Goran Hribar

IT Security Consultant, Bitcoin enthusiast & evangelist, part-time trader and investor. #Bitcoin

[Castillo Trading @CastilloTrading]

MLB betting has started off a bit slow. Right now I am 1 for 3.

Really need to do a bit more studying with IR lists, starting pitchers, batting lineup, etc etc.

Taking Boston today even though the A's will be my new home team in a few short years. Need a streak soon

[Castillo Trading @CastilloTrading]

Now that the World Cup is finally over, starting to switch to some MLB betting.

Going to start slow and then ramp it up once I gain some confidence with it.

Taking Seattle over Cincinnati today to hopefully start another banger streak.

[Castillo Trading @CastilloTrading]

Gm, World Cup Final day!

This will end the hottest sports betting streak I have ever been on.

10 for 14 overall on all bets throughout the tournament. Sad to see it finally coming to an end, but looking for Messi, the absolute GOAT, to go Back 2 Back.

Argentina for the win.

[Castillo Trading @CastilloTrading]

Max by KO tonight ?

[Castillo Trading @CastilloTrading]

Still keeping my bets a little larger for the knockout rounds.

Currently sitting at 7 for 9 on World Cup betting. Keeping the streak going and taking Portugal so that I can see them on Monday in Dallas! CR7 !

[Castillo Trading @CastilloTrading]

Here we go, round of 32 starting tomorrow for the World Cup. Deciding to up the stakes a bit on actual tournament play.

Taking Brazil over Japan to start it off.

After the US lost, my overall group play I went 5 for 7 on bets. Not bad, more to come!

[IncomeSharks @IncomeSharks]

Crypto needs to find a way to turn the 3 trillion marketcap into support instead of resistance.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky finally pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and now faces a maximum 30-year prison sentence. However, it was obvious to me that he was a fraudster based on a single conversation. Why did it take authorities so long to figure out the obvious?

[Pierre Rochard @BitcoinPierre]

The US Dollar as global reserve currency steals from people around the world, impoverishing them with dilutive inflation, just to enrich and empower the elites of Wall Street and DC that print for free. This is profoundly immoral and indefensible, and #Bitcoin fixes this.

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

First, some background

During The GFC, Central Bankers realised the risk people could discover our Central Bank based financial system had been transferring from the poor to the rich for generations.

The injustice of bailing those who caused the crisis led to the Occupy Movement.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Any government that prevents citizens from transacting peer-to-peer without surveillance is illegitimate.

And any politician that advocates for such a world deserves to be ridiculed as the tyrannical clown that they are.

Elizabeth Warren is at the top of the list 🤡

Remember... Politicians are OUR servants.

We the people pay their salary.

They exist by our good grace.

In many places, "the government" is just a group of people who know how to buy votes and sell their vote to the highest bidder.

These are not impressive people.

Most politicians no longer deserve the respect that their office affords them. It's stolen valor.

CBDCs are anti-human tech.

Imagine not being able to pay a farmer for produce face to face without the government approving the transaction. It's nonsense.

Any politician seriously advocating for CBDCs while campaigning against open-source, transparent #Bitcoin is telling you everything you need to know about them.

They are against basic personal liberty and should be removed from office with haste.

Anyway, good morning.

[Chris Dunn @ChrisDunnTV]

Goosebumps 🔥

[MikeCristo8 @MikeCristo8]

When Saudi oil was traded in dollars ONLY, it allowed the U.S. Treasury to book a loan (sell a bond) to poor counties and through exchange rates to acquire dollars to get Saudi oil.

Then through double entry bookkeeping, this allowed the U.S. Treasury to book this loan as a deposit (liability) on the Treasury balance sheet, where the U.S. Treasury emitted interest-yielding bonds and created financial assets along the way.

Then when poor countries couldn’t pay off their dollar loans, the IMF came in with SDR’s and as part of the contract the poor countries had to sell off their public domain (ports) to U.S. oligarchs where they charged poor countries fees to offload goods on their own land.

By the U.S. only importing Saudi oil it allowed oil to be artificially priced at $70 bbl where the U.S. Treasury was able to emit even more interest-yielding bonds.

When Xi told the Saudi’s and the Gulf Cooperation Council, King MBS, sh’t hit the fan!

(Central Banks)

Bernanke wrote a blank check for the whole entire system after the Lehman failure.

The extraordinary thing is, they’re doing this from a position where they’ve destroyed their own balance sheets. The central banks basically ramped up bond prices by reducing interest rates to zero and below, so they bought government securities at the highest possible price, and now the interest rates are rising, they’ve got exactly the same problem as the Silicon Valley Bank that went bust.

