Mārtiņš V.

Es i pa kvelspuldz, ienist LED! / Romantisks tehnoloģiju nīdējs / iepriekšēj dzīv bijs Ventiš / Snob,hate LED, Scottish wannabe origin

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: ¥1,000,000,000,000 added to the Chinese stock market today

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: $500,000,000,000 erased from the U.S. stock market in last 30 minutes

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@unclesassy @nexta_tv A serial arsonist.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Russian woman burns down her own apartment for $550

A resident of Chelyabinsk fell for a scammer who promised her an insurance payout if she set fire to her apartment and recorded the whole thing on video.

During the arson, the man watched everything via video call and literally directed her actions. As the apartment started burning, he insisted that she stay inside.

“According to the procedure, we need to wait exactly five minutes,” he told her.

The recording captures the scammer repeatedly urging the woman not to leave the apartment, even as the rooms filled with smoke.

When she began struggling to breathe, she finally ran outside.

In the end, the apartment burned down completely.

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

BITCOIN JUST BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO SHUT OFF!

Jack Dorsey built an app that moves it with zero internet.

Bitchat uses Bluetooth mesh.
You sign offline, it hops phone to phone.

Kill the internet. The money still moves.

Legend!

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

https://t.co/yyrYQVGTdT

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@bitcoinpolicy Yes, less than 50%.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

Could it add up to the central heating in winter?

[Superheat @Superheat_xyz]

Yes, we actually did this. A perfect medium steak, cooked entirely by the thermal exhaust of computing.

The Superheat H1C captures 100% of the heat generated by its compute core to heat your water. Appliances that only consume are officially outdated.

We are ready for you. Pre-orders open tomorrow. Order yours here: https://t.co/xXDDFfXWPE

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@angiharr65 @GrantCardone If I hade to give a title to that book, I'd call it - how to manipulate.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@govhate @BitcoinNewsCom What do you mean by paper BTC? Blockchain... You can't touch it. It's not gold, silver or platinum, which are paper vs. physical.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@BitcoinNewsCom @The_Bitcoin_Act In 5 years time their salary is about 1 million. They're divorced from reality and don't care.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

Nezāles vārdā La Garde neiznīkst.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

🇪🇺 ECB PRESIDENT LAGARDE PUSHES LAWMAKERS TO BACK DIGITAL EURO CBDC

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde urged members of the European Parliament to support the digital euro ahead of tomorrow’s vote.

Lagarde insisted she was “not pressuring” lawmakers, while simultaneously warning that the outcome of the vote is “very important.”

[Nexus @NexusLabs]

Nexus Genesis NFT

https://t.co/DxBlKQpoSn

[Aligned @alignedlayer]

zk is my love language

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@trylimitless Jānodzīvo.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@CryptoGemsCom Exactly. But the length of the text.

[The Crypto GEMs @CryptoGemsCom]

🚨 When 4 major asset classes are falling at the same time, this is not a normal market correction.

Crypto is falling.

Gold is falling.

Stocks are falling.

Even bonds and oil are weakening.

Historically, this type of environment usually points to one thing:

The real question investors should be asking today is not:

“Which sectors are declining?”

The real question is:

“Who is liquidating portfolios on a massive scale?”

Because when assets that traditionally have little or no correlation start falling together…

This is no longer an ordinary pullback.

For generations, the rule was simple:

When stocks fell, money flowed into bonds.

When the dollar weakened, gold rallied.

When inflation increased, commodities surged.

Today, however, those traditional macroeconomic relationships are breaking down.

And when there are fewer safe places to hide…

Large institutions and hedge funds often choose a single path:

They sell everything.

At that stage, it no longer matters whether an asset is fundamentally strong or purely speculative.

This is a forced deleveraging event.

There is a name for it:

A desperate race for global liquidity.

When financial panic begins and everyone shifts into defense mode, cash becomes the most valuable asset.

The objective is no longer to generate returns.

The objective becomes preserving capital.

That is why we are witnessing an unusual environment:

Gold is pulling back.

Bitcoin is selling off aggressively.

Stocks are correcting.

Government bonds are losing value.

This is not necessarily because long-term fundamentals have deteriorated.

The primary reason is that institutional players urgently need cash.

The epicenter of this financial tremor may be Japan, but its aftershocks are hitting Latin America particularly hard.

As Japanese interest rates rise, the global carry trade that financed high-yield strategies begins to unwind.

Funds that borrowed cheap yen to exploit stablecoin and currency arbitrage opportunities in Latin America are rapidly closing positions.

Whenever the center of global finance shakes, emerging markets tend to experience the most violent volatility.

At the heart of the problem are highly leveraged portfolios.

When investors build large positions using low-cost global debt and the market suddenly turns against them…

Margin calls begin.

Forced liquidations follow.

To meet collateral requirements, funds must sell whatever they can.

Both losing positions

and profitable assets that remain liquid enough to sell.

This is where an uncontrollable chain reaction begins.

One forced sale triggers another.

The pressure spreads into additional markets.

Market depth evaporates.

Strong hands step aside and wait.

As demand disappears, falling prices intensify the panic.

The current turmoil is also exposing a structural weakness in modern markets.

As assets such as Bitcoin become increasingly institutionalized through ETFs and derivatives, price discovery shifts toward Wall Street.

When large trading desks need immediate protection, they can liquidate these digital instruments within seconds.

And when liquidations are controlled by institutional algorithms, decentralization becomes largely irrelevant in practice.

At the same time, there is a macroeconomic trigger that receives far less attention:

U.S. government debt.

Historically, it has been viewed as the world’s ultimate safe-haven asset.

But when Asian interest rates and currencies experience significant volatility…

Even that safe haven can come under pressure and become part of the broader institutional unwinding process.

As options become increasingly limited, an unusual scenario emerges:

Risk assets decline sharply.

Traditional safe havens weaken as well.

And the average investor is left asking:

“If nothing is holding up, where is the money going?”

The answer is far simpler and far more strategic than many assume.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@altcryptocom Flirting. Does it have X account?

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@Europarl_EN Anyway you pack totalitarism, I don't buy it.
Digital Euro, slow ban of cash - that is about control.

[Mārtiņš V. @MartinMartinV_V]

@Azlems @realNepareizais Drīz jau stāstīs, ka mobilais dronu var notriekt. Galvenais atjauninājumus uzlikt.