Basem Aggad باسم العقاد

15 years later... بعد ١٥ سنة..

if you’re reading this, everything is going to work out fine breathe a bit, turn off the phone, sit with your thoughts outside things have a way of resolving themselves if you just let go of expectations

I remember when Grand Muftis could speak without notes. Now they just read fatwas off their phones. The 2024 intake of grand muftis was the worst ever. Decline.

-The Iraq War was a disaster -Yeah but if we changed one letter and tried again?

One more week until the 20,000,000th bitcoin is mined. The remaining 1,000,000 will take 114 years.

Every time you hop across the channel, remember it all started with one of these... Bleriot XI, the first aircraft to cross the English Channel, in 1909. x.com/DudespostingWs…

Me casually at dinner when my family asks how my Bitcoin investment is going:

Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the inevitable result of the destruction of a centuries-old system of private property rights and its replacement by race-based state ownership. Since 1947, property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells, and only leases land to one racial group. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere. In 1945, the British mandate government surveyed land ownership in Palestine and found that Jews owned 5.67% of the total land, while Muslims, Christians & other denominations owned 48.31% of the land. The remaining 46.02% was public land, mainly in the sparsely inhabited desert in the south, most of which was de facto owned by the Bedouins who herded there. Among the privately-owned lands, only 10.5% was owned by Jews, while 89.5% was owned by non-Jews. There was not a single district in Palestine in which Jews owned a majority of the land, as this illustration makes clear.[1] In 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was issued, the Jewish population ranged from 4% to 13%. In 1945, the population of Palestine was 1,764,520, of which 69% were Muslim and Christian, and 31% were Jewish.[2] The majority of the Jewish population was recent immigrants from Europe, many illegal. Even after decades of legal and illegal immigration, land purchases financed by European benefactors, and terrorism against Palestinian civilians and British forces, the Zionist movement had less than a third of the population of Palestine, and owned less than 6% of its land when it established its ethnostate. To establish an ethnostate on a land in which the right ethnicity was less than a third of the population, and owned less than a twelfth of the land, Zionist terrorists engaged in a premeditated and systematic campaign of terrorism, murder, and violent expulsion, meticulously planned from the 1930s, ruthlessly executed against a largely unarmed population, and practically continuing until this day, explaining the conflict’s longevity. This has been extensively documented by Palestinian historians, such as Walid Khalidi and Rashid Khalidi, as well as by Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe and Benny Morris.[3] [Continues in next tweet]

No, you did not miss the bitcoin train. We are just getting started. Just because bitcoin went up a lot does not mean it cannot go up a lot more. On the contrary, the more it goes up, the more it demonstrates product-market fit, the more likely it is to go up. Bitcoin is different from stocks, bonds, and commodities because it has a much, much larger addressable market. Let's compare: Apple's total addressable market is 8 billion people who can own an iphone and laptop. A lot of them already do, and a lot of them are too poor, so there's just not much more room for growth. Maybe Apple can increase by 5x, or 10x, but it would need to introduce new products that are wildly popular to do so, which is very difficult. Ultimately, an Apple stock is a claim on cashflow, and it is priced based on expectations of Apple cashflow, and it is not easy to continue to increase cashflow once you're a trillion dollar company. But bitcoin is money, and its total addressable market is all of the planet's cash balances, which currently include something in the range of $100 Trillion in physical government cash and checking and saving bank accounts, plus ~$120 Trillion in government bonds, ~$22 Trillion in gold, and arguably, a chunk of the world's real estate and stock markets, which people are holding to beat inflation, and not to take risk in search of return. All in all, bitcoin's Total Addressable Market is in the range of $200-300 Trillion, which is about 100 times larger than what it is now. All of these assets are trash compared to bitcoin, and there is no reason for anyone intelligent to hold a significant position in them. Everything held in these assets has lost ~90% of its value against bitcoin in the last 5 years, and will likely keep losing another 90% every few years. The only things maintaining significant demand for these assets at this point are their holders' old age, intelligence deficiency, and susceptibility to government propaganda. They can continue to hold these assets as they decline, making them poorer, or they can shift to bitcoin and start getting richer. Either way, and regardless of what they do, the world's wealth is going to end up in the hard money, and not in the obsolete moneys of the twentieth century. Bitcoin has no cashflow to price it. Most nocoiners think this makes it a ponzi, but that is only because they have never experienced real money, and only have as a frame of reference the hot potato trash fiat money which everyone smart tries to exchange for hard assets as soon as they can. They are incapable of understanding people demanding to hold money for its own sake, for its ability to hold value, and not for cashflow. This is how gold became the money of the world without generating any cash flow, and this is why bitcoin, which is infinitely better money than gold, is going to continue to monetize and grow. Nonetheless, bitcoin's demand is highly variable, and with leverage, it will likely continue to be significantly volatile for the foreseeable future, so always keep in mind that it could decline significantly, and manage your position accordingly.

من الصعب ان لا تكون قد سمعت عن #بيتكوين او قد تكون معلوماتك عنه لا تكفي لفهمه و/أو تكوين صورة سليمة عنه.. حان الأوان لتغيير ذلك! #Bitcoin #Amman #Jordan forms.gle/sWCiSHdzuaPcS4…

@BasilOthman والله ستر الله على أحلامنا البريئة وضعف حالنا لو خالف هوانا ما قدٌر لنا.. الحمدلله والله يجزيك الخير على حسن ظنك ومشاعرك

@basemaggad جداً فرحتلك من كل قلبي….حلمي من الطفولة كان الطيران…و زيك درست كهرباء….بس انت كملت الحلم….اغبطك من كل قلبي….زي كأني أنا و اكثر و الله

15 years later... بعد ١٥ سنة..

@miami_rick allow me to share this related shameless self promotion: 15 years ago i realised i was in the 'wrong' line of work. Took me a decade to pursue it (purely not to regret not trying) and another 5 years to make it into the flightdeck. Fish back into water x.com/basemaggad/sta…

As a kid I’d look up at jets leaving contrails across the sky dreaming about being at the tip of that contrail one day. As a grownup kid I now look down at my contrail as reflected on the thin undercast layer below thinking about a kid looking up at us as we fly overhead. Full cirlcle.

@KhaledElAhmad تسلم احمد.. هذا من حسن ظنك

@basemaggad ملهم باسم فخور فيك

@MohammdAlqudah ستر الله علينا واحلامنا البريئة وضعف قلوبنا اذا خالف قدره هوانا.. الحمدلله اولا واخيرا ابو اللين.. الله يجزيك الخير

@basemaggad عظيم جدا صديقي، رحلة طويلة لكن أثمرت

@munifalharbi الله يبارك فيك.. شكرا استاذ منيف

@basemaggad ماشاءالله، الف مبروووووك🌷

@kalshihabi الله يبارك فيك خالد.. شكرا

@yasmeeneh الله يبارك فيك شكرا روان..

@basemaggad الف مبروك باسم صديقي برافو عليك

@mdarrab الله يسعدك مازن ويرفع قدرك.. هو توفيق الله وفضله وستره على عباده..

@basemaggad قصة تخلّد.

@AhlamKhaled__ الله يجزيك الخير شكرا على الكلام الطيب

@MidooDj @alfarhan الله يبارك فيك شكرا

@basemaggad @alfarhan ما شاء الله ألف ألف مبروك