#cryptocurrency

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after murdering a bunch of couriers on some (alleged) drug boats trump now intends to pardon former president of Juan Orlando who, in between trafficking at least 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US because he wanted to “shove drugs right up the noses of the gringos”, was the guy who set up the network state city of with Peter etc. as a “special economic zone”.

> "The zone recently made legal tender and passed legislation facilitating the issuance of Bitcoin bonds. Próspera’s investors include Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen through Capital."

99% chance it’s the Network State/Nerd Reich guys (thiel, andreessen, etc.) up in trump’s ear telling him a cocaine kingpin with whom they founded a fake country deserves a pardon at the same time as they encourage him to …

For the curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie . While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the core development team starting from around 2015 at (possibly until his death).

Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:

- Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", "", "", "", etc)

- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.

- Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.

- Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, …

Content warning Shitpost, crypto

is the future of !
"I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024.
Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-invented-the-future-of

Warning over loophole as open crypto donations

Anti-corruption organisation Transparency International warned that “integrity of our process” is at risk unless the UK Govt brings in reforms.

campaigners have warned that “unlimited anonymous donations” could flow into UK politics as adoption grows.

It comes as have announced they will begin accepting donations in cryptocurrency.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25203859.warning-loophole-reform-uk-opens-crypto-donations/

In April, Coinbase announced changes to its user agreement that added two clauses limiting class action lawsuits and requiring lawsuits to be filed in New York. The changes apply to disputes initiated after May 15.

On May 14, Coinbase disclosed a data breach.

Five lawsuits have been filed against Coinbase in response to the breach since then: all class action, none before May 15, two outside of New York.