supermegafrenchcat retweeted
Back from Nashville, and after a little reflection, I need to reiterate a message I frequently put out there: kill your heroes.
Most of the people talking about the moon, laser eyes, power law, get on zero, digital energy, strategic national reserve, etc. etc., or who are telling you to buy this device or use that service are **buying and selling your attention to make themselves richer** -- they generally do not have your best interests at heart.
Think for yourself and don't fall for marketing. Educate yourself about bitcoin, discuss it with people you respect, think critically about the risks, and then, if it makes sense to you, make a sensible investment in it with reasonable expectations, while keeping your larger financial situation and your personal priorities in perspective.
I am a believer in bitcoin in spite of, not because of, all of the wild assertions, influencers and aggressive social marketing out there, and it has taken me 11 years to get to where I am.
Be careful our there anon, don't buy the hype.
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
My dad just texted me saying he bought his first crypto today
I asked him his seed phrase and he sent it over. I took his $150 of Solana and sent it to my wallet. NEVER give your seed phrase to anyone, not even your son
Lesson 1, welcome to the trenches buddy
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🎙️DAILY Conversations: BAD JPEGS by @mind_wank
Join us tomorrow for two upcoming DAILY Space conversations with artist @mind_wank as he discusses his new collection, "BAD JPEGS" launching next week on the DAILY(.)xyz platform.
1. 🗓️June 21th at 12:00 ET with @artandvault
2.🗓️June 21th at 20:00 ET with @aiarttonight
Set your reminders at the links below🧵
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
The entire Tornado Cash verdict is completely insane and will turn the legality of building any privacy service on its head.🧵
1.Open-source devs building non-custodial tools can be held responsible for criminal activity when crim. actors cannot be stopped or deanonymized👇
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
This film, collected by @smfc_eth, will be screened at the Los Cineminutos film festival next week.
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
My new piece 'Prometheus' as part of my show 'Primal Inheritance' releasing this Thursday on Daily XYZ thanks to @FellowshipAi @halecar2 and @niceaunties
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
GM GM ✨✨
Cliff Dreams in Orange Concrete at 45 FPS - soon at @fellowshiptrust #AIArtwork #Villa #NFT
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
This is insane.
This is INSANE.
This is a blatantly obvious sign of the impending doom of the U.S. Dollar and all fiat currencies.
*This is as important as anything you will read this year*
The United States Treasury issues bonds and other investment securities.
They call these, “treasuries.”
The U.S. Treasury issues treasuries when the U.S. Federal Government spends past their budget, resulting in a “budgetary deficit.” The sale of treasuries makes up for the loss.
The treasuries are sold and tacked on as debt. This is the substance of the big $34 trillion debt number in the United States.
Key point: The U.S. Federal Government has been in a budgetary deficit in 49 of the last 53 years, with the last surplus year being in 2001.
But yet, even in that 2001 “budgetary surplus” year, the total debt amount increased.
Why?
Because a whole bunch of debt from years past came due.
The U.S. Treasury issues their treasuries with time periods of ownership ranging from 4 weeks to 30 years.
So, in 2001, the government had debt coming due that was issued to investors in 1971, as well as 1981, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, and the previous year.
The debt that was due in 2001 exceeded the budgetary surplus (debt issuance is not a part of the budget), thus, the government had to issue new debt to pay off the old debt, adding on further to the debt total.
Key point: The U.S. Treasury, which is part of the U.S. Federal Government, has to sell new debt to new investors to pay off the old debt from old investors. This is because of 1) the constant budgetary deficits and 2) the debt from years past coming due.
Key point: Being that the definition of a Ponzi scheme is, “An investment scheme where new investor money is used to pay off old investors.” …The U.S. Federal Government is running a Ponzi scheme. To the tune of $34.7 trillion, and counting.
Trillion is just a word. Let’s make sure we note the significance.
A *billion* seconds ago was 1993 (31 years ago).
A *trillion* seconds ago was 30,000 B.C.
And then multiply that trillion by 34.7.
That’s the scale of the United States debt bill.
But WAIT. It gets worse.
Key point: The U.S. Treasury always has to have buyers of its debt, because if they don’t, they won’t be able to pay off 1) their deficit spending and 2) the old debt coming due (and the interest on the debt). If they fail to pay those off, the Government would default and collapse.
