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[Torque]

I was watching ZuTV and this Charlie Puth video came on in which he buys $100 worth of bitcoin and gets a thumbs up from the trainer.  The only reason I watched it long enough to see it was that I was trying to figure out if the "trainer" was Billy Banks from the Tae Bo craze.  (it is and he's still in pretty good shape - I'm thinking about taking up Tae Bo now)

Yes that is Billy Blanks of Tae Bo workout fame.

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[Torque]

BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tie-up.

After years of resisting, the world’s largest asset manager has finally taken the plunge into crypto in a substantial way. BlackRock, which oversees $10 trillion in assets, is partnering with publicly traded Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with access to cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin is the first digital asset being offered through the partnership, according to a blog post Coinbase, the most popular crypto exchange in the U.S., released on the matter today. BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management platform will offer connectivity to Coinbase Prime to offer crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage and reporting capabilities to shared clients.

“Common clients of Aladdin and Coinbase will be able to manage their bitcoin exposures alongside their public and private investments for a whole-portfolio view of risk,” BlackRock wrote in an announcement.

Holy goodness.  That either means we are the new rich elite, or that we are totally fucked.

I am leaning towards fucked, but...  (or should it read "but, fucked?")

At the behest of the Fed, Larry Fink and BlackRock have bailed out the entire world....twice now.

BlackRock buys MBS, zombie corp bonds, and other toxic non-performing assets from the Fed, and the Fed in turn buys BlackRock ETFs and pumps their stock.

And Larry Fink has a hard on for ESG. All of BlackRock's slave clients have to adhere to bullshit ESG policies in order to get loans. It's the #1 reason why "wokeness" has permeated every facet of our society now.

This deal stinks. I smell a bait and switch coming in the future.

[OutOfMemory]

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me, me, me..



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Earlier you mentioned that there might be ways to geolocate your location based on your pictures.  Do you still fear that sort of thing, or is it adequately sufficient to attempt to protect ur lil selfie by merely NOT disclosing the time that your photos were taken?.. presumptively the ban of your longitude might be easier to figure out than your latitude.. not that I am trying to break your opsec.. and if you want me to delete this post prior to anyone citing my profound insights, then please let me know if I have gone too far..  with my level of geniusness and giving hints to bad guys..  

Maybe we could give the solving of such problem over to fillippone since he seems to have a kind of knack for figuring out locations based on seemingly random pics provided by peeps (unless it is an inside job?) in these here parts?

The "Deep Sky" pictures aren't a problem. You'd need zillions of more megapixels to compute axis offsets and get rough geolocation results out of angular differencies when you shoot pictures of bright objects many lightyears apart, almost on the same axis of view. Superman isn't a member on this board, so the chances are quite zero.
What's more sensitive in terms od OpSec are wide angle pictures of the milky way or zodiac signs, including a horizon with some possible details.
One could calculate roughly when he knows the exact time of day and timezone, because elevation and direction, also angle of objects relative to the ground and horizon are given over the course of a year, even more so if solar planets are included in the pics. Basic astronomy knowledge wouldn't be enough, but if someone knows someone, you know, you can never know...

Next one?  

EDIT: Well, on second thought, if i would have set up the camera mounted exactly level on the viewing axis of the scope, one could guess geolocation roughly by the angling of the deep sky objects in the picture frame, if he knows which hemisphere i'm on. Just because one axis (polar) is fixed and doesn't need to be guessed/computed.

After capturing the North America Nebula, i pointed the scope to a random region high up in the sky, which was suggested in my astronomy software.
The bad thing is, there is a bug in the software: When you change target, all the images are named after the old target (NGC7000 in this case), so i have no idea which object i was recording.

EDIT: This is why the color balancing is not really good. If i knew the object code, i could correct colors automatically. I'm not really skilled at this.



I'm satisfied with the scope. Seems to be the perfect hobby for bear markets  

Beautiful pics and I hope they have an update soon.
Would love to have a scope like that to gaze at the stars  

Even if you had a telescope like OOM, knowing how to use it does not seem to be any kind of walk in the park.. that's for sure.

Yes, that was what i though when i bought my first telescope eight years ago, just to sell it again a few months later. You have to put in some good effort to get results that keep you going at it  

[Gachapin]

BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tie-up.

After years of resisting, the world’s largest asset manager has finally taken the plunge into crypto in a substantial way. BlackRock, which oversees $10 trillion in assets, is partnering with publicly traded Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with access to cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin is the first digital asset being offered through the partnership, according to a blog post Coinbase, the most popular crypto exchange in the U.S., released on the matter today. BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management platform will offer connectivity to Coinbase Prime to offer crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage and reporting capabilities to shared clients.

