Kevin Sands

🏘️ Property Developer | Building homes and business in Ireland 🇮🇪 | Investor

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

Very very hard to out perform a 36% unrealized gain tax.

[Jelle @CryptoJelleNL]

Sad day in NL, the Dutch government is expected to pass a bill introducing a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains.

This will destroy long-term strategies, kill compounding effects & trigger a wealth exodus of biblical proportions.

But they'll pass it anyway. Can't fix stupid.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

With Zuck’s move to Florida, California’s total taxable wealth from billionaires has plummeted to well under $1T from over $2T just a few weeks ago.

The loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever. All because Gavin Newsom stood motionless as this stupidly written bill, from a fringe union and a handful of socialist academics with an axe to grind, meandered its way into the public conversation without any action from him and freaked everyone out.

These were all people that were paying 13%+ in state income tax every year WITH NO COMPLAINTS UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO.

And now, for the rest of time, the lost tax revenues from these folks will have to be paid for by the middle class because they are the only group left in California large enough that you can tax to fill the hole.

He’s forsaken the middle class instead of managing the budget, managing the deficit, eliminating even a portion of California’s gargantuan waste and abuse. He could have done any of these things at any point over the past 7+ years.

But he was silent.

And now California’s budget will implode and he wants to run for President.

Insane.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Sec. Lutnick:

"Why are you [EU] going to do solar and wind?

Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don't make a battery?

They don't make a battery. So if they go 2030, they are deciding to be subservient to China."

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[Naval @naval]

The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

.@SenWarren and @SenAmyKlobuchar: you are failures.

You failed to derail the electoral success of one of our great allies in Latin America, President @JMilei. He won in a landslide with the poorest members of society voting for economic freedom—a notion anathema in particular to the Senate’s resident American Peronist, Senator Warren.

You failed to reopen the government, preventing our Administration’s efforts to get aid to American farmers, as well as our planned activation of the Farm Credit Agency to assist our farmers with next year’s crops.

As the attached photo demonstrates, @POTUS is in Asia showing what successful American leadership looks like. Today’s announcement after his meeting with President Xi will be a resounding victory for our great farmers.

While I know it will be soul-crushing for you, please re-focus your staff away from writing incoherent letters to myself and others, and instead work towards opening the government.

If you decide to further add to your legacy of failure by voting to keep the government closed over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, ruining the number one travel day for American families, you should both be ashamed.

P.S. I am happy to inform you both that the Argentine economic bridge has now turned a profit for the American people. While “profit” is a private sector word that you may both be unfamiliar with, I would urge you to look past your previous experience working alongside the Biden Administration’s autopenned efforts to bankrupt the US government.

[John Collison @collision]

I wrote a piece for the @IrishTimes on why Ireland can’t build anything these days, and how to fix that.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

The one and only, legendary, @balajis

He is like batman, will fight crime in any organization, through any means necessary (even unsanctioned methods).

[Kevin Sands @KevSands_]

@DallasAptGP We are building something really exciting in Ireland with my company Prop! Developer led technology solution for selling houses online off plan!

Would love to connect

[Balaji @balajis]

Here's the podcast that @BritishHodl and many Bitcoiners liked.

0:00 - Introduction
1:32 - West vs East
6:33 - The ascending world
10:30 - Denying while declining
14:00 - Millionaire migration map
18:20 - Several exponentials
20:10 - Four factions (Blue, Red, China, Internet)
25:00 - Red America v China
33:05 - Blue America v Internet
39:35 - Geographical splits
43:52 - Dollar inflation is global taxation
49:30 - Left and right ending their empire
1:07:20 - Superbitcoinization Is already here
1:26:00 - The Internet frontier
1:32:00 - Sovereign debt crisis
1:42:00 - Full faith and credit
1:45:00 - Where's talent moving?
1:48:00 - On India
1:54:00 - Network vs State
2:03:00 - No graceful climbdown
2:06:00 - Bankrupt states break commitments
2:12:00 - Version 3.0
2:14:30 - The Internet Century

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

This woman OWNS 37 acres of land.

The government STILL told her she can’t put a tiny home on it.

“I said, I own the land. It's massive. What's the problem?”

Even when you own the land, the government still tries to tell you what you're allowed to do with it.

[Cobie @cobie]

$0.12 million seems cheap for a whole bitcoin

[Balaji @balajis]

Bitcoin is hitting all time highs.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

this is the way

[Antonia @antonia_mdprjct]

@realEstateTrent Buy land, create value & sell.

Doesn’t get more old school than that.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Who’s got the “Price of Housing in Bitcoin” chart?

[The Boring Company @boringcompany]

Big tunneling milestone!

For the first time, TBC has continuously mined in a Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT) configuration. There is nobody in the machine (besides the videographer), which is simultaneously advancing forward and erecting a ring (i.e. building the tunnel). Each full ring weighs ~24,000 pounds.

In the same way that full and rapid reusability is the holy grail for rockets, ZPIT continuous mining is the holy grail for Boring Machines.  This is the safest, fastest, and least expensive architecture to build tunnels.

[Baptiste @BaptisteVicini]

Google DeepMind's CEO just stunned 60 Minutes viewers.

The Nobel prize winner revealed:

• An AI that can see and understand in real-time
• A plan to end ALL diseases in 10 years
• Exactly when AI will surpass human intelligence

Here are his 4 most jaw-dropping insights:🧵