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Binance sigue bajo la lupa de la Justicia: otro juzgado investiga por apropiación indebida al gigante de las criptomonedas

La jueza María de los Ángeles Velázquez cita a declarar como imputado al consejero delegado, Changpeng Zhao, tras la querella de un empresario e...

Note that this is a private criminal prosecution, it is clear from wording in original. The victim could have relied on public prosecution, and would not have to hire and pay his own lawyer then. Those fee may be reimbruised, but only if someone is convicted. So either the victim is pretty sure he will obtain coviction and be able to collect, or he is desperate and does not trust public prosecution. The final paragraph of the article is revealing: Binance unblocked the funds after the criminal complaint, so basically admitted they had no good reason to have blocked it. I could say you should not send a cent to such scammers, but I would be preaching to the choir very probably.

Paid for groceries with btc, tomorrow I am going to make a perpetum mobile. Both things are equally impossible according to some people. Now caveats. Didn't use btc directly, but bought a Carrefour gift card at Bitrefill. And paid around 3% extra - 25 eur gift card costs 25.83 euros. It used to be without this extra 3%, and they even used to give 1% reward, only spendable on Bitrefill - no longer. This depends on country and concrete shop, for example hotels.com seems to have 6% discount and 1% reward (didn't try that). And I also have some negative experience: Uber Eats gift cards just did not work, and I was too lazy to ask for refund. (Bitrefill has some refund policy, so theoretically should have been possible, but only 3 months after buying gift card.) In the unlikely case someone wants to zap me, perhaps use me referral link instead:

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Great... LOOP coop-closed channel with me because most of sats had gone to their side and they could not wait mere 3 hours until I would start rebalancing it. I would not care and rant if this wasn't in such high-fee environment. I guess they do it automatically, and their script does not take into account the current on-chain fee. At least some justice: the closing tx is still unconfirmed, perhaps even expulsed from mempool (becasue the channel tx output appears unspent). So they did not gain anything.

Someone is testing Nostr's censorship resistance: @NostrFlix

Upper half inspired by

euronews

Domino effect as more EU institutions ban TikTok on work devices

TikTok is battling privacy concerns and espionage fears over its potential connection with the Chinese Communist Party.

. Lower half should be obvious - all the talk about unhosted wallets, travel rule, KYC, ...

Putin is often portrayed as out of touch with reality (e.g. "3-day" special military operation), yet he gives relatively competent answer about cryptocurrencies. Guess he is just too busy reading Mastering Bitcoin and similar. :)

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Cory Bates (@corybates1895) on X

Let the Hash Wars begin.

Replacing Twitter is so boring. Let's replace stackexchange.com!(I was inspired by answering a question and receiving a zap for it. Needless to say, that would not be possible on stackexchange.) Anyone working on it? Guess not much is missing, just some tags/topics. And perhaps bounties with real money put in escrow, but could be overkill, would need some arbitrator to decide who gets it.

@#[0] What does this mean, please? Is it what I owe you, what I would owe you if API access were paid, or ...?

CBDC designers face an interesting dilemma: they want to make their funny money popular, but not too popular, otherwise banks could go bust. ECB itself claims that: "The intention is to incorporate limit and remuneration-based tools in the design of a digital euro to curb its use as a form of investment." (section 2.3 of https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/investigation/governance/shared/files/ecb.degov220929.en.pdf ). And per-user limits kill usability. (I imagine here a limit like "no user is allowed to hold more than X eur in CBDC.) Imagine a retail store begging customers: "please no more CBDC payments, we hit our limit." But ECB proposes to automatically send the excess to a linked bank account, they call it waterfall. So I am cautiously optimistic about the future.