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Her lectures end with the same plea she has been delivering for a decade: "Make your checks payable to Joyce Meyer Ministries/Life in the Word. And million is spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N."

In September, the ministry says, an East Coast woman gave stock worth that amount. Meyer then asked for more.

In St. Louis last month, Meyer asked for a $7 million check. "That would really bless me," she said.

Meyer's 20 or so conferences each year, where followers usually have their only opportunity to see and hear her live, are part old-fashioned tent revival, part motivational rally and part unrelenting sales pitch.

"God does not need our money. The giving thing is not for him, it's for us," Meyer told her Detroit audience in September. "I should not have to work to try to support myself."

- Seattle Times article

Selected bibliography

• Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing. 1994. ISBN 0-892-74679-3.
• Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind. 1995. ISBN 0-446-69109-7.
• Me and My Big Mouth: Your Answer is Right Under Your Nose. 2002. ISBN 0-446-69107-0.
• How to Hear from God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions. 2003. ISBN 0-446-53256-8.
• The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word. 2004. ISBN 0-446-57736-7.
• In Pursuit of Peace: 21 Ways to Conquer Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment. 2004. ISBN 0-446-53195-2.
• Straight Talk: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word. 2005. ISBN 0-446-57800-2.
• Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone. 2005. ISBN 0-446-57772-3.
• Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now. 2006. ISBN 0-446-57946-7.
• The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living. 2006. ISBN 0-446-57827-4.
• The Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear. 2007. ISBN 0-446-53198-7.
• The Penny: A Novel. 2007. ISBN 0-446-57811-8. (by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford)
• Woman to Woman: Candid Conversations from Me to You. 2007. ISBN 0-446-58180-1.
• I Dare You: Embrace Life With Passion. 2007. ISBN 0-446-53197-9.
• The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything. 2007. ISBN 0-446-53196-0.
• Top 10 Qualities of a Great Leader. 2007. ISBN 1-57794-913-7. (by Joyce Meyer and Phil Pringle)
• Conflict Free Living: How to Build Healthy Relationships for Life. 2008. ISBN 1-59979-062-9.
• Start Your New Life Today: An Exciting New Beginning with God. 2008. ISBN 0-446-50965-5.
• The Secret To True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow. 2008. ISBN 0-446-53199-5.
• Never Give Up!: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges. 2009. ISBN 0-446-58035-X.
• Eat the Cookie ... Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up. 2010. ISBN 0-446-53864-7.
• Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies to Win the Battle. 2010. ISBN 0-446-58036-8.
• Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You. 2011. ISBN 0-446-53852-3.
• Love Out Loud: Devotions on Loving God, Yourself, and Others. 2011. ISBN 0-446-53847-7.
• Do Yourself a Favor ... Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness. 2012. ISBN 0-446-54727-1.
• Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak. 2012. ISBN 0-446-53857-4.

Pauline Joyce Meyer (née Hutchison; June 4, 1943) is an American Charismatic Christian author, speaker and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Joyce and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.

Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in 1943. Her father went into the army to fight in World War II soon after she was born. She has said in interviews that he began sexually abusing her upon his return, and discusses this experience in her meetings. To this day, she speaks with a working-class St. Louis accent.

A graduate of O'Fallon Technical High School in St. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school. The marriage lasted five years. She maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer. They used the money to go on a vacation to California. She states that she returned the money years later. After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were married on January 7, 1967.

Meyer also reports that she was praying intensely while driving to work one morning in 1976 when she said she heard God call her name. She had been born-again at age nine, but her unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith. She says that she came home later that day from a beauty appointment "full of liquid love" and was "drunk with the Spirit of God" that night while at the local bowling alley.

... I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years ...

Meyer was briefly a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in St. Louis, a congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. She began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a charismatic church in Fenton. Within a few years, Meyer was the church's associate pastor. The church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher. She also began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St. Louis radio station.

In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called "Life in the Word." She began airing her radio show on six other stations from Chicago to Kansas City.

