Compulsively Curious

Crypto believer, IOTA lover, Dad all the time.

[Compulsively Curious @clewis10000]

@SenfdaTzu @DomSchiener I had a very positive take on the AMA. 2 years of cash available, 85-90 employees. Twin dedicated to using iota. "IOTA has every characteristic Twin needs." Scaling is the magic qiestion. They have a shot at it and are hyper focused on gaining traction.

[Oren Elbaz @thesilverhermit]

Where would you be better off since the beginning of 2022? In the Nasdaq100 or in #Gold?
Oddly enough, the answer is gold. In spite of the tremendous rally in tech stocks, and the huge correction in gold, it is still beating them. As a matter of fact, everything we've seen in the past few months appears to be a retest of the broken trend line in this ratio. The next leg down will be painful for tech investors.

[IOTAPUNKS 🤘🄿🅄🄽🄺🤘 @IotaPunks_71]

A sleeping giant awakens 🔥 TWIN Foundation is processing more trade documents on IOTA than ever before — from ~20 TX/day in spring to 100+ TX/day in June 📈 Real cross-border trade, verified on-chain.

🔗 https://t.co/J44M9MOSoI

#OneOfUs 🤘

#IOTA #IOTAPUNKS #TrillionOrNothing

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

20 rules for young men:

1. Never date a friend’s ex

2. It’s ok to go to the movies by yourself

3. Hygiene is more important than you think

4. Know the different between love and lust

5. Stay informed on what’s going on.  Don’t be a sheep

6. Have a sense of humor but don’t joke about your dreams and goals

7.  Study the types of people who upset you and why

8. Stand up to bullies.  You’ll only have to do it once.

9. Don’t bully people weaker than you

10. Learn how to tell stories

11. Don’t complain. 80% of people don’t care about your problems and 20% are glad you have them

12. Be impressed by the things that matter

13. When coming across a successful person, talk less, ask more.

14. Leave a lasting impression after people meet you

15. Don’t feel guilty for being too ambitious

16. Be mentally and emotionally ready to lose loved ones at some point of your life.

17. Always have some cash with you

18. Regardless of what you get paid per hour, give your best. 

19. Avoid porn at all cost.

20. You never marry a girl, you marry her entire family.

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 On January 30, 2025, a federal judge ruled fluoride in U.S. drinking water poses an "unreasonable risk" to children's brain development. Case No. 3:17-cv-02162. Public record. Nobody covered it.

On February 14, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14241 directing the EPA to begin nationwide fluoride removal. Nobody covered that either.

Because if they cover it — they have to explain why it was there for 79 years. And that explanation leads somewhere they cannot go on television.

Fluoride does not prevent cavities when swallowed. Only topically — on contact. The FDA's own literature confirms this. So why is it in the water you drink? The water you cook with? The water your infant's formula is mixed with?

A declassified 1945 Manhattan Project memo — document code MHED-1944.3 — shows that fluoride was the primary toxic byproduct of uranium enrichment. Disposal cost: $14 per ton. Addition to public water supply: revenue of $2 per ton. They didn't add it to protect your teeth. They added it because you are cheaper than a landfill.

But that's not the real reason they kept it for 79 years.

The pineal gland — a rice-grain-sized organ in the center of your brain — accumulates more fluoride than any other tissue in the body. More than bone. More than teeth. By age 40, the average pineal gland contains 300+ mg/kg of fluoride. Enough to turn it to stone.

The pineal gland produces melatonin. It regulates circadian rhythm. But in every ancient civilization — Egyptian, Hindu, Greek, Mayan — it was called something else. The Third Eye. The Seat of the Soul. The Gateway.

A calcified gateway is a closed gateway.

They knew. Document MHED-1944.3 contains a subsection titled "Neurological Suppression Potential." It was classified until 1997. It notes that chronic low-dose fluoride exposure produces "ichthyoid compliance" — a term meaning "fish-like obedience." Reduced aggression. Reduced curiosity. Reduced resistance to authority.

They didn't poison your water to save your teeth. They poisoned your water to close your mind.

Trump's order is not about dental health. It's about reopening what was sealed. The removal has begun in 14 states. The calcification reverses within 6-18 months of zero fluoride exposure. The pineal gland decalcifies. The gateway reopens.

You will think more clearly. Dream more vividly. Question more aggressively. That's not a side effect. That's the point.

CODE: MHED-1944.3 / PINEAL-300MG / EO-14241 / 79-YEARS / GATEWAY-OPEN

They spent 79 years closing a door inside your skull. The order to reopen it has been signed.

