here's what I found out:
Bitcoin futures contracts are similar to gold futures contracts in the sense that they are both financial derivatives that allow investors to speculate on the future price of the underlying asset (Bitcoin or gold) without needing to own the asset itself[1][2][4].
However, it's important to note that futures contracts do not represent ownership in the underlying asset. Instead, they represent a contractual obligation to buy or sell the asset at a predetermined price at a specific future date. Therefore, while the issuance of futures contracts can increase the number of financial claims on the underlying asset, it does not dilute the value of the asset in the same way that issuing new shares dilutes the value of existing shares in a company[1][2][4].
In other words, while the issuance of Bitcoin or gold futures contracts can affect the market perception and price of the underlying asset, it does not directly affect the value of existing Bitcoins or gold. This is because each Bitcoin or ounce of gold remains distinct and does not confer ownership or claim on any other Bitcoin or ounce of gold, whereas shareholders in a company have a claim on the company's total assets and earnings[1][2][4].
Citations:
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/investing-gold-wealthyhood-invest
[2] https://www.bullionvault.co.uk/gold-guide/gold-futures
[3] https://www.gold.org/sites/default/files/documents/gold-investment-research/liquidity_in_the_global_gold_market.pdf
[4] https://www.kraken.com/features/futures/bitcoin-gold
[5] https://sprott.com/insights/sprott-gold-report-gold-vs-gold-stocks-an-unresolved-incongruity/
short it then and make bank
Of course it can.
or here, buy some bitcoin futures contracts
https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/advanced-trade/crypto-futures
or short it another way
$71,746,229,772 in crypto has been lost to hacks, scams, fraud, and other disasters since January 1, 2021.
Passwords are not a shitty defense. The vast majority of password cracking is done by social engineering.
you are talking utter bollocks, the vast majority of password cracking is done via breaches
Podesta's emails were gathered by phishing
VK Data Breach: Russian social media site VK was hacked, exposing 93 million names, phone numbers, email addresses, and plain text passwords.
FriendFinder Network Breach: Attack vector Cracked password. Websites like Adult Friend Finder, Penthouse.com, Cams.com, iCams.com, and Stripshow.com were affected. Most of the passwords were protected only by the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which meant that 99% of them had been cracked by the time LeakedSource.com published its analysis.
MySpace Data Breach: In June 2013, around 360 million MySpace accounts were compromised by a Russian hacker. The incident was not publicly disclosed until 2016.
LastPass Data Breach: Hackers compromised the laptop of a LastPass DevOps engineer to gain access to customer personal data, potentially impacting 30 million of LastPass’ users.
Plex Data Breach: Streaming platform Plex suffered a data breach impacting most of its users, approximately 20 million. The compromised information included usernames, email addresses, and passwords.
North Face Data Breach: Roughly 200,000 North Face accounts were compromised in a credential stuffing attack. These accounts included full names, purchase histories, billing addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, account holders' genders, and XPLR Pass reward records.
passwords a quite a shitty defence
Duo.com, the 2FA scheme Instagram and GitHub uses, and you can use on your own website, does not connect your phone to your account (in the knows your number, IMEI or location sense).
But you managed to shoehorn CBDC into it again
raw, raw, raw, raw, cooked and processed
furry, furry, furry, furry, fur on head only - shaped into a "style"
wild, wild, wild, wild, domesticated fruits / vegetables / animals
uncultured, uncultured, uncultured, uncultured, shares info through speech song and writing
I don't and my boss openly mocks email signatures of suppliers who include he/him etc.
yeah, get creative. We've seen "my esteemed colleague".
A good one, if it works, is its job title "the barista" or "the barista with big hands"
You seem to be maligning Joseph M.
Did you know the arrest warrant for Josef Mengele wasn't issued by West German prosecutors until 1959?
Despite his whereabouts being known, he died a free man on February 7, 1979. He suffered a second stroke and drowned while swimming at a vacation resort near Bertioga, Brazil.
The "Angel of Death" indeed
what does TSA face scanning have to do with UK airports missing the deadline to upgrade baggage scanners?
You are making it up because you want your headline to be true and you know 90% of people here will not go and find the source material.
What you could have done was say facial recognition has been in use in UK airports since trials began in 2008. In 2019 it expanded from just Heathrow and Manchester and now includes Gatwick.
Also since 2019 it also now covers automated check-in rather than just passport control on arrival.
So you're decades behind the curve and talk like you're bringing revelations.
you should actually read the text
if you did you'd find out this is for businesses buying bulk sms advertising campaigns packages from tmobile
this is not for individual customers sending txts
once again, your title misrepresents your link
except it is nothing to do with eID or facial scanning
it's improved resolution of baggage scanners
How will the new technology work?
New generation CT scanners are able to produce high quality 3D scans of bags belonging to passengers from every angle. At present, airports use older machines which can only give lower resolution 2D images.
The article from your crappy screenshot is informing that despite the govt. setting a june 2024 deadline in december 2022 airports are complaining about meeting the deadline.
Facial scanning is not mentioned anywhere. Do you just pluck this shit out of thin air to make it sound like you did some research and found things that meet your agenda?
The airports are privately owned, of course. For instance Heathrow is owned by Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited. Which is, in turn, owned by FGP Topco Limited, a consortium owned and led by the infrastructure specialist Ferrovial S.A. (25.00%), Qatar Investment Authority (20.00%), Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) (12.62%), GIC Singapore (11.20%), Australian Retirement Trust (11.18%), China Investment Corporation (10.00%) and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) (10.00%).
PKVI asked me to be challenging to him and I am happy to oblige