We're doing another @Bitkey giveaway!
A built-in screen. No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig.
Follow @Bitkey and us, RT to enter. ✅
Winner announced Tuesday 6/23 at 4PM EST.
The boomers are walking into a disaster.
@LawrenceLepard and @boomer_btc pulled @theRealKiyosaki's warning up on air.
Their verdict: it's worse than he thinks.
Must watch.
We're doing another @Bitkey giveaway!
A built-in screen. No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig.
Follow @Bitkey and us, RT to enter. ✅
Winner announced Tuesday 5/26 at 4PM EST.
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
🇫🇷 This French magician, Léa Kyle, doing quick-change is straight-up witchcraft 😂
Bro, I wish getting dressed in the morning was this fast.
I’m still out here fighting socks like it’s a WWE cage match.
For those asking where I stand on the draft Capital Flow Management Regulations; I've been heads-down on this since the day they were published.
I made a deliberate choice not to post publicly first. The stakes here are too significant for personal performative noise. What this moment needs is substance that lands with the people who will redraft the final text.
What I can share: I've prepared a detailed 9,000 word submission to National Treasury and the SARB in my personal capacity, covering the Bitcoin vs crypto distinction, the gap between the promised risk-based framework and the drafted permission-based one, the constitutional vulnerabilities (property, privacy, non-self-incrimination, just administrative action), the duplication of the existing FSCA and FIC frameworks, and the economic consequences for financial inclusion, capital formation, listed entities, Bitcoin mining, and SADC remittances 😅
That submission is now in the hands of senior decision makers at both institutions. I am in direct, ongoing engagement on the substance.
I understand the impulse to go loud. In some moments it's the right call. In this one, I believe a considered submission from someone with (meager) institutional standing, delivered through the right channels at the right time, does more for the community and the country than another X thread.
BUT our industry needs both; visible public pressure and substantive engagement behind the scenes. I'm doing the second. Others are doing the first. BOTH matter so please keep encouraging all to submit their responses.
I'll share more when the time is right. For now: the work is happening 🙌
Nobody could figure out why the abandoned Hendricks apple orchard suddenly bloomed in April 2019. The trees hadn't produced fruit in eleven years. County agriculture office sent two inspectors. They found sixty thousand honeybees working the property - a massive colony that had escaped from Tomás Vega's apiary three miles south. Tomás had reported the swarm missing in March. He expected them dead. Instead they'd colonized the hollow barn on the Hendricks lot and cross-pollinated every surviving tree. That October, the orchard produced twenty-two tons of Cortland apples. The Hendricks family offered Tomás a permanent lease. He moved his entire operation there the following spring.