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2024-08-10 13:22:35

"Scrim" - The Legendary Mid-City dog still on the loose after 2nd drug dart
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/scrim-stray-dog-tranquilizer-dart/article_daef4e4e-5697-11ef-8aa0-17bc3c4011e7.html
![](https://m.stacker.news/44999)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/643005

2024-07-23 16:11:46

ElevenLabs Reports 98% probability that Biden voice was AI
https://x.com/MatthewSabia/status/1815608731109069202
ElevenLabs is a "AI voice cloning" tech and they have a feature where you can upload samples and it returns the likelihood that the sample was generated with its tech.
![](https://m.stacker.news/41294)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/619587

2024-07-19 15:13:25

WTF? Senator: Whistleblowers Show Most of Trump Security Was Not Secret Service
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/it-was-setup-senator-hawley-whistleblowers-most-trump/
![](https://m.stacker.news/40471)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/614157

2024-07-19 15:12:50

WTF? Senator: Whistleblowers Show Most of Trump Security Was Not Secret Service
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/it-was-setup-senator-hawley-whistleblowers-most-trump/
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/614157

2024-03-26 20:50:34

NFL Approves Drastic New Kickoff Rule - All Players on Recv Side for Kickoffs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-owners-approve-wild-new-kickoff-rule-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-one-year-trial-run/

2024-03-08 14:07:44

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no doubt the $3k limit was put in place when it was equivalent to $50K in todays money...

2024-03-08 14:04:46

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Likes should be removed. I have no idea why nostr advocates even have it? whats the point?
is the heart "i like it less than 1 sat"? why incentive that?

2024-03-04 14:23:01

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Will be absolutely great if this goes thru. Its the best possible way to destroy Google.

2024-02-19 14:45:24

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50 engineers in SF using their "poo app" to avoid stepping in shit on streets of SF can't implement what a teenager can do with btcpayserver.
coinbase is peak clown-world with embarrassing engineers.

2024-02-14 03:34:48

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that address is to a guy i'm buying some video cards from....his name is 张伟 and he lives at 邮编 528400
北京市东城区名都路恒大花园7栋702室
张小明先生收

2024-02-13 12:15:17

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Its an interesting problem. Its a tough one.
In option 3, couldn't you wind up with partially spent balance on wallet-1 and then partially spent balance on wallet-2?

2024-02-10 21:51:50

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you know if you integrated simpleX chat protocol into Damus, it would probably become the "everything app"?

2024-02-08 21:50:59

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delete buttons = safe space
no delete encourages you to think before posting.

2024-02-08 20:49:25

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Great guides. Thanks

2024-02-08 20:41:18

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I cannot get mutiny + alby to work via NWC.
Won't work on 2 different computers (RHEL9 / Fedora 38) and 2 different browsers (Brave / Firefox).
Anyone can confirm this is working?

2024-02-08 15:06:40

Everything you read on cnn.com is a lie
https://www.cnn.com/

2024-02-08 12:59:56

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unneeded button.
you don't have "delete key" in real life right? you cant just delete that you dropped a glass and it shattered....you cant just delete the fact that you called someone an asshole....no life is forward + add only.
Its time our online social media systems better model the real world.

2024-02-07 15:17:26

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given that this is a social network for people who love to censor others, the network itself will purity spiral out of control.
how many disabled dwarf schizophrenics do you think they have working there? probably none.
someone should mention that...

2024-02-05 16:34:41

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Can you hold a 1lb weight on the front of your face for 16 hrs?

2024-02-05 14:09:09

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Just lie.
They lie to us constantly, lets complete the loop.

2024-02-03 22:32:30

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https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/celebrity/i-know-he-can-see-lionel-richie-isnt-convinced-stevie-wonder-is-blind

2024-02-02 21:54:51

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Hmmm.
Maybe they had some sort of way to get normies wallets connected to testnet? Or were they using a web-wallet and then linking to mempool-testnet to "prove" the funds were sent?

