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Good article in The Prospect about the coming STABLE and GENIUS acts, which will give an implicit bail out guarantee to crypto money laundering firms - sorry, i mean "stablecoins" - like #Tether and #Circle (#Coinbase). One of the two would also let #ElonMusk print his own dollars.

Senate #Democrats like #KirstenGillibrand, #ElissaSlotkin, and #RubenGallego, whose election campaigns were supported by incredible amounts of crypto money, will probably make sure these bills become laws (because they are corrupt).

Note that stablecoins are currently incredibly profitable businesses. After all a stablecoin is basically a bank where you spend nothing on anti-money laundering & other regulations, refuse to assist customers who have been scammed, and collect 5% interest from the US government while passing absolutely none of it on to your customers.

prospect.org/power/2025-03-10-

#crypto#senate#uspol

Senator #KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) is basically a wholly owned subsidiary of #Coinbase, #a16z, and the rest of the US crypto industry (as this Op-Ed in CoinDesk makes abundantly clear).

Unfortunately she never got the memo about how the preferred nomenclature is now “#tokenization” and “RWAs” because “#Web3” just makes people think of monkey JPGs / #NFTs.

What’s really happening here is that Circle / Coinbase are trying to get the US Government to legislate #Tether out of their market. While I support this goal I don’t think legitimizing Circle’s #USDC - who are, if anything, worse about compliance than Tether - is good policy.

coindesk.com/opinion/2025/02/1

CoinDesk · Why We Need a Bipartisan Stablecoin Bill – GillibrandThe new Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act lays the groundwork for a new era of American exceptionalism, says Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York.

it is no longer voodoo science or early non-commercial tech to make natural gas, gasoline fuel for your car, from renewable and non-fossil CO2, sunlight and renewables.

it is only a matter of price. the rest, is up to the democratic prerogative of everyone to make the choice. Non Fossil, or dirty fuel. Its up to you and I.

here’s a floating ship that converts ocean power into Non Fossil natural gas > jp.linkedin.com/company/thessa

#money #USDC #EURC #RLUSD #bitcoin #solana

youtube.com/watch?si=gn2FP6cNJ

jp.linkedin.comThessalonica Hydroship | LinkedInThessalonica Hydroship | LinkedInのフォロワー数359人。Ocean current flow into green hydrogen + EU-ETS carbon credits to deliver within 300 nautical miles to end user. | Thessalonica Hydroship (Project Company Dun & Bradstreet Reference No. 533168007) is privately held and funded by family office headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. This project is designed, engineering and built by: (a) Publicly quoted European / US EPCm (b) Shipyard with corresponding and relevant RINA certification Each Thessalonica Hydroship comprise of a Gas Production Area ("GPA") that will make use of oceanic current energy to convert seawater into hydrogen, and non-fossil biogenic carbon to yield production volumes of CNG (compressed natural gas), LNG (liquefied natural gas), or, compressed hydrogen gas product. CNG, LNG and compressed hydrogen gas product are priced in USD, EUR, USDC, EURC and quoted in mmBTU at the Delivery Point ("DP") within the Gas Production Area ("GPA").
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@wackJackle @GhostOnTheHalfShell USDC is almost definitely backed by dollars. the funds are in trust at blackrock (Tether is another matter, though i tend to lean more towards "the money Tether has is dirty" than "Tether doesn't have the money")

as far as how to mint #USDC, you open an account at Circle, send them $100, and they send 100 USDC to your wallet address. practically speaking due to the close relationship of Circle and #Coinbase this all happens in the Coinbase app - you wire money to Coinbase at #CrossRiverBank (that's a whole other topic but suffice it to say it's a bank that got a 100 page Congressional report devoted to the ways it facilitated truly epic amounts of covid relief fraud) and Coinbase puts 100 USDC in your trading account.

Billions in MAGA voter money for #TrumpCoin:

the stablecoin most used by americans (the #coinbase one, #USDC) has seen its market cap shoot up ~$4 billion since the introduction of #TrumpCoin. while some offshore people can mint and redeem USDC it's mostly americans who do so, so that's probably a decent proxy, at least order of magnitude wise, for how much #MAGA voter money was sucked into crypto by #TRUMP and #MELANIA.

chart below. dune analytics query for those who know SQL and want to dig is here: dune.com/queries/4629918/77119

👀 nothing to see here, just (probably) a single #polymarket bidder plunking down tens of millions of dollars from (probably) a #russian timezone and in so doing significantly moving the needle on the biggest 2024 presidential election prediction market...

x.com/fozzydiablo/status/18466

Remember these numbers are dutifully reported by every major #media outlet in the world as if they are just as good as #polls.

TheReader: 2/21/2024 Judge finds racist robocaller liable for 4,959 illegally spoofed calls.

Justice finally caught up with #ScottRhodes, a man who lived briefly in Sandpoint while conducting a yearslong campaign of hate through #racist robocalls directed at individuals across the nation.

The #USDC in #MT issued a partial summary judgment Feb. 20 against Rhodes, finding him liable for sending 4,959 illegally spoofed #robocalls in six separate instances, including in Sandpoint.
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@tante
#USDT & #USDC are just digital casino chips:
They can only be (legitimately) converted to actual money by virtue of paying for them and they can only be (illegitimately) swapped at huge loss rates if someone wants to get them.

And like in a real casino, there are the equivalent bouncers ans security cameras at the exchange desk.

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@tante But then again the only purpose for #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin :bitcoin: and #Ethereum is to taint wallets with "#dusting" attacks, thus basically preventing people from using their accounts.
youtube.com/watch?v=x7gaqhF-wr

Cuz unlike #Monero :monero: , there is no #privacy on #USDT, #USDC or any other #coin - regardless if #stablecoin or shitcoin, nor is there some confirmation/denial/widtholding process like an actual bank...
ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/1078

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@tante It's also the same reason why the #ECB doesn't go after #Prepaid vouchers and why #Paysafecard exist:

Those are locked-in, #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider solutions and both PSC as well as #Tether do comply with #KYC, #AML & #CTF regulations...

In fact, Tether and #USDC's "#SmartContract" does have functions specifically to comply with #SDN listings and #sanctions and do enforce them against i.e. #TornadoCash:

youtube.com/watch?v=wwBnf-e1PY