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AcanthisittaEarly983

BTC, SOL, ETH. DC, hold. That's all. It will go up again, hell we are at 92k now. Don't mess with weird shit coins and don't invest money you can't burn in your back yard right now. It sounds like you broke the "don't mess with weird shit coins" rule and sadly that means losing money most of the time, it's just blind gambling and you'll always convince yourself "it can still go higher" then that turns to "it will pump to last months high again and I'll sell". Nothing but a vicious cycle of losing money. Like others have said, time in the market always beats trying to time the market. 

Environmental_gobrrr

i didn't there were so many of it shame i didn't farm but anyways we still got moons 

YogSothothIsTheKey

Bitcoin's current price response to your prediction: https://youtu.be/FPD5q6DC43M?si=UItcWN05WsWbDv15

erov

Yeah I remember his DC trip posts. Hes someone who was never really political but had his pet project in mind when voting and supporting. Trump schmoozed libertarians and crypto supporters then came out with his own. Got the votes.. mentioned it in some tweets to test the waters and it went no where. He is insulated from the life of everyday Americans but im glad to see he did provide medical center in the middle of nowhere to give some access though I dont know the status of this place now.

MPH2025

Bitcoin, doesn’t care about Washington DC.

skima_jr

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DistillateMedia

Or did we? April 27th-??? DC/Everywhere. World's biggest party.

Crypto-Voice-Pro

I hear you on the 94k resistance—it's been a tough nut to crack, and the order books show a lot of sell pressure sitting right there. ​Regarding the 'Tariff FUD' from last April, it’s a perfect example of how the market is now reacting to DC politics as much as it does to on-chain data. It was a classic shakeout that rewarded anyone with a longer time horizon. ​I think your 82k 'market mean' target is a solid level for a retest. If we do dip below 90k, seeing how we hold at the 82k-85k support will be the real test of this structure. I’m staying neutral for now, but keeping an eye on the DXY—if the dollar keeps cooling, that 150k target for 2027 starts looking very conservative. Are you mostly in BTC, or are you looking at any of the 'tariff-resistant' sectors like DeFi?

scam____likely

Not gonna lie. The absolute first thing I thought of when viewing the graph and the title of this post: “Gettin' robbed, gettin' stoned. Gettin' beat up, broken boned. Getting had, getting took. I tell you folks, it's harder than it looks. It's a long way to the top, if you want to rock 'n' roll!”—AC/DC “High Voltage” album (1975)

EvFishie

Ah yes US only my apologies. One of the more violent western countries definitely doesn't have any wrench attacks going on. Like the one in new York where the guy got tortured for 3 weeks over his crypto wallet. Or the 12 guys in DC that got charged with racketeering having stolen over 280 million in crypto The country where the department of justice themselves have said that there are more than likely dozens of cases like it that have not been reported? That one?

STRYED0R

That's youtube ;) Yea the trecnhes are in DC/TG & CT... Some proper threads here! but the finger is far away from the pulse

Secret_Computer4891

The nice folks over at 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535 will be happy to help.

GigglyGoggins

Is that DC?

PirateSKB

A Mcdonad's double hamburger actually dropped in price in Colonial Heights (neighboring city to my hometown of Petersburg, VA). Instead of $2.89, it only costs around $2.18 now. They dropped in price in Petersburg too (I dunno about Richmond, Tidewater area, DC area, Shannadoah area, etc though) Gas prices last I checked was around $2.54 / gallon here in my hometown as well, which is amazing tbh

RosieDear

Not sure what you are getting at being as I've been in crowds of 500,000+ in DC protesting Vietnam and you can be sure that the Government felt the pressure. My point is that things are much worse than Vietnam or Watergate now..but we've all be pacified and separated so we don't know how to apply pressure to the Government.

Reasonable_Chicken92

Literally nothing you said counters my point. Fiscal policy for both those random US states you cited is STILL in Washington DC. Which EU body determines fiscal policy for all EU member states? THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN TAX POLICY. Fiscal AND monetary policy are centralized in America, while only monetary policy is centralized in the EU.

SurprisedByItAll

So limit free speech to protect free speech you feel aligns more closely to how you think? The egalitarian Vitalik sounds more like a Marxist democrat law maker in Washington DC afraid of free speech?

