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marcafe

It depends on what you mean by that. I don't know if you meant to say that I am saying "it's different this time" or that others are saying it. I am not saying that the market is the same or different; I am saying that the global economy is rapidly changing, or to be more specific, the alliances and partnerships. I mean, the last time the USA imposed these heavy tariffs on Canada was before World WW2 in 1930, right? At that time, economies were struggling, the great depression and all, and not long after, it reached a critical point, and we had international chaos. I am not saying it will happen this time, too, but it is surely oddly similar, only now the stakes are much higher, all countries are far more developed, and so on. After all, the crypto-revolution itself is the actual "it's different this time", nothing like this existed before, so who the hell knows what will happen.

Emergency-Warthog-56

Here's a update, the USA Fed is about to announce a very likely rate cut, and if that happens, Bitcoin will pop upwards. 09/17/2025

Glaucon_

Wrong. Libertarianism in the USA is astroturfed by oligarchy.  Libertarianism in the USA is the freedom for oligarchs to do whatever the fuck they want and the rest be damned, and poisoned, and destitute. 

allstarmode1

the website link you sent of [Learn | River](https://river.com/learn/) \- is up to date, shows , but is target for USA? 2\] it has good looking pictures however? 3\] is it really targeted for myself of a location of UK?

Key-Aardvark-8434

USA and israhell are the bad guys for sure

CheaperShopGlobal

Because the USA want to keep all the unclaimed crypto by new law. They are doing it to clear his 38T debt.

kurosaki1990

Iran is like 20% evil and they never committed a genocide unlike Israel and USA.

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Interesting-Sir-7380

You haven’t told anybody yet you posted on Reddit? 50k life savings at age 31 should not be put in Bitcoin. It feels to me that you feel desperate and are trying to throw a hail mary and hope for the best. But don’t worry, the USA seems to take care of all the people who are irresponsible and have nothing left after their actions. There is plenty of those to be taxed to help you survive so I guess it doesn’t matter what you do.

-5H4Z4M-

7 USD on binance? Then must be on Binance USA? because on Binance France, I set recurring daily plan of 60 USDC and I pay 0 fees at each transaction.

ylpgtthfrt

Sorry to burst your bubble but it needs more than the fact that 135 million babies are born in 2009 :) How many kids where born with a Name using similar letter‘s used in Satoshi Nakamoto‘s, with form of high Intelligence or the fact that their kid is very known for something but parents are ghost in the www. Do your research on that questions than you can burst my bubble. And one more thing, in the USA where 4.1 Millionen births so where you get that 135 Million from ? :)

Nick700

In the USA if you held for over a year it can be 0% tax at the lowest income bracket, less than a year and you pay at least 10% of the gains

Extinct1234

I'm out of the loop, what did the USA do to Russia regarding treasuries?

WallStreet_Zorro_21

THIS. If the USA did this, bitcoin would soar high af. The same way that if this month JPow does a rate cut bitcoin will fall a tiny bit

Matt44441

Well I am not the guy who made the claim. Was some Russian guy. And I mean USA holds a bit more than 200k in btc.

Squeezitgirdle

So it's in combination with aml laws, here you go: Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Know Your Customer (KYC) rules Banks and lenders are required under U.S. law (Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, etc.) and similar laws elsewhere to monitor for suspicious activity. If they explicitly tell you why your activity triggered a flag, that could be considered “tipping off.” Tipping off is illegal under AML laws, because it could help criminals avoid detection.

bigocreddit

If Russia has any backbone at all, they would have demanded gold or bitcoin for all trade by now. The fact that they still haven’t done anything after getting rugged on their treasuries by the USA tells me where they are in the game.

a-thousand-hours

Amount of money printed by USA since 2020 compared to all history before 2020. 21M total coins vs how many people in the world. And the thought of being a “whole coiner” in this context. ETFs and companies like Strategy and others entering the market. Bitcoin Standard

AeonPeter

USA cannot suspend its debt, they will print their way out, causing all the assets price rise. Also and if needed FED will be buying bonds when no one is interested, until the end. But hopefully we will not see the end because it’s not gonna be pretty. Study the history what happens when currency fails.

r33gna

Sometimes they're the convenient and available option, especially if you're not located in the USA and/or tech-savvy.

Dangerous_Warthog603

Some of us buy and hold. We have a long term outlook on the market and confidence it will continue to rise over the long term. Buying and selling is not our life, we make profit over the long term. There is also the tax hit when you sell in profit (I'm in the USA and we have capital gains/loss on profit). Some of us buy and sell on triggers and targets. Those may be set by market sentiment, some are volume, a lot is based upon price. Or combinations of several. An example is you make £100 on ETH. you take it out and the market drops, you buy £100 back at the lower price. Great. But if you take your £100 out and the market keeps going, you lose some profit in that 100. In the end we all play a different game but on the same table. It's more personal than people realize. You pay tax on £100, but some of us would pay tax on £100,000 and that's not fun. Keep learning and asking.

