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How I've succeeded in NEETdom. What I've learned may (or may not) help you. (Long, sorry!)

I've spent years lurking on Reddit. Here, TRP, Blackpill, and the old Incel reddits. I've learned a lot,and I've used that knowledge and some other methods to stay NEET for 12 years. At the rate I'm going, I should be able to die of natural causes during old age without ever having a job, while enjoying the 21st century capitalist lifestyle I've been conditioned to want, while also being married and having children. I can't promise you the same results, but I will tell you what I did and why I did them. Maybe it can help you out. I hope it does, because I remember how close I came to the edge of despair and hope that my journey can inspire someone the way I was inspired before. This is really long, but Bottom Line Up Front: I went from searching trash cans for receipts to conning my way to upper middle class, gaslit the hell out of a girl, got married and used what I gained through that journey to have a successful passive income. Here's how I did it:

First off, my inherent biases. These are things I can't change (or refused to change), and had to work around or use to my benefit:

I'm a LSMV male. Hot or Not averaged me at 3/10. I have a VERY weak chin with an overbite, no earnings, and I'm weak. I'm also too lazy to work out. I had to work around this.
I'm white. This helped.
My only disability is being an undiagnosed sociopath (or perhaps narcissistic personality disorder). For those who have severe anxiety, autism, or other mental illnesses that hold you back, you might not be able to replicate this as easily. This helped me. I had to be (and continue to be, to some degree) completely amoral and mercenary to get where I am.
I take no moral or ethical position that keeps me from getting what I want. None. I see a lot of anti-work, anti-natalism, anti-capitalist sentiment here. I respect that, and if that means a great deal to you, this path won't work. I threw all of that away to get where I am. Even if I believe something is factually correct (for example, SMV theory or blackpill nihilism), I'll ignore the "truth" and seek out a solution to get what I want. If you can do this, your chances improve dramatically.
I'm socially awkward, but a fast learner. I rarely make the same mistake twice. This helped me recover from faux pas and avoid bad decisions once I learned them once. It also helped me work around all my lies.
I lived straight edge and budgeted like a madman. My "drug" was a drive to move up. No pot, no cigarettes, no microtransactions for vidya, nothing. I didn't have a steady income and I needed to make what I had count.

Okay,with that out of the way, here's what I did to get started:

Graduated in 200x into the recession. Barely passed because I'm lazy. Lived with my folks who covered basic needs, but I didn't have an allowance, so I had to earn income. Here's what I did:

I offered to do grocery runs for my parents. I would buy $20, maybe sometimes $40 worth of "extra" items during that time (always small purchases so as not to arouse suspicion on the large receipt), then dug the receipt out of the trash can later and returned the items. If you pay with a debit card,you can get cash back. I did this every 2 weeks for the grocery run. If you get an allowance or have some other income stream, you can bypass this step. Quietly open a bank account separate from your parents and deposit the cash there. For at least a year,this was my only income.
I told my parents I was going to interviews, out with friends, or to volunteer work. In reality, I sold my plasma twice a week. Not being on drugs allowed me to take advantage of this income stream while it lasted. The payout varied, but between what I got for donating and what I got from returning things to walmart, I managed to get about $100 a week. Don't rely on this--my center closed down after only a few months of doing this.
Once I saved up a couple hundred dollars, I began purchasing "refunding" services from places like MPGH or Nulled (look it up if you don't know what it is). I would purchase something for like $200 on my debit card from the bank account I opened, get it refunded, and then resell the item on Craigslist, Offerup, or FB Marketplace. I used vacant houses or apartment units as drops. I bought prepaid visas to use different addresses, but these days I think you can just use privacy.com. Either way, I amassed about 10k over the course of a year doing this. Once you get your seed money from $200 items, you move on to more expensive things like macbooks that have better margins. Keep doing blood donations and grocery returns (or whatever your way of bringing in income is) during this time.

Next step: with enough money to get started, time to start hunting for women.

By the time I had all of this figured out, I had been NEET for about 4 years ( I spent a lot of time lying down and rotting or getting absorbed in vidya). My family was concerned I was a failure and, I suspect,thinking about kicking me out. I had to stave this off for as long as I could. I also realized at this point that I wasn't going to be able to leech off them forever. Time to make a move. I started mentioning that I was starting my own business in a field that they wouldn't understand very well. Bitcoin is amazing for this, since most people don't fully grasp it yet. I started telling my parents that I was doing bitcoin trading and was getting pretty good at it. Using some of the money that I got from selling refunded items, I could buy them the occasional dinner or "pitch in for expenses" to keep the heat off. I could "have a good quarter" and buy them a game console or golf clubs for Christmas or Birthdays (in reality, I would get these items sent to a drop address and then get them refunded.) I told them that I needed to save as much money as I could so I could get bigger returns on my investment, and thanked them for letting me live with them so I wouldn't throw away my earnings on rent, food, etc. This worked wonders--they were very proud of me and happily let me live with them. If they hadn't, this method would still work, but 1-2 of your big refunds per month would go to rent and other expenses. YMMV here.
I started attending volunteer events and the local Chamber of Commerce's business meetings, using my fake Bitcoin experience to have conversations with the people there. I bought a tailored suit and developed a style that made sure I was noticed (and get people talking about it instead of my ugliness or digging too deep into my fake business). In my case it was goofy pocket squares. Instead of a handkerchief I'd use a tiny stuffed pikachu or hello kitty or something. I didn't have a car at this time, so I used Uber and had them drop me off a block away. Uber rides can be refunded, or referral credits purchased at discount prices online. Most successful businessmen are friendly and approachable when you're in their home turf and you don't want something from them. I used this opportunity to make friends and connections that I might use later in life. It also allowed me to build a reputation as being successful. I learned a lot from these people and became a regular at events. I brushed up on my "colleagues"' businesses so we'd have stuff to talk about, and made sure I read up on my own "business" so I could answer questions they had. As I practiced, I became more confident and started looking the part. As my confidence grew, I began to look for my future wife.
This part here is the longest, hardest part. I had to find a woman with no children, no prior marriages, a good enough career for me to live off of in the future, AND one who I could essentially gaslight for the rest of our lives. This took me almost 3 years. If you're in a large city it might not take this long, but here in podunk Iowa, it took ages because of the lack of people. Women came on to me once I got myself established. I'll be honest--everything you read on SMV/hypergamy/etc might be true in general, but no two humans are exactly the same and the law of large numbers means you'll likely have opportunities (even in a smaller population area like mine) to find women who are the exception. So I practiced my game by reading TRP, pickup guides I got online, etc. Thing is, I never slept with a woman until I was sure she met my requirements. I didn't want to get a reputation as a man-whore, and if women were going to talk about me, I wanted it to be about me being unattainable. This meant years of celibacy, and I hated it. After a long time, I finally found her at a charity auction for helping the homeless.

Next step: Now that I've found the right woman, I had to date her, get her to fall in love with me,and marry her.

