Bakkasoor

Common Joe whose back often gets treaded on.

[Bakkasoor @bakkasoor]

@fopminui @Rainmaker1973 There’s only one reason why man is placed on this earth. To procreate and raise his child to become better than himself and for his child to do the same. If you consider yourself to be more of a success than your dad , then by default your dad is a success.

[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov]

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[CR1337 @CR1337]

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[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

I returned a $39 product on Amazon last Tuesday. Got my refund. Then I got curious.

I took the product photo from the Amazon listing. Dragged it into Alibaba's image search. Hit enter.

0.4 seconds. That's how long it took to find the exact same product from the exact same factory.

Factory price: $2.70.

Same photo. Not similar. Same. The Amazon seller didn't even bother taking new pictures. He used the factory's photos. The factory's description. The factory's specs. He just added a logo, rewrote the title, and added $36.30 to the price.

I sat there staring at both listings side by side on my screen. I felt sick. Then I felt curious. Then I searched every single product I'd bought on Amazon in the past 2 years.

87 products. I found 74 of them on Alibaba. Same factories. Same listings. Same everything.

Amazon total: $4,218.
Alibaba total: $387.

I overpaid $3,831. In 2 years. On products made by factories that would have sold directly to me. From "brands" that are nothing but a logo on a box designed in Canva.

Then I messaged one factory and asked: "How many companies sell your product?"

They sent me a list. 22 different Amazon "brands." Same product. Same mold. Same materials. Same factory. 22 different logos. 22 different prices. The cheapest was $17. The most expensive was $64. For the identical item.

The factory didn't care which one I bought from. They made $2.70 either way.

I called my sister. She didn't believe me. I screen-shared both listings. She went quiet for 10 seconds. Then she said:

"How long has this been happening?"

Forever. This has been happening forever. And the only reason you didn't know is because nobody profits from telling you.

Not Amazon. Not the sellers. Not the "brands." Not the influencers promoting them. Everyone in the chain makes money when you don't know about Alibaba. The only person who loses is you.

"Alibaba isn't a secret website. It isn't illegal. It isn't wholesale-only. It's a search bar and a 'Message Seller' button. The factories respond in minutes. They ship single units. They don't ask for a business license. They just ask how many you want."

Here are 10 things most people get wrong about buying from Alibaba and the exact system for never overpaying on Amazon again:

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[DarkMiner @darkminer]

In last 4 years I’ve sold 1,936 Cash Secured Puts.

Here’s a few of my personal rules to follow:

Sell Puts:

☑️On a Red day

☑️ 15 minute charts RSI is below 35

☑️ On stocks you don’t mind owning for a minimum of 6 months

☑️ Stocks with high liquidity & frequent expirations

[Bakkasoor @bakkasoor]

@Strike
Regarding the cold card hacks
How safe are your addresses?
Are you using these wallets?

[Nick Neuman @Nneuman]

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[Joe Burnett, MSBA @IIICapital]

Unpopular opinions:

1. I like self-custody Bitcoin.

2. I like Bitcoin's current consensus rules.

3. Bitcoin's consensus rules should be difficult to change.

4. I like Amplified Bitcoin because I think Bitcoin's CAGR will be > 20% over the next decade.

5. If you're trying to outperform Bitcoin, I prefer long-duration, no-liquidation-risk leverage.

6. I think Digital Credit is the next major catalyst for the billions of people who still don't own Bitcoin.

[Prime AI @primemans]

A woman's laptop died two years and four months after she bought it at Costco.

Manufacturer warranty: expired at one year. She assumed it was a total loss — a $900 laptop, gone.

Instead, she brought it to Costco's return counter. No box. No receipt in hand, just her membership card. They looked up the purchase, and because of a policy almost no member actually reads, gave her a full refund — on a laptop she'd used daily for over two years.

A $60/year membership had just paid for itself fifteen times over, from a single visit to a counter most people only use to return a rotisserie chicken.

Costco membership includes far more than bulk toilet paper and free samples. Here are 11 hidden Costco benefits most members never use 🧵

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

STOP ASKING YOUR SON "HOW WAS SCHOOL."

He will say "fine" every single time.

A child psychologist told me to replace it with one of these 4 instead:

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

A woman booked 40+ flights over 6 years for work and vacations.

She cleared her cookies before searching. She booked on Tuesdays because she'd read that was cheapest. She thought she had the system figured out.

Her brother-in-law — a former airline revenue analyst who spent 7 years pricing seats for a major carrier — sat next to her at Thanksgiving while she booked a flight on her phone and just watched.

"You're doing the one thing that actually doesn't matter, and skipping the five that do. Airlines don't price flights the way you think they do. There's no 'best day to book.' There's a system, and it has nothing to do with clearing your cookies."

He spent 15 minutes walking her through how fares actually get set.

Her next flight cost $210 less than the one she'd almost booked. Same seat. Same airline. Same day.

Here's everything he told her.

[VISA Free World @visafreeworld]

🚨 People spend $3000+ on Maldives resorts just to swim with whale sharks and post tropical overwater villa photos.

Massive mistake. You don’t own the ocean just because you rent a luxury villa. The exact same marine life and turquoise water share the shores with local, budget-friendly islands for $40/night.

Here are the 3 secret local islands that destroy luxury resorts: 👇

[Prime AI @primemans]

Costco doesn't have prices. It has a code. And almost nobody shopping there today can read it.

You walk past a stack of the same protein bars every week at $16.99. Then one week it's $12.97 and you have no idea if that's a real deal or just a coincidence. You buy it anyway, hoping. Meanwhile the guy next to you is grabbing five packs like he knows something you don't.

He does.

A longtime warehouse employee explained exactly how Costco's tag system works — the tiny numbers and symbols printed on every single price sign that tell you, in advance, whether something is full price, about to go on clearance, or about to disappear from the store forever.

