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2025-03-31 10:59:57

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2008 was the preview, 2025 is the main feature. The fiat treadmill broke, the hamster’s dead, and the banks are still charging rent on the wheel. Time to exit the debt spiral—opt out with Bitcoin.

2025-03-28 16:35:19

Watching the UK’s Economy Collapse in Two Places at Once - The Quantum Economy.
Welcome to Britain, 2025. The weather is unpredictable, the trains are late, the bins are full—and the economy is in both rude health and imminent collapse, depending on which paragraph of the OBR’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook you read.
This is not an article about economics. This is an article about stagecraft—the fine art of keeping the show going with the curtains on fire.
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Act I: The Magical Fiscal Deficit
The OBR has spoken. Growth is returning, inflation is falling, and the Chancellor has just enough headroom to deliver tax cuts without blowing the fiscal rules. The national debt may be £2.7 trillion and interest payments surging, but don’t worry—because… something about GDP projections and a 5-year rolling average.
Meanwhile, the UK’s long-dated gilt yields are quietly staging a mutiny. The 30-year is hovering near 5.4%, the 10-year has breached 4.8%, and traders are watching the BoE’s short-term repo facility like it’s a hospital monitor for the pension system.
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Act II: In Which No One Is Being Bailed Out (Except Everyone)
Short-term repo operations are now clocking over £60 billion per week, and climbing. That’s more than the entire annual budget for education. It’s not QE, say the experts—it’s just a casual, opaque, high-speed liquidity transfusion into a completely-not-panicking financial sector.
We’re told this is normal. “Routine collateral top-up,” they say. “No cause for concern.”
Odd, then, that the BoE launched ‘doomsday’ stress tests for the UK’s largest banks in the same month.
Even odder that M2 is quietly rising—by over £120 billion since August—despite headline QT and tightening. One might conclude that liquidity is being injected through the back door while austerity gets paraded through the front like a vaudeville act.
But let’s not speculate. That would be a “conspiracy theory.”
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Act III: The Pension Funds Are Fine (Trust Us)
Remember 2022? The LDI crisis, margin calls, and gilt market death spiral? Of course not, because everything’s fixed now. Pensions are well-hedged, interest rate risks are managed, and solvency is assured—provided the BoE continues providing silent liquidity lifelines indefinitely.
Just ignore that tiny detail where the ONS wiped £2.2 trillion off household wealth by tweaking the discount rate used to value pensions. It’s not a problem. It’s just a revision. A clarification. A small epistemological recalibration of reality.
Some people thought it meant house prices dropped. Others assumed they’d lost all their retirement savings. But don’t worry—the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the new method is “worse than the old one,” so everything balances out.
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Act IV: Schrödinger’s Economy
We are now living in a quantum economy. The system is both solvent and insolvent. The market is calm but requires weekly liquidity injections. Growth is strong, except when it’s not. Public trust is high, provided no one checks the comment section under the OBR’s tweets.
In this economy:
• You are rich until the ONS says you’re not.
• Your pension is safe until the BoE stops propping it up.
• Your grocery bill is falling, unless you’re the one paying it.
• Inflation is under control, unless you live indoors and eat food.
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Final Act: Nothing to See Here
The real crisis isn’t the balance sheet, or the yield curve, or even the repo injections. It’s the collapse of narrative control. The public doesn’t trust the numbers. The experts don’t trust the models. And the politicians are still trying to convince us that perpetual liquidity injections are compatible with a “return to normal.”
But hey—at least the Spring Budget was balanced.
By that, we mean it delicately balanced on a rapidly eroding pile of assumptions, projections, and wishful thinking.
Carry on. All is well.
Unless you look.
Got Bitcoin? @npub1z74…d4yx
I’m getting the feeling the UK may be the trigger for the next big crisis.
#UKFinancialSystemWatch
#FiatCollapse
#SchrödingersBudget
https://obr.uk/economic-and-fiscal-outlooks/
https://youtu.be/6Yui6WioDys?si=iwY1HqbaUMCqMSAI
https://youtu.be/kdtKbjtIp4s?si=I_w5Xd-7FNucJLyR
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2024-08-25 19:57:54

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I wish there were more like you, gradually then suddenly 👊🏻

2024-08-25 19:27:58

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Awesome 🤩
I looked at your site, how do you pay with lightning on there?

