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[Bitcoin Rants @BitcoinRants]

Everyone's a scammer, everything's a scam.

Short dorks and women ruined the West.

🤡🌎 is relative.

You might not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you.

The perpetual "top signal" market rolls on.

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[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

This is a great discussion between @MsMelChen and @havivrettiggur

I always enjoy Melissa’s X posts. Her insights into the China-Iran relationship are fascinating. https://t.co/f51gNxmmDF

[Bitcoin Rants @BitcoinRants]

@PrestonPysh Pathetic AI slop

[Bitcoin Rants @BitcoinRants]

@Pledditor Bunch of no-coiner Jew haters

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

A Chinese national running a barbershop in Spain was arrested for transferring about 600,000 euros in cryptocurrency to Hamas. I believe this was coordinated through Chinese consular channels or overseas United Front networks, with the individual acting as a disposable front.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

Chinese Communist Party men are PAYING American women surrogates to birth U.S. voters.

One Chinese billionaire close to the CCP has fathered over 100 American citizen children via surrogacy!

“So you have these companies in China that get wealthy...members of the CCP businessmen to hire American women to be surrogates to carry their children for them.

So you'll have a Chinese billionaire who will pay an American woman $50,000 to be injected with their sperm, carry the child. The child is born, then the child is picked up, oftentimes not by the parents, picked up by a third party and then returned back to China.

We don't know how widespread this is, but the Wall Street Journal just three or four weeks ago had a front page story, Liz, about one man, a Chinese billionaire close to the CCP who has over 100 children...And because they're born in the US and the birth mother is an American citizen, the child is automatically granted citizenship.

We did a little research, Liz. We found just in southern California 107 Chinese-owned surrogacy companies. So we don't know the scale of it, but that's an additional problem in this space.” -@peterschweizer

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

“Suicide”…right. Here’s the scorecard for the China’s CMC since the 20th Party Congress (held every 5 years and last held in Oct 2022) - held to set the overall direction of the Communist Party. Xi has finalized his grip on power. Taiwan 🇹🇼 invasion is now inevitable. #China

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

🇨🇳 FTX-LEVEL FRAUD: CHINESE GOLD PLATFORM FREEZES ~$19B, INVESTORS LOCKED OUT

China’s JieWoRui has frozen ~$19B in customer assets, blocking withdrawals and metal delivery.

The firm offers just 20% compensation.

The owner claims he was “set up.”

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

The United States is encouraged by the recent Panamanian Supreme Court’s decision to rule port concessions to China unconstitutional.

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

NEW: Apple acquires Israeli startup Qai, it's an AI company that listens to ‘silent speech’

Qai last year filed a patent application to use "facial skin micromovements" to detect words mouthed or spoken, identify a person and assess their emotions, heart rate, respiration rate

[Bitcoin Rants @BitcoinRants]

@TuurDemeester @PaulConRO Muslims

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Let me get this straight:

> China buys oil from Russia
> India buys oil from Russia
> Germany buys gas from Russia

Yet core NATO allies - Canada and the UK - are actively deepening economic ties with China, while the EU has just concluded a landmark "mother of all deals" free trade agreement with India, slashing tariffs and opening markets on a massive scale.

These same nations demand unwavering American commitment to Article 5 against Russian aggression and billions in military aid while loudly accusing Trump of "demolishing the global order."

All the while, their own economic choices continue to sustain the Russian war machine through its largest customers. The moral posturing about defending Ukraine and upholding the rules-based order rings hollow as their actions so glaringly contradict their words.

The whole thing is a charade.

[Bitcoin Rants @BitcoinRants]

Yeah, pretty much

[Bit Paine ⚡️ @BitPaine]

why has bitcoin had a down year?
two words: crypto contagion 🧵

it’s not “a silent IPO”
it’s not “OG selling*”
it’s because “crypto” is dying, and bitcoin is a correlated asset.

this hasn’t been obvious because the “crypto market cap” has not fallen as much as you might naively expect, and shitcoin:BTC pairs (including ETH:BTC) have been somewhat resilient.

but you must understand two critical facts:

> (1) most of the “crypto market cap” is froth, and it is buoyed by a multiplicity of tokens and a minuscule float for most of these tokens. margin calls and portfolio contagion means forced BTC-sales because the shitcoin markets are too illiquid to handle selling in any kind of volume, and the owners need to keep these air markets propped up.

> (2) the people who hold the majority of these air-tokens were also “bitcoin OGs*” so they have a lot of BTC to sell (100s-1000s)

you see, the game for many years among crypto insiders (I have the misfortune of knowing many of these folks) has been this:

>> (1) come up with some halfway plausible idea for a new air token.

