Recent content by HardRJones

I remember when I first heard about Bitcoin around 2009 or so. I thought about mining some coins as an experiment and then, being in my Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand phase at the time, thought “Cool philosophical idea, too bad it will never amount to anything” and never set it up on my laptop...

In the US, the corruption still pays lip service to some parts of the law.

I don't think he can sell even one since they don't currently exist and I don't think he has the power to implement these requirements changes without legislation backing them. The Democrats will get back into the White House in 2028 because Trump can't run for reelection due to Constitutional...

Something will pass. I'm not sure what will be in it.

The end of America is overstated. That said, were I not already in it, I would not pay $5 million US for the dubious privilege of placing myself in the US tax net. It's not going to happen anyway. There needs to be a bill passed by Congress which is a non-starter right now. They can't even...

All of these and more are valid options, from bar in hand to futures. Use the appropriate tool for the job.

Better imaginary but the fiction be salable than real but in the grasping clutches of CBP in the name of asset forfeiture.

Has there ever been hyperinflation in gold or gold backed currency in history? The answer is yes. It (in part) brought down the Spanish Habsburgs. There are changing tastes in the west with respect to gold jewelry but don't forget that India represents approximately 25% of the global market...

The Italian one is a standard court case filed for the maternal line under the citizenship law of 1948. That process is simple but lengthy. You gather official documents (birth certificate, marriage certificate, and naturalization certificates) for each ancestor back to the last ancestor born in...

I'm already all in on both Italian and UK processes. Read the tea leaves and started the Italian process well before the current changes. I wanted to see if there were any contrarian viewpoints. It seems like the biggest risk would be UK implementing global taxation but given how the Labour...

Hopefully you did.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...les-end-tenuous-descendant-claims-2025-03-28/ The summary: The government instituted a legislative decree to modify citizenship by descent under emergency powers effective at midnight Rome time on March 27. All existing applications or court filings are...

Tip: A roll of US hundred dollar bills feels like a bag of wet sand.

Isn't that one of the reasons people here focus on freedom and mobility? So we don't have to care?

I suspect that was just Trump or someone talking like they do. The program doesn't exist yet so I can't see how.