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Jesus is Lord. #bitcoin

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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
#Bitcoin is not a self-centered idea. “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.“ Phill 2:3-4
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Adam Livingston
Adam Livingston@AdamBLiv·
@d_rufner Yes indeed :) I became a father today! GOD IS GREAT! CHRIST IS KING!
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Adam Livingston
Adam Livingston@AdamBLiv·
The average MSTR bear thinks preferred stock is a rug pull because they learned corporate finance from a YouTube thumbnail titled “THE TRUTH THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW” and a Discord guy named LiquidationLarry.
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Divided By 21M
Divided By 21M@DivBy21·
Admiral Paparo just put the Softwar thesis on Senate record: “Bitcoin shows incredible potential as a computer science tool… through the proof of work protocols… as a power projection.” He called it a “peer-to-peer zero trust transfer of value” that supports “all instruments of national power.” Exactly what @JasonPLowery predicted. Two weeks ago I broke down the MIT paper + why Bitcoin treasury companies (Strategy, Metaplanet, SWC) are early strategic infrastructure: Full article here: x.com/divby21/status… Proof-of-work just became national security doctrine.
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Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine·
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 United States Indo-Pacific Commander, Admiral Samuel Paparo, advises the Senate that "Bitcoin shows incredible potential as a computer science tool." "Bitcoin is a reality, it is a valuable computer science tool as a power projection."
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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
Sad, but often true. I'm thankful for the non-profits that do legit work serving a local community. I would commend to you New Path Pregnancy Resource Centers (Marysville & Bellefontaine, Ohio), for your consideration. They are excellent stewards of donations received. Don't take my word for it. Come for a visit, and talk to @KatShankss. The world needs to see good examples.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@mattvanswol A friend of mine donated to an orphanage for over a decade and one day he stopped by to check on the orphans. What he found was a room full of people working the phones for donations and zero kids. Not even one kid for show. Zero.
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
I hate to say it… But I’m struggling to be generous after all the fraud we’ve seen. There’s so few charities I trust now. I do a deep dive on a homeless charity… oh look, my tax dollars are funding that and it’s run by a Trump-hating Leftist. A Christian charity? Oh look, they’re helping illegal aliens. An education nonprofit? Oh look, it’s getting money from Left-wing political groups to send in Democrat activists to give lectures on LGBTQ oppression. Even my TAX DOLLARS I know are being used to fund some BS non-profit that probably has me on a list somewhere as an extremist and is actively trying to cancel me. It’s hard to be generous when I’m already being generously stolen from in taxes and when even the nonprofits aren’t actually solving the problems they reportedly exist to solve.
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Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor@saylor·
Strategy is proposing to pay semi-monthly dividends on $STRC, instead of monthly. No change to the annual dividend obligations or dividend rate. These proposed changes are intended to stabilize price, dampen cyclicality, drive liquidity, and grow demand.
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Graham Stephan
Graham Stephan@GrahamStephan·
I’ve spent a decade telling people to do what I do: "Buy and Hold." Now I've decided to list my entire real estate portfolio for sale and walk away. It started slow. The bills, the maintenance, the tax increases... but the final straw was when I tried to develop an ADU to do exactly what the city of LA claims it wants investors like me to do: Create more housing. You'd think they'd make it easier, but after two delayed inspections, a sewer pipe replacement that needed 75 days advance notice, and a city-owned tree that became my responsibility, I'd had enough. The identity of being a real-estate guy is very hard to walk away from, trust me. For a long time, I stayed just because real estate was my "thing." It’s how I started. It’s what I’m known for. It led to every good thing in my life. But that blinded me to the fact that just because something served me in the past, it doesn't mean things haven't changed in the present. The reality of 2026 finally stripped the emotion away. My LA rentals are netting about 4-5% after the constant background noise of taxes, insurance spikes, and repairs. Meanwhile, a risk-free Treasury pays 5%. The trade-off just doesn't make sense any more. I’m reallocating to a liquid portfolio that actually lets me focus on the work I love. I published a deep dive on my Substack about the ADU nightmare that broke my patience, the exact numbers behind the exit, and where I’m moving the money next to buy back my sanity. I'll drop the link here in a bit.
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Frank Turek
Frank Turek@DrFrankTurek·
Is Jesus in every book of the Bible?
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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
@DataRepublican LDS does not have any commitment to the biblical Jesus. It doesn't matter what the name tags say. You are an exemplary researcher. Do 5 minutes of basic research on the well documented difference between the historical orthodox biblical Jesus and the Jesus of LDS.
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DataRepublican (small r)
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican·
Utah is facing some real challenges right now. I'm not a member of the LDS, and I don't pretend to be. I see myself more as a sojourner in the Biblical sense... someone not born into the culture, but someone who has come to appreciate it deeply. From the outside, it's hard not to recognize what the LDS community has built. It is American: strong families, faith-centered living that's increasingly rare. My approach to Utah is simple. I try to live by the spirit of Mark 9:38–40. We may come from different backgrounds, but we can still stand together in our shared commitment to Jesus Christ. That also means being mindful of influences and agendas that pull us away from that foundation. And that includes @mormonweg .
Tyler Bowyer@tylerbowyer