The ideal woman for me was about 60 pounds overweight, somewhat heavily (but not overwhelmingly) in debt, frumpy only because of her clothes and weight, and with a medical-based career. Why? Chad doesn't want her. Sure he might have sex with her, but he's not going to marry her. While its true that male personality plays no role in initial attraction from women, love and investment are strong forces. If I can get her to fall in love with me, I can continue my easy lifestyle.
Using what I learned from TRP and Pickup Artistry, I managed to get her to go out with me after we finished working on some volunteer projects together. Note that before we became a couple, she pursued and slept with two Chads. I was not her first choice of partner. That is OK. If she were a 9 or 10, I'd probably lose her, but by purposefully going after someone with average attractiveness, I reduced the likeliness that I wouldn't get my turn.
I turned on the charm and took her on long walks, to community theater productions, and to the volunteer events and business social gatherings as my date. Romantic dates, but also cheap without being immediately obvious. I'm still selling plasma and returning/refunding during this time, but spending no more than I have to. Within 3 weeks we're exclusive, within 2 months she's in love. I never broke character. Ever. Now to get her invested.
Why go for a medical professional instead of a lawyer or accountant? Medical school, especially for a MD or PhamD, requires a lot of debt. This debt is often accrued young, before the student really learns about budgeting or finance. That helps me gain sole financial responsibility of the relationship later. It also attracts people with a head for science and natural caregivers. I need someone with a brain that doesn't automatically detect my bullshit, or someone who will be able to sue me into oblivion if the whole thing fails.
I mention to her that I want to lose weight and get into somewhat better shape. I jokingly said that I wanted to look good in a wedding picture if we get to that point. That let her know I was serious about her, and encouraged her to lose weight with me. Remember earlier that I said I hated working out, so I just dieted instead, and went on walks or runs with her. The running sucked, but it was all in pursuit of that easy life. Time passes and she loses the weight and buys some new clothes. As I had predicted,she looks damned hot now. I'd say a 7 or 7.5/10. Again, not Chad bait, but definitely attractive. And since she's in love with me, she isn't pursuing them.
I'm invited to live with her a few months in. Two paths are available now: Live with her, or gamble and move her in with me. I had her move in with me and my parents. You can succeed with moving in with her, but I chose this route for expediency's sake. Moving in with her slows you down due to rent payments, but is more safe since there are fewer variables. At this point, my parents are amazed by how "well" I'm doing. I'm dating a doctor, apparently have a booming business, I'm part of the community, and have friends. They're happy to let her move in when I explain (privately) that the purpose is to reduce her debt before a future marriage. I have a long talk about debt with the girlfriend and explain how good with money I am since it's part of my business. I suggest we share a bank account and commit to paying off her debt ASAP. We start up a new account in a different bank from the one I set up previously and she gets direct deposit into it. I still use my personal account for refunding, and use Cashapp to transfer BTC to myself on and then Coinbase it into the joint bank account,showing evidence of my "business". I've definitely passed the trust test at this point and I've "made her a better person" with the weight loss. It doesn't take long at all before she doesn't even look at the bank statements anymore. I change the password (if I'm called on it, say its for security because of a hack attempt). At this point, she lives with me and my family, I have complete financial control,and she's both invested and in love. Approximately 6 months have passed.
I spend lots of time with her and slowly isolate her from friends and family that might pose a problem. Have her come to see my parents as her family. I *do* occasionally get called out on it, but I mention a relationship in my past where I was cheated on, and remind her that she had those one-night stands when she knew there was a connection between us. Time passes and she becomes more dependent on me. Meanwhile, I'm budgeting expenses and putting all of the money that she doesn't use right into her debt. Because I control the finances, she doesn't realize that all I'm doing is just rerouting her money more efficiently than she was. I still treat her by refunding clothes from designer brands and buying Gift cards at discount rates for restaurants. Eight months in, I ask her to marry me, proposing using a diamond ring that I refunded from Amazon. She says yes, and her mind goes into marriage mode.
Time to get some security for my NEETdom. I suggest that, with her lower debt-to-income ratio because of our efforts, we get a house so that we can move into it right after we get married. I mention that this is a good idea because since I make money using Bitcoin, I don't have W2s and since I don't use credit cards, the banks won't loan to me. I lead the conversation into her getting the loan in her name since she can pass the credit check and then putting the title in both of our names (VERY important! Helps ward off divorce). Since I'm so good with all of this financial stuff, she agrees and some short house hunting later, we've got a 300k home. (This is one of the few moves I regret. If I could do it again, I'd take a 150-200k home and use the extra money for investments later. She loved the house though, so it was probably worth it to make her happy). I mention how afraid I am of infidelity and "divorce rape", as well as protecting both of our assets in case things go south. I draft up a prenuptial agreement making sure our finances prior to marriage are separate (this makes her feel secure and continues the facade that I have means), and states that in the event of infidelity (without the other partner's permission), the cheating partner gives the cuckolded spouse full ownership of the home, and spousal support. Note that this means that I must never cheat on her. It was easy to get her to sign at this point since she's got marriage on the brain. The fear of losing the house and paying me for the rest of her life wards off the chance of her straying, but provides me with the means to continue my NEET lifestyle on her dime if she does cheat.
I rerouted some debt/mortgage money to the wedding expenses, and cut corners where I could. At this point it was safe to let her back into frequent contact with her family and friends--they couldn't stop this now; nor did they want to,since by this point their daughter wasn't overweight or in debt, was happy, and engaged. Remember all those business friends I made from the previous step? Lots of money and gifts to the wedding registry,and one hell of a wedding guest list. It went off without a hitch, and we honeymooned in Paris. At this point we've been together for almost two years from our first date. We've lived together for a year and half. Her life revolves around me now.
(Optional, but helpful) Fights will break out and arguments happen. I read a lot of Les Parrott and other people in the marriage field. We read books every week about improving ourselves. I give her Laura Doyle, Helen Andelin, and other anti-feminist books to encourage her to take on a more TradWife role (In short, these books encourage submission to the husband and letting him lead). My goal is to be an outstanding husband on every level that isn't necessary to keep up the facade. Please note that I've legitimately fallen in love with her by this point. Even though I want to, I can't break character. So the goal becomes to actually become a good man for her, while still keeping true to my goal of remaining a NEET. So let's do that in the next section.

