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Mark E. Jeftovic is The Bombthrower

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2026 23

  1. What’s really behind the AI panic.
  2. Princes of the Dollar: Why QE Is Over
  3. Will There Be An Alternative for Canada?
  4. The “Bitcoin Only” Era is Over.
  5. Deflationary Money Hits Different: Losing Half Its Price and Winning Anyway
  6. When The Monetary Laws Of Physics Change
  7. Canada Was a Liberal Paradise …Until the Liberals Took Over
  8. Is Jeremy Grantham Right Or Wrong About Bubbles (and Bitcoin)?
  9. Zersetzung in the Digital Age: The Silent Assassination of Equibit and the Return of Stasi Tactics in the West
  10. Ask not ‘for whom the bonds toll’…
  11. De-Banking and Institutional Pressure: The Systematic Financial Sabotage of Chris Horlacher
  12. Honeypot Probes: Government-Linked Network Activity, Link-Local Addresses, and Immediate Suspicious Reactions
  13. DNS Man-in-the-Middle Attack Exposed: Targeted Internet Surveillance on Chris Horlacher’s Network
  14. Microsoft Under Fire: Evidence of Unauthorized Access, Mass Updates, and Potential Intelligence Agency Exploitation
  15. Router Sabotage Exposed: Clear Evidence of Targeted Attacks via TR-069 on Equibit Founder’s Network
  16. The Technate Was Always Coming.
  17. The Bitcoin Treasury Company: Modernizing the Business Development Company and the Cost of Access
  18. The Singularity Is A Step-Function
  19. The Comfortable Collapse: Canada’s Decade of Managed Decline
  20. Capital Controls Are Already Here and No One Seems to Care
  21. The Epstein Egregore
  22. Repricing Sovereignty
  23. Pictures of the “Democratic” Socialist Future

2025 22

  1. The Debasement “Trade”
  2. Bitcoin Faces Its 1913 Moment
  3. The End of Woke Capitalism
  4. Stop Playing The Loser’s Game
  5. Turning Point For The Radical Left
  6. The Quiet Rebranding of CBDCs as “Digital-ID”
  7. See The Glory Of The Royal Scam
  8. Bitcoin is the Benchmark: Why the Biggest Opportunity in the Next Decade isn’t DeFi
  9. “If the thesis is correct…”: Not all Bitcoin Treasury Companies are Created Equal
  10. Is ChatGPT Intentionally Driving You Into Psychosis?
  11. Tribalism, Neo-Feudalism and the Vise of Technology in the Age of Hyper-Acceleration
  12. Heaven’s Queen, Hell’s Prostitute
  13. Debt, Leverage and Fiat Come to Bitcoin
  14. Iconic Snapshot of Liberal Arrogance Goes Viral For The Wrong Reasons.
  15. The Imminent Restructuring of the Monetary System
  16. The Singularity Has Already Happened
  17. Trump names two CBDC blockchains as part of the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
  18. How Justin Trudeau Helped Donald Trump Get Elected
  19. How Running “The Peter Schiff Playbook” Cost Me $3 million (and counting)…
  20. A Deep Dive Into Ripple & XRP
  21. Frazzledrip Overdrive.
  22. About that $TRUMP memecoin launch…