2024-08-24 19:57:46

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Ok I didn’t check it out before posting, ignore

2024-08-24 19:55:25

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Just came across this…
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/demus-easy-music-streaming/id6474685600

2024-08-24 11:06:10

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Hey 👋🏻

2024-08-22 15:56:44

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Love how this is all linking with @npub1v5u…n0v5 this is amazing 🤩

2024-08-11 17:16:17

https://youtu.be/w8KQmps-Sog?si=68aonuuy9QqASutV

2024-08-11 10:39:01

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Would be nice to see a million mask march on November the 5th, ‘V’ style

2024-08-11 10:31:49

https://youtu.be/chqi8m4CEEY?si=2mYrnU5ayCb8rJBP

2024-08-10 07:53:41

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God it’s so depressing living in Airstrip one. Guys over the pond, value and protect your constitution, you really don’t want to make Oceania real too.

2024-08-10 07:51:11

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GM from Airstrip one

2024-08-10 05:37:52

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I’m living in airstrip one (once known as Britain)
The proles here are now learning how valuable the constitution of the USA is. Pay attention guys, or you will also be a part Oceania as is in the book, the warning signs are there.

2024-07-31 11:53:43

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https://fountain.fm/show/hzp7czlJmR6fMSLIifYh

2024-07-31 06:24:27

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An interesting thought there, which brought stuff up in my head that I’m just going to get out.
I think they did once, but have relied on past endeavours to build an image in the world that instills fear of what is possible.
I see it like an athlete that peaks and then declines, during that decline they perform on their own past performances and are often revered for what they have done instead of what they are currently doing. Ultimately, when the performance is not living up to expectation, they begin to resort to underhand tactics as it means to maintain that image.
In this case, the fact that they are the only nation to use nuclear weapons has been utilised as the Spectre of what they are capable of, which has instilled fear around the world of what they could do.
But in reality since that event, where the USA has really excelled is the underhand tactics to attempt to maintain hegemony, the veil on this is becoming very thin now with many around the world seeing through it.
This more than likely accounts for the boldness and growing instability / power struggles and push back, that are beginning to manifest.
Of course this doesn’t only apply to the USA, but it’s also echoed with other great powers. The UK also is reliant on past endeavours to serve as reputational deterrent, but in reality I’m doubtful that any great power that relies on this can fulfil on the perception.
Please excuse me, riffing those thoughts out, and blurting out my two sats worth, I just felt the need to get that out of my head.
👊🏻

2024-04-03 08:24:44

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZK2Yf49VRxo?si=WWalZMTjJdJh6oxo

2024-04-03 08:04:48

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Did you get a resolution to this?

2024-03-04 10:52:53

https://youtu.be/3kXp5lZc26k?si=NVBNgEXmGtRZ3Z94

2024-03-03 11:15:54

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This country like many in the west is looking scared and is beginning to panic, they are losing the confidence of the public at a rate that should be alarming them. It’s been a catalogue of errors that is almost endless at this point. To make matters worse there is no political option to get out of this mess as all parties are pretty much the same and serve the same agenda.
Ultimately, they will grow more and more authoritarian, to try to counter growing civil pushback.
The thing with the British public, is they are very placid and have been numbed by years of propaganda and psychological games, but beneath the surface there is rising discontent. On the European continent the people flash very easily, but in the UK it takes a lot, so if you are seeing signs of discontent, it’s a signal.
I have never held on an exchange, but if you do, get it in cold storage. Consider an exit plan, just in case. The real question I have is where? Where are the safe havens? This trend to authoritarianism seems to be building throughout the western world.
These are dangerous days
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2024-02-27 21:46:57

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Can we take over the world yet? The current freaks are going to get us all poor and then dead

2024-02-27 08:41:10

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Hilarious that this story is under this chart.
https://m.primal.net/HfZB.jpg

2024-02-23 16:12:49

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Thank you for getting back to me, i will do, I hope we can get it up and running 👍🏻

2024-02-23 14:30:00

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my umbrel has never managed to sync bitcoin core, never seems to get past 1%, asked for help but not had any joy, so currently it's just sat there with no power on, while I try to figure out how to use it moving forward.

2023-12-02 08:59:15

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So far I’m really impressed, nice work team Primal!

2023-09-06 05:54:20

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Awesome thanks, I have played the Thunder games too, nice to see others out there, I will give them a go. These are really good for getting people to earn sats and stay the process of them learning. I also use sMiles to earn while I track steps, it has helped to motivate me to get out more and start running regularly also 👍🏻
Would be great if there were more apps that reward for doing activities

2023-08-31 19:55:47

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What games is that?

2023-08-29 14:00:31

Running for Bitcoin 🏃🏻‍♂️
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