Issue #1270: CDS's, so hot right now
Keep an eye out on these spreads moving forward, freaks. This is where the signal lies.

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Keep an eye out on these spreads moving forward, freaks. This is where the signal lies.

Here's a chart that has been lingering in my mind throughout the week.


This, ladies and gentleman, is exactly what the camel's back breaking looks like.

If this experience can be replicated on mainnet, it isn't hard to see how these federated mints can become popular in a relatively short amount of time.

These people are gearing up for one of the most egregious and shameless land grabs in human history.

We don't know what we don't know.

Podcasting 2.0 has, in my opinion, the potential to be the first "bitcoin killer app" outside of using bitcoin as a sound savings vehicle.

While many of the talking heads out there would like you to believe that inflation is slowing down, all I can see are things developing that will only serve to make the problems we…

This is why it is extremely important to educate current and future bitcoin users on best practices when it comes to receiving and sending bitcoin as privately as possible.

We are so early.



This transition is going to prove to be tumultuous for many around the globe and some are just beginning to realize this.

The West is in the process of finding out that those who control the physical things are in a better position than those who control the dying monetary order.

Too many have forgotten how to act without the "leadership" of the unproductive class.

This may not make you feel great, but it is the reality we find ourselves in today.

This is the state of our clown world.

I hate to break it to you a16z, but Adam Neumann isn't going to solve this problem.

It is becoming glaringly obvious that, barring an unseasonably hot Winter in Europe, there is going to be mass energy shortages across Germany.
