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[HI-TEC99]

thank you buddy for yet another day of sideways action.

we have a double day this coming week.

cpi on dec 13th

fed rate adjustment on dec 14th

very stable leading to these numbers.

core of 6.2
cpi of 6.9


fed rate up 0.50

Cleveland Fed says (predicts);
core 6.3
CPI 7.5 (wow!)

last time they were off by 0.4, so there is that.

food is fucking nuts.

five guys:
 a hamburger
fries
 a soda

$20.00

fucking nuts.

take you wife and two kids $80

ugh.

Now I can go to a super market.
get 12 ⅓ pound burgers
a package of rolls
peppers
onions
potatoes
peanuts
cheddar cheese.
ice tea.
lettuce
tomato

serve 12 people  a better meal for maybe 50 bucks. buy some btc with leftover 30 usd.

of course I have to cook it serve it and clean it.

To be fair Five Guys has always been expensive, here in the UK at least.

A double cheeseburger, drink and medium fries is about £17 here. I find the fries quite boring personally. Whoever I'm with can have them.

If you're buying for several people it does start to get a bit ridiculous.
Quite a step up from the £5-6 McDonalds meal deals.

BUT Five guys better burger and more filling, more calories and usually the meals keep their heat longer due to better packaging.

Yeah five guys is one of the better fast food joints in the USA,but prices have gone nuts. I usually get the burger with a few toppings onions tomatoes mushrooms. Nothing else

 AND IT RUNS 12 BUCKS they serve salted peanuts in the shell while you wait for it. I eat a handful of them and bring the burger out to the car to eat with my own filtered water.

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[philipma1957]

Slow and steady Buddy 

[Hueristic]

European Union to Put a 10,000-Euro Limit on Cash Payments; Transactions Over €1,000 in Crypto Will Be Scrutinized

same level of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing scrutiny

https://news.bitcoin.com/european-union-to-put-a-10000-euro-limit-on-cash-payments-transactions-over-e1000-in-crypto-will-be-scrutinized/

You Euro guys need to get on your representatives asses about this!

Sorry JJG but they are using the term crypto to include bitcoin, you need to batslap them.

[Cryptolove20015]

Bitcoin is taking over Europe.

Twitter

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[gantez]

Did someone mention a giant bag of Fries ?  

just kiddin im getting a Boxing bag soon i am contributing the rest of my life to martial arts

1 inch punch shall blast a hole on the other end of the bag



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HByeL0V6cEE

Lol  I hope you have other skills so that when you are stripped off your title like Vladimir Putin you still have something to fall back on and join the bitcoin bull rally soon.

[WatChe]

Morocco is the first African team to play semi finals. The country is in Africa yet they speak Arabic.

From Arab countries (of middle east), Saudia Arabia best performance was in 1994 when they qualified for round of 16.

Algeria was another African country to make it to round of 16 in 2014 WC.

The answer to your question is, Morocco has so far done best in Fifa WC both in terms of as an African nation and Arabic.

Isn't it weird that there are big countries with great players such as Nigeria, Senegal and Cameroon but the first successful one in WC is an Arabic North African country? Congrats to them nonetheless.

Unlike bitcoin, football is very much centralized to Europe and South American countries only. It took 72 years for Asian county ( south korea and japan in 2002) and 80 years for an African country (south africa in 2010) to host Fifa worldcup.
If Morrocco wins this cup, this will be truly a step towards decentralization of football. Where every country from the world has equal chance of winning the World Cup.
Just my few satoshis.

Will it be France vs Croatia again?

It's time for Africa.

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[HI-TEC99]

European Union to Put a 10,000-Euro Limit on Cash Payments; Transactions Over €1,000 in Crypto Will Be Scrutinized

same level of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing scrutiny

https://news.bitcoin.com/european-union-to-put-a-10000-euro-limit-on-cash-payments-transactions-over-e1000-in-crypto-will-be-scrutinized/

You Euro guys need to get on your representatives asses about this!

Sorry JJG but they are using the term crypto to include bitcoin, you need to batslap them.

When are these new rules coming into force? There's usually a gap between them announcing new rules and implementing them.

[nutildah]

Slow and steady Buddy 

[Popkon6]

Woooooow...

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[Hueristic]

European Union to Put a 10,000-Euro Limit on Cash Payments; Transactions Over €1,000 in Crypto Will Be Scrutinized

same level of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing scrutiny

https://news.bitcoin.com/european-union-to-put-a-10000-euro-limit-on-cash-payments-transactions-over-e1000-in-crypto-will-be-scrutinized/

You Euro guys need to get on your representatives asses about this!

Sorry JJG but they are using the term crypto to include bitcoin, you need to batslap them.

When are these new rules coming into force? There's usually a gap between them announcing new rules and implementing them.

I really don't know much about this but here is the press release.

The new EU anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) rules will be extended to the entire crypto sector, obliging all crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to conduct due diligence on their customers. This means that they will have to verify facts and information about their customers. In its position, the Council demands CASPs to apply customer due diligence measures when carrying out transactions amounting to €1000 or more, and adds measures to mitigate risks in relation to transactions with self-hosted wallets. The Council also introduced specific enhanced due diligence measures for cross-border correspondent relationships for crypto-asset service providers.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/12/07/anti-money-laundering-council-agrees-its-position-on-a-strengthened-rulebook/#:~:text=An%20EU%2Dwide%20maximum%20limit,maximum%20limit%20if%20they%20wish.

And apparently this is the face of the lowlife scumbag we can thank.

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[becoin]

The new EU anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) rules will be extended to the entire crypto sector, obliging all crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to conduct due diligence on their customers.

And the legal definition of "crypto-asset" is ... ?!

[Cryptotourist]

And the legal definition of "crypto-asset" is ... ?!

Extensive ChatGPT testing by Spartacus:

https://iceni.substack.com/p/a-talk-with-chatgpt

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is actually quite an excellent conversation partner on the topics of political science and cutting-edge technology, so long as you avoid asking it to make value judgments, which leads to noncommittal, canned answers. However, as one can plainly see, the AI is extremely vulnerable to leading questions. It gives you the answer it “thinks” you want to hear, because it’s really just a deep learning language model trying its very best to predict what the most likely follow-up to any given string of text would be, and isn’t actually engaging in any real analysis or cognition.

And since we’re at it, this one is for you J:

Never surrender your keyboards.

[John Abraham]

Will it be France vs Croatia again?

Well, If you talking about the Final, It could be France vs Argentina as well.
Or, Croatia vs Morocco Or, Morocco vs Argentina. The possibility is endless.
Nobody knew Morocco will play Semi-Final.