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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. And others blame Biden for the Afghanistan withdrawal but all he was doing was enacting Trump's 2020 treaty and plan with the Taliban. Important to always remember that we only had 2,500 troops in Afghanistan when Biden became President. The withdrawal was effectively down to Bagram Airfield at that point.
  2. Sheila Jackson Lee had the toughest primary race of her congressional career and still won 60-38. smh. I hate being in her district. She's not leaving until she dies.
  3. I fully expect that she will say that while she has some problems with Trump, she endorses him because she doesn’t want Biden to win.
  4. Even Fox News has to worry about what that woman was going to say next. I don't have an estimate but I bet a decent percent of the GOP would vote to take the right to vote from women. And other minorities as well.
  5. what's with bitcoin's price not going up today? Something broken?
  6. Nah, I have decent taste when it comes to BBQ
  7. Random thought of the day. I hope this thread ultimately gets locked with the last post being a picture of Paxton being led away in handcuffs.
  8. With this rise in crypto prices, I believe the FTX victims will basically be made whole even though they won't feel like it. Let's say bitcoin was $20K in Nov '22 when FTX collapsed and you had 1 bitcoin on their site. The recent rise in price will most likely allow you to eventually get $20K back. I realize that the victim wants 1 BTC back and not $20K. They most likely will get paid in bitcoin but it will be whatever BTC fraction = $20K. It's impossible to give everyone back their money based on today's valuations because they don't have that much in assets.
  9. I get long text messages from my mom with the last words being to ignore this message. It's all one text message.
  10. If someone commits fraud but is somehow able to cover it up, it's still 100% wrong and illegal. However we all know that there must be situations where this occurs and the criminal gets away with it.
  11. Part of the massive ETF growth is due investors fleeing the Grayscale bitcoin ETF. The amount is impossible to fully calculate. If true then the new ETF growth may start to slow. But you also have other factors coming into play other ETF firms reportedly investigating the creation moving towards ETF investors being allowed to borrow against the bitcoin ETF holdings more and more investment firms recommending their investors put 1-5% into crypto
  12. Trump Org CFO, Weisselberg, pleading guilty (again) to a crime today. Instead of fraud like last time, it’s perjury from the civil trial case. hopefully the judge gives him a maximum sentence because obviously 4 months in Rikers Island didn’t teach him to not break the law.
  13. 64k (BTC) and 3.5k (ETH) were ceilings over the past week, and both just broke.
  14. Paxton must have some horrible humans working for him. It’s perfectly fine for a lawyer to be conservative but I imagine 99% of those lawyers don’t want to be involved in suing school districts and catholic charities. He must really be finding the bottom 1% that just can’t find a job anywhere else.
  15. While I agree it's overkill in buying a coke at the corner store which creates a capital gain taxable event, it's not like we haven't solved the sales tax event. And if there was one technology that could solve small capital gain transactions, it's crypto. And while I don't agree with it, the federal govt could even get paid during the transaction, and later reconcile the actual tax amount.
  16. I thought the concept of a 51% attack was that a group representing 51% of the miners could push changes into the network, not secretly, and the other bitcoin users couldn't stop it. Obviously the disagreeing users/miners could create their version of bitcoin.
  17. I was wondering why I know the actor who plays Toranaga. He was in the Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. He played the top captain who grew to respect Tom Cruise as Cruise became a better samurai.
  18. There isn't a central group that controls bitcoin. tldr: Blackrock can't control bitcoin. Let's say that Blackrock wants to change Bitcoin, which means changing the developer code. They would effectively need to convince a majority of miners and users to accept their new code that they want to apply to the bitcoin network. Historically this has not been a group that reaches consensus easily on a change. Alternatively, Blackrock, or anyone, always has the option of copying bitcoin (& its corresponding owners) to a new, separate version of Bitcoin with whatever change Blackrock wanted. This has occurred in the past with other groups and pretty much fizzled out. IF Blackrock wanted to control/change bitcoin, buying out the miners might be the best option but there is limited value in that. As they approached control, it would scare off bitcoin owners and the price would plummet. To control bitcoin is to kill it. Re: Blackrock's current stake. They're reporting another 10K bitcoin owned yesterday, up to 150K. At this growth rate, Blackrock should surpass Microstrategy in the upcoming weeks. Other groups still have more.
  19. Same here. In watching the original series and re-reading the original book. Most of the Clavell books are solid reads.
  20. I’m 5 minutes in. When does Orson Welles start narrating?
  21. It was bound to happen that the big players would eventually control most of bitcoin. Unless Satoshi wakes up and uses his wallet.
  22. At that one recent debate, most of the GOP candidates proudly raised their hands that they've been arrested in the past.
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