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I thought the same thing lol.

Hmm somone watched planet of the apes way to many times.

Next thing you know the Statue of Liberty will be buried in the sand

A planet where apes evolved from men???

Basement Jaxx did similar

This reminds me of an old joke:

What do you get when you mix human DNA with monkey DNA?

Kicked out of the zoo.

I get the point of why. It doesn’t make the idea any less horrifying. And this is going horribly wrong at some point. People are going to be like ”oh no how could you possibly be against technology that is going to make everyone’s lives so much better” until the motherfucking humanzee clone army brings the world to its knees

Imagine how fast we could use up all the resources of the planet if more species were as smart as humans!!

I, for one, welcome our new ape-human-hybrid overlords...

So, managers are what we call that where I work.

Well at least we don’t have a government strong enough to impede industry anymore. Would hate to think someone or something would step in to stop this from happening.

Yes! Now with cats!

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Ick-factor comments incoming..!!

Baiting headline.

We're all 'part monkey'. We share 23% of our genes with yeast for fucks sake.

These are simply cells being designed to grow organs for people in need of transplants.

Yes, science! This is the future I was hoping for.

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“We” will never learn.

Apes stronger. Together.

r/NoahGetTheBoat

Don’t humans already share over 90% of our DNA with chimps? What’s the reason for going the monkey direction?

Wtf are these scientists doing

Why?

So they can't find the missing link, now they're making their own. They'll probably birth one of these hybrids, kill it, bury it and then dig it up 5 years later and say "aha! The missing link. That bastard Darwin was right on the money"

Sadly, by creating a half-human/half-monkey embryo, all they'll end up getting is another Tik-Tok star.

:(

I did a double take on who the author of this was. Interesting read, though!

Appreciate the link. That is a good read.

As you can see, after reaching its peak in 2007, it only recently reclaimed that ATH. The Fed has done whatever it took to save the Too Big To Fail banks, and it still took these banks 14 years to reclaim 2007 highs. The Topix Banking Index is off over 90% from its 1989 ATH. Jiro certainly doesn't dream of capital appreciation in Japanese mega banks. My mother would rather visit a physical bank branch and risk contracting COVID than learn how to use online banking.

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Threat of physical violence is assault by the way. Not cool.

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Seriously though this is what mass adoption is going to look like. Just larger weak hands. They will have no capacity to understand a 5x gain is just the beginning of their journey when they have been proud of 7%/year for the last thirty years. Im pretty sure this is why volitiliy is dropping.

On top of that what a stupid time to sell. On chain data is more bullish by the day.

Cramer went on Pomp's show around 12k and pomp convinced him on BTC. Since then he has said many positive things about btc and even said he "may demand to be paid in BTC". Don't hate on the guy for taking profits. And if you are going to hate, at least be informed

The Dudes paid millions a year to scream about stonks and press buttons and still had a house payment?

(From the Ol internet says he is worth over 100MM-150MM)

The dude is full of shit

This bald asshole has been talking shit about bitcoin for 5+ years, which qualifies him as an asshole. Now he’s claiming he bought at 12k and just sold some to pay off his house like a fool?

This guy needs to be stopped. I hated him before this but now he’s saying he had bitcoin investments the whole time he was talking shit, AND he’s paying off his house with it which is the stupidest thing an individual can do with rates at sub-3%.

Jim Crymore

He’s like a living breathing Babylon Bee parody piece...

Better title should be, "Phoney man pays with real crypto but lost his phoney brain."

Cramer needs to shut the fuck up.

It’s like having a coffee and not liking it.

It's like the preachers who scream about gays but then get caught in a hotel room with gay prostitutes.

He's trying to drive the price down so he can buy more. Clown.

I don’t like Jim Cramer but I don’t want to be a hater. Good for him...that douche.

He still wants to be rich but doesn’t want to look like a hypocrite

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"What's next for crypto economy?"

Ans- Mainstream news start shilling for us after decades of ignoring the blockchain technology.

Deflationary

A level playing field for everyone. Robinhood can't restricting buy orders when it suits them

From what I understand, it means not centralized

it means wall st pigs cant control our money no more :-)

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Sidenote: Has anyone actually received the $5 bitcoin reward for signing up? It's been over 6 weeks since I received the email stating that I would receive it within 24 hours. Support was no help either.

