for lowering issuance is reasonable. It's the same logic behind stock buybacks over dividends. You're converting forced, near-term yield obligations into discretionary, long-term value accrual. That's a defensible trade. But the timing has to be right. Fix the fee problem first. Then revisit issuance.

The strongest hold over the slaves of a fiat system is to tax gains that don't account for inflation. They will never give this up, and they will never admit to the true purchasing power loss in a government index.

@VentureCoinist It would be the answer to their 5% alchemy marketing ceiling. Roll the next 5% into its own STRC type vehicle.

Tom Lee creating the $ETH version of STRC is not priced in. The chances of it happening go up if Saylor's $BTC buying machine keeps growing & performing well.

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@BenjaminStongMD What percentage of the supply do XRP insiders own?

$MSTR shareholders talk a lot about the endgame. What happens when they accumulate 1M, 2M, 5M, or how about 10M $BTC? Rightfully so, there is a concern about one entity owning “too much” of the network. We can all understand the idea that if they acquired 99% of the network, it would be silly to use BTC as the reserve store of value. Therefore we can surmise that there is a level at which it would benefit both Strategy and its shareholders to sell the network to achieve homeostasis. Could you imagine a world where @Strategy identified a target threshold of network ownership, above which they distributed shareholder dividends in BTC? A centralized distribution channel for a decentralized network. @saylor and @phongle could completely return trip the BTC network to hyperbitcoinize the world. Owning 20% of the network, while continuously smoothing out BTC distribution to the rest of the world. It would be the greatest Trojan Horse of all time!

@Badie912 Why would someone buy a DAT that doesn't DAT?

$bmnr only needs roughly $1.5–2.2 billion more to hit 5% of $eth goal! This means ATM off forever soon! Projections put us at about 10 weeks out. June 29th!! We should be hitting some massive momentum in $eth by then too.

Almost done. 16 layer screen-print. Hand-pulled one by one. Each print slightly different. You can already feel it. Drops tomorrow.

@steviepxyz Is it IPFS or Filecoin?

IPFS > Arweave because if the snakeoily forever storage thing ends up breaking down you at least have a pretty robust escape hatch to keep your files up. Anyhow, here's the lighthouse website. You can just input a list of CIDs and you're good. lighthouse.storage

Since we're all talking about IPFS, here's my hot take: Pinata is a rip off, and Arweave is probably snake oil. Personally, I'm a fan of lighthouse where $20 (1 month of Pinata) gets you 5gb of filecoin storage (which is about as "forever" and snakeoily as Arweave, but on IPFS)

@CorySwan I suspect Tether exited part of their gold trade to move into strc.

What is the single best answer for why $STRC demand has exploded in recent days? Thread links also welcome.

@TimDraper Isn't this the dude that sued MTGox and held up everyone's money for years?

I bought Bitcoin at $4. Or so I thought. Peter Viscenne had offered to mine it for me. He bought some fast mining chips from Butterfly Labs, but rather than delivering them to him, they used them to mine their own bitcoin. Then when Peter finally got the chips, Bitcoin was over $30. So he mined what he could. Then we lost all our Bitcoin to Mt. Gox when they “lost” the money. Since Bitcoin didn’t drop much on the Mt.Gox news, I did some research. It turned out that Bitcoin was being used for remitting money, paying unbanked employees, and creating economies where there weren’t any. So when I heard about the US Marshall’s auction, I bid over market at $632 and bought all nine lots offered. Got on Fox Business in 2014 and said Bitcoin would hit $10,000 in three years. The host looked at me like "Why did we have this guy on the show?" Three years to the day, Bitcoin hit $10,000. After that, my predictions have not been so prescient, but I have reason to believe that Bitcoin will reach $250k in 18 months… and eventually I expect the number to be higher as Bitcoin rises and the dollar falls to inflationary pressures.

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@Ethprofit You are not alone in this pursuit, but I wouldn't say all of them were scams - looking at you, ATOM. I also wouldn't want a world where ETH and BTC weren't under constant pressure to progress.

Back in 2017, I started by mining Ethereum. That quickly turned into an endless loop of chasing the “next big coin”, joining Telegram groups, and doing “research” to justify every bet. I spent nearly four years convincing myself the next catalyst was right around the corner. “The exchange listing is coming soon.” “A McDonald’s partnership is on the way.” Meanwhile, I went from holding life changing gains to slowly funneling money into founders pockets. By late 2019, it finally clicked. Most of these weren’t hidden gems or the next "Ethereum killer". They were just SHITCOINS... SCAMS. Founders raised tens of millions, then kept the hype alive while everyone else kept buying in. That’s when I pivoted back to Ethereum. A network that’s actually decentralized, secure, and built on real innovation. Six years later, that decision changed everything. $ETH is my generational wealth.

$STRC is sucking up risk off money flow.

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Trying to figure out why STRC isn't a ponzi that will blowup. The distinction is funds buy a scarce underlying asset instead of just paying back new investors. So, Yield buyers → BTC more scarce -> higher BTC & MSTR -> More MSTR ATM -> More money for BTC purchases and interest obligations. It's still an expensive way raise money, but when we see BTC 5x, they could easily retire all the issued STRC at 101, which or course sends MSTR soaring.

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