#crypto ban

[cryptonstocks]

Spending my Sunday in an empty office, but it's not just about catching up on emails. There's an urgent call to action for the crypto community! 🚨💻 Join the fight against the Crypto Ban Bill. Sign the petition and let's protect our digital future. #StopCryptoBan #CryptoCommunity #AnnikaLee #XtremCryptoBabe https://xtremcryptobabe.com/a-quiet-sunday-in-the-office-rallying-for-crypto-advocacy/

[cryptonewsme]

Crypto Regulations in Qatar

Crypto Regulations in Qatar: Governments across the world have realized that they will need to make an important decision in the coming years. This decision is based on how they intend to regulate cryptocurrencies. Currently, some countries have taken a stance on cryptocurrencies, while others have remained silent. For the vocal countries, crypto has either been banned or embraced. However, for…

[seelatestnewss]

IMF flags debt restructuring hurdles, says banning crypto should be an option - Times of India

BENGALURU: Group of 20 (G20) nations have some disagreements over restructuring debt for distressed economies, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Saturday, adding that banning private cryptocurrencies should be an option. India’s G20 presidency comes as its South Asian neighbours Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan are seeking urgent IMF funds due to an economic slowdown…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Enter American culture-war nonsense.

In Texas, they want to ban websites that explain how to get an abortion, as well as sites that ship the pills for a medication abortion. In Florida, they want to force bloggers who write about the state government to pay a fee and register with the state, prohibiting anonymous commentary about the state legislature and its actions. Florida has also required that online providers cease permitting their users to display pronouns other than the ones they were assigned at birth. Of course, online services have no way to know what pronouns any of their users were assigned at birth, so sites like Github are complying with Florida law by simply not displaying pronouns to Floridian users.

The biggest barrier to enforcing these laws is the US Constitution, which these laws assuredly violate. It’s entirely possible that a lower court will uphold these laws. It’s conceivable that an appeals court will do so as well. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the current Supreme Court — illegitimately stacked with far-right partisan hacks lacking any shred of principle — will follow suit.

But it’s far from a sure thing. It’s not even clear whether the legislatures that passed these laws and the governors who signed them want them to be enforced. After all, if these policies do come into force, large numbers of corporations are likely to shutter their offices and move out of state (especially in Florida, an increasingly economic irrelevance for any business not engaged in selling soon-to-be-drowned condos and/or shitcoins).

For these cynical political operators, having their laws overturned by “activist judges” lets them eat their cake and have it too — they don’t have to alienate the business lobby, and they get a steady supply of red meat for their cruel base, driving voter turnout and donations from frightened bigots.

-They’re still trying to ban cryptography 

[marginal-effect]

still trying to figure out exactly where the line is between 'youre just getting old and cynical' and 'things really are just this bad' within my psyche. bc lets be real shit is fucked. off topic but this guy has been revving his motorcycle in the parking lot for the last 10 minutes and i think this might be the final straw before just i do it lol

[foreignobjecticus]

I agree that we use too much plastic, and I've spent my whole life trying to cut down. But you can't make me feel that bad when you're the ones manufacturing unnecessarily large plastic containers and filling them with cotton wool to pad them out, when your 120 pill option could fit into your 60 pill bottle absolutely perfectly.

Don't even talk to me about marketing or standard sizes or whatever. Change the standards. That's what the entire eco movement has been about because the standards are contributing to killing us. Don't sell me a half-empty pill bottle; sell me a pill bottle made to fit your product without excess packaging to prevent breakage from spare space you've created to give the illusion of value for money.

This isn't on the consumer-it's on manufacturers.

[harmon4lyf]

I've seen millions of recommendation but None is trustworthy or reliable compared to the @hackvoktech on Instagram, indeed there are truly a life saver. Contact them for cyber services..