AndyR1chy12

We can ship worldwide, it’s just I currently only have prices for UK,EU & USA. If you can send an email to tokiilive@gmail.com with the general area we can get a delivery cost. I’m suspecting it will be the same as US

bowdenta

I'm sure someone already said something about this earlier. I just didn't know. But the founder of TP USA bought 17k in 2020. Wow

Needsupgrade

Wait a year and look at the long term capital gains tax. In USA it's 0% under 44k over 60k with the standard deduction. Probably something similar in Canada 

hostetlm

Hello from the USA haha

Relative_Buy_8191

Hi guys ,any one in USA DM ,let's make money

SouthTippBass

I wouldn't trust the USA with a bag of potatoes right now.

LiveCat6

Meh. We just hope some nation starts the ball rolling. Do we really hope its the USA? I mean i wish prosperity on the USA but look whos running the show there? The whole strategic bitcoin reserve thing was going to be the US acquiring 1 million btc over the next 4 years and then Trump just backtracked on that so why hope that the USA is the one to make the best financial play in history? I say fuck em. Let a better, smarter country do it.

AshuOnRed

Will the USA market wake up and boost or will they dump?

CupcakeElectrical672

Russians said USA will use BtC to diminish their debt. That's basically a pump and dump for the decade

Agent-Standard

I have crypto on a few exchanges. The one I like the most is bitrue but it is not supposed to be used in the USA. I like the platform it allows active trading in almost real time. Have found a small lag on a few trades. But I cannot find anything even close to how it works Any help with a good trading site would be great

GentlemenHODL

A thousand millions is a billion. So if there is a 100x increase to the price of bread between now and 2038 then yes it's possible. Of course that would mean the near complete destruction of society within the USA and a lot bigger problems to worry about. Bitcoin might be helpful in protecting against this or it may not. Whether society adopts it as true digital gold and puts money into it as a recession proof asset is yet to be seen. I imagine we will see very soon here with a upcoming economic disaster in the next few years....

twolinebadadvice

Mybe they are pricing in a nuclear war and the USA doing the weimar republic money thing

Lord_Alamar

>Let's not forget the stock market absolutely does not reflect the actual economy. No matter how much they try to convince people it is. It absolutely does, and I am thoroughly convinced. For years I've been witnessing nonstop, jubilant luxury spending, everywhere in the USA. People have infinite money these days...and they're buying everything except crypto

satoshi-station

Good job on the metal seed plates.... I would say Titanium seed plate just like this one: [https://satoshistation.com/product/titanium-seed-plate-blank/](https://satoshistation.com/product/titanium-seed-plate-blank/) Lots of information about the benefits of Titanium listed on the website and this titanium is forged and waterjet cut in the Good Ol' USA!

coin-drone

And the USA is the center of the crypto world. This could turn out well.

