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#Bitcoin is an economical train that cannot be stopped. It is protected by US Law.

@attorneysanders + Studying Vol in an abstract & quant fashion. Without all of those stars aligning, and confidence in management, I would have never went so heavy into $MSTR with a financial or time allocation.

@ryQuant Yessir! 🫡🥂

@attorneysanders Ah the very literal interpretation. I added my time of initially studying bitcoin and learning about equities & investing from Buffett, Munger, Druckenmiller, Soros, Taleb, Thiel to name a few. Plus, my data science academic/corpo work overlaid perfectly with legacy MSTR.

$MSTR

@ThisiswhyweBTC @zaidlikesmstr @saylor This. 👆🏻

@zaidlikesmstr @saylor I say put long teem savings in BTC (the money you wont nee for 4+ year) abd short term money in $STRC BITCOIN = Savings account STRC= high yiekd checking acct/ money market.

$MSTR Saylor mentioned in a recent interview that the only product he is now comfortable recommending to friends and family is $STRC I couldn’t agree more. I have completely stopped recommending Bitcoin or $MSTR to my close friends and family. And it took me a while to understand why. No matter how valid the thesis is, these investments become so obvious to us in hindsight… that we forget to step outside ourselves. To see it from the perspective of someone with a surface level understanding of money. When the trade goes in their favor, you look like a genius. But the moment volatility hits, no amount of warning about long term holds prepares them. Most lose interest. Most start complaining. And most are disincentivized from buying more, which is the entire point. The goal was never to get someone to buy once. The goal is to get them curious about the way money works… The conversations I find far more productive now are the ones that spark that curiosity. Why is the US government bullish on the asset class? Why is the largest asset manager on the planet bullish on it? Why are major banks interested in custodying it? Why is the President of El Salvador, capitalizing his entire nation on Bitcoin? Those questions do more than any price chart ever could. And even then, once someone has done the work and is genuinely convinced, I still ask them one more thing. Are they truly prepared to watch their portfolio drop more than 50% at any given point? Are they willing to sit through that? If yes, then I encourage them fully But before any of that conversation, there is now $STRC For the first time, there is a product I can recommend to a friend or family member without needing to explain Bitcoin, monetary debasement, or corporate treasury strategy in length. I can just let them sit with a few months of monthly dividends. Let them get comfortable. And once they are, the conversation about what is powering that yield, how a company that went from $1 billion to $60 billion is capitalized on it, and why companies across the world are slowly capitalizing themselves on the same asset, becomes a lot easier to have. $STRC is the bridge. Not just for the capital markets. For the people closest to you. $BTC $MSTR $STRC

The next two weeks will belong to STRC @saylor has awoken a demand side beast

@doubled369369 Tallow, located in Philadelphia.

It is with much consideration that I have decided to cancel the bear market.

So Bitcoin reaches $80,000 in the week that Strategy doesn't buy any. But I was told it was only Saylor that was buying. Narrative destruction playing out before our very eyes.

@AdamSimecka Bitbo(dot)io says we breached 80K there for a second.

What did I miss?

How my my whole life feels watching God line everything up for me.