Next Step: Cleaning up my act

I've determined to become a better man for my wife,but not enough to actually wageslave. I decide that passive income isn't really work, and decide to pursue that. After rerouting some of her money and some more refunding, as well as quietly selling some of the unwanted wedding gifts, I purchase a small (25k at auction) 2nd home a few months into the marriage and start renting t out. I pay cash for this and put 5k into repairs with local under-the-table handymen to get it ready to go. Remember earlier how I said I wish I had bought a smaller home for me and the wife? This is why. It took me longer to get this endeavor started because the mortgage and living expenses were a large chunk of our income. I continued to do this, telling my wife that I was starting a property empire so that she could choose to stay home with kids when we had them. That made her excited and we bought up a few more over the course of a year and a half.
Once rent money was reliably coming in, I removed the anchor from my heart. I waited until Bitcoin collapsed, then told her that I had lost my nest egg. I had "lost" everything and was at my lowest point. I did a very convincing act of depression, anger and fear that she'd lose interest in me without my income. Of course, she supported me came up with the great idea that I should make the real estate business my new career. She generously offered to keep working until we had enough property to make up for both of our incomes. Just like that, I'd transitioned into a respectable line of "work". But we all know I'm not going to work. So the plan of action became buying more properties and paying a property management company to keep them maintained and occupied. There are tons of youtube videos about getting started and doing this. This was successful, and I now make a good living while doing little more than calling or texting the property management company a couple times a week. I've also left the refunding behind because I no longer need it, but it's always an option if I do.
The plan now is to keep buying up properties and renting them so that my wife can stay home and we can both be NEETs. I honestly don't know if I'll succeed in that, but at best I do, and at worst I get half the income from these properties in the event of a divorce, which I can live off of.

Conclusion: It's taken over 10 years, but I've managed to become successful while remaining NEET. I had to do some really scummy things to get there, and I know for NEETs with morals that will be disqualifying. She's pregnant now, and our child will be born to parents with a stable income, and I can spend as much time with my family as I wish. My parents are proud of me now (this means more to me than you might think), and I get to spend most of my day sleeping, playing vidya, or pursuing whatever passion takes me. I'm a respected member of the community, which helps me get connections to new buildings or investment opportunities. I do feel guilt over how I got here. That's why I'm writing this, if I'm being honest. However, I can put that part of my life behind me and emerge as a landlord, where wagies work for me.

And it's likely not too late for you to get started! I know it seems hopeless sometimes, but I didn't get into the business socials and volunteering until I was 30. I was a 20-something year old obese basement dweller that stole money from his parents during grocery runs. There's hope if you're intentional about getting out.

Follow my path if you want, reject it if you don't, or choose not to believe me. Reddit, 4chan, the the old school wordpress blog communities have all been really helpful to me over the years. I've learned a lot from this community and others like it. I wanted to share my success story, encourage you not to give up if you want to avoid giving in to despair or wageslaving by showing you a way out, and, yes, break character anonymously for the first time in over a decade.

You all believed in me and helped me so much. Thank you.

TLDR: Read the "Bottom Line Up Front" at the top.

Astounding, Amazing!

For Trading JUNE 9th

NASDAQ at New High, S&P + For Year

U.S. DOLLAR CONTINUES TO WEAKEN

Today’s market was just another day dominated by a single stock, at least initially, and BA was its name. Early in the day, when the NASDAQ was due lower, BA had added almost $200 DP’s to the average and after a while the rest of them got pulled along. At the end of the day, the DJIA was +461.46 (1.7%), NASDAQ +110.67 (1.13%), S&P-500 +38.46 (1.2%), the Russell +29.74 (1.97%) and the DJ Transports +179.89 (1.82%). Market internals were strong with NYSE A/D 4:1 while NASDAQ lagged 2.6:1 while volume was higher. The DJIA was 25 up /5 down with BA adding $173 DP’s and the next highest gainer was MCD +38. There were no other major movers, but BA is up another $7.00 in late trading. All 11 S&P sectors were higher with energy, real estate, utilities, and industrials while the least up were materials and technology.

Our “open forum” on Discord, which allows me to interact with subscribers and others to allow direct questions and chart opinions on just about any stock, continues to grow with more participants every day. It is informative and allows me to share insights as the market is open and moving. The link is: https://discord.gg/ATvC7YZ and I will be there and active from before the open and all day. It’s a great place to share ideas and gain some insights, and we’ve grown to almost 1900 members. I also did this video titled “How to survive being an options trader and not blow up your account,” over the long weekend. I think it’s very informative as a guide to stock selection and option choices. The link is https://youtu.be/Y7H9RpWfLlo Enjoy!!

Tonight’s closing comment video https://youtu.be/jkbGKvNZ2FM

SECTORS: The big news was no news initially with BA piggy backing on all of the airline and hospitality stocks recent recovery and the planned reopening of the American economy. BA was trading up about $17 pre-open but by the time the bell actually rang it opened that 17 and immediately added to those gains and by the end of the day it had traded $234.20 and finished +25.07 (12.2%). But it wasn’t done there, in afterhours trading it touched 238.50 and is currently only .01 off that price. Last Monday it had traded $144 and has gone on a 6-day tear of $95 or 66%. And that doesn’t take into account that on its recent decline it went from a high of 446 to a low of 89, so at today’s close we are up 170% since late March.

But, the most amazing thing about today’s moves were the fact that at least one company, HTZ, has actually declared bankruptcy and after trading $ .40 just 10 days ago after the filing, it started at $.80 last Thursday and today managed to close $5.53 +2.96 (115%) and is currently trading $6.70 +1.17 in after hours. Yes, I did say it declared bankruptcy, and yes there are those who will speculate on just about anything, but $6.70 is a touch pricey when 99% of bankruptcies end with the equity owners being wiped out!

And, last, I would have thought that this one was the HOMERUN of the DAY this morning when I talked about it pre-open, ENOB, Enochian Biosciences, when the news of their cure for HIV was the topic of discussion. I had it $17.00 +12.88 or 312%, but the best it could do was to open $12.67, hit $13.43 and then start to slide. It finished $6.06 +1.94 (47%) and is a few cents lower in afterhours. With today’s action in hospitality and Oil related names it probably doesn’t make the top 50 stocks with that gain.

FOOD SUPPLY: was HIGHER with TSN +1.65, FLO +.45, CAG +.51, MDLZ +1.08, KHC +1.03, CALM +.37, JJSF +3.49, SAFM +6.57, LANC +2.42, GO -1.33, HRL +.11, SJM +3.73, PPC +1.99 and PBJ $32.14 +.51 (1.61%).

BIOPHARMA was HIGHER with BIIB -5.46, ABBV +.75, REGN +7.04, ISRG -.06, GILD +.32, MYL +1.22, TEVA +.06, VRTX -.68, BHC +1.26, INCY +1.07, ICPT +4.40, LABU +2.65 and IBB $133.20 +1.85 (1.41%).

CANNABIS: was HIGHER with TLRY +1.16, CGC +1.49, CRON +1.45, GWPH +2.98, ACB +2.01, PYX +1.40, NBEV +.33, CURLF +.13, KERN +2.04 and MJ $15.27 +1.23 (8.76%).

DEFENSE was HIGHER with LMT + 3.75, GD +5.53, TXT +1.43, NOC +4.90, BWXT +2.73, TDY +3.44, RTX +2.35 and ITA $193.84 +6.97 (3.73%).

RETAIL was HIGHER with M +2.17 +24.74%) on the news that it raised $4.5billion in financing, JWN +1.34, KSS +3.42, DDS +2.11, WMT -.49, TGT +.84, TJX +.49, RL +.69, UAA +.78, LULU -4.72, TPR +.72, CPRI +2.43 and XRT $45.35 +1.00 (2.25%).