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Indianianite

Are you paying attention to what’s happening in DC? We’re not going up in 2026 when Americans healthcare premiums are going up 2-4x. We’re probably fucked for a while boys

Chuckles77459

The voting power at the Federal Reserve is split into two different rooms, depending on what is being decided. Here is the breakdown of the "math" for the two main decision-making bodies: the FOMC (Monetary Policy) and the Board of Governors (Regulation). 1. The FOMC (Interest Rates & QE) The Mission: Setting the Federal Funds Rate (interest rates) and deciding on QE (buying bonds). The Structure: 12 Voters. The Magic Number: You need 7 votes to win a simple majority. • The 7 Governors: All 7 members of the Board (Powell, Bowman, Jefferson, Waller, Miran, Cook, Barr) get a permanent vote. • The NY Fed President: John Williams (New York) gets a permanent vote. • The Rotating 4: Four other regional bank presidents vote on a rotating basis (currently Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City). Current "Team Trump" Math: Even with his recent appointees, Trump does not yet control interest rates. • Trump-Aligned (Likely): Bowman, Waller, Miran, Schmid (KC) = 4 Votes. • Independent/Opposition: Powell, Williams, Goolsbee, Cook, Barr, Collins, Musalem, Jefferson = 8 Votes. Result: The "Old Guard" still controls interest rates. This is why you haven't seen an immediate slash in rates to 0% despite the administration's pressure. 2. The Board of Governors (Bank Regulation) The Mission: Writing the rules for banks (capital requirements, mergers, stress tests) and Emergency Lending (13(3) authority). The Structure: 7 Voters (The DC-based Governors only). The Magic Number: You need 4 votes to win. Current "Team Trump" Math: This is where the battle is closest. Trump is dangerously close to seizing control of banking regulation. • The Trump Bloc: Bowman, Waller, Miran = 3 Votes. • The Opposition: Powell, Cook, Barr = 3 Votes. • The Swing Vote: Philip Jefferson. The Strategy: This math explains exactly why the administration is trying to fire Lisa Cook. • If Cook is removed, the Board drops to 6 members. • If Trump appoints a loyalist to replace her, his bloc (Bowman, Waller, Miran, +1 New Guy) hits 4 votes. • Result: With 4 votes, they can override Chair Powell on regulatory matters. They could rewrite bank supervision rules or approve/deny bank mergers without Powell's consent. 3. The "Discount Rate" Loophole There is a unique power that the Board of Governors (the 7) holds over the Regional Banks. While the 12-member FOMC decides the target for the Federal Funds Rate, the 7-member Board has sole authority over the Discount Rate (the rate the Fed charges banks for emergency loans). • Historically, the Discount Rate moves in lockstep with the Funds Rate. • However, if Trump gains a 4-3 majority on the Board of Governors, they could technically lower the Discount Rate independently of the FOMC. This would create a chaotic "dual rate" system, but it is a "nuclear option" available if they get that 4th vote. Yes, this is an AI summary but it helped me understand the possibilities

DepartedQuantity

Since you asked: Total stake: 401,381,721.28 SOL Percentages Germany: 27.07% Netherlands: 18.78% United States: 17.92% United Kingdom: 8.73% Lithuania: 8.72% Other: 18.79% With just the European Countries listed, that is 63% which is just shy of the 4% super majority. Solana's goal is to have 150ms finality. It is physically not possible for the network to gossip across the world quick enough given that ping times around are higher than that. Even if you were to remove the round trip from the ping time to gossip, you still don't have enough time + overhead + loss to finalize consensus. Which means the network is going to rely on DCs being physically co-located to reach finality. Anatoly Yakovenko has even stated that they want to rely on Starlink to reach consensus because of ping times, which is even more hilarious from a centralization standpoint. Your point about Base going down is supporting my issue about performance chains being centralized. Base is not Ethereum. Base is an L2 operating on Ethereum L1. If Base goes down or stops finalizing, I can always escape-hatch back to Ethereum to recover my funds. You cannot do that with Solana. Also, AWS does not mean data centers (DCs). AWS operates inside DCs, just like Solana nodes operate inside DCs. Fun fact, Solana has been mostly banned from AWS which is why it didn't go down during the AWS outage, however that doesn't mean it's immune from a DC censoring it or cutting them off from the outside world. That is the counterparty risk.

horseydeucey

If you know DC's average political bent, you'll immediately see why members of the DC subreddit wouldn't be too warm with this idea after reading this passage: > Last fall, then-candidate Donald Trump visited the New York PubKey, where he paid for a few dozen burgers with Bitcoin. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attended one of the DC location’s pre-launch parties in November. https://washingtonian.com/2025/12/03/a-huge-bitcoin-bar-and-steakhouse-is-opening-in-dc/ Oh yeah, and this new joint is occupying a space that once housed a popular bbq joint. I'm sure there are those who wouldn't forgive any restaurant that takes the space.

never_safe_for_life

Don’t worry, Hoskins is on his way to DC to work with the Trump transition team. Things are about to heat up!! … Wait, it’s been a year and absolutely nothing came of it? It was an obvious lie by a k own liar? Gasp!

Jazzlike_Process8066

The top end DC shoes

Jealous_Principle_81

DCA = Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Airport code for Washington, DC’s primary airport.