Well, then, who buys all the U.S. Government debt?
Key point: The largest buyer and owner of the U.S. Federal Government debt is THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THEMSELVES.
Don’t trust, verify:
TAKE A SECOND TO CONTEMPLATE HOW INSANE THAT IS.
The U.S. Government spends in a budgetary deficit, then issues treasuries to pay for the spending, then, at a bigger rate than anybody else, buys the treasuries to cover the loss. An unbelievable Ponzi scheme.
The U.S. Government is the director of the Ponzi scheme, the old investor, and the new investor. A true masterclass.
But how do they do this? They have a money printer. It's that simple. The debt might as well not be real.
Key point: The United States is not the only country that runs this playbook. 182 of the 222 countries in the world are in budgetary deficits. The Ponzi scheme is everywhere.
The U.S. is the kingpin of the modern monetary world. They are the head honcho, the high priest, the big cheese.
The current global financial economy is built on the backs of the United States.
There would be a massive problem if the United States had debt buyer troubles.
In short, an increasing amount of investors are growing scared of the United Stages debt situation, turning them away from the purchasing of U.S. Treasuries.
Recent headlines:
“Treasury bond auction runs into weak demand amid fears that soaring US debt will overwhelm Wall Street” -October 12, 2023
“30-Year Treasury Auction Breaks Bad, Sinks Stock Market” -November 9, 2023
“World to Drown in U.S. Debt; Moody’s Downgrades Country’s Debt” -November 17, 2023
“5-Year Treasury Auction was a Dud” -January 24, 2024
“Treasury's $16 billion auction of 20-year bonds produces 'very ugly' results” -February 21, 2024
"Highest Treasury Yields of Year Fail to Tempt Buyers to Auction" -April 11, 2024.
With lower demand, and as quote tweeted below, the U.S. Treasury is starting a "treasury buy back operation," aimed to, as they say, "improve liquidity in the treasury market."
What's really happening is that the Treasury is using their money printer to directly buy the treasuries they are issuing, ensuring those low demand treasury auctions don't continue. This causes inflation in the money supply, which is a dangerous outcome.
Here's where the cookie crumbles:
The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, has a 2% inflation target. Inflation has not been at 2% recently, and, in fact, has been accelerating higher for three months in a row.
The Federal Reserve has set high interest rates, currently at 5.25%, as a method of discouraging borrowing, spending, and taming inflation.
But it's not working. And there's a bigger problem.
Key point: The U.S. Federal Government pays interest to investors that own the treasuries, and this interest is part of the budget. Higher interest payments = more federal spending = bigger budgetary deficits = more debt issuance = higher supply of treasuries = lower demand = less buyers = Treasury printing = higher inflation = higher interest rates = higher interest payments.
A catastrophic feedback loop.
The interest paid out by the Federal Government has spiked in recent years:
The United States Dollar is screwed.
The Federal Reserve has set high interest rates to tame inflation, but that's not working. High interest rates are causing bigger interest payments, causing larger budgetary deficits.
This is causing the U.S. Treasury to issue more debt, which investors are getting scared of (because of runaway inflation and compounding debt levels), which is now causing the Treasury to print money and provide "liquidity" to stabilize the treasury market, adding fuel to the inflation fire once more.
The Federal Reserve can further raise interest rates to cool inflation, but that would increase interest payments and deficit spending, requiring even more debt issuance and "liquidity," which fuels inflation. An increase in interest rates could also cause a massive recession or depression, which would grind the economy to a halt, which would mean that the government is taking in less tax revenue, while still spending exorbitantly on entrenched government programs and stimulus, which would only increase budgetary deficits and debt issuance once more.
The Federal Reserve can lower interest rates, but that would immediately cause an uptick in inflation, as people are encouraged to borrow and spend with lower interest rates, which would then force the Fed to raise interest rates again.
The Federal Reserve can admit defeat and raise their inflation target to 3 or 4%, but that would signal that the system is failing, which would cause a further loss of confidence, which would result in less treasury buyers, resulting in more inflation, and would create demand for higher interest rates (because treasury investors want to keep up with inflation), which, again, causes bigger interest payments and so forth.
This is a debt spiral.
There is no way out.
You are witnessing it live. These are years that will go down in the all-time history books.
