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Trump announces reserves for BTC and other digital assets

8 Mar 2025 1 minute read 7 comments Yugocean

  The reserves are established      President Trump has signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for Bitcoin and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile for Altcoins, which will be overseen by the Treasury Department. I am convin...

SELF-FLAGELLATION: The Drug of the Modern West

7 Mar 2025 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Scrolling is fun... I mean, it's not, but we seem to do it a lot. Like, a lot - 99% of people who scroll can't even remember the post or short they saw five scrolls ago. Seriously, next time you're scrolling, try and remember what you saw 5 to 10 pos...

SPARTA'S RESURGENCE: The Battle of Notium, 406 BC

6 Mar 2025 8 minute read 5 comments YouveBeenGreeked

The Battle of Cyzicus in 410 BC had momentarily restored Athenian dominance at sea, but the consequences of the victory were far more complex than immediate celebrations suggested. While Alcibiades, Thrasybulus, and Theramenes had shattered the Spart...

COLLECTIVISM VS INDIVIDUALISM: Humanity's Greatest Struggle

5 Mar 2025 11 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

What's more important: the individual or the group? Is it more important to judge and act upon the issues of people based upon their individual needs or their collective, shared needs? Is the individual tree more important than the concept of the for...

The rich grandmother of the average Russian

5 Mar 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z8hC8wob8QSl42jG And let's calculate the pension of your rich grandmother in the happiest country? How is the pension calculated? There's a teenager writing to me in private messages. First of a...

Three years later - the Russo-Ukrainian war as the opening phase of a world war

5 Mar 2025 4 minute read 4 comments VVoytila

It is a strange feeling, agreeing with one's past self but being wiser. Hindsight is a strange tool. It allows us to trick ourselves into believing we were always correct or always wrong. In a post made three years ago I was convinced of Russia's ult...

BYZANTIUM: The Empire that Never Existed

4 Mar 2025 9 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Ah, the Roman Empire - well and truly, my intellectual, mental and spiritual comfort zone. And maybe when time travel becomes a thing, my physical comfort zone too. It's often regarded as one of humanity's peaks, at least for its time, encompassing...

SEC drops lawsuit against Kraken

4 Mar 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Yugocean

     In another bold move (not a surprise), the SEC has freed Kraken from its Gensler clutches. Let's find more.   Lawsuit against Kraken dropped      The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped its case against cryptocurrency exchange Kr...

ONE-SIDED REPARATIONS: If it were Ever the Other way Round...

3 Mar 2025 10 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

There's often a large call in many western countries today for reparations to be paid to... well, vague, non-western countries I guess because of actions committed by our ancestors. The narrative seems to be that European and American history is brim...

Trump announces creation of crypto strategic reserve

3 Mar 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Yugocean

     President Trump's announcement of the creation of a crypto strategic reserve has created a stir in the cryptoverse. Let's focus on this:   A crypto strategic reserve will be created, including Bitcoin      Trump has not yet expressed a direc...