Friday, December 3, 2021

Why TNABC is the most unmissable blockchain conference of the years

The 2022 edition of The North American Bitcoin Conference by keynote is going to be held from January 17 to 19 in Miami. With emerging trends like NFTs, DeFis, Metaverse and now Web 3.0, the institutions of traditional finance stand challenged. 2022 is going to be the make-or-break year from the perspective of the digital economy. With the cryptocurrency market already breaching the $3 trillion mark in market capitalization, the mandate of traders and digital asset holders is as clear as a vessel.

With the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-powered assets, educating people with proper information about the industry is vital and crypto events like TNABC are going to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the industry.

Here’s what the TNABC audience will have on their plates this season:

  1. Address of Industry leaders: The TNABC stage will be graced by top industry leaders and financial experts from across the world who will share their valuable insights on trading strategies, the utility of emerging technologies and the future of the digital economy. The key speakers for the event include billionaire investor Mark Cuban, Miami’s crypto-friendly mayor Francis Suarez, Blockchain.com founder Peter Smith and OG Group MD Maja Vujinovic.
  2. Pitchfest: With such an elite audience attending the event, TNABC will serve as a perfect launching pad for emerging startups leveraging technologies of the future to shape the digital economy. The event will include a Pitchfest where business leaders can present their business ideas in front of a business-minded audience, giving them a glimpse into the future.
  3. Exclusive Parties: The event will have kickoff and closing parties, making it a perfect start to 2022. Parties don’t just mean booze but the golden opportunity to expand your network by interacting with thought leaders and seasoned traders on the sidelines of the conference.
  4. Hackathon: Mai Finance is sponsoring a Hackathon at the event where tech experts and business leaders, including those from the audience, will have the opportunity to compete with the best in the industry and come up with futuristic solutions for complex problems. It is needless to say that there will be special perks of doing well at the hackathon.

What’s your reason for attending TNABC?


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Cardano Rumor Rundown December 3, 2021

Hey Everyone!

Let's go...

Newly covered today:

  1. Looks like more theft in ETH DeFi (“Robbery Forest”). Reports coming in that Badger DAO has lost $120MM. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/02/badger-dao-protocol-suffers-10m-exploit/
  2. Liqwid has announced that they are integrating Chainlink price feeds. https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1466404699284938756
  3. IOHK drops a new video with Pi Lanningham of SundaeSwap regarding the tools that SundaeSwap has opensourced as part of its approach to launch. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1466480233004113926

Previously Covered but still interesting:

