What’s up today? (Part 2)

Nice to see … Will Trump respond in any way? e.g. will he propose banning them in the US as a whole?

Also mentions that Texas and some other states are considering CBDC bans as well.

I think the bigger issue though is whether people have a choice at all.

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I love Dr. McCulloch’s QI hypothesis. It is elegant and a much more complete hypo, than standard DM or MOND hypo’s and ever more the data is backing up QI as the correct hypo.

Don’t take this post by the good Doc as sounding arrogant - he’s just really tired of his hypo being oppressed in journo’s because the DM people have most of the sway in the sci. community. I’ve communicated with him in the past and he’s a really decent man, albeit, not the best marketer as the headline of this post contests (big news for QI inside).

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Or maybe there’s something to that thing, socialism. Cold nights? Darkness? Worth studying I say.

We will see soon as Finland is close to pass the NATO ratification process . :finland: :heart: :muscle: Thanks to Putin and Russia forcing close countries to join NATO.

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The sun! Wow. :flushed:

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White house trying it’s very best to be dismissive of crypto from page 237. Very yawn couldn’t make it through.

White House Economic Report
https://t.co/lQlAyXgfyJ

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Risk of ‘industrial capture’ looms over AI revolution

… a handful of individuals and corporations now control much of the resources and knowledge in the sector — and will ultimately shape its impact on our collective future.

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Is this legit?

Banks are in shit creek and closing the exits while they sing all is well all is well.

Certainly seems apparent here in the US.

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@Josh who do you think you are to have the ability to spend your own money on the things you want to buy :joy: all for your own safety they really care about you :woozy_face:

It gets better they will happily let you deposit as much as you like from an exchange :joy::joy::+1:t2:

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A really lovely article. The description of these “small” cyberspaces sounds very interesting, but especially the description of the problems of the “big” web we inhabit is surprisingly lucid and deep. Seperate spaces are thriving, in any case, it appears.

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Looks like Do Kwon has been arrested.

Montenegrin police have detained a person suspected of being one of the most wanted fugitives, South Korean citizen Do Kwon, co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based Terraform Labs.

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Some banks dont allow inflow from exchanges, and havent done for years.

Do you think it’s okay for other people to tell you what you can and can’t spend your own money on?

I have used Natwest to buy my maid over the last 6 years so why are they limiting it now? My guess is NatWest are in shit creek with the rest of the crooked bankers :rage:

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Capital control. Over here they have increased the the balance sheet by 400 billion in 2 weeks, hight rates, high inflation, banks teetering.
If you were them, what would you do.
They can’t devalue your savings if it is out of the system.

I did hear today that UK inflation is dbl digits?

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It’s madness isn’t it? I know it’s going to be bad but surely they have to let them fail this can’t continue. Maybe if they actually arrested the criminals from 2008 instead of bailing them out things might be different. With no consequences for their criminal actions (and they are criminal) the merry go round just keeps spinning and we all get dragged along.

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Apparently it is.

My bank has a default setting of pay anyone set to 1K per day, although this can be changed by the customer. In this case it is a reasonable safeguard to prevent someone emptying a bank account too quickly.

In Australia the banks in some cases limit transactions to online casinos. This is the same principle (differing reasons). For some people it saves themselves and their family if they have an addiction. Now some people are addicted to share trading and/or crypto trading and for those it may save themselves & their families.

But for everyone else its not good. In crypto’s case they ignore the fact that many/most people send fiat to exchanges to buy crypto then move it off the exchange without doing trading back/forth.

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