BlackRock has labeled Bitcoin as a “risk-off” asset. 👀

The Ghost in the Machine: How Player Pianos Sparked Protests, and What They Reveal About Our AI Future In the early 1900s, the player piano was a sensation. These self-playing instruments used perforated paper rolls fed through pneumatic mechanisms to reproduce complex piano performances automatically. By the 1910s to mid-1920s, they outsold ordinary pianos in many markets, filling American parlors, saloons, and theaters with ragtime, marches, and classical pieces. Great artists like Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ignace Paderewski cut rolls, preserving their interpretations for generations. It was automation that brought “live” music into every home, without the need for lessons or live performers. Yet this marvel triggered intense resistance. Composers and musicians saw it as an existential threat. In his fiery 1906 essay “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” bandleader and composer John Philip Sousa warned that player pianos and phonographs would “substitute machinery for the human soul.” He predicted the death of amateur music-making: children would stop learning instruments, families would stop gathering around the piano, and music would lose its emotional depth. Sousa testified before Congress, helping drive the 1909 Copyright Act, which created compulsory licensing so composers could earn royalties from mechanical reproductions, a landmark victory born from protest. As “talkies” and radio displaced theater orchestras in the late 1920s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) launched the Music Defense League in 1930. Funded by a tax on members, the union spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions in today’s dollars) on a national advertising blitz. Dramatic newspaper ads depicted sinister robots replacing human musicians, with slogans like “Is Art to Have a Tyrant?” and warnings that “canned music” would destroy jobs and degrade culture. The campaign targeted not just records but all mechanical music, including player pianos in public spaces. While there were no Luddite-style riots smashing machines (player pianos were mostly expensive home devices), the opposition was fierce: boycotts, lobbying, lawsuits, and cultural shaming of anyone who chose “the robot” over living performers. The protests did not kill the player piano. Record sales, radio, and the Great Depression did that by the early 1930s. But the episode left a lasting legacy: new copyright rules, heightened awareness of technology’s impact on artists, and a template for how workers respond to automation. We are living through the same story with AI and robotics. Generative models now compose music, write screenplays, generate art, and even perform. Musicians, writers, and visual artists are protesting in eerily familiar ways: lawsuits over unlicensed training data (the modern equivalent of the player-piano royalty fight), demands for “human-made” labels, strikes by Hollywood writers and actors, and public campaigns against “AI slop.” Fears echo Sousa’s exactly: loss of soul, authenticity, jobs, and human connection. “The robot is coming” ads of 1930 could run unchanged today, just swap “canned music” for “AI-generated content.” History’s lesson is nuanced. The player piano did not end music; it briefly coexisted with live performance before giving way to richer ecosystems. Rolls by legends now serve as priceless archives. Protests forced legal compromises that protected creators while allowing innovation. Yet real displacement happened. Thousands of theater musicians lost steady work, and the cultural shift toward passive consumption was real. Today’s AI moment carries higher stakes: it threatens not just one profession but broad swaths of cognitive and creative labor. Robots and AI could augment surgeons, drivers, teachers, and artists, or render many obsolete. The player-piano saga shows that raw Luddism rarely wins, We cannot stop technological progress, The music plays on. The question is: who, or what, plays it?

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And in two years and 17 days, Justice Thomas will surpass Justice William O. Douglas as the Court’s longest serving Justice. It will be most fitting that the record set by Justice Douglas, one of the worst Justices in American history and a contemptible human being, will be eclipsed by Justice Thomas, one of the greatest Justices ever to serve on the Court and a genuinely good and decent man.

@adam3us @Excellion A trillion here, a trillion there.... After a while it starts to add up to real money.

URSULA VON DER LEYEN: LOOKING BACK, I BELIEVE IT WAS A STRATEGIC MISSTEP FOR GERMANY TO ABANDON NUCLEAR ENERGY — IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT CLIMATE, BOTH GAS AND COAL ARE FAR MORE HARMFUL THAN NUCLEAR.

Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for systematically lying about the Ukrainian famine while 7 million people starved to death under Stalin's forced collectivization. The New York Times correspondent knew exactly what he was doing when he filed reports describing "shortages" and "food difficulties" instead of the mass starvation unfolding before his eyes. Duranty's articles praised Soviet agricultural policy even as entire villages disappeared. He wrote glowing accounts of collective farms while peasants ate bark and grass. When other journalists reported the truth about the Holodomor, Duranty dismissed their accounts as "malignant propaganda" and assured American readers that Stalin's five-year plan was working brilliantly. The Times promoted his coverage on the front page throughout 1932. Duranty lived in Moscow, traveled through Ukraine, and witnessed the consequences of central planning firsthand. He chose to cover for Stalin because he believed the Soviet experiment represented humanity's future. Like many Western intellectuals of his era, he convinced himself that millions of deaths were acceptable collateral damage for building socialism. The Pulitzer committee rewarded him for this moral bankruptcy. The Holodomor perfectly illustrates what happens when states control food production and distribution. Stalin confiscated grain to feed cities and export abroad while rural Ukraine descended into cannibalism. Free market economists had predicted exactly this outcome when central planners replaced price signals with bureaucratic decree. The Times has never recinded Duranty's Pulitzer Prize.

Inflation is a tax on the poor and a subsidy to the rich. A party which refuses to deal with inflation, hates the poor and loves the rich. Guess what happens in every socialist state - high inflation. Socialists hate the poor.