Zayd Hammam

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Zayd HammamFeb 6, 2023
David GerardFeb 5, 2023

Crypto collapse: Crypto.com’s shadow bank Transactive, US banks and crypto, Binance not so good with actual money

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

https://amycastor.com/2023/02/05/crypto-collapse-crypto-coms-shadow-bank-transactive-us-banks-and-crypto-binance-not-so-good-with-actual-money/

In this episode:

* Euros on Crypto.com have been frozen, because their EUR payment processor Transactive has fallen afoul of the Bank of Lithuania. Who are Transactive?

* The Federal Reserve loathes the idea of banks touching crypto, and Silvergate is absolutely not to even consider starting up Diem again.

* Binance is having a few issues with actual-money payments too.

Crypto collapse: Crypto.com’s shadow bank Transactive, US banks and crypto, Binance not so good with actual money

Amy Castor
Zayd HammamFeb 4, 2023
Jody Michael GordonFeb 4, 2023
#Everton #EPL #premierleague Wow. Shockingly good start to the #Dyche era! Probably the hardest working game I've seen besides #ManCity and maybe earlier against #Crystalpalace Best game I have seen from DCL and the midfield is really pressing hard. Doucoure and Onana are great - love to see Gana pushing on Martinelli too. Good 4-5-1 and I like starting Coleman and Macneil. Anyway I guess it's all up to stamina now, but at least we have a game worth watching finally. 👍
Zayd HammamFeb 2, 2023
Mike Masnick ✅Feb 2, 2023
So with Elon now charging for API access to Twitter, and lots of tools likely to shut down... we should at least expect another influx of developers coming to Mastodon, and hopefully users as well...
Zayd HammamJan 26, 2023
gbhnewsJan 25, 2023

hey #fediverse

so I’ve been thinking about this for a long time

at some point yr humble fediverse servant is going to get called into a meeting to justify how I am spending my time over here

& I suspect saying “listen this is the most fun I’ve had on social media since early Tumblr” is not the move

This is all to say: if you want local #news here, follow us 😁.

If we get this working I think other news orgs. will follow.

Zayd HammamJan 18, 2023
Nassim Nicholas TalebJan 18, 2023
A long hike
Zayd HammamJan 5, 2023
Coach Pāṇini ®Jan 5, 2023
“I don’t like disinformation but I think nothing purifies better than sunlight. We must let all these idiots ridicule themselves and disqualify themselves in public.” - @nntaleb
https://link.medium.com/y2Y27V8Ukwb #imbeciles #crypto #Putin #COVID #ElonMusk #grifters
Zayd HammamJan 3, 2023
Cryptodon NewsJan 3, 2023
Grayscale Ethereum Trust trades at record 59% discount
#cryptonews #crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/grayscale-ethereum-trust-sees-record-59-discount/
Grayscale Ethereum Trust trades at record 59% discount

The fund has been trading at a premium level and hit nearly 950% in June.

CryptoSlate
Zayd HammamDec 29, 2022
Mike OlsonDec 29, 2022

"Twitter has been taken over by the equivalent of a stoned ChatGPT (very confident, but very wrong)."

You write a line that good, I'm gonna boost you.

@mmasnick's latest banger is, well, a banger.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This?

So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…

Techdirt
Show threadZayd HammamDec 23, 2022
@w7voa haven’t even read the article. Highly doubt it. What would it get him? He would only buy if they were about to go out of business.
Show threadZayd HammamDec 21, 2022
@nntaleb perfect. If you don’t have the temperament, you don’t have the temperament. But presumably the converse is also true…if you do have the temperament for risk taking then you do have the temperament. Like, are you better today than when you were 25?