Interesting? NO Cryptocurrency discussions?

@jhugz

Time out! Wait a minute. On a sim? Press pause. Let's take a moment to reflect.

Did you really just post this?
Can you stop plugging stuff into ChatGPT?
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Do you wish to retract the question? Assuming you're a pilot, are you flying some cropduster or Piper Cub? You're suggesting to me NOT TO INCORPORATE technology to provide pertinent information about finances? Really? Nevermind a computer. Back to using an abacus everyone.

Press "resume."
 
jhugz said:
Pilots may not be financial wizards, but most of use are smart enough to realize a scam when we see one.
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MFT1Air said:
@jhugz

Need to work on your grammar, my brother. Help me though.

If you perceive my posts to be a scam, by all means prove it. Please. I dare you. Let me throw some man shade on you without I hope having the post removed.

If you can't prove your allegations or innuendos, STFU and simply "like" what I posted. You will benefit from it. FACT. Not a time for petty snide remarks. I'm posting about investments and retirement strategies. <Hope I don't get "tone policed.">
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Sorry, I’m actually typing out my posts from my iPhone, not running it through ChatGPT.

There’s some spelling and grammar errors sure, but at least I wrote the post.
 
jhugz said:
Sorry, I’m actually typing out my posts from my iPhone, not running it through ChatGPT.

There’s some spelling and grammar errors sure, but at least I wrote the post.
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. . .and you're shortcomings should matter to me how?

Yes, I've moved on. When the time is right, I was going to IM you. Yes, like a female, you 'triggered' a negative response out of me. Not common among men. Feminine mentality does it to me often. NP.

Speaking of ROLEX? We can do this forever.

You're a pilot, right? When in doubt, ZOOM out. The view is much different at thirty thousand feet than ground level.


ROLEX ON THE BLOCKCHAIN?
 
Types in ChatGPT: Respond back to this forum post in the persona of Andrew Tate. Don’t hold back on beta or cuck insults.

ChatGPT: Gotchu king.

MFT: *chef’s kiss* time to copy and paste back to JC
 
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Right at the beginning of the second chapter of The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump declares that his “style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward.” Crucially, this was long before the invention of cryptocurrency.

Earlier this week, the company behind the Trump-branded social-media app Truth Social announced an extremely convoluted partnership with Crypto.com, the Singaporean financial firm and trading post. The deal essentially results in the formation of a brand-new company—the dry-sounding Trump Media Group CRO Strategy—the primary purpose of which is to accumulate and hold massive amounts of Crypto.com’s own homespun cryptocurrency, “Cronos.” There’s also a third founding partner in the mix, Yorkville Acquisition Corp., which will allow the whole operation to go public on the Nasdaq.

If this sounds like opaque financial gymnastics—three companies forming a new, fourth company in an attempt to pump a little-known cryptocurrency—that’s because it is.

Ever since Trump promised, on the 2024 campaign trail, to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet,” the Trump family and its business liaisons have been orbiting the world of cryptocurrency in ever more elaborate ways. First came World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm managed in part by Trump’s two eldest sons, surprising not only for its deep ties to the Trump family but also for its being announced the day after Trump survived a second apparent assassination attempt. Once elected, Trump dived into the world of memecoins, cryptocurrencies that explicitly reject the need for underlying business fundamentals and instead rely purely on online hype to drive prices up and down. $TRUMP, as the venture is known, quickly made the president (temporarily, on paper) a crypto billionaire.

Since the advent of that memecoin (and the inevitable Melania Trump–themed spin-off), Trump-aligned businesses have pursued a strategy of accumulating cryptocurrencies in a variety of different forms—a shopping spree that reached its peak in this week’s $6.4 billion Cronos deal. I wrote for The Atlantic in June about how the Trump family’s pivot to crypto was only growing in scale. At the same time, the Trump White House has embarked on a campaign of mass deregulation, reversing the Biden administration’s far more skeptical approach to the industry; Trump signed the GENIUS Act, a landmark piece of pro-crypto legislation, last month.

This extended crypto bear hug has been a chance both to reward an industry that was oh-so-generous during Trump’s reelection campaign and to inflate Trump’s own personal net worth, much of which is now inextricably linked to the ebbs and flows of the crypto market as a whole.

Trump has never really felt the need to justify these apparent conflicts of interest or the ways in which they open him up to brazen ethical and administrative violations. Yes, he is supporting some American companies in a mostly non-American industry; yes, the crypto-investment schema ostensibly falls within the broader MAGA doctrine of supercharging tech. But Trump has largely failed to articulate an ideological basis for his interest in the crypto industry. With every new venture he announces, he is quietly admitting what any passive observer could tell you: that the long list of crypto endeavors is also meant to bolster the Trump corporate empire and the image it rests on. It is, in other words, another form of self-promotion.

