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0815-Pleb ⚡ | Grateful to live in these exciting times🧡

[Zynx @ZynxBTC]

Always remember what Bitcoin actually is.

It is your exit.

You do not have to win the political argument. You do not have to wait for the right party to get elected. You do not have to hope that someone in power eventually does the right thing.

The exit door is always there.

[jcop @derjcop]

@PintaricRobert @DerFlkz @MichaelSaylor

[jcop @derjcop]

@SwissHodler Or in other words, they hold a strategic position of roughly 0.01% of their AUM

[Knut Svanholm ∞/21M @knutsvanholm]

Kurzgesagt is a YouTube channel that often puts out short, informative videos on physics, astronomy, and biology. But whenever they post a video about a societal issue, it becomes evident that they suffer from the same gaping knowledge hole as most other academics. They seem to know nothing about Praxeology and Austrian Economics. This makes them miss the forest for the trees.

In their video about Germany's demographic crisis, they make the following claim in the first few minutes:

"The demographic collapse tearing up the generational contract may soon destroy one of Germany's greatest achievements — its welfare state."

They then explain that young Germans are having fewer children than their parents and grandparents, and that this will lead to a collapse of the pension system and the welfare state. The proposed solutions involve some combination of incentivizing higher birth rates and increasing skilled immigration. They do admit it's a slow-moving crisis that politicians have long been aware of but have been reluctant to address, largely because the largest voting bloc, older Germans, would bear the cost of any reform.

But they never ask the one question that matters: why are birth rates declining in the first place?

The welfare state they praise at the beginning of the video IS THE CAUSE of the declining birth rates.

People vote for what they believe is good for them personally. Politicians know this and deliberately make promises they can't keep, pushing the costs onto the next generation through money printing and national debt.

Before big welfare states, families had to support themselves. They were incentivized to work hard and produce children who would one day support them in old age. When the state stepped in and promised to replace that function through taxation, the incentive evaporated. This is not an empirical observation, but a logical consequence of how incentives work.

Nordic birth rates are also falling. Sweden's has dropped sharply in recent years, and Sweden has already partially reformed its pension system away from pure pay-as-you-go, precisely because the structure was unsustainable. The direction of travel is the same everywhere the state has made this promise.

When the supposedly oppressive patriarch “the father” was replaced by the actually oppressive state, the incentives shifted in every direction. The higher tax burden forced wives into the workforce and into the tax base, making larger families harder to afford. The more families struggled financially, the more they voted for government handouts, leading to even higher taxes. Add to this the hidden tax of inflation, which governments were forced to rely on after another one of their own bad decisions, abandoning the gold standard.

In truth, the welfare state was always a scam. An empty promise from politicians with one purpose: to turn their subjects into dependent, loyal voting cattle.

All of these effects are entirely predictable through deductive reasoning from first principles. Most academics believe empiricism is the only valid tool for understanding the social world. It is not. Just as mathematics and logic are a priori sciences, so too is economics. You do not need a dataset to understand that removing an incentive reduces the behavior it was incentivizing. No government-funded university will teach this, because academics are as reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them as anyone else.

The problem is not that people are having fewer children. The problem is the institutionalized system of retarded incentives that the state has spent a century constructing for its own benefit.

Read Rothbard, @Kurz_Gesagt!

[Leo Mattes @lemalive]

Deflation schließt die Gerechtigkeitslücke.

[Daniel D. Eckert @Tiefseher]

Die von den Grünen postulierte „steuerliche Ungleichbehandlung verschiedener Einkunftsarten“ könnte man übrigens auch dadurch überwinden, dass Kursgewinne aus Wertpapieren ebenfalls noch 12 Monaten Haltefrist steuerfrei gestellt werden

[Frank Schäffler @f_schaeffler]