In 1993, her husband Dave suggested that they start a television ministry. Initially airing on superstation WGN-TV in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television (BET), her program, now called Enjoying Everyday Life, is still on the air today.

In 2002, mainstream publisher Hachette Book Group paid Meyer over $10 million for the rights to her backlist catalog of independently released books.

In 2004 St. Louis Christian television station KNLC, operated by the Rev. Larry Rice of New Life Evangelistic Center, dropped Meyer's programming. According to Rice, a longstanding Meyer supporter, Meyer's "excessive lifestyle" and her teachings often going "beyond Scripture" were the impetus for canceling the program.

In 2005, Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" ranked Meyer as 17th.

Meyer, who owns several homes and travels in a private jet (currently a Gulfstream G-IV), has been criticized by some[who?] for living an excessive lifestyle. She responded that she doesn't have to defend her spending habits because "... there's no need for us to apologize for being blessed." Meyer commented, "You can be a businessman here in St. Louis, and people think the more you have, the more wonderful it is ... but if you're a preacher, then all of a sudden it becomes a problem."

In November 2003, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a four-part special report detailing Meyer's "$10 million corporate jet, her husband's $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children," a $20 million headquarters, furnished with "$5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and the latest equipment and machinery," including a "$30,000 malachite round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each," among many other expensive items – all paid for by the ministry. The articles prompted Wall Watchers (a Christian nonprofit watchdog group) to call on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate Meyer and her family.

Following the adverse publicity about her lifestyle and Ministry Watch's request for an IRS probe, Meyer announced in 2004 plans to take a salary reduction from the $900,000 per year she had been receiving from Joyce Meyer Ministries (in addition to the $450,000 her husband received) and instead personally keep more of the royalties from her outside book sales which Meyer had previously donated back to Joyce Meyer Ministries. She now retains royalties on books sold outside the ministry through retail outlets such as Walmart, Amazon.com, and bookstores, while continuing to donate to her ministry royalties from books sold through her conferences, catalogues, website, and television program. "The net effect of all of this," notes Ministry Watch, "was most likely a sizable increase in the personal compensation of Joyce Meyer and reduced revenues for JMM." In an article in the St. Louis Business Journal, Meyer's public relations director, Mark Sutherland, confirmed that her new income would be "way above" her previous levels. Joyce Meyer Ministries says it has made a commitment to maintain transparency in financial dealings, publish their annual reports, have a Board majority who are not Meyer relatives and submit to a voluntary annual audit. On December 18, 2008, this ministry received a "C" grade (71–80 score) for financial transparency from Ministry Watch.

Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of six investigated by the United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations by Senator Chuck Grassley. The inquiry sought to determine if Meyer made any personal profit from financial donations, asking for a detailed accounting for such things as cosmetic surgery and foreign bank accounts and citing such expenses as the $23,000 commode mentioned earlier. Grassley also requested that Meyer's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007. In her November 29 response to Grassley, Meyer notes that the commode is a chest of drawers. Meyer writes that it was part of a large lot of items totaling $262,000 that were needed to furnish the ministry's 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) headquarters purchased in 2001. She said the commode's price tag was an "errant value" assigned by the selling agent and apologized for "not paying close attention to specific 'assigned values' placed on the pieces." Joyce Meyer Ministries responded with a newsletter to its e-mail list subscribers on November 9, 2007. The organization referred to its annual financial reports, asserting that, in 2006, the ministry spent 82 percent of its total expenses "for outreach and program services toward reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as attested by independent accounting firm Stanfield & O'Dell, LLP." The message also quoted an October 10, 2007, letter from the Internal Revenue Service which stated, "We determined that you [Joyce Meyer Ministries] continue to qualify as an organization exempt from federal income tax under IRC section 501(c)(3)." The same information was also posted to the ministry website. Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of two ministries to comply with the Senate's requests for financial records. It also made commitments to future financial transparency. Neither party were found to have done any wrongdoing.

ECFA accreditation

In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries received accreditation from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). In an announcement on March 12, 2009, the ECFA said that Joyce Meyer Ministries and Oral Roberts University had met their requirements of "'responsible stewardship', which involves ministries' financial accountability, transparency, board governance and fund-raising practices."

