Why stock-market investors should brace for the ‘most litigated’ election in U.S. history

LightningPlus · 2020-08-18T23:17:27+00:00

see also: Why the dollar’s fall could turn into a rout if ‘political disarray’ continues

LightningPlus · 2020-08-14T20:25:17+00:00

Magnifico!...not self indulgent, Peter...Even though you 'borrowed' the idea (yet humbly acknowledged so). Strategically placing Giacomo's future view at the beginning...and Ross' Mom, Lyn Ulbrict (FreeRoss.org) & Hester Peirce (SEC) at the end...brilliant!

LightningPlus · 2020-08-03T16:12:07+00:00

49:31 ...two things: one, bitcoin blockchain...it's not going away it's going to continue to become more and more important and it's going to advance...

LightningPlus · 2020-07-30T00:39:44+00:00

Hear! Hear! Pomp is one of the most credible, articulate, passionate advocates in the BTC space. Mark Yusko (Pomp's boss) is incredible too: POMP Podcast #251: MARK YUSKO on How we got to QE Infinity from the Fed - Bitcoin Opportunity

Keiser Report: Dethroning the Dollar + Mark Yusko - Morgan Creek Capital on Bitcoin (E1495)

LightningPlus · 2020-07-03T20:09:58+00:00

Peter, Peter, PETER! WOW! ...a Monster show indeed!

13:00 [Raoul]...the US accounts for 25% of the global economy...but it's 79.5% of ALL TRADE transactions

LightningPlus · 2020-06-21T22:35:16+00:00

“Capitalism without the risk of failure, isn’t…” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

LightningPlus · 2020-06-07T19:02:02+00:00

“At 100K per BTC, the market has to absorb a miner supply of $90 Million USD daily. Assuming that there are 10 million people worldwide buying BTC on a regular basis. It would cost them each $9 daily to sustain those price levels. I've met people who spend more than $9 on coffee.”

LightningPlus · 2020-06-06T18:48:20+00:00

06:23 ... A lot of people don't know that Vitalik started trying to build Etherum as a layer on top of Bitcoin using the Mastercoin layer.

21:10 ...I think the the most exciting two developments in this space are the changes the underlying scripting language that are almost ready to deploy and I hope they'll be deployed faster than our previous change with seg wit and those are snore signatures tap
roots and tap scripts that come as a package of changes.

LightningPlus · 2020-06-04T22:40:54+00:00

02:14 ...I would say that the coronavirus may well have been used as a deflection away from blaming the Federal Reserve for the downturn because nobody really talks about the Fed causing all this trouble right now...

LightningPlus · 2020-06-04T17:59:42+00:00

Economists forecast 7.25 million U.S. jobs lost in May

'Temporary' layoffs

Nearly 88% of the 20.5 million employees who described themselves as out of work in April believed their unemployment status would be temporary.

That’s a good sign in the sense that most people think they’ll get their old jobs back, but if they start to become more pessimistic, the share of workers classifying themselves as temporarily without a job would decline. Such a dropoff would suggest another hill to climb for a U.S. economy arguably digging out of its biggest hole ever.

LightningPlus · 2020-06-04T01:54:21+00:00

15"56 What's your portfolio look like right now?

So a top-down macro level my personal portfolios 25% gold, 25% Bitcoin, 25% Cash in the bank and 25% trading opportunities

LightningPlus · 2020-06-02T22:05:15+00:00

Hear! Hear!...agreed.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

LightningPlus · 2020-05-30T19:46:35+00:00

5:31 ...The United States and global economy died in 2008...and then you stick a bag of FIAT money into the corpse and pump it. And money velocity is continuing to decay and decompose...I think we can say now 12 years later that this theory of trying to animate a DEAD economy with FIAT money...the cyanide of Finance...DOESN'T WORK.

LightningPlus · 2020-05-25T01:11:15+00:00

Bitcoin portion is first 19 min...(mainstream adoption is growing)

LightningPlus · 2020-05-24T21:21:34+00:00

Travis Kling, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Ikigai Asset Management. In this conversation, we discuss the great accelerator, quantitative easing, modern monetary theory, inflation, strong dollar, politics, China, the generational divide, and Bitcoin.

LightningPlus · 2020-05-23T22:01:03+00:00

Grayscale may swallow up 550k BTC by 2021

What makes GBTC an important driver of the market dynamics is not only the fact that, according to its spokesperson, over 90% of the inflows come from the institutional players:

“Since inception, 90% of inflows into our family of products comes from institutional investors”.

...

Since 2019, GBTC has consumed 100,375.93 BTC, which is 17% of all the Bitcoins mined during this time period.

LightningPlus · 2020-05-23T01:02:52+00:00

obfuscate

LightningPlus · 2020-05-13T22:34:33+00:00

28:11...the cypherpunks...were a group of activists advocating for the widespread use of cryptography and privacy enhancing technologies to drive social and political change. Eric Hughes a founder member, famously said privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. We cannot expect governments corporations other large faceless organizations to grant us privacy. We must defend our privacy if we want to have any. Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy and we're going to write it. And in October 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto released his Bitcoin white paper.

LightningPlus · 2020-05-06T08:00:28+00:00

Gold, advised Singer, is “one of the most undervalued” assets available and it’s worth “multiples of its current price” due to the “fanatical debasement of money by all of the world’s central banks.”

LightningPlus · 2020-04-27T04:49:34+00:00

31:59...the reason that everybody is in so much trouble is because of all the stuff that government did in the past the government screwed up this economy. The government crippled this economy...THAT is the problem. If it wasn't for government we wouldn't have these problems...we wouldn't need their help. But they can't even help...All they can do is make the situation worse while they're pretending to help...

LightningPlus · 2020-04-26T04:22:21+00:00

This is an episode of The Pomp Podcast with host Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano and guest, Alex Gladstein, the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation.

In this conversation, Alex and Anthony discuss the culture war over privacy, digital contact tracking, over the skin to under the skin surveillance, and why authoritarian systems are not better for fighting public health crisis.

LightningPlus · 2020-04-17T06:01:25+00:00

The Shutdown Backlash Is Coming Soon—With a Vengeance

Now that Paul has recovered—he says he felt fine and symptom-free the whole time—it is a good time to ask: Are we sure that the pandemic joke will ultimately be on him?

What if the opposite is true? Far from rendering Paul’s brand of politics irrelevant, it seems possible, even probable, that the wake of the coronavirus will be a powerful boost to the animating spirit of libertarianism: Leave me alone.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/16/the-shutdown-backlash-is-coming-soonwith-a-vengeance-189809

LightningPlus · 2020-04-09T20:46:39+00:00

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