SunDreamShineDay

>Show me the users and the adoption. Ok. Back in 2023 I was curious what International companies were signing up with Ripple and using XRP while the SEC case was ongoing in the USA, this isn’t a complete list of companies from the time they were sued to when I compiled this list, but it showed me adoption was happening during a time of uncertainty and these companies were not afraid of the outcome in the USA. So here are a few banks and payment companies that are using XRP that have all partnered with Ripple since the SEC sued Ripple in 2020, they all say XRP is being used in the articles. SBI Remit said that it had expanded its services using Ripple’s XRP to bank accounts in the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia. By leveraging XRP as a bridge currency and partnering with its affiliate SBI VC Trade, SBI Remit aims for faster and cheaper money transfers that can boost adoption of XRP in target markets. SBI Remit and Ripple are eyeing these Southeast Asian markets because of their growing remittance flows. https://www.kapronasia.com/blockchain-research-menu-item/sbi-leans-further-into-digital-assets.html Ripple’s cross-border payments technology is used by enterprises, and its clients are primarily banks, payments services providers and other fintechs. The overall payment volume on its payments network RippleNet exceeds $15 billion, and its global ODL volume has grown ninefold year-on-year. ”We have seen a lot of interest in our services in MENA. We have partnerships with several leading banks in the region, including with SABB in Saudi Arabia and QNB in Qatar. We are also working with local payments service providers such as Pyypl and LuLu Money, which are using Ripple’s [ODL] crypto solution to facilitate global movements between different currencies,” Gupta said. https://www.zawya.com/en/markets/currencies/interview-ripple-bullish-on-mena-expansion-to-cash-in-on-crypto-payments-surge-h57fzchx LuLu Exchange, Ripple’s business partner based in the UAE, has formed a strategic alliance with (Mbank), the acclaimed first fully integrated virtual bank in the United Arab Emirates. LuLu is an early adopter of XRP, implementing business solutions via Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service (now Ripple Payments). In a previous press statement, the Managing Director of LuLu Financial Holdings, Adeeb Ahamed, disclosed that Ripple’s ODL facility played a pivotal role in enhancing its fund management capabilities within the APAC region, all while adhering to the established regulatory guidelines. https://thecryptobasic.com/2023/11/02/uaes-al-maryah-bank-selects-ripple-odl-partner-for-cross-border-transfer/ LuLu Exchange, Ripple’s business partner based in the UAE, has formed a strategic alliance with (Mbank), the acclaimed first fully integrated virtual bank in the United Arab Emirates. LuLu is an early adopter of XRP, implementing business solutions via Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service (now Ripple Payments). In a previous press statement, the Managing Director of LuLu Financial Holdings, Adeeb Ahamed, disclosed that Ripple’s ODL facility played a pivotal role in enhancing its fund management capabilities within the APAC region, all while adhering to the established regulatory guidelines. https://thecryptobasic.com/2023/11/02/uaes-al-maryah-bank-selects-ripple-odl-partner-for-cross-border-transfer/ Filipino banking firm, ChinaBank has joined forces with Qatar National Bank (QNB) to facilitate direct transfer from Qatar to the Philippines using the RippleNet payment solution. With Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), both banks can enable instant settlements using XRP, doing away with the need for conventional correspondent banking relationships and the costs and delays that go along with them. https://coingape.com/ripple-expands-further-in-europe-xrp-price-rally/ Ripple the leading provider of enterprise blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for global payments, announced today the launch of RippleNet’s first live On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service implementation in Japan, in collaboration with SBI Remit Co., Ltd, the largest money transfer provider in Japan. With ODL now available in Japan, RippleNet customers can leverage the digital asset XRP to eliminate pre-funding and reduce operational costs, unlocking capital and fuel the expansion of their payments businesses. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210727006246/en/Ripple-Launches-On-Demand-Liquidity-with-SBI-Remit-to-Accelerate-and-Grow-Cross-Border-Payments-from-Japan Ripple has launched RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) in Brazil with Travelex Bank, the first bank in Latin America to utilize ODL. Travelex is the first bank registered and approved by the Central Bank of Brazil to operate exclusively in foreign exchange. By utilizing XRP, a digital asset ideal for payments, Ripple’s ODL solution allows customers to send money across borders instantly with very low-cost settlement and without the need to hold pre-funded capital in the destination market. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220818005147/en/Ripple-Launches-Crypto-enabled-Enterprise-Payments-in-Brazil-With-Travelex-Bank Ripple has announced a partnership with FINCI, the Lithuanian online international money transfer provider, to deliver instant and cost-effective retail remittances and business to business (B2B) payments via RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which leverages XRP for crypto-enabled cross border payments. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220518005134/en/Ripple-and-FINCI-Introduce-the-Benefits-of-On-Demand-Liquidity-to-Lithuania Morningstar, a financial information services subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Group, will continue its XRP shareholder benefits program. The new dividend payout option comes as part of the company’s year-end reward program to thank its shareholders for their continued support in addition to interim shareholder benefits. Under the program, Morningstar will provide XRP rewards of 2,500 Japanese yen ($23) units per 100 shares owned by shareholders as of March 31, 2021. https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbi-holdings-subsidiary-continues-xrp-benefit-program Ripple partners MFS Africa. The partnership will allow MFS Africa to make use of Ripple’s on-demand liquidity to streamline real-time mobile payments for customers in 35 countries. In contrast to a legacy payment infrastructure that’s prone to errors and needs an average of 3 to 5 days to settle international transactions that involve multiple parties, ODL leverages Ripple’s XRP token to act as a bridge between two fiat currencies. This allows the system to ultimately settle payments in local currency at the payment destination in a matter of seconds. ODL corridors now exist in Europe, the Philippines, Australia, Japan and Africa thanks to its recent partnership with MFS Africa. https://thepaypers.com/mobile-payments/ripple-partners-mfs-africa-to-streamline-real-time-mobile-payments—1259214

Mehamo

Cause USA is the only country in the world ofc

FreshDevelopment1756

If you think bitcoin would not be affected by policies from countries like the USA then I have news for you. Good luck buying bitcoin when it's banned.

k3surfacer

From Many years ago up to 2 years ago, people used to name a few poor countries as scam hub of crypto. Now, USA is just officially and in daylight aking over that miserable role. Everyday new shitcoin comes up from publicly known entities of USA. Something quite disgusting.