FAANG and Big Cap: were HIGHER with GOOGL +8.48, AMZN +43.00 (1.73%) on news of a new high price target of $3,300, the highest on the street, AAPL +1.30, FB -.03, NFLX -3.60, NVDA -5.70, TSLA +58.84 (6.64%), BABA -.61, BIDU +2.62, CMG -5.71, CAT +2.60, BA +33.99 (16.55%), DIS +2.39, and XLK $101.92 +.51 (.50%).

FINANCIALS were HIGHER with GS +2.39, JPM +2.40, BAC +.52, MS +.63, C +3.13, PNC +2.97, AIG +3.14, TRV +3.14, AXP +3.67, V +.29, and XLF $26.74 +.50 (1.91%).

OIL, $38.19 -1.36. Oil has managed to trade $40.44 today and fell back to the 5-day MA and closed there. We are trading up about .50 tonight and the stocks didn’t even blink at the decline. In fact, people came after every little depressed stock and many have moved several 100% in the past few days. The stocks were higher and XLE was $47.39 +2.55 (5.69%).

METALS, GOLD: $1,705.10 +22.10. After trading down to $1671 last week we had a bounce higher today and although it was an “inside-day” we closed at the highs. The action in the US$ is projecting higher prices for the metals, but it does not necessarily trade with the dollar on a day by day basis. Support is around Friday’s lows. We bought back the 3rd and final lot of NEM yesterday @ $58.86.

BITCOIN: closed $9,780 -20. After breaking down from just over 10,000 and trading as low as 8630 last Tuesday we have been clawing our way back toward 10,000. Last week we traded over $10500 but fell all the way back to the lows, but we’ve moved back toward $10,000. We added 350 shares of GBTC last Wednesday @ $10.02 to our position of 400 @ $8.06, bringing our average price to $8.97. GBTC closed $11.58 + .33 today.

Tomorrow is another day.

CAM

Astounding, Amazing!

For Trading JUNE 9th

NASDAQ at New High, S&P + For Year

U.S. DOLLAR CONTINUES TO WEAKEN

Tonight’s closing comment video https://youtu.be/jkbGKvNZ2FM

FOOD SUPPLY: was HIGHER with TSN +1.65, FLO +.45, CAG +.51, MDLZ +1.08, KHC +1.03, CALM +.37, JJSF +3.49, SAFM +6.57, LANC +2.42, GO -1.33, HRL +.11, SJM +3.73, PPC +1.99 and PBJ $32.14 +.51 (1.61%).

BIOPHARMA was HIGHER with BIIB -5.46, ABBV +.75, REGN +7.04, ISRG -.06, GILD +.32, MYL +1.22, TEVA +.06, VRTX -.68, BHC +1.26, INCY +1.07, ICPT +4.40, LABU +2.65 and IBB $133.20 +1.85 (1.41%).

CANNABIS: was HIGHER with TLRY +1.16, CGC +1.49, CRON +1.45, GWPH +2.98, ACB +2.01, PYX +1.40, NBEV +.33, CURLF +.13, KERN +2.04 and MJ $15.27 +1.23 (8.76%).

DEFENSE was HIGHER with LMT + 3.75, GD +5.53, TXT +1.43, NOC +4.90, BWXT +2.73, TDY +3.44, RTX +2.35 and ITA $193.84 +6.97 (3.73%).

FINANCIALS were HIGHER with GS +2.39, JPM +2.40, BAC +.52, MS +.63, C +3.13, PNC +2.97, AIG +3.14, TRV +3.14, AXP +3.67, V +.29, and XLF $26.74 +.50 (1.91%).

Tomorrow is another day.

CAM

How I've succeeded in NEETdom. What I've learned may (or may not) help you. (Long, sorry!)

First off, my inherent biases. These are things I can't change (or refused to change), and had to work around or use to my benefit:

I'm a LSMV male. Hot or Not averaged me at 3/10. I have a VERY weak chin with an overbite, no earnings, and I'm weak. I'm also too lazy to work out. I had to work around this.
I'm white. This helped.
My only disability is being an undiagnosed sociopath (or perhaps narcissistic personality disorder). For those who have severe anxiety, autism, or other mental illnesses that hold you back, you might not be able to replicate this as easily. This helped me. I had to be (and continue to be, to some degree) completely amoral and mercenary to get where I am.
I take no moral or ethical position that keeps me from getting what I want. None. I see a lot of anti-work, anti-natalism, anti-capitalist sentiment here. I respect that, and if that means a great deal to you, this path won't work. I threw all of that away to get where I am. Even if I believe something is factually correct (for example, SMV theory or blackpill nihilism), I'll ignore the "truth" and seek out a solution to get what I want. If you can do this, your chances improve dramatically.
I'm socially awkward, but a fast learner. I rarely make the same mistake twice. This helped me recover from faux pas and avoid bad decisions once I learned them once. It also helped me work around all my lies.
I lived straight edge and budgeted like a madman. My "drug" was a drive to move up. No pot, no cigarettes, no microtransactions for vidya, nothing. I didn't have a steady income and I needed to make what I had count.

Okay,with that out of the way, here's what I did to get started:

Graduated in 200x into the recession. Barely passed because I'm lazy. Lived with my folks who covered basic needs, but I didn't have an allowance, so I had to earn income. Here's what I did:

I offered to do grocery runs for my parents. I would buy $20, maybe sometimes $40 worth of "extra" items during that time (always small purchases so as not to arouse suspicion on the large receipt), then dug the receipt out of the trash can later and returned the items. If you pay with a debit card,you can get cash back. I did this every 2 weeks for the grocery run. If you get an allowance or have some other income stream, you can bypass this step. Quietly open a bank account separate from your parents and deposit the cash there. For at least a year,this was my only income.
I told my parents I was going to interviews, out with friends, or to volunteer work. In reality, I sold my plasma twice a week. Not being on drugs allowed me to take advantage of this income stream while it lasted. The payout varied, but between what I got for donating and what I got from returning things to walmart, I managed to get about $100 a week. Don't rely on this--my center closed down after only a few months of doing this.
Once I saved up a couple hundred dollars, I began purchasing "refunding" services from places like MPGH or Nulled (look it up if you don't know what it is). I would purchase something for like $200 on my debit card from the bank account I opened, get it refunded, and then resell the item on Craigslist, Offerup, or FB Marketplace. I used vacant houses or apartment units as drops. I bought prepaid visas to use different addresses, but these days I think you can just use privacy.com. Either way, I amassed about 10k over the course of a year doing this. Once you get your seed money from $200 items, you move on to more expensive things like macbooks that have better margins. Keep doing blood donations and grocery returns (or whatever your way of bringing in income is) during this time.

Next step: with enough money to get started, time to start hunting for women.