>> (2) reserve massive quantities of said air token for yourself and your friends, who sell off some of their $BTC* to buy your air token

>> (3) these friends often include fake “crypto VCs” who serve as aggregators for air tokens.

>> (4) get your air token listed on casino exchanges (Coinbase / Binance)

>> (5) wait for BTC to pump

>> (6) immediately start astro-turfing hype campaigns for your air tokens as “the next bitcoin,” that fixes some BTC flaw:

$BTC lacks transaction throughput? $BCH $BSV
$BTC lacks “utility?” world computers! $ETH, $ADA, $SOL, etc.
$BTC lacks privacy? $XMR, $ZEC, etc.
$BTC lacks quantum resilience?…

(It’s all so fucking tiresome. The same goddamn thing over and over. Each time a new class of retards lining up to get fleeced.)

Okay, so you set up some telegram/discord groups, coordinate and pay off the cryptogipsies, chart traders, etc. and engineering a pump…

>> (7) air tokens pump to ungodly market caps on TINY floats, because retail are degenerate, retarded gamblers.

>> (8) sell off as much of your stake as you can for an ungodly multiple.

>> (9) rebuy BTC at the bottom of the next bear

but three things have happened in the last few years that breaks this cycle:

(1) bitcoin maximalism
(2) wall st.
(3) $MSTR

the net effect is that the “smart money” (1+2+3) is buying $BTC in a patient, disciplined way, and *that wealth* does not “rotate” into shitcoin gambling, and they also don’t chase pumps into parabolas, preventing the kind of froth that leads to “alt season”

simultaneously, speculative “dumb money” day-traders looking for $BTC beta have been redirected into $MSTR / options trading, which @saylor and @phongle can immediately redirect back to into long term $BTC accumulation (NB: I am talking about day-trading here which is distinct from buy-and-hold long term investing in $MSTR which is all you should be doing in a long vol investment).

this sucked the vol from crypto, and put the grift on life support. you can see the desperation. “Quantum” is their latest gambit.

this is where the “OG selling*” is both true and misleading. It’s not that OG’s aren’t selling. It’s that they aren’t divesting per se, they’re repositioning into shitcoins for a shitcoin pump that is never going to come back, rinse and repeat.

when you hear “bitcoin OG” you might naively think disciplined investors, but most of these people are degenerate gamblers who were early to bitcoin by chance, made themselves millions, then became deeply invested in the “crypto” grift

their portfolios are heavily altcoin-skewed (just ask @udiWertheimer and his poll results)

look at the graphs below from @Jacknomics

the median shitcoin is down >90% over the last year

they are bleeding capital; but they can’t sell their illiquid air tokens without a dumb money frenzy to buy them. so instead they just bleed their $BTC to Saylor.

[Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle @KenCao_onChina]

This Is Worse Than Stalin: Xi’s Self-Inflicted Military Collapse. Why Xi Is Purging His Own Generals — And What It Means for Taiwan.

Xi Jinping personally built the Central Military Commission in 2022.
Just three years later, it has collapsed.
In this video, I explain why Xi is purging the very generals he hand-picked — and why this is not preparation for war against Taiwan, but preparation for his own political survival.

Using hard numbers and historical comparisons to Stalin’s Great Purge, I show how fear has replaced initiative inside the PLA — turning it into a hollow force that looks strong on parade but cannot fight a real war.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Who says the Chinese can't innovate?

They used to have these birth hotels in California where pregnant Chinese foreign nationals would camp out and eventually give birth to secure US citizenship for their offspring under birthright citizenship laws (jus soli).

Now, thanks to lax US laws governing international surrogacy, wealthy Chinese are using American women as surrogates to have their babies for them.

They then go back to live in China and once the child turns 21, the entire family can apply for citizenship through a green card application.

Birthright was meant to be for freed slaves and for children of legal immigrants who came to work during the Industrial Revolution. It's being abused.

And it will obviously have electoral consequences.

@peterschweizer details everything in his new book, The Invisible Coup.

[WORLD NEWS @_MAGA_NEWS_]

🚨 JUST IN: In a bombshell speech, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EUROPEAN UNION A COMPLETE FAILURE in front of global elites by stating, "Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation and zero growth."

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Birth tourism…what could go wrong?!

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

This is why I think everyone should tune into this weeks episode of Milkshakes Market and Madess for a conversation with @TheMichaelEvery
https://t.co/tUCgcKztE7

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Almighty God, what a wreck they've made of their country.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz: It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy. Germany has the most expensive energy transition.

Gas power plants will be built to correct this strategic mistake.

Velina‘s strategic foresight stands undefeated.