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Cryptocurrency: Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies
by grarpamp 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

jb: > Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies > https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-card-not-allow-purchase-215259906.html Neither will brick and mortar bank affiliated stockbrokers let their clients buy any of the Grayscale US market listed offerings such as ETCG. motes: > The articles claims the banks are concerned that volatile prices of cryptocurrencies could leave consumers with debts they are unable to pay. That’s rubbish. The banks are concerned as such but not in the connotation I believe most would construe. The volatile price might rise so rapidly everyone might actually use their credit to obtain and use cryptocoin and then not pay back their debts as banks have no recourse to collect debts except in dollars through courts, i.e. lien on your paycheck or direct freeze of bank account. Whatever they say, I think the bankers are only scared of cryptocurrency and can’t survive in a bitcoin economy where they can’t control the creation nor the transfer of money. Banks, Pay Systems, Governments... all these legacy examples... rightly fear Cryptocurrencies... nothing they can do to stop the course of history from diminishing their influence... writing is on the wall for them. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fear+bitcoin re Apple... Steve Wozniak has been in and generally repping crypto for quite some time... you can bet his bags are full... https://dailyhodl.com/2019/07/20/bye-bye-usa-apple-legend-steve-wozniak-hea… https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/search?q=wozniak&restrict_sr=on&sort=re…

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Cloudflare terminates services for 8Chan
by Razer 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Shooters will have to find another place to boast about their little incel thingies... https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Cryptocurrency: US China Cash War Rattles Markets, Crypto Rising
by grarpamp 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

https://reddit.com/r/news/comments/cmb9p8/dow_plunges_500_points_after_chin… https://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/2019/08/05/bitcoin-price-soars-as-chin… https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ckpypt/conspiracy_theory_feder… https://reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/cmary7/china_devalues_currency_signi… https://youtu.be/6oIuMGBfrvQ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/dow-futures-fall-implying-a-200-point-drop-… https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/us-treasury-designates-china-as-a-currency-…

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Will De Blasio "tax the hell" out of the super rich"?
by jim bell 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

https://www.taxthehell.com/?utm_medium=email There are BILLION$ of reasons to make them pay their fair share. 17 American oil and gas companies reported a combined total of $25 billion in direct one-time benefits from Trump's tax cuts. Energy giant ExxonMobil reported $5.9 billion in immediate tax cuts, ranking second only to Apple as the nation's single largest corporate beneficiary of the GOP tax bill. (source) ITEP Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: A Timeline In December 2017, federal lawmakers hastily enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. So rushed was its passage that pr... Since Trump's tax cuts were passed, the number of companies paying ZERO in federal taxes has gone from 30 to 60 per year. These companies include: IBM, Netflix, Amazon, General Motors, etc. (source) Corporate Tax Avoidance Remains Rampant Under New Tax Law For decades, profitable Fortune 500 companies have been able to manipulate the tax system to avoid paying even a... Just 6% of tax-related savings are going to workers, while 56% are going to shareholders. (source) What the Republican tax bill did — and didn’t — do, one year later Emily Stewart The GOP tax cuts didn’t pay for themselves. They did, however, deliver a lot of stock buybacks. 433 (87%) of Fortune 500 companies declined to say publicly whether they are giving any bonuses or wage increases to their employees due to the Trump tax cuts. (source) Trump Tax Cut Truths - Americans For Tax Fairness A comprehensive tax cut analysis database explaining how the Fortune 1000+ have spent their tax cuts after the p... A total of 238,290 private sector job cuts have been announced at 361 companies since the Trump tax law was passed by Congress. (source) KEY FACTS: HOW CORPORATIONS ARE SPENDING THEIR TRUMP TAX CUTS - American... Claims that corporations are sharing a big slice of their huge Trump tax cuts with employees through bonuses and... From 2008 to 2015, 100 Fortune 500 companies paid ZERO in federal taxes while making $336 billion in profits. (source) The 35 Percent Corporate Tax Myth Profitable corporations are subject to a 35 percent federal income tax rate on their U.S. profits. But many corp... Two years after Dallas-based AT&T championed corporate tax cuts and pledged they'd lead to job creation, the company plans to cut nearly 2,000 jobs by the end of September in 23 states, including Texas and Oklahoma. (source) [enough of of De Blasio's nonsense] Apparently, it does not occur to De Blasio that if my AP (Assassination Politics, https://cryptome.org/ap.htm ) idea were implemented, it would probably only take a cumulative donation of about $1 million to see him "predicted" dead. Yes, America certainly has a problem with taxation. But the main problem is that taxation exists. And, that government seems to exist to hand out favors to people, taxing a huge fraction of the GDP, wasting $700 billion + on "defense", which could be provided by 100x less money with an AP-type system. Jim Bell

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"White Terrorism" Lone-Wolf Losers
by John Young 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

"F.B.I. classifies it as domestic terrorism, but 'white terrorism' is more precise," Mr. Ron Rosenstein [ex-DAG] said on Twitter. "Many of the killers are lone-wolf losers indoctrinated to hate through the internet, just like Islamic terrorists." Nobody like that on peace-loving cpunks.

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Edward Snowden: Permanent Record (Book)
by grarpamp 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1156916530527035393

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VICE: Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
by jim bell 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

VICE: Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to…

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Amazon Ring Neighbors app sends video to police departments
by jim bell 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/amazon-ring-neighbors-app-sends-video-to-po… --- SmartNews http://bit.ly/smartnews-app

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Cryptocurrency: Litecoin Just Halved Its Crypto Rewards for Miners
by grarpamp 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

>> https://www.coindesk.com/litecoin-just-halved-its-crypto-rewards-for-miners >> >> Jim Bell's comment:Why do these mining rewards change discontinuously, by >> a factor of 2 in this case, rather than by some continuous factor? > > because that's how 'satoshi' coded it. And yeah, > halving the reward abruptly looks like a rather bad idea. There's no real problem there, other than possibly being hard step function input to the next difficulty adjustment. Rather than hiding coinbase mining reward behind some automagic curve, a step makes clear the monetary policy in effect to everyone, and as to the next time it will occur. Bitcoin-BTC next halving is well known to bring BTC rate of money printing permanently down under that of the US Dollar, consumer inflation rates, global prime and loan rates, and worldwide gold production. The impact of that simply cannot be understated. There would also be no major news buzz on that if it were hidden away.

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Test Email
by Se7en 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

I previously was unable to send email to this list. My assumption was my email provider was erroneously blocked as is often the case (due to the humorus name). I attempted to contact the ML's admin to see if he could whitelist me but there was no reply. Since I just was able to reply, I am curious if this message will get through as well. -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x73518A15BA3C1476 / | Website TBA

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