Snoo77104

xyz is also pushing for this to change. The recent campaign in DC had them giving out partially eaten donuts to demonstrate what it's like being taxed on it. [https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/jack-dorseys-company-launches-zero-crypto-tax-coffee-campaign](https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/jack-dorseys-company-launches-zero-crypto-tax-coffee-campaign)

YungPeso

Is Anago 0x99aE2DC76c43979E3BcC0ae8d69F1fca077c8888 the Canonical Anago coin?

MrStarrrr

Explain that to the guy that hasn’t thought critically about any decision he’s made since January. For all we know there’s an existing bill waiting to be introduced that would cut all submarine communications cables to isolate BTC nodes in the US to kill crypto or some shit. The kind of absolute madness running through geriatric “brains” in DC.

SilvermoonTLC

Part of what I believe ties to the fraud waste and abuse books written by Senator & Dr Tom Coburn If we can stop the blatant waste in Federal government and have no real hope of slowing municipal, county and state debts the tax burden will eventually crush our future , In 2003 Business week wrote a long article detailing the threatening rise of China and concerns about unequal Tariffs Senator Tom Coburn Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders (2003) The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America (2012) Wastebook 2012 (2013) Wastebook 2013 (2013) Wastebook 2014 (2014) Smashing the DC Monopoly: Using Article V to Restore Freedom (2017)

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an unexpected visit to the Bitcoin-themed bar Pubkey DC, sparking speculation about the administration's stance on Bitcoin. His appearance was seen as a potential turning point for the cryptocurrency, which has recently experienced a price drop from $125,100 to $82,000. Bessent, known for his crypto-friendly views, has supported cryptocurrency legislation and advocated for the U.S. to become a global hub for digital assets. The visit has been hailed by Bitcoin leaders as a bullish signal despite mixed market sentiment. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Alex45223

Oof, last line of support is around the 30k dollar range. That's tough. Crazy we had no blow off top or anything like it. No retail . Despite all of the positive bitcoin legislation that is passing in DC. Wonder what happens if QE starts up during the bear dump?

Fun-Technology-1371

[Bitcoin bar](https://www.pubkey.bar/home) in NYC now open in DC as well

N3333K0

As someone who has been through the federal process, you’re missing the part about the forfeiture of $237,000,000. That has to be paid back - luckily they don’t take it all right away but rest assured, DC will be on your right shoulder until they get it.

HemiSync

I’ve got targeted buys setup every $1k drop to 75k, did the same the last time it dropped into the 70s. if goes below that I might just go all in with any extra fiat. Regardless, that plus my daily DC I will keep hodling for at least ten years.

EfficientMilk7421

Upvoting comment and DC avatar 😁

Java_Best

If you hodl long enough, you’ll never be in the red. Just DC, hodl and trust the process ✔️

indvs3

They're not accounting for the extra power requirement and how unlikely it is that the existing power infrastructure will suffice to sustain such an attack. They could counter that issue by distributing the miners over multiple locations, but that implies extra costs for building multiple DC's, requiring more manpower to maintain them and adding complications in synchronising the attack from multiple locations.

Status_Floor1746

Pig butchering scams have made a lot of waves in DC and Southeadt Asia and the Golden Triangle have been huge bastions of the activity

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AI attempt 😏 https://i.postimg.cc/tRW6yqX6/866DC21D-EED9-4FEF-9281-FC3120A4C9F2.png

Casalkeld

I think an issue for retail is the part of the market we are in. Most believe there will be a bear market at some point. Could have already started, could start in a couple of months, could take a year. No one knows for sure. Personally, I bought in at the top before Trump was elected (was new to the scene and chucked in 20k when in was just over 100k in January thinking it would "go to the moon". It didn't. Instead, I had to sit on the sideline and watch it fall to 75k. If I had been patient, or had DC'ad I would have been up a recent amount. As it is, i only really made my money back. And so I don't want to miss the boat again lol. The opportunity cost plus frustration was to so frustrating. I think that at some point BTC will be back 75k or lower and so i would rather wait patiently for then before i start buying again. Anyone else thinking similar?

CheekiTits

Highway to hell - AC/DC

harvested

Bully, I think the same. Then you have the 60 minutes interview recently. MacroScope17 has also been posting about this. 2. At this point, the strategic BTC reserve -- and specifically the prospect of the US government buying BTC -- seems to have dropped off the radar for most traders. I think that's a mistake. Recent comments by some people deeply connected to DC policy have indicated this remains on the agenda. It will be important to watch how this develops in coming months and into 2026. I've said it before: At this level, BTC's price does not begin to reflect the possibility of sizable buying by DC. Let me share some links: https://x.com/MacroScope17/status/1984605093652500646 https://x.com/MacroScope17/status/1976419968813289688 https://x.com/MacroScope17/status /1975899263826809337 When you combine with all the LTH selling (over $34bn last month), who is buying that much? It's not ETFs, TCOs (Saylor) etc, not even close.. and I don't think it's plebs.

