This building in Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey is an excellent example of architectural styles stratification over the centuries.
It shows three distinct periods:
- Roman Byzantine Empire (bottom),
- Ottoman Empire (middle),
- Republic (three upper floors).
A roaming herd of 15 wild elephants resting in a patch of forest on the outskirts of the city of Kunming in southwest China, resuming a year-long, 500-kilometer trek.
A drone surprised them sleeping.
Almost no one is being honest with you so Iβm going to be truthful.
Yes Bitcoin is being captured by Wall Street and then it will be captured by the central planners and sovereign states.
This was always going to happen if Bitcoin was ever going to be successful.
The good news is that is the only way Bitcoin can actually change these institutions, from the inside.
Kind of hard to be a Trojan horse If the enemy leaves it outside of the gate.
Self interest will keep the core tenets of Bitcoin like the 21 million hard cap in place during this process.
It is not until Bitcoin has marinated fully into the financial system, political system and culture that it will then be able to start eroding the power structures we so desperately want to see destroyed.
Bitcoin is the long game.
Whales have flippers: all cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walruses) have flippers.
However, inside those flippers are bones that resemble a human hands, thumb included.