“Common clients of Aladdin and Coinbase will be able to manage their bitcoin exposures alongside their public and private investments for a whole-portfolio view of risk,” BlackRock wrote in an announcement.

Holy goodness.  That either means we are the new rich elite, or that we are totally fucked.

I am leaning towards fucked, but...  (or should it read "but, fucked?")

At the behest of the Fed, Larry Fink and BlackRock have bailed out the entire world....twice now.

BlackRock buys MBS, zombie corp bonds, and other toxic non-performing assets from the Fed, and the Fed in turn buys BlackRock ETFs and pumps their stock.

And Larry Fink has a hard on for ESG. All of BlackRock's slave clients have to adhere to bullshit ESG policies in order to get loans. It's the #1 reason why "wokeness" has permeated every facet of our society now.

This deal stinks. I smell a bait and switch coming in the future.

You mean they will suddenly "find out" that BTC causes gLObAL wARmiNg and crash the market using MSM propaganda?

[Torque]

BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tie-up.

After years of resisting, the world’s largest asset manager has finally taken the plunge into crypto in a substantial way. BlackRock, which oversees $10 trillion in assets, is partnering with publicly traded Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with access to cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin is the first digital asset being offered through the partnership, according to a blog post Coinbase, the most popular crypto exchange in the U.S., released on the matter today. BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management platform will offer connectivity to Coinbase Prime to offer crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage and reporting capabilities to shared clients.

“Common clients of Aladdin and Coinbase will be able to manage their bitcoin exposures alongside their public and private investments for a whole-portfolio view of risk,” BlackRock wrote in an announcement.

Holy goodness.  That either means we are the new rich elite, or that we are totally fucked.

I am leaning towards fucked, but...  (or should it read "but, fucked?")

At the behest of the Fed, Larry Fink and BlackRock have bailed out the entire world....twice now.

BlackRock buys MBS, zombie corp bonds, and other toxic non-performing assets from the Fed, and the Fed in turn buys BlackRock ETFs and pumps their stock.

And Larry Fink has a hard on for ESG. All of BlackRock's slave clients have to adhere to bullshit ESG policies in order to get loans. It's the #1 reason why "wokeness" has permeated every facet of our society now.

This deal stinks. I smell a bait and switch coming in the future.

You mean they will suddenly "find out" that BTC causes gLObAL wARmiNg and crash the market using MSM propaganda?

Most likely. And switch the narrative over to promoting "more sustainable, ESG-based crypto coins".  

The thing about future market rug pulls, is that the establishment always set them up way in advance before the next bull run. They always need a plausible "reason" at the ready to crash the market.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[Gachapin]

BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tie-up.

After years of resisting, the world’s largest asset manager has finally taken the plunge into crypto in a substantial way. BlackRock, which oversees $10 trillion in assets, is partnering with publicly traded Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with access to cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin is the first digital asset being offered through the partnership, according to a blog post Coinbase, the most popular crypto exchange in the U.S., released on the matter today. BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management platform will offer connectivity to Coinbase Prime to offer crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage and reporting capabilities to shared clients.

“Common clients of Aladdin and Coinbase will be able to manage their bitcoin exposures alongside their public and private investments for a whole-portfolio view of risk,” BlackRock wrote in an announcement.

Holy goodness.  That either means we are the new rich elite, or that we are totally fucked.

I am leaning towards fucked, but...  (or should it read "but, fucked?")

At the behest of the Fed, Larry Fink and BlackRock have bailed out the entire world....twice now.

BlackRock buys MBS, zombie corp bonds, and other toxic non-performing assets from the Fed, and the Fed in turn buys BlackRock ETFs and pumps their stock.

And Larry Fink has a hard on for ESG. All of BlackRock's slave clients have to adhere to bullshit ESG policies in order to get loans. It's the #1 reason why "wokeness" has permeated every facet of our society now.

This deal stinks. I smell a bait and switch coming in the future.

You mean they will suddenly "find out" that BTC causes gLObAL wARmiNg and crash the market using MSM propaganda?

Most likely. And switch the narrative over to promoting "more sustainable, ESG-based crypto coins".  

The thing about future market rug pulls, is that the establishment always set them up way in advance before the next bull run. They always need a plausible "reason" at the ready to crash the market.