Their take: "Costco never announces a sale. It just changes two digits on a tag. If you don't know what they mean, you're paying full price standing right next to someone paying half."

Here's how to actually read a Costco tag 🧵

[Dr. Toghrul Aliyev @itsToghrul]

$MSTR

It's nice when someone does the analysis instead of just bullposting from $543 to $81, right, influencing you, whether deliberately or not, to sit through multi-month drawdowns.

We bought the bottom.

It's not the true bottom, but it's the bottom for now, I think we will sweep it later in Q4.

Next stop $116-$130, then back down, then Valhalla.

Bought a s**tton at $84.

[Bitcoin Asset Research @stonychambers]

Here’s the reality and wake up call about digital credit.

Digital credit really is the best thing we have going on in Bitcoin.

There is nothing else that is as meaningful right now as the development of digital credit. The numbers do not lie.

Yes, digital credit is very fiat and the AI videos aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Yes, it is more credit and yield. Yes some building on top of it are using shipcoin rails. And yes, corporate finance and math are hard subjects to wrap one's head around.

We get it.

BUT - what else do we have going on?

Genuinely curious. I invite anyone reading this with an opposing view to make their case. I invite others to tag those with opposing views for them to make their case.

I know about Ark, Bark, Clark, Spark, and the STARKs and SNARKs. I know about Fedimints and Lightning scaling up. I know that Ocean is decentralizing template construction and its been gaining more hash. I know that more node implementations are being adopted and this is great for the network. It’s awesome that there are more solo blocks and Bitaxes running too.

I see Taproot Assets and BTKN and RGB for stablecoins on Bitcoin rails. I also know that several wallets are upgrading with more privacy solutions integrated such as Silent Payments and Payjoin. I know that Square is making BTC easier for merchants.

I am even aware of very niche Bitcoin projects that I am quite sure most Bitcoiners have never even heard of. A way to make the 2-of-2 lightning channels more institutionally friendly by attaching multisigs on either side of the channel. A kind of meta node implementation that codifies and separates the consensus rules from the node implementation. I know of an bitcoin elastic currency protocol that use mints and service-backed redemptions to conduct trade finance in Bitcoin. I know of a non-custodial, BTC backed lending app without margin calls or liquidations.

But I do not think these are a bigger deal than digital credit. In fact, I would even assert that everything I mentioned combined are not even half as impactful as digital credit.

Again, I invite anyone reading this with an opposing view to make their case.

I think these aren't anywhere near digital credit because I can see the numbers and the incentives.

Digital credit has brought a ton of money into Bitcoin. Bringing digital credit to more people brings all their money into Bitcoin. There are now more than a dozen Bitcoin ETFs and so far they've sold billions of dollars in Bitcoin this year. In contrast, digital credit has purchased billions of dollars in Bitcoin this year.

Everyone with money who was going to buy Bitcoin has already bought it, either UTXO or ETF or IOU.

Everyone on earth with a bank account living anywhere has had Binance and Bybit available to them for years. Coinbase is now worldwide. Those who don't have a bank account don't really have enough money anyway to move the needle. It sucks to say it, but it is the truth.

The rest of the money out there hasn't flowed into Bitcoin because Bitcoiners haven't made it attractive enough. No amount of podcast or book or article is gonna help. Someone actually has to go and make Bitcoin attractive to those other people.

And that is digital credit. It is the business model of Strategy and Strive.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Working ₿etter.

[Pradeep Pandey @Div_pradeep]

Apple will never tell you this:

Your $1,200 iPhone has 9 pre-enabled privacy leaks that most security experts don't even know exist.

I accidentally discovered #4 after my bank flagged suspicious activity.

Fixed all 9 in under 10 minutes.

Here's the exact settings they buried:

[Wilberforce Theophilus @Eze_Wilberforce]

Whatever you do, do not let your parents transfer their house into your name.

Instead, do what the wealthy do.

If your parents are retiring and they tell you they want to sign the deed of the house over to you, maybe they bought the house for next to nothing back in the eighties and now it is worth $800,000, do not do it.

If they transfer it to you while they are alive, you will take their original tax basis. This means that when you eventually sell, you will have to pay capital gains tax on the entire increase in value since they bought it. The taxman does not care that it was a gift.

Here is what the wealthiest families do instead:

Step 1: Set up a revocable living trust and place the home inside it.

It keeps your parents in full control while they are alive, but sets up a smooth, private transfer later.

Step 2: Your parents should name you as the beneficiary of the trust. That way, when they pass away, the house automatically moves to you with no court involvement and no probate.

Step 3: When you inherit the house through the trust, you get a stepped-up basis. That means you only pay capital gains tax on any increase in value that occurs after they passed away, not on the huge appreciation since the 1980s.

That single move can save you over $120,000 in taxes.

That is how you pass inheritance to your children without losing a dollar to the system.

If you want to stop the government from taking a cut of your family’s hard-earned assets, follow these steps.

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Different angles results in different styles

[Ebun @kenkenlewu]

Many people think you can only shop from China using Alibaba or AliExpress… but that’s not true.

These are alternative sourcing websites from China:

1. Industrial equipment
https:// www.made-in-china. com

2. Jewelry & accessories
https://www. gooddiy. com

3. Small goods (non-bulk items)
https://www.yiwugo. com

4. Beauty products & cosmetics
https://www.nala. com. cn

5. Women’s shoes
https://www.go2. cn

6. Toys & kids items
https://www.ctoy. cn

7. Children’s clothing
https://www.3e3e. cn

8. Small batch / wholesale products
https://www.dhgate. com

9. Electronics & gadgets
https://www.globalsources. com

10. Fashion (affordable clothing & accessories)
https://www.zaful. com

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