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AML compliance officer at a top 10 (US) bank. Send a note if you're a bitcoiner or a bitcoin company having AML issues with your bank. I am happy to help to the extent possible (as a personal endeavor... not/not as an officer of the bank). NO ALTCOINERS!

Except for the flying cars, not far off the mark.

The signal is getting stronger

That ugly Christmas sweater may someday save your life. Who knew?

Guy - Please tell Allan his theory is not half-baked at all. I have the benefit of a front row seat for this play & the rest of the banker audience have no idea what's coming. That light ahead in the stablecoin tumnel is not the other end opening on an electronic Fiat utopia. It's the bitcoin train coming straight at them.... Nothing stops this train.

https://fountain.fm/episode/DsJfhL0gIuqJMeg4HSFc

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Getting a Fountain error today

Any ideas?

Serious question: Does Saylor have a lightning wallet?

No audio coming through. Other TFTC shows no problem. This one seems to be blank (at least for the first minutes).

https://fountain.fm/episode/3eELCGlKHBnHX3JbgSm4

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An unanswered question from the article is where Tether stores their UST now. Most probably realize that treasuries can't just be put in your pocket or stored in a sock drawer. Typically, they're custodied at a financial institution. And financial institutions that custody treasuries are "inside " the US financial system and subject to hard power and soft influence of the USG.

On some level, it seems to me that Andrino's resistance to MiCA is also a bet against the European vision of digital assets in favor of the American view.

(Side note: the article also did not mention Tether's bitcoin holdings which, as the USD price of bitcoin increases, would likely make it the dominant asset on Tether's books (ceteris paribus). What UST/BTC reserves ratio does Andrino have to maintain to stay in the good graces (or at least not on the target list) of the USG, specifically the Department of the Treasury? Unknown.

In any case, for now he might take a lesson from Pavel Durov's extended vacation in Paris and avoid the continent for a while, too. This will be interesting to watch play out as the price runs for sure.)

Oscar and the terrific team at Fountain saw my note and promptly identified and fixed the issue (less than 24 hours!). I now have access to this episode and am good to go on the TFTC subscription. Thanks, team.

A sure sign of a market pump.