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The New M&A Rules That Would Delay Million-Dollar Deals
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

The US antitrust agencies are requiring firms to turn over much more information about their transactions than before in an overhaul to merger rules that could delay deals by months. The New M&A Rules That Would Delay Million-Dollar Deals https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/proposed-merger-filing-r…

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Bank of England applies to join Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

" . . . there will be no data shared with The Bank of England – no personal data shared with The Bank of England or the government. We’ll know what transactions happened but we’ll have no idea who did them. The private wallet you use will know who the person is but they won’t know what the transactions were. And that’s a really big difference because, at the moment, financial institutions know both sides of that – the individual and the transaction history. Under our system, we’re proposing we know the transaction history but not the individual, and the wallet will know the individual and not the transaction history. That will give people the assurance that The Bank of England is not collecting people’s personal data.” Daily Hodl

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possible to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments without Know-Your-Customer ?
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Meet Nodeless, The Non-KYC Bitcoin Lightning Processor Jack Dorsey Tweeted About The platform makes it possible to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments without Know-Your-Customer requirements. Alyssa Hertig By Alyssa Hertig Jun 27, 2023 3 min read DECRYPT C-punk rockstar, Adam Back, asserts Galls Law will lead to full spectrum Big Dog dominance So far market still has it as numero uno. This is fine.

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Code Girls
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II https://malwarwick-98471.medium.com/how-wargames-helped-win-world-war-ii-df… Repost depth charges take out all hidden predators

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Google Wants Apple Collusion Case Sent To Arbitration Again
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Google Wants Apple Collusion Case Sent To Arbitration Again By Caleb Symons Google told a California federal court that a lawsuit accusing it of colluding with Apple Inc. to control the online search industry must be sent to arbitration, arguing that an advertiser can't utilize new claims under California law to prolong the litigation. 2 documents attached https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1692539?nl_pk=2063be2d-1a29-43b…

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Justices Reject Mob Snitch Case Against NY Restitution Pool
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Justices Reject Mob Snitch Case Against NY Restitution Pool By Tracey Read The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on a petition by a mob informant challenging an appellate court's decision deeming a New York fund that reimburses victims of thieving lawyers an "arm of the state," and thus immune from the informant's suit alleging that he was ripped off by a shady jailhouse lawyer. https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1692708?nl_pk=00e0f28d-575b-4889-8d…

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Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Dear Ethics Officer: >From your prompt concerning the extension of Superintendent Harris' financial disclosure form, may we kindly request a copy? Do these forms include any cryptocurrency-related holdings and/or trading history? Thank you, Gunnar On Wed, May 24, 2023, 12:08 PM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> wrote: > Mr. Larson – > > > > Adrienne Harris received an extension of time to file the FDS; it is now > due on June 19, 2023. > > Richard Weber left service in November 2022 and was not required to file > an FDS this year. > > > > Sincerely, > > RECORDS ACCESS OFFICER > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Monday, May 22, 2023 8:38 AM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Hello there: > > > > Are you able to send disclosure forms for NY-DFS: > > > > Adrienne Harris (2022) > > Richard Weber (2022) > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar Larson > > xNY.io - Bank.org > > 917-580-8053 > > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 9:04 AM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > wrote: > > Attached please see the 2021 Financial Disclosure Statement of Peter > Dean. We have calendared your additional requests. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Records Access Officer > > NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government > > 540 Broadway > > Albany, NY 12207 > > (518) 408-3976 > > records(a)ethics.ny.gov <records(a)jcope.ny.gov> > > > > > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2023 2:06 PM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Thank you. Can you please put our May 15, 2023 request for the 2022 > records on your calendar? > > > > Meanwhile, yes, please send Peter Dean's 2021 record. > > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 1:35 PM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > wrote: > > Gunnar – the 2022 Financial Disclosure Statement is due to be filed by May > 15, 2023. They will become publicly available shortly thereafter. I can > get for you the 2021 Statement of Peter Dean but 2022 Statements at this > time. > > > > Sincerely, > > Records Access Officer > > NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government > > 540 Broadway > > Albany, NY 12207 > > (518) 408-3976 > > records(a)ethics.ny.gov <records(a)jcope.ny.gov> > > > > > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2023 1:23 PM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Records Access Officer: > > > > We are looking for the recent 2022 Financial Disclosure Forms for the > Governor and Attorney General. Do you know when those will be available? > > > > For the individuals at DFS, we are looking for the 2022 Financial > Disclosure Forms for: > > > > Adrienne Harris (2022) > > Richard Weber (2022) > > Peter Dean (2021, 2022) > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar > > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 1:04 PM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > wrote: > > Mr. Larson – the Financial Disclosure Statements of the Governor and the > Attorney General are posted on the Commission’s website here: > https://ethics.ny.gov/financial-disclosure-statements-elected-officials?f%5… > > > > For the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services; and the > previous and current General Counsel at the Department of Financial > Services, please provide the individuals’ names and specify which years of > records you are seeking. > > > > Sincerely, > > Records Access Officer > > NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government > > 540 Broadway > > Albany, NY 12207 > > (518) 408-3976 > > records(a)ethics.ny.gov <records(a)jcope.ny.gov> > > > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2023 12:54 PM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Dear Madam or Sir: > > > > I would kindly like to request a batch of financial disclosure records for > the following: > > > > Governor, New York State > > > > Superintendent, Department of Financial Services > > > > General Counsel, Department of Financial Services (two forms, for previous > and current individuals) > > > > Attorney General, New York State > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > Gunnar > > > > Gunnar Larson > > xNY.io - Bank.org > > 917-580-8053 > >