2024-02-02 13:09:24

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Too bad they're not a vaccine company

2024-02-01 19:18:59

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Yes, Strike links to your bank account and autobuys BTC when they send.....
So I don't even think they need to "buy". Its like a PayPal that auto-debits their fiat account sends via Lightning....

2024-02-01 17:10:55

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For easy adoption, I think Cash.app or Strike are best choices for newbies.
I'm not sure if Cash.app does LN tho? (obviously Strike does).

2024-02-01 13:11:14

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well....expecting users to understand separation of inbound/outbound liquidity is unfair.
There is really no practical analog of this concept in real world (ie. you have a bank account that can only send money not receive).
Its one the limitations of the LN implementation which may render it too difficult to use for worldwide implementation.

2024-02-01 12:29:19

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2024-01-30 18:58:14

@npub12vk…pugg
Can you add a feature to auto-insert current block as timestamp.
Like this?
₿ {827997}

2024-01-30 18:56:08

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>₿ {827997}
Is your nostr client auto-timestamping with current block?

2024-01-30 13:28:55

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Simple: encourage people to strip mine huge swaths of the world for lithium batteries to make cars that are charged with coal.

2024-01-30 13:25:55

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Stallman was at one of the early bitcoin conferences. He is a true product of academia (and I meant that both for good and bad). For good, he operates holding on to principled ideas and is willing to work for years on his projects making his work freely available.
For bad, he suffers from Stockholm syndrome (like nearly all statist), he will with a straight face rail against the grave dangers and violations the state has done -- and then with a straight face -- suggest new laws and regulations the state can do to remedy the situation.
Its no surprise that Thaler is the mess it is, as its the collected thoughts of slaves.

2024-01-29 23:03:27

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It might have end-to-end encryption, but if its using nostr as the transport it can't be "secure".
Relays see your contact list, IP's, and who is talking to who (e2e encryption may hide content, but not who is talking)
Or is it doing something different?

2024-01-29 22:47:50

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keep College Station normal.

2024-01-29 14:14:28

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Elons-wechat

2024-01-29 14:09:03

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Yes, I think you leading the way with this!

2024-01-29 13:55:00

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L-BTC is only created when BTC is locked in a multisig. This is all verifiable on both chains (exactly same mechanism as LN).
The only meaningful difference between Liquid and LN is that the multisig you enter in LN you can force close (by paying a fee), whereas its a federation that controls multisig on LN.
Again the differences are degree not kind.

2024-01-29 13:49:32

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Well...thats putting the cart before the horse.
We first need a trusted way to validate eCash reserves and issuances.
Your work in this matter is great, but you need to push eCash community towards this....
if the eCash community can't come up with a solution to this, then its little more than an affinity scam using the name of bitcoin to pump out shitcoins.
Which will it be?

2024-01-29 13:46:19

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@npub1lxk…5xlc its pretty nonsensical to be fully against Liquid while simultaneously being fully pro LN. They are both Layer2 sidechains that lock up your bitcoin in a multisig and use a representation of that to transact offchain.
Yes, they have different security trade-offs, but as does all engineering questions.
The difference between LN and Liquid is a matter of degree, not kind.

2024-01-28 18:36:15

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Yes and Liquid has no possibility of debasement - unlike the various Cashu / eCash schemes.

2024-01-28 15:14:47

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Need silent.link to sell actual voice + sms service. Its nice getting data....but day to day needs still mandate sms....
guess there are services that sell this, but then you now have *yet another* middleman in the chain reading your data...

2024-01-28 14:15:46

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The really weird thing is how self-enforced this is....the average person has a mild panic attack leaving the house to get milk without a phone.
We are choosing this....

2024-01-28 11:21:37

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Thanks for your consistency in this view! How is your proof of issuance scheme coming? I think ecash/cashu devs should focus on this issue before pouring more time into wallet/service issues.
If all you guys accomplish is rebuilding fractional reserve banking with cute graphics, then its all for naught.