harvested

Bully, I think the same. Then you have 60 minutes interview recently. MacroScope17 has also been posting about this. 2. At this point, the strategic BTC reserve -- and specifically the prospect of the US government buying BTC -- seems to have dropped off the radar for most traders. I think that's a mistake. Recent comments by some people deeply connected to DC policy have indicated this remains on the agenda. It will be important to watch how this develops in coming months and into 2026. I've said it before: At this level, BTC's price does not begin to reflect the possibility of sizable buying by DC. Let me share some links: https://x.com/MacroScope17/status/1984605093652500646 https://x.com/MacroScope17/status/1976419968813289688 https://x.com/MacroScope17/status/1975899263826809337 When you combine with all the LTH selling (over $34bn last month), who is buying that much? It's not ETFs, TCOs (Saylor) etc, not even close.. and I don't think it's plebs.

Ko_Ten

Welcome to DC of A.

aminok

DeFi is literally the definition of crypto. It’s peer to peer, decentralized, permissionless. And Warren hates that. She wants everything to go through her and her agencies. You think slapping the word "protection" on authoritarian control makes it noble. That’s the same logic every government in history uses when they want more power. "We’re just protecting people". Yeah, by deciding what people are allowed to do. You really think the government should have the power to decide how we trade, what code we can run, who we can send money to? You think that’s protection? That’s control. That’s how we ended up with lockdowns, mandates, and every other "for your safety" excuse to treat adults like children. You’ve just found a way to justify any kind of oppression as long as it’s wrapped in the right language. Everyone in the actual crypto space warned that Warren’s agenda was poison. She’s not trying to fix crypto, she’s trying to neuter it. And when the Democrats lost and that pressure lifted, look what happened: the industry started breathing again. Banks opened up. Institutions got involved. People stopped being scared of government retribution for building open systems. And don’t act like these bureaucrats don’t have skin in the game. The regulators, the lobbyists, the "consumer protection" offices — they all feed off control. DC has the highest per-capita income in the country for a reason. They live off the machinery of control. DeFi cuts that off. It makes them irrelevant. That’s why they hate it. And no, the bill wasn’t just about "regulating exchanges" If you actually read it, it goes after self-custody, node operators, developers — literally the foundations of crypto. You wouldn’t even be able to run a client under that nonsense. She wants crypto to be something the government can throttle, because that’s where her power comes from. As for KYC, that is literally mass surveillance. It's literally saying people have no right to privacy because some of them might be criminals. This is what surveillance states all over the world have always said to justify criminalizing privacy. Privacy matters, especially in a free society.

aminok

And here we go again. Reddit's far leftists are swarming the cryptocurrency subreddit using typical democrat insults to attack anyone outside of the government who dares to have their own interests not aligned with the public sector unions. The public sector unions are bankrupting the United States and every other advanced western nation with their exorbitant demands and their corrupt influence over the leading the major political parties. The only reason Trump is being attacked is because he doesn't kowtow to them. That's the only reason they hate the Republicans. They're fine with all the warmongering of the Democrats, all the deficits the Democrats run up, the millions of illegal immigrants the Democrats allow in, the blatant corruption of the 1500 pardons that Biden issued to his cronies, the massive poverty industry pimping by Democrat aligned NGOs, the bank bailouts that were facilitated by huge campaign contributions from the big banks, the sweetheart collective bargaining agreements that the public sector unions have had, the fact that Washington DC is now the wealthiest city in the entire country with a per capita GDP vastly exceeding any other city, $264,000 a year. They're okay with all of this insider trading, all this corruption. What they don't like is the fact that the Republicans are not aligned with the dominant party which is the government employees.

Human_Ad8651

We knew it would be a bloodbath and war when he launched his meme coin 2 days before election. At first (3 months) I genuinely believed Congress would stop him. That’s when I realized our entire government was in his back pocket. GOP cheered him on. My plans changed. After that it was guerrilla warfare in the trenches 2025. I did ok but honestly today with him threatening to shell Venezuela, I’ve had enough in the space. I can’t keep getting black swanned anymore by him. By system shocks. By exchange outages. He always been only for himself. My error was believing their were other adults in DC - they’re aren’t any of character to stop him.

