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Re:Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:54PM (#33536958)
I think you're confusing Binance, which is not directly related to Tether, with Bitfinex, which is.

Binance has its own dollar based stablecoin, BUSD.

Re:Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thin... on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:21PM (#29666616)
Layer 2 solutions, specially zk ones like StarkNet, solve the scaling issue
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:27AM (#29370172)
But then everyone has a signature that you exited at 200
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:23AM (#29370112)
Wouldn't anyone then be able to provide proof of that participant having exited? The participant would have generated a signature the moment they exit.
Re:Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emi... on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:06AM (#28714783)
The point about the extra energy is potentially valid, although it would need data.

Methane being worse than CO2 doesn't change the fact that it's a cycle and thus it's not causing extra warming as long as the amount of animals is constant.

Alternative forests, etc, is equally a one off thing. Keeping the pastures doesn't make anything worse, and reverting them back would only be a one off improvement.

Re:The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:16AM (#28243834)
It also has a high specific heat value
Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source... on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:38AM (#27993152)
As long as they are being replanted, this is carbon neutral
Re:The ransomware surge on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:52PM (#26998448)
It doesn't, quite the contrary. Poor and middle class people hold much more of their wealth as cash than rich people.
Re:U.S. Treasury to Charge Several Institutions for Money Laundering U... on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:24AM (#26850267)
From Jake Chervinsky:

https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1383650715604717571?s...

I don't find this credible. The tweet itself is fishy: Treasury doesn't charge money laundering (DOJ does) & a case against several FIs at once would be unusual. Also, criminal investigations are kept strictly confidential & rarely leak. I'm not convinced by unnamed "sources."