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“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.

https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/

The US Democratic party has been abjectly failing in so many ways. This is such a sad and frustrating read on the failures with respect to cryptocurrency regulation: https://lpeproject.org/blog/inside-the-failure-to-regulate-stablecoins/

What was and still is at stake is the balance between technology and humanity struck by the US federal government. The same incoherence that led us to where we are with crypto is almost surely also at play with the apparent lack of movement around generative AI.


after murdering a bunch of couriers on some (alleged) drug boats trump now intends to pardon former president of Juan Orlando who, in between trafficking at least 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US because he wanted to “shove drugs right up the noses of the gringos”, was the guy who set up the network state city of with Peter etc. as a “special economic zone”.

> "The zone recently made legal tender and passed legislation facilitating the issuance of Bitcoin bonds. Próspera’s investors include Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen through Capital."

99% chance it’s the Network State/Nerd Reich guys (thiel, andreessen, etc.) up in trump’s ear telling him a cocaine kingpin with whom they founded a fake country deserves a pardon at the same time as they encourage him to …

@realDonald Trump If Tito Asfura wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras! Additionally, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

For the curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie . While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the core development team starting from around 2015 at (possibly until his death).

Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:

- Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", "", "", "", etc)

- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.

- Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.

- Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, …

table of "sent from my iPhone" style signatures used by epstein and friends
table of the most common email authors in the recent epstein files archive
[06/18/19 06:28:46 AM] Epstein: How dare you refer to your sweetheart by such a phrase. Shame on you , boy I've been having fun with this [06/18/19 06:29:18 AM] Epstein: If I were you. Id sign that dollar quickly. As the interest expense is getting very very high [06/18/19 06:30:37 AM] Epstein: All I need to say. Is " its so beautiful - he shares the same view of you " and Lucifer will look like mother Theresa [06/18/19 06:32:24 AM] Epstein: Do you think when she wakes up in the morning she looks a little like Donald [06/18/19 06:32:35 AM] Epstein: Sam jowls [06/18/19 06:32:39 AM] Epstein: Same [06/18/19 06:33:39 AM] __________________: Scary [06/18/19 06:33:47 AM] Bannon (?): Too much coke [06/18/19 06:37:46 AM] Epstein: Too much ugly [06/18/19 06:37:57 AM] Epstein: Miro ? [06/18/19 06:38:15 AM] Epstein: Im meeting council of Europe head thurs. to push [06/18/19 11:18:08 AM] Bannon (?): Working miro [06/18/19 12:22:42 PM] Bannon (?): Shanahan blown up by CCP [06/18/19 12:30:15 PM] Bannon (?): Did you watch Chernobyl yet??? [06/18/19 12:31:11 PM] Bannon (?): Have you read 'in the closet of the Vatican ' yet [06/18/19 12:32:48 PM] Epstein: Yes no yes [06/18/19 12:33:21 PM] Epstein: June 26 for chernobyl [06/18/19 12:39:54 PM] Bannon (?): Dude-- I thought u were global player-- sean will get to u [06/18/19 12:39:57 PM] Bannon (?): Today [06/18/19 12:40:50 PM] Bannon (?): You are now exec producer of 'ITCOTV' [06/18/19 12:41:20 PM] Epstein: Porn
Abbreviations Used Frequently In These Chats ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Abbreviation ┃ Translation ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ AD │ Abu Dhabi │ │ Barak │ Ehud Barak (Former Israeli prime minister) │ │ Barrack │ Tom Barrack │ │ BG │ Bill Gates │ │ Bill │ Bill Gates │ │ Brock │ Brock Pierce │ │ DB │ Deutsche Bank (maybe??) │ │ HBJ │ Hamad bin Jassim (Former Qatari prime minister) │ │ Jabor │ "an influential man in Qatar" │ │ Jagland │ Thorbjørn Jagland │ │ Jeffrey Wernick │ Right wing crypto bro │ │ Hoffenberg │ Steven Hoffenberg (Epstein's ponzi scheme partner) │ │ KSA │ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia │ │ Kwok │ Chinese criminal Miles Kwok AKA Miles Guo AKA Guo Wengui │ │ Mapp │ Kenneth E. Mapp (VI Governor) │ │ Masa │ Masayoshi Son (Softbank) │ │ MBS │ Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Saudi ruler) │ │ MBZ │ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Emirates sheikh) │ │ Jared │ Jared Kushner │ │ Miro │ Miroslav Lajčák │ │ Mooch │ Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci (Skybridge crypto bro) │ │ Terje │ Terje Rød-Larsen │ │ Woody │ Woody Allen │ │ Zug │ City in Switzerland (crypto hub)

Content warning Shitpost, crypto

is the future of !
"I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024.
Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-invented-the-future-of