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I don't have solutions, it's more musings on a subject that feels unfairly stacked against the 90%, could it be handled in a smarter way ? Absolutely. Are my musings smarter than what currently exists ? Not necessarily, but a LOT of people would agree with me and a lot of scientists - mathematicians, accountants, actuaries, etc. will be able to close a lot of loopholes and make it work.
Obviously I'm aware that if you invest $250k and you have $1million in gains you get taxed only on the $1million as it's "new" income. Wealthy people are stupid and conservative, but they have lots of resources so they CAN be late to the game and still beat a poor person investing 7 years ago - this should be offset.
As far as tracking stuff....they definitely know how much money I earned per year due to my workplace(s) - they can merge and calculate income there. You mentioned yourself that exchanges/stock brokerages report to the IRS as well -> they, the IRS, can do the MATH for me and I can just click submit or disagree and show them what they missed. Ideally though, if you get taxed only on what you buy/invest in - i.e. no income tax -> they can save themselves a LOT of time. If you would argue that a flat 20% tax is regressive, they can easily start tracking purchases made by you and tax them at 0%, after a certain amount at 10% and after a third larger amount at 20% - bam taken care of.
Pretty sure they can have a list of wallet addresses for businesses that are different from personal addresses, I'm sure it will come up when the business does their taxes as well.
Is this a knoife ? No, this is a knoife. Idk how you guys do things downunder, but surely you don't think the US is doing it better than you guys ? This sounds much more reasonable and caters to the 90%, not the 10% or 1% or 0.1%.
Well the government is a slow beast, when they get to taxing monero and other stuff, we would have moved onto other stuff. Unrelated to what we are discussing, but a future utopia based on AI and robotics will ensure a more equal resource allocation, thus taxes might become a thing of the past, so would jobs. Crypto would just be another way to have a "leaderboard" of who is winning/losing - if we still care about this at that point.
As far as Monero - I think there are algorithms where it will make it fairly impossible - mathematically/logically/cryptography wise to merge assets of multiples of peoples and redistribute in the correct way (happening as a black box) to all the people teh funds are supposed to go to - kinda what happens now, although I think the algo is flawed and not working as it should.
If you are arguing about governments always catching up and getting their cut - yes, absolutely and I want them to get their cut, I just wish it was fairer. India is not a good example for anything IMHO, but a lot of the countries on this planet are not. Look at what France is doing...with their tax on "useless investments" of 1% per year on the total assets, that's pretty insane if you apply it to people that are NOT rich. People that are rich will always have the advantage and move to a place where things are fairer. This kinda sounds like the most fair thing would be to have a 1 world government, which is NOT happening unless aliens come and present themselves as an existential threat to us.

Familiarize yourself with online spaces, first. eBay can be okay, but it can be risky if you don't know what you're doing (lot of scams these days, though that's less true of proof ASEs), and a LOT of places will charge you a lot more than coins are worth, so you need to learn what things are actually worth paying for before committing.
Looking at recent sale prices is usually a decent way to get started.

Minecraft makes this easier to understand imo. It's the fact that volume is proportional to the cube of length. If you dig a square out in Minecraft, you're left with a handful of dirt in your inventory. If you then keep digging and extend that square hole downwards, you end up with a LOT of dirt in your inventory.
It's just that there's a lot of space to put stuff when you live in a 3D world. Also, our planet is pretty big compared to us.

Apparently there's still a LOT of Ag there...

A LOT OF YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING Y’ALL BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT (BASKETBALL & BASEBALL)
SHOW ME THE MONEYYY

By a LOT less than Palantir. If there is a dramatic margin compression, a long Google short Palantir position should be a positive position.

Yeah even if they meet analysts expectations in Q4 of $0.22 EPS (0.57 FY) that would probably crush the multiple from 450x to 300x because they didn’t beat, and the price would adjust to $140-160, so 12-20% re-rating. They would have to beat by a WHOLE LOT to maintain the multiple.

True. I mean we’ve had run away debt for the past 20 years too and it’s all coming to a head: we now spend more on debt interest than the military, and we spend a LOT on military.

Maybe. Yesterday if you break down what happened in the market, while almost everything declined, the more speculative assets declined a LOT more than the less speculative.
Today recovered a bit, but if we have a big crash it may look like a magnified version of yesterday where everything declines, but some things really crater.

I'm up around 40% on my silver. And I put a LOT more money into that than my food, bills and gas and anything else I buy. Silver actually outperforming gold this year so maybe dump you gold since there's no way to get ahead.

