Hamzah: You guys killed children in Lebanon, is that okay?
IDF Soldier: Yeah, