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Trump aims to fight China’s control of minerals by investing in miners
PUBLISHED THU, APR 24 20258:33 AM
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Burgum said the Trump administration is considering investing in companies that mine and process critical minerals.
The U.S. is heavily dependent on imports from China.
The administration is also considering a sovereign risk insurance fund to protect corporate investments in approved projects, Burgum said.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Trump administration is considering investing in companies that mine and process critical minerals in an effort to end U.S. dependence on imports from countries including China, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said this week.
“We should be taking some of our balance sheet and making investments,” Burgum said late Wednesday at a conference organized by the Hamm Institute for American Energy. The U.S. may need to make an “equity investment in each of these companies that’s taking on China in critical minerals,” he said.
China dumps minerals on international markets, collapsing prices and making it difficult for U.S. companies to compete, Burgum said. “You’re competing against state capital because China is picking these strategically as areas that they want to invest in,” Burgum said.
The U.S. could use a vehicle like a sovereign wealth fund to invest in domestic miners focused on extracting and processing critical minerals, he said. “Why wouldn’t the wealthiest country in the world have the biggest sovereign wealth fund,” the Interior secretary said.
Retaliatory export controls
Beijing earlier this month imposed export controls on rare earth elements — a subset of critical minerals —in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s decision to hike tariffs on goods made in China. Rare earth elements are used in key industries including defense, energy and automobiles. The U.S. imported 80% of the rare earths it used in 2024, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. About 70% of U.S. rare earth imports came from China in 2023.
“We have to get back in the game,” Burgum said, referring to mining. “It’s not just drill, baby, drill. It’s mine, baby, mine. If we don’t do that as a country, we will not be successful. We will literally be at the mercy of others that are controlling our supply chains.”
The Trump administration is also considering a sovereign risk insurance fund to guard companies that invest in approved projects against changing political winds in Washington, he said. If a future president cancels a project through executive fiat, companies would be paid back from the fund, Burgum said.
“Think of it like an insurance market that would be backed by the federal government,” Burgum said. “You got to write a check. There’s got to be a financial cost if you’re going to do these decisions where you’re destroying our balance sheet or destroying a company’s opportunity,” he said.
The U.S. needs to stockpile key critical minerals through a mechanism similar to the strategic petroleum reserve, Burgum said. When China dumps minerals on global markets and prices plummet, the U.S. should buy those minerals and stockpile them, he said.
“Those three things would put us in the game around critical minerals — the stockpiling, the sovereign risk insurance and the ability to take an equity position. We’re working on all three of those,” he said.
Kaylee Greenlee | Reuters
#trump #rareearth #minerals

2025-04-21 01:21:38 UTC

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In my experience from using AI with my coding day job, it’s a huge helper in creating a starter base and when debugging - which is absolutely a big help. However, it cannot write a complete application. Not yet at least.

2025-04-17 00:43:53 UTC

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🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

2025-04-13 03:57:50 UTC

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Good question and I don’t have an answer yet but will surely give this some thought.

2025-04-13 03:45:23 UTC

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lol I don’t know what is wrong with me, but it’s what I have in all my rooms.