By the time I had all of this figured out, I had been NEET for about 4 years ( I spent a lot of time lying down and rotting or getting absorbed in vidya). My family was concerned I was a failure and, I suspect,thinking about kicking me out. I had to stave this off for as long as I could. I also realized at this point that I wasn't going to be able to leech off them forever. Time to make a move. I started mentioning that I was starting my own business in a field that they wouldn't understand very well. Bitcoin is amazing for this, since most people don't fully grasp it yet. I started telling my parents that I was doing bitcoin trading and was getting pretty good at it. Using some of the money that I got from selling refunded items, I could buy them the occasional dinner or "pitch in for expenses" to keep the heat off. I could "have a good quarter" and buy them a game console or golf clubs for Christmas or Birthdays (in reality, I would get these items sent to a drop address and then get them refunded.) I told them that I needed to save as much money as I could so I could get bigger returns on my investment, and thanked them for letting me live with them so I wouldn't throw away my earnings on rent, food, etc. This worked wonders--they were very proud of me and happily let me live with them. If they hadn't, this method would still work, but 1-2 of your big refunds per month would go to rent and other expenses. YMMV here.
I started attending volunteer events and the local Chamber of Commerce's business meetings, using my fake Bitcoin experience to have conversations with the people there. I bought a tailored suit and developed a style that made sure I was noticed (and get people talking about it instead of my ugliness or digging too deep into my fake business). In my case it was goofy pocket squares. Instead of a handkerchief I'd use a tiny stuffed pikachu or hello kitty or something. I didn't have a car at this time, so I used Uber and had them drop me off a block away. Uber rides can be refunded, or referral credits purchased at discount prices online. Most successful businessmen are friendly and approachable when you're in their home turf and you don't want something from them. I used this opportunity to make friends and connections that I might use later in life. It also allowed me to build a reputation as being successful. I learned a lot from these people and became a regular at events. I brushed up on my "colleagues"' businesses so we'd have stuff to talk about, and made sure I read up on my own "business" so I could answer questions they had. As I practiced, I became more confident and started looking the part. As my confidence grew, I began to look for my future wife.
This part here is the longest, hardest part. I had to find a woman with no children, no prior marriages, a good enough career for me to live off of in the future, AND one who I could essentially gaslight for the rest of our lives. This took me almost 3 years. If you're in a large city it might not take this long, but here in podunk Iowa, it took ages because of the lack of people. Women came on to me once I got myself established. I'll be honest--everything you read on SMV/hypergamy/etc might be true in general, but no two humans are exactly the same and the law of large numbers means you'll likely have opportunities (even in a smaller population area like mine) to find women who are the exception. So I practiced my game by reading TRP, pickup guides I got online, etc. Thing is, I never slept with a woman until I was sure she met my requirements. I didn't want to get a reputation as a man-whore, and if women were going to talk about me, I wanted it to be about me being unattainable. This meant years of celibacy, and I hated it. After a long time, I finally found her at a charity auction for helping the homeless.

Next step: Now that I've found the right woman, I had to date her, get her to fall in love with me,and marry her.

The ideal woman for me was about 60 pounds overweight, somewhat heavily (but not overwhelmingly) in debt, frumpy only because of her clothes and weight, and with a medical-based career. Why? Chad doesn't want her. Sure he might have sex with her, but he's not going to marry her. While its true that male personality plays no role in initial attraction from women, love and investment are strong forces. If I can get her to fall in love with me, I can continue my easy lifestyle.
Using what I learned from TRP and Pickup Artistry, I managed to get her to go out with me after we finished working on some volunteer projects together. Note that before we became a couple, she pursued and slept with two Chads. I was not her first choice of partner. That is OK. If she were a 9 or 10, I'd probably lose her, but by purposefully going after someone with average attractiveness, I reduced the likeliness that I wouldn't get my turn.
I turned on the charm and took her on long walks, to community theater productions, and to the volunteer events and business social gatherings as my date. Romantic dates, but also cheap without being immediately obvious. I'm still selling plasma and returning/refunding during this time, but spending no more than I have to. Within 3 weeks we're exclusive, within 2 months she's in love. I never broke character. Ever. Now to get her invested.
Why go for a medical professional instead of a lawyer or accountant? Medical school, especially for a MD or PhamD, requires a lot of debt. This debt is often accrued young, before the student really learns about budgeting or finance. That helps me gain sole financial responsibility of the relationship later. It also attracts people with a head for science and natural caregivers. I need someone with a brain that doesn't automatically detect my bullshit, or someone who will be able to sue me into oblivion if the whole thing fails.
I mention to her that I want to lose weight and get into somewhat better shape. I jokingly said that I wanted to look good in a wedding picture if we get to that point. That let her know I was serious about her, and encouraged her to lose weight with me. Remember earlier that I said I hated working out, so I just dieted instead, and went on walks or runs with her. The running sucked, but it was all in pursuit of that easy life. Time passes and she loses the weight and buys some new clothes. As I had predicted,she looks damned hot now. I'd say a 7 or 7.5/10. Again, not Chad bait, but definitely attractive. And since she's in love with me, she isn't pursuing them.
I'm invited to live with her a few months in. Two paths are available now: Live with her, or gamble and move her in with me. I had her move in with me and my parents. You can succeed with moving in with her, but I chose this route for expediency's sake. Moving in with her slows you down due to rent payments, but is more safe since there are fewer variables. At this point, my parents are amazed by how "well" I'm doing. I'm dating a doctor, apparently have a booming business, I'm part of the community, and have friends. They're happy to let her move in when I explain (privately) that the purpose is to reduce her debt before a future marriage. I have a long talk about debt with the girlfriend and explain how good with money I am since it's part of my business. I suggest we share a bank account and commit to paying off her debt ASAP. We start up a new account in a different bank from the one I set up previously and she gets direct deposit into it. I still use my personal account for refunding, and use Cashapp to transfer BTC to myself on and then Coinbase it into the joint bank account,showing evidence of my "business". I've definitely passed the trust test at this point and I've "made her a better person" with the weight loss. It doesn't take long at all before she doesn't even look at the bank statements anymore. I change the password (if I'm called on it, say its for security because of a hack attempt). At this point, she lives with me and my family, I have complete financial control,and she's both invested and in love. Approximately 6 months have passed.
I spend lots of time with her and slowly isolate her from friends and family that might pose a problem. Have her come to see my parents as her family. I *do* occasionally get called out on it, but I mention a relationship in my past where I was cheated on, and remind her that she had those one-night stands when she knew there was a connection between us. Time passes and she becomes more dependent on me. Meanwhile, I'm budgeting expenses and putting all of the money that she doesn't use right into her debt. Because I control the finances, she doesn't realize that all I'm doing is just rerouting her money more efficiently than she was. I still treat her by refunding clothes from designer brands and buying Gift cards at discount rates for restaurants. Eight months in, I ask her to marry me, proposing using a diamond ring that I refunded from Amazon. She says yes, and her mind goes into marriage mode.
Time to get some security for my NEETdom. I suggest that, with her lower debt-to-income ratio because of our efforts, we get a house so that we can move into it right after we get married. I mention that this is a good idea because since I make money using Bitcoin, I don't have W2s and since I don't use credit cards, the banks won't loan to me. I lead the conversation into her getting the loan in her name since she can pass the credit check and then putting the title in both of our names (VERY important! Helps ward off divorce). Since I'm so good with all of this financial stuff, she agrees and some short house hunting later, we've got a 300k home. (This is one of the few moves I regret. If I could do it again, I'd take a 150-200k home and use the extra money for investments later. She loved the house though, so it was probably worth it to make her happy). I mention how afraid I am of infidelity and "divorce rape", as well as protecting both of our assets in case things go south. I draft up a prenuptial agreement making sure our finances prior to marriage are separate (this makes her feel secure and continues the facade that I have means), and states that in the event of infidelity (without the other partner's permission), the cheating partner gives the cuckolded spouse full ownership of the home, and spousal support. Note that this means that I must never cheat on her. It was easy to get her to sign at this point since she's got marriage on the brain. The fear of losing the house and paying me for the rest of her life wards off the chance of her straying, but provides me with the means to continue my NEET lifestyle on her dime if she does cheat.
I rerouted some debt/mortgage money to the wedding expenses, and cut corners where I could. At this point it was safe to let her back into frequent contact with her family and friends--they couldn't stop this now; nor did they want to,since by this point their daughter wasn't overweight or in debt, was happy, and engaged. Remember all those business friends I made from the previous step? Lots of money and gifts to the wedding registry,and one hell of a wedding guest list. It went off without a hitch, and we honeymooned in Paris. At this point we've been together for almost two years from our first date. We've lived together for a year and half. Her life revolves around me now.
(Optional, but helpful) Fights will break out and arguments happen. I read a lot of Les Parrott and other people in the marriage field. We read books every week about improving ourselves. I give her Laura Doyle, Helen Andelin, and other anti-feminist books to encourage her to take on a more TradWife role (In short, these books encourage submission to the husband and letting him lead). My goal is to be an outstanding husband on every level that isn't necessary to keep up the facade. Please note that I've legitimately fallen in love with her by this point. Even though I want to, I can't break character. So the goal becomes to actually become a good man for her, while still keeping true to my goal of remaining a NEET. So let's do that in the next section.

