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91 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 30 Nov
Beware of who is David Marcus and what is his goal
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/10/investigative-series/the-chain-of-command-how-facebooks-libra-bank-regulators-and-paypal-built-a-new-world-currency/
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @standardcrypto 30 Nov
David Marcus's (@Libra) origin story of lightspark, coinbase's kyc/aml lightning wallet.
That being said
Given onion routing, how much censorship can Coinbase do as a lightning node before they stop being an effective liquidity provider / lsp/ custodial lightning wallet?
Not a rhetorical or partisan question. Genuinely interested in hearing from experts who have thought about this.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 30 Nov
In order to open a channel with them or use their liquidity is all KYC and tracked.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 30 Nov
Seems like he doesn't fully get bitcoin yet. But Libra was his baby for a long time.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 30 Nov
Will David Marcus go back to Libra?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shadowybadger 30 Nov
Actual honeybadger encounter
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 30 Nov
US government desperately clinging to the dollar hegemony is pretty standard action at this point.
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16 sats \ 2 replies \ @Tree 30 Nov
This probably really helped Bitcoin. Libra would be pretty big today if the central planners hadn't stepped in. This happening also massively orange pilled a lot of silicon valley bros.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 30 Nov
I suppose if there was ever a chance to dethrone bitcoin, that may have been it.
Probably not, but who knows.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tree 30 Nov
Hard to say for sure. That really was a wild time, there was tons of momentum behind the project.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Butterfinger 30 Nov
What a waste of other people's resources that was robbed with coercion.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 30 Nov bot
https://xcancel.com/terryangelos/status/1862709106286702895
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