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"It's become effectively illegal to better yourself in Britain." Think the future of the UK is just about arguing over tax rates? The truth is much worse. We’ve stopped building, we’ve buried growth in millions of pounds of paperwork, and we’ve flatlined productivity since 2008. Gary Stevenson and the media want to referee a knife fight over a shrinking pie. Take every yacht because it changes nothing. The average person is missing out on thousands of pounds a year because the state won't let anyone create wealth anymore. We are on a fast track to extreme poverty if everything has to be a gift from the state. It’s time to stop fighting over crumbs and start making things again.

Weekend !!! #bitcoin life is the only life!

₿ Didi Taihuttu ₿ ALLIN💥 @Diditaihuttu

4 weeks ago

People call it luck. In 2017, I sold my house for 100 Bitcoin. Since then, Bitcoin has crashed more times than I can count. The difference wasn't luck. The difference was not selling. #Bitcoin #HODL #TheBitcoinFamily

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Capital gains taxes make no sense & shouldn't exist I invest my capital. I create the opportunity. I take the risk. I do the work. I take the chances. I accept the losses if things go wrong So why should the government collect a slice when things go right? They didn’t take the risk. They didn’t build the business. They just take

@RupertLowe10 Britons: when do you realise your government hates you for being White and wants you in jail if you complain?

When I gave this speech in October 2022, Bitcoin traded near $20,000, Strategy held 130,000 BTC worth about $2.6 billion, and $MSTR was ~$24 split-adjusted. Weeks later, after Bitcoin fell below $16,000, our debt exceeded the combined value of our BTC and cash reserves by ~$300 million, and $MSTR fell into the $13 range by year-end. We stayed focused, strengthened the company, and executed our strategy. Since then, Strategy has raised over $60 billion of additional capital and invested it in Bitcoin, adding more than 716,000 BTC. Today, our BTC and USD reserves exceed debt by ~$48 billion. Thank you to everyone who believed, endured, and took the long view.

@BurnA951 @mattkratter @MasterTheGame @Jason @PeterSchiff Agreed. Well articulated👍

@valerijatrades1 "Sailor" !!

Jfc, why is $STRC crashing still. Especially with $BTC up, cash reserves at Strategy growing $100M/wk, bi-monthly dividends now in place, and $SATA trading really well. I think someone (or a group) is shorting. We'll call them "Jane Soros" (JS). We won't know for sure until the short interest report comes out around the end of the month, and even then, we may not fully know if (a) the short is closed intra-period and (b) the short used derivatives. $STRC is an especially attractive stock to short, because it has a soft-peg of $100, but that only exists in the minds of the roughly $8B in retail capital holding it. There's no formal mechanism to push the price to $100. Increased dividends help, but it's not a forcing function, the market still needs to bid. Shorts make all of their money when they convince the other side of the market to capitulate. When shorts push the price down, every order that they fill against is a share that they will need to buyback later, likely at a higher price. So, the only way they make money is if they convince the other side to capitulate at the bottom, giving the short the exit liquidity they need to cover (buyback the shares). This is why shorts have a field day in crypto in general, because it's heavily retail dominated and easy to move emotions around (or stop hunt or liquidate). The situation is especially bad with STRC though, because there's the expectation that it'll trade mostly at $100, so even a 5% deviation from that appears catastrophic to the narrative and can cause people to capitulate. Additionally, there are multiple crypto projects, including @apyx_fi , that are built on top, which could create a cascade of selling if people start to bail there. STRC is also the perfect instrument to short because (a) the cost to short is effectively zero if timed correctly and (b) the Strategy ATM provides a cap on losses. So, let's take a look at the JS strategy here: 1. Start to build the short position immediately after ex-dividend on May 15 - an especially good ex-dividend because it occurred on a Friday with lower liquidity, so easier to start to push the price. This would be a slow build though, not a huge short immediately. 2. Continue building the short position over the following weeks - the outright cost to borrow STRC is about 60bps (0.6%). 3. BTC rolling over creates the catalyst/fear condition to really push this, accelerate the selling. 4. Continue selling until June 5, and then start to cover into the close (we saw the June 5 close bounce). Cover more on June 8 as ex-dividend approaches. 5. After the bi-monthly vote passes and ex-dividend approaching doesn't seem to be completely resolving the price back to $100, reaccelerate the selling. 6. Make a risk/return calculation that continuing to short through ex-dividend and paying the ~1% is worth the potential profits of pushing the price down to $90 and covering there as more retail capitulates. 7. Cover before the end of the month when Strategy likely announces a dividend increase and employs additional tools to help push the price back to $100. This risk is always capped at average_short_price - $100, because everyone knows that $100 is the ceiling. With normal shorts, losses could be infinite, so shorting is a very risky game, but that is not the case here. So, if average short price is say $97, and JS can cover at $90, then JS could make $7 on $3 of risk. >100% risk/reward on a 2-4 wk trade. Not too shabby. $SATA is much more insulated from this because (a) the daily dividends make it MUCH more expensive to short, because JS would have to pay the dividends as part of the cost to short every day instead of closing out the position intra-dividend-period. SATA is also much more expensive to short outright, currently 460 bps (4.6%) instead of the 60 bps for STRC. So, the daily short cost for SATA is 1760 bps (17.6%) annualized while the daily short cost for STRC is 60 bps annualized. So, how does Strategy fix this situation? First, move to daily dividends - this meaningfully increases the cost to short. Second, raise the dividend to increase the cost to short. Third, continue rebuilding the cash buffer to shore up confidence and bring retail demand back. Fourth, consider announcing a change in ATM strategy to allow the price to go above $100 - this meaningfully changes the risk calculus for the shorts. The ultimate goal is to create a product that is maximally difficult to manipulate by the shorts. I have full faith that @saylor and team can resolve this situation in time. I am also certain they are keenly aware of these dynamics. So, if you're holding STRC, just have a little patience. Collect the dividends, scoop a little more if you want, and go touch grass. Panic selling is what the shorts want you to do, because that's their only way out.