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Cryptocurrency: IMF Fucks Over Argentina With Loans, Forces Ban Of Crypto
by grarpamp 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05/05/argentinas-central-bank-bans-len… https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2023/06/22/cf-interest-in-cb-digital-c… https://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentina-imf-bailout-deal-includes-19074878… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yL2E0gt03Y " The IMF is back to manipulating the public. They claim Argentina has prohibited crypto use over concerns on financial stability, financial crimes, and corruption. The reality is the IMF forced Argentina to block crypto use in return for a IMF loan that Argentina badly needed through a deal clause I must say I'm rather pissed about this. I've been following Argentina as well as the economy and financial situation of Argentina and Latin America for while now. The IMF has always had significant power over these developing nations who have had quite a number of currency issues, namely inflation. And the manipulation by the IMF here is disgusting in their recent statement. They released a statement that reads "countries like Argentina and the Dominican Republic have prohibited the use of crypto assets due to concerns about their impact on financial stability, currency and asset substitution, tax evasion, corruption, and money laundering." There is a clear statement here that Argentina has organically and for themselves decided to discourage crypto usage, but this is not the case. In actuality, Argentina was forced to discourage crypto usage if they wanted to receive the loan. Letter of Intent for Loan Argentina has been grappling with inflation (currently over 100%) and financial and economic instability for many years now and have a very unhealthy relationship with the IMF. The actually hold a bunch of record with the IMF for the amount of times and money they have borrowed from the IMF. This latest IMF deal is the 23rd of the nations history. Instead of giving the people a real chance with something new and usable in crypto, they go right back to the IMF which has failed them time and time again. And of course, in the same article they bash crypto and go on to praise CBDCs. " " Argentina isn't blocking crypto at all. I should know, as I live there. All our government did was ban fintech from offering crypto, you still have regulated CeFi (unlike the US), although no Argentinian in their right mind is ever gonna use a regulated exchange or any financial service that leaves a trace, we use P2P for everything pretty much, as we also have strong "barrani" (off-the-books) trading communities. I know this might sound weird to Americans, but when you have 70 years of history to prove that your government is 100% corrupt, will screw with your savings to the point of freezing bank deposits and swapping fixed term accounts for trash bonds you'll be forced to hold to a 30 year maturity just to get your money back, will impose unsustainable monetary policy to the point of causing two ( now possibly three) hyperinflationary processes, and will impose criminally high taxes (to the sound of 110%), people simply stop reporting, using banks as safe havens and start dumping our legal tender into USD denominated assets, now we added cryptography to our toolset. We're the perfect context for crypto adoption as satoshi invisioned, the average joe can now escape their government easily with it. "

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Cryptocurrency: BTC-Lightning Fails - Santander Is As Dumb As Saylor Maxi's
by grarpamp 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/26/spains-largest-bank-… BTC Lightning Sucks, plenty of videos explain of why that is, including... - All parties must be online, also will not be used by antipodals - No cryptographic level of privacy - Only useful to preload (thus lockout) your funds from all other possible [priority] uses that may arise. - Only useful in a one way stream to a pre-known single recipient, such as a grocer or biller. - Bi-dir channels are made irrelevent by old school offline difference-keeping with settlement later, for less fees than all the channel and node bullshit would entail. - Fees already invalidate most small purchases, and will eventually eat up most other use cases since they all ultimately require settlement onchain. - Centralization regulatory nightmare. Bitcoin-BTC will now only be used as value store, it's fees will rise to alienate 90+% of humanity leading to paper shareholding schemes over centralized custody pools, and will, after one or two more huge waves, if left unchanged, be eventually obsoleted by a simple private p2p cash in the next 10 years. While riding the wave, seek the cash. "WHO KILLED BITCOIN?"

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FDA Publishes Draft Guidance On Psychedelic Drug Research
by professor rat 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Further and more particulars available through Diane who does what any person in her situation would do and begins experimenting with psilocybin https://www.vox.com/2020/5/5/21241559/good-fight-season-4-review-recap Reposts not Vox spews that are uniformly wrong and uniformly right

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