KMark0000

Didnt Wintermute sent 700 million TO Binance to save their butt? I am more concerned the orchestrated sudden drop what liquidated so many people, then the shills and doomsayers digging the grave of Bitcoin and crying about that this is the end and how hard it dropped (when I checked, it was like 10% or so lmao). Totally synchronized, world wide market manipulation, but I bet the SEC would find it "proper", just as Robinhood fucked over retail investors. I can literally list coin, what hid founders because one of them was literally found guilty and was barred to ever touch finance again, and I lost a lot of money because of some "hack" of their contract, what triggered to rerelease it again. Never lost money on cex yet (except, maybe Gate, but I have to contact layer about it, since they "fumbled" my rereleased tokens), but every other place (dex, fake websites, literal asset flipped pages with nothing behind them) felt like the old time DC, or trying to figure out the real download button on an STD infested website.

aminok

Public sector unions are vastly more influential than any other lobby group. Far-leftists who demagogue about businessmen and private investors, like Zohran Mamdani, AOC and Bernie Sanders, are mouthpieces for the actual oligarchy. Washington DC is by far the wealthiest city in the US, with a per capita GDP of $264,000 a year. It voted 92.4% for the Democratic candidate in the last presidential election. That should give you a clue who the real oligarchy is. ChatGPT effectively distills why someone with Mamdani's ideology is about to become mayor of New York: -- The Political Power of Public-Sector Unions New York City employs roughly 329,000 municipal workers, of whom about 290,000 earn over $100,000 annually. This bloc forms an economic and political class whose livelihood, pensions, and benefits all depend directly on elected officials—creating an unusually tight feedback loop between public payrolls and political outcomes. 1. Direct Financial Power If just 10 % of these employees donate to local candidates each cycle (≈29 k donors) at an average of $500 each, that’s $14.5 million in direct funding. The realistic range, based on income levels, is $5 – 30 million per municipal election cycle. These donations are overwhelmingly coordinated through union PACs, giving them centralized leverage over campaign finance in a city where a typical City-Council race costs about $250 k. 2. In-Kind Labor Power Political volunteering and canvassing add a second channel of influence: High-intensity activists (≈5 %) contribute ≈ 50 hours each → 725 k hours. Medium-intensity participants (≈20 %) give 8 hours each → 464 k hours. Low-intensity supporters (≈30 %) spend 2 hours each → 174 k hours. Total = 1.36 million labor-hours per election cycle — equivalent to 680 full-time campaign staffers. At $25/hour, that’s ≈ $34 million of unpaid fieldwork value. 3. Turnout and Endorsement Machine Through coordinated GOTV operations, unions can reliably mobilize at least 145 k additional votes (one extra per committed member) via family, neighbors, and coworkers. At ~$100 per marginal vote—the typical campaign cost of late-stage voter mobilization—this capacity equates to ≈ $14 – 15 million in additional influence. 4. Aggregate Measurable Power ChannelEstimated Value Direct financial contributions$ 15 M (avg.) In-kind campaign labor$ 34 M Vote-delivery / turnout control$ 14 M Total effective resources≈ $ 60 M per election cycle That makes this bloc roughly 30 % of all effective political power in New York City elections when compared against the total combined influence of donors, PACs, and organized interests (~$200 M total). No other constituency rivals it in both cash and manpower. 5. Cultural Entrenchment Decades of union presence in schools, media, and government offices have made pro-union sentiment a civic default. Nearly every family either works in or depends on a unionized service. Education curricula and local journalism frame union advocacy as synonymous with social justice and civic virtue. As a result, explicitly anti-union rhetoric is culturally taboo: candidates opposing union interests are perceived as anti-worker or anti-New Yorker. This cultural reinforcement functions as an invisible subsidy, granting unions an ideological moat that pre-filters political discourse. Openly anti-union candidates rarely reach viability because the electorate itself has been socially conditioned to see union opposition as illegitimate. 6. Electoral Outcomes Citywide races: a strongly anti-union platform faces about an 80 % probability of defeat; most such candidates are filtered out in primaries. District / Council races: when unions concentrate resources, an anti-union candidate’s loss probability exceeds 95 %. The effect is less about individual elections and more about agenda control: no one serious runs against them. --- In sum: Roughly $60 million in cycle-equivalent resources, 1.3 million hours of labor, and a culturally reinforced moral narrative give New York’s public-sector unions not just electoral strength but hegemony—the ability to decide which ideas are politically admissible before the first vote is cast. -- All of this is why the left grows increasingly more radical over time, and the public sector becomes increasingly less accountable to the public. It's gotten to the point where the Chicago Teachers Union is publicly praising a convicted black murderer on X: https://x.com/CTULocal1/status/1971749649951142009

raresanevoice

Yeah and I expect a requirement for stopping the tariffs will be that World Liberty financial be allowed to operate in China... like how last time he got 50 trade marks approved overnight and then tariffs were dropped or when China rented an entire floor of a Trump hotel in DC even though no one stayed there in 4 years

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BetterBudget

what a sucker's trap! 🪤 he's shorting emotional volatility to cause a social short and it's a targeted short.. if Bitcoin ends up dipping, the greater conspiracy fools will point at price action and go look, see, TC is right.. you can't trust Bitcoin but you can trust TC! he has roots in DC! he's been on the inside, he knows!! so he'll grow his following with those fools who are more easily manipulated

flicman

I remember when a server in Chicago would go down, taking a router with it ans suddenly 1/3 of the chat would just DC. A much bigger deal than a little hiccup at your online bookseller.

mikeg4015

10000000000 percent convinced it was Bourne at a desk in DC. They letting the early adopters get rich...when the big rug pull comes....and it's coming....we will have trillions in "tokenized debt" and a digital payment system that truly separates and manages resources and the classes. Thats my 2 cents.