[farm-lesbian]

blocked a bunch of porn bots today and my follower count is now 2,222. numerology girlies what does that mean

[rosykims]

i think it would be sooooo funny if gracie was into the st*ckmarket honestly :/

[snufkinshat]

Why are you posting so much about Turkey now?

i don't even know how to respond to that.

it's been three, almost four, days and there are still people who are waiting to be rescued from under the fallen buildings, there are people who are waiting for their loved ones' bodies to be rescued from under the fallen buildings. it's middle of winter and people are without their loved ones, without homes and their belongings.

spreading news about ways to help them is literally the least i could do.

[tomorrowusa]

A crypto ban would be difficult to enforce because it is internationally traded. But close scrutiny of the market is way overdue in the United States.

Some people constantly complain that the government needs to quit being a “nanny state”. Then when many of those people get in trouble for doing dumb things they then grumble that the government was not doing anything to prevent them from doing those dumb things in the first place.

Cryptocurrency is a dumb thing. It’s worth was always based on wishful thinking. I doubt if even half of the Americans who bought into crypto understand what it really is (”That’s some sort of computer money that always keeps rising in value – isn’t it?”).

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Sunday said federal agencies need to address the cryptocurrency market and “maybe” ban it after the high-profile collapse of cryptocurrency market FTX last month.

Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd that the Treasury Department and “all the different agencies” need to get together and assess any possible action related to the cryptocurrency market.

“Maybe banning it, although banning it is very difficult because it will go offshore and who knows how that will work,” Brown said. 

[ ... ]

Brown on Sunday said the cryptocurrency market is a “complicated, unregulated pot of money” and the issue was much larger than FTX.“So we’ve got to do this right,” the senator said, adding that he has talked to the Treasury Department to do a related assessment across regulatory agencies. 

Rule Number One of financial management: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Celebrity endorsements for things outside their areas of expertise should be taken with a kilogram of salt. Just because somebody wins an Oscar or an Olympic gold medal doesn’t make them Warren Buffett. Anybody giving out investment advice should prove that they know what they’re talking about. Getting a fee from FTX or some other crypto company does not constitute expertise.

In just under a year Bitcoin has dropped from over $51,000 to under $17,000.

The sounder investments tend to be dull ones which don’t get lots of hype and are held for a few years. And if they get proper scrutiny from regulators then people probably won’t end up losing 68¢ on the dollar in just one year.

Related...

Boondoggle of the Year: Cryptocurrency

Part of the problem is that crypto, as its critics have often noted, doesn’t actually do anything. Unlike many stocks, it does not pay dividends to its purchasers or represent an ownership stake in a company. Unlike bonds, it does not offer a fixed rate of return. And unlike actual currencies, cryptocurrency does not really work as a common medium of exchange. You can’t go down to your local grocery store and buy a loaf of bread with etherium or tether.

[ ... ]

Crypto is not real. Like the platinum coins in EverQuest, it has no intrinsic value and is untethered to anything but the shared belief by many people that it is actually worth something. (Neither is the dollar, crypto folks are often quick to note, but cryptocurrencies do not have 12 aircraft carriers and a nuclear arsenal and a system of courts that can enforce debts.) Aside from a few edge cases, crypto’s primary real-world utility is to do exactly what its early developers intended: evade government control. That does not mean living in some Matrix-esque cyberpunk dystopia; that means money laundering and sanctions evasion and other things that are generally considered crimes. And I haven’t even gotten to the ecological damage.

The writer of that article was holding back, Crypto is the Boondoggle of the Century.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

National firewalls are everywhere today. Sometimes, they’re sold as turnkey solutions — by both Chinese and western firms — to poor countries with very little technical capacity of their own. Spy agencies from large, powerful countries love it when poor countries install foreign-made national firewalls, as these are key to “third-party collection” (when a spy agency taps into another spy agency’s files) and “fourth-party collection” (when a spy agency taps into another spy agency that has tapped into another spy-agency’s files).