New users only :(

Here's some more info about it: https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/other/coinbase-sweepstakes

Anyone know if new Coinbase Pro users are eligible?

That's a nice promotion

US only? Boooo

Are existing accounts automatically entered?

I like the idea of Coinbase but actually using it is another thing. Their fees are almost prohibitive and painful

Edit: How do I use Coinbase pro?

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$550 on ftx. It will pump hard 🚀

Imagine if the Coinbase people cash out then put it all on crypto.

It's currently halted. Does anyone have any info on when us normal people will be able to buy?

Can anyone point me towards why Coinbase is listing an IPO instead of doing a native coin

Cool. My bonus last year was a $2 Starbucks gift card. So I’m doing pretty good too.

that's going to be worth at least $100,000 soon.

Coin base lists Everything dumps

God I hate Coinbase

@POODLETOKEN Up 97% If you missed Doge here's you redemption. Available on Whitbit and Uniswap! #POODL #poodltoken📷Paris Hilton and 4 others

Coinbase banned me for "illegal activity" after I sold bitcoin on localbitcoin and sent it to the address the guy gave me, years ago. Couldn't get it reinstated, ruined a great and profitable btc flipping business prior to tax laws.

That's really cool man... that's a minimum of 30k for each...

Great way to make employees feel happy and invested about them going public.

Nice move of them but it's a lot less than my gf's company handed out their employees when they went public. Coinbase being much larger, I expected them to be a bit more generous. But what the heck, still a great move on their part.

Coinbase is terrible i have reached out many times because im having issues with my account and i get no help

Must be nice

I knew I shoulda been a customer service rep from home for this airdrop!

Wow that's like $30000 worth that's insane

Employees would be better off getting paid in BTC!

Dayum, wish I worked at coinbase

Hello coinbase do you need a facility Manager! Please contact me :)!

Coinbase sucks so much

That's insane. They definitely treat their employees better than they treat they customers :))

Set my limit to 380$

Damm that's really awesome!

Coinbased

I believe the correct word here is "Paid"

thats easily $35,000

Look at mega mind over here

I wonder if this has anything to do with helping Coinbase dodge some taxes. Normally offering stock options and all that to employees is a great way of showing increased revenue but also somehow claiming a loss. This stuff is beyond me, but its food for thought.

Either way, this is really nice of Coinbase and I sure wouldnt mind being on their payroll.

Wheres there customers shares.

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Is IOTA compatible related to privacy with transacions, so it is able to be used in Signal? Can somebody explain or give a link?

Signal reminds me off Oneplus.

Very reasonable read. Feels like that should have been out earlier..

Dude It’s just in beta, I think it’s really early still. Lets maybe chill a bit. Maybe wait and see the situation develop, or for signal or mob staff to give us more insight.

I just wanted them to make the desktop client load faster and allow us to choose compression level / resolution for photos and videos. Instead, we got a cypherpunk platform to make Moxie rich, that'll almost certainly make Signal not available for download in ever more countries.

Signal discussion violates rule 13.

it just baffles me why anyone would use an unstable pseudo-crypto for exchanging value when buying something like a slice of pizza. They really should've gone with integrating a decentralized stablecoin like dai (or hell, even their own, stable community token that's always worth 1 USD) on their own L2 network, that would publish the transactions in a zk-rollup on Ethereum periodically to eliminate fees and still preserve transaction and account balance privacy.

Signal VCs have their shitcoin, they're not looking for anything, just doing so damage control after they've been busted with "mobilecoin".

A scam is born.

We will treat this cancer with feedbacks in the App Stores.

Every cancer needs time, Signal needs a long feedback therapy.

Read this if you still have a question 😊👌

Someone at IF should give them a call. 📞

it is better to connect with mobilecoin to solve their fee problem by using the iota network coliured coins :)

This would be awesome.

I tweeted the blog poster about IOTA: https://twitter.com/itsmontoya/status/1382104711738773505

I like how even this post doesn't mention Monero, the elephant in the room. Monero is already the private payment network for the people, with 78 times as many private transactions as Zcash and Dash combined last month. And MobileCoin uses RingCT which was invented at the Monero Research Lab.

Why have an AMA if you can write a blog post that answers 0 difficult questions?

