No, China doesn’t need to make a deal. They are a dictatorship for God’s sake and they will do what the fuck they want. Have you seen their reaction to Covid? China will not bend. Americans will be fucked without Chinese goods though. Good luck.

A lot of words and not much substance.

Remember, people can argue and come up with arguments for basically any point of view. This doesn’t mean that the arguments are valid.

Don’t let this socialistic view poison your mind.

Just use a password manager for things that are non-critical and a security key for critical systems and you’ll be fine

Hahaha

It is good to have manufacturing, but it is not good to have manufacturing jobs. Who would like to work a manufacturing job here, guys?

Yeah true

Gold is not reaching ATH. Dollar is weakening and gold is just holding. Fiat mindset.

It is quite a big news. Recession ahead.

Trade between countries should not be balanced in monetary terms. That is bullshit.

First, all trade is balanced because if you buy something from someone you value that thing more than the other person values it, and you both benefit.

Second, if some country makes a lot of bananas and you import those bananas and pay for them, you’re not worse off by having a trade deficit with that country.

The whole idea of trade deficit in surplus is just totally stupid.

We are beyond orange pilling. If you do not want Bitcoin do not buy it. Your problem.

Well hope this picks up before the block subsidy runs out…

Perpetual swaps.

Why has no one done this:

Or is this how taproot assets are going to work?

The network is extremely valuable but that doesn’t mean that overly focusing on building a network is efficient.

The U.S. Treasury prints the Federal Reserve notes, which are backed by the U.S. government.

Most state currencies are like that. That doesn’t make them “private”.

Using this logic, every government department is private.

It literally has United States printed all over it.

The demand for United States Dollar is high. The demand is met. Easy.

There is so much Bitcoin lost we can't even imagine. Bitcoin is going to be absolutely rare. People don't realize that.

There shouldn’t be exceptions

A criminal defendant shouldn't have to do anything that might incriminate him.

I don't know, maybe, it was called, I don't know... The right to remain silent?