Hmmmmm...Central Banks you say? Teh Iorny.
IMF: Agustín Carstens: The Innovative Central Banker.
Financial Times: Agustin Carsten; "Crypto, but only government crypto." (CBDC).
[...]"the problem with stablecoins is that to assure [their] stability in an ironclad fashion is extremely difficult."
Same as the stock market, then, Slim? Hands off Crypto Control. Hit the treadmill 'Gus.
Coinrank: What is CBDC? A Beginner’s Guide.
Hit MW and Crypto links:
^ Link defaults to US Market. Once there, remember to click and view Europe, Asia, Futures and Crypto.
Crypto. < All Crypto.
Schuduled Sunday night to post Monday AM. I may sleep in. Why awaken early for disaster? Pray it's not as bad as the Stonkers predict.
^ Link defaults to US Market. Once there, remember to click and view Europe, Asia, Futures and Crypto.
Crypto. < All Crypto.
100% Fed Up: BLACK MONDAY INCOMING? Everything Is Crashing Overnight, Heading Into Monday.
This is intended and designed to happen. It's not accidental or incompetency. It's ... the Amish.
Crypto News: Industry support and the Silk Road founder release: what Trump promises to the crypto community.
[Trump] promised to release the founder of the darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht. If he wins the election, Trump promised to cancel the sentence on the first day.
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He also pledged to support self-custody rights for the nation’s 50 million digital assets holders.
The story mentions Trump has solid and large support from the digital currency community while they view Biden and Handlers as anti-crypto, which they are. The article states Trump saying he'd never allow the launch a CBDC.
Great; yeah! 👍👍
Trump should've pardoned Ulbricht, along with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, his first time around.
Made a valiant attempt in getting caught up with everyone on the blog roll. Didn't quite make it all the way but everything and everyone is still around. Everyone okay out there? Hope so!
Anything new? Besides Biden's Handlers driving head-on into World War 3 involving every nation on earth? Is Build Back Better working now? Someone said the DJIA closed at over 55,000 on Thursday and I overheard someone I don't know saying BitCoin is at One Billion Dollars. I've been away for so long.
A few chilly, under the average, days here but a warm up is supposed to happen this week. Joy!
Still in a process of sorting, tossing, keeping. Just a different area, not the garage, although there's more to do there. This is going to be a while.
The My closets in the basement...ugh. Boxes, stacked atop others. Ugh...ugh. If I do it inebriated does that make the task and decision-making process easier?
I keep waiting for Hillary to announce her run for president. C'mon Hill, don't disappoint me. I made sizeable wagers, dammit, that she'd enter the race.
There's a video ready for Monday Morning Music! Ooh-Ahh! But I'll be AFK for a while. Feel free to drop comments. I'll check in sporadically. Stay Safe out There!
RT: China is ‘ghosting’ the US because normal diplomacy has proven useless.
No countries are returning Biden's call. The only one is Zelensky, begging for ...
Breitbart: Zelensky DEMANDING another $14B.
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Rolling Out: Rapper EGYPXN shoots mother, sister, brother. Drops music video. Then is killed in a police shootout.
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Forbes: OPEC Back in the Driver's Seat.
Why OPEC in the Driver's Seat? Because they can't stand Biden, he alienated them and China will buy all they have. Happy Summer Gas Prices!
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Not The Bee: Arnold Schwarzenegger went viral for filling in a pothole ... turns out it was an active service trench.
Arnold "Screw your freedoms" Schwarzenegger. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving Dick.
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Taxpayer $ to NPR should have ceased decades ago.
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Breitbart: Former NHL Player Raymond Sawada Dies of a Heart Attack at 38.
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RT: Musk claims Twitter HQ landlord rejected homeless shelter plan.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has blamed his landlord for shooting down a proposal to use vacant office space at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco to help ease the city’s homeless crisis.
“We tried to turn it into a homeless shelter,” Musk said on Tuesday night in a BBC News interview. “They (the owners) won’t let us.” He added, “We’re only using one of the buildings, so the other building could be a homeless shelter.
Elon provides a partial solution.
Liberal Reaction: "We didn't think of this so we don't like the idea. What? Elon suggested it? Double-Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww."
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Forbes: BTC staying above $30K.
"Some say" ... it might be a time to consider buying.
