I get the rationale for a Bitcoin reserve. I don't agree with it, but I get it. We have a gold reserve. Bitcoin is digital gold, which is better than analog gold. So let's create a Bitcoin reserve too. But what's the rationale for an XRP reserve? Why the hell would we need that?

Most people only learn the stove is hot by touching it. Most people prefer centralized systems until they get cut off.

With the rising calls for our next wave of monetary stimulus, I must admit that current events have me sitting at my point of deepest cynicism about our position in the behavioral time loop of human society. This moment is unique to us today, but not to our species. It makes me

Passed Pawn's Perspective 1. Markets finally pushed Trump to his limit on Wednesday. So Dump became Pump after the Treasury auction. It's like a financial markets version of Jekyll and Hyde. We always knew he had a limit, just not where it was. Turns out it was a combination of

Where are my freedom-loving Bitcoiners decrying Nayib Bukele for holding Kilmar Ábrego García after he was unlawfully deported? I know they must be out there, but my timeline is silent. If you don’t care about Garcia, care about the door this opens to executive abuse of power.

If you, an unbiased person, take a look at this graphic by Elliptic, do you come to the conclusion that "unhosted wallets" are what enable cartels to launder money through cryptocurrencies? Or could it be that the actual problem is that cartels still somehow manage to deposit

Fantastic counter-argument to my post, highly recommend reading through it: x.com/udiWertheimer/…

If the cuts were real why do we need to raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion for less than 2 years?

The special operation "SpiderWeb" has been in preparation for more than 1,5 years First SBU transported FPV drones to 🇷🇺, and later - mobile wooden houses. At the right moment, the roofs of the houses were opened remotely, and the drones flew to hit the 🇷🇺 bombers All people

Great thread. This aligns well with my (admittedly largely uneducated) thesis for a lot of this Tether/Bitcoin nexus, but I’m genuinely curious to hear thoughtful pushback on where Jacob may be wrong. Any Bitcoin Bro-ness gets an InstaMute™️

Having public agencies funded by taxpayer dollars tweeting partisan hack shit like this is a horrendous slope to begin sliding down. But nothing surprises me anymore. We are actively eroding our own social fabric whether or not we see its pernicious effects yet.

“Evacuate Tehran” is nothing more than a populist slogan meant to later claim: “We didn’t intend to kill Iranian civilians; they just refused to leave the war zone.” But how are over 9 million people — without fuel, often without enough savings to relocate, and with no second

This is the perspective that has gotten missed: There is no context in which you would let random, anonymous strangers upload 100kb files to your computer on a self-regulating p2p network. The constant appeals to censorship resistance are a complete red herring. Mempool filters

From Sam Harris HT HonestMath.com

BREAKING: bitcoin++ Gettysburg To Feature Historically Accurate Reenactment Of The Blocksize War

All of us convincing our uncle to buy #Bitcoin on Thanksgiving is not priced in.

THE WHEELS ARE FULLY TURNED AWAY FROM THE OFFICER. Watch in SLOW MO. No intention IMO to hit anyone. Sole intention based on wheel/steering wheel to LEAVE the scene NOT A THREAT. Look at the wheel.

Here's the latest The New York Times analysis of all videos of the Renee Good shooting. A millisecond by millisecond breakdown makes clear the White House version is completely false: The ICE agent was not run over, and Good was driving away when she was killed. nytimes.com/2026/01/15/vid…

ICE is now using a Palantir tool to map neighborhoods and assign “deportation scores” in “target-rich environments” fed by HHS data. Today it’s immigrants. Tomorrow it’s dissidents. If you think this won’t be repurposed for activists or protesters, you aren't paying attention.

We are waltzing right into tyranny.