Doc_SaasFdr24

Be careful of believing their theories based on the USA financial decisions of 1930 and 1970, this mental f*ck is how they control their ppl…and manipulate them into thinking crypto is bad. So what if you believe the Russians, why not sell all your crypto and never back. These are master manipulators ☝🏽

kingjoeg

Is there more USA data being released today?

shadowpawn

 USA USA

Realistic-Class4671

Amazing news despite the economy disaster and political war in the country, investment remains best for earnings. Imagine you work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K into trading from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires 🇺🇸🇨🇦To me anyone else OK because i can't complain as long From $3K to $45K that's the minimum range of profit return every week I thinks it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family. The Canada and USA economy is already in recession. Any rate cut will not ignite inflation. The banks will tighten even more, all consumer and corporate credit lending. This is the beginning of a deflationary period for your assets. Stocks markets will decline, and stock values disappear in a blink of the eye. Businesses will begin layoffs in earnest which will soon be reflected in the unemployment rate and unemployment claims, to further solidity the recession. In fact, when the FED cut rates in Sept, it will signify that the Titanic is going under, and it will suck everything down. Retail and housing sales will truly decline as consumer hold off their purchases. The inverted yield curve will then turn positive, but remember, certain assets like stocks and Crypto's acts as a hedge. Long & short-term trading is generally safer, allowing investors to weather market volatility. I have managed to grow a nest egg of around 45k to a decent 232k in the space of a few months... I'm especially grateful to Mrs Sophia trading whose deep expertise and traditional trading acumen have been invaluable in this challenging, ever-evolving financial landscape.all thanks to her my $232k as a testimonial life changer Sophia to the world 🌎 You can reach her via her details Telegram username =wagesj Email address =mrssophia277@gmail What’sapp =+ ✍️Tell her that I refer you 🖕

decadearray

not in the USA.

Nerevaine

Depends, rich in South America, some parts of Asia or Africa? Yes it could be, rich in USA, Canada, Europe, Australia? I don’t think so

Financial_Load7496

But like we all know that BRICS loves gold. Do they love Bitcoin? Who’s trying to rugpull who? I know that USA would like to demonitize gold.

FreshDevelopment1756

All it takes is just USA banning cryptocurrency and bitcoin will turn to 0. It will lose all of its value.

road22

Sadly many new people getting into Bitcoin today have your same attitude of buying enough to retire and they will own nothing. Why? Because they will leave their Bitcoin on the exchange and not take self custody. Eventually that day will come, when the US Dollar is collapsing and the USA Government will confiscate BTC on exchanges. Oh, they will pay you in fiat dollars, but by the time you can recieve the worthless US dollars, they would have lost 20 percent of their value.

Top_Scene_726

Even if it goes to 1 million that’s only 210,000. Not rich in the USA for sure.. The best strategy right now is to keep on stacking. Just put some money every month. DCA will take care of it. Check in 20 years lol

Exciting_Peer

Nope, at least for EU or USA sadly no. You would need price to be at several millions to make you rich with that few sats. We need to get real here.

genadi_brightside

USA, and to a lesser extent EU. Like it or not the world revolves around US and EU.

year2039nuclearwar

Can you tell me which derivatives trading i.e. Futures USDT platform isn't a scam exchange (that isn't Binance or ByBit, that have not only restricted UK/USA customers, but those with Palau ID as well). I've checked Gate, BitGet, KuCoin - they all have withdrawal locks and freezes just like MEXC. There isn't anything....you may as well just stay on MEXC

Fantastic_Reward5126

it's when you trade shitcoins and your coin nukes, then someone says ''wait for USA to wake up, 10x tonight''.

Pacify_

The NSA was doing what the USA always does, spy on everyone. They have been doing this since WW2, and still do it. Nixon was spying on his political opponents, for his own benefit. He only got caught because he hired the most incompetent morons. You and the other poster might be the dumbest mofos I've seen on reddit in quite a while, bravo.

Dave_SA11

That makes the USA smart.

EdwardPotatoHand

In the USA, if you trade your bitcoin for a product, it's treated as a sell, which has to go on your taxes.. Or just break the law and avoid jail, I suppose.

Previous-Piano-6108

…said by an american who probably thinks the USA is “just defending their ally Ukraine”

Affectionate_Use7000

What I would like to know is where this money will come from that will put $35 trillion dollars so that the USA can recover it?

Daily-Trader-247

Interesting perspective. But Uniqlo is just good conservative cloths at a far price. Definitely not low quality goods but maybe not name brand. It probably more that name brand goods usually come from US based and EU based companies and cost ridiculous amounts of money in Yen. Not only is the exchange rate not favorable but maybe they are tariffed locally because they cost 2X what they cost in the USA plus the exchange rate difference. I wish they would bring Uniqlo to the USA. They have a few stores here but also everything it 2-3X the cost in Japan.