Bitcoin ist strukturell Gold, nicht Aktie. Und genau so behandelt das deutsche Steuerrecht es seit Jahren: als privates Veräußerungsgeschäft nach Paragraf 23 EStG, mit Haltefrist, wie beim Verkauf von Edelmetallen. Wer Bitcoin gezielt aus dieser Systematik herauslösen will, bekommt ein Problem mit Artikel 3 GG. Der allgemeine Gleichheitssatz verbietet die Ungleichbehandlung wesentlich gleicher Sachverhalte. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat in seiner Pendlerpauschalen-Entscheidung 2008 klargestellt: Wer eine steuerrechtliche Grundentscheidung trifft, muss sie folgerichtig durchhalten. Ausnahmen bedürfen eines besonderen sachlichen Grundes – der rein fiskalische Zweck der Einnahmenerhöhung genügt ausdrücklich nicht.

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[Einundzwanzig 🎙 @_einundzwanzig_]

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[Fab 🦊 @fabthefoxx]

Der Staat bedient sich nur noch moralischer Prosa.

Zuckersteuer, Tabaksteuer usw. Eigenverantwortung existiert gar nicht mehr. Unter dem Vorwand, die Bürger „erziehen” zu wollen, werden links und rechts Abgaben erhöht. Am Ende will man aber einfach nur die Einnahmen steigern. Und das, obwohl man sowieso alles Mögliche mit neuen Schulden finanziert.

Du wirst direkt durch Steuern und indirekt durch die Geldentwertung besteuert. Du wirst besteuert durch die Preiserhöhungen, die sich durch die höheren Steuern anderer Marktteilnehmer ergeben.

Geisteskrank.

[Bram Kanstein @bramk]

Haha it gets worse.

One observation that keeps ringing true:

If you are too blackpilled you come across as an idiot.

“Who invented blockchain technology bro?”

“Must be CIA”

No clue what he is talking about re Bitcoin but opens his mouth anyway. BORING

[jcop @derjcop]

#einundzwanziglive

[Magoo PhD @HodlMagoo]

Get a load of this retard.

[Gerrit Keferstein @mitodoc]

Das heutige:

- Rentensystem
- Gesundheitssystem
- Immigrationssystem
- ...

Was noch?

[Alex v. Frankenberg (Hodltrainer) @Justdoitalex]

"Papa, warum wird nicht mehr Geld gedruckt für arme und kranke Kinder?"

Das hat unser Tochter mit 13 Jahren gesagt.

Das hatte mich motiviert, auf der Rückseite meines Buchs "Bitcoin - Das ehrliche Geld" über einen Lightning Spendencode Satoshis für "arme und kranke" Kinder einzusammeln.

Es sind 1,619,315 Satoshis zusammen gekommen.

Die setzen wir jetzt ein: All-you-can-eat Eis in der Tom-Mutters-Schule in Kempten und im Kinderhospiz St. Nikolaus in Grönebach. Morgen am 16. April.

DANKE an alle Spender!!!

@smartundcremig @_einundzwanzig_ @_MarkusTurm @markusTurmWal

[jcop @derjcop]

@_marcsteiner @Bankless Wir wissen aus den 10-K Filings, dass Strategy seine Bitcoin nicht selbst verwahrt. Sie liegen in Custody bei Coinbase, Anchorage & Fidelity.

[jcop @derjcop]

@Kluckies_ People are retarded

[jcop @derjcop]

@callebtc You can already use it in google ai-studio, if this might be an option✌️

[Einundzwanzig 🎙 @_einundzwanzig_]

Die Zitadelle 2026 ist zwar ausverkauft aber es gibt ein paar Ticket rückläufen, schaut mal rein.

https://t.co/jI4QQpwevt

[EVAN KALOUDIS @evankaloudis]

.@ZeusLN v0.13 is going to be FAST. Just shaved 67% off start-up time with the new node in the phone.

Your wallet starts up, gets synced, and is ready to use in under 3 seconds - a huge improvement over the last release.

[b10c @0xB10C]

We just had a rare-ish two block fork/reorg between Foundry and AntPool+ViaBTC. Foundry mined six blocks in a row.

https://t.co/qpj7eLlh0U

[Bitcoin_apex @bitcoin__apex]

GIVEAWAY! 🎁

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Good luck, guys!