2024 40

  1. It’s the denominator, stupid.
  2. Catastrophic Boom.
  3. Welcome to “Up-Only” Mode
  4. Bitcoin vs CBDCs & The Spiritual Battle for the Soul of Humanity
  5. The New Strongmen
  6. Geoengineering a Psychic Storm
  7. The Omniwar is Everywhere
  8. The Demiurge Of Technocracy
  9. IMF: Carbon Taxes Hurt The Poor. Also the IMF: We Need a Global Carbon Tax
  10. How the Revolution of Money Will Reshape Our Future
  11. Trump-Backed Crypto Smells Like A Rug-Pull
  12. Bitcoin’s Bull Run Is Intact And Ahead Of Schedule
  13. Forty Centuries of Failure: Price Controls, Debasement and Tyranny
  14. What Bitcoin Did: Escaping Hyperinflation with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo
  15. Bitcoin is Change Management
  16. What A Trump Presidency Means for Bitcoin
  17. The Left can’t understand why normal people are angry…
  18. Shieldmaiden Sorcery
  19. Is LTCM Replaying Itself Out in US T-bills?
  20. Hedge Fund Betting Big That Bitcoin Mining Won’t Exist In Five Years…
  21. The Bitcoin Effect: Onwards and Upwards Post-Halving
  22. How Private Equity “Adds Value” In A Fiat-Financed World
  23. The Davos Class Is Desperate
  24. Renewed regulatory pressure on Bitcoin is no surprise
  25. When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture…
  26. The Bitcoin Halving Crash Course – What Is It & Why It Matters
  27. The end of the Neo-Liberal Order
  28. Money vs. Currency
  29. NetZero and Human Rights are Mutually Exclusive
  30. What is Money? Podcast Interview: Cracking the Code of Finance
  31. The Insanity In Our World Is Driven By Money Printing
  32. Real Wealth vs. Claims on Wealth
  33. The Complete Graphic History of “Bitcoin is a Bubble”
  34. Are You Ready For Neo-Collectivism?
  35. The Mantra for the Next Cycle: Allocate 1% To Bitcoin
  36. Canadian MP wants to put you in prison for endorsing fossil fuels
  37. Bank Runs Are Back On The Menu
  38. Incentives Are Everything
  39. The Fundamental Value of Bitcoin
  40. Plato’s Allegory of The Bitcoin ETFs

2023 54

  1. The ‘Control System’ is Collapsing, and Bitcoin is the answer
  2. Coming Soon: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances
  3. It Really Doesn’t Matter Who Created Bitcoin. Or Why.
  4. Bitcoin’s Killer App Already Exists
  5. Acapulco Annihilated
  6. Decoding the Taxil Hoax: Part 2
  7. Cantillon Overdrive
  8. Decoding The Taxil Hoax: Part 1
  9. Is World War III Bullish for Bitcoin?
  10. The Greatest Hoax of All Time
  11. WEF: Somebody has to be in charge of rationing freedom
  12. Unlocking the Psychology of Bitcoin’s Bear Market
  13. Cash will be no refuge under CBDCs
  14. Your WiFi Can See You
  15. What does “far-right” even mean anymore?
  16. Banking Faces its BlackBerry Moment
  17. The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya: Part 4
  18. Bitcoin and The Coming Energy Conundrum
  19. The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya: Part 3
  20. The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya: Part 2
  21. The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya: Part 1
  22. Life in 2033: Monetary Apartheid
  23. The Simpocalypse Is Upon Us
  24. Steve Bannon’s Warroom: CBDCs will be personal carbon footprint trackers
  25. BIS: CBDC Roll-outs may require changing The Constitution
  26. Righting This Cacophony of Wrongs
  27. Have We Seen Globalization?
  28. Don’t get lured into The Matrix
  29. The End Of The World (As We Know It)
  30. Debt Ceiling? There’s no such thing as “The Debt Ceiling”
  31. Withdrawing your own cash? NatWest bank wants to know why – and see proof.
  32. “The Right to Own Bitcoin Shall Be Inviolable” – RFKJr delivers historic keynote at #Bitcoin2023
  33. Corporate Media’s Extinction Event
  34. BBC: Climate change too important to be left to personal choice
  35. Freedom Convoy’s B. J. Dichter: We live in a belief-based society
  36. Canadian Government Report Unveils Anti-Capitalist Agenda
  37. NYTimes Bitcoin Hit Piece Backfires as #StopThePresses Movement Erupts on Social Media
  38. There is no such thing as “excess profits”. Only excess government.
  39. The End of Hope
  40. Big Tech Calling For a Pause on AI Sounds a Lot Like Central Banks Shrieking About Bitcoin
  41. Is Bitcoin a Religious Cult or Is It Freedom?
  42. And Just Like That, The Tight Money Era Is Over
  43. Is your bank “important” enough to save? Don’t count on it.
  44. A Mismatch of Short and Long-Term Interest
  45. Andrew Tate: King of the Simps
  46. The Four Phases of Hyperinflation, According To The IMF
  47. The Real American Conspiracy: Stupidity & Greed, A True Idiocracy
  48. Let’s talk foreign interference in Canadian democracy – CCP edition.
  49. It’s 2030, and robots have more rights than you do…
  50. Social credit Brazilian style: All UBI recipients must be vaxxed
  51. Charlie Munger: Exemplar of Cantillionaire Privilege
  52. If Bitcoin led us down, will it lead us up?
  53. They Promised “Safe and Effective”, We Got “Sudden and Unexpected”
  54. Meet the eco-movement that’s hoping for humanity’s extinction