2025-04-08 00:18:59 UTC

Don't Make the Mistake of Thinking That What's Now Happening is Mostly About Tariffs by Ray Dalio
At this moment, a huge amount of attention is being justifiably paid to the announced tariffs and their very big impacts on markets and economies while very little attention is being paid to the circumstances that caused them and the biggest disruptions that are likely still ahead. Don't get me wrong, while these tariff announcements are very important developments and we all know that President Trump caused them, most people are losing sight of the underlying circumstances that got him elected president and brought these tariffs about. They are also mostly overlooking the vastly more important forces that are driving just about everything, including the tariffs.
The far bigger, far more important thing to keep in mind is that we are seeing a classic breakdown of the major monetary, political, and geopolitical orders. This sort of breakdown occurs only about once in a lifetime, but they have happened many times in history when similar unsustainable conditions were in place.
More specifically:
The monetary/economic order is breaking down because there is too much existing debt, the rates of adding to it are too fast, and existing capital markets and economies are supported by this unsustainably large debt. The debt is unsustainable because the of the large imbalance between a) debtor-borrowers who owe too much debt and are taking on a too much debt because they are hooked on debt to finance their excesses (e.g., the United States) and b) lender-creditors (like China) who already hold too much of the debt and are hooked on selling their goods to the borrower-debtors (like the United States) to sustain their economies. There are big pressures for these imbalances to be corrected one way or another and doing so will change the monetary order in major ways. For example, it is obviously incongruous to have both large trade imbalances and large capital imbalances in a deglobalizing world in which the major players can't trust that the other major players won't cut them off from the items they need (which is an American worry) or pay them the money they are owed (which is a Chinese worry). This is a result of these parties being in a type of war in which self-sufficiency is of paramount importance. Anyone who has studied history knows that such risks under such circumstances have repeatedly led to the same sorts of problems we're seeing now. So, the old monetary/economic order in which countries like China manufacture inexpensively, sell to Americans, and acquire American debt assets, and Americans borrow money from countries like China to make those purchases and build up huge debt liabilities will have to change. These obviously unsustainable circumstances are made even more so by the fact that they have led to American manufacturing deteriorating, which both hollows out middle class jobs in the U.S. and requires America to import needed items from a country that it is increasingly seeing as an enemy. In an era of deglobalization, these big trade and capital imbalances, which reflect trade and capital interconnectedness, will have to shrink one way or another. Also, it should be obvious that the U.S. government debt level and the rate at which the government debt is being added to is unsustainable. (You can find my analysis of this in my new book How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle.) Clearly, the monetary order will have to change in big disruptive ways to reduce all these imbalances and excesses, and we are in the early part of the process of it changing. There are huge capital market implications to this that have huge economic implications, which I will delve into at another time.
The domestic political order is breaking down due to huge gaps in people's education levels, opportunity levels, productivity levels, income and wealth levels, and values—and because of the ineffectiveness of the existing political order to fix things. These conditions are manifest in win-at-all-cost fights between populists of the right and populists of the left over which side will have the power and control to run things. This is leading to democracies breaking down because democracies require compromise and adherence to the rule of law, and history has shown that both break down at times like those we are now in. History also shows that strong autocratic leaders emerge as classic democracy and classic rule of law are removed as barriers to autocratic leadership. Obviously, the current unstable political situation will be affected by the other four forces I’m referring to here—e.g., problems in the stock market and economy will likely create political and geopolitical problems.
The international geopolitical world order is breaking down because the era of one dominant power (the U.S.) that dictates the order that other countries follow is over. The multilateral, cooperative world order the U.S. led is being replaced by a unilateral, power-rules approach. In this new order, the U.S. is still largest power in the world and is shifting to a unilateral, "America first" approach. We are now seeing that manifest in the U.S. led trade-war, geopolitical war, technology war, and, in some cases, military wars.
Acts of nature (droughts, floods and pandemics) are increasingly disruptive, and
Amazing changes in technology such as AI will be highly impactful to all aspects of life, including the money/debt/economic order, the political order, the international order (by affecting interactions between countries economically and militarily), and the costs of acts of nature.
Changes in these forces and how they are affecting each other is what we should be focusing on.
For that reason, I urge you to not to let news-grabbing dramatic changes like the tariffs draw your attention away from these five big forces and their interrelationships, which are the real drivers of Overall Big Cycles changes. If you allow yourself to be distracted by them, you will a) miss how the conditions and the dynamics of these big forces are causing these news-making changes, b) fail to think through how these news-making changes will affect these big forces, and c) fail to keep focused on how this Overall Big Cycle and the parts that drive it typically transpire, which will tell you a lot about what is likely to happen.
I also urge you to think about the interrelationships that are critically important. For example, think about how Donald Trump's actions on tariffs will affect 1) the monetary/market, economy order (it will be disruptive to it), 2) the domestic political order (it will likely be disruptive to it as it will probably undermine his support), 3) the international geopolitical order (it will be disruptive to it in many obvious ways that are financial, economic, political, and geopolitical) 4) climate (it will somewhat undermine the world’s ability to deal with the climate change issue effectively), and 5) technology development (it will be disruptive in some positive ways to the U.S., like bringing more technology production into the U.S., and in some harmful ways, like being disruptive to the capital markets that are needed to support technology development and in too many other ways to innumerate here.)
As you do this, it’s helpful to keep in mind that what is happening now is just a contemporary version of what has happened innumerable times throughout history. I urge you to study the actions that policy makers took in analogous past cases in which they found themselves in similar positions to help you build a list of things that they might do—things like suspending debt service payments to "enemy" countries, establishing capital controls to prevent the free flow of capital out of the country, and imposing special taxes. Many of these things would’ve been unimaginable not long ago, so we should also study how these policies work. The breakdowns in the monetary, political, and geopolitical orders that take the forms of depressions, civil wars, and world wars, that then lead to the new monetary, political orders that govern interactions within countries, and the geopolitical orders that govern interactions between countries until they break down, have all happened repeatedly and are the most important things to understand well. I described them in detail in my book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order so you can see it clearly laid out there. The Overall Big Cycle is described in six clearly identifiable stages that unfold as one order becomes the next. It is laid out in such detail that it is easy to compare what is now happening with what typically happens, so it is possible to identify what stage the cycle is in and what is likely to come next.
When I wrote that book and my other books, I hoped, as I still do, that I would be able 1) to help policy makers understand these forces and interact with them to produce better policies so we get better results, 2) to help individuals who can collectively but not individually affect policies to deal with these forces well so they could get better results for themselves and those they care about, and 3) to encourage smart people who have different views than mine to have open, thoughtful exchanges with me so that we can all try to get at what is true and what to do about it.
#raydalio

2025-03-31 13:56:41 UTC

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Nostr Lyn is why I’m here.

