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Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Imagine if @CoinMarketCap was a publicly traded company, had an influencer with 2 million followers as CEO, and the influencer CEO was tweeting misleading nonsense claims about it having $2.15 trillion of assets on it's platform.
That's basically what Pomp is doing here.
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This is a very misleading tweet. These assets are not "on Silvia". The assets are TRACKED by Silvia. It's a tracking tool. The wording appears to be intentionally phrased to mislead retail into buying his stock.
Anthony Pompliano 🌪@APompliano
This morning we announced that @cfosilvia now has more than $50 billion in assets on the platform. Self-directed investors are underserved by traditional financial firms, so we are solving their problems with unique solutions. $BRR
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Proud to be part of the @SimplyBitcoin team. Our mission is simple, create the best Bitcoin video content on the planet. They don’t like to brag but I do 😎 Simply Bitcoin is the most watched Bitcoin only YouTube channel, and we’re just getting warmed up.
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How Bitcoin Hard Forks Dox Users and Criminalize Deplatformed Holders -
Bitcoin hard forks occur when the network's protocol undergoes an incompatible upgrade, splitting the blockchain into two separate chains—each with its own cryptocurrency. Classic examples include the 2017 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork from Bitcoin (BTC), where BTC holders automatically received equivalent BCH on the new chain. While forks can enhance scalability or features, they introduce significant privacy and legal risks, particularly around taxation and compliance. In jurisdictions like the US, the IRS treats forked coins as taxable ordinary income at their fair market value (FMV) on the date of receipt, with subsequent sales triggering capital gains taxes. This creates pressure to "claim" and monetize the new assets, often funneling users toward regulated systems that expose their personally identifiable information (PII). #### The Doxxing Mechanism: Forced PII Registration for Forked Coin Liquidation For users holding BTC in self-custody (e.g., hardware wallets like Ledger or Trezor), a hard fork doesn't immediately reveal their holdings—Bitcoin's pseudonymous design keeps public addresses anonymous unless linked to off-chain data. However, to access the economic value of the forked coins (e.g., selling BCH while retaining BTC), users must broadcast transactions on the new chain, which often requires interacting with centralized exchanges or services. Here's how this cascades into doxxing, especially for those without pre-existing exchange accounts:
1. **Claiming Forked Coins Requires On-Chain Action:** To "fork" your holdings, you need a wallet compatible with the new chain. This involves signing a transaction from your original BTC address to generate the equivalent on the fork chain. While this step is on-chain and doesn't inherently dox you, it creates a traceable link between your BTC and fork-chain addresses—blockchain explorers can retroactively cluster them.
2. **Liquidation Demands Exchange Integration:** Most users want to sell the forked coins for fiat or BTC to capture value (forks often pump initially due to speculation). Centralized exchanges (CEXs) like Coinbase or Binance dominate trading for new fork tokens, but they mandate KYC/AML (Know Your Customer/Anti-Money Laundering) verification. Without an account, you'd have to: - Create one, submitting personally identifiable information (PII) such as government ID, proof of address, and often a selfie. - Deposit the forked coins by providing your public wallet address, explicitly linking your PII to the transaction history. - This registration ties your real-world identity to the wallet address used for the fork transaction.
3. **Tax Reporting Amplifies the Exposure:** The IRS requires reporting forked coins as income on Form 1040 (Schedule 1 for "other income") at FMV, and any sales on Form 8949/Schedule D for capital gains. For self-custody users, calculating FMV often involves wallet snapshots or transaction histories. To sell legally and offset taxes (e.g., via losses if the fork tanks), you'd route through a KYC'd exchange, which reports to the IRS via Form 1099-B (mandatory for all crypto sales starting 2025). This creates a permanent IRS record tying your PII to the addresses—effectively doxxing your entire BTC portfolio if addresses are clustered. Privacy advocates note this as a "privacy time bomb," where forks incentivize mass PII submission, turning pseudonymous holdings into a surveillance ledger. In essence, forks act as a "dox trap": Non-exchange users, who prized self-custody for anonymity, are coerced into the KYC ecosystem to avoid opportunity costs (e.g., holding worthless forked dust). Historical forks like BCH showed this in action—many users rushed to exchanges, leading to address reuse and deanonymization via chain analysis firms like Chainalysis, which exchanges feed data to.