DonasAskan

I believe a significant amount of people invest in MSTR because that’s the only way they can do it through their investment vehicles that provides them extra benefits (I’m not from USA)

brendan904

Lottery ticket still valid argument, $20 extra dollars on the electric bill won’t kill me. You guys sound like pussCs when you say give up. Don’t let Foundry USA and Antpool get all the supply. Home solo miners win, it’s higher chance that people playing the actual lottery. Just think as BTC goes up in price, the winnings go up too. It’s cheap to run some Bitaxe Gammas. So regardless of the halving or not, Bitcoin still Bitcoin and wouldn’t you rather be the guy that setup something cheap and won big than the guy that just shit on everyone still solo mining? A little effort towards decentralization could be the difference between a FOMO .1 buttcoiner and a big dick participant 3.125 bitcoiner

420osrs

Hi person from Canada.  I have no idea and I don't want to tell you wrong information.  Talk to someone in Canada about this. For me, yes, I have IBIT in my retirement account that is tax deferred. However I am from USA so I don't have the same tax rules as you do.  Canada had ETFs approved before we did, so you are probably more progressive on this than we are. But definitely talk to someone there who knows. 

xte2

The money theory state two models: - an inflationary model, commonly used by fiat currencies, where the supply always grows, taxes reclaim a bit, but they are designed more to steal middle class richness than regulating the overall money supply, the result is that's more you buy now the better because you'll need more and more money to buy the same in the future; - a deflationary model where money supply is limited and therefore people spend the little they can because the same amount of money will value more in the future, meaning you can buy more with the same amount. The first model at a certain point grew asymptotically, the second at a certain point lock the economy. BTC theory is that even if most hold at a certain point in time they need to spend, so the economy will run anyway, slowly, but it will run. Historically gold is deflationary and as a currency have not work much well, though it works as a store of value in many circumstances. That's why BTC today are seen as a digital gold. What bitcoin is it's not really written. Back then anonymity was a goal indeed, than was scrapped out an other cryptos born with anonymity (Monero, widely used by the Houthi for instance, ZCash less popular but still there), then many others took some originals ideas and change. BTC have no formal founder active, so there is no formal governance, or most devs agree or there will be a fork, and this means a stable crypto. While essentially all the others have some form of centralization, some who decide and the others who depend on them. Currently BTCs run from USA to Russia to China, so an "alliance" against it it's really unlikely, however in the future as much as mining got expensive it's possible the current concentration will result in too large players interesting in doing nasty things for instance because a State decide it dislike BTCs. The same happen to all other cryptos anyway. Obviously the same already apply to all fiat currencies. So a safe harbor does not exist in general. There are some less unsafe than others and BTCs currently is probably one of the less unsafe on earth. Sustainability for the next 5 years technically it's not a issue. Psychologically (meaning people trust in the system) it's hard to say, but it's the same for all cryptos and fiat currencies as well, because trust in States, especially in the west and in many part of the III world is REALLY low.

life764

> So bitcoin failed in anonymity if vast majority of its users can’t buy it anonymously because your wallet that you would send out from the exchange to cold storage is linked to your id That's more a government failing its citizens by being overly authoritarian than any sort of failing on Bitcoin's part. The fact is, you can still acquire Bitcoin without KYC in many locations, and you can use Bitcoin pseudonomously as it was intended, if you want to. Individuals have the choice of giving away all their personal information, and many do, for convenience and other reasons. This is true regardless of anything related to Bitcoin. > Bitcoin can only process 3.3-5.8 transactions per second. With people saying it’s the future of money that is jokingly slow and on top of it there is hefty fees. Bitcoin, like every network -- including the Internet itself -- scales in layers. Bitcoin layer 1 (aka the blockchain) has certain characteristics -- like an effective transaction limit -- that does not necessarily apply to higher layers. You already know about LN, which is only one such higher layer. There are also sidechains (like Liquid) and other federation models, proprietary ledgers (like Cashapp), etc. The properties of Bitcoin L1 are fine as-is. It's scalable enough for what it needs to do, which is to enforce consensus rules, esp. the supply limit. > The lightning network introduced a third party in which you have to trust so you are not the “bank” anymore they are and u just fell for it LN _allows_ for relaying through third parties, but you can also use lightning directly between you and a second party. Even with third parties involved, they're only providing potential payment routes, so it's not really a matter of trust. Third parties never take custody of your funds and can't even see your transaction details. Or by trusting a third party, are you talking about using a custodial lightning wallet? Because, sure that's a partner you have to trust, but that's not any different than a custodial Bitcoin wallet in that regard. > It also can be easily corrupted by big corpos and government buying up the supply which we are seeing a slow trend of. Bitcoin is secured by proof of work. Unlike proof of stake (which some shitcoins use), with proof of work it doesn't matter who owns the supply of Bitcoin. Owning more Bitcoin doesn't grant "big corpos" or "government" more control over the network. > The only pro is the limited supply which only matters if the demand is there (government can just ban it like china if it becomes a threat to their monetary system very likely) Governments can outlaw whatever they want (esp. authoritarian governments). That's an issue between people and their own governments. Theoretically it would be difficult for a nation with free speech, like the USA, to ban Bitcoin because citizens have the right to communicate and on a fundamental level Bitcoin is communication. But even a free country can do authoritarian things, like confiscate peoples' gold, so sure, it's possible. But this also isn't a problem that's unique or inherent to Bitcoin. It's always on people to reign in their governments and vote and perhaps even fight, when necessary, to ensure they don't take their rights away. Nothing to do with Bitcoin. If a government does ban Bitcoin, it's nearly impossible to actually enforce a ban, unless the government is so far gone that they're fine sending jack-booted thugs to everyone's door. It takes a lot for a government to get to that point.