As national firewalls proliferate, so too do enforcement nexuses. After Edward Snowden revealed that US tech giants were allowing US spy agencies to plunder their user data, the EU imposed a (perfectly reasonable) data localization regulation that required US tech companies to keep Europeans’ data on servers within the EU (this regulation remains contentious and fragile).

The EU doesn’t have a regional or national firewall, so tech giants who don’t want to comply with the regulation could simply withdraw their sales offices and engineering departments and lobbyists from the EU and ignore the rule — at least to the extent that they could convince US courts not to enforce EU judgments against them.

But the EU has other enforcement nexuses it could rely upon. It could order European banks and payment processors to block payments to tech firms that ignore the localization rule. Payment processing remains a highly regulated, concentrated industry, and even if, say, Facebook was willing to give up on 520,000,000 European consumers by retreating to the USA, it’s unlikely that Visa and Mastercard would follow suit.

-They’re still trying to ban cryptography

[thesecrettimes]

EU Bans Crypto Companies for Russians in New Sanctions Over Ukraine Escalation

An array of crypto-related services have been targeted in the latest round of sanctions on Russia approved by the EU. The measures are part of an expected tightening of the economic and financial restrictions in response to Moscow’s decision to annex Ukrainian territories.

EU Council Adopts Full Ban on Crypto Wallet and Custody Services for Russian Persons

The Council of the European Union announced new sanctions against Russia on the backdrop of the deepening military conflict in Ukraine. The penalties, expected to hurt the Russian government and economy, come after Moscow took steps to annex the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. In a statement, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell emphasized that the sanctions are a response to the latest escalation with the “fake referenda” in these four oblasts. Russian individuals and entities that have played a role in their organization will be specifically targeted. Other Russian citizens and businesses are also going to take a hit, including those that deal with cryptocurrencies. The new measures include a full ban on the provision of wallet, account, or custody services for crypto assets to Russian persons and residents. That’s regardless of the value of these assets, according to the eighth package of sanctions imposed by Brussels. This spring, when the EU approved its fifth round of such measures, the Council prohibited only the provision of “high-value” crypto-asset services to Russians and organizations registered in their country. The ban applied to digital funds exceeding €10,000 (close to $11,000 at the time).

New European Sanctions to Hit Russian Imports and Exports

While the earlier restrictions were meant to limit the transfer of wealth through digital assets and close other loopholes in the crypto space, a recent report revealed that pro-Russian groups have been actively using cryptocurrency, often in small transactions, to fund paramilitary operations in Ukraine. According to the research, they have raised $400,000 in crypto since the start of the invasion in late February. Russian authorities have also been working to allow businesses to employ crypto payments for international settlements. With the latest move, the EU also bans the provision of IT consultancy and legal advisory services to Russia as well as architectural and engineering services. Russian imports and exports have been targeted, too, including the maritime transport of crude oil and petroleum products to third countries. The provision of related services will be allowed only if these have been purchased at or below a pre-established price cap, which is yet to be determined. Among the other measures is a ban on EU nationals to hold any posts on the governing bodies of some Russian state-owned or government-controlled entities. The Council also decided to broaden the criteria under which persons can be designated as facilitating the circumvention of restrictions imposed by the European Union. The European Commission, the executive body in Brussels, welcomed the latest sanctions package. Do you think the new EU sanctions will significantly limit access to cryptocurrencies for Russians? Share your thoughts on the subject in the comments section below. Read the full article

[timeisacephalopod]

Fuckin breh, a coworker of mine got fired about a month ago and I forgot the dude existed mostly. Then he sends me a text the other day and this mans. This mans asks me out, said he thought I was cute when we worked together but couldn't say anything (girl why didn't you care about professionalism enough to do ur job right lmao) and I was like 👁️👄👁️ again!! Right after Ben?? Although to be fair Julian was better looking and less desperate but he is also into cryptocurrency so that's like 500 red flags right there even if I was interested ☠️☠️☠️☠️

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