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Captainant

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  1. Hey now, it could have been Ghislane's horse and not Billy Cee
  2. Getting emotional and calling someone a dog is an interesting way to cede that you don't have a meaningful response or counter position for why a ledger entry is a commodity or security
  3. What do they use it for? Aside from hoping to sell to a greater fool later?
  4. What makes it a security? What thing does it secure for you? There is no other side to the transaction of a Bitcoin sale that the Bitcoin is securing for you. There is no promise of goods to be bought or sold with it, and no utility to gain with it by your own acknowledgement. Buying a stock gives you a vote in the company's decisions. Buying a bond gives you a contractual obligation to get paid back by the bond issuer. There's another side to those transactions that the asset is securing for the buyer. There is no such thing for Bitcoin. And applying the asset lense, what asset does it represent? There is not anything that it represents aside from an entry on a distributed ledger. Again, there's nothing wrong with buying and selling cryptos, but it's definitionally NOT a security and is explicitly a currency in name and architecture and implementation
  5. Pretty good breakdown from DefCon 33 on SignalGate and the kakistocracy were all enjoying The biggest thing I didn't realize is that they weren't even using signal! They were using an Israeli fork of the app that sniffed all their messages and exposed them unencrypted with exposed heapdump endpoints left online
  6. well he needs to hire a fucking offensive coordinator because his playcalling is more cooked than Lincoln Riley's brisket
  7. Defense really shit the bed on 4th down on Georgias 35. Holy shit how can he jump offsides
  8. What an absolute dumpster fire lmfao. Offsides and a PI
  9. I mean, there's nothing wrong with gambling on purely speculative assets but you shouldn't be lying to yourself and others that it's a security just because it makes you feel good to say it
  10. But you're saying the only reason to buy it is to sell it to a greater fool later. Other assets represent real tangible goods or interests in a business. Bitcoin is an entry on a distributed spreadsheet - by your argument it's not good for anything else. So why is a line item on a distributed ledger intrinsically a security? If there's no value or function intrinsic to the thing itself, I mean
  11. So you're saying it's entire purpose is not to deliver a utility but fish for a greater fool? I can't disagree
  12. The underlying protocol hasn't changed. Code is law in cryptocurrency, and it's definitionally a currency with extremely low throughput and extremely high energy requirements
  13. https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper The title of the white paper is "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
  14. Lol. Lmao, even. That's not on-chain transactions, it's a side-chain with a trusted third party like lightning is. Trusted third parties break a core operating principle of the Bitcoin protocol and white paper. You're just recreating the banking system, but with way less efficiency and way more money laundering
  15. Honestly their in-game production is a much better product than the other broadcasts imo
  16. Goddamn if Putin has a picture of trump blowing Clinton that would be a big surly bingo lmfao https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-bubba-trump-blowing/
  17. check out Timberline for solar shingles if you want that sort of thing - they install like normal asphalt shingles and don't put holes in your roof like installing traditional panels do
  18. Aaaaand that's why republicans attack the notion of critical thinking
  19. Huh interesting, Fannie Mae seems to be selectively leaking information to illegally collude with competition and move the mortgage rate. Love picking winners and losers https://apnews.com/article/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-firing-pulte-data-a4f8c53df74fef83ec7fd07e3d524746 WASHINGTON (AP) — A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the government-backed lending giant who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates. Emails reviewed by The Associated Press show that Fannie Mae executives were unnerved about what one called the “very problematic” disclosure of data by Lauren Smith, the company’s head of marketing, who was acting on Pulte’s behalf. “Lauren, the information that was provided to Freddie Mac in this email is a problem,” Malloy Evans, senior vice president of Fannie Mae’s single-family mortgage division, wrote in an Oct. 11 email. “That is confidential, competitive information.” He also copied Fannie Mae’s CEO, Priscilla Almodovar, on the email, which bore the subject line: “As Per Director Pulte’s Ask.” Evans asked Fannie Mae’s top attorney “to weigh in on what, if any, steps we need to take legally to protect ourselves now.” While Smith still holds her position, the senior Fannie Mae officials who called her conduct into question were all forced out of their jobs late last month, along with internal ethics watchdogs who were investigating Pulte and his allies.
  20. honestly a good bit of "double clicking" into the headline. It's a really important datapoint that "most downloaded" in that category is just 3000 downloads at $0.99 a pop. Not really groundbreaking, nor the "real" charts
  21. 100% agree - we've already seen consequences from the Crown of England over Epstein. Time will tell who all is stained, but it sounds a little qanon-adjacent when you're seemingly more concerned about the Clintons over everything else
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