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I think you'll enjoy this Bitcoin documentary.

The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin - a documentary that explores the current state of our economy and the impact a new monetary system like Bitcoin can have on the world. Learn about our economy, the long and short term cycles, inflation and Bitcoin.

The year 2021 could go down as the year of many things, including another year that cryptocurrency became more of a mainstream topic and investment.

As cryptocurrencies became more talked about, many also gained in value in 2021, including three of the most popular names.

Here’s a look at how Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum performed in 2021.

What Happened: 

Bitcoin BTC gained throughout the year and was added to the balance sheet of Tesla Inc ,Block Inc and other publicly traded companies in 2021.

Dogecoin DOGE was one of the most searched for cryptocurrencies in 2021 and exploded in value thanks to popular names like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban publicly supporting the “meme crypto.”

Ethereum ETH gained in popularity and usage with the rising trend of non-fungible tokens, with many utilizing the Ethereum blockchain.

Investing $1,000 in BTC, DOGE, ETH: A $1,000 investment in each of the three most popular cryptocurrencies would have proven to be a winning trade in 2021. Here’s a look at how a hypothetical investment ended in 2021 for each of the three mentioned cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin traded at a high of $29,600.62 on Jan. 1, 2021. A $1,000 investment in Bitcoin on the first day of the year could have bought 0.0338 BTC. Bitcoin ended 2021 at a price of $46,306.45. The $1,000 investment ended 2021 worth $1,565.16.

Dogecoin traded at a high of $0.005685 on Jan. 1, 2021. A $1,000 investment in Dogecoin on the first day of the year could have bought 175,901 DOGE. Dogecoin ended 2021 at a price of $0.1705. The $1,000 investment ended 2021 worth $29,991.12.

Ethereum traded at a high of $749.20 on Jan. 1, 2021. A $1,000 investment in Ethereum on the first day of the year could have bought 1.3348 ETH. Ethereum ended 2021 at a price of $3,682.63. The $1,000 investment ended 2021 worth $4,915.57.

Investing $1,000 in each of the three coins on Jan. 1 would have ended 2021 at a valuation of $36,471.85.

Price Action: The 52-week ranges of the three cryptocurrencies in 2021 were as followed:

BTC: $28,722.76 to $68,789.63

DOGE: $0.005584 to $0.7376

ETH: $718.11 to $4,891.70

Engineers have long dreamed of creating a wonderful material that can revolutionize construction. In 2004, their dream came true. British scientists first created Graphene—one of the forms of nanocarbon that is only 0.3 nanometers thick—a million times thinner than a human hair, but it can withstand colossal loads!

Many immediately predicted a great future for it, and a little later, scientists were given the Nobel Prize. However, mass adoption did not happen. And only now, after 15 years, the first real opportunities have appeared to use the material of the future in commercial projects. Super-substance is made from ordinary graphite, which consists only of carbon. Nevertheless, due to its special crystal lattice in the form of hexagons, graphene gains many unusual properties. For instance, it can be both a conductor and a semiconductor, which makes it sought after when creating chips with higher characteristics. But the substance gained great popularity in another area - construction.

Scientists have found that graphene is 200 times stronger than steel!
 

Trading Platform Robinhood Announces Upcoming Launch of Cryptocurrency Wallets

Noting that 1.6 million people have signed up for its crypto wallets so far, the announcement details:

In mid-January, we will launch the wallets beta phase, which will roll out to thousands of customers from the waitlist.

Robinhood also revealed that during the wallet’s alpha launch, which recently wrapped up, “a tight-knit group” of customers from the waitlist tested the company’s first crypto wallet iteration “and shared detailed design and functionality feedback.”

For example, the alpha testers “requested signposting and explanations of terms like ‘network fees’ and ‘transaction ID.’” In response, the company said that it will provide more crypto articles and offer 24/7 phone support.