  1. Fans of certain other Gen 3 blockchains are still getting hilariously worked up when they are confronted with the Messari chart on massive VC ownership of their blockchains. https://twitter.com/TamaraHaasen/status/1452924338047496193
  2. The new IOG stake pool delegations are out. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1453041459477819398
  3. Cardano Fans is putting out some really good pieces posed as “Conversations with a Junior Blockchain Developer”. Very educational on the technical advantages of Cardano over other Gen 3 blockchains. https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1452911202913464328
  4. ETH based platforms are still not faring well at NOT losing the money of users. https://twitter.com/Swag_Stakepool/status/1453392923672915968
  5. dcSpark is making progress on the Milkomeda sidechain. ADA transitions from Cardano testnet to Milkomeda testnet now working. https://twitter.com/Milkomeda_com/status/1453421947157716992
  6. The stark differences between being a validator on ETH and a Cardano validator are once again put on full display. https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness/status/1453133337334272000
  7. There’s a new Djed explainer video out now from IOHK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ozaf_aGNM&t=1s
  8. Cardano 360 October Edition is now out and available! https://youtu.be/R0s3lPG8XDw
  9. The crypto time traveler is back after many months of being gone (i.e. purportedly being in the future). His first prediction after returning was about big news and a crown which was later revealed to concern the health of the Queen. His second prediction was about Cardano and gigantic success. https://twitter.com/CryptoTimeTrav2/status/1452827679300849670
  10. Charles was at the Ethiopian Ministry of Education today. He reports that the onboarding of the five million students is on track. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1453697314187534343
  11. The Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia has posted pics of the Cardano team meeting with them! This is an interesting turn of events. The ministry posted about a “readiness to incorporate avant-garde technology in areas of #Agri Tech, logistics, and digitization”. https://twitter.com/MoF_Ethiopia/status/1453717850766540808
  12. There is a new IOHK blog entry on Mithril. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/29/mithril-a-stronger-and-lighter-blockchain-for-better-efficiency/
  13. You might have missed this IOHK blog entry on how dApp certification will be incorporated into the new light wallet (I know I did). https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/25/new-certification-levels-for-smart-contracts-on-cardano/
  14. The Cardano dApp Store is looking like it’s going to be amazing. Curation & certification without gatekeeping is a great solution to preserve decentralization and maintain censorship resistance. https://summit.cardano.org/sessions/redefining-dapp-discovery-bringing-dapps-to-the-mass-market
  15. There’s also a new update on Crypto Bisons! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/28/buffalo-soldiers-march-to-the-heart-of-the-blockchain/
  16. Charles released a new AMA from Ethiopia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5au7JEPMaM
  17. The U.S. President’s Working Group on Financial markets has published its Stablecoin Report. No surprise: they want to regulate stablecoin issuers as insured depository institutions with federal supervisors and to curtail their affiliation with commercial entities. They also want to curtail such affiliations for custodial wallet providers. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf
  18. It turns out there are some big chain reorg vulnerabilities in ETH 2.0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10086.pdf But, maybe ETH has already got fixes planned? https://twitter.com/casparschwa/status/1450785316865024000
  19. A partnership among World Mobile, IOHK, and Zanzibar has been announced! It’s a five year plan that focuses on education, eGov solutions, the Blue Economy (sustainable fisheries), replicating the Blue Economy model in tourism | agriculture | & telecommunications. https://worldmobile.io/blog/post/partnering-with-zanzibar-blockchain-hub/
  20. Alessandro has a great idea (multi-sig) to improve NFT drops over his original model that is now used by pretty much everybody! This would help mitigate the hassle of refunds and reduce some congestion. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1455473647934742530
  21. It feels crazy that we have over 2 million Cardano wallets out there these days. Our small ecosystem has become a gigantic one. https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/3136c55b-635e-4f46-8e4b-b8ab54f2d460/page/k5r9B
  22. The Plutus Application Backend integration process has begun! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1455905122802864138
  23. Pavia has revealed proposals for parcel size in their metaverse. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1455915006395101188
  24. Mark Stopka takes everyone to school on how “pool extractable value” can still be a thing in Cardano if dApp Developers don’t plan for designs that prevent it. https://youtu.be/0VloKsDjW70
  25. Nami Wallet will soon support hardware wallets! https://twitter.com/NamiWallet/status/1456375916918083588