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Your water wasn't medicine. It was a leash. The leash is being cut. Share this.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Global central banks acquired +17 tonnes of gold in April, the 2nd monthly purchase this year.

This marks a sharp reversal from March, when central banks sold -30 tonnes of gold driven by Turkey and Russia.

Poland led purchases at +14 tonnes, bringing its year-to-date total to +45 tonnes, with gold reserves now at 595 tonnes.

China added +8 tonnes, the biggest monthly addition since December 2024, bringing official gold reserves to a record 2,322 tonnes, or ~9% of total reserves.

China has now purchased gold for 18 consecutive months.

Central bank demand for gold remains incredibly strong.

[Willi Trelstad @WilliTrelstad]

@DonDurrett GOLD/SPX ratio: The backtest is almost complete. The fireworks are about to begin...

[Montecristo @Montecristo_BM]

Gold / Silver · $XAU / $XAG · actualización

Partidario de tomar (significativamente) beneficios o cerrar completamente la posición en objetivo principal (donde cotiza actualmente)

*Esta viendo el ratio largo oro / corto plata, si asciende la plata pierde valor frente al oro, si baja, la plata se revaloriza frente al oro. Exactamente como un par de divisas (eur/usd - eur/yen, ...)

#SwingTrading #Traderpedagógico

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The teething adventures of children and their families…

[SilverTrade @silvertrade]

🚨VIDEO: WHOLESALE FRESH FOOD PRICES DOUBLE OVERNIGHT‼️

⚠️Hope you own PHYSICAL GOLD & SILVER - food may soon become UNOBTAINIUM if you don't...
https://t.co/vgBOPOD0SA

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Seems low

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Gold Telegraph ⚡ @GoldTelegraph_]

BREAKING NEWS

CHINA’S IMPORTS OF SILVER SURGED TO AN ALL-TIME HIGH IN MARCH

Nothing to see here…

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

I lived in Japan for a year. Most of my experiences were exhausting in ways I’d rather not get into, but this one still makes me laugh.

I was on the train in Osaka, minding my own business, when I noticed a group of school kids a few seats down. They were whispering, glancing at me, then whispering again. They kept passing a folded piece of paper between them as if they were planning something top secret.

I watched this go on for two stops.

Finally, one of the kids was pushed forward by the others. He walked over to me slowly, like he was approaching a wild animal that might bite. He stopped right in front of me, bowed politely, and held out the folded paper with both hands.

I opened it.

Inside was a handwritten note in careful English: “Hello. We think you are a very cool person. We are practicing our English. We hope this note is correct. Please give us a score.”

At the bottom, they had drawn a literal grading box, out of ten.

I looked up. Seven pairs of eyes were staring at me as if their entire semester depended on my response.
I pulled out a pen, wrote “10/10” in the box, and added a note: “Perfect English. Well done.”

The boy carried it back to the group. They read it together… and absolutely lost their minds. High-fives, jumping, and one kid even pumped his fist in the air.

Their teacher, who had been pretending not to watch from the end of the car, was biting her lip, trying hard not to smile.

I rode the rest of the journey grinning to myself.

That’s the Japan I always remember.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

Just doing some light reading on Tax Day...

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

I added this related to a readers context. Imposing a tax does not on its own create a liability to pay the tax. Many taxes are imposed in the IRC. But there are also other sections that create a liability to pay the tax imposed. There is no section of the IRC that creates a liability to pay the income tax. Section 6012 only relates to filing of returns, not the payment of tax. It reads who is not required to file and who "shall" file. Shall is not the same as required. But if no section makes you liable to pay the tax, then you are not required to file. Section 6151 only requires payment if one is required to file. But since there is no section making anyone liable to pay the income tax, no one is required to file. Also, if anyone is charged with tax evasion, and if that person objects to his tax return being introduced into evidence against him, the government will argue that the return was filed voluntarily, and as such it can be used against the preparer. However, if tax returns were required to be filed, the government would not be able to use the returns as evidence against the preparer, as that would violate his 5th Amendment rights.

[elio imbornone @elio82]

Ice Con
Chicago over 5.5
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[Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Landeur]

Men only want one thing and it's this.

[Economic Office @Economic_Office]

Silver is at $70.49. Wave 4 correction is in its final stage.

Wave W dropped to $63, Wave X rose to $96. Now Wave Y is in play , expecting a final drop to the $55–56 range by mid-April.

The red trendline is still not broken. Without a break of this line, no upward move begins.

When Wave Y completes, Wave 4 ends. Then Wave 5 begins.

Wave 5 target: $150.

#XAGUSD #SILVER