2025-03-25 23:57:24 UTC

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I trust no one, especially myself.

2025-03-23 16:26:26 UTC

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lol and current SEC will not investigate

2025-03-20 03:11:18 UTC

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lol. and l people still believe these fake polls.

2025-03-11 11:35:52 UTC

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For someone who is not following closely, why and how?

2025-03-10 03:12:41 UTC

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I’m not sure if its only left, i think people on the right is on the same boat. bitcoin tech is not easy.

2025-03-07 11:52:51 UTC

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🤪

2025-03-07 11:45:38 UTC

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USA has no money, should it print more to buy BTC?

2025-03-03 22:20:48 UTC

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War, war is stupid. And people are stupid. And I am stupid. I dont understand why people dont realize that they’re voting for WW3. All the western leaders we voted in wanted war escalation - except Trump. If Kamala is president, American soldiers will be the ones mostly “boots on the ground”. Blood is on our hands voters.

2025-02-21 23:22:40 UTC

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good one

2025-01-23 20:12:41 UTC

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Yes, your way works too.

2025-01-21 16:23:02 UTC

PayPal Debanking for Political Views
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/propaganda/paypal-bebanking-for-policialy-views/

2025-01-04 11:37:01 UTC

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I simply unfollow 😁

2024-12-25 16:25:11 UTC

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Merry Christmas from Manila 🤘🏽

2024-12-13 15:51:53 UTC

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lol someone conducted a study for that? must be a psychopath. lol.

2024-12-12 01:36:45 UTC

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Just fucking do it even if it hurts. Especially if it hurts.

2024-12-07 22:54:49 UTC

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fucking hilarious

2024-12-07 21:52:38 UTC

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This phrase is 100% EU. Not RFK. I voted for Trump because he’s going to appoint RFK.

2024-12-02 23:57:28 UTC

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My brother exactly.

2024-12-02 03:28:43 UTC

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Bitcoin, gold and real estate for me.

2024-12-02 03:24:47 UTC

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And Biden’s followers defense is pointing out that Trump is worst. LOL.

2024-12-02 03:16:46 UTC

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Me: I’m selling BTCs at $125K and buy a house.
Wife: No, why? It’s going to be $250K sooner or later.
Me: Wondering to myself. When did she become more bullish than me?

2024-12-01 15:52:12 UTC

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i keep on getting this ☹️ https://image.nostr.build/59a640990e8b1da8dfb71d7f9edb08eb82a28e5288d7233be9a1730dc2022964.jpg

2024-12-01 15:48:10 UTC

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Is there a script for orangepilling my teenage nephews?

2024-11-27 08:51:00 UTC

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crypto papi?

2024-11-27 06:56:17 UTC

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$93K lol

2024-11-25 11:17:34 UTC

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Snickers - Warren Buffet

2024-11-19 06:31:22 UTC

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Income tax. This was deemed unconstitutional before 1913 in the USA. It can be abolished legally.

2024-11-17 11:34:45 UTC

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lol. is that real? like who would think those are the same after reading the writer’s assessment?

2024-11-13 18:30:22 UTC

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Clowns? Maybe. Who would be a better choice to do some cleaning up?

2024-11-13 05:12:10 UTC

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Mabuhay!

2024-11-12 03:37:49 UTC

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on same boat https://image.nostr.build/0c7510fee194f19f4c3d99c8480ad267f9c69e2d09b5fddbb16160a55cd36b8a.jpg

2024-11-12 00:28:03 UTC

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wow unreal

2024-11-10 17:19:26 UTC

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#MAHA

2024-11-10 17:11:59 UTC

#BastaBitcoin #Phillipines #hilbay
https://youtu.be/Un0dAbxej0I

2024-11-10 04:09:00 UTC

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Argentina

2024-11-09 23:30:51 UTC

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I regret voting for Obama because he left Aaron in jail and he was gone under Obama’s watch. Thank you Aaron. 🙏🙏🙏

