Now this is a better post than sub 1k fud! Not telling you what to post, just saying.  |
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The Swiss, from the best most private banking system to the worst nanny state oversight in the world in one generation. How sad. Yes, I've noticed similar tendencies with ProtonMail (based in Switzerland), trying to bait paywall features in exchange for additional user details (and connection meta data), as if doxxing the French climate activist wasn't enough. That case certainly sucks and incurred the wrath of many Protonmail users. At least he was informed in advance of the request by French Police enforced by Swiss Courts. His encrypted email account was not compromised the contents not revealed. His VPN activity was not available, Swiss law does not require VPN logs to be kept. There is a ProtonMail onion service for those requiring increased security. You can sign up (pseudo) anonymously and upgrade the account without revealing personal details by paying with Bitcoin. ProtonMail is reasonably good compared to the offerings (and security) of the major email services offered in N America, Europe and Australia, who hand over your unencrypted data to law enforcement without any court warrant or to any commercial business for a fee. However ProtonMail have to operate in the real world bound by ever increasing draconian surveillance laws. Trezor going down the toilet with their Swiss Travel Rule Protocol. In other news Bitcoin keeping us guessing as to the next move in price. After careful consideration of recent feedback, we will be removing Address Ownership Proof Protocol (AOPP) in the next Trezor Suite update. The relevant pull request has already been submitted on GitHub. https://blog.trezor.io/a-decision-on-aopp-789540c2930b?gi=35823dfa7ebf |
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The Swiss, from the best most private banking system to the worst nanny state oversight in the world in one generation. How sad. |
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https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/privacyweek/2022/01/25/monero-the-privacy-coin-explained/It’s certainly not for the faint of heart. Monero makes no attempt to comply with know-your-customer/anti-money laundering (KYC/AML) procedures and values privacy above all else. This has not only led to it being delisted from a number of exchanges including BitMEX and Kraken, but the project’s casual disregard for customer due diligence (CDD) measures also means it has found itself in the crosshairs of many financial regulators around the world. Pretty good article except of course the incorrect info that Kraken delisted it.
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Well, it finally happened. I am Corona positive.
Isolate and as others have stated stay hydrated and keep those sinuses flushed.  Shaking off the last of it the last few days, almost got rid of the lung fluid. Was down for a few days and a couple nights without sleep do to breathing issues. This new variant was similar to the flu for me (I'm vaxxed with pfizer). |
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Known as Libor, the interest-rate benchmark once underpinned more than $300 trillion in financial contracts but was undone after a yearslong market-rigging scandal came to light in 2008. It turned out that bankers had been coordinating with one another to manipulate the rate, pronounced “LIE-bore,” by skewing the number higher or lower for their banks’ gain. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/business/libor-finance.html |
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Are you blocking the ports? |
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Monero ded, pack it up boiz  Hey you wanna ddos minexmr for awhile and shake some of those miners loose.  |
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Jesus ^^^ what a bunch of bears!  |
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Great weekend of NFL, Greenbay was a fucking joke! I found a bootleg vid of their "special teams" attempts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_5PA2qY1gKC / Buffalo in OT...What a game! *edit Bills fans, what a heartbreak! *edit aGAIN Goddamn commentator stole my descriptor again! |
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This is exactly like it.  I have become less and less agreeable to three-wheelers over the years. Chopped VWs were really the only ones I ever thought worthwhile. I do give a pass for those physically unable to ride a proper motorcycle. But there are better options even for many of them. His grandmother gave it to him to sell and get a real bike (he bought his first starter bike from me cheap a few years ago). She bought it to keep riding in her 80's! She got a few more years of wind in her hair out of it and I respect her for that. I've never been a fan of trikes but they still beat the shit out of cars. I think I would ride one of these if I couldn't balance a bike anymore. *20 pages to go! |
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Fuck 24 pages back! Thanks a ton for the well wishes brothers, warms my heart. Started to break up this morning and already feeling a ton better. Did have a test dropped off yesterday and indeed was positive. I'll quarantine another 5 days (think thats the amount) after I feel 100%. Had a dumb ass buddy drop by after being in a retarded situation (3 day bus ride with sick people) without quarantining himself. There is no curing stupid and I was a casualty of it. the sad part is he had a spyder shipped to himself instead of riding it which cost him 1200 and then couldn't justify the 650 for the one way plane so did himself in with the bus. He should have rode the damn spyder! He couldn't wait to bring it by for me to check out (he used to play on my bikes as a kid doing the vroom vroom thing) and apparently has infected the entire extended family as well. Ohh, I didn't notice the thing doesn't have a brake handle so got to the end of the road to the stop sign flying and had a split second of panic when there was no BRAKE Handle! Luckily I react quick in situations and hit the back brake which actually controls them all on that thing (not like a bike though as it stopped on a dime instead of sliding like a bike would have and almost tossed me over the bars). This is exactly like it. |
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Sick as a dog, my turn maybe.