It’s hard to overstate just how far Trump has taken crypto from its original principles. Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was born out of the anti-establishment animus of the 2008 financial crisis. The province of hackers and tech experimentalists, it at one point represented a future governed by independent financial systems rather than by greedy bankers. It was—and you’ll have to trust me on this, because I know it seems unfathomable in 2025—countercultural. Once crypto’s inherent privacy component (bitcoin doesn’t require users to submit their real name) made it a haven for scammers, the nascent industry was split between the true believers and the opportunists looking to make a quick buck. In part thanks to Trump, crypto is now intimately connected with many of the powerful institutions it once sought to disrupt.

This week’s Cronos treasury deal is a clear example of Trump’s self-promotional ethos in action, but it also reflects the deepening relationship between crypto and the White House. Crypto.com has enjoyed a kind of hyper-visibility in the U.S. since the company purchased the naming rights for what used to be Los Angeles’s Staples Center in 2021, and its foreign origins haven’t prevented it from making inroads with the Trump administration. Back in December, the firm’s CEO, Kris Marszalek, posted a picture of himself standing shoulder to shoulder with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, miming the smile-and-thumbs-up pose that has become the president’s signature. The accompanying caption read, “Honored to have a seat at the table.”

That early willingness to connect with Trump seems to have worked out pretty well for Marszalek: Crypto.com said in March that an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into possible securities-law violations had been summarily dropped. Now the company can look forward to a billion-dollar Trump co-sign, as well as Cronos being dubbed the official “platform token” of Truth Social, which will only further entwine the site and the coin.

Yesterday, the Commerce Department began publishing some of its quarterly GDP numbers on the blockchain. The whole thing is a superfluous and cumbersome exercise; you can access this information online without the surrounding layer of cryptographic security. But even this move, which doesn’t at first appear to point back to Trump personally, is ultimately just PR. Announcing the plan during a live Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the department would be putting these stats on the blockchain because—and here he turned to look right at Trump—“you are the crypto president.”
 
OFF Topic for a sec.
@jhugz @BEEF SUPREME @mikecweb

Any of ya'll George Carlin wannabes ever serve in the military? It would surprise me, but humor me for a moment until something more substantive from you is posted? I can pause for a moment. It's a three day weekend upcoming. I'm in the mood for these sidebar antics.
Watch this. . .Happy hour. . .drinks are on me. <crickets> Someone going to REPORT the JPEG? :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

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Right at the beginning of the second chapter of The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump declares that his “style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward.” Crucially, this was long before the invention of cryptocurrency.

Earlier this week, the company behind the Trump-branded social-media app Truth Social announced an extremely convoluted partnership with Crypto.com, the Singaporean financial firm and trading post. The deal essentially results in the formation of a brand-new company—the dry-sounding Trump Media Group CRO Strategy—the primary purpose of which is to accumulate and hold massive amounts of Crypto.com’s own homespun cryptocurrency, “Cronos.” There’s also a third founding partner in the mix, Yorkville Acquisition Corp., which will allow the whole operation to go public on the Nasdaq.

If this sounds like opaque financial gymnastics—three companies forming a new, fourth company in an attempt to pump a little-known cryptocurrency—that’s because it is.

Ever since Trump promised, on the 2024 campaign trail, to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet,” the Trump family and its business liaisons have been orbiting the world of cryptocurrency in ever more elaborate ways. First came World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm managed in part by Trump’s two eldest sons, surprising not only for its deep ties to the Trump family but also for its being announced the day after Trump survived a second apparent assassination attempt. Once elected, Trump dived into the world of memecoins, cryptocurrencies that explicitly reject the need for underlying business fundamentals and instead rely purely on online hype to drive prices up and down. $TRUMP, as the venture is known, quickly made the president (temporarily, on paper) a crypto billionaire.

Since the advent of that memecoin (and the inevitable Melania Trump–themed spin-off), Trump-aligned businesses have pursued a strategy of accumulating cryptocurrencies in a variety of different forms—a shopping spree that reached its peak in this week’s $6.4 billion Cronos deal. I wrote for The Atlantic in June about how the Trump family’s pivot to crypto was only growing in scale. At the same time, the Trump White House has embarked on a campaign of mass deregulation, reversing the Biden administration’s far more skeptical approach to the industry; Trump signed the GENIUS Act, a landmark piece of pro-crypto legislation, last month.