Awkward_Potential_

At some point, if you get bearish USA enough, you flip bullish BTC

Bigglesworth85

I think you made right decision. U can always buy back btc now even a few and hold long if u wanted. I’ve realized time is most valuable. Money always comes over time. And if it doesn’t, modest living isn’t the worst. I canceled a trip to Istanbul once with my father over a new job offer in 2018. My dad died in 2023. I think about that decision always now. I’ll make money and have been but that moment I’ll never get back. I think we forget about these things in USA as we go on a quest to make $ because it’s how we were built up. But as you age some realize what’s importance. Others realize once it’s too late.

FitEcho9

===> This is why we Bitcoin! The FDIC Literally Says the Financial System is Collapsing and the Public Must Not Be Told . Ha ha, USA and Europe are finished, because the mighty Global Southerners are no longer willing to finance the West.  Guys, we have been telling that for years or decades: EUROPE & USA Scared to lose 40 Trillion USD Annual Income ! . EUROPE & USA are scared to lose 40 Trillion USD (1/3 of the global GDP) annual income when the USA world order collapses. Most of us are not aware, and that is so by design, that the economic model that was imposed by the USA in 1945 was in simple terms, 1. to take wealth primarily from Africa and Latin America, and also from Asia and, 2. to give it to Europe and North America. Of course in reality that happened in very complex ways, say in the form of declining prices for commodities and rising prices for industrial goods, manipulation of exchange rates of currencies, creation of "soft currencies" and "hard currencies", manipulation of interest rates, manipulation of credit ratings, petrodollar, global reserve currency status of the USD, USD denominated debt, derivatives, etc. Europe and USA could do that because they controlled the global financial system, now they are about to lose that control. . Sadly, bitcoin is no solution because it is, 1. neither commodity (zero intrinsic value) nor 2. money (extreme fluctuation, from 100 to 0 within microseconds)

diradder

It's not really brazen when you know your are above the law, thanks to the judges you've seated for life, and in all cases just let someone do the dirty work and (pre-)pardon them. This government really is the most crooked of all the history of the USA... putting the robber barrons to shame. Really a sad sight.

SiliconFiction

CNN and CNBC are not left. They’re centrist. The USA Overton Window is fucked up. There are no leftist corporations that owned by shareholders. They would need to be worker-owned. It’s an oxymoron: “leftist corporation”

Subject989

Okay, things worked out for you after you and your family suffered to have your basic necessities and comforts met. This isn't a wholesome story, my friend. That is a story of great sadness. I'm sorry you had to go through this. The majority of people don't live in the USA. Bitcoin is global, and Bitcoin is about financial independence from the fiat systems. A currency outside of the control and influence of governments and corporations. There are so many stupid takes you've shared or points you've made in these comments. If your social degree was related to something you were passionate about and loved, i think you should have had the opportunity to pursue it as a career and have all your needs met.