UzItOrLuzIt

Weak attempt at an insult. Regardless, if you are insisting you bought at or near $100K USD any time in the last 160 days then you are a liar. I live near Washington DC, and yes, the US is slowly becoming a 3rd world country.

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New-Ad-9629

I've been trying to explain this to my Gen Z cousin, who just bought a million dollar home (sigh). In DC!! of all places (double sigh). I guess people learn the hard way.,

uninspired

How about having his hotel in DC during his first term where foreign dignitaries stayed when in town on official business?

Ajfox1974

Rosie. Dear, I don’t know where you got this info from. But by definition, a bond and a loan are the same thing. There is an obligation to pay it back with interest. An investor is a shareholder and assumes the same risk that we take with buying crypto. The Trump family was being debanked by BofA and a lot of others when the entire DC democrat machine was coming after the family. Anyway, you all buy that dip?

DCASPX6900

This is why you do not trade and don’t use leverage. Just DC, buy spot and believe in something.

neurone214

An airport outside of DC

pistonian

There are a lot of peripheral players in DC that have access to info from schedulers to secretaries to interns.

Successful-Cook7795

No it is permanent marker, been there for a week, got these when I went to exhibit at BTC at DC 2025

bravoechoniner

The massive deficit spending era really started post-9/11 with Bush and both parties have just continued to ransack the treasury for their own political and financial gain. Everyone in DC is guilty of and complicit in stealing the value of your fiat for themselves. Trade your ever-decreasing fiat for BTC, hold BTC and never have enough skepticism and cynicism for the bureaucratic elites who have contempt for you.

lavazzalove

The money printer was just turned on in DC. Let the game begin.

jdizzle512

There’s 2 major difference you forgot. Technical advancement and the all the top financial firms in the world just started working on crypto projects. Blockchains were doing 5-10 tps in 2017. They were doing several hundred tps in 2021. Now blockchains are infinitely scalable, some of them are faster than visa. SUI does like 27 million operations per second lol for example You also aren’t taking into account, the amount of institutions who just started building in crypto Look what swift and 7 largest firms in the world accomplished in August 2023 They sent Ethereum over swift, 2 years ago, and have been building since https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/swift-unlocks-potential-tokenisation-successful-blockchain-experiments That’s been accelerating, 1000 institutions and 12000 banks, and a few governments joined the crypto industry over the past 2 years, it’s true price doesn’t reflect that Blockchain labs and the top financial firms in the world have been in DC every day this year helping Congress write the legislation and frameworks such as the Genius act so the big firms can have KYC aml compliant interoperability between their current systems and emerging crypto systems like Stablecoins and on chain lending ect

jdizzle512

There’s 2 major difference you forgot. Technical advancement and the all the top financial firms in the world just started working on crypto projects. Blockchains were doing 5-10 tps in 2017. They were doing several hundred tps in 2021. Now blockchains are infinitely scalable, some of them are faster than visa. SUI does like 27 million operations per second lol for example You also aren’t taking into account, the amount of institutions who just started building in crypto Look what swift and 7 largest firms in the world accomplished in August 2023 They sent Ethereum over swift, 2 years ago, and have been building since https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/swift-unlocks-potential-tokenisation-successful-blockchain-experiments That’s been accelerating, 1000 institutions and 12000 banks, and a few governments joined the crypto industry over the past 2 years, it’s true price doesn’t reflect that Blockchain labs and the top financial firms in the world have been in DC every day this year helping Congress write the legislation and frameworks such as the Genius act so the big firms can have KYC aml compliant interoperability between their current systems and emerging crypto systems like Stablecoins and on chain lending ect

Ajfox1974

So, you must despise Nancy Pelosi and most of the Democrat Party, in fact the majority of Washington DC? Or, do you assume that all democrats are just damn good traders, better than Warren Buffet?

