Timothy Peterson

#bitcoin is the first money that requires no physical space to store it, no courier to carry it, no bookkeeper to count it, no auditor to check on it, no security guard to protect it, and no government to issue it.

$VIX still at 25, but it looks like it wants to go lower.

@AndrewKolvet Here's the '@grok is this true' for all the low-life zombies who were too lazy to study U.S. history: @grok do your thing...

When America was a young country, People used to hitch up their wagons and travel for days to go vote. Whole families would travel together, decked out in patriotic gear and make a celebration of it. It was their chance to be a part of something special. This excuse of "it's too hard" is a prime example of the degradation of American society. Civic duty must never be relegated to convenience. Good things require hard work.

Lisa Murkowski has been on the Senate floor for over ten minutes. As a member of the GOP, she's doing an EXCELLENT job of advocating for the SAVE America Act… oh wait... no, she's not. She's explaining why it's apparently TOO HARD to overcome logistical and geographical issues because of sled dogs and other things far less important than our nation's sovereignty. The amount of effort these people put into opposing something as simple as voter ID is astronomical and only proves how afraid they are.

@SenThomTillis "allowing Democrats to block every single Trump judge and executive branch nominee" You've done this yourself many times.

I am one of the few members of Congress who has actually passed a voter ID law (on a bipartisan basis), which I did as Speaker of the House in North Carolina, and that’s why I proudly co-sponsored the SAVE Act. While I support strengthening mail-in ballot integrity, many states like Utah, Florida, Alaska, and Montana rely on the use of mail-in ballots to conduct their elections, and we should not be completely upending how states already securely conduct their elections. Even if this issue is fixed, the SAVE America Act still will not have the 60 votes required to pass it. While the so-called ‘talking filibuster’ has been floated as an option, there is a reason why previous attempts to utilize it in recent history have failed. A ‘talking filibuster’ would effectively make Chuck Schumer the new Senate Majority Leader, allowing Democrats to block every single Trump judge and executive branch nominee, and allow them to force endless votes on anything they want. Democrats would control the floor of the U.S. Senate until the end of the year. There are only two ways out of a ‘talking filibuster.’ The first is for Democrats to miraculously give up and allow Republicans to pass the bill with a simple majority. That is never going to happen, and anyone who claims it’s even a remote possibility is either completely misinformed or intentionally misleading the American people. The second way is for Republicans to substantially weaken or eliminate the filibuster altogether. I have made it crystal clear that I will never vote to do this. Eliminating the filibuster is a foolish and lazy idea pushed by politicians seeking short-term gain at the expense of causing irreparable long-term harm to our nation. Succeeding in eliminating the filibuster would significantly weaken the minority party, end the need for bipartisan compromise, and allow erratic swings in policy that would transform America for the worse. Those are just the consequences of a best-case outcome. During the last Congress, all of my Democratic colleagues currently serving supported nuking the filibuster to try to pass their own partisan election reform bill. Democrats were dead wrong to try to change the filibuster when they controlled the Senate, and Republicans would be dead wrong to try to change the filibuster now that we control the Senate. The only real path to address the American people’s declining confidence in our elections is for both parties to find common ground on legislation that supports universal adoption of voter ID, proof of citizenship, and other vital election integrity measures.

A year ago the S&P 500 was in this exact same position. There was a 2-week panic crash followed by a year of +40% gains. Bitcoin dumped too, then rallied +65% to a new ATH. That was when the tariffs were going to wreck the economy and bring back 8% inflation. Smart people in the news and social media said so.

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@disclosetv I think it should be one giant platinum coin...

NEW - Commission of Fine Arts, composed entirely of Trump appointees, will weigh whether to approve a commemorative U.S. gold coin featuring Donald Trump to be released by the U.S. Mint — WaPo

@Outkick It was a stupid question.

"Why didn’t you tell Japan before Iran?" President Trump: "Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" Ain't no way man 💀

@CeeGix Well the tariffs were struck down by the supreme court, so not sure that's what it is.

@nsquaredvalue The tariffs also make traders really cautious, most of them are in cash.

I looked at every time the S&P 500 dropped below the 200-day MA since 1927. This has happened ~300 times in nearly 100 years. 100 days later, the S&P 500 was up 57% of the time with a median gain of +8.1%; it was down 43% of the time with a loss of-8.3%. This is hardly different than any random 100-day period. IOW, this metric doesn't tell you much.

@Crypto_TownHall This is in Moscow btw. Home to many "movie stars" and "professional fighters" apparently.

CRYPTO SCAMMER JAILED FOR SIX YEARS OVER $3M FRAUD A crypto scammer who defrauded a movie star and a professional fighter of over $3M has been sentenced to six years in prison. The case highlights ongoing risks in crypto markets, as high-profile individuals continue to be targeted by sophisticated scams.

Right, the only people who would care about this metric might be short term traders. Since 2015, the average decline from this point is -5%. But the S&P is already -6% off its high, so you've missed half the decline already. You might have caught it from a different signal (50, 100), but not 200. This 20 average doesn't tell you anything new (the market is falling), and it doesn't tell you want you want to know (where is the bottom).

@nsquaredvalue But if you extend the time by 300 days its up 100% of the time 😅

@cspan The US placed 40% of the world's air power in that region weeks before the attack. If you couldn't figure out what was going to happen, you're not too smart.

Q: "Why didn't you tell U.S. allies…about the war before attacking Iran?" President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

This is the 'no' bet everyone should make. You make 25% ROI. Costco hot dogs are subsidized by membership fees. They can keep the price at $1.50 forever and simply raise membership fees by $5 every 5 years or so.

@BitcoinNewsCom #imaging owning a tail risk hedge asset that you can't even trade on weekends, holidays, or overnight.

Since the beginning of the conflict with Iran: Gold is down over 14%, wiping out over $4 trillion in market cap. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is still up over 9%, despite the today's drawdown.

@0xaporia TA is attractive for the same reason socialism is attractive. It promises great rewards with virtually no effort. Every human is enticed by this proposition. Until they learn (mostly from experience) that it is a mirage. And some never learn.

If you have a friend who just started trading, chances are high that the first thing they did was slap an RSI and a MACD below their price chart, because that's what every beginner tutorial and trading influencer will tell you to do. The pitch is usually something like confluence. But if you just look at both graphs side by side, something becomes obvious pretty quickly, they move almost identically. That's why I added the correlation panel at the bottom. For a lot of beginners, seeing that line sitting stubbornly near +1 for most of the chart might be bit of a wake-up moment, hopefully. The reason they correlate so highly is that they're both doing the same job, for the most part: Trying to capture momentum, just through slightly different maths on the same input. So when you stack them and call it confluence, you're not getting a second opinion. Instead, you're just hearing the same opinion twice. And that's a broader issue with most popular technical indicators.

@BitcoinNewsCom A better way to look at it is bitcoin held by etfs. That value was declining since September, but rebounded in late February.

Bitcoin spot ETF holdings have declined by $15B since early January.

@TerribleMaps Frito pie is not weird.

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