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So the punchlines from the presentation seem to be that Tether is supposedly insufficiently backed, filled with a bunch of disingenuine actors who are largely engaged in Ponzi scheme behaviors and could implode at any moment - taking the rest of bitcoin/crypto with it (or at least dealing a considerable blow to bitcoin/crypto). Another point seems to be that many of us in the bitcoin/crypto space are not taking this seriously enough, yet I am confused regarding what actions we are supposed to be taking? Demand the auditing of Tether? lobby for their prosecution? Surely, there are a lot of governmental actors who would just love to take down tether, but the NY settlements seem to show that even the US Govt does not feel that they have enough ammunition to really take down Tether, and instead seems like settlements just allows for some abilities to have continuing ways to interfere with Tether with ongoing fines and ways to attempt to "keep Tether in check."
What we can do about it is just not park our capitol in it. I have a sneaking suspicion that the fed has its tendrils in bitfinex and tether to the root right now. and that is why even though the NY AG specifically stated there are provable times tether is fractional reserve he would just fine them and ban New Yorkers from using them therefore doing his due diligence. Remember it was a state attorney general that levied the fines and findings not the FED. |
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Well that was quite the hit! Not often you see a guys head snap to the side and his body go limp mid air! He gave the thumbs up on the stretcher so thats huge. https://youtu.be/IZKjPxmXEAE?t=73 |
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I agree that the Tether fud is, in general, fairly silly.
But I do want to say.. I am also not entirely comfortable with some of the trends I see happening with Tether.
There are lot's of two faced "Bitcoin Maxis" not only cozying up with Tether, but are actually using it via Ethereum at the same time of lambasting Vitalic and all the people on twatter with x.eth after their name.
I see a lot of nuance here. For example, I think I like the idea of using Blockstream's tether on their sidechain more than Eth for structural/scaling reasons. But I am still somewhat bothered by the tension between using Tether in place of Bitcoin... by so many people who have preached the "BITCOIN ONLY" gospel from the beginning.
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But something just seems wrong about these idealists embracing Tether.
It bugs me. But I have not worked through all of it yet, I guess...
I can't say I know that much about Tether, as I haven't had any interest in it to look into it too deeply. Having a stablecoin pin its value on a fiat is already a laughably bad idea. But to back a so-called "stablecoin" without being able to prove that it's actually pegged to the fiat dollar, much less able to prove its pegged to anything at all really, nor to be able to verify who holds it or how much, if the collateral backing it (fiat) is there and accessible 1:1, seems actually far worse than backing digital fiat to me. And beyond just making day trading easier, what purpose does it serve? |
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Niners must feel really lucky to find out that Prescott doesn't know how long "14 seconds" is.
First upset (kinda sorta) of the playoffs, beating a higher seed.
What is funny about all that fiasco is that the Cowboy fans are complaining about the referee having to place the ball, even if that is the rule, but they are forgetting that when Dak spiked the ball several players of the offense were offside, so technically even if Dak could have spiked the ball with one second remaining it would have been fair for the officials to call an offside penalty and by rule a 10 second runoff, ending the game anyway. Cowgirls fans always needs someone else to blame for their teams shortcomings. Its like Stockholm syndrome with them, really weird shit. |
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Well Grin has finally hit my target entry price of < 0.25 that I forecasted before launch.
took a year and a half longer than I expected.
It now looks like a good time to reevaluate how the project has progressed and determine whether it is worth getting into.
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