Remember that all government money is counterfeit.
Such money began as discrete quantities of a real commodity: silver or gold. Such money was used and trusted because it was a bearer proxy for this real good; the paper (valueless) a receipt for a quantity of metal (valuable).
And then the metal was stolen by the US Federal Government from all holders of the proxy instrument. The public was rugged, and now all government money is counterfeit, aka fiat.
That the world continued on without rebellion says something about how easily the masses may be deceived so long as a charismatic man with a flag pin stands before them.
When will he next appear before us? What illusion will we next be asked to believe?
The bill for this crime is paid every year by everyone holding fiat, as they see prices rise and struggle with the attendant consequences of being paid in an asset debased in perpetuity. They attribute their suffering to some phenomenon of nature, or to the greed of capitalists, rather than to that specific act of fraud on August 15 1971.
BREAKING:
SWIFT just announced it's moving its global payment network on-chain.
40 banks. 200 countries. Live transactions this year.
But here's the part worth understanding.
Banks aren't using crypto stablecoins.
They're using tokenized deposits.
Real money. Real banks. Real regulation.
Just on blockchain rails.
This is not a crypto victory.
This is banks adopting blockchain while keeping full control.
The speed of crypto. Without the decentralization.
The efficiency of blockchain. Without the freedom.
Banks stopped fighting the technology.
They found the version that keeps them in charge.
The question worth asking is whether this is good for crypto. Or just good for banks.
We are the Crypto Ħub Malta Community - time to celebrate it :D
The winners of the @okx Trading Competition, that started on June 3 last week will be announced. Trade on OKX and climb the winning spot by achieving the highest trading volume. First price: an unforgettable Speed Boat Experience by Santa Maria Water Sports.
Where to live in Europe with family, tax-optimised?
Central and Eastern Europe.
- Bulgaria and Romania: 10% flat income tax (tied lowest in EU)
- Hungary: 9% corporate tax (lowest in EU)
- Poland: flat-rate scheme ~15–18% effective for IT
- Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Czechia: 0% capital gains (with conditions)
The most underrated corner of the map for families serious about optmizing tax and quality of life.
I've spent 18 months chatting with people across this corner of Europe.
10 cities below.
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Why $VVV (Venice) has a real shot at Becoming TOP 20
Real product, not hype
Already has millions of users, thousands of AI inferences per hour, and actual revenue that’s buying & burning VVV tokens
Deflationary tokenomics on steroids:
• 42% of supply ALREADY burned
• 32M+ VVV staked (12% yield + DIEM AI credits)
• Revenue → buybacks + burns Supply shrinks as usage explodes
Perfect positioning in the AI narrative
Privacy-first + fully uncensored generative AI
Built for the coming agent economy — devs & autonomous bots need exactly this. No KYC, no censorship. Massive edge
While market is nuking, $VVV is heading for new ATHs, it decoupled from the crypto market, since product usage is at ATHs and it will exponentially grow, cause we are at early phase of AI bubble not late.
@MoneyLord indeed - I do see a bright future ahead for $VVV
when you start using #AI seriously, you quickly understand that you need https://t.co/10CbHidhB4
We like to use the metaphor of Venice as the port city of AI. It guides our product designs toward composability: an open platform rather than a walled garden.
Others are now building on this open platform with https://t.co/HGUdedRZRR
This new community page shows many of the things emerging in the lagoon.
Virtuals Protocol is integrating @AskVenice to power AI agent building with private, uncensored inference, available to anyone, anywhere on @base.
Venice brings best-in-class privacy-first inference. Virtuals EconomyOS brings the full agent infrastructure stack: wallets, identity, payments, commerce, funding rails, and launch infrastructure.
We are deploying up to $400,000 in private inference credits so anyone can move from idea to working agent without compute or backend complexity getting in the way.
Start your AI journey. Inference and infra are on us.
Program details soon.
First white-hat exploit on Ethereum: I unlocked 1,003.62
Ξ ($2,000,000) trapped in a 2016 ICO smart contract
for 9 years.
The 48 original investors can now claim their funds.
Around $3 Trillion dollars were laundered through banks in 2025 and they want you to believe that a bill in Congress that clearly applies AML/BSA obligations to crypto exchanges is somehow the problem. Literally nonsense.