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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 19 Nov \ on: Bitcoin Multisig Company Casa Makes Self-Sovereignty Easy bitcoin
it seems a contradiction in terms to me. I either control my keys or a company holds (even part of) them for me.
This Suriname Lady all over again.
They love to run with these stories about these candidates and never mention how fringe they are. Never mention their party, never mentions their status, it's all reported as "look! it could happen!" and it's just sensationalist clickbait.
The Suriname lady is from a tiny fringe party and won't be elected to presidential palace dog catcher.
This Polish guy - I won't learn either of their names, as they are inconsequential - is from a party that clocked in at 10% at their best showing.
-it's centralized garbage. they'll censor it out from under you, but it won't matter because the transaction fees will equal what you want to send anyway.
-that said, both technically and institutionally, that religious adherence the investment world has to "diversification", combined with the fact that ETH is the only crypto out there that has any meaningful tradfi ramps, means there'll probably be a run for it before it'll die.
realize, too, that "media speculation" about appointees is really manipulation, just like it was when Pompeo floated himself and had the media float him, only for trump to say, nah thanks. These "news" are - also - meant to create pressure for appointments and "manufacture consent" - this time, consent in the inner circle by feigning "public interest" for the appointment.
why not FabriCraft? FabriCraft would put the "fabric" in the name and with the uppercase, separate Frabric and Craft and make both easily recognizable.
I prefer the second logo!
no. absolutely no. get this thing away from me. If I want hallucinations and inventions filtered through algorithms to make sure I only get the "obedient" results, I'll watch a marvel movie. no.
not a sputnik moment. Sputnik was a surprise, after propaganda (and much of the own assessments) had interpreted the soviet union as backwards, and the suddenly it proved it wasn't only not backwards, but out front of the US in technological development.
With China, everyone already knows China is in front. The US getting there first would be the surprise.
Every once in a while I read about her, and quite tellingly, the articles NEVER have any information on what her chances are. A little bit of googling and her party doesn't even appear on commissioned polls. It looks like she has little to no chance, but she's getting some good publicity. Which makes me think, is this a grift?
yeah, this really has no informational value unless we know what the supply is, or in the case of national currencies, what their purchase value is in the national economy. Otherwise this is just a convention. When a country that went through hyperinflation a few years back cuts six 0's from their currency, this changes absolutely nothing in its actual value, it just saves them some ink on printing bills.
also, important to note where the banking centers are. Of course Frankfurt is a big banking center within the EU, as are Luxemburg, ireland, and France. So anything that draws money from commercial banks hurts their economies more than others.
This was the point I made long ago on why CBDCs are unlikely to replace the current fiat system: they kill commercial banks, which at this point would no longer hold the citizen's money, which of course is a major source of their capital requirements and a profit center. CBDCs on a wide scale is murder of the banking system. And that system is not only a major foundation of national economies, the more cynical ones among us might point out that they own them and won't allow any such change if they can help it.
This is why there will be no CBDC in the US. In the EU, it's different, as the banking industry is a major part of the economic imbalance among countries in the EU, and many EU countries have little to no commercial banking of their own, which means that their capital flows out of their countries to underpin OTHER EU countries - namely. Luxemburg, germany, and Ireland, to a lesser extent France and Spain. Those EU countries not in this list would not be all too hurt by such a shift, on the contrary. So this is where the fight arises, and why a CBDC is still more likely in Europe than in the US.
Bonus point, the continuing expansion of the EU has been a US project for decades. Using this bloated EU to weaken Europe as a competitor is part of this plan. So making the EU gobble up country after country is a strategy that makes a CBDC more likely, which in turn will strengthen the US banking sector massively in comparison to the EU one.
well, at least they gave up the hyperloop scam!
and the article makes a point to emphasize an "all-electric" construction. As if you could build a high speed network with Diesel. :D
And.. Siemens? Who built the German system that has breakdowns every week? Because they can't, or won't, contract the Chinese, who really know how to build this? But that's no surprise.
But given that this is the US, it would be a surprise to actually see it finished, instead of being a grave for government funds thrown to corporations who don't deliver on the promise in 10 years. Anyone want to take a bet if, in five years, there's a train there? I take "no".
I know latin america is cheaper; I moved here. But with 130000 dollars, you still can't built one school, let alone a thousand.... unless you want to wait ten years and hodl until then?
ah, the FT, one of the more direct and open channels of empire.
"That would have an impact on the US’s ability to inform and influence outcomes, and undermine its national security."
In other words, the US defines "national security" as global dominance and the ability to tell everyone what to do. (which is of course correct, as an assessment, and shows in every foreign policy action the US takes.)