@BlacklionCTA The historian in me remains perpetually amazed that neither Mormonism nor Scientology centered on South Carolina, it has every precondition satisfied
@Artforum The private auction part I donโt get, but I donโt read too much into one failed auction
Pollock and Rothko are THE post war and nuclear era painters in America, they have pole position, the canon on them is set in concrete,
and inflation is never going down
@alexelorenzo Chase sucks at retail banking.
A shiny new Chase retail branch opened near me 4 years ago. It is easily the newest branch with the most parking in our Zip Code.
Nobody uses it.
Everyone uses BOA, or one of several local credit unions.
Chase and retail are extinct.
@brian_armstrong With the market makers of 2026- , Derivatives/perps is just gambling sir
Please donโt discredit our disreputable space by advocating gambling as a financial strength
@ChartingGuy Wonder what the margins are
A supermarket that signs a deal for 920,000,000,000 worth of iceberg lettuce still wonโt net much In the end
@SullyMichaelvan Wall Street and trad brokerages, like Coinbase, have realized that customers that just hold BTC or MSTR are not profitable for them
Coinbase changed their phone app to push users out of spot BTC and into worthless perps
Brokerages are hammering clients to ditch BTC for MU, etc
@DrNickA@davidzmorris Like the bookishly pretty girl you ghosted to chase South Beach models, Decred is still right there, and you still have her number
US Govt AI investment can pump growth to deal with rampant inflation, but it will still expand the natl debt
Only US Govt investment in Bitcoin can address a future where repayment of the US National Debt is possible
@EricBalchunas@NateGeraci I got my broker (who I pay) into MSTR
then he got HIS clients into MSTR
and still he shit-talks it, as culture
hasnt sold his position though ๐
@SimplyBitcoin I canโt rule out that Elon needs the price of BTC to be as low as possible on the day of his SpaceX offering, allowing him to take the investing publics money over ownership of a โMars Colonyโ and then furtively plunk said new stack of giga-money right into โฆ cheap Bitcoin