Every fiat currency has failed, and for the same reason. Turning on the money printer is too tempting.
Don't forget, the U.S. Government will never let the treasury market fail, because that would result in an automatic default on the debt and an unbelievably chaotic avalanche of collapse.
They will always turn to the money printer to bail things out. The Treasury will continue to print more money to keep the system afloat, as evidenced by their upcoming "buy back operation." But inflation is the fatal flaw.
The Ponzi scheme is in its final chapter. The endgame is here.
The inflation train has left the station, and it's never coming back.
Covid put the ruin into hyperdrive. Inflation ran away, now it cannot be tamed. It is feeding on itself, and will continue to do so, over and over, gradually, then suddenly.
And then, poof. It's gone.
Worthlessness.
If you haven't noticed, the U.S. Dollar has been heading toward the "worthless" direction for quite some time.
It is inevitable. The U.S. Dollar, and all fiat currencies, will die.
The Phoenix will then rise from the ashes.
An innovative, specifically designed, global, unprintable, unable to be manipulated, verifiable, instantaneous, digital monetary system will emerge, unchained from the grasp of bankers and governments, once and for all.
...and the world was fixed.
Fix the money, fix the world.
#Bitcoin
US Treasury announces first treasury buy back operation since 2002 👀
The US Treasury is launching its first buyback program since 2002, scheduled to start on May 29, 2024. The program is designed to improve liquidity in the Treasury market and is expected to run through July 2024. During this period, the Treasury plans to hold weekly liquidity support buybacks of up to $2 billion per operation, with up to $500 million allocated for TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities). This initiative aims to ensure the Treasury market remains the deepest and most liquid in the world, addressing concerns about market functioning and resilience.
IMO: This is a bank bailout.
Schedule is here->
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
Ossagrosse - @ossagrosse - is an Italian artist based in Berlin whose work spans still images and videos, often created in collaboration with artificial intelligence.
"Cake (bad)", in @halecar2's collection.
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
Digital art stored on blockchains is meaningful art. Art available on public blockchains is transcending physical boundaries: it is accessible for sale by any artist worldwide and to any buyer within minutes.
Digital art on blockchains is immune to counterfeiting.
It is constantly visible to the public, regardless of affordability.
Digital art on blockchains is the future or art and culture.
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
Gm
Tessellation series and $TAU token launch.
Free reserve for WL 150 spots for all collectors on ETH and ETH Base.
May 1 free mint for WL at 18:00 UTC.
May 2 public mint for 0.01 ETH Base.
Raffle and more info in my pinned tweet 🫡
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
Did you know that for over 17% of the world population #Bitcoin has already reached the new all time high #ATH in 2024?
Here are #21countries whose currencies have never been weaker against Bitcoin.
That represents 1.35b people and we are not even in the bull run yet! 🤯
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supermegafrenchcat retweeted
When I was asked by @halecar2 to curate 100 pieces of Omakase out of 1000 pieces, it was challenging. It's like being tasked to pick a favourite child, or trying to decide if the fish, rice, wasabi, or soy sauce is the most important in sushi. Omakase (which means 'chef's selection') is the quintessence of the entire collection, a taste of the vast stew that auntie culture represents. I selected them with intuition, much as I did with creating the art. Thank you collectors and all bidders and friends for appreciating and celebrating aunties with me, and for resonating with my perspective. 🫶🫶🫶
Special thanks to @batsoupyum @lotsofnfts kriak.eth, anon 0x0c6c, @dapppunk @buyonthedip for your bids on Aunties soaking in ramen. Big Congrats to @WAPSHOP_ETH for winning it, may your heart and stomach always be full and happy.
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
THE GREAT EMU WAR, my @StrangeHistoryX debut, collected by @MulletMeta
GM ⚔️
The Great Emu War was the greatest interspecies war of the 20th Century.
Coming to Strange History on Friday, October 6th ⚔️
By: @mind_wank 🔊
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
One for the bears. For only the third time in history, the following happened.
VIX up > 15%
Gold up > 3%
Crude Oil up > 5%
Dates:
9/17/08
9/17/01
10/13/23
supermegafrenchcat retweeted
Gn legends 💫
Thank you so much for the 2600 ❤️
Owned @MulletMeta





























