by pkvi
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the-new-style 3 points ago +3 / -0

Epstein & Maxwell gone ?

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

All you have to do is look at pictures of Theresa May as a tween and a teen

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

healthy people do not need pharmaceuticals

these are great problems for pharmaceutical companies

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Welcome to the European life so many Americans aspire to.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

The IMF wants to shift to their Digital Currency known as Special Drawing Rights rather than lend Dollars and thus put another nail in the USD as a reserve currency - that has huge implications for US power as the reserve currency status is what enabled US imports to be cheaper.

Jerome Powel spoke at the IMFs committee on CBDC in October 2020

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Comparing price charts is a fools errands

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

by declaring your herd doesn't comply with some vetenary certification which you are prevented from applying for because you are not a registered herdsman and slaughtering it

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

If we end up with CBDC, rationing of all sorts will become the norm.

"We don't ban guns, you just can't use CBDC to buy ammo"

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Starting Gun?

The Banking For All Act was Introduced in Senate on 23rd March 2020, although it wasn't voted upon. It was to allow banks to process Digital Dollar payments via crypto wallets for accounts held by all citizens at The Fed.

Curiously The Digital Dollar Project only released its first White Paper on the US using it as the CBDC afterwards in May 2020.

Jerome Powel spoke at the IMFs committee on CBDC in October 2020

The IMF wants to shift to their Digital Currency known as Special Drawing Rights rather than lend Dollars and thus put another nail in the USD as a reserve currency - that has huge implications for US power as the reserve currency status is what enabled US imports to be cheaper.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ah yes, those 2015 AI text generating bots were the shit

as a great leader once said: come on man

by xihg
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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

I disagree because Digital Payments via Phones showing a Cashless Society are the pre-cursor, not speculating on BitCoin.

All the Chinese CBDC, e-CNY, needed to get started in 2020 was offer "$2 million of digital currency to 50,000 randomly selected consumers".

At the end of 2021 there were 261 million users in the extended trial who had made US$13.8 billion of transactions

This is in mandarin but Google translate makes it readable

https://news.sina.com.cn/c/2022-04-03/doc-imcwipii2181592.shtml

The digital renminbi ... has a legal status higher than any other domestic digital currency. No one or institution can refuse to accept it.

In terms of user experience, online payment methods such as Alipay and WeChat Pay first need to bind a bank card, and then each transaction needs to be cleared through the inter-bank system, but digital RMB does not require these processes.

There is no need to connect to the Internet to use the digital yuan. The digital renminbi is not limited by the network, even if there is no network, or the network is not good, it can also make fast payments.

"no handling fee for cash withdrawal and inter-bank transfer" and "realization in seconds." When the account is received, there is no need to wait for the bank to settle the difference on T+1 day”, “more privacy protection, meet the needs of anonymous payment” and other advantages.

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the-new-style 4 points ago +4 / -0

I'm not sure about Amazon but on ebay sellers often put a crazy price on when they re out of stock rather than taking it down so they don't have to pay a listing fee again when they get stock

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

says GBP 3,596.20 here, so don't be too sure, maybe it's just converted from it's original currency

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the-new-style 3 points ago +3 / -0

Swartz was forced onto Huffman and Ohanian by Paul Graham as a condition of getting funding, as well as calling him a founder.

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