This is a juicy update that shows how the first press release on the subject was not intended for marketing purposes only. Microstrategy is really betting hard on bitcoin. Well done

I guess Iran is having surplus electricity and petroleum, since they can't sell their crude oil as a result of the UN embargoes and sanctions. Most of the financial transactions using fiat cash are monitored by international agencies and therefore it is not easy to indulge in cross-border trade. At this point, Bitcoin will be one of the few options available for the regime, to circumvent the sanctions. But if they use Bitcoin for this purpose, then we can expect the US authorities attempting to prevent that loophole.

Edit : Nevermind  Saints' offense getting so much penalties. There was a bit of hope when the Raiders gave the ball back but still they couldn't get anything going. 

I'm not much of a speculator, so even if it meant some turmoil in the short term, I think it's better the poison is bled out sooner rather than later.

Think of it this way, what would cause a bigger loss of faith in the markets?  Recognising it for what it is and allowing it to collapse now at $14 billion of mirage fakery, or pretending it's not a problem and waiting until it balloons to $140 billion and then blows up in our faces?  The longer we allow the charade go on, the bigger the fallout will be.

Easing up in game 3 to prepare for the next game does not makes sense from a player's point of view. Why waste energy?
If you are talking from a gambling perspective, maybe there's some truth to that. I don't think we need to go deeper hehe.
What sportsbook is giving +6.5 odds?

It's one of those cases where you want both sides to lose, heh.

I don't doubt the Attorney General's office are basically grasping in the dark, have no idea what they're actually looking for and probably wouldn't recognise it if they found it.  But at the same time, it's right that they should be suspicious of Bitfinex, who have been excessively furtive and rather shady in their dealings around the supposed "fully backed" nature of Tether.  It would be genuinely astounding to me if it turns out they really do have $14 billion USD in reserve, but something tells me they're never going to attempt to prove that's the case.  Last I heard of this ongoing farce, they'd amended their T&Cs to state that other assets may be used to back Tether, but didn't go into much further detail about what those assets might be.

I'll take this opportunity to give the usual reminder that people should only have funds on exchanges that they can afford to lose, particularly in the case of Bitfinex at the moment.  Also, if anyone currently has large sums stored in USDT, consider hedging with some other stablecoins (although, personally, they all sound as scammy and dangerous as each other to me, so I don't actually recommend holding any of them).

FYI, smooth hasn’t made a single commit to aeon since 2016 when stoffu made his first commits. Just saying that smooth does not technically maintain anything. He merges commits from
Stoffu.

Even if someone is able to do that (tracing), SEC/FBI won't get anything in return. The vast majority of the transactions in dark market still uses either BTC or ETH. And exchange liquidity with XMR is so low, that most of the trade is occurring outside the exchanges. Let's assume that SEC manages to trace a few XMR transactions. The users are then going to move to another anonymous coin, such as Veil or Deep Onion. I would advise the SEC to spend that money on something which is more productive.