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"Further cash will also be needed for carbon capture, an industry that the Government says could transform the North Sea’s emptied oil and gas reservoirs into storage tanks for carbon dioxide" - this is possibly the biggest heist performed on the British people, ever. Whoever thinks that the UK (the f*cking UK) can take CO2 from the air and the make slightest bit of difference on the overall natural CO2 cycle of the Planet is stupid beyond words. This government is actively sabotaging the future prosperity of this country based on lunatic ideology and virtue signaling in the extreme. Once it all collapses another Government will come cap in hand asking the industrialists and others that actually produce 'things', including energy to come back and try and prevent this downward spiral to 3rd world status. Failing that it'll be full blown Communism and 'quarantine camps' for those that post their displeasure with the government on Meta or X.

in response to the thread title? a massive con designed to subjugate the population by giving an excuse to roll out authoritarian measures like carbon credits , i.e. every purchase will have a co2 allocation based on what co2 is used to produce the item (including the purchase location itself if bought in person rather online - digital transactions all fully traceable) and you'll have a monthly allocation. once reached no more purchases for you that month. air travel will be a 'once every 5yrs luxury' and only the super rich will have there own car. don't worry though, you'll have everything you need (as dictated by the central planners) in your 15min city - some plebs still think this notion is.......... drum roll..........conspiracy theory! ask the folks in oxford about that. co2 is the gas of life and we're actually on the low side at 400ppm. with higher levels plants and crop yields will increase and lead to high abundance. 'net zero' is like the 'suicide note'. and how is this all being accurately measured and by what standards? china and india have already said poke it. it's an absolute joke that relies on people being ignorant and totally subservient to 'authority figures'. "ohhhhh, i dunno, trust the experts i say" and all that garbage. try explaining the ipcc e-mails leaks when they wanted to 'get rid of the medieval warming period' much higher temps than today and eyes glaze over. i'm done. the only thing i can't figure out just yet is why the uk is at the forefront of a totalitarian state. certainly starmer and his freakish bunch of ideologues are just the types to implement such a hideous societal structure. are the british stupid enough and weak enough to allow it? i hope not but right now i'm very much on the fence. we tend to suck up a lot and then something snaps and all hell breaks loose. if you value freedom & liberty hope for the latter. failing that i'm off to france as they don't take any **** there.

Oh the irony! Lamenting a lack of critical thinking and pointing to Brexit as prominent example! I'd be more inclined to point to the events of 2020, the attempted global coup that followed (with the usual massive upward transfer of wealth in all the 'confusion'), vast unrelenting swathes of illegal immigration in the West, a new form of Bolshevism called 'woke' (and all the degeneracy that brings) and the total f*ckwits cheering on WW3 but if it actually came to fighting they'd be the furthest possible distance from the battlefield citing mental health issues or some other bullsh*t. Oh, and since we're talking about Serica the Climate Change zealots that want to send humanity back to the pre-industrial age because CO2 is apparently our enemy! It becomes obvious that the society has to be dumbed down to permit the technocratic takeover.

Politics and envy are synonymous (admittedly getting worse), but beggar-thy-neighbour largely comes from local communities being destroyed courtesy of many of the issues I've already mentioned. This is a controlled demolition as world power moves from West to East. Those is power do what they're told and won't be found lacking as the rest of the Country goes down the swanny. I can't bear to listen to any politician speak these days as the lies they spout become more egregious by the day. I take consolation in the fact that reality will eventually bite and those of us that actually produce goods and services will become valued again, the most critical of which Energy.

Impeccable timing as always just as everything had pretty much turned bullish. What the US fails to realise is that it doesn't own BTC or the crypto ecosystem. If it's honestly going to tell it's own citizens (or anyone for that matter!) that they are not allowed to spend their money on digital assets then they are no better than China and will have revealed themselves as just another dictatorship. Unfortunately it spooks the market and causes all the greedy twats on long high leverages to get liquidated. Some people never learn. It still think the trend remains upwards and this is just another 'China bans mining', 'Elon concerned about energy use', 'criminals use BTC' FUD. Unfortunately it's come at a crucial juncture hence my timing quip.