2024-01-26 20:21:32

@npub1jan…x52y - Please allow AQUA users the ability to accept other assets besides just the ones you've whitelisted.
I fully understanding have a wallet simple for grandma (and that means have a simpler initial asset list). However please add a way in Settings where they can add custom assets (even better, devise a QR code scheme to add these custom assets so even easier for grandma)
Why? Because many companies want to use Token for various real-world use cases. Why should my business go thru the expense of building all the infrastructure needed to offer "award point" system when these tools already exist! (AQUA + Liquid).
All I would need to do is encourage my patrons to download a wallet like AQUA and I could send them their award points to their wallet and all the heavy lifting is done for me.

2024-01-23 19:52:01

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@npub1sg6…f63m- twitter is doing ok. But you really need to try to talk some sense into Elon regarding the rumor of his shitcoin fantasies being added to platform as the house currency.
He should just use LN.
A proper setup where all users basically had "accounts" in an LND server, so that transfers between accounts wouldn't actually require LN invoices....but those accounts could still transfer offsite via LN would be kino.

2024-01-23 15:57:06

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I 100% believe that an average young tech person would be better off: (a) skipping college, (b) contributing to open-source
....and I don't mean 25% better off, but orders of magnitude more success.

2024-01-23 15:27:43

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More people need to mix. Regardless of what regulations they write on paper, practically their scheme falls apart if all coins are mixed.

2024-01-23 14:57:34

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Great job! this is what I was waiting for to install......

2024-01-23 13:18:04

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> It does not verify zero-knowledge proofs directly on Bitcoin (unless we have new opcodes it’s just not possible).
When I read things like this I'm constantly grateful that we have *not* tried to add all these things to Bitcoin. I am all for these types of projects, but sometimes (often times), having limitations results in having better and more robust solutions.
The instinct to just add every little feature into basechain ultimately destroys it.
Best to use the primitives from basechain and build orthogonal from that. 10 year old BTC clients who don't care about any of this will happily ignore the "junk data" and continue chugging along....

2024-01-23 13:10:47

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The fight between X and nostr is growing. Once Elon adds his shitcoin to the platform its going to really draw the lines more clearly.
I'm not an Elon hater but he has lots of bad takes and his first instinct on things is usually wrong. Listening to the recent X spaces on the upcoming "payment features" he's planning pretty much confirmed that: As soon as Preston lightly brought up the idea of using bitcoin / ln as this X currency, Elon got triggered and threatened to leave the call....

2024-01-22 15:36:38

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cue "roger-ver-shooting-bird.jpg"
(Note: this post not leaking IP by transmitting image telepathically)

2024-01-22 15:08:25

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Sending USDT via confidential transactions from browser ftw!

2024-01-21 21:41:20

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Is this open-source? Can't find a github for it....

2024-01-21 19:00:51

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Its pretty obvious the entire woke movement exist to promote racism in a sorta reverse-psychology way.
By telling some groups that there exist special words (ie. n******) that has incredible power to harm them, is a form of mind control.
It implies that they are powerless and can be harmed by others speaking a certain magical word.
Obviously the goal of this type of mind-control is to induce group think / group identity. This is necessary to ensure voting blocks.

2024-01-21 18:34:14

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This is a nice proposal. Need to think thru this, but yes something like this could work provided wallets all adopt support for this

2024-01-21 15:59:02

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To make matters worse Mark, we're not even wearing our NWO pod goggles....

2024-01-21 15:07:27

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An interesting and unspoken aspect of the public's feelings of Police vs Firefighters is that.
* Firefighter = unequivocal protectors of real property
* Police = often enforcers of statutory laws (ie. not real property)

2024-01-21 14:49:34

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The problem with fedimints and CashU is there is no control over the number of "tokens" the mint produces.
Its literally a Federal Reserve w/ ecash model. I'm not hating on that, as it does have some utility.
Just remember: YOU HAVE NO ABILITY TO AUDIT HOW MANY ECASH TOKENS THE MINT HAS PRODUCED.
you will be frac-reserved!!!!

