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I was searching for a digital piano.... and Google showed me all the local sellers.... I then clicked on the Shopping tab and realized that Google is the new Amazon. Has anyone else noticed this? What does this mean for Amazon.com going forward? Do you think Amazon is scared to death of Google entering its "shopping" space?

This is what happens when you take "just-in-time" inventory to the extreme at the nation level

Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use? https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_allowance/

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Amid an outcry about Federal Reserve officials owning and trading individual securities, an in-depth look at officials' financial disclosures found three who last year held assets of the same type the Fed itself was buying, including Chairman Jerome Powell. None of these holdings or transactions appeared to violate the Fed's code of conduct, but they raise further questions about the central bank's conflict of interest policies. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/fed-officials-owned-securities-it-was-buying-during-pandemic-raising-more-questions-about-conflicts.html

Remember: the world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities. You can start a company that serves a small group on day 1 but aim to positively impact a billion people within a decade.

NZ Fund’s KiwiSaver Growth Strategy fund, which had investments worth just over $350 million at the end of December, had around 5 per cent of its money in bitcoin, Grigor said. that's around 17.5m they've invested in bitcoin in case you are wondering....

SCARAMUCCI: BANK OF NEW YORK HAS ANNOUNCED THEY WILL BE DOING INSTITUTIONAL CUSTODY BY THE 1ST QUARTER OF 2022

Hilarious that Worldcoin is just an ERC-20 token. It touts itself as a "fairly launched" coin but requires one of the most premined cantillon altcoins -- ETH -- in order to use it? It makes zero sense. It's just more money printing. It's also premined itself. Founders keep 20% "for development". Would you take a retina scan for free Worldcoin? 130,000 people and counting have so far

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There are 200 Bitcoin ATMs located in Walmarts across the US. The pilot is part of a broader partnership between Coinstar and Coinme to offer Bitcoin at over 8,000 kiosks, 200 of which are in Walmart stores. Walmart plans to install 8,000 Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S 200 is just the tip

Vladimir Putin Says Bitcoin Can Be Used As A "Currency" today in a news conference. Obviously he sees this as an opportunity to evade the useless sanctions and EU banks etc... And in the even bigger picture.... he sees this as a replacement of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. He would like to see his oil one day sold for a currency other than the US dollar. Meanwhile the USA is now the number 1 miner of Bitcoin with industries being formed in many states. The US is using the ace card up its sleeve that it can use once... which is to print endless amounts of $ to "keep things going".... Never before has there been an alternative…

If you’re a shareholder in a publicly traded business & they don’t have bitcoin on their balance sheet, it is time to start demanding it. They are complicit in the destruction of shareholder value as long as we have persistently high inflation. Public companies have a fiduciary responsibility to protect and grow shareholder value. Sitting in 100% cash and cash equivalents with high levels of inflation is a violation of their mandate.

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to my wife and kids that I found a person on craigslist selling a $900 Celestron 6SE telescope for $400-something and I offered him $300 to see what he might say. He said he couldn't get the motorized finder and computerized mechanism to work, but that the lens/mirror/scope/accessories were in perfect shape and never really used. He sent pictures and agreed on $350. Then I was embarrassed, and actually not that happy that I had to drop the deal because my 3 kids all quickly pitched in and got me a new one from B&H Photo. Well, it got its space debut tonight since it's clear, not too cold, and all my kids and two grand-kids were…

https://www.microstrategy.com/en/company/company-videos/microstrategy-completes-650-million-offering-of-convertible-senior-notes This guy raised $650 million from investors (or close to it) in less than 4 days? And the people buying this debt KNEW he was going to buy bitcoin with it. the key word here is convertibles. So let's say BTC tanks and MS shares also tank and then when the debt comes due and MS can't pay what happens is basically that the debt gets converted into stocks. But since the stock has most likely crashed that means that the bondholders get s very large share of the company. So if they feel that MS has other assets that they value this…

The Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF seeks to purchase enough Bitcoin futures contracts that the notional value of the Bitcoin within the contracts held by the fund are as close to 100% of the fund’s net assets as possible. This distinguishes Valkyrie from the other proposed funds, all of which plan on investing in other investment vehicles and products that provide exposure to Bitcoin, such as private trusts. The fund will invest any remaining assets in “collateral investments” defined as U.S. Government securities such as bills and bonds, money market funds, and corporate debt securities. Corporate debt securities must be issued by a business with a time …

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/stumpstatement101521