  26. SundaeSwap has unveiled its own concurrency solution. https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1456338509870952450
  27. A University of Virginia School of Law lecturer outlines a crypto related “hidden felony” in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.decential.io/features/defi-and-the-digital-asset-felony-hidden-in-the-infrastructure-bill
  28. IOG drops it’s Sustainability Report. https://static.iohk.io/green-blockchain-paper.pdf
  29. We get a view of what can actually be built on a Pavia single Parcel and news that the Pavia Map v.2 will launch soon with wallet linking and custom images. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456667167680831491 https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456523907280822273
  30. The Plutus Application Backend (PAB) Beta has been released! Developers of Cardano dApps can now begin experimenting on the testnet! This is a big milestone! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1456683592726233097
  31. Apparently Cardano’s transaction volume just last month in October was double all of 2020!?! https://twitter.com/CardanoStiftung/status/1456730746861748224
  32. Looks like Cardano (at least the logo) made the cover of the Economist?!?! https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1457327848285376513
  33. We just saw an instance of Yoroi wallet dApp Connector integration! https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1457396024822075409
  34. We saw an all time high of +61k native assets issued on Cardano in one day recently! https://twitter.com/thinkgrowcrypto/status/1457130708300824576
  35. World Mobile just dropped a great video documenting the IOHK/World Mobile/Zanzibar visit. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1457800436501467136
  36. It looks like Zimbabwe is looking into crypto adoption! https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1457703228192301058
  37. Apparently, there’s a new partnership between COTI and the Cardano Foundation. Sounds like we’ll hear details on November 10. https://twitter.com/shahafbg/status/1457665945963532294
  38. There is a Spacebudz ad running on the Nasdaq screen in Times Square right now (November 8-14). https://twitter.com/budzdegen/status/1457706024778014720
  39. The IOHK Haskell course in Ghana will include 80 students! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/05/empowering-a-new-generation-of-innovators-in-ghana/
  40. A new Cardano NFT store has sprung up mentioning smart contract support and royalties for creators. https://twitter.com/jpgstoreNFT/status/1457548567032184832
  41. Terra Virtua is saying we’ll have our Cardano Summit 2021 NFTs by November 10th. https://twitter.com/TerraVirtuaHQ/status/1457800095101976578
  42. COTI is now talking about news of an IOHK Partnership to be announced on Nov. 10 in addition to the previous announcement of an announcement of the new Cardano Foundation partnership slated to be announced Nov. 10 6pm UTC. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1458129369482792967
  43. Here’s a beautiful thread explaining how one of Cardano’s big competitor’s tps claims may be HIGHLY misleading. https://mobile.twitter.com/EdnStuff/status/1457875177052643333
  44. The Galaxy Digital paper on Gen 3 blockchains is out. I think some may definitely take issue with their description of the capabilities of eUTxO smart contracts in the Cardano section. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1458271252993302535
  45. The Catalyst Natives program rolls out with a COTI ADAPay challenge to develop ADAPay plugins for medium & small businesses. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/10/introducing-catalyst-natives-how-any-business-can-leverage-the-cardano-innovation-engine/
  46. The “Director of Ops” of ENS Domains runs a poll about whether or not ENS Domains or Cardano has more utility. At writing, over 30k voters had surprised him with the answer he didn’t expect.. https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1458268301100990467
  47. IOHK drops a blog entry on optimizing network performance. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/10/optimizing-cardano/
  48. Looks like we’ll be getting both the PAB & the ERC-20 Converter in the “next several weeks”. https://twitter.com/DanielTetsuyama/status/1458209250950332418
  49. In macro news that could affect Cardano and all of crypto 30 year treasury bonds went vertical, and news of the +6% inflation in the US broke widely. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1458507405675880452
  50. World Mobile dropped a nice youtube AMA for us. Very interesting details came up about Microsoft Airband, Google Project X, and Project Taara. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1458718340931858435
  51. Weiss highlights that Cardano addresses participating in staking have grown by 100k in two months. https://twitter.com/WeissCrypto/status/1458845224671887362
  52. The Cardano Summit 2021 Terra Virtua NFTs have arrived. Check your inventory if you did all the tasks in the Summit’s virtual worlds. https://terravirtua.io/inventory
  53. Pavia dropped a more detailed roadmap with live events scheduled for the plaza in Q3 2022. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1459246398046674945