2024-01-21 14:44:39

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The fundamental problem of Cashu and fedimints is that there is no control and no ability to audit how many Cashu tokens the mint actually produces.
Yes, the LN-BTC is known and secured, but the other side of the ledger...the actual eCash is uncontrollable issuance.
From a practical standpoint this severely limits its use.

2024-01-20 18:34:57

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Its a nuanced issue and not starkly one way on the other.
On one hand you have some devs saying: We need to add this new thing because that will solve lots of scaling / onboarding issues.
On the other side, the argument is: (a) prove that and (b) its possible to build something that technically works, but is impossible to practically build a workflow around so that these 'newbies' could even use (take a look at how complicated LN already is)
Do not forget that its going to be an effort to soft-fork, its not just send a few emails around and it magically happens. The political process of soft-forking is going to have its own unrelated drama

2024-01-20 16:09:14

Also....Liquid already supports covenants. So, it seems like the best choice to build support for them on BTC would to build something useful / cool on Liquid and treat that as testnet.
*Disclosure: I dont have a dog in this fight, only stating the obvious path forward.*
https://medium.com/blockstream/cat-and-schnorr-tricks-ii-2f6ede3d7bb5
#note12p2…l57l

2024-01-19 21:32:01

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Yes, I have mutiny opened in one tab and the Alby extension in other....
I'm on Brave on Linux if that matters.
My other account is a LNBits account....maybe I will test deleting the LNBits account and see if it works with just Mutiny

2024-01-19 21:04:02

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@npub1mut…23vg FTW!!!

2024-01-19 19:48:03

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Great vid. I REALLLLLLY want someone to add arbitrary asset tokens to eCash....think "shoppers award points" at your local grocery, etc.

2024-01-19 17:09:17

@npub1mut…23vg / @npub1get…0nfm
I can't seem to add a mutiny wallet in Alby...hangs and then eventually does this....
https://m.primal.net/HYVq.png
Any tips?

2024-01-19 14:57:12

Many don't know this - but under NYC is the Federal Reserve's gold vault that holds approx 300B in gold bullion. Most of that gold is held as custody for other central banks, and that gold is intrinsically tied to the foreign reserves those nation-states have with each other.
https://m.primal.net/HYUy.png
The area itself is partitioned into separate holding areas - each designated for a different client. When trade happens between these member banks, the gold is physically moved to that clients holding area....as described here....
https://m.primal.net/HYUz.png
So when you see a headline on the news: ***South Korea Increases Reserves of Mexican Peso as Trade Increases***, what is really happening is that some man with a hand-truck are moving a few pallets of gold from an area on the floor named Korea to the area with the sign Mexico....
The implications for Bitcoin should be obvious. As Bitcoin finds its way onto sovereign balance-sheets it will take over this role.
HEAVY ROCKS UNNEEDED (obligatory ODELL font)
#Bitcoin

2024-01-19 12:59:09

@npub1m0s…qp5h
I've been reading about your stable-channels - they are very interesting.
A few questions please:
1. In your example you've set them up as 100% stable. Would a lower percentage be possible? (ie. BTC side experiences only 75% of volatility)
2. Can the channels themselves be transferred? I know thats a weird one....but I'm thinking in terms of a financial instrument. That is could I own a BTC-USD instrument that was exposed to 75% of BTC market movement....and could ownership of either side of that arrangement be sold/transferred to another party?

2024-01-19 11:43:57

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Can you give me a hint on how to issue tokens not backed 1:1 with sats?
Suppose I wanted to issue 1000 usd-shitcoins for 1 sat. How to do?
( I've played with the python library but I'm missing)

2024-01-19 01:42:48

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I think google has gotten worse from even before AI. It can no longer find some direct searches that I do...even correctly enclosing key parts in quotes, etc....
yandex.com is actually better.