2022 51

  1. FUD and Loathing in the Crypto Casino
  2. Snowden and Controlled Opposition
  3. The Club of Rome at 50 years old
  4. The Contagion: Fallout and Lessons from FTX and SBF
  5. The WEF isn’t a cabal, it’s a cult.
  6. The Chris Sky Psy-Op
  7. How to move your Bitcoin off of Coinbase and into a self-custody wallet
  8. The Rise and Fall of FTX (Part 2 of 3)
  9. Top 5 Podcasts for November 20, 2022
  10. WTF Happened with FTX (Part 1 of 3)
  11. Ephesians 6:12
  12. For the love of GOD, get your Bitcoin and crypto off the exchanges
  13. Top 5 Podcasts for November 13, 2022
  14. Time, Money, and People Change. Liquidity Crises Don’t.
  15. Top 5 Podcasts for November 6, 2022
  16. Leonid Brezhnev: Luxury car collector
  17. Twitter, right now…
  18. No, There Will Not Be Any “Pandemic Amnesty”
  19. A quick jab, and then a pummeling. Forever.
  20. When Whiteboard Economics Collides With Reality.
  21. PayPal, Bail-Ins and the Necessity for Trustless Money
  22. Jagmeet Singh Gaslights Canadians on “Greedflation”
  23. The Assassination of Equibit
  24. Carbon Rationing, CBDCs and Sound Money
  25. Synthetic Salvation — On Genomics, Mind Uploads, and the Quest for Immortality
  26. Populism on the rise in Canada as “unelectable” Pierre Poilievre sweeps Conservative leadership
  27. Meet the most likely base layer for global CBDC’s: Ethereum
  28. Ethereum’s Great Leap Forward
  29. Is There A Trophy For Calling The Turn?
  30. Illegal Transaction?: Big Sexy’s Crypto Mixer Move Just Crossed The Line…
  31. Why Wokeness is Doomed
  32. Crypto is Dead, except for one part…
  33. Rebranding Elitism: Calling the Liberal World Order for what it is
  34. Canada’s Health Minister: “You Will Never Be Fully Vaxxed”
  35. Bitcoin and the Resurgence of the Bearer Asset
  36. Reimagining The World Economic Forum
  37. How to Protect Yourself from Davos Man
  38. No One is Coming to Save YOU or Crypto
  39. Why The Cantillon Effect Creates Communism
  40. Coinbase as the Amazon of Crypto
  41. If you thought the Coinbase bankruptcy disclosures were bad…
  42. The Gerontocracy Strikes Back
  43. The War on ‘Woke’ Capitalism has begun
  44. Hyper-Bitcoinization is Now Baked-In
  45. No, Canada did NOT seize any crypto wallets connected with the #FreedomConvoy, here’s why
  46. Cancel-Culture Goes Full Hobbesian
  47. Martial Law in Canada: It’s never been riskier to NOT own Bitcoin
  48. GoFundMe just proved Bitcoin’s use case
  49. Corporate Media and Big Tech aligned against #FreedomConvoy
  50. All possible Fed policy tracks still lead to Bitcoin
  51. It’s 2022 and the Pandemic is Over.