2024-11-09 05:35:53 UTC

Fluoride – Is America’s Drinking Water Safe?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may now Make America Healthy Again. One of his first measures will be removing “an industrial waste product” from America’s water supply that has been deliberately added since 1945.
On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, began water fluoridation. By 1960, water fluoridation had reached 50 million households and doubled to 100 million by 1975. Why? The government began adding fluoride to the water based on a 1930s study that stated a small amount of NATURALLY OCCURRING fluoride could protect teeth from decay.
It is odd that the government does not force insurance companies to treat teeth as a medical expense. It is difficult to gauge if these measures have actually prevented tooth decay, as access to dental health is far greater now than it was when trials began in the 1930s and 1940s. Who is responsible for adding fluoride to the water? California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, and South Dakota have state mandates requiring fluoridated water. Other states like Maine, Utah, and New Hampshire permit the public to vote. Water utilities companies are responsible for maintaining water fluoridation systems. The EPA has federal oversight over the process and set a maximum contaminant level for fluoride at 4.0 mg/L. The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 forbids the EPA from actually mandating fluoride or any additive substances to the water supply, but they do have oversight.
So what’s the problem? “On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” Kennedy posted on X. Kennedy believes that fluoride does not have a clear health benefit to the public, but it is responsible for causing an array of life-altering ailments.
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1852907832884285708
On September 25, 2024, a federal court in California ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a case involving fluoride. The court said that current levels of fluoride violate the Toxic Substances Control Act. Judge Edward Chen declared that there is “substantial and scientifically credible evidence” that fluoride poses a serious health risk and emphasized concern over fluorides effect on the developing brains of infants.
“In all, there is substantial and scientifically credible evidence establishing that fluoride poses a risk to human health; it is associated with a reduction in the IQ of children and is hazardous at dosages that are far too close to fluoride levels in the drinking water of the United States,” the judge wrote in his ruling.
The National Institutes of Health’s toxicology program produced a study that found a correlation between fluoride and lower IQ in children.
“The NTP monograph concluded that higher levels of fluoride exposure, such as drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter, are associated with lower IQ in children. The NTP review was designed to evaluate total fluoride exposure from all sources and was not designed to evaluate the health effects of fluoridated drinking water alone. It is important to note, however, that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ.”
The CDC, American Dental Association, American Pediatric Association, and every BIG health agency would like to ignore these serious health risks. These organizations showed their hand during COVID and are not to be trusted. How can we possibly turn a blind eye to the blatant health crisis facing America when we have clear evidence that government agencies are permitting Americans to be poisoned? Kennedy’s health crusade could possibly help America lose its title of the least healthy nation in the developed world.
Source: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/fluoride-is-americas-drinking-water-safe/

2024-11-09 00:03:38 UTC

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The poor can become rich with (or without inflation) if they educate themselves about real estate and bitcoin. So maybe this Cantilon Effect assumes the poor are lazy to explore.

2024-11-04 04:14:43 UTC

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lol OMG all the people i think can actually do good for our country based on what they already did for us were called names. too funny.

2024-11-01 12:11:08 UTC

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lol. the usual media circus. always has been, always will be. keep on stacking and orange-pilling.

2024-10-21 16:08:21 UTC

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lol. honest question from someone who does not know enough about chess history but plays chess nonetheless.

2024-10-21 02:44:08 UTC

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Why is that?

2024-10-21 02:43:10 UTC

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expect the expected

2024-10-21 02:40:52 UTC

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agree he’s older now and no longer 100% coherent but he made a lot of sense and gave practical business advice in his younger self YouTube videos.

2024-10-18 13:42:48 UTC

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100%! I’m not masculine and I look like and act like a pushover. But fuck it. It’s what’s in my head.

2024-09-19 18:24:46 UTC

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lol

2024-09-19 16:46:22 UTC

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Exploding pagers? I have not seen it, maybe because it’s not on Nostr.

2024-09-13 14:24:36 UTC

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what SS benefits? lol. I’m not counting on it. I have plans and executing on it so I can live comfortably with or without SS.

2024-09-13 02:56:17 UTC

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nostr lyn

2024-09-10 15:47:14 UTC

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sure but needs to be structured accordingly

2024-08-30 21:13:00 UTC

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I love it! My kids are now grown ups and I failed them. Any suggestions on how can I make this right? 😂

2024-08-28 12:41:11 UTC

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🤘🏽

2024-08-26 01:45:38 UTC

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Interesting. I actually think the stereotype is blue is anti-nuclear because they think its bad for the environment because they think we still dont know how to handle nuclear waste.