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207-year old Dianne Feinstein (D) asks for temporary fill-in. She'll claw to that Senator Seat until the first shovel of dirt hits her casket. FFS, Retire.
Breitbart: Dianne Feinstein’s Request for Temporary Replacement on Committee ‘Unprecedented’.
No Republican would be afforded the same political leniency.
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MSN: Kitty gets head stuck in iron grate drain.
Kitty extracted, doing fine and probably back to knocking everything off shelves and countertops.
Citizens New: The world you once knew is OVER: 12 must-see predictions (and solutions) for 2023.
1) Vax deaths accelerate as immune system destruction continues
2) Exploding infertility and stillbirths
3) Deindustrialization of Europe
4) Crop failures / worsening food scarcity
5) Inflation and bailouts / zombie stimulus
6) Banking restrictions on withdrawals of cash
This is already taking place in Nigeria, where bank customers are limited to withdrawals of just $45 a day of their own money. As more governments and central banks push hard into digital currencies, watch for them to make dealing with cash and banks more and more painful, if not at some point impossible. We anticipate bank freezes, bail-ins and insolvency failures beginning in 2023 and continuing for years to come.
7) Digital money rolling out
8) A new pandemic, worse than covid
9) Worldwide CLIMATE lockdowns and engineered fuel scarcity
10) Populist revolts against corrupt governments and rigged elections
11) Huge pushback against censorship by tech platforms
12) Explosion in home gardening and off grid food production, local food barter
I dunno. Maybe, maybe not. Why I'm skeptical about "predictions"? Because I'm not yet driving one of these, which was predicted decades ago:
First, he told his 4.6 million Twitter followers on Wednesday that bad actors had taken over his IP address. "Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography," Krugman wrote in a now-deleted tweet. "I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there."Krugman, the same guy who in 2013 called Bitcoin "evil." Yeah, because he didn't buy it back then when its price floated around $600. He missed out on a bargain and is forever pissed about it.
Qanon is used to describe far-right conspiracy theorists who believe in a deep state that is threatening to take down President Trump.
He then followed up, in a tweet, saying that the "Times thinks it may have been a scam. Anyway, will have more security in future."
Even so, Krugman's allegations prompted a fierce backlash from social media, with many calling the economist's bluff from the get-go.
"Honey...pay the sitter in Bitcoin."“Cashless society” is a euphemism for a “bank payments society”, in which every transaction must be passed through a complex of banks, card companies, phone providers and payments apps.
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Ask a room of people to raise their hands if they wish to be able to use digital payment, and most will do so. But if you reframe the question as “Do you want to not have the option to use cash?” people are more hesitant. We like new options, but we don’t like having options removed.
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The digital payments industry tries to cast cash as the horse-drawn carriage of payments; but cash is the bicycle, more flexible, resilient and convenient in certain settings, especially informal ones.
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States having access to your payments data opens up potential for economic censorship.
[.] Corporations too are drooling over the potential to monitor customer payment data.
Blockchain is among the “next big, transformational technologies” being eyed for use by government in its ongoing quest to provide residents with easy, online access to services and transactions[.]
The cloud-based ledger ensures that records can’t be duplicated, manipulated or faked, and increased visibility in parts of the supply chain promotes an unprecedented level of trust.
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On July 19, the DOJ under Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the resumption of federally adopted forfeitures, whereby local and state law enforcement to use federal law to seize cash and other property from people suspected of crimes, even if they are not charged.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein defended the [Asset Forfeiture) program to reporters.
“This is not about taking assets from innocent people," [said Rosenstein].
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[Criminal defense attorney and professor at Virginia Commenweatlh [sic] University Matt C. Pinkser] states:
“No one objects to criminals losing their ill-gotten gains from their criminal activity. The problem is that for civil forfeiture, there is no requirement that a person is charged with a crime, let alone convicted.”
Pinsker explained that prosecutors need only show it is more likely than not that the asset being seized was involved in, contributed to or acquired through criminal activity.
Seizures can be based on mere rumor, gossip, a police hunch, or self-serving statements from disreputable people with an axe to grind like anonymous paid informants[.]
A private key is a tiny bit of code that is paired with [algorithms] for text encryption and decryption.Insider trading isn't supposed to happen, but it does. Why? People can't keep secrets.
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As the term suggests, private keys are intended to be secret, and is shared only with the key’s initiator, ensuring security.
