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Surely driving the vehicle in a manner that was certain to break the transmission within 4 months caused no other excessive wear in the vehicle, right? Sounds like a terrible idea, really.

Just an anecdote, but I've had multiple dexa scans in the 8-12% range spanning across years of bulking and cutting and I've never had better than what I consider mediocre abs - probably much better than the average adult male in the U.S. but never magazine photo worthy or anything like that. Other people did comment on them at ~8%, though, so my own perspective may be negatively biased.

Multiple felon software dev here. I make $250k in Minneapolis.

> Short-sellers are part of the free market

Not when they get to simply turn off the half of the market moving against them they aren't.

Anecdotally, as someone who's work kept on trucking (surprisingly - we sell content for display in public spaces where people pass or congregate) - 2020 was a banner year for my family. We saved more than we ever have before and the price of our various assets soared.

We even had a 20% bump in gross revenue while bringing our costs down, and that's after 2019 was flat for us (prior to that we were hitting 30%+ for a handful of years in a row).

> Generally speaking, if your testicles don’t shrink, your production stays the same right?

No, absolutely not.

The size of your testicles is in no way indicative of your testosterone production.

While a shorter period of use generally has a higher chance of your natural production restarting after ceasing exogenous testosterone, your natural production of testosterone shuts down immediately with the introduction of exogenous testosterone.

At 6'0", 215 lbs, and 10% body fat (via DEXA scans) I have a BMI of 29.2 - on the high end of "overweight" - almost "obese". I'm a fit, but not especially big, casual weightlifter with a desk job.

> Challenge there is that it doesn't fit the narrative that Tether give about the demand being from "institutional investors"

Market makers and trading shops with 7-8 figure funds playing with riskier cryptos or trying to tap worldwide volume.

It's not MicroStrategy and Mass Mutual Insurance using Tethers

> That alone should be a red flag.

That's not the primary use (by dollar volume, it is also helpful to streamline participation in the entire crypto ecosphere regardless of local regulations).

But Tether's for market making. Arbitrators need a way to transfer USD denominated amounts between exchanges to operate.

On top of market making, you'll have smallish (7-8 figure USD) trading shops running strategies across multiple cryptos that just don't have fiat ramps, or they want to tap into volume across exchanges that don't have fiat ramps. If you're one of these customers, you can get in touch with Tether and make redemptions, but you probably don't need to do that anyway because you're working through a prime broker.

This activity doesn't care if the market's bull or bear, so it continues to grow over time in either trend.

2.5% is way too much.

I pay 0.15% and the exchange has been around for a decade without ever losing funds. It's even now licensed as a bank in the U.S.

Depends somewhat where you live and what you plan to do with the Bitcoin (long term hold or actively trade).. but major exchanges in major countries are pretty trustworthy these days.

Kraken, Gemini, and Coinbase are all quite trustworthy, if any of those are available in your locale.

Buying and holding for 4+ years has produced amazing gains in Bitcoin since its inception. Trading often and fooling around with alt coins has caused many great losses and pain. Don't invest more than you can stomach losing or holding in the red for a few years.

> It's smack in the middle of the voter demographic.

Not just voters, large portions of our representatives are also from that demographic.

ETHE is backed by ETH. If ETHE gets sold, ETH gets sold - ~0.01 ETH per ETHE.

Market cap doesn't mean much at all in crypto. XRP's is high because the circulating supply is 45 billion XRP - 2500 times more than BTC, 400 times more than ETH, etc.

I could create a blockchain and issue a quintillion coins and if I manage to get it listed and sell some for a fraction of a penny it'll have a bigger market cap than the rest of crypto combined.