2024-08-25 21:03:45 UTC

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My neighbor has a lawn sign that says “No room for hatred here”. She’s a democrat who hates Trump. 😁

2024-08-25 03:58:00 UTC

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Congrats! Proof of work!

2024-08-24 03:48:48 UTC

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RFK as attorney general

2024-08-22 16:52:17 UTC

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How did Satoshi pay for the titcoin.org domain name? Wondering if there’s traceability there.

2024-08-21 16:14:37 UTC

This is the way. Teach our children well.
“Teaching Bitcoin to Students
El Salvador is also adding Bitcoin lessons to its national school curriculum. The government plans to offer courses like “Mi Primer Bitcoin” and “Node Nation” to teach students about digital currency. These lessons will help young Salvadorans get ready for a fast-changing digital economy.”
https://cryptonewsland.com/el-salvador-certifies-80000-civil-servants-in-bitcoin-for-public-administration/

2024-08-19 13:41:46 UTC

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Good point. However, Trump has changed for the worst. I had hopes last time but I see now nothing will change. RFK for me. I love to see Ross free but there are much bigger issues that affect many many people.

2024-08-19 13:01:39 UTC

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i love it. 😀

2024-08-18 02:14:52 UTC

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agree. I’m paying into it but i dont count it into my retirement portfolio.

2024-08-16 03:37:41 UTC

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True for me as well. 😀 incidentally, i have watched Seether live at least 4 times.

2024-08-16 03:29:15 UTC

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I enjoyed the series and have watch them more than once. But that’s just me, someone who watched all of Steven Seagal’s movies. lol.

2024-08-14 14:35:07 UTC

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Played Sudoku https://image.nostr.build/f5803a3678a463783a0141f835e3e1f3ece6d2e71006f3b73b912bbb2845ed65.jpg

2024-08-13 14:03:20 UTC

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maybe idiot or coward - or maybe just brainwashed. we all suffer from it, we just don’t know it yet. but yeah this Tulsi thing is fucking amazing!

2024-08-09 00:31:56 UTC

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Enjoy!

2024-08-07 18:45:18 UTC

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amor fati

2024-08-07 18:42:50 UTC

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holy guacamole! (sorry, couldn’t help it lol)

2024-08-07 18:41:43 UTC

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💯

2024-08-07 12:25:45 UTC

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Fuck companies who discriminate, I don’t want to work for them. I’ll go find another company or just start my own.

2024-08-05 12:26:43 UTC

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As a dev, where can I find Cashu Ecash information?

2024-08-04 18:38:30 UTC

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same sad story over and over again. we the people never learned from our past and we keep on going in circles.

2024-07-29 16:53:43 UTC

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I’m a citizen of the world! Or universe? 🤟🏼

2024-07-29 12:43:26 UTC

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Marcos was forced to escape after massive Filipino people demonstrated against fraudulent election results . Perhaps the same could work in Venezuela https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution

2024-07-24 03:47:50 UTC

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it’s all good. facts of life. I’ll just keep my mind and eyes open so I can see the opportunity and act accordingly.

2024-07-18 14:44:59 UTC

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We need good and trustworthy politicians and fair bankers who believes in Bitcoin.

2024-07-16 18:45:35 UTC

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awesome 👏

2024-07-15 17:50:24 UTC

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Where do we see the shy voters being bold? Just curious as I don’t follow the news and I also don’t see that around me - being in a Democrat state. Thanks.

2024-07-05 11:11:40 UTC

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lol

2024-06-26 21:18:16 UTC

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Nice. Congratulations!

2024-06-26 21:05:49 UTC

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Where do we see the stats?

2024-06-17 16:22:58 UTC

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Oh shit! Haha.

2024-06-12 23:28:52 UTC

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lol

2024-06-10 17:21:06 UTC

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I’d say just do it. Software building has a way of ending up with something different than the original product idea.

2024-06-10 17:18:42 UTC

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2024-06-01 03:42:37 UTC

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Interesting. good to know. thanks for sharing. will give it a listen.

2024-05-31 20:55:08 UTC

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Myself don’t buy into ‘lesser evil” logic because that’s what the duopoly is pushing down our throats. We were conditioned to think that way and we then come up with reasons (excuses) why we would choose a convicted over a senile or vice-versa.

2024-05-27 03:16:07 UTC

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lol. that guy is insane to even have the courage to speak publicly in front of libertarians. I imagine if Biden went, there’s not one thing he can say to these people that will not get boos. 🤣

2024-05-26 13:35:42 UTC

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I’ll take the good. Half of the country may now know more about Ross and Bitcoin and if we’re lucky they will now be thinking 50/50.

2024-05-16 12:08:39 UTC

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😅