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A nice one from New York, always a beautiful sight, not mine, but one of the best I've seen.
I will checkout Boardwalk Cash.
About Tether, and all stable coins that are tied to an asset, especially US Dollars they can all freeze your account, and maybe even take your funds away. This has happened before with USDT, and the rest are not an exception.
That said DAI, an Ethereum based stablecoin is more reliable, and can not be arbitrarily frozen or seized. We need something like DAI but for BTC.
@SimpleStacker the passing of the BBB is a sign of better times, and more investment and a strong US economy... debt is the risk, but without it Trump wouldn't have managed to pass the bill.
I strongly think now that Bitcoin will rise above $130K USD this year because the economic agenda of Trump moved forward, and him, and his family is strongly pro Bitcoin, and pro crypto.
Are there any good BTC stablecoins? We need these!
We clearly need this to offset the move to US based stablecoins that are fully tracked by OFAC and many governments.
USDT is convenient, but it is tracked, and can be easily frozen by Tether. USDT is not backed by any kind of crypto currency, just US dollar based assets.
For what is worth Primal has worked pretty much flawlessly since I installed it in my iPhone, recommended.
I also ocassionally use Damus, but prefer Primal. It is good that we have choices, and I hope Damus gets better.
The problem is the lack of anonymity, and the weaponizing of law, and NGOs who persecute those who do not follow like obedient sheep what the state, or Big Corps want to promote.
Examine what is happening in the UK, and EU where posting a meme, or criticizing a woke or immigration policy can result in a fine, or even jail time.
In Canada speech is under attack too, it seems only the US is resisting this immense pressure, but it was mostly because Trump won, and him, and his party were the targets of huge lawfare, and persecution.
The cowards are not stupid, they notice what happens when they open their mouth.
How to turn cowards into cowboys? Give them tech to speak out anonymously, elect politicians that value freedom, reduce the size of useless bureaucracies, remove censorship laws, and increase the amount of decentralized news... also places like Stacker News help, since a level of anonymity, and the ability to share and discuss news is rewarded. We need many more venues like it!
Is not just you, movies nowadays suck, with few exceptions.
In a year there are probably 2 good movies worth watching in English, and a few in foreign languages we never hear about.
I suggest you look for old movies, even black and white ones, plenty of gems over there. You just have to adjust initially to a slower pace, but the writing, and acting were excellent. I would say until 1990 when digital effects were not the norm you can find pretty good movies. Many.
Welcome back! After the Biden administration persecution of Wasabi Wallet, I was unsure you would be back, and I am quite glad you are.
The best Bitcoin privacy wallet is here again, new and improved!
Are you aware how things are with the current Trump administration? Tings are way better for Bitcoin with this government, but I have not found news about Wasabi yet. I am referring to Operation Chokepoint 2.0:
https://beincrypto.com/phoenix-wasabi-halt-us-services/
Phase 1 is in progress. Just check the news, and the huge financial interests influencing Bitcoin Core developers, and the overall concentration of Bitcoin in centralized exchanges and ETFs.
The main solution is to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, and resist the mermaid calls for yield, and loans, and fiat for your Bitcoin.
Thank you for the most balanced, honest, and technically sound discussion on the whole OP_RETURN subject.
AI Agents, and the Model Context Protocol are driving innovative new uses of AI for code, and also for regular people.
MCPs are behind most of this new Agent functionality, and is a good background to have while you use this new libraries.
For those interested here is the original intro by Anthropic, the company who created and open sources MCP:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
And here is the docs from them:
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/mcp
Infowars speculates based on evidence that the collapse of the Iberian Peninsula grid is because of over reliance on green energy, which provides little in the form of excess power or resilience.
I tend to agree, but we need more data to confirm what seems to be obvious.
Peru is a gem in Latin America.
I have friends in Lima, the capital of Peru, and I have visited many times. Lima is beautiful, and despite security issues, it is very livable, and it's right next to the Ocean. If you like to surf it is a paradise, the food is incredible, and it rivals the top food capitals of the world including Paris, Barcelona, NYC, Mexico DF.
Venezuela was an amazing country before the Socialist takeover, and they seem they intend to be in power forever just like Cuba. A crypto friend of mine is based there, he is Venezuelan and gets paid in crypto so he is doing fine, but even he tells me he might just have to leave because of security concerns, blackouts and other political related issues.
No, he did not.
But he was part of it.
The opposition, meaning the Conservatives led by Poilievre had run their own campaign to defeat Trudeau who was hated by most Canadians. When suddenly he quit, and his party brought an "outsider" a banker from the Bank of England, someone with an apparent good resume, the Liberals were back in the battle.
All the attacks against Trudeau where suddenly neutralized, since the "new candidate" was going to be more like the Conservatives: remove the carbon tax, and be less anti-business. The reality was that Mr. Mark Carney the new candidate who has lived outside of Canada for many years had been involved in Canadian politics on the background all this time, and was an advisor to Trudeau.
Trump's 51st state was the added unpredictable factor, suddenly patriotism in Canada meant support your government, the same failed government that has decimated Canada's economy for almost a decade. Poilievre's platform suddenly became quite similar to Carney's Liberal platform, and then the dice were set.
Poilievre was afraid to go truly Conservative, he was the light version, or the slightly more conservative version of the incumbents, and then many Canadians made the wrong decision and re-elected the Liberals.