@ecb "I don't believe that we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of gov't. That is we can't take them violently out of the hands of gov't. All we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop" ~ F.A. Hayek, 1984
The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.
I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.
When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.
Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.
They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.
Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?
The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.
Wow, just from the trailer this AI generated movie about Troy seems better than Christopher Nolan’s woke-washed garbage. Maybe AI can be used to un-woke-wash, salvageable woke-washed garbage produced by Hollywood over the last decade.
Privacy > KYC
The long-term reform is to end KYC completely.
End financial surveillance. Stop forcing companies to collect hackable jackpots of KYC data. Better one guilty man go free than millions of innocents get hacked.
Because they will get hacked, as Treasury itself was.
Christopher Nolan, you are a despicable abomination to the world and civilization as a whole.
Sincerely, and with the utmost disrespect possible, you are the definition of a racist, not just any racist, but the worst form that they come in, a propagandist racist, attempting to woke-wash history.
Boycotting your pathetic attempt to make a woke movie out of Homer’s timeless classic The Odyssey.
"Is Bitcoin actually competing to be the future world reserve currency?"
Yes.
When you need money that nobody can debase, that is free to hold and receive, that is cheap to transfer, that is censorship-resistant, and that even enemies can settle in... there is no second best.
Omnes is closing the gap between TradFi standards and DeFi infrastructure.
@omnesfinance is bringing institutional-grade structured compute RWAs onchain, starting with tokenized Bitcoin compute built on @base and powered by @ApexGlobalGroup's $3.5T fund.
Institutional allocators and DeFi now have access to compliant, structured compute products onchain, with the legal frameworks, custody, and transparency they require.
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It only took a few years to go from “governments are going to ban bitcoin!” to “bitcoin is an essential part of a ceasefire between nations engaged in kinetic combat.”
Bitcoin is quite literally empowering peace.
Ultimately the world will recognize what bitcoiners have known for a long time.
The world needs a digital, decentralized, non-sovereign, neutral asset to conduct global trade between countries that don’t trust each other.
Just a matter of time.
If you care about financial privacy, then this is probably the most important research you will read all year.
The Dutch Court of Audits has released a paper on the effectiveness of AML measures, and lo-and-behold: it found that there is no evidence that AML actually works.
These laws are what are used to debank law-abiding citizens, throw developers in prison, surveil every transaction you make, and collect your identity in central databases that end up hacked.
Governments have built a complete and total surveillance dragnet around your finances under the guise of AML, and this Dutch Court just said the quiet part out loud:
AML is discriminatory, overly expensive, and we have no proof of it stopping crime.
Today, we're proud to announce our partnership with @ApexGlobalGroup to tokenise the Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on @base .
When we founded @omnesfinance, we had a clear thesis: Bitcoin mining is the only mechanism that creates new Bitcoin through protocol issuance. It is economically distinct from any yield strategy built on redistributing existing Bitcoin. But accessing it as an institution required navigating hardware, energy, operations, and regulatory complexity that no institutional portfolio should have to manage.
We built OMN to solve that. A Luxembourg-issued, hashrate-backed structured note, fully on-chain, administered end-to-end by Apex Digital 3.0 on Base.
Apex Group Ltd services over $3.5 trillion in assets. This partnership brings that institutional infrastructure to bear on a product we believe is genuinely better than any alternative for institutional Bitcoin exposure.
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Let me be honest about Dubai.
No income tax. Zero. You keep everything you earn.
Safest country on earth - Numbeo 2025. Crime index 16. London is 45. Paris is 50.
Sun 365 days a year. The city never sleeps. Infrastructure that makes European capitals look like they’re still in 2005.
You can build a company in a free zone with 100% foreign ownership and zero corporate tax on most structures.
World-class hospitals. Best malls. Restaurants from every corner of the planet. You want a Michelin-starred dinner at midnight - done.
Every major crypto exchange, fund, and Web3 company is setting up here. The ecosystem is real.
And the people? 200 nationalities living in the same city. Nobody cares where you’re from. Only what you’re building.
People ask me why I came back here after the recent situation.
The question should be - why would I leave?
There is no better city on earth right now for someone who wants to build, earn, and actually live well.
That’s not marketing. That’s just the reality of living here.
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Every dollar printed isn't just ink—it's a hidden tax on your future. Inflation erodes purchasing power, quietly robbing your labor. Technology offers deflation, but the fiat system resists. Choose sound money for true value. #Bitcoin#DeflationaryFuture
1/4🧵Before joining the EU in 2004, ~58% of Czechs were in favor of adopting the Euro. Today, the number is only 20%.
Bitcoin taught us why monetary policy matters, but regular people are also noticing.
When a crisis hits, nobody wants to wait for the ECB to tell you what to do