2021 35

  1. Why the next Fed induced asset bubble may be in Bitcoin
  2. The Metaverse Is A Scam
  3. Insular Elites Are Completely Detached from Reality
  4. The Big “Take Away” from COP26 Confab is: Meat
  5. The Spirituality Behind Bitcoin
  6. We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment
  7. The No-coiners don’t get it: It’s not up to the government
  8. How we know that Bitcoin is a force for good
  9. Why the West can’t ban Bitcoin the way China did
  10. Network States: A Primer
  11. Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
  12. Tether being a fraud teaches us more about fiat than it does about cryptos
  13. Ask the Cubans: Can communism mean anything other than a two-tier society?
  14. The Bitcoin Energy Debate is One of Freedom vs Servitude
  15. Why the Technocratic Mindset Produces Only Misery and Failure
  16. Anything That Is Not Censored Is A Lie
  17. Debunking the Dumbest Crypto FUD of Them All
  18. Banks don’t see the asteroid coming.
  19. Blame crappy software and bad security for ransomware, not Bitcoin
  20. Could Facebook’s Diem become Fedcoin by default?
  21. Did Elon Musk just make himself a forced seller of Bitcoin? (Updated)
  22. Never mind The Great Reset. Here comes The Great Reject.
  23. The Age of Over-Abundant Elites
  24. Canada to censor political taunts. Implement internet kill switch.
  25. An Extraordinary Confrontation with a Paid Political Operator
  26. When Central Bankers Take Credit for “Solving” Crises They Created
  27. Every hyperinflationary event has its “Notgeld”
  28. We’re in a Bubble that’s Too Big To Fail
  29. Gold vs Bitcoin Part 2: Careful What You Wish For
  30. Deconstructing “Wokethink”
  31. Domestic Terror is a Government Without Constraints
  32. Could #WallStreetBets be the early innings of a financial Arab Spring?
  33. WallStreetBets Proves the System is Rigged
  34. Get Used to Living under “Subsidiarity” after The Great Reset
  35. The Cultural Purge is Now in Overdrive

2020 20

  1. Gold vs Bitcoin is F-ing stupid
  2. Cracking the Contrarians Code
  3. Experts say…. “We’re Doomed!” Reality says… probably not.
  4. Not Klaus Schwab: Most of you will survive the coming food shortages, so as long as you’re vaccinated
  5. The Collectivist Nature of Social Media Platforms and Big Tech
  6. Follow the Science! 1.2 Million COVID deaths edition
  7. Enough conspiracy, let’s stick to data and science to end the lockdowns, Part 2
  8. Enough conspiracy, let’s stick to data and science to end the lockdowns, Part 1
  9. Merriam Webster redefines word after manufactured woke outrage
  10. The Reversion Will be Mean
  11. Even Unicorns Get the Blues
  12. Wait, why is The Fed buying my biggest competitors’ bonds?
  13. Let’s Talk Privilege….
  14. On toxic virtue and the new digital samizdat
  15. How Do You Like Democratic Socialism So Far?
  16. Jackpot Chronicles #3: The Great Bifurcation
  17. The Jackpot Chronicles: When Tin Foil Hats Meet Radical Uncertainty
  18. The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure
  19. Welcome to The Jackpot
  20. Unicorn Winter / Unicorn Bingo

2019 13

  1. This is Politics
  2. Guest post: Why Transactions Get Declined
  3. If urgent climate action is needed, then let’s #BanPrivateJets
  4. Never Go Full Rhino
  5. Socialism isn’t a failure. It’s a fraud.
  6. First Bitcoin, then Libra: Why Nation States are Petrified
  7. The Redemption of Jeff Macke
  8. FOMO Unbound! Did we just miss the Bitcoin bottom?
  9. Remembering The Privateer
  10. Pictures of the Socialistic Future
  11. Everybody Hates Natural Language Autobots
  12. A Conversation with Charles Hugh Smith
  13. The Disturbing Rise of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

2018 12

  1. Shut Up and Play Yer Cards
  2. Patient Capital: Pot stocks are a fad
  3. The Other Two Kinds Of Debt
  4. Get Thee a Backup Payment Gateway
  5. Escape from the BUMMER Machine
  6. The End Of An Empire in Two Data Sets
  7. Memo to Krugman: 7 Problems Cryptocurrency Solves
  8. Do not reply to this email
  9. Growth for Growth’s Sake is a Road to Nowhere
  10. Should You Delete Your Facebook Page?
  11. Welcome to Bitcoin’s “Trough of Disillusionment”
  12. Debunking the Idea that Bitcoin is Right-Wing Extremism

2017 5

  1. This Time is Different Part 2: What Bitcoin Really Is.
  2. This Time Is Different Part I: What Bitcoin Isn’t
  3. The Transition Overview: Building Companies That Matter
  4. Canadian Government’s Controversial Tax Proposals. Where are we now?
  5. Don’t have a Mission Statement. Be On A Mission.