Next Step: Cleaning up my act

I've determined to become a better man for my wife,but not enough to actually wageslave. I decide that passive income isn't really work, and decide to pursue that. After rerouting some of her money and some more refunding, as well as quietly selling some of the unwanted wedding gifts, I purchase a small (25k at auction) 2nd home a few months into the marriage and start renting t out. I pay cash for this and put 5k into repairs with local under-the-table handymen to get it ready to go. Remember earlier how I said I wish I had bought a smaller home for me and the wife? This is why. It took me longer to get this endeavor started because the mortgage and living expenses were a large chunk of our income. I continued to do this, telling my wife that I was starting a property empire so that she could choose to stay home with kids when we had them. That made her excited and we bought up a few more over the course of a year and a half.
Once rent money was reliably coming in, I removed the anchor from my heart. I waited until Bitcoin collapsed, then told her that I had lost my nest egg. I had "lost" everything and was at my lowest point. I did a very convincing act of depression, anger and fear that she'd lose interest in me without my income. Of course, she supported me came up with the great idea that I should make the real estate business my new career. She generously offered to keep working until we had enough property to make up for both of our incomes. Just like that, I'd transitioned into a respectable line of "work". But we all know I'm not going to work. So the plan of action became buying more properties and paying a property management company to keep them maintained and occupied. There are tons of youtube videos about getting started and doing this. This was successful, and I now make a good living while doing little more than calling or texting the property management company a couple times a week. I've also left the refunding behind because I no longer need it, but it's always an option if I do.
The plan now is to keep buying up properties and renting them so that my wife can stay home and we can both be NEETs. I honestly don't know if I'll succeed in that, but at best I do, and at worst I get half the income from these properties in the event of a divorce, which I can live off of.

And it's likely not too late for you to get started! I know it seems hopeless sometimes, but I didn't get into the business socials and volunteering until I was 30. I was a 20-something year old obese basement dweller that stole money from his parents during grocery runs. There's hope if you're intentional about getting out.

You all believed in me and helped me so much. Thank you.

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Cryptocurrency Terms You Need to Know Part 1

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On our previous blog posts, we’ve talked and introduced Bitcoin, wallets, blockchains, financial technology, and the like to our readers. For sure, some are confused as they just encountered these words for the first time. In this article, we’ve jotted down the common words or phrases that the readers will frequently encounter upon entering the world of cryptocurrency.

Airdrop — an event or process where a project distributes a cryptocurrency to different wallet addresses for free

Altcoin — or alternative coin. Any type of cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin. These coins run its own blockchain network and operate separately and differently from Bitcoin.

Bitcoin — the first successful type of cryptocurrency launched

Blockchain — a digital public ledger that allows users to securely store and send information and currency. Read our article about Blockchain here: https://sw.pe/blogblockchain

Circulating Supply — number of cryptocurrencies that are available and circulating in the market

Cryptocurrency — a virtual or digital currency (example Bitcoin, Litecoin, Swipe Token)

Cryptography — is a mathematical practice of encoding and decoding data or codes

Decentralization — a system or process powered by a group of people or team and not by any central power or authority

Delisting — a process where either a cryptocurrency requests to remove its assets on an exchange or the removal of the crypto by the exchange authority

Double-spending — a type of deceit where an amount of money is spent more than once.

Exchange — a place (website or app) where people can buy and sell cryptocurrencies (examples are Bithumb, Bilaxy, and Bittrex)

Fiat — is a currency issued by the country’s central bank (local currency)

Halving — an event where the usual block reward is reduced by half. Read our article about Bitcoin Halving here: https://medium.com/swipe/what-you-need-to-know-about-bitcoin-halving-58c39db2a487

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) — a method where a new type of cryptocurrency is being offered to the public to invest in for the first time

Know Your Customer — or KYC is a procedure in the financial industry where companies ask for identification details to verify the identity of the customers

Listing — a process where an exchange adds a new cryptocurrency on their system

Mining — a process of validating the information and create a new block in the blockchain.

Node — a computer that participates in building and maintaining the blockchain network.

Peer-to-Peer Network — or P2P a process where two or more computers are connected to share information or data directly

Private Key — a series of random words or mnemonic phrase that serves as the password to access your cryptocurrencies

Public Keys — an alphanumeric code which can be shared publicly to send cryptocurrency transactions

Roadmap — shows the short-term and long-term business goals of a certain company

Satoshi Nakamoto — an unidentified person or group who founded and created Bitcoin

Staking — the act of holding cryptocurrency in a wallet for a period of time to receive a reward

Token — a type of cryptocurrency that does not have its own blockchain.

Wallets — a device, application, or website where people can manage their cryptocurrency assets. Read our article about wallets here: https://sw.pe/blogcryptowallet

Whitepaper — a document that explains the detailed plan and strategy of a certain project. It is created to generate interest and educate people about the concept that the person (or company) is trying to introduce

These are the terminologies that will surely be helpful when familiarizing yourselves in cryptocurrencies. In the second part of this blog, we will be sharing with you more complex words that you will encounter once you fully entered the industry.

