Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Trump claims US banks can't open in Canada—US banks disagree

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In what seems to be an effort to extort Canada for additional benefits, Donald Trump complained yesterday on social media that CANADA DOESN...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

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Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain infl...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Canadian guilt, Russian oil

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We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams

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Source: Better Business Bureau The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example . In...
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Monday, January 13, 2025

Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible

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On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallet...
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Saturday, December 28, 2024

Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network

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There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial m...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

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What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...
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