  54. Charles is back in Colorado and has dropped a full AMA. https://youtu.be/nnDWc6uP6gs
  55. The November mid-month IOHK Development Update is now out! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1459250049414799368
  56. Seeing reports that Cardano’s 24 hour volume recently exceeded Ethereum! https://twitter.com/cardano_daily/status/1460238659098005504
  57. We’ve seen a very nice and steady rise in transactions over the last 15 days! https://twitter.com/WillyzPortico/status/1460221046112456704
  58. The January Haskell class in Ghana will include 80 students! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1460259961313837058
  59. IOHK has dropped their new article on eUTxO dApp architecture. It explains in detail a design for an eUTxO order book. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/16/architecting-dapps-on-the-eutxo-ledger/
  60. Apparently we saw over 1MM transactions in Epoch 302. https://twitter.com/ccvaultio/status/1460673461614006276
  61. Looks like Cardano is seeing a huge amount of on-chain activity. The crazy part is this is all pre-PAB. Just wait until dApps can actually launch! Unsurprisingly, some supporters of other chains were shocked to realize they didn’t understand the difference between exchange trading volume and actual blockchain use volume. https://twitter.com/cardano_daily/status/1460238659098005504 https://messari.io/screener/most-active-chains-DB01F96B
  62. Charles drops a short regulatory update letting us know about the proposed bill to fix the highly faulty Infrastructure Bill language and another new bill to lay out a pro-crypto comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto (including definitions for utility coins). https://youtu.be/AcBuk0zHLfU
  63. Here’s the announcement and the bill from Senators Lummis & Wyden to fix the bad crypto language in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/wyden-lummis-introduce-bill-to-fix-broker-definition-for-digital-assets/ https://www.lummis.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/GAI21B7321.pdf
  64. Senator Lummis reveals that she is working on a big crypto bill as expected. https://twitter.com/SenLummis/status/1461004206588968965
  65. CIP-0030 Related to the dApp Connector has been merged. https://twitter.com/stakenuts/status/1460891981417267205
  66. Be aware that fake stakepools are a thing! https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1460917711920414723
  67. Here is the coming onslaught of Cardano dApps summed up in just six lines. https://twitter.com/DCdoso/status/1461340919731523586
  68. Pavia says they will drop the extended land map next week and that it will include some new land types. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1461331532069711876
  69. The smaller “fix-it” bill that would attempt to remedy the bad crypto language in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill has now been introduced in the House of Representatives. https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1461317078175072263
  70. Charles says input endorsers can improve the performance of the base layer by a factor of 20-40x!!!! https://youtu.be/Lf2C4fq4ZY4?t=790
  71. MSN.com runs a positive Motley Fool article on Cardano. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/in-the-world-of-crypto-cardano-could-be-a-real-winner/ar-AAQWzzf
  72. The updated list of Cardano researchers now numbers 152. https://twitter.com/DIGI_StakePool/status/1462536768658542604
  73. A new wallet has been announced. https://twitter.com/TyphonWallet/status/1462410333939658752
  74. Charles dropped a new AMA where he mentioned very briefly that they are actually going to look into read-only UTxOs. If it’s possible to have these types of UTxOs while preserving determinism, it would be a big change since transactions must currently consume inputs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcVEJ1a6eg Some background reading on read-only UTxOs: https://github.com/Emurgo/Emurgo-Research/blob/master/smart-contracts/Unlocking%20The%20Potential%20Of%20The%20UTXO%20Model.md
  75. Apparently, we have surpassed 20MM transactions on the Cardano network. https://twitter.com/CardanoTech/status/1462805643874680835
  76. World Mobile gives a peek at their aerostat hanger where they will launch balloons to connect the unconnected in Africa. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1462715361015521280
  77. Pavia has dropped some very cool images of their avatars (or at least “background characters”). https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1461713781122232327
  78. Remember, Cardano 360 is the last Thursday of every month. That means this Thursday, November 25th! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1462793042587443206
  79. Jerome Powell is named to a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-will-tap-jerome-powell-for-new-term-as-fed-chairman-11637589600
  80. We got another Plutus Application Backend (PAB) release today (11.22)! https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-apps/releases/tag/v2021-11-22
  81. CMC is now showing Cardano native assets! https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1462902025633554444
  82. It looks like we’re getting a block size increase and a plutus script memory increase on December 1, 2021. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/22/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race-network-evolution-for-network-growth/ https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1463097104331468803
