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Benjamin Chodroff
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HSBC Labs DeFi in TradFi 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇳moving to 🇦🇪 node runner

Really happy to have some low miner fees to use nostr:nprofile1qqsz925p2y8wv0lzk9k2u9hqjg0h36d6nzpw9p5w0e366mgg46d4j4qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qmr9vfehgu3wvdhk6tcu2vjxy latest CoinJoin plugin on nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7tcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9u8xtldr. It’s working great but it does consume a surprising amount of CPU and makes my Intel i7 NUC overheat if I keep the plugin running. Super easy to use and the total fees were astonishingly low. I still can’t figure out how to get my head wrapped around PayJoin.

“Every job is a bitcoin job if you stack.” helps me get through the day

That is an empty mempool #bitcoin

In the next 24 hours, 20 million of the available #bitcoin will be mined. It will take another 115 years to mine the remaining million bitcoin.

https://bitbo.io/how-many-bitcoin/

Yay, my bank gave me my money back. Time to send it again to Kraken.

I passed my Technician test for Amateur Radio License #hamradio Thank you to the #meshtastic community who inspired me. Now, I need to figure out if I can get my U.S. license recognized in China while I start studying for my General license.

Now you’re tempting me to upgrade my T-beam too. But it will ruin my uptime record haha

I’ve studied for my technician #hamradio test and registered a FRN with the FCC. I’m consistently passing many practice tests. Anyone recommend a remote testing center? Any other general advice? Hope I can convince China to recognize my license, but that’s a future problem.

Nothing better than waking up to argue with your bank’s security department on confirming the use of your own funds.

This is why I travel. Beef tenderloin and hummus at Maison Libanaise in Hong Kong.

Right. Many countries around the world have had an underground economy supported by US dollars. That will increasingly move to stablecoins. I’m fairly excited to see what happens with tether announcing they will do USDT on bitcoin lightning.

Never been more excited about #bitcoin

Stablecoins are invoking conversations in every global bank.

I’m coming up on seven years in China. I arrived on 3/28/2018 in Guangzhou and, having spent the last five years studying Bitcoin and then Ethereum, I lead a small cryptocurrency exchange in Hong Kong with a team in Shenzhen. I have a lot of stories, but the main one is that it was impossible to get a bank account with any of the Hong Kong banks. We shut down the exchange and sold the tech. I was fortunate to find a job in HSBC leading cash equities technology in Guangzhou. Over the past six years I made my way to leading digital assets research with a focus on cryptocurrency. I hope one day to connect a bank to cryptocurrency but it is taking a different path than anticipated.

How the hell did Bhutan end up on a U.S. potential travel ban list?! What… did they start mining too much bitcoin away from the US strategic reserve? Banned or not, I hope to visit one day soon. Looks incredible.