In late 18th Century, a curious gold ring was dug up on farmland near Silchester in England. The ring bore the name “Senicianus” and a small engraved image. For decades it was simply an odd relic from the Roman past, its story unknown. Then, more than a century later, archaeologists uncovered a thin lead tablet at the Roman temple complex of Nodens in Lydney Park, miles away from where the ring had been found.
The tablet contained a curse written by a man named Silvianus. It asked the god Nodens to deny health to anyone who bore the name Senicianus until the stolen ring was returned to the temple. This was a typical Roman curse tablet, a way for victims of theft to call on divine justice when earthly justice was out of reach. The ring and the tablet seemed to fit together like two halves of a forgotten dispute from Roman Britain, preserved in metal and lead for centuries.
When the temple site was studied in the 1920s, one of the scholars asked to examine the strange names and inscriptions was an Oxford professor named J. R. R. Tolkien. He was consulted as an expert in languages, and the eerie connection between a cursed ring and a mysterious name has often been noted as an intriguing coincidence in the life of the man who would later write about one of the most famous rings in literature.
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@WarFlash_2630 I’m sick and tired of this horse shit that is this war ! It all started because of Obama’s coup in 2014 sticking an actor in power and then the cia putting a load of biolabs creating whatever including covid on the Russian border , what the hell would you expect putin to do !!!
Midnight 🤝 Monument Bank
Monument is set to become the first UK-regulated bank to tokenize retail customer deposits on a public blockchain — representing interest-bearing savings as digital tokens while remaining fully backed, redeemable in GBP, and protected under existing regulatory frameworks.
Built on Midnight’s privacy-enhancing blockchain infrastructure, this approach ensures that transaction data remains shielded and accessible only to authorized participants — enabling the use of blockchain technology while maintaining the confidentiality and compliance required in regulated financial services.
The initiative begins with a target of £250 million in tokenized deposits and represents the first phase in a broader rollout to expand access to tokenized financial products. Over time, this includes enabling exposure to asset classes such as private equity and structured products, and introducing more flexible lending models — capabilities historically reserved for institutional and private banking clients.
Together, this partnership demonstrates how regulated financial institutions can bring traditional financial products on-chain — unlocking a more flexible, accessible, and programmable financial system without compromising privacy or regulatory standards.
In the coming World of CBDCs...
Our Privacy won't exist anymore...
@IOHK_Charles could see that way ahead of the time and was preparing @MidnightNtwrk to protect our Human Rights!
What ever you say...
CHARLES IS A LEGEND 🏆
Zoom out.
Does this remind you of something?👀
Holding:
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The banks are PISSING THEMSELVES.
They’ve just realized that some autistic crypto startup in a WeWork with $20 million in T‑Bills and a React front-end is about to nuke the entire $17 trillion U.S. deposit base…
…by offering 4.9% yield on a stablecoin while JPMorgan gives you 0.01% and a debit card that expires in two years.
“BUT THAT’S NOT FAIR” – every bank lobbyist ever
Now the banking system, this Godzilla made of soy, duct tape, and 11,000 physical branches, is whining to Congress like:
“This isn’t fair! If people can earn yield on dollars outside the bank… they might leave the bank!”
No shit. That’s the point. You locked everyone into a zero‑yield Ponzi for a decade while printing $7 trillion, and now you’re shocked people want out?
What’s next, are you gonna sue water for being wet?
This is a regulatory street fight between code and bureaucracy, between global liquidity that settles in five seconds and the rotting husk of Bretton Woods wearing a suit made of FDIC pamphlets.
And guess what?
The White House is hosting peace talks.
Yes.
Trump’s team just invited Circle and Coinbase to sit down with Jamie Dimon and tell him that the future of dollars may not involve Jamie Dimon.
Can you imagine the mood in that meeting?
“Hi Jamie, meet Brian from Circle. He tokenizes T-Bills with six engineers and a Discord server. He’s taking 3% of your deposits and none of your regulatory costs. Thoughts?”
The reality is that every time one of these banks says “we’re concerned about financial stability,” what they mean is:
“Please don’t let these crypto goblins disrupt our ability to harvest yield off the lower-middle class with 18% credit cards and 0% checking accounts.”
They want protection rackets codified into law.
Like “you can’t offer yield on stablecoins unless you’re a licensed bank,”
aka:
“We missed the boat, so let’s blow up the dock.”
Banks can’t compete.
Let’s model it:
A bank: 11,000 branches, 75,000 tellers, legacy core systems from 1982, and a CFO who thinks Solana is a fish.
Circle: 25 people, 100% T-Bill backing, 24/7 redemptions, yield streamed on-chain like Netflix.
Now let me make this brutally simple... Who wins?
The guys with marble lobbies or the protocol that turns dollars into yield-bearing bearer assets?
The banks are playing defense against stablecoin yield... but what happens when it clicks that stablecoins are just a transition vector to full monetary exit?
What happens when people use stablecoins to bootstrap into Bitcoin treasuries with self-custody?
You go from “5% yield off Circle’s T-Bill stack” to “30% CAGR in purchasing power in a bearer asset that can’t be diluted and lives outside the IMF death loop.”
That’s endgame stuff.
The banks are scared of USDC + USDT.
Wait until every mom in Omaha is yield farming STRC dividends from their Roth IRAs using a Lightning app.
We’re replacing the entire fiat architecture with a monetary black hole.
https://t.co/FgXOFs2ikL
🚨🚨Are you surprised the UAE decided Britain is too Islamist and extremist for Emirati students?
Let me tell you something no one else will.
This announcement comes after months of directly engaging with the UK. The UAE finally realised that Keir Starmer will never do anything they suggest and that he basically has no interest whatsoever in fighting Islamist extremism.
A decision was then made to go public with this announcement to safeguard Emirati students and to publicly send a message to Starmer and the people of the UK.