Utah better get a handle on this stuff

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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
@GeriPerna This is one way that having actual elders & deacons helps. You fought the good fight… no criticism, but you shouldn’t be put in such a pickle.
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Geri Perna
Geri Perna@GeriPerna·
I once was a bookkeeper for a church. We got a new Pastor and he was very arrogant. I remember that I handled the confidential tithes and offerings of the parishioners, and he wanted to see them. I told him no. I told him that wasn't any of his business, and as a pastor he should know that. Then he started bringing in friends to speak on Sundays. Love offerings were collected, and on Monday morning, he would ask me how much had been collected. Let's say it was $1459.00. He would tell me to round that up. So, I would say, okay, $1500? He would say no, give them $2000. I fought him. Things got ugly. He started pounding his fist on the desk, telling me that the buck stopped with him. I yelled right back, and I told him that I treated that checkbook as if it were God's checkbook and I wasn't writing another check from it. I quit on the spot. Pastors and churches need to be held accountable. Their financials should be completely public.
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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
@SimplyBitcoin Do you mean “down payment”? The home is the collateral for a home loan.
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Simply Bitcoin
Simply Bitcoin@SimplyBitcoin·
Would you use Bitcoin as collateral for a home loan?
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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
@MartyBent I think I'm missing something... for a mortgage, isn't the home the collateral? Or do you mean, the btc as "collateral" is used in place of a down payment?
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Marty Bent
Marty Bent@MartyBent·
This is massive. I just took out a mortgage using bitcoin as collateral (not from Coinbase, though I love to see them roll this out) and I can’t tell you how much of a relief it was for me and my wife. These products are going to be insanely popular. Not priced in.
TFTC@TFTC21

Five years ago, telling your mortgage lender you owned Bitcoin was a red flag. Today, Fannie Mae is backing home loans where Bitcoin IS the down payment. That's not a crypto startup. That's the U.S. government's mortgage backbone treating Bitcoin as collateral with the same protections as a conventional 30-year home loan. Here's what changed: 41% of American families fail to buy a home because they can't scrape together the cash for a down payment. Not because they're broke. Because their wealth is locked in assets they'd have to sell, triggering capital gains, paperwork, and a tax bill that eats the down payment itself. Bitcoiners know this trap better than anyone. You're sitting on life-changing wealth and the system punishes you for trying to use it. This product eliminates that wall. Pledge BTC or USDC as collateral, receive a loan for the down payment, keep your Bitcoin, pay no capital gains. Rate is 0.5 to 1.5 points above standard depending on borrower profile. The key detail: no margin calls. No collateral top-ups. If Bitcoin drops in value, the mortgage terms remain unchanged and no additional collateral is required. Market movements alone never trigger liquidation. The only liquidation risk is a 60-day payment delinquency, same as any conventional mortgage. This is how billionaires have operated for decades. Borrow against assets, never sell. Private banks built empires on this model for the ultra-wealthy. The difference now: it's available to anyone holding Bitcoin on an exchange. The real story isn't the product. It's what Fannie Mae's involvement signals. A government-sponsored enterprise formally underwriting Bitcoin-collateralized debt means the U.S. housing system no longer views Bitcoin as speculation. It views it as wealth. That's a classification shift that took 15 years to happen and will be impossible to reverse.

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Kevin W.
Kevin W.@Brink_Thinker·
The freshman punter was called up to varsity during the homecoming game and this happens.
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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
@XFreeze No, does not work. I tried it and it loses memory and forgets files.
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X Freeze
X Freeze@XFreeze·
You can upload up to 100 files (Images, PDFs, or documents) - directly into Grok Whether it’s tax documents, medical records, confidential files, contracts, or office projects, Grok helps you analyze everything in seconds Grok can break down complex information, summarize key points, and even identify hidden loopholes inside contracts Work smarter. Let Grok handle the heavy lifting
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Chuck Shanks
Chuck Shanks@chuck_shanks·
"Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal." ??? so, for millions of years, while the "navigation system" was NOT fully developed and working, how did the birds and their offspring survive to try again? You don't get to keep failing and starting over.
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The Curious Tales
The Curious Tales@thecurioustales·
🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time. Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight. The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate. What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field. Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal. We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain. The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours. This bird does 11 days. Without a runway.
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The Curious Tales@thecurioustales

🚨BREAKING: Scientists tracked a bird that flew 8,425 miles (13,560 km) without stopping even once — the longest non-stop flight ever recorded.

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