It’s good to see they’re pulling the carrier damaged by the laundry fire. Though the problem with intercepting the inbound missiles, is they only have so many surface to air missiles distributed throughout the group, leaving you vulnerable if your…
(Headline article below) What’s interesting is that you paid into Social Security with the promise they would pay you in retirement the money you paid in. Social Security is funded primarily through dedicated payroll taxes collected under the Federal Insurance…
This is disturbing. I’m probably grandfathered having used the service forever, even having ordered books when that was the first real online merchandise they sold. Though, I won’t upload my ID or face scan/image to Persona under any circumstances, so…
This is precious as the banks reveal just how greedy they are. They don’t pay you any meaningful interest on your deposits which they use to make money, and they’re so desperate to not have stablecoins pay interest. Stablecoins will…
This was mentioned on The Bitcoin Way livestream today, and what a fabulous website. I recently used USDT, Tether, over Ethereum to purchase an opensource crypto hardware wallet through AQUA Wallet and Liquid Bitcoin, and it was a wonky experience…
This happens right now while the US is capitalizing on shipping natural gas and oil with the shutdown of the Straight of Hormuz? After just having taken managing control over Venezuela’s oil operations? Coincidence, I think not. Reuters MOSCOW,…
Some details on how Bitcoin Core was being subverted with young female devs who were dating John Newbery, connected to bribe level funding… The big extra fact is Newbery using one of his girlfriends as a proxy for a change…
Is this pointing to a major conflict with boots on the ground? Trump is moving a lot of soldiers towards the Middle East while looking the fool with his peace talks summarily rejected by Iran. Personally, this is all scripted…
An interesting opinion piece. You’d have to conclude the compliance burden is purposeful to drive sustainable businesses to the megacorps and prevent new small businesses from rising up to displace their locations. Consequently, one of the biggest things I see…
This is interesting. Consequently, I always thought the whole government enterprise of recording everything from the internet was about this very thing, compromising people so you can manipulate them, and they don’t become a problem. The angle about how they’ll…
There are some bizarre details in this article for the coming EU CBDC, like the large font and voice commands being included in wallets. Another interesting thing was the ECB being used as a settlement layer for stablecoins. I just…
Consequently, I’m a big Mikrotik fan, having a router and separate wireless access point to replace my Ubiquite AP. And a lot of the Mikrotik gear supports alternative firmware, but I find their firmware and configuration application, along with frequent…
