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RT @Cobratate: 10,000 retweets and I will tell the truth of what happens inside this jail.
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The attack is never going to stop until all Coldcard generated addresses (Mk3, Mk4 and Q) have been completely drained. A sophisticated hacker (e.g., North Korea) will eventually compute the entire theoretical 2^72 address space. This computation only needs to be done once. Once it's done, every possible address will be known. Once every possible address is known, it's simple to scan the blockchain for matching addresses. Then sweep those addresses. The hack will be 100.000% effective.
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STRC is inherently stable, meaning it naturally returns to its desired state after a disturbance. Many other financial products (e.g., deposits in a bank) are inherently unstable, meaning that external actions (e.g., FDIC insurance; bailouts) are required to return them to their desired state after a disturbance (bank run).
$STRC has a self-repairing mechanism that most people don’t really understand. 🛠️ Below par, Strategy stops issuing new shares via ATM. No new capital is raised at a discount, and no new perpetual dividend obligations are added to the balance sheet. This is the case at both $99.99 or $90. The self-repairing mechanism then activates automatically - the farther below par, the more powerful it becomes. Here’s how it works 👇 1⃣ Effective yield increases (higher % return on the same cash dividend). The 11.5% dividend is not paid on the market price of STRC. The dividend is paid on the par value of $100. Think of each unit of STRC as $100 but you can buy it for less sometimes, depending on market conditions. If you buy one share of STRC for $90, the effective yield is 12.78%. 2⃣ Pull-to-par capital gain incentives activate. Strong buy pressure emerges from investors who want the combination of elevated effective yield + capital gains as price moves back toward $100. The higher effective yield feeds the pull-to-par dynamic, which is further supported by the Bitcoin balance sheet continuing to strengthen. Buyers at a discount capture the recovery to par as capital gains. The system self-corrects without anyone having to “defend” a peg (and again for the people in the back, there is no peg because it's not a stablecoin). STRC and similar instruments (such as SATA) rely on free-market incentives and long-term Bitcoin growth to restore equilibrium. If liquidation events (like we saw last week) push STRC below par, it simply trades below par. STRC below par does not negatively affect the dividends; it only affects short-term capital that wants to exit immediately. If STRC required active defense, that would actually be a weakness. Structures that cannot bend under stress will break. Now let's run some numbers to get an idea of the actual incentives for the market. As STRC is a perpetual, we'll go with a one-year time frame for recovery to par. And let's use the $90 IPO price. Effective yield (what you actually earn in dividends relative to your $90 cost): 11.50/90 = 12.78% Pull-to-par capital gain: (100-90)/90 = 11.11% Total return on your $90 investment: (11.5 + 10)/90 = 23.89% *Note this is a simple sum approximation. As dividends are paid semi-monthly throughout the year, the actual realized return is slightly higher if you factor in the timing of cash flows. So this ~24% one-year total return profile (yield + cap gains) is exactly what makes buying below par attractive for total-return investors. It turns a temporary discount into a high single-year payoff (or shorter) while the self-repairing mechanism does its work. To reiterate what I said previously, there's nothing for @saylor and @Strategy to do here. No need to raise the coupon, no need to increase the cash buffer, or anything else. They could do those things of course, but it’s not a necessity. STRC is working perfectly as designed.
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Replying to @DataRepublican
Jesus would never support welfare. The forcible taking of property from one person to give to another.
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Not procreating is the most selfish act imaginable - you consume the lives of your descendants to benefit yourself.
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The third world is not a place, it is a group of people. It exists wherever those people go.
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Replying to @DramaAlert
It’s called an omen
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The USA has already defaulted twice and our credibility didn't collapse. FDR defaulted (when he revalued the dollar versus gold) and Nixon defaulted (when he eliminated gold convertibility). Some win and some lose in those events. This default will be no different.
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Replying to @Cernovich
The USA has already defaulted twice and the world didn't end. FDR defaulted (when he revalued the dollar versus gold) and Nixon defaulted (when he eliminated gold convertibility). Some win and some lose in those events. This default will be no different.
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Replying to @mitchellaskew
Proof of reserves is a moronic idea. It creates a target for every evil government on the planet to shoot at. What if Russia posted proof of reserves? What would the USA do? Declare those coins "invalid" or "unspendable" in the US.
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Replying to @blockchainchick
New investors paying out old investors is not a ponzi. Instead, that's how every secondary market works. Whenever you buy a stock on the NYSE, you are paying out an old investor. A ponzi is when that transaction (new investor money) is fraudulently marketed profit from an underlying business, rather than being disclosed for what it is (new investor money). Saylor is not lying to anyone. He's just facilitating investor rotation, exactly like the NYSE does.
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BTC proof of reserves is a horrible idea. "Your honor, the defendant admitted that these are his coins. Please issue an injunction declaring those coins permanently tainted, and ordering anyone who ever accepts them to immediately pay them to the govt."
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Replying to @DavidBCollum
This is the stable coin play: (1) foreigner buys USD stable coin using local currency; (2) stable coin issuer converts currency to USD and uses USD to buy US Treasury Bonds (and other assets, but mostly USTs); (3) stable coin never goes away, because foreigner trades stable coin with other foreigners, creating a circulating market of stable coins in the foreign country. It's basically a mechanism to allow the US Govt to sell treasury bonds in micro transactions to foreign citizens. From the perspective of the foreign citizen, USD is vastly superior to whatever local currency they otherwise use. Everybody wins, except the foreign govt, as the local currency loses market share to the USD.
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Replying to @ericweinstein
Economics as an academic field is fundamentally broken.
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Bitcoin and socialism are entirely opposed ideas. Bitcoin is the only asset ever invented that can be truly owned by an individual and is immune to confiscation. Socialism seeks to vest ownership of everything in the state.
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Replying to @maxkeiser
Intrinsic value implies physical utility. Physical utility leads to technological improvement in that utility. Technological improvement leads to abundance of supply. The exact opposite of what you want in money.
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Replying to @Mandrik
Make CoinJoin Great Again!!!!
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What happened to the audit of US govt owned BTC?
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What happened to the audit of Ft. Knox?
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