palacheenka

I'm not claiming Cardano is anti-gov. I'm saying it's open and permissionless. The point of a cryptocurrency is not to be anti gov/system. The point of it is to be open, have clearly defined rules and be accessible to anyone regardless of skin color, political view or the country the come from. If people think it's better money or store of value so be it. However, thinking that the gov will let their power, which they have over people through fiat money, go, is wishful thinking. How do you know what Charles is doing in DC? Maybe just maybe he's trying to influence the legislation to be written in a way that's good for broader crypto that meets certain requirements. There would be nothing wrong with that for as long as it would follow the principles and philosophy that I mentioned above. I'm an ada holder and to be honest, I wouldn't be too happy for the government to include ada into reserves. I'd rather see people owning as much ada as possible first and only see government to come in later because Cardano is PoS and people should have a saying in how the platform operates, not a government. But yeah, most of the people are usually quite shortsighted. They'll sell their freedom for a new car or a week at the beach. \> Your hard path is more due to Charles, who is so full of BS and struggles to execute. Struggles to execute? The chain has been up and running continuously for 8 years. It has an 100% uptime. There have been no hacks, no critical issues. Research took a lot of time and so did the implementation because they did it in a language that hasn't been as ready for the job as they thought it would be. They've even contributed heavily to the Haskell ecosystem while building Cardano because they had to develop tools they need for the job. So yes, the path was full of obstacles but the product that they've delivered is quite solid. If this debate is about whether Cardano is anti-gov or not then I misunderstood it. I see Cardano being about freedom.

MaximumStudent1839

> You're splitting hairs here. LOL. I gave you facts, not splitting hairs. Stop deflecting. > And Cardano is an open source, permissionless and decentralized blockchain. There is nothing special about that. Nearly every public chain claims it wants to be so. > it has taken the hard path Your hard path is more due to Charles, who is so full of BS and struggles to execute. > small lie that doesn't affect the outcome of what Cardano is, it is completely irrelevant in the big picture.  No, it is relevant at hand. Charles went to DC to lobby hard. So you can't claim Cardano is anti-govt/system as OP claimed.

Arra_B0919

Kinda feels like the first time DC is actually listening instead of just scolding. That’s progress.

BigDeezerrr

All these "I just got off the phone with my source in DC, and I'm shaking. You do NOT want to be short Bitcoin now" tweets are some kind of meme? If this "big announcement" was the worst kept secret in finance we wouldn't be sitting at $113k right now.

uncapchad

yeah that guy making some mad posts "i spoke to someone in DC and told them my secret and they agree it's big news".

illset

news coming out of DC tomorrow, will be good for BTC.

devCheckingIn

So while we're currently waiting in boredom mode, does anyone want to speculate about the "AMAZING, MASSIVE POLITICAL NEWS" regarding BTC that is (supposedly) coming out on Tuesday? X bros are talking about it, but I have no idea what they're talking about. I know Saylor and Tom Lee were in DC the other day lobbying for stuff.

RevolutionaryWay1827

I’m not! I look at how Degen, Moonwell and Aero ran last Q4 2024 and understand we’re deeper into the cycle top now and rate cuts are on the table and cautiously optimistic. The world is for sure shit. I work in Washington DC. Glad there’s still solid people like you dude

tomsmac

Just in case you haven’t heard, Michael Saylor and Tom Lee are in DC this afternoon with the intention of helping set up the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve. What a time to be alive and a HODLer.

-TheFirstPancake-

And If you really want to talk about electricity, I’d assume you’re talking about the technology that we use to produce and harness it. Which one we talking about here? Solar, wind, fossil fuel generators, nuclear, etc? That technology has also changed dramatically since we started trying to produce and harness it, by many different brands and corporations. DC, AC? You get the picture?

Upper_Inspector_9432

To be honest and from what I think it would be chadcoin, although if anyone else knows it and thinks it is not, let me know. 0x560DcFb035A6dc876aD426BDAf846Ea4DC6f6746 https://app.uniswap.org/explore/tokens/base/0x560dcfb035a6dc876ad426bdaf846ea4dc6f6746

Ancient-Stock-3261

Reg clarity is the real alpha here - if dev protections and a clean security vs commodity line make it in, you’ll see more US projects stick around instead of heading offshore. Until then, it’s just headline noise, so I’m watching committee markups over Twitter soundbites. Markets hate fog, and right now DC’s serving it heavy.

553l8008

https://imgur.com/a/DC4TqtH Where's the BNB gang at?

Significant_Bite3863

I work in the electrical field and have designed solar panel setups. However this was years ago so take it w a grain of salt. There’s poly crystalline, mono crystalline and one more I forget with varying efficiency ratings. I believe mono was the best at around 40% like you mentioned but it’s extremely expensive. Now there is so many issues with one of them being that for solar panels to actually give charge unless you are tapped into the grid you have to use batteries to store them and DC batteries have lifespans as well. Also solar panels itself have a lifespan. I can go and on about how bad they are and inefficient so bitcoins future being dependent on the worst source of energy in ur argument is ludicrous. Nuclear would be the solution and not even fueling it with uranium people are researching other minerals to use because it’s expensive and scarce and for btc to run on things like that so heavily is not looking bright

Sparky101101

Have you ever calculated the amount of power the traditional banking system uses because it’s not zero and could well be more than BTC mining consumes. Banks have a LOT of DC’s and there’s a LOT of banks worldwide.