I'm imagining the bears who think that Bitcoin is so weak that if you buy 4% of it and talk a lot, you can destroy the whole network. It's not even a person, but a group. Bought 4%. Like, somehow the key weakness of Bitcoin is that if someone buys 4% of it, everything fails.

"Bitcoin isn't backed by anything." Let me stop you right there. Bitcoin is backed by energy. Real energy. Kilowatts. Heat. Physics. The kind of backing you can't print, fake, or vote into existence at an emergency Fed meeting. Every block mined is a thermodynamic proof of work. Not a promise. Not a policy. Proof. The issuance schedule has never been amended by a committee. Not once. Not ever. Because there is no committee. There's just math. Cold, indifferent, and immune to political theater. The network is secured by more raw computing power than anything humanity has ever built. Hundreds of exahashes per second standing guard. Every single day. Now let's talk about what is backed by nothing. The dollar. It's is backed by confidence. Specifically, confidence in the institution that printed $6 trillion in two years while telling you 3% inflation was healthy and you should be grateful for the soft landing. In the same people who can't pass an audit. Who fund wars with a credit card. Who promise solvency while sitting on $39 trillion in debt and accelerating. "Backed by nothing" isn't an attack on Bitcoin. It's a confession about the dollar. Follow if you're serious about building wealth they can't print away.

Capital markets are funding the AI buildout at historic scale: ~$400B over 6 months. Bitcoin ETFs have seen ~$4B of outflows since May 14, pressuring $BTC. This is a capital rotation, not a Bitcoin impairment. Volatility creates opportunity.

PLEASE RE-POST! Dear Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct - the @HantsPolice officer is clearly breaking the excessive force law here. If the man died, the officer would be prosecuted for murder. What action do you propose to take TODAY? @elonmusk

Paul Weston @PWestoff

a month ago

Wicked @HantsPolice thug knees a defenceless man repeatedly in the head. Such a brutal action can easily kill a human being and should be viewed as attempted murder. The assaulted man was protesting the police assisted murder of Henry Nowak. Dark times.

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Final week to vote for twice-monthly dividends. If you haven’t voted, please do so now. We believe this upgrade helps make Digital Credit better for $BTC, $MSTR, and $STRC. Please share with other holders. We need your support. strategy.com/strc/vote

Henry Nowak was murdered 6 months ago. The father and brother of the murderer, Vickrum Digwa, failed to tell the police Henry had been stabbed. This makes them accessories to murder. @HantsPolice and the Crown Prosecution Service @CPSUK have yet to charge them.

Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer. Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.

“I CAN’T BREATHE” Hampshire Police has issued a public apology: "We apologize that Henry was handcuffed and arrested at the moment he was losing consciousness. “We were lied to by the perpetrator” Sorry doesn’t cut it. Sorry isn’t good enough. Still, neither the court nor the police have yet released the camera footage. The Indian killer; Vickrum Digwa, called the police instead of an ambulance & lied, saying that it was Henry who attacked him, that he was drunk, insulted him with racist remarks & knocked off his turban. Hampshire Police arrived (three female officers) & immediately handcuffed Henry, even though he was lying in a pool of blood with stab wounds to his chest and legs. Henry repeatedly said: "I’ve been stabbed, I can’t breathe". On the body camera footage, an officer’s voice is heard: "I don’t think you have, mate". The officer who handcuffed Henry laughed when he said he’d been stabbed. Then they dragged him across the gravel and kept him restrained as he bled out. Only when he lost consciousness did the officers remove the handcuffs & begin resuscitation. Henry died at the scene. This is a result of systemic racial discrimination against White people, two tier policing & a completely broken Police & justice system. The Police instantly took the word of a foreign killer over a native White victim due to his race. Henry never stood a chance. None of us do in the West where White people are treated as 2nd class citizens & have less rights & legal protections than EVERY other race of people in our own homelands.

Chief Constable Alexis Boon Deputy Chief Constable Sam de Reya You are complicit in the murder of Henry Nowak RELEASE THE BODY CAM FOOTAGE AND AUDIO @HantsPolice

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I posted this during the week but I'm doing it again because it's absolutely staggering. @AngelaRayner can claim £40,000 in direct office expenses and a further £240,000 for "staff costs" etc. She's also been gifted another quarter of a million quid from "supporters" to cover even more "office expenses". In total it comes to over £500,000 per year. Or £10,000 PER WEEK. FOR OFFICE EXPENSES. A UK pensioner is expected to survive on just £12,500 PER YEAR. That's just 9 days worth of Angela Rayners "office expenses". Are you OK with that?

Reform's 'shadow chancellor' Jenrick just leaked private messages from our spokeswoman for the safety of women and girls. In that, @orlaminihane pushed Reform for a policy on women's safety - it never came. Jenrick maliciously leaked those messages. This is filthy politics.