Sounds quite possible.
Maybe the last "Musk's environmental concerns" crash was a pre-run

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[savetherainforest]

SNIP

Ah, You are that Nutildah? I saw a thread about you leaving Bitcointalk. A few months ago, you logged in again, and someone noticed. I heard you are very genius. But, My question is, Are you promoting Shitcoins? DogerMint? GoldenShibe? WTF?

Good sh!tcoins, that will remain 4ever, are good for/and will help BTCiTcoin grow and be more stable.      
It shouldn't bother you of people promoting limited supply coins that have some kind of proof of work.

If no one would take interest in paying attention to BTCiTcoin, but they pay to shibes or wtf because they like dogs or some nonsense like that. Then it is free publicity and advertisement, because eventually all the sh!tcoins go pegged against BTCiTcoin and the value of sh!tcoins is funneled, attached, pegged, distorted, merged with the value of BTCiTcoin and that created added value and stability.               

In my view, the less BTCiTcoin is traded against fiat currencies and more against sh!tcoins, then it forces those that want to have control over BTCiTcoin to want to have control over sh!tcoins as well. And so basically it forces them to also invest in sh!tcoins to try to reach 'dominance' or control so they can dump on BTCiTcoin after. But the problem is that sh!tcoins appear and grow like mushrooms when it "rains with money" from the FEDs and banksters or any other dumb billionaire that tries to think of a scheme.          


*edit(): So they basically need to keep throwing money at the screen into sh!tcoins to keep up with the Simpsons.    

[BobLawblaw]

BlackRock is partnering with Coinbase to increase the institutional adoption of bitcoin.
It is not often that you live through the birth and scaling of a new multi-trillion dollar asset class.
Apompliano

"Hurr durr let's turn Bitcorns into paper and fuck the whole thing up hurr durr"

[Torque]

I love how the MSM is talking about the latest U.S. job growth report as a bad thing.  

"We need job losses, not job gains, dammit!"

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[savetherainforest]

I was watching ZuTV and this Charlie Puth video came on in which he buys $100 worth of bitcoin and gets a thumbs up from the trainer.  The only reason I watched it long enough to see it was that I was trying to figure out if the "trainer" was Billy Banks from the Tae Bo craze.  (it is and he's still in pretty good shape - I'm thinking about taking up Tae Bo now)

This image is from about 2:02 in the video:


 Full video:
https://youtu.be/WFsAon_TWPQ

edit: okay, now I like the video - can't stop watching it.  Help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsc5IWkICE

 I can't believe it was possible to make it even better!

At least you are not watching it anymore!
Now you just have to listen to it in the background. But I remembered it from an older "Club Life with Tiesto episode" ... I didn't knew the original song from Tv. Because Tv is bad and we keep it just to watch Blue Ray movies from USB only.        

[cAPSLOCK]

BlackRock is partnering with Coinbase to increase the institutional adoption of bitcoin.
It is not often that you live through the birth and scaling of a new multi-trillion dollar asset class.
Apompliano

"Hurr durr let's turn Bitcorns into paper and fuck the whole thing up hurr durr"

This is totally true.  But there is this really weird game theory part that I wonder if they are not seeing.

What happens when they make all their paper fakecorn and then people who have interests counter to theirs decides only to transact on the base layer, or even transparent federated layers?

It could make the game stop thing look like the bunch of kids it was.

Tough part is on the way we have to live through the nonsense.

[Torque]

OT: Fucking lol

https://rumble.com/v1estvn-alex-jones-mic-drop.html

[NotATether]

BlackRock is partnering with Coinbase to increase the institutional adoption of bitcoin.
It is not often that you live through the birth and scaling of a new multi-trillion dollar asset class.
Apompliano

"Hurr durr let's turn Bitcorns into paper and fuck the whole thing up hurr durr"

This is totally true. But there is this really weird game theory part that I wonder if they are not seeing.

What happens when they make all their paper fakecorn and then people who have interests counter to theirs decides only to transact on the base layer, or even transparent federated layers?

It's not a zero-sum game if they're not playing their cards correctly, because then they're missing out on points

[Hamza2424]

Source

Enjoy dear WOs

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[modrobert]

BTC-e owner Alexander Vinnik extradited to the US.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/russian-bitcoin-extradited-us/index.html

Russian citizen running a Bitcoin exchange in Bulgaria, arrested while on vacation in Greece in 2017, then extradited to France, now extradited to USA.  

[CryptKeeper]

Not good: Coinbase hit with 2 fresh lawsuits amid SEC probe

In both cases, plaintiffs allege Coinbase made fraudulent and misleading statements about the company's business, operations and compliance efforts throughout the class period.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-hit-with-2-fresh-lawsuits-amid-sec-probe