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#Bitcoin “We THINK for some, but we HOPE for many, and we PRAY for all” (Bitcoin Is Venice)

@WalkerAmerica Holy crap. What a scary 24 hrs. Glad her and the baby are doing ok. Thoughts and prayers to you all!

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

@NoShotNomad @TylerDurden Haha. Eat a dick!

@LordBitBert @TylerDurden Any proof of that claim or do you want to get sued?

I want you to deal with your problems by becoming Bitcoin rich.

@Dale21M @BTCsessions Yes! Replace then spend!

Now for an uncontroversial question. Should you spend bitcoin?

@NoShotNomad @TylerDurden 🤣🤣🤣 You’re a grifter!!!

@TylerDurden Not gonna happen. You can refer back to this, but Bitcoin will whither away to near zero.

@ElofsonJess Do you want to take away the power from the pedophile baby eating cult blackmailing politicians? Buy ₿Itcoin (then transfer it into cold storage)!

What happened to the man we voted for? Interdimensional demon aliens Sounds bat shit crazy, right. So did a pedophile baby eating cult blackmailing politicians 5 years ago. But here we are Or it's just greed, my money is on demons by way of greed and blackmail. Happy Easter

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@TFTC21 Put it in the “Marty was right again” jar

Folks, we told you this was coming, and today the mask is fully off. A couple weeks back we reported, based on solid sources, that Coinbase was quietly lobbying to kill a real de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin while pushing one that applied only to stablecoins like USDC. We laid out the clear incentives in our deep dive. Coinbase made 1.35 billion dollars in stablecoin revenue last year, up 48 percent year over year, almost entirely from yield on the Treasuries backing USDC. A proper Bitcoin de minimis would let people spend sats on everyday purchases without triggering taxable events on every transaction. That directly competes with their centralized yield machine. We called it what it was. Policy that protects Coinbase’s float rather than advancing neutral Bitcoin adoption. Brian Armstrong pushed back hard. He called our reporting totally false and misinformation while insisting he was personally lobbying for Bitcoin de minimis. Some accused us of lying or spreading rumors. We stood firm. We offered to have Brian on the TFTC podcast to clear the air. We waited. Now the latest draft from Reps. Horsford and Max Miller on the updated PARITY Act framework has dropped. It confirms exactly what we warned about. It gives a de minimis exemption to stablecoins but leaves Bitcoin out entirely. It keeps the punishing double taxation on Bitcoin mining fully intact while carving out relief for passive validation, basically staking. This is not an oversight or sloppy drafting. It abandons any pretense of technology neutrality and deliberately picks winners. Dollar-pegged stables and staking get the breaks, while actual Bitcoin usage as money and Proof-of-Work mining get kneecapped. Without de minimis for Bitcoin, every small Lightning payment or sat transaction still forces cost-basis tracking and IRS headaches. Paying your plumber in sats or grabbing lunch with Bitcoin remains a taxable event. Stablecoins, being pegged and low-volatility, get an exemption they barely need. The real beneficiary is protecting that massive USDC reserve float and the yield it generates. Meanwhile, American Bitcoin miners, already operating in one of the toughest, most capital- and energy-intensive industries, face continued double taxation while staking gets a pass. That is not neutral policy. It is industrial policy against domestic Bitcoin mining at a time when we should be leaning into energy abundance and securing the hardest monetary network. The Bitcoin Policy Institute is releasing a full statement soon, and we fully back the call for strong community pushback. Every Bitcoiner needs to contact their reps and make it politically radioactive to sideline Bitcoin while handing carve-outs to stables and staking. This language slows real adoption, entrenches custodians, and weakens American Bitcoin infrastructure. We weren’t lying. Our sources weren’t lying. The draft proves the reporting was on target. Those who rushed to call it misinformation owe the community some honest reflection. Brian, if you’re still open to that conversation, the invitation stands. Come on the podcast. No spin, just walk us through how this draft lines up with your stated support for Bitcoin de minimis. The mic is warm. This fight isn’t over. Bitcoin doesn’t need permission, but bad policy can delay sovereign adoption and punish the miners securing the network. We’re here to protect the protocol and the right of individuals to use sound money without turning every transaction into a compliance nightmare. Stay sovereign. Stack sats. Use Bitcoin as money anyway. Call your reps today.

@TFTC21 GameStop is a $hit coin!

GameStop bought 4,710 Bitcoin. Their balance sheet now shows 1. The other 4,709 are in a Coinbase collateral agreement with full rehypothecation rights. GameStop transferred its entire stack to Coinbase Prime, sold OTC covered call options with $105K-$110K strikes expiring late March 2026, and collected premium income. The collateral agreement required removing 4,709 BTC from the balance sheet. What replaced it: a "digital assets receivable" valued at $368.3M. Rehypothecation means Coinbase can lend those coins, use them as their own collateral, or mix them with other customer assets. This is the same mechanism that blew up MF Global and Lehman Brothers. GameStop dropped from the 21st largest public Bitcoin holder to 190th overnight. Not because they sold. Because the coins aren't legally on their books anymore. The covered calls cap upside at $105-110K per coin. If Bitcoin runs past that, Coinbase exercises and GameStop delivers at the strike. Result so far: a $131.6M reported loss on digital assets for the fiscal year. Strategy holds 762,099 BTC and has never pledged a single coin as collateral. GameStop held 4,710 for less than a year before turning them into a yield product. Not your keys, not your coins has never been more literal.

@Leishman Thank you! 🙏

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@ElofsonJess Study ₿itcoin!

Gold is down from $5600 to $4270 per oz Primarily over the last month alone. That's fucking weird. Gold doesn't fall like that in a regular war. This isn't what they say it is.

@btcfeen ETH 🤣🤣🤣 Bro!

Btc and eth look ready for a move up

@GuyTalksFinance Jesus. You have lost the plot. #₿Itcoin

Your goal should be to get $10,000 invested into the S&P 500 as quickly as possible. That’s your first step to financial freedom.

@WalkerAmerica This is such a good point!

Here’s the thing… most of the “brilliant” boomer investors are actually retarded. They’re not geniuses. They just lived through a period of insane monetary debasement where everything went up. They left the world worse than they found it. They are self-righteous leeches.

@carlabitcoin @BitcoinVeterans @WalkerAmerica Let’s gooooo! Congratulations to the entire family!! 🙌💪🙌💪

I’m building again 🥰

@RonSwanonson It is all right there, out and in the open. Open your eyes people!!! 👀

If Michael Saylor succeeds, then it’ll be the biggest story in finance history In order for him to fail, bitcoin would have to stop appreciating for a very long time In order for bitcoin to stop appreciating, Central banks would have to stop expanding the money supply… I don’t think enough people have thought about the transitive certainty of success here

@MartyBent He’s a RETARD!

Stan Druckenmiller is either an idiot or he is trying to cattle herd people into a digital panopticon.