pop-1988

> Tether regularly publishes attestation reports And they lost a lawsuit filed by the NYAG. During the lawsuit, they published an attestation. At trial they had to admit they had borrowed a few billion overnight, to boost the attestation, and paid it back next day In trial evidence, they included "loans to related parties" as assets backing the USDT. These aren't loans in the true sense. They're not repayable. They're made up so that there can be a line in the asset column of the balance sheet Eventually, the lies cleared and they admitted being 84% backed. But why? Not because they minted unbacked USDT. But because they're using non-USA banks for their USD deposits, and one or two of the banks became insolvent (all USA banks refused to provide service) Lesson 1: if a stablecoin is backed by USD bank deposits, it's effectively fractional because the deposit-taking bank is fractional So now they're mostly backing USDT with short-expiry USD Treasury bonds. To the extent that there are other bonds, and other assets, they're fractional Why not long-expiry bonds, and earn interest? Because the interest rate on a long-expiry bond means that the bond itself depegs from the USD when interest rates fluctuate. That's what cased the insolvencies of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank in 2023 When Terra/Luna collapsed, there was a $12B run on USDT. It did not depeg If Tether is announcing $8B of USDT minting, that means they've sold $8B of USDT to exchanges for USD8B, and probably purchased $8B of short-expiry USD Treasuries They never provide an audited balance, even though it's a requirement if the settlement in the NYAG case, so we'll never know whether they're still 84% backed or more or less. They never disclose the potential volatility of the non-Treasury assets

Stunning-Rough365

Is this a bitcoin forum? Do you understand the value of bitcoin? The problem is money printing, not asset ownership. But guess what… there is always a way to get what you desire in the USA. I went to BACK to school for a real education (engineering) after my Bullshit social degree didn’t do anything for me except incur debt. I couldn’t afford my interest payments. I couldn’t afford a home. So I moved to a low cost state, low cost house in a low cost area and found a place that needed work. Then I worked weekends and nights to learn how to fix my house with no prior experience and eventually reaped the reward when selling. Did that for the past 7 years. With my children at times sleeping for months on a mattress on a concrete floor in a construction zone no other furniture in the house so my wife and I could work on the house with the time we had after our jobs. Eating dinner on a roll of carpet in an empty room because it’s the only place to sit. Literally in tears from the exhaustion and stress, but pushing through because it is what it takes. Now I have done what I should do as a father and provided the best I can for my children with what I know. This is the USA, there is a way and anyone thinking it’s a pipe dream is a whiner.

simulated_copy

Trump is a POS arrogant narcissist attention man whore the world is turning on him, his style, his aura, and unfortunately the USA. Pos on every level! Hates excellence loves worship!!

LivingTheTruths

Bitcoin Logic= BITCOIN BECOMES USA CURRENCY OVER USD, TANKS TO 2010 levels

Charming-Designer944

And unlike you I have very little reason to distrust the official inflation numbers from my government, and it has been a lot better than 3 % (closer to 1) with the exception of the COVID years. The official inflation statistics from the USA indeed looks a bit odd. I trust the CPI % index more, and is what the rest of the world defines as measure of inflation with very little or no adjustments https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm

Comfortable-Dare2499

Boycot the USA

bizaroo933

‘Hey USA friends, we are gonna get multiply rate cuts! Quick sell sell sell!!’

Comfortable-Dare2499

Be great if the USA just fucked off selling all the fucking time. Fucking fat cunts

bizaroo933

Fuck you USA

Charming-Designer944

A quick check based on the price for a Big Mac shows that the USA have had an average inflation rate of about 4 % over the last 25 years (158% price increase in 25 years).

JustStopppingBye

It’s just the latest news on the XRP/China narrative. After Trump snubbed Bradley Gargleballs at the GENIUS Act signing (completely absent+mystery meeting with aliens), Ripples all about China now, down with USA.

AR_Harlock

That's why you need laws preventing this things, laws that a president can't change without the full approval of the senate or parliament or whatever any country has... that's why in normal countries the politician can't elect constitution judges (or whatever they are called there) .... The USA showed the world need pretty big changes in its legislative and judiciary system, it's too easy corruptible without checks and balances

curveball21

It’s not really theft when you use something your spouse acquired during marriage to you. In most USA jurisdictions anyway. That’s why his best move is to get a divorce and have his wife’s actions accounted for in the equitable split of assets. Also, I assume he wants to see his kids which his ex seems to not want to do without a court order.

mikeb550

well people living in the USA have had the first chance to mine and stack bitcoin. if you view the FIAT world as one in which the largest populations have the largest money supply, then the CIA basically took the ball from China and India and made it so no one can ever have the most powerful form of FIAT in the post US Dollar world.

xte2

Well... Anything could happen. Cryptos do not exists in a separate world, when States will fall cryptos will follow, at random peace. In some case (a single marginal State, like Bolivia with it's crypto boom in the middle of a deep crisis) cryptos could be a hedge, in others not at all (like Civil war the movie in USA, for real). Since nowadays both USA and EU regulate stablecoins most of them are indirectly "guaranteed" by the states, since to comply to certain norms they have been audited to have declared underlying assets. So a full bank run for all stable coins is unlikely. However all cryptos are a market like stocks, there is no guarantee someone will buy then you want to sell, the stock exchange is potentially global, but not all participate in all exchanges, so it's more a liquidity risk then a bank run.

