I think the most exciting things are being discussed between politicians, federal & state regulatory bodies in the US. Look up Cynthia Lummis, Elizabeth Warren, Wyoming, and right to mine laws.

Ripple looks like they will lose their SEC case, bad for crypto but nothing to bitcoin. This would set a precedent for unregistered digital securities by making them adhere to standard securities. Doge coin, for example, would need to file documents with the SEC and release proper reports on its business dealings, ouch.

Grayscale seems to be making a good case for a bitcoin spot etf, which would give VCs and investors a place to gamble paper bitcoin instead. This would have the same impact as a gold spot etf, and potentially helps Mrs Longs bitcoin based bank pass the federal reserve board.

Here is a good site for technical news:

https://bitcoinops.org/

Is Matthew Kratter on here yet? He is like the "Casey" Kasem of Bitcoin, unregistered digital securities, and macroeconomics news.

You remind me of the language used in z/Secure. IBM called it CARLa too.

Sounds like something a self-aware robot might say...

No, the Fed won't allow any entity other than central banks to interact with their coin. The central banks will have to decide which digital currencies will be allowed and then they will have to sell them to the people. You know, the same people they told 2 years ago that they wouldn't need a digital currency. Then they will run into the technical issues bitcoin went through in it's early years. I wish them the best of luck, it will be a never ending hackathon.

The sticky backends are still running financial services on z machines and other mainframes. Things running IMS, CICS, DB2, enterprise extender connections, etc. People would be surprised by how much of the financial world is still dominated by these things, although AI and automation type systems work pretty well on this systems.

There are still a lot of mid-range groups running on cloud services in other data centers but most are still interacting with transactional subsystems running on some kind of mainframe.

These mainframes are still a backbone infrastructure for States and cities as well. Capturing multiple workloads from many agencies throughout States too.

Your banking app lets you click pay, while something in-between sends a request to a cobol transaction to create the change and updates a database.

I'd be shocked if they can get that replaced by 2030.

A run on binance seems likely. I wouldn't be surprised if they begin freezing accounts this month. Then a "hack" will hit, complete with rug_pull, followed by cz, et al. moving to a nonextradition countries. I could be wrong but those always seem to be the events for failing unregulated exchanges with their own tokens and unregulated securities.

I'm stocked up on popcorn and cheese seasoning though, just in case.

Any bets on a 50 basis point hike?

No freaking way they reach 2% during a war and spending more than their gdp. Maybe they are using too much grey hair coloring, just-for-feds brand.

Soul Asylum's Runaway Train is blasting at full volume inside Norfolk HQ. That what I heard anyways.

France's unions aren't messing about. These old suits think they can raise the retirement age and people will just kneel to them? Macron is about to find out the hard way, people don't work like that no more.

Number 5 from Burger King.

You people look like an excite bike track.

Doesn't surprise me...

If anyone was wondering how government controlled digital currencies or cbdc's would come out against bitcoin, here is the answer. Still the same outcome as cash.

BSD went digital in 2020. It keeps parity with usd but is more like a polygraph test chart when compared to the eur usd parity charts.

I wish these suits good luck, they will need it.

Not that we should trust a government appendage with zero government involvement, but it is important to read nonetheless. When anyone says bitcoin did "xyz" because of "abc" try to remember this report.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr1052

It's amazing that this line will never cross the x axis. It will just keep getting closer and closer.

Someone said people can track others with them, but I don't know that for certain.

14g of Cinnamon Buddha and a pre roll of some sativa. Malt liquor is my drink of choice, it's an acquired taste.

Soundgarden - My Wave, amazing song by the way.

I can't tell the difference anymore. A little weed some alcohol and a censorship resistant social media platform is one hell of a drug.