Unbelievable that Signal managed to write all that without:

• Mentioning Monero once, which is the only integration people would actually want and the uncredited source of all the good parts of mob
• Acknowledging the financial conflict of interest involving Moxie
• Addressing the insanely greedy tokenomics of mob
• Mission drift and the resulting regulatory risk
• Why the AMA was ditched today

Oh wait did I say unbelievable? I meant totally believable at this point. Signal's reputation does one more circle around the drain

I wouldn’t say a word if they built an application for this, based on Signal’s encryption and foundation. But integrating it in the current app is not the best idea from a few perspectives. I also understand the need to raise funds, but I would be way happier with a ‘classic’ subscription fee,for Signal, I’d happily pay that even though generally being heavily against this sort of model. It’d be much more cleaner and transparent.

Complete and utter bias. In their own words, MobileCoin is:

1. opt-in, user choice
2. $0.60 transaction fees
3. wire transfer to buy / sell MobileCoin
4. price volatility

opt-in, user choice

if it's all about "user choice", why don't they add multiple cryptos and let me decide which one I use or don't use?

$0.60 transaction fees

Bloody hell, I can send bitcoin transactions cheaper than that. There are many other cheaper options (dash is a fraction of one cent).

wire transfer to buy / sell MobileCoin

Well, if they hadn't chosen some obscure low market cap coin, me the user might of found it much easier to buy and sell it for fiat or some other pairs.

price volatility

Not much to say about this, other than low market cap coins have more volatility. And MobileCoin is ranked #733.

Signal put in a list of other unrealistic requirements regarding speed and privacy. Really, you think on day one Signal is going to generate more payments than other networks that have been here years?

For speed, easy integration, fast transactions, cheap transactions and long term scalability, they could of just integrated dash or use the Dash Platform API. Dash has numerous on / off ramps and does many thousands of instant transactions every day.

Want better privacy? Beam has one minute confirmation times and very private because there is no transaction history stored on it's blockchain. Beam devs are also working on GhostDAG which makes transactions super fast.

Zcash will also be rolling out faster and cheaper transactions.

Alternatively, if it's really about "user choice", just manage the wallet and keys in the background, invisible to the end user, pass the payment details across the Signal network, and just launch the appropriate user mobile wallet at the time of spending i.e. no need to copy and paste long payment addresses, it just launches the wallet and all the payment details are automatically filled in.

All of this can be done today, but they didn't. They built a set of unrealistic requirements that met their own MobileCoin requirements and then failed anyway on transactions fees and on / off ramps.

I feel like I'm in upside-down-land. WhatsApp (!) took out an op-ed in Wired to stand against all the challenges to encrypted communication happening around the world. Signal says it's integrating a payment system that can be used to facilitate money laundering, which as u/Jaksic pointed out raises problems with regulatory risk and regulatory attention (yes, crypto-fans, I know that cash is used for money laundering too, and that there are oodles of legitimate uses of cryptocurrency that aren't speculation hoping for the next bitcoin-style rise in value, but that's not what's on the mind of most of the regulators around the world looking for backdoors in encrypted communications)

As the world stands today, the future of transaction privacy does not look great.

And it will never look great, should never look great. What's interesting to me about this position by Signal is how deeply rooted it is in the notion that "money is speech ergo free speech must mean free money." Money isn't speech, though, and money should not have the same privacy protections that speech does. Only a cryptoanarchist would think otherwise.

Let's be honest. The only reason big tech cares about eliminating privacy is because their advertising based business models depend scooping up data everywhere. Money is different. As a society we have spent decades flushing out hidden sources of money from fat cats in tax havens, off-shore banking account, and through thrid-party intermediary. Now Signal comes along and says, "whoah boy, we have a new way for fat cats to hide money. Isn't it grand!"

No, it's not grand. It's stupid. It makes Signal the free speech platform commingled with Signal the money laundering platform. That's bad for free speech, anyway you look at it.

I don't think any other coin had a chance. The story is something like CTO of mobcoin started signal so probably has some mobcoin which increased in value after Signal "chose" them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mm3iw9/mobilecoin_is_a_censored_monero_wannabe_premined/

Why is payment option even coming to signal what’s the big picture here? And even if the payment option does comes to signal then can we just not ignore it? Or is it going to cause some major concerns over security and private messaging?

Something like GNU Taler, which comes without its own cryptocurrency, would have left less of a bad taste.

