Bob Koonce

At River a culture of security and paranoia has been in our DNA since day 1. Often that meant doing things the hard way instead of moving fast. For example, we have always operated our own custody system. This meant doing the work to be a regulated financial institution in our infancy instead of delegating the backend to companies like Prime Trust. We have always worked to minimize reliance on third parties where possible, and as our ability to build software systems accelerates we continue to delete both software and corporate dependencies. We budget a substantial % of our engineering resources every year to tackle tech debt and invest in security hardening. This means moving slower, but having confidence in our foundation and doing right by our clients. I personally give the company security training to every new employee who joins River and we constantly drive a culture of vigilance at the company. We tell every employee at River that their job is to be a security professional. Security isn't a team or a "thing" you do. It's a culture of extreme paranoia and humility - never feeling like you're secure enough and always trying to do better.

BREAKING: The governorship of Guam, a U.S. territory, has just flipped to REPUBLICAN.

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Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces. It is impressive, but the real point is what it still teaches in 2026. In 1971 we severed the dollar from gold. Since then the currency has lost roughly 85% of its value. Prices are higher because the money itself is weaker. A family making $50,000 with two kids that has not received a 25% raise in the last five years is falling behind. This is now often called “affordability,” but the the accurate word is inflation. We run annual deficits of two trillion dollars. The Federal Reserve buys about a third of that debt by creating new money. Every new dollar dilutes the value of the dollars already in people’s pockets. Gold does not expand when Congress spends. Paper does. That is the difference.

The Navy didn’t achieve its nuclear safety record because 20-year-olds can operate reactors. It achieved it because Rickover built a culture where those 20-year-olds are rigorously trained, continuously evaluated, procedurally disciplined and surrounded by layers of technical oversight. The reactor is only part of the system. The culture is the safety system.

Visualization of Schrödinger wave equation.

You had the chance to buy below the 200 Week MA...did you? It's now back above the 200 WMA but you can still get some #bitcoin relatively cheap as the banks go insolvent and the FED and Gov't bails them out.