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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photo of rush to retrieve gold from Shanghai bank on eve of the communist takeover in 1948
Jon Matonis
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Jon Matonis
@jonmatonis
Forbes contributor | At the intersection of free banking, cryptography, and digital currency | Chairman at SOL Strategies Inc
- End of an Era: Room 77 in Berlin Closes Doors Permanently! Blame it on Covid or blame it on gentrification. Either way, this Kreuzberg landmark has served as a Bitcoin watering hole for over 10 years, with thousands making the obligatory pilgrimage. Thx for the memories, Joerg!
- IMF on Bitcoin: It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies
- Fascinating! "BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content." motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
- Facebook may decide that, after these tortuous and mind-numbing hearings, it will be far simpler to just build on the open source #Bitcoin protocol.
- Imagine having the power to print paper money and NOT using that power to acquire Bitcoin.
- This is dumb. Telegram could easily integrate viral, censorship-resistant bitcoin into platform rather than creating another centralised token.
- Jurisdictions (such as US) that restrict/regulate ICOs are not harming the world, they are only harming their own markets and citizens.
- "What the New York Fed is doing is unprecedented in U.S. history and yet you will find no mention of it on any front page of a newspaper today." wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/fed-up…
- As Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written, Bitcoin is “an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.” time.com/5486673/bitcoi…
- Asset-backed tokens, like stablecoins, are NOT digital bearer instruments and they are centrally-issued. In addition to reputational volatility, they carry significant counterparty risk.Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin. Starting today, Coinbase customers in supported jurisdictions can buy, sell, send, and receive USDC at Coinbase.com and in our mobile apps. Learn more here: blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-and-c…
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