I'm not going to lie. This is a bit of a nothing statement. I do think people are too quick to call foul play, but at the same time Signal's statements aren't helping.

Maybe I’m the unpopular opinion but I’m super excited for this! Signal is a popular app that will popularize crypto, and mobilecoin is a quick and private coin. Say what you want about attack surface and Unix philosophy, this will improve convenient privacy and free speech, which is what signals goal is. I can’t wait to see this feature in the USA!

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tldr; The Stacks Foundation is launching a $4 million accelerator program to invest in early stage teams building on the Stacks network. The three-month program will invest up to $50,000 in anywhere from 10 to 20 startups per class. The accelerator takes a small equity cut in each team with 80% of any profits going back into the accelerator.

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I want to hear how this will be different from the last time?

Last time, stacks was inundated with hundreds of abandonware apps. Better support this time? More quality control? Any lessons learned?

Woohoo!

this is great for the ecosystem!

Can't wait to see some cool projects

Great news that should bring more developers and functionality to the STX ecosystem!

why was it so safe 7+ years ago? or was it really not?

Cash is safer than BTC. Also the fees is less than BTC to transfer it..

You just need the BTC address of someone and anyone can see the whole transaction history of the account

Well if your not a noob then you tumble your coin and it is safe, don’t have dobby use a market address and your pretty safe. Point blank, if you don’t tumble your coin your pretty stupid. You can definitely be safe with BTC.

"For example, in September 2020, Chainalysis was awarded a $625,000 grant from the IRS to develop Monero-tracking software. Last November, Cipher- Trace also filed two patents for technologies related to tracing Monero transactions after working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."

But...

https://twitter.com/davejevans/status/1330008956270374918?s=21

XD

It's not tracking if more about probabilities rather than certainties.

Edit: typo

What about coins like litecoin, ethereum etc.

It’s literally a public ledger

That was an excellent read. Thank you. Can’t believe there are still folks who think Bitcoin is some counterculture resistance, when you’ve got the CIA directly stating that they wish every transaction could take place on bitcoin, because it’s so much easier to thwart and analyze!

You misread the graph. There are different y-values for each side. Bitcoins is on the left

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Everyone knows they can talk shit but most politicians are right now using Monero to keep their money safe and private.

From the article:

“Blockchain technology is a powerful but underuti- lized forensic tool for governments to identify illicit activity and bring criminals to justice. One expert on the cryptocurrency ecosystem called blockchain technology a “boon for surveillance.””

Jesus Christ

Great post!

fantastic read thanks for posting!

this community has known about how shit bitcoin is for anonymity for 5 years. blame the media for throwing bitcoin up on such a high pedestal

first in best dressed, i guess

This is huge! I hadn't realized that monero transaction volume had surpassed bitcoin either. It implies that monero is working as intended to prevent people from seeing all transactions and can truly be used as digital cash.

Should post this to r/cryptocurrency. Newbs need to understand this

All of the experts we consulted believe that governments have been slow to recognize the forensic power of block- chain technology. This lag reflects a lack of awareness at senior and working levels, as well as the challenges understanding and working with the extreme complex- ity of the computer science associated with blockchain forensics.

Bullish🦍

Looking at the CIA's history, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they are funding some of their activities using Monero and other cryptocurrencies nowadays.

For those interested in the questionable history of the CIA, please check what investigative journalist Gary Webb uncovered. The man literally sacrificed it all for the truth. Webb was a real journalist with tons of integrity, a rare trait to find in the business today.

If 'Epstein did not kill himself' resonates with you, so will probably 'Gary Webb did not commit a suicide by two gunshot wounds to the head.'

420$ on 4/20.

Ah the free marketing eh?

Wow ... FINALLY. Finally a govt report that gives an ACCURATE synopsis of the situation on cryptos. Finally, a govt report that doesn't say some stupid shit about "privacy coins" like zcash and Dash, and only mentions Monero. Finally, someone that doesn't appear to be coming in with an agenda and narrative to spin, and largely just lays out the facts.

One thing I found amusing:

Another went so far as to say that “if all criminals used blockchain, we could wipe out illicit financial activity.”

crosspost per request. Interesting read by michael morell, former director of the CIA, on BTC and AECs (i.e. monero).

TL:DR = BTC < Monero, Cryptospace good

Nice, could you also post in /r/monero?

Thank you! It's post like this I need to get even more confident in the project! 🙏