@benjamincowen@APompliano@benjamincowen is not "this guy", but the most knowledgeable person when it comes to BTC, the most humble and honest one, too. And just hit 1 million subscribers! Love you Ben
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Hold these three facts in your head at the same time, because Washington apparently can't...
Fact one:
The Pentagon reportedly raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest designation that exists.
That's the tier reserved for top adversaries like China and Russia, rating Israel above every American ally and above some of America's actual enemies.
The White House calls the reporting "false" and Israel categorically denies it, but the accounts are sourced to multiple current and former U.S. officials across two major outlets.
Fact two:
Netanyahu sent a personal letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman endorsing a resolution to phase out U.S. military aid over a decade and replace it with what he called, in his own words, "my plan": a shift from aid to joint defense partnership spanning missile defense, AI, drones, and cyber.
Fact three:
A separate but parallel measure, Section 224 of the defense bill, would mandate structural integration: joint weapons production, linked military systems, and shared data between the two countries.
Two distinct legislative tracks, one direction: permanent entanglement with the country the Pentagon just reportedly flagged as a critical espionage threat.
Any functioning political system would treat fact one as disqualifying for facts two and three.
You do not wire your military networks into a government your own intelligence agencies say is running an "unhinged" collection campaign against your officials.
Counterintelligence 101 forbids it.
If China's leader sent a personal letter to a congressman describing his plan for U.S.-China defense integration while the Pentagon caught Chinese spyware on American officials' phones, every name attached to the bill would be under investigation by Friday.
Israel does both in the same month and gets a committee markup.
That gap is the most precise measurement we have of how compromised the system actually is.
Source: NYT, Reuters
Writer: Daniel
China currently has 1,200 coal power plants in operation and emits more CO2 than the US, India, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Germany & Canada COMBINED.
The WA State Climate Commitment Act is a scam- meant to funnel our tax dollars to NGO’s who donate back to Democrat war chests.
🔥ALERT: Arthur Hayes sold ALL his zcash:native after selling his $ENA and $HYPE bags.
Hayes says the Orchard Pool exploit that caused ZEC to crash -30% made him take profit on the entire position.
In less than 24 hrs, Hayes announced he had dumped all 3 coins, calling the “Holy Trinity” dead.
Every week someone asks me: "what is your price target for X altcoin?"
I do not answer that question with a number. I answer it with a method.
Here is the method. It takes about 5 minutes and works for any altcoin.
Step 1: Find your BTC drawdown reference.
Take Bitcoin's recent high and its most recent bear market low. In this cycle: from roughly 108K in January down to 61K in February. That is a drawdown of roughly 44%. Call this the BTC drawdown.
Step 2: Find your altcoin's matching drawdown.
Over that same period, how much did your altcoin drop? As an example: from about 700 dollars at the December high to around 200 dollars at the February low is roughly a 71% drop.
Step 3: Calculate the beta multiple.
Divide the altcoin percentage drawdown by the BTC percentage drawdown.
71% divided by 44% equals approximately 1.6x.
This is how much more your altcoin drops relative to BTC.
Step 4: Project your altcoin's target entry.
Now pick your BTC scenario. Say you think BTC could drop to 60K from around 77K today. That is roughly another 22% down. Apply the 1.6x beta: 22% times 1.6 equals about 35% drop for your altcoin. If the altcoin is currently at 60 dollars, a 35% drop puts you around 39 dollars.
That is your data-backed entry zone. Not a number you made up. Not a target from Twitter. A structured projection from actual price history.
Two things to watch out for.
First, beta multiples change. A coin that was 1.6x beta in the last leg can become 2.5x beta if sentiment shifts. Treat this as a floor estimate, not a ceiling.
Second, the method only works if you also pick the right BTC scenario. If Bitcoin goes sideways instead of down, your altcoin may not hit the target at all. The math is conditional on your BTC call.
The reason this beats gut-feel price targets: it anchors you to actual historical price behavior rather than pattern-matching to a chart that looks oversold. A lot of coins that look cheap at minus 50% from ATH have a BTC-beta that means they could go to minus 70% or 80% if BTC has one more leg down.
Until Bitcoin confirms the next bull run with a weekly close above roughly 95K, I am not buying altcoins. But if you are building a watch list and want to know where to put your limit orders, this is the framework.
"Suicidal empathy" is the idea that too much misdirected kindness can kill a civilization.
The term comes from Gad Saad's new book that currently sits at the No. 1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller list.
He explains it through a parasite and its host: a wood cricket naturally abhors water, but when hijacked by a brain hairworm, it happily jumps in and drowns.
The hairworm needs the cricket dead to complete its reproductive cycle. Once it controls both the cricket's thinking and its instincts, it owns it completely.
Saad argues the same thing happens to societies.
First your rational thinking gets hijacked, then your emotional system. When both are gone, so is your survival instinct.
@elonmusk has called it a threat that will "end civilization."
The core question: at what point does kindness stop being a virtue and start being a vulnerability?
Source: @GadSaad, Joe Rogan Experience
'The full might of the left-wing establishment wants you to kick off and play right into their hands. So please, don't!'
@PatrickChristys's message to Unite the Kingdom attendees after Keir Starmer's announcement to clamp down on the event.
The April 2026 New Moon marks a rare Aries cluster, with six planets and two major asteroids concentrated in the same sign... what does it mean? I do a deep dive with @theweeklystars on the mundane and financial astrology of the April New moon:
https://t.co/ntdp5OweIk