Arman Yacoubian

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

"Bitcoin has no intrinsic value."
Let me translate that.

Nike shoes cost $8 to make. They sell for $180.
The difference?
A swoosh. A story. Collective belief.

A Picasso is paint on canvas.
A Rolex is just a clock.
A Louis Vuitton bag is stitched fabric.

You have never once demanded intrinsic value from anything you paid a premium for.

"Intrinsic value" is a phrase people reach for when they haven't thought about where value actually comes from.
It comes from belief. Always has.

Bitcoin's believers are just the ones who wrote it into unbreakable math.

[learn something new @dp0stss2]

How to recognize gold and silver hallmarks ?

[RippleXity @RippleXity]

🚨 JUST IN: Everyone thinks card payments are instant. They're not.

When you swipe, the card network authorizes in about 2 seconds. That's just a promise. The actual money doesn't settle for 1 to 3 days.

The $XRP Ledger doesn't split the two. Approval and final settlement happen together, in 3 to 5 seconds, irreversibly.

Authorization is a promise. Settlement is the money. #XRPL does the part that matters.

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

🚘 🇨🇳 Chinese car brands: endless possibilities for all tastes.

By @lovecarindustry

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

This is why we always see the same side of the Moon and its phases

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Space saving door solution

[Earn Knowledge @earnknowledgee]

How to read bar code

[Jason Luongo @JasonL_Capital]

In 2012, a Tesla Model S cost $60,000.

If you invested that $60K in $TSLA instead of buying the car, it would be worth over $9 million today.

The car is worth maybe $5,000.

Holy crap.

Talk about opportunity cost 🤯

[Yegor @yegormethod]

michelin stars are given out by a tire company.

a fucking TIRE company created the most prestigious restaurant rating system on earth in 1900 because they wanted people to drive further and wear out their tires faster.

the entire global fine dining industry exists because a rubber manufacturer needed to sell more product.

that's the most gangster content marketing play in human history and nobody will ever top it. create the award. own the authority. sell something completely unrelated. study this

[Bane @MisterAlbie]

One of the best W211 hacks ever. The guy who shared this on IG got followed immediately by thousand of W211 owners.

[Lemma Wild @lemmawild]

In 2005, Jeff Bezos gave a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business's
Entrepreneurship Conference in which he used the story of WD-40 to illustrate how innovation and business strategy work.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

You don’t hear much about Generation Alpha.

[Arcfunmi @Arcfunmi]

Great caulking idea in construction

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Thermal conductivity comparison

[🎞️ thebrainmaze]

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

JUST IN - Russia proposed that Elon Musk and The Boring Company build a "Putin-Trump" tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia through the Bering Strait — CNBC

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Jack Dorsey on being Obsessed.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

How car companies got their names

[GoldSilver HQ @GoldSilverHQ]

Gold-Silver Ratio: 88:1

Historical: 15:1

Mining ratio: 1:7

Available above ground: 1:1

Just sayin...

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

THE DEEP SEA IS SCARIER THAN SPACE AND YOU’RE SWIMMING RIGHT ABOVE IT

At 2,000 meters down, there’s no sunlight but tons of glowing sea creatures fighting to survive.

Go deeper and you hit the Titanic at 3,800 meters, then the abyss zone at 5,000, where giant jellyfish and zombie crabs float through pitch-black water.

Hit 6,000 meters and you’re carrying 335 elephants worth of pressure on your body.

James Cameron dove nearly 11,000 meters in 2012 and called it a "lunar desert." No life. No sound. Just creaking metal.

Next time you’re at the beach, remember: you’re basically floating above Earth’s final boss level.

Source: Life Laps