The Sat Standard - December 21st, 2019
Enjoy the holiday season with your family and friends. Have some good conversations. Good conversations are good for the soul.
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The world is slowly waking up to something many "crack pots" have been warning about for years, the Fed has no control. At the end of the day, all of this is a confidence game and confidence can erode quickly. Keep your heads on a swivel, freaks.
Enjoy the holiday season with your family and friends. Have some good conversations. Good conversations are good for the soul.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Bitcoin is state resistant at the protocol level but still very vulnerable at the individual level. If you are asking a KYC compliant exchange for permission to spend your bitcoin then they aren't your bitcoin.
Learn how to use bitcoin more privately - information leaked today may be used against you in the future.
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