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/u/BoobindarPussia_, your wallet address has been successfully updated to 0x34DC3FC1dB87D5f84507a8236b005cB7c0C4Ba6A across all your records.

Alimakakos

Yeah the dude needs a ballroom, the inflation and wars and trade negotiations can wait! Get with the program....also sidenote we need military in DC so I can invite my petty insecure and rich buddies to dance with underage girls at said ballroom.

Ok_Boysenberry1038

LOL, yes kiddo, dictators are often criminals who commit terrible acts. Trump didn’t stop crime in DC, and that’s not why he’s a fascist. Glad I could clear that up for you Orange fan maaaad LMFAO

inShambles3749

Lmao - The only thing he stopped in DC is the traffic to local restaurants. Read a book and touch some grass. Sucking orange taco dicks isn't good for your brain.

Blooberino

I forget, did Trump legalize crime or is he a fascist dictator for stopping crime in DC? I can't keep up with regarded liberal talking points. >Orange man bad Reddit is a caricature of itself.

Unlikely-Pin9555

Most people who own stocks, real estate and other assets don’t own Bitcoin. That is why we are early. When they start shifting even a portion of retirement assets over. The demand will far outweigh the supply. I had dinner with some of my friends in Washington DC. Very successful people, (finance, lawyers, etc..) they thought “crypto” was a scam. They were complaining about inflation. We are very early amongst people who in ten years are going to wish they had some. Also I think that left leaning people are going to be left behind. They cannot separate their two realities that they think Trump is a grifter and that therefore Bitcoin is a scam. I think they feel like it is the same thing as a trump watch or sneakers. Stay humble, stack sats.

dataCollector42069

tbf DC crime went down hella fast and I hope my city gets some help too even though I dont like Trump. Dont like nearly getting robbed by homeless twice in one fucking day

GoldEdit

Doesn’t matter if all of them held, if a majority of people that bought back then were bad intentioned people then the vast majority today are as well. Look at Saylor, his company owns nearly 5% of all bitcoin and he’s been held civilly liable for accounting fraud and tax fraud, the largest case in DC History. Bitcoin attracts criminals and those that could care less about giving back to society.

polymath_uk

This is a somewhat irrelevant point, but I think we should be linking offshore windfarms with their own HVDC grid and then tapping off this for server farms / ai / datacentres / mining, using DC-DC conversion. Shortfall in wind can be provided by conventional PSUs from the existing AC grid.

Rino-Sensei

DCA What ? The price still did not pass it's own ATH ... In the same time frame BTC moved miles ahead ... DCA something that stay in the same range without showing sign of actual growth. You are DCA'ing to be break even with ETH ... That's what you are DC'ing here. ETH at the moment is coin to be bough low and sold around 4K. Until it actually show growth potential, it's just a ranging coin.

Emergency_Party2916

All that’s telling me is that it’s undervalued. Forget charts and look at the VALUE they provide. They were already displayed in the white house digital summit paper, major partnerships (swift,dtcc, Mastercard). If you lol at price you look at the wrong thing and that was told to me by a millionaire I met in DC. Stop asking price start asking VALUE. I can’t convince you to see value there if you don’t want to. But its price over the past years just proves it’s undervalued. If I had a diamond in my hand and I knew it was diamond but the world told me it was plastic. I would still believe it be diamond. Meaning shills don’t matter, doesn’t bother me just DYOR.

IgotnoideawhatIsay

I like Bitcoin. But that sounds a lot of effort to buy a small amount. I’ve DC’ed for a while, especially around 2022 and 2023. But I don’t have the money to buy more regularly. And when I do I rather use it to enjoy myself.

Slow_Train_6096

It’s what he’s not saying, that the fed take over of DC police is a strategic step towards coup.

Dragon_slayer1994

Yes totally agree. A big factor in S and P 500 maintaining a high P/E ratio is that DC pensions are now the norm and have constant buying pressure regardless of valuation.

TheCornReport

Right? weve been through a few of these already... Does everyone have amnesia or are we the old-guys now? Gonna be the same story. DC will posture and the new outlets will pump their nonsense. Then theyll print the problem away.

Lexsteel11

Yeah it needs its “Netscape moment” because like old people won’t manage their own encrypted keys and keeping it on exchanges is obviously bad. For me it’s the threat of quantum computers. I used to work in DC for a non-gov company and had drinks with a couple coworkers. One’s spouse works for a quantum company and the others spouse works in intelligence and they were talking about how many gov contracts there are for quantum companies and I was surprised because I thought every time a quantum computer scratches its ass it makes the news. Made me wonder if it’s further along than the media knows