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Bitcoin Fork Fears? Don't Get Tax-Slammed – Shield Up with Zcash Now!
Tired of BTC forks spawning "free" coins that Uncle Sam calls taxable income?
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Act Fast: Swap your BTC to ZEC today via trusted exchanges like Binance or Kraken. Secure your wealth in the shadows. Zcash: Privacy Pays. Yours. Always.
DYOR – Consult a tax pro. Not financial advice.
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@MrHodl How do we know he lost the bitcoin other than his claim that he lost it?
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An unusual talent for stealing other people’s content and reposting it as their own.
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unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Ten years ago the mortgage rate was 3.5% and the average new home cost $350,000. Today the rate is 6.5% and the average new home costs $540,000.
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Sold $STUB for breakeven on scalping SEC disclosure. Smells rotten.
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What These Expressions Actually Do
These smiles and laughs are not interchangeable. Each performs a different strategic function:
- Altman reassures: apparent calm makes institutional dependence visible.
- Mamdani disarms: joy denies opponents the angry reaction they expect.
- Bezos expands: explosive laughter converts ambition into physical energy.
- Trump declares: the expression labels every event a victory.
- Musk destabilizes: ambiguity forces others to guess whether the joke is real.
- Voltaire punctures: irony reduces authority to absurdity.
- Machiavelli conceals: the smirk implies an unseen layer of strategy.
- Harpo disrupts: delight makes rebellion appear innocent.
- Mona Lisa withholds: ambiguity places the observer under her control.
- Diogenes refuses: indifference strips conventional power of its value.
The strongest smile is not necessarily the biggest, warmest, or most beautiful. It is the expression that changes the balance of an encounter.
A laugh can fill a room. A smirk can humiliate an opponent. A grin can prevent an attack from landing. A half-smile can conceal an entire strategy. And, occasionally, the refusal to be impressed can make the most powerful person in the world look strangely powerless.
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1. The Smile That Power Could Not Purchase — Diogenes
The expression: Not a reliably documented physical grin, but the most famous attitude of amused contempt toward power in Western philosophy.
Diogenes presents the list’s most important distinction between a documented facial expression and a legendary posture.
Ancient tradition recounts that Alexander the Great approached the philosopher and offered to grant him a request. Diogenes supposedly asked Alexander to move because he was blocking the sunlight. Later versions often add a grin, laugh, or tone of insolent amusement. That facial detail cannot be historically verified.
Yet the story endures because Diogenes performed the conceptual equivalent of history’s greatest smirk. Alexander possessed armies, territory, wealth, and the authority to satisfy almost any conventional desire. Diogenes defeated that power simply by wanting nothing from him.
The strategic force of the encounter did not depend on physical aggression. Diogenes converted indifference into superiority. Alexander could conquer nations, but he could not impress a man who preferred sunlight.
Diogenes therefore belongs at number one not as the owner of history’s best-documented grin, but as the originator of its most powerful underlying idea: the person who cannot be intimidated, bribed, or impressed always retains one final form of power.
The message: You rule the world. Please move.
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The Most Iconic—and Strategic—Smiles and Laughs in History
Most famous people have been photographed smiling. That does not make the smile famous.
To qualify for this list, the expression itself must have become part of the person’s identity. It must be instantly recognizable, repeatedly discussed, consciously deployed, preserved in art, imitated by others, or transformed into a cultural symbol independent of the person’s other accomplishments.
This is therefore not a list of powerful people who happened to smile. It is a list of people—and one painted subject—whose smile, smirk, or laugh became a form of power in its own right.
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