Friday, February 28, 2025
What do you do with memecoins? Apparently you collect them, says the SEC
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I have no idea if memecoins like dogecoin and fartcoin should be legally defined as securities, and thus come under the purview of securitie...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels
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Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable, costing 3.69 cents to produce each one. In re...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The end of El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment
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Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Trump claims US banks can't open in Canada—US banks disagree
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In what seems to be an effort to extort Canada for additional benefits, Donald Trump complained yesterday on social media that CANADA DOESN...
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Friday, January 24, 2025
Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?
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Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain infl...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Canadian guilt, Russian oil
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We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil...
Friday, January 17, 2025
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
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Source: Better Business Bureau The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example . In...
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Monday, January 13, 2025
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
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On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallet...
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Saturday, December 28, 2024
Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network
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There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial m...
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