  83. Pavia has partnered with ReadyPlayerMe so that you can build your own avatar. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463103151893106688
  84. Charles drops a video on the eToro user limitations. It sounds like IOHK knew nothing about this. Interacting with exchanges falls in the Cardano Foundation’s wheelhouse. It’s unclear whether the CF knew anything. He also pointed out it’s very interesting that an old line exchange like Bitstamp has decided to LIST Cardano during this same period. Charles also mentioned that they haven’t seen any regulatory activity on IOHK’s end. eToro is a relatively small source of liquidity for Cardano and there shouldn’t be much of an impact. https://youtu.be/WYQTkf8ndpY
  85. The Pavia map is expanding on Wednesday, Nov. 24th at 1500 UTC with a second land sale. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463153632484941834
  86. Charles drops a video about the Caravan moving on despite any FUD (like eToro) that temporarily emerges. https://youtu.be/IjXkP_DGRgY
  87. The Pavia second land sale saw demand vastly outstrip supply to become (reportedly) the biggest Cardano NFT drop ever. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463560375442591753 https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463547885539278849
  88. World Mobile got some positive coverage in Tech Crunch! https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/23/world-mobile-group-bringing-zanzibaris-online-through-mobile-network-built-on-blockchain/
  89. Looks like COTI’s Djed project has teamed up with SundaeSwap. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1463480313506668546
  90. The minutes from the Fed’s November FOMC meeting have been published and indicate they are ready to taper asset purchases and raise rates to combat inflation. Some members felt even faster tapering than is currently planned is warranted. These are impactful revelations for crypto. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/federal-reserve-releases-minutes-from-its-november-meeting.html
  91. IOHK drops a new article on a tiered transaction fee system that would still preserve determinism. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/26/network-traffic-and-tiered-pricing/
  92. Here’s a good concise tweetstorm inspired by the Raul Pal/ Breedlove conversation about how the last 100 or so years led us here to this macro environment and crypto. https://twitter.com/JamesRothmann/status/1464305493099393028
  93. Interesting discussion of the SundaeSwap ISO, the Scooper Model, and decentralization. https://youtu.be/94N8KXNs_as
  94. John O’Connor drops an IOHK article on “RealFi” including thoughts on the ramifications of validated identity for uncollateralized loans in markets like Kenya and the projects in Ethiopia and Zanzibar. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/25/welcome-to-the-age-of-realfi/
  95. The Cardano dApp ecosystem maps continue to grow to silly proportions. https://twitter.com/Coin98Analytics/status/1463782688502915075/photo/1
  96. There is at least one “Cardano” baby. Is this the first or have there been others? https://twitter.com/Brunokarno1/status/1464762911746773002
  97. The % of total ADA staked is still over 71% (11.29). https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1464921027922866188
  98. The Cardano Community takes a moment to enjoy contemplating the circumstance that there will never need to be a “magical Cardano 2” in order for our blockchain to survive. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1465089315340488704
  99. There are three new Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs) related to Plutus and the dev experience. https://twitter.com/_KtorZ_/status/1465345098619760643
  100. Strong words from Philip Wadler on why Solidity is so terrible for smart contracts. https://twitter.com/cryptomaxpwr/status/1465223788144955393
  101. Interesting point by Charles regarding Cardano having the expressiveness of Ethereum and the attack surface of Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1465369644408049668
  102. It looks like there is another Cardano project that says it will attempt to increase connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa. https://3air.io/
  103. Charles dropped a video with his thoughts on ISPO’s and regulatory issues. https://youtu.be/bCEYizNPptYADA Whale makes a very good point about Cardano inflation vs. almost all of it’s competitors. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1465673768047570954
  104. Sundaeswap is planning to hit the testnet this weekend. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1466110936369008640
  105. We are approaching 1 million staked addresses! https://twitter.com/RichardMcCrackn/status/1465924981150208005
  106. ADA Whale drops a Top 50 Cardano dApps list. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1465907181086130179
  107. Yet another hack has occurred in Ethereum DeFi. This one is being listed at $31MM. https://twitter.com/Gr88nCardano/status/1466013936164216832
  108. Cardano increased it’s blocksize and Plutus Script Memory yesterday (12.1.21)! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1466086538207547393