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Binance.us Support Phone Number 1844-918-0581? @ Binance Customer #Tech Number sign seem

for kick off ConsenSys' Ethereal Summit on Thursday, Unchained Podcast host Laura Shin held a cozy fireside chat with Zhao who, to mark the occasion, was wearing a personalized football shirt emblazoned with the Binance support number brand.

Scheduled for 45 minutes, Zhao spent most of it explaining how libra and China's digital yuan were unlikely to be competitors to existing stablecoin providers; how Binance supportnumber 's smart chain wouldn't tread on Ethereum's toes – "that depends on the definition of competing," he said – and how Binance support number had an incentive to keep its newly acquired CoinMarketCap independent from the exchange.

There were only five minutes left on the clock. Zhao was looking confident; he had just batted away a thorny question about an ongoing lawsuit. It was looking like the home stretch.

Then it hit. Shin asked the one question Zhao really didn't want to have to answer, but many want to know: Where is Binance support number 's headquarters?

This seemingly simple question is actually more complex. Until February, Binance supportnumber was considered to be based in Malta. That changed when the island European nation announced that, no, Binance support number is not under its jurisdiction. Since then Binance support number has not said just where, exactly, it is now headquartered.

Little wonder that when asked Zhao reddened; he stammered. He looked off-camera, possibly to an aide. "Well, I think what this is is the beauty of the blockchain, right, so you don't have to ... like where's the Bitcoin office, because Bitcoin doesn't have an office," he said.

The line trailed off, then inspiration hit. "What kind of horse is a car?" Zhao asked. Binancesupport number 1844-918-0581 has loads of offices, he continued, with staff in 50 countries. It was a new type of organization that doesn't need registered bank accounts and postal addresses.

"Wherever I sit, is going to be the Binance support number 1844-918-0581office. Wherever I need somebody, is going to be the Binance support number 1844-918-0581," he said.

Zhao may have been hoping the host would move onto something easier. But Shin wasn't finished: "But even to do things like to handle, you know, taxes for your employees, like, I think you need a registered business entity, so like why are you obfuscating it, why not just be open about it like, you know, the headquarters is registered in this place, why not just say that?"

Zhao glanced away again, possibly at the person behind the camera. Their program had less than two minutes remaining. "It's not that we don't want to admit it, it's not that we want to obfuscate it or we want to kind of hide it. We're not hiding, we're in the open," he said.

Shin interjected: "What are you saying that you're already some kind of DAO [decentralized autonomous organization]? I mean what are you saying? Because it's not the old way [having a headquarters], it's actually the current way ... I actually don't know what you are or what you're claiming to be."

Zhao said Binance support number 1800-561-8025isn't a traditional company, more a large team of people "that works together for a common goal." He added: "To be honest, if we classified as a DAO, then there's going to be a lot of debate about why we're not a DAO. So I don't want to go there, either."

"I mean nobody would call you guys a DAO," Shin said, likely disappointed that this wasn't the interview where Zhao made his big reveal.

Time was up. For an easy question to close, Shin asked where Zhao was working from during the coronavirus pandemic.

"I'm in Asia," Zhao said. The blank white wall behind him didn't provide any clues about where in Asia he might be. Shin asked if he could say which country – after all, it's the Earth's largest continent.

"I prefer not to disclose that. I think that's my own privacy," he cut in, ending the interview.

It was a provocative way to start the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain event of the year.

In the opening session of Consensus: Distributed this week, Lawrence Summers was asked by my co-host Naomi Brockwell about protecting people’s privacy once currencies go digital. His answer: “I think the problems we have now with money involve too much privacy.”

President Clinton’s former Treasury secretary, now President Emeritus at Harvard, referenced the 500-euro note, which bore the nickname “The Bin Laden,” to argue the un-traceability of cash empowers wealthy criminals to finance themselves. “Of all the important freedoms,” he continued, “the ability to possess, transfer and do business with multi-million dollar sums of money anonymously seems to me to be one of the least important.” Summers ended the segment by saying that “if I have provoked others, I will have served my purpose.”

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That he did. Among the more than 20,000 registered for the weeklong virtual experience was a large contingent of libertarian-minded folks who see state-backed monitoring of their money as an affront to their property rights.

But with due respect to a man who has had prodigious influence on international economic policymaking, it’s not wealthy bitcoiners for whom privacy matters. It matters for all humanity and, most importantly, for the poor.

Now, as the world grapples with how to collect and disseminate public health information in a way that both saves lives and preserves civil liberties, the principle of privacy deserves to be elevated in importance.

Just this week, the U.S. Senate voted to extend the 9/11-era Patriot Act and failed to pass a proposed amendment to prevent the Federal Bureau of Investigation from monitoring our online browsing without a warrant. Meanwhile, our heightened dependence on online social connections during COVID-19 isolation has further empowered a handful of internet platforms that are incorporating troves of our personal data into sophisticated predictive behavior models. This process of hidden control is happening right now, not in some future "Westworld"-like existence.

Digital currencies will only worsen this situation. If they are added to this comprehensive surveillance infrastructure, it could well spell the end of the civil liberties that underpin Western civilization.

Yes, freedom matters

Please don’t read this, Secretary Summers, as some privileged anti-taxation take or a self-interested what’s-mine-is-mine demand that “the government stay away from my money.”

Money is just the instrument here. What matters is whether our transactions, our exchanges of goods and services and the source of our economic and social value, should be monitored and manipulated by government and corporate owners of centralized databases. It’s why critics of China’s digital currency plans rightly worry about a “panopticon” and why, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there was an initial backlash against Facebook launching its libra currency.

Writers such as Shoshana Zuboff and Jared Lanier have passionately argued that our subservience to the hidden algorithms of what I like to call “GoogAzonBook” is diminishing our free will. Resisting that is important, not just to preserve the ideal of “the self” but also to protect the very functioning of society.

Markets, for one, are pointless without free will. In optimizing resource allocation, they presume autonomy among those who make up the market. Free will, which I’ll define as the ability to lawfully transact on my own terms without knowingly or unknowingly acting in someone else’s interests to my detriment, is a bedrock of market democracies. Without a sufficient right to privacy, it disintegrates – and in the digital age, that can happen very rapidly.

Also, as I’ve argued elsewhere, losing privacy undermines the fungibility of money. Each digital dollar should be substitutable for another. If our transactions carry a history and authorities can target specific notes or tokens for seizure because of their past involvement in illicit activity, then some dollars become less valuable than other dollars.

The excluded

But to fully comprehend the harm done by encroachments into financial privacy, look to the world’s poor.

An estimated 1.7 billion adults are denied a bank account because they can’t furnish the information that banks’ anti-money laundering (AML) officers need, either because their government’s identity infrastructure is untrusted or because of the danger to them of furnishing such information to kleptocratic regimes. Unable to let banks monitor them, they’re excluded from the global economy’s dominant payment and savings system – victims of a system that prioritizes surveillance over privacy.