One of the same authors critising BTC put out a paper extolling the virtues of ECB CBDCs! Coincidence? I think not. Some sort of big reset is coming. Some would say it's been in play since March 2020, so really its ongoing with various milestones. The legacy system is doomed under mountains of unsustainable debt. The Central Planners have cemented monopoly positions is every aspect of the economy and are now ready to push us into a 100% surveilled & controlled digital currency (CBDC) where your every transaction is monitored, has a carbon score, probably goes through an approval process, you're taxed in real time, and it will likely be tied to some sort of 'health pass'. In other words in this new system you'll be a digital prisoner with very little freedoms under the guise of saving the planet, saving lives, whatever fear porn they feel like peddling. Once you're exchanged from say, legacy GBP into CBDC GBP, you might not be allowed to buy Crypto, or it'll be heavily limited. In this dystopian nightmare that the great unwashed are sleepwalking into, black markets will spring up and I think the means to transact in those will be BTC, or possibly Monero. Remember there are DEX's (decentralised exchanges) for exchanging between cryptos. In my view now is the time to get your hands on what you feel is an appropriate amount of Crypto and get it into cold storage (Ledger, Trezor etc) prior to the big financial reset. If nothing else as a wider risk management strategy.

What an absolute joke. Yet many will just sigh and shrug their shoulders in abject apathy. Governments globally have spent 3yrs destroying the global economy (using widely discredited measures), used this an excuse to fabricate unheard of quantities of FIAT currency (just as the Repo market in the US was in severe trouble - Sept 2019), suddenly slammed on the brakes after finally admitting inflation wasn't transitory, and will now put the squeeze on everyone to pay for their Big Pharma-Military-Industrial complex boondoggles. Increased taxation will only confirm, and deepen, a wider recession. Some say depression.
And just consider CGT. You're already using taxed income to invest in xxxxxx. You make some profit, and the government want to extort more out of you, now over and above £6k for an entire year! Meanwhile most of these politicians and their corporate sponsors will be making use of offshore havens to hide much of their real wealth and not be subject to these same suffocating laws. We are being absolutely conned and the end game is UBI paid in CBDCs tied to your 'health' passport / digital ID all of which will be subject to strict carbon credits.

Interest rates cannot be sustained anywhere near 5% unless the Central Planners have decided its time to completely destroy the global economy. Which I will concede is now a very strong possibility (build back better, great reset etc). Speaking of central planners I see the WEF were in partnership with FTX, and that FTX was being used to funnel any crypto 'donations' to the Ukraine National Bank (which generated lots of fees I'm sure). FTX were also the second biggest donor the Democrats only second to Emperor Palpatine (aka Darth Soros). SBF's mum was a big player in creating super PAC funding campaigns for the Demonrats (Mind The Gap), and I've already mentioned his dad was Genslers boss at MIT, and apparently SBF's mum and dad are compliance lawyers to trade! I suppose they are the best people for exploiting the system. Much more to come on FTX. I feel we are getting a snapshot right into the dark underbelly of the beast. By trying to deliver a killer blow to Crypto they've exposed more than they'd probably like. Stinks of desperation which gives me hope.

There are criminals everywhere, if you want real criminality look no further than offshore tax havens. The more I look into Bankman-Fried and FTX the more this confirms my suspicions this was a well planned attempted insider takedown of Crypto. Like I said before, this guy comes out of nowhere and is bankrolled to the tune of Billions to start up FTX. The PR goes into overdrive and we still live (just) in the era of 'geek is cool' - fast diminishing I'd say. FTX cements a position and I think CZ at Binance was hoodwinked by this to some extent as he was also an early investor.
You then have Caroline Ellison (totally unqualified autist ******) as CEO of Alameda Research who for a period is SBF's girlfriend. She is the daughter of MIT Professor who was Gary Genslers boss at MIT before he was Chair of SEC. Apparently Gary had been working behind the scenes to try and get FTX a monopoly position, at least in the US. The same guy is still refuses to approve a BTC spot ETF in the US (that many said would have pushed BTC way beyond the previous $69k ATH). Alameda was apparently started up by (or in conjunction with MIT) where SBF and his cronies were basically stealing customer funds from FTX and funneling them in Alameda. Unreal! (but not really)
FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Exchange is apparently hacked immediately thereafter, draining it of it's remaining reserves, and FTX put out a statement not to visit their website and delete any apps due to malware - how convenient!
It's looking increasingly like SBF / FTX caused the Luna debacle earlier in the year, pretended to bail out some of the projects that fell as a result all the while taking positions to make money in the process (as they were causing the manipulation) all the while weakening the Crypto market in real time but also saving things up for a much worse crash down the line. This is not a movie, this is an entire series in the making!
What I want to know is was SBF identified as a useful idiot that could be used somewhat unwittingly to do this or was he a willing part of the orchestrated attack? Many are starting to think the latter given his family and political connections.
None of the above has anything to do with Bitcoin and the utility it provides. Once FULL transparency on Exchanges is enforced I see BTC coming out of this mess even stronger. There will be more BTC maxi's than ever. All the other projects might get some scraps. I have a feeling MSTR and Saylor will be fully vindicated in due course. True investors have long timeframes and don't worry about paper losses.

About $3.5k I think? If we get there this time round I'm going to assume the WEF have got their way and we're living in chemically lobotomised Technocratic hell or it's Mad Max time. The latter seems like much more fun to me.

