Just read that the “US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense” Wow

‘During the pandemic’ moved from #Toronto to #VancouverIsland. Best decision of my life, and I’ve made some good ones. Congested traffic ridden streets with absurd real estate prices to living by the ocean, hiking mountains after work, hanging on the beach and paying only just shy of absurd real estate prices. 😂

To attract creators who want to make money from their content, we need a NIP that allows a 'read more' style button that lets someone unlock a note/event with a zap. Read below the fold, zap them. Entice me with an engaging first paragraph, ⚡️. Read the rest. Could apply to short notes and longer ‘blogs’.

I do love the "All In Pod". Get's the brain flowing Friday nights.

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” -JFK

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) on X

Here is a picture of me with my uncle, whose wisdom affected me profoundly. Today, these words of his are especially relevant: “A nation that is ...

I know someone in Canada looking to buy real estate in El Salvador because of the Bitcoin friendly laws. Anyone got insights into how Bitcoin beach is doing? Is there a legit Bitcoin spending economy there? Anyone have recent photos of what is going on there?

2008, banks fail, ppl lose money, banks get bailed out, Satoshi creates Bitcoin. Bitcoin leads to ETH and crypto. Crypto leads to sable coins. Sable coins lead to 1:1 bank deposits in regulated banks. 2023, large bank fails, regulated and audited crypto ‘stable’ coin with deposits at bank de-pegs. Ppl lose money. 🤡

Not your bank, not your money.

🤔 Facebook, decentralized… https://twitter.com/alx/status/1634062989966950403?s=61&t=iVaAKQcBwh_eusXArqDNUQ

Bitcoin’ers be like.

People seem really fearful in the markets these days. Reminds me of the famous Warren Buffet quote: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” Now the hard part, do you have the gull to be greedy…

SEC Gary the Bitcoin maxi. “The new Congress is looking again at crypto-specific legislation, but Gensler believes that the SEC has all of the legal tools that it needs. Over the course of our discussion, he articulated a straightforward view of the agency’s reach — that pretty much every sort of crypto transaction already falls under the SEC’s jurisdiction except spot transactions in bitcoin itself and the actual purchase or sale of goods or services with cryptocurrencies. “Everything other than bitcoin,” Gensler told me, “you can find a website, you can find a group of entrepreneurs, they might set up their legal entities in a tax haven offshore, they might have a foundation, they might lawyer it up to try to arbitrage and make it hard jurisdictionally or so forth.” In other words, there are people behind these cryptocurrencies using a variety of complex and legally opaque mechanisms, but at the most basic level, they are trying to promote their tokens and entice investors. (Bitcoin, because of its unique history and creation story, is fundamentally different from other crypto projects in this respect.)”

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Gary Gensler on Meeting With SBF and His Crypto Crackdown

Following the Bankman-Fried debacle, SEC chief Gary Gensler is getting tough — and answering questions about his role in the mess.

Not sure I can think of a worse piece of legislation than Bill C-18 in #Canada. It tries to force social media and search platforms to pay for linking (URL's) to news content posted on their platform. It forces the news providers and the platforms to negotiate on a price for the links, and if they can't agree, an arbitrator will decide for them. To be clear, we are not talking about posting an entire news article. We are talking 'just' about posting a URL, and often the headline or first paragraph.

Michael Geist

The Bill C-18 Reality: Everyone Loses When the Government Mandates Payments for Links - Michael Geist

The report that Google is conducting a national test that removes links to Canadian news sites for a small percentage of users sparked a predictabl...