Visa CEO:
"We want to be in the middle of any movement of funds."
I bet you do. GFY.
The rest of the video is, IMO, him spinning their scramble to adapt to the technology that completely obsoletes his business as if he's enabling it.
Unsurprisingly, no plans to convert any of their reserves to Bitcoin. That says it all. He's not a believer, nor an enabler, simply a rent seeker at best, agent of the surveillance state at worst.
Can you even identify the medieval warm period or the little ice age on this chart ?
If not, go do your homework
RT murchandamus:
[1]: Last night, all txs with 8+ sat/vB got cleared, still leaving a queue 127 blocks deep.
[2]: The visualization of a default-sized mempool (last 30d) shows how often it overflowed. On Thursday it had even started dropping txs in the 4-5 sat/vB band.
https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1361356556428836871
Mempool by vBytes (sat/vByte) - 3 Month Chart:
https://mempool.space/graphs#3m
Cc @kaul_vivek .
More Mises and less Taleb.
(Not the twitter Taleb at least - books still good)
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RT @bitstein
"There are in this world no such things as stability and security and no human endeavors are powerful enough to bring them about." - Ludwig von Mises
Basically, Mises knew that "price stability" simps are carrying the ideological water for anti-market inflationist crooks.
https://twitter.com/bitstein/status/1285224297141862412
So what if... the richest people in society get to decide what the history of society is, and we pay them to do it? Sound good? Who's in? Anyone...?
Getting started on Mastodon after a long time lurking on Bitcoin Twitter under assorted nyms.
Given Twitter's penchant for censorship, I don't believe Bitcoiners can continue to use the service in good conscience.
The Bitcoin community is leading the way on sound money. As it captures supporters from all walks of life, it will soon lead the way on "sound" social networks.
Not reading my ol' Twitter feed as often as days go by, and I'm noticing the increasing exodus of the Bitcoin community from Twitter to elsewhere is palpable. A few BTC influencers remain on Twitter but I imagine in time they'll have to make the break. Twitter is doubling down on censorship as promised and are launching something called "Birdwatchers," basically unleashing a legion of mentally unstable and Orwellian-leaning Karens to rat-out any free thinking person. Dumpster fire in the making.
In the eternal struggle between human creativity and bureaucratic oppression, we have a new hero. Totally based. Mad respect.
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-barbershop-reopens-despite-provincial-lockdown-using-loophole-1.5276668