The plot thickens on SBF, his family and their political and professional connections. I have a feeling this is the tip of the iceberg. There will be 'investigations' but that might be about it. Gary Gensler at the SEC will likely ensure they don't dig too deep, you know, the guy that pretends to support Crypto but to this day refuses to approve a BTC spot ETF.
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and we have a dump today based on the fact that FTX is going bankrupt. Who would have seen that coming given the previous 48hrs? Complete shocker. And based on this totally unpredictable news there was a ton of crypto dumped. This should all be priced in. Remember it's all the scammers that are ruining the space, BTC itself would be much better without all of them which is probably how it ends up in 5-10yrs. There is apparently a ton of BTC leaving exchanges (presumably for wallets) which is great news. Once full transparency is enforced BTC could rocket. From what I can see Binance are doing the right things and I think Coinbase is already 100% compliant with US regulators. These are the only exchanges I ever recommend to anyone.

Ha, no worries PI, it's a stupid alias that I'm stuck with! The central planners tell you what they're (trying) to do all along, it's just most folk are not tuned in to see it. Often understandably because we're too busy, or in the US holding down 2 or 3 jobs just to make ends meat. They then see our lack of pushback against the thing most of us didn't see as our agreement in _______, and away we go.
A decentralised means of exchange that cannot be created on a whim out of thin air is a major spanner in their works in my view. They wouldn't want a parallel economy that opts out of the captured and controlled CBDC / UBI paradigm where people are exchanging goods and services without Politburo oversight and approval. Remember BTC was birthed in response to the GFC in 2008, where I think the creator(s) knew where the FIAT money printing would go and probably had some ideas of the tyranny that could follow. What we do (or agree with) in the coming weeks and months I feel will have massive ramifications for decades. I know where I stand and it's not in some centrally planned neo-communist hellhole.

Wow, what a complete **** show. So let me get this straight, days before positive CPI data (that would have been known), and BTC having already broken to the upside (and confirmed the breakout) on a massive falling wedge, we get the revelation that FTX is bust, and was actually bust when it was 'bailing out' Celsius, Voyager and all the other leveraged crap in the space, essentially making a big problem far worse. Saving it up if you will for later deployment.
Sam Bank-man Fried, out of seemingly nowhere, becomes a crypto Billionaire and was bank-rolled to create one of the biggest exchanges in the space, FTX, that has apparently been run my a bunch of his old college mates out of some shared House of Orgy in the Bahamas, along with Alameda research apparently? Wait until you see a video of the CEO where she talks about stop-losses being a poor risk management strategy.
Fast forward to now, and although withdrawals have apparently been halted on FTX this does not apply to FTX employees based in the Bahamas - what luck! As such $$$$ continues to be withdrawn by FTX insiders while regular customers see the possibility of some form of compensation progressively diminished, i.e. zero.
Make no mistakes folks, this was an orchestrated event to yet again try and destroy the crypto space (this time from the inside as let's be frank, China banning mining for the 10th time and 'energy use' was losing its effect). Yes, many Useful Idiots have been part of the it, but you don't get into this type of situation by accident. Had it not been for this exquisitely timed event BTC would likely have taken out $25k, be consolidating right now, with $30k possibly by year end. Especially with many calling for a halt to interest rate hikes as debt everywhere is teetering on the point of oblivion (probably many defaults already happening) and its killing the economy. Further, USD strength is killing sovereign currencies everywhere and making their debt completely unaffordable. The whole house of cards is ready to fall any minute. Once it does the money printers will go into overdrive but withdrawals from your account might be 'temporarily' suspended. Until stability has resumed of course. By then BTC will probably be over $100k and Gold $5k. In fact you probably won't be able to take physical delivery of Gold and the BTC exchanges might charge a huge premium. Obviously this is just speculation on my part.
Unfortunately now BTC has to build from these levels which buys the central planners more time for their CBDCs, carbon credits, UBI etc. Cash is king only up to the point when Government suddenly determines how and when you are able to spend that cash, and remember bank notes are dirty and carry nasty little germs that make you very ill and big denomination notes are only used by criminals. You get the picture. As a wider risk management strategy my view still remains have assets outside the traditional system and BTC remains a must in my vi