2024-01-18 20:00:19

@npub12rv…85vg
I would be willing to pay for a bounty for cashu to support a arbitrary assets (in addition to LN/BTC)....basically "token" support.
(maybe others would like to pitch in on this development also? - thats why I'm publishing this on nostr....hoping to entice others).
I work for a medium sized music festival promotion company. I've been a long-time bitcoin user and trying to find ways to utilize it for our patrons, but hasn't had a good fit until cashu arrived (specifically, its the true 'cash' nature that makes it fit).
An example use-case:
Scenario: A large music festival. This festival has 10 different food trucks + 5 different beer trucks + a host of other merch vendors.
1. Patron arrives at music fest. Is told to "buy tickets" if they want food / beer / etc.
2. Patron puts down $100 cash and teller collects money then puts this in cashu and mints 100 "usd-cashu" tokens.
3. A QR code is displayed next to teller and they instruct patron to scan with phone. Patron scans QR code and opens web-wallet on phone showing these "usd-cashu" tokens funded into wallet.
4. Patron enjoys music festival and goes around buying beer / food / tshirts / etc. There is no other form of payment accepted. All vendors have QR codes with price for various things....Patron simply scans and pays for things using phone.
5. At end of festival Patron can either cashout and redeem unused "usd-cashu" for USD cash - or better - can use a kiosk to cashout to LN / BTC.
6. At end of festival, Vendors cash-in their 'usd-cashu' at back office and again either receive cash or LN / BTC (or some combination thereof).
This would solve a major issue that is very very common in these festival environments. Specifically the "festival organizer" (us) leases the festival space and the vendors pay a fee + percentage of sales. Allowing vendors to accept money independent makes for balancing headaches at show end....likewise using something like printed tickets is prone to all sorts of problems and generally insecure (ie. counterfeit tickets, etc).
Thus, cashu would be a drop in replacement!
Is this something you (or anyone else) would be interested in?

2024-01-18 11:53:44

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Yes, I think the proper mental approach is like this.
SQL > Fedimint > LN > BTC
Fedimints are fine for payment rails / low value "beer money" (or even tip money in your case).
However, users should not be encouraged to "hold" eCash

2024-01-18 01:34:06

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There is an active discussion on this tech on SN right now. Have a look.
https://stacker.news/items/391528

2024-01-18 00:06:11

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Yes, I think this type of "tiered" approach is the best.
(a) Fedimints / eCash for onboarding
(b) Brought to self-custody LN wallet
(c) Eventually brought onchain (once amount becomes great enough)

2024-01-17 16:15:03

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Nice to see Milei flying commercial to Davos, instead of like the rest of the hypocrite-parasite class flying private and preaching climate scare propaganda as a ruse for their kleptocracy.....
https://m.primal.net/HYFn.png

2024-01-17 16:10:45

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The unspoken transformation that hyperbitcoinization is going to be is not just the transfer of assets to a new, theft-proof system. But the nature of deflationary money is going to remake cultural norms.....
say bye bye to endless consumerism and pointless consumption that fiat induces....you will, in general, make fewer purchases but the things you do own will be of higher quality.

2024-01-17 15:54:01

Should also check fingers....need deflation for sausage digits...
#note1f8c…yuws

2024-01-17 14:33:09

Milei flying commercial to Davos.....
https://m.primal.net/HYFT.png

2024-01-17 13:40:37

There were 500 ETFs released in 2023....and from Jan 1 to Dec 31, those 500 ETFs attracted a total of 450M in total volume.
Compare and contrast.
https://m.primal.net/HYFG.png

2024-01-17 13:33:26

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While not directly related it brings to mind the other rule concerning Gold. US Gold American Eagles are also exempt from same "Large Currency Movement" filings requirement.
It always seemed to me that this was a purposeful loophole.....

2024-01-17 11:46:39

Do the existence of such posters in London show:
(a) An administration totally out of touch and unable to see the Orwellian tones of its messaging?, or (b) An administration deliberately telegraphing its obvious Orwellian intentions?
https://m.primal.net/HYEH.jpg

2023-02-03 02:48:32

So how do you use sendstr.com with Damus?