Tranxio

This sht is crazy. USA is a mess

BullyMcBullishson

I am not from the USA so you might want to take others advice on this. I do hear great things about Strike, but have not used them myself.

SolidOutcome

The CIA loves dirty money tho. They sold crack/cocaine in the USA so they could get hidden cash to buy weapons with.

Jeklah

at this point I don't think it really matters. The USA and UK are both basically tyrants.

BringTheFingerBack

Doesnt the USA have a few cities in top ten murder capitals of the world. Don't think Canggu is up there.

Buttcoin_TV

like any skill in life, its usually a bit more challenging than you initially think. but you maybe right! If you go I wish you the best. USA has a lot of flaws, but there are a many great things you'd be giving up too

pop-1988

> Is it the whole point of this coin to allow ilegal an fraudulent operations while using the US dollar? Not the point at all. There have been some reports from US Government agencies claiming USDT is used for sanctions evasion, especially by Russians. But you can't trust anything published by US Government these days Also, Tether is centralized, and has a history of cooperating with asset freezing orders. If USA officials believe USDT is used to evade sanctions, they can confiscate those USDT coins --- There are thousands of tiny altcoins, and new altcoins released every week. They're traded on dozens of 24/7 automated exchanges. But the major exchanges - which accept USD deposits - do not list new, low-effort, low liquidity altcoins The trader who wants to gamble in these sub-penny trash tokens can deposit USD to his favorite major exchange, buy USDT, send the USDT to the shittoken casino exchange, and play until he's broke. Then do it again tomorrow

SkoMyGod

Good morning from Burgerville, USA!

SaltyTruthTeller1

It's fun to watch America decline from a Canadian POV. Nothing is going to stop the great train wreck of USA. Definitely not the way you organize yourselves. It's a good thing Trump showed us the US cards so we're prepared for your attempts at theft as you scramble in the midst of decline. And now your allies have zero trust in you. You're doing great, keep it up.

Legitimate_Towel_919

Markets dont crash cuz of scary headlines, they crash when nobody actualy expects it. If ur already panicing about China/Russia/USA, its probly alredy priced in. The real nuke is usualy the thing no ones even talking bout like some random FED comment at 3pm Wensday

higherpeak

I like the Foundation Passport. Bitcoin only, air-gapped, open source and assembled in the USA.

Francis_Dollar_Hide

"With smart allocation and cash-flowing investments (real estate, dividend stocks, even certain businesses), it’s realistic to generate $85-95k+ per year in income while still preserving or even growing the principal. That’s a completely different ballgame from the “spend down” approach." Ah yes, the 'risk my early retirement to make it work' Strategy. I'm willing to bet once that second kid comes along, you're going to start hurting. The retirement benchmark in the USA is $1.8 - $2.2 Million per person with a house paid off an no dependents. I also have to question your figures. $65k PA is $5.4k per month. Rent for a family of 4 is going to be$3k min in a HCOL, then health insurance will be 1.5k per month, you are out of money by the time you buy groceries and other expenses. No savings, no educational account, no holidays. I retired FIRE at 46, I needed more than 2Mil in a HCOL and I have no dependents.

xte2

The analysis IMVHO should be in another direction: cryptos are an attempt by Big Tech to overthrow the banking dominance of the economy, an attempt that didn't succeed as they thought, but which is succeeding in other ways, because it's clear to anyone looking that we're heading towards Hayek's scenario of nth competing private currencies. A terrible scenario for the real economy, but that's how it is. Current cryptos, essentially none of them stand a chance of becoming legal tender in any major country, because for now the banking world rules; in the USA, the Rep are trying to push them because they need to unseat the Dem who are clearly part of the banking world and this pushes, but it's a zero-sum game, because even when they win (they will, the banking world has robbed too much and to get out of it needs a war that all populations reject and at least know a bit who to blame) they will still create other currencies, not the current ones. These are experiments, more or less successful, with more or less future, but experiments; when "the real one" arrives, they will be swept away. There was an initial phase where early adopters changed their lives with a gamble, that's over; now there's a phase of diffusion, which grows as trust in fiat currencies collapses, just as the economic systems behind them collapse. Something will still be made, because there are many poor people looking for a hedge against III-world currencies that will soon be ours too, and the barrier to entry remains low, but not beyond. At some point, legal tender cryptocurrencies will arrive, and then the experience of those who lived through the pioneering phase and learned will help.

bas-machine

They know they won’t convince anyone, and still they’re developing this. This clearly shows to me they plan on forcing this. If they kick Visa, Mastercard, Paypal etc. out of the EU under the pretense of ‘USA bad’ and put their system in place, you won’t have much choice besides cash and crypto.