...crypto-hysteria is distracting you from a scary truth no one is talking about. There is every indication that governments, regulators, tax authorities, and the global elite are moving in for the crypto-kill. The future of Bitcoin may be a dystopia in which Big Brother controls what’s called “the blockchain” and decides when and how you can buy or sell anything and everything.
Furthermore, cryptocurrency technology could be the very mechanism used by global elites to replace the dollar based financial system.
"Analytics are viewed as how many tools or dashboards you have, or how many reports you generate, " said Isher Kaila, CEO of management consulting firm Sapphire Nine Consulting. "No one is anchoring that to the amount of insights you are delivering, and by extension, what those insights translate to in terms of business outcomes.Exactly. But try and tell that to your boss.
The biggest reason I’m immediately turned off by the iPhone X is [the] FaceID facial recognition technology.- - -
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But no, Apple, the iPhone X can’t have my face.
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"It's come to our attention that a gauntlet [an armor item] in Destiny 2 shares elements with a hate symbol," Bungie wrote on its official Twitter channel. "We are removing it. Our deepest apologies. We renounce [sic] hate in all forms."
The item in question, which was still live on the game's official site as of press time, is a piece of arm-and-shoulder armor named "Road Complex AA1." Its lime-green color and iconography, with solid lines offset by opposite-facing letter K shapes, look quite similar to elements on a flag for a fictitious nation dubbed "Kekistan." The full flag design, which has flown at recent neo-Nazi rallies across the United States, looks very similar to a German Nazi flag. Differences include the color swap to lime green and a mix of Ks and lines instead of a swastika. (The flag also commonly includes 4chan's heart-shaped logo.)
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The word ‘swastika’ is a Sanskrit word (‘svasktika’) meaning ‘It is’, ‘Well Being’, ‘Good Existence, and ‘Good Luck’.The flag has four letter "K's" back to back; the "K" for Kekistan. Kekistan does not exist. It is not a real country. We, as a society, need to clearly establish and define true symbols of hate from those that kind of look like, but are not, a hate symbol. The lines have been blurred so much by the Politically Correct Police that soon, a single, solid, bold "line" drawn on a piece of cloth will be misinterpreted as a hate symbol or said to "resemble or have elements similar" to an actual hate symbol.
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It is ironic, and unfortunate, that a symbol of life and eternity that was considered sacred for thousands of years has become a symbol of hatred.
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A Paris-based malware researcher known as Benkow has discovered more than 700 million records used by the Onliner spambot on a misconfigured server. The records comprise a large number of email addresses, passwords and SMTP configurations.You're not going to find fate, destiny, love, romance, a fling or bad Engel-eesh in your SPAM. Well, maybe the bad Engel-eesh.
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The email target lists used for malware campaigns are not random, but methodically built. The spammer uses the spambot to send out apparently harmless emails. Benkow gives this example:
"Hello, Champ {friend|champion\enthusiast}! How {are you|is your day}?
{My name is|I'm} Natalia. Do you believe in {fate|destiny}?
Love is inseparable fellow of hope. {Sorry for|Pardon} my English, but I hope you'll {understand|get} that..."
However, the email contains a single pixel, invisible gif used to fingerprint the recipient device.
But no machine will ever ”think like a human.” Our thought processes are not solely computations. They involve the unquantifiable aspects of being alive[.]- - -
Breakthrough Listen, a project that scans the skies for possible signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, observed 15 FRBs in a repeating pulse just Monday.- - -
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What makes them odd is that they repeat, but without any recognizable pattern[.]
...the pacemaker’s authentication algorithm, [can] be compromised or bypassed to allow a nearby attacker to issue unauthorized commands to the pacemaker.- - -
The cornerstone of FEMA’s secret world is a bunker in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains that has served as the civilian government’s primary emergency hideaway since the 1950s.- - -
“This bomb has more than 1.4-tons of explosives,” Frankfurt Fire Chief Reinhard Ries told reporters. “It’s not just fragments that are the problem, but also the pressure that it creates that would dismantle all the buildings in a 100-metre (yard) radius.”- - -
Russia’s desire to give its state-owned enterprises and governmental bodies access to blockchain experts should come as no surprise. In recent months, the country has displayed a marked interest in the technology, especially in relation to the cryptocurrency market.- - -
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