This extended crypto bear hug has been a chance both to reward an industry that was oh-so-generous during Trump’s reelection campaign and to inflate Trump’s own personal net worth, much of which is now inextricably linked to the ebbs and flows of the crypto market as a whole.

Trump has never really felt the need to justify these apparent conflicts of interest or the ways in which they open him up to brazen ethical and administrative violations. Yes, he is supporting some American companies in a mostly non-American industry; yes, the crypto-investment schema ostensibly falls within the broader MAGA doctrine of supercharging tech. But Trump has largely failed to articulate an ideological basis for his interest in the crypto industry. With every new venture he announces, he is quietly admitting what any passive observer could tell you: that the long list of crypto endeavors is also meant to bolster the Trump corporate empire and the image it rests on. It is, in other words, another form of self-promotion.

It’s hard to overstate just how far Trump has taken crypto from its original principles. Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was born out of the anti-establishment animus of the 2008 financial crisis. The province of hackers and tech experimentalists, it at one point represented a future governed by independent financial systems rather than by greedy bankers. It was—and you’ll have to trust me on this, because I know it seems unfathomable in 2025—countercultural. Once crypto’s inherent privacy component (bitcoin doesn’t require users to submit their real name) made it a haven for scammers, the nascent industry was split between the true believers and the opportunists looking to make a quick buck. In part thanks to Trump, crypto is now intimately connected with many of the powerful institutions it once sought to disrupt.

This week’s Cronos treasury deal is a clear example of Trump’s self-promotional ethos in action, but it also reflects the deepening relationship between crypto and the White House. Crypto.com has enjoyed a kind of hyper-visibility in the U.S. since the company purchased the naming rights for what used to be Los Angeles’s Staples Center in 2021, and its foreign origins haven’t prevented it from making inroads with the Trump administration. Back in December, the firm’s CEO, Kris Marszalek, posted a picture of himself standing shoulder to shoulder with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, miming the smile-and-thumbs-up pose that has become the president’s signature. The accompanying caption read, “Honored to have a seat at the table.”

That early willingness to connect with Trump seems to have worked out pretty well for Marszalek: Crypto.com said in March that an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into possible securities-law violations had been summarily dropped. Now the company can look forward to a billion-dollar Trump co-sign, as well as Cronos being dubbed the official “platform token” of Truth Social, which will only further entwine the site and the coin.

Yesterday, the Commerce Department began publishing some of its quarterly GDP numbers on the blockchain. The whole thing is a superfluous and cumbersome exercise; you can access this information online without the surrounding layer of cryptographic security. But even this move, which doesn’t at first appear to point back to Trump personally, is ultimately just PR. Announcing the plan during a live Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the department would be putting these stats on the blockchain because—and here he turned to look right at Trump—“you are the crypto president.”
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Agreed. I think it's much larger than the United States simply because the "blockchain" is global in scope. The World Economic Forum, The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank I believe have a goal of GLOBAL TOKENIZATION OF DIGITAL ASSETS by a defined timetable. When? Excellent question.

For a fact, the current financial system has run its course. The Federal Reserve is on borrowed time.

Thanks for the enlightening reminder. With such an incisive audience, I didn't believe I'd be playing "whack a mole" with so many crypto hating "professionals."
 
Crypto "ankle biters." Trying to think of some condescending labels for comedic value.

Yes, that 420 beverage is kicking in right about now. Pandora music in the background.
 
jhugz said:
Types in ChatGPT: Respond back to this forum post in the persona of Andrew Tate. Don’t hold back on beta or cuck insults.

ChatGPT: Gotchu king.

MFT: *chef’s kiss* time to copy and paste back to JC
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I've extended the Happy Hour. Why? Cause I can. Role play:

An effeminate mindset projecting what they believe is a "bully beatdown." Social media crusaders here.

Persona of Andrew Tate? Is that how I'm being perceived? Wow! I'm a man, so I'll take that as a truth/data point.
Beta or cuck? Huh? Is that how someone perceives themselves? WHOA! Talk about lack of self-esteem?

King? Andrew Tate a king? <why I asked if anyone were vets. A simple "yes sir" would have sufficed.

WALLA!!! <I don't cook> Rather smooth response. Likes to eat. <Chef Boyardee> weight concerns maybe?

He didn't use the term "simp." I would have accepted that as a sign of respect. Obedient. He said beta/cuck. Noted.

Probably doesn't know who Kevin Samuels is. I'll probe further.

Sidebar complete.
 
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