2025, what a year
from fantasy touting on global tv to meeting a cast of characters on the bash to another ship chaser winning $2m and all of the slappiness in between
thx to the deposit kingdom & all my co-hosts/collaborators/gooners
let's run it back
Connecting the ecosystem with @Square has been the dream since we launched bitcoin in @CashApp in 2018
Starting today, all merchants can now seamlessly stack bitcoin behind the scenes from their daily sales
Bitcoin Payments Acceptance will be live for everyone on November 10
i feel extremely vindicated - my original reporting has been 100% proven correct since it was published in 2023 (with small details wrong, like the Fed, not the FDIC imposing the 15% cap)
but i'm not happy, i'm upset because even though people talk about OCP2.0, no one really understands how bad of a scandal it was. the government destroyed several banks because they didn't like that they served a total legal industry, that's the plain truth of it. it's 10x worse than people think.
reading list:
my original reporting:
https://t.co/dtMCGM1Ojm
https://t.co/Q4Ev2EvXtH
american bankers coverage of Hetric's testimony: https://t.co/LmOYd3V4OT
cooper & kirk whitepaper on choke point 2.0:
https://t.co/MqMTmgjmdl
Hetric's declaration:
https://t.co/1XC4dMiRc8
One of the most historic transactions in #bitcoin history was just made.
President @realDonaldTrump buying burgers at @PubKey_NYC with @tpacchia.
Block height: 861871
You saw it here first.
It seems unintuitive that a small 25 basis point interest rate hike in Japan would spike all risk assets, including tonight's -20% $ETH candle.
But you need to understand the way the carry trade works:
It's a leveraged unwinding.