This sell-off came at a perfect time for me...
I was able to sell some losers at a larger loss. That's an advantage to me because I made A LOT this year trading...
With the money I got from the sale, I bought into investments I really think are going to far better than what I was holding, and at the lower prices because of the sell-off.
So, I got a better write-off to offset profits and I was able to re-balance to investments that look a lot better than my losers.
Win-Win!

Disclaimer: I'm not an investor, and I have just a basic understanding of the intricacies of AI. I'm probably completely wrong, and I kind of hope I am.
Random thoughts below:
There's going to be a point where it contracts considerably and takes a lot of other economic growth with it. Right now, the entire U.S. economy is being propped up like a house of cards built on AI. Think about how much is actually being supported by AI expansion: data centers being built means construction and all of the infrastructure projects, like civil engineering, roads, power, cooling, materials, machinery, work crews, etc. People need to live close to their work, so there's probably a pretty good chunk of the real estate market that's people relocating for work. There's a LOT of stuff that's AI-related that isn't just AI. Eventually these construction projects will reach a saturation point where new construction slows dramatically and it becomes just maintenance with a little going into upgrading the existing facilities.
When the "bubble pops," it'll be some kind of cutthroat corporate warfare with the bigger, more successful companies swooping in and buying the little ones for pennies on the dollar. And a lot of it won't be because they're necessarily "better"; they'll just have the capital in reserve to ride out the storm and wait for the little guys to run out of steam.
The main thing that concerns me is the whole "AI taking our jobs" thing. The main purpose of AI that's been promoted is to increase efficiency and eliminate human "waste." Once these jobs are eliminated, that's going to be a VERY significant segment of the workforce. If fewer people are working, that means fewer customers buying their services, which means less demand for AI, and so on. And a lot of these jobs won't be replaced; this includes the engineers and technicians who are the ones doing all of the "heavy lifting" right now.
I see a LOT of similarities to pyramid schemes, where the early investors benefit from whomever joins the game later until the market reaches a saturation point. If I was heavily invested (which I'm not), I'd keep my eye not on the stocks of the "big guys" themselves, but on little stuff like civil construction projects around the data centers and the land leases that are being made for new construction. As long as some podunk town in rural Idaho is hiring road construction crews and the city is selling land for data centers, there's still a good amount of growth going on. When those start slowing down, I'd think that's a good sign that there might be an overall slowdown coming.
Of course, I probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

Is this really true? Do you have a working link that says Trump's crypto czar holds A LOT of SOL? Thanks

Just to be clear, it wasn't me. I never gave an ETH prediction. If I HAD TO though, I would say maybe ETH to 5500 if BTC goes to 150k and ETH to 6000 if BTC goes to 180k. At this point, I care A LOT more about SOL getting to 300 and beyond...hopefully getting to 400+ this cycle.

1. It's always a wise idea to start investing.
2. Trading is not investing. Trading implies active management of your positions. You'll need to invest screen time, A LOT of screen time.
3. You can try reading books on personal finance, investing, trading - there's no shortage of them. But I think that for the first year the wise choice is to put a small amount of money into an index fund and just watch how its price changes. Read an article per day on Bloomberg telling you how the market behaved and invest the rest of your time in learing for your future profession. If you will still be interested in markets after a year of watching, you'll be ready for something more serious and time-consuming.

Dude..bitcoin is not what it used to be. The government has control over it or at least a LOT of influence on it and not like it was soppose to be.

Hope you have social security if you plan on retiring at 65. Or you'll need to save a LOT every month until then.
Like others said. Its been one month. This is a long term growth fund. Not short term.

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Im buying 10k of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin will definetly hit a new ath before the entire financial market collapses. That means btw is guaranteed to go up from 100k (now) to at least 126k.
Why will btc hit an ath?
Because btc follows the stock market and right now the stock market is FULLY dependent on the AI bubble. And bubbles only burst under A LOT of pressure (just like 2008), and that pressure has not been reached yet.
So we will experience at least one more big bull run, so get ready to rake some profits up again.
Bonus points if using leverage.

It’s a LOT more simple than this.
Just ask yourself one question: “when do I need money?”
Your time horizon will guide all your decisions. 
If you need money next month, then the decision is obvious. If you need money as an annuity, the decision is straightforward. If you don’t need money for decades, once again obvious!
Now. If you don’t need the money ever, like it’s just play money, side money, etc. well once again there’s an answer for that as well.