Robinhood added:

We will be rolling out some additional security features for crypto transactions. These include multi-factor authentication in-app, so we know it’s you when you initiate a transfer, and transaction checks to better understand the risk of where coins are being sent.

“While some say 2021 is the year that crypto went mainstream, the truth is that most people are still familiarizing themselves with the asset class and how to navigate the blockchain,” the trading platform noted.

In December, Robinhood partnered with Chainalysis to leverage the blockchain data analytics firm’s “data and tools to meet compliance requirements and provide Robinhood customers with the confidence they need to trade cryptocurrency safely,” Chainalysis described.

Can’t we have programs designed to run AI and just try 24hrs a day to guess passwords?

Yes you can, and yes, its happening: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/stats

As of right now, they have generated 41534.51 tn keys at a rate of currently 14.78 tn per day and there are still 32487405889012096286998934045.62 tn keys to go.

And just btw: you don't need "AI" to do this. Its as simple as counting upwards.

BIP39 Seed Word Entropy visualized (odds of someone guessing private key seed phrase assuming it has randomness)

The entropy of a BIP39 seed phrase is incredibly high, making it very difficult for someone to guess the private key seed phrase. The odds of someone randomly guessing the private key seed phrase are incredibly low, making it a very secure way to store your cryptocurrencies.

Check out the large Bitcoin Collider. People have been running that thing since 2015 and no one has ever had a true collision. If you understand math you will understand why it will never happen, even though there is a "probability it could happen", in reality it would never happen. There are nearly as many addresses as there are atoms in the universe.

One more way to look at it. The odds of winning megamillions is 1 in 300,000. The odds of finding a bip39 address is: 1 in 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936

I also heard it was one day after getting vaxxed.... found a screenshot supposedly from People magazine....

https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/dec/29/inflation-price-controls-time-we-use-it

Price controls, wage controls, rent controls are at the very least the beginnings of a command economy. 

The Soviet Union also had this idea. They were called Price Czars.

Good luck with that.

Things seem to be heating up between the superpowers around the world.

The Soviets are back and trying to whitewash history (again)

BitBoy has one of the biggest crypto channels on YT (1.5 million subs) and is notorious for his moonish predictions and clickbait thumbnails. As always, DYOR and don't trust any other person's price predictions, there's not a single person in the world that can predict these things. It's your hard earned money, treat it with respect when investing.

BitBoy's predictions for this year:

• Bitcoin (BTC): 322000$ - ⛔WRONG

• Ethereum (ETH): 27000$ - ⛔WRONG

• Cardano (ADA): 9$ - ⛔WRONG

• Polkadot (DOT): 326$ - ⛔WRONG

• Binance (BNB): 249$ - ✅CORRECT LOL

• Chainlink (Link): 900$ - ⛔WRONG

• Stellar (XLM): 6$ - ⛔WRONG

• Costmos (Atom): 140$ - ⛔WRONG

• The Graph (GRT): 10$ - ⛔WRONG

• Aave: 7000$ - ⛔WRONG

• BAT: 3$ - ⛔WRONG

• Hedera (HBAR): 1$ - ⛔WRONG

• THETA: 24$ - ⛔WRONG

• Thorchain (RUNE): 25$ - ⛔WRONG (but close)

Please keep in mind that some exchanges may have had slightly different prices

Imagine stealing £10,000,000 from a bank, and the only punishment is a £10 fine.

No, no, not give the £10,000,000 back and pay a £10 fine, but keep the £10,000,000 and pay the £10 fine.

This is exactly what is happening here; absolutely sickening.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/17/jpmorgan-agrees-to-125-million-fine-for-letting-employees-use-whatsapp-to-evade-regulators.html?

“While SEC officials said the $125 million penalty is its largest record-keeping fine to date, the bigger threat to JPMorgan may be reputational. By going after JPMorgan, the world’s biggest Wall Street firm by total revenue, the SEC has put the industry on notice.”

$200m for 2018-2020. 2021Q3 net was $11.7b.

Even if you add the other fines, the fines don’t move the needle.

Executive crime wont slow down untill the fines can bankrupt the company or the executives face jailtime for breaking the law.