How do Western central banks rescue the financial system where they themselves are bust?

Through the QFS, and by having digital payments gold-backed CBDC’s go through the BRICS New Development Bank QFS, this means there is no way to launder money.

Drug lords need paper dollars to launder money. If FedNow sends a payment through QFS, it will demand an open-sourced distributed ledger of the U.S. financial system to detect fraud through QFS.

Why do you think ALL these Western dignitaries are visiting Xi? Through digital payments, politicians can’t launder money through QFS.

It also forces the U.S. (E.U.) to revalue their financial assets to $2,500 physical gold v fictitious paper gold.

The elites do NOT want to do this.

The BRICS alliance (about 5 billion people) also have some history of socialism.

Why does China have have 6% GDP for 20+ years? They have learned through a combination of public and private enterprises with a highly regulated state apparatus, and in almost 50 years have lifted the majority of their population out of poverty.

They used the dollar to take them as far as they can go, but it no longer serves their purpose where they can continue with their “common prosperity” economic development.

The BRICS alliance is unlike the Western alliance.

In Treasury secretary Janet Yellen’s Beijing speech, she talked about wanting China to pivot more towards western values of a rentier class F.I.R.E. (finance, insurance, real estate).

This is how the western elites have become very wealthy, and she wants China to pivot towards that model of development versus an industrial capitalism development.

Like it or not, there are new sheriffs in town, and their names are NOT Joe Biden or Tony Blinken.

The dollar is a 90 year project that has outlived its usefulness. Why? Because the U.S. exploited the world for Bill Gates et al’ gain.

So when I say OPEC will turn the dollar off, as uncomfortable as that seems, in their eyes, the U.S. has abused its dollar position evidenced by 800 military bases around the world to conform the world to the US’s dictats.

Why is China buying corn from Brazil and they cancelled U.S. corn imports?

By buying Brazilian corn, this allows the Chinese to help Brazil set up their own resource reserve currency based in part on their agricultural exports and other commodities they may export.

While China may want to internationalize the yuan, this reduces the amount of yuan a country like Brazil will need to hold in its reserves for trade settlement.

[Bankless @Bankless]

👮‍♂️ The SEC Endgame 👮‍♂️

The SEC is showing its cards and Gary Gensler doesn't believe crypto in America should exist at all 🤯

A THREAD 🧵

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[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

With respect to Binance, I'm reading through the SEC complaint. It's over 130 pages, but seems like the next in a series of steps to implement chokepoint 2.0 in the United States. The end goal is a agenda based CBDC partnered with a handful of massive banks and end-to-end control over every aspect of your financial life.

A regulatory event is where you have a debate about compliance with a law or guidance. This event seems to be a polticial philosophical disagreement with the very existence of cryptocurrencies and what they represent. An unelected group of people have decided that concepts like self-sovereign identity, owning your wallet, and the freedom to control your economic agency should be removed from the masses and given to the "enlightened" few.

Honestly, what is happening isn't anything new. It's always the same fight between freedom and authoritarianism just with different players, technology, and words. It does seem like this event is a perfect opportunity for the entire industry to set aside it's fragmented nature and unite for a common sense set of rules and guidelines that can prevent the United States from slipping into a distopia that would make 1984 look like a vacation.

I'll have more to say later, but will close with we are going to be fine. Everything's alright and the future is bright for the industry.

[Danielle DiMartino Booth @DiMartinoBooth]

IMPORTANT!!

@biancoresearch TWITTER ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, HE'S HITTING A WALL GETTING @Twitter SUPPORT TO GET SITUATION UNDER CONTROL

JIM IS NOT SELLING A BIANCO COIN. THIS IS A MASSIVE SCAM HE IS TRYING TO RECTIFY. PLEASE RETWEET THIS FOR THE GREATER GOOD

[Goran Hribar @HribarGoran]

Ed's Birthday Party

[Ed_NL @Crypto_Ed_NL]

**GIVE AWAY**
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[Bravos Research @bravosresearch]

This bear market is similar to 1969-70

We appear to be moving into Phase 3, the most brutal stage

A thread 🧵

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

If you are not headed to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting this week, Congratulations. You are not a central bank criminal or MMT blood-sucking parasite, thriving at the absolute expense of the hard-working others.

[Goran Hribar @HribarGoran]

@TechCharts PYR?. Nice range. Do you anticipate a breakout over 5usd?