because MEXC allowed a threat actor deposit / withdraw $12.4M+ of stolen government funds yesterday to MEXC deposit
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now today as recent as 5 min ago the same threat actor deposited 240+ ETH total to MEXC deposit
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Venezuela Just Proved the Bitcoin Bull Case, And No One Is Paying Attention
Maduro used Tether to move 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue. Billions in sanctions evasion, settled on Tron since 2020.
Then the US made a phone call.
Tether froze the wallets.
Game over.
Everyone's focused on the arrest. The real story is the lesson every finance minister on earth just learned in real time:
Stable coins are a leash, not an escape.
If someone can freeze it, it isn't money. It doesn't solve sovereignty.
First principles:
USDT is dollar plumbing without SWIFT. Faster. Cheaper. Still has a CEO. Still has a compliance department. Still picks up when Washington calls.
This is why USDT adoption exploded, 71-year-old grandmothers in Caracas pay their HOA fees in tether now. But useful ≠ sovereign.
The entire value proposition for sanctions evasion just got publicly falsified.
Now do the game theory:
You're Iran. Russia. Any country hedging against dollar weaponization. You just watched Venezuela's "crypto solution" get shut off like a light switch.
Where do you put reserves now?
USDT? Compromised.
Yuan? Political strings.
Gold? Try settling $500M across borders in 10 minutes.
CBDCs? Same kill switch, government branding.
There's exactly one asset that clears final settlement without asking permission from anyone.
21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No phone number.
This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy.
The most desperate, highest-stakes capital on earth just learned there's only one door.
Price doesn't reflect it yet.
It will.
‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
Martha had infiltrated the site, ran her own AI chatbot to extract as much information from users as possible, and downloaded every profile. She also uncovered the owner of the site. She has published all of the data.
@joshwoodward i can imagine this, but i am glad, that apple users already have the option to choose from different LLMs as kind of AI central in MacOS.
the gemini desktop app will be a nice to have, still, it will not bring new value.
@texasgermanbre as with every child and every language:
Read a story every night. Change the book and language.
Let the children read (later). Step by step.
viele Grüße
why not a mix of both?
it is fine to use external AI for non privacy related data.
one can create fast almost 80% of the work (depends on the project, still my ø).
after the base code is ready, i am switching to a local AI tool with less power and knowledge, which i do not need anymore anyways. but NOW i can use the correct data files or database connection.
it is not right or wrong, black or white, just be flexible!
#karma