Misplaced priorities also contribute to the “derisking” problem faced by Caribbean and Latin American countries, where investment inflows have slowed and financial costs have risen in the past decade. America’s gatekeeping correspondent banks, fearful of heavy fines like the one imposed on HSBC for its involvement in a money laundering scandal, have raised the bar on the kind of personal information that regional banks must obtain from their local clients.

And where’s the payoff? Despite this surveillance system, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that between $800 billion and $2 trillion, or 2%-5% of global gross domestic product, is laundered annually worldwide. The Panama Papers case shows how the rich and powerful easily use lawyers, shell companies, tax havens and transaction obfuscation to get around surveillance. The poor are just excluded from the system.

Caring about privacy

Solutions are coming that wouldn’t require abandoning law enforcement efforts. Self-sovereign identity models and zero-knowledge proofs, for example, grant control over data to the individuals who generate it, allowing them to provide sufficient proof of a clean record without revealing sensitive personal information. But such innovations aren’t getting nearly enough attention.

Few officials inside developed country regulatory agencies seem to acknowledge the cost of cutting off 1.7 billion poor from the financial system. Yet, their actions foster poverty and create fertile conditions for terrorism and drug-running, the very crimes they seek to contain. The reaction to evidence of persistent money laundering is nearly always to make bank secrecy laws even more demanding. Exhibit A: Europe’s new AML 5 directive.

To be sure, in the Consensus discussion that followed the Summers interview, it was pleasing to hear another former U.S. official take a more accommodative view of privacy. Former Commodities and Futures Trading Commission Chairman Christopher Giancarlo said that “getting the privacy balance right” is a “design imperative” for the digital dollar concept he is actively promoting.

But to hold both governments and corporations to account on that design, we need an aware, informed public that recognizes the risks of ceding their civil liberties to governments or to GoogAzonBook.

Let’s talk about this, people.

A missing asterisk

Control for all variables. At the end of the day, the dollar’s standing as the world’s reserve currency ultimately comes down to how much the rest of the world trusts the United States to continue its de facto leadership of the world economy. In the past, that assessment was based on how well the U.S. militarily or otherwise dealt with human- and state-led threats to international commerce such as Soviet expansionism or terrorism. But in the COVID-19 era only one thing matters: how well it is leading the fight against the pandemic.

So if you’ve already seen the charts below and you’re wondering what they’re doing in a newsletter about the battle for the future of money, that’s why. They were inspired by a staged White House lawn photo-op Tuesday, where President Trump was flanked by a huge banner that dealt quite literally with a question of American leadership. It read, “America Leads the World in Testing.” That’s a claim that’s technically correct, but one that surely demands a big red asterisk. When you’re the third-largest country by population – not to mention the richest – having the highest number of tests is not itself much of an achievement. The claim demands a per capita adjustment. Here’s how things look, first in absolute terms, then adjusted for tests per million inhabitants.

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Less than an hour after the transaction was flagged, Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binancesupport number 1800-561-8025 announced that the exchange had frozen the funds. He also added that Binance support number 1844-918-0581is getting in touch with Upbit to investigate the transaction. In November 2019, Upbit suffered an attack in which hackers stole 342,000 ETH, accounting for approximately $50 million. The hackers managed to take the funds by transferring the ETH from Upbit’s hot wallet to an anonymous crypto address.

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Scheduled for 45 minutes, Zhao spent most of it explaining how libra and China's digital yuan were unlikely to be competitors to existing stablecoin providers; how Binance support number 1844-918-0581's smart chain wouldn't tread on Ethereum's toes – "that depends on the definition of competing," he said – and how Binance support number 1844-918-0581had an incentive to keep its newly acquired CoinMarketCap independent from the exchange.

There were only five minutes left on the clock. Zhao was looking confident; he had just batted away a thorny question about an ongoing lawsuit. It was looking like the home stretch.

Then it hit. Shin asked the one question Zhao really didn't want to have to answer, but many want to know: Where is Binance support number 1888-310-7194's headquarters?

This seemingly simple question is actually more complex. Until February, Binance support number 1800-561-8025was considered to be based in Malta. That changed when the island European nation announced that, no, Binance support number 1800-561-8025is not under its jurisdiction. Since then Binance support number 1800-561-8025has not said just where, exactly, it is now headquartered.

The line trailed off, then inspiration hit. "What kind of horse is a car?" Zhao asked. Binance support number 1800-561-8025has loads of offices, he continued, with staff in 50 countries. It was a new type of organization that doesn't need registered bank accounts and postal addresses.

"Wherever I sit, is going to be the Binance support number 1800-561-8025office. Wherever I need somebody, is going to be the Binance support number 1800-561-8025office," he said.

Zhao said Binance support number 1800-561-8025isn't a traditional company, more a large team of people "that works together for a common goal." He added: "To be honest, if we classified as a DAO, then there's going to be a lot of debate about why we're not a DAO. So I don't want to go there, either."

"I mean nobody would call you guys a DAO," Shin said, likely disappointed that this wasn't the interview where Zhao made his big reveal.

Time was up. For an easy question to close, Shin asked where Zhao was working from during the coronavirus pandemic.

"I prefer not to disclose that. I think that's my own privacy," he cut in, ending the interview.

It was a provocative way to start the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain event of the year.

Yes, freedom matters

Please don’t read this, Secretary Summers, as some privileged anti-taxation take or a self-interested what’s-mine-is-mine demand that “the government stay away from my money.”

The excluded

But to fully comprehend the harm done by encroachments into financial privacy, look to the world’s poor.

Caring about privacy

But to hold both governments and corporations to account on that design, we need an aware, informed public that recognizes the risks of ceding their civil liberties to governments or to GoogAzonBook.

Let’s talk about this, people.

A missing asterisk

So if you’ve already seen the charts below and you’re wondering what they’re doing in a newsletter about the battle for the future of money, that’s why. They were inspired by a staged White House lawn photo-op Tuesday, where President Trump was flanked by a huge banner that dealt quite literally with a question of American leadership. It read, “America Leads the World in Testing.” That’s a claim that’s technically correct, but one that surely demands a big red asterisk. When you’re the third-largest country by population – not to mention the richest – having the highest number of tests is not itself much of an achievement. The claim demands a per capita adjustment. Here’s how things look, first in absolute terms, then adjusted for tests per million inhabitants.

Binance support number 1800-561-8025has frozen funds linked to Upbit’s prior $50 million data breach after the hackers tried to liquidate a part of the gains. In a recent tweet, Whale Alert warned Binance support number 1800-561-8025that a transaction of 137 ETH (about $28,000) had moved from an address linked to the Upbit hacker group to its wallets.

Less than an hour after the transaction was flagged, Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance support number 1800-561-8025 announced that the exchange had frozen the funds. He also added that Binance support number 1800-561-8025is getting in touch with Upbit to investigate the transaction. In November 2019, Upbit suffered an attack in which hackers stole 342,000 ETH, accounting for approximately $50 million. The hackers managed to take the funds by transferring the ETH from Upbit’s hot wallet to an anonymous crypto address.