~Army of Spies


"The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival" -Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff

Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff is one of the most important reads everyone in r/antiwork needs to become acquainted with. You can read the article here: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

It was so important that Extinction Rebellion felt like it needed a chapter in their handbook, This Is Not A Drill. If antiwork ever wanted a handbook on how to successfully hold a peaceful revolution, read This Is Not A Drill.

Douglas Rushkoff does a way better job at telling the story of how he came to advise some pretty wealthy people and the questions they asked about preparing for "the event" that's coming. Here are a few clips from his story that I think are super relevant to this sub

Survival of the Richest

The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind

Douglas Rushkoff

Jul 5, 2018·9 min read

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology.”

I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig.

After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own.

They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.

That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.

When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were members of their own family. And the more they can expand this ethos of inclusivity to the rest of their business practices, supply chain management, sustainability efforts, and wealth distribution, the less chance there will be of an “event” in the first place. All this technological wizardry could be applied toward less romantic but entirely more collective interests right now.

They were amused by my optimism, but they didn’t really buy it. They were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they’re convinced we are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.

Luckily, those of us without the funding to consider disowning our own humanity have much better options available to us. We don’t have to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways. We can become the individual consumers and profiles that our devices and platforms want us to be, or we can remember that the truly evolved human doesn’t go it alone.

Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It’s a team sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together.

The most important thing out of this for me was:

But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless?

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.

The wealthy people that run the world are asking how to pay people "once money was worthless." They know this monopoly game is almost up and they're trying to trick anyone who can into fighting for them until they need to be discarded for the safety of the rich.

The full article is more shocking and worth a read. Please share it with anyone who thinks that billionaires will protect their own forces.

The book This Is Not A Drill is also shocking and worth sharing. It's basically a how-to and why-you-whould guide on peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience. There's an especially great part about a tax strike that was organized in England several decades ago that this sub might find interesting.


How To Grow Your Passive Income Trading Forex And Cryptocurrency

Every day, a giant quantity of exchanges are made in a cash alternate market known as Forex. “Forex” straightforwardly stems from the begin of two phrases — “foreign” and “exchange”. Not at all like different buying and selling frameworks, for example, the inventory market, Forex doesn’t consist of the buying and selling of any products, bodily or delegate.

Rather, Forex works thru purchasing, selling, and buying and selling between the financial requirements of one of a kind economies from round the globe. Since the Forex market is surely a international buying and selling framework, exchanges are made 24 hours per day, 5 days per week.
Also, Forex isn’t certain with the aid of any one manage organization, which implies that Forex is the fundamental authentic free-market financial buying and selling framework on hand today. By letting the alternate charges on my own for all and sundry gathering’s hands, it is extensively extra tough to attempt and recreation to manipulate or nook the money showcase. With the majority of the factors of activity associated to the Forex framework and the international scope of investment, the Forex market is the largest market in the entire world. Anyplace between 1 trillion and 1.5 trillion proportional United States greenbacks are exchanged on the Forex exhibit each and every single day. Everything in the Forex market is retaining tight the conversion scale of exceptional economic forms.

Cryptominer Solutions Shop is the pleasant location to get the nice equipment wanted to alternate Bitcoin and Forex for profits. Tragically, no longer very many people recognize that the change fees they see on the information and study about in the papers each day may conceivably cross in the path of advantages for their sake, regardless of whether or not they have been sincerely to make a little investment.

The Euro and the US greenback are possibly the two most absolutely understood financial varieties that are utilized in the Forex showcase, and in this way they are two of the most usually exchanged the Forex advertise. Notwithstanding the two “rulers of cash”, there are a couple of distinctive economic types that have sincerely strong notoriety for Forex trading. The Australian Dollar, the Japanese Yen, the Canadian Dollar, and the New Zealand Dollar are on the entire staple economic requirements utilized by means of set up Forex dealers.
However, it is crucial to take observe of that on most Forex administrations, you won’t see the whole identify of money labored out. Every money has its personal image, in a similar fashion as agencies related with the inventory market have their very personal photo established on the title of their organization.