AIG, you can indeed and I always appreciate it, especially when it's genuinely constructive but on these boards grammar, punctuation etc seem somewhat........optional. In that same vain I'm going to have to correct your use of "no" when in fact you should have used "not". Obviously not looking to belittle as that would be a tad, pedantic.
*new paragraph* Unless we see a seismic shift this is why I know we are completely ****ed, i.e. infighting and the spineless aversion to identifying root cause. I honestly couldn't a **** about myself and all the ******s round about me but I feel genuinely sorry for the kids. This is stinking **** show on an epic scale, and if you can't see it yet you soon will. Meantime maybe consider volunteering for the Ukraine militia armed with your newly rebranded Unicorn badge and rainbow coloured Dildo. I'm hearing today rest bite comes in the form of sunbathing on the Dnipro wearing Mankini's sipping Sex on the Beach. Sounds just fabulous. Another $40Bn in 'aid' anyone? **** it, lets round it up to $400Bn. What's 10x between money laundering friends? Meantime I'm applying for a job with Burisma. Apparently qualifications are unnecessary. My only real concern is eternal damnation so a bit of a risk/reward calculation yet to be carried out. Although I hear Tartarus is quite nice in Winter.

God level? Interesting concept. I have a feeling the supreme being would say this is all bull****. As humans we've been given the option of free choice and if you choose to elect dementia ridden potato heads and utterly corrupt scum as your 'leaders' you get precisely what is coming. There was (and still is) the ability to give the middle finger to this TOTALLY corrupt FIAT currency system but here we are, wondering how much USD, GBP, EUR ete we've 'lost' in 2022. Ultimately this FIAT system is ****ed and the 'you know who' want to transition us to centrally controlled digital currencies (aka CBDC's) as part of the overall technocratic water tight surveillance system. So we get wholesale destruction (under the completely manufactured guise of high inflation) in order to 'build back better' and you (the Prole) will be under tightly controlled carbon credits and all manner of centrally controlled bull**** for the 'greater good' - arguable the most sinister phrase in human history. Unless people wake up (and wake up fast) the short to medium term future is on levels of horrendous you can barely fathom (e.g. buy a ****ing greenhouse). So grow and set and start pushing back. If not for yourself for future generations that have no say on what is going on. A much brighter future depends on it.

Anti-establishment rhetoric, on a Bitcoin centered board. An asset that came into being specifically because it is anti-FIAT currency and hence anti-establishment. Go figure. I have nothing but sympathy for the people of Ukraine because yet again the Establishment (e.g. Government and probably certain lobbyists) has walked them into an totally unnecessary war, and war is only feasible in a FIAT currency system because it can't be financed any other way. Will people never learn? We get conned over and over again.

No, you mentioned the people of Ukraine, so I responded regarding what they could have done to help prevent this, i.e. don't allow the leadership to join NATO. Remain neutral. Don't pick a fight with your neighbour because someone else tells you to. This does not benefit Ukraine or Russia in any way.
Oil is used everywhere. The cost of everything goes up for everyone, on the back of already skyrocketing inflation globally. Get away from the MSM hyperbole and look at things objectively. This is yet another manufactured crisis that was entirely preventable.

Well the people of Ukraine should have ensured that their leadership did not pursue the insane goal of joining NATO. They don't need to like Russia but don't join a military alliance that continues to march East to the point of sitting on Russia's borders. What would the US do if say, Cuba, joined a military alliance with Russia? On wait, that was the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960's that almost started WW3. Ukraine is being used as puppet to destroy a trading partnership between Russia and Europe under the threat of joining NATO. Where is Brent Crude now? Triple digits for the first time in many years and only going higher. Who takes the hit? All consumers. Absolute shambles. BTC will do just fine as people continue to lose faith in governments worldwide. There was no need for any of this.

Not sure about anyone else but I'm somewhat relieved that we finally have some clarity. This 'will they / won't they' invade was getting very tedious. Ukraine joining NATO was always the line in the sand for Russia. The West and Ukraine kept pushing it so here we are. Why? In my view to de-rail Nord Stream 2 and destroy a trading relationship between Russia and German (by extension Europe). Sad state of affairs but that's the human race. Always having our strings pulled to benefit a few at the top. We're being transitioned at lightning speed from COVID to War. The next few days will be volatile but much of this was already priced in. We're sitting above $35k right now when the Bears have been calling for $30k since December. Sit tight, everything will bounce back when the dust settles.

I agree, BTC has held up remarkably well in amongst all the FUD and negative sentiment. The Tech stocks have basically given back all their 2020 and 2021 gains while BTC seems to have found support at $38k. We must be due a leg up after all that recent sell pressure.

What about the 23k shares bought at this price just over 1hr ago? The definition of a Ponzi scheme would be better applied to the FIAT currency system where there is no limit on the amount of tokens that can be created and it requires ever-increasing numbers of victims coming in at the bottom (the next generation) to service the ever increasing level of debt that comes with said FIAT token creation......at 'interest' on a compounding basis making matters exponentially worse. BTC helps expose the con and gives you somewhere outside the corrupt system to park your dosh while investing in a new digital ecosystem. More importantly though, is Ludacris not a rap star?