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I offer nothing. I’m a Poodle who’s feed is a ‘to-do list’ of other people’s intelligence that I plan to explore, but will likely never get round to. #bitcoin

[Poodie @DissectingBTC]

@Channel4News Why send a reporter who evidently has no intention to be open to new ideas or perpectives?

[🇬🇧 The Bitcoin & Crypto Accountant 🇬🇧🚀 @BitcoinTaxUK]

Bitcoin gave me an epiphany.
Money isn't just money.
It's stored time.

Every time you go to work, you're exchanging a piece of your life for money.

An hour. A day. A year.

Your salary is simply your time converted into a monetary form.

When you don't spend that money, you're doing something remarkable.

You're storing your time.

You're choosing to use a piece of your life's work in the future instead of today.

Savings are stored time.

That completely changed how I think about inflation.

Inflation isn't just prices going up.

It's your stored time buying less than it used to.

If it took you 100 hours of work to build your savings...
...and years later those savings buy significantly less...

Then those 100 hours of your life no longer command the same value.

That's a sobering thought.

This isn't about greed.
It's about respect for your time.
Your time is the one asset you'll never get back.

Good money should preserve the value of that sacrifice as well as possible.

Whether you choose Bitcoin, property, equities, or something else...

The question I now ask is simple:
"Does this help preserve the value of my stored time?"

Bitcoin didn't just change how I invest.

It changed how I define wealth.
Not as pounds or dollars...

But as the ability to preserve the value of my life's work into the future.

What do you think?
Is money just money?
Or is it really stored time?

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@Mayhem4Markets The ability to store and transfer debasement-resistant value globally without centralized permission.

And among the ways to do that, it’s the protocol with the best liquidity and decentralized track record. Network effects.

[Poodie @DissectingBTC]

@AntiWokeMemes Yes

[Positive ₿itcoiner Chad @BitcoinChilango]

Fort Knox..

[Poodie @DissectingBTC]

@Harv28459 @BasilTheGreat It makes the hospital money - at Christmas local businesses pay to sponsor a star and have their name up there. Expect a new celebration every month 😂💷💷💷

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

MARGARET THATCHER in 1991:

“You do have to fight to keep freedom because […] one day you’ve got so many people employed by government that they have a vested interest in keeping more power in the hands of government and less in the hands of people.
No, it shall not be.”

[Road To Success @_RoadToSuccess_]

Do you know what breaks a parent's heart more than anything else... ‼️‼️

[Fabian S. @fabianschmid_09]

you need to be calmmaxxing.

always have a slight smirk on your face.

life isn't serious.

lay back and enjoy the cinema.

people will always try to get you emotional.

if you react, you give them power.

if you just smile at you have the power.

stop being aggressive.
stop getting all riled up.

and just enjoy the movie of life.

[Poodie @DissectingBTC]

@PeterSchiff @scottmelker If you understood Bitcoin you’d realise this really isn’t the jibe you intended it to be 😎

[Andy ₿ Adviser @AndyBTCAdviser]

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[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

I think about this several times per day. 🤣

[Not that Elon. #BIP 110 @Eggplant_Elon]

There can be no such thing as ‘fairness in taxation.’ Taxation is nothing but organised theft, and the concept of a ‘fair tax’ is therefore every bit as absurd as that of ‘fair theft.’

—Murray N. Rothbard

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for?

We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal.

Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck.

Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on.

Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working…

VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money.

Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax.

Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness.

Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax.

Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done.

Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar.

You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant.

More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest.

How depressing. Time for a pint.

Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure.

You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go?

You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed.

Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless.

What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news?

Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right?

Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously.

And the final kick in teeth.

Inheritance tax.

After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings.

Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company.

Even after death, it continues.

What are we paying all this money for?

Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational?

No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS.

Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t.

When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do?

QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax.

The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world.

Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working.

We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work.

You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work.

LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

[Poodie @DissectingBTC]

@robprogressive The banks don’t control my money.

The bitcoin network secures it for me instead!

[TFTC @TFTC21]

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[Poodie @DissectingBTC]

@benjamincowen Send them lower!