How To Earn Bitcoin
In the tournament that you want to earn Bitcoin on the web, this is a publish that will allow you to do solely that. Bitcoin is the world’s first shared crypto-money that isn’t confined by way of any focal giving organisation but is pretty an open-source protocol that is trailed via each one of the folks who partake in the economy. Nobody can manage the inventory of Bitcoins and all exchanges that take place in this economic system are cryptographically checked via a manner known as Bitcoin mining.

When you apprehend and welcome the thought of Bitcoin, the following wise inquiry is, how would you earn some Bitcoin? Here are a few ideas -
Making Money From Web And Convert Them To Bitcoin
In all honesty, it is nevertheless a lot easier to make US Dollars! You would then be capable to change these bucks you make for Bitcoin at any of the trades, for example, Bitstamp or Coinbase in case you’re located in the US.

Earn Bitcoin Directly In The Bitcoin Economy
There is a little but lively community the place you can do most errands, alternatively at a lot littler scale. For example, you can occupy low renovation work for Bitcoin on Coinality or you can wind up with a little gig on Coingig. These are real likeness locations like Elance and Fiverr alternatively in the Bitcoin environment.

Forex Trading Tools
There are a few Forex buying and selling equipment you need to efficiently change on the Forex showcase. One such device is the potential to interface with the Internet. Ideally, you want a quickly Internet affiliation to develop your passive income, for example, hyperlink or DSL, as you’ll be managing programming and one-of-a-kind functions that want to rapidly procedure a respectable arrangement of information that is being despatched over the Internet. Dial-up get admission to will severely avert your ability to make exchanges rapidly.

Another massive Forex buying and selling device you’ll want is tremendous outdoor financial requirements “graphing programming” that has an specific and reliable data feed so you can screen cash tendencies as they occur. You will likewise want to have the statistics essential to play out the specialised investigation that is anticipated to make possible and productive exchanges on the Forex advertise.

An net buying and selling report is every other sizeable Forex buying and selling device that is crucial to making advantages available. This report wants to have a strong buying and selling stage, have the choice to unexpectedly execute exchanges, provide regular and reliable web-based detailing, have life like “spreads,” and supply brilliant client administration on the events that you want them.

Another primary Forex buying and selling device you’ll want is a membership to in any tournament one Forex Trading Advisory Service. This administration offers show off opinions on at any price an day-to-day schedule, if no longer a few instances every day. It will provide you a prevalent define and by means of and giant heading of the market, which can display valuable in interpreting your very personal examination and settling on how you will proceed with your exchanges the Forex showcase.

One device that severa learner sellers show up to dismiss in their endeavors to wind up gainfully accessible is plausible preparing. Without such preparing, your ability to flip into the nice broking you can be is severely hampered. You may also have the majority of the most complicated equipment accessible, however, on the off risk that you don’t have a clue how to make use of them successfully, it won’t make any distinction how sophisticated these equipment are. The guidance can come as disconnected courses, on line courses, and domestic examination guides by means of capability of CDs, DVDs, and/or over the Internet.


Thursday, December 2, 2021

Is the country / city you live in crypto friendly?

I live in Europe (moved between uk, Germany and Italy) and most places I've been too i would consider far from modern let alone crypto friendly. Hell, in Germany you can't even use credit cards to pay in most stores or restaurants. But then i went to Lisbon, Portugal - a country that is supposedly poor and old fashioned - and i was AMAZED by the crypto community there. There were weekly crypto events, meetups, festivals, NFT art galleries and in many bars you could buy beer with bitcoin! I think it has to do with the fact people supposedly don't pay taxes on crypto trades there.

So, what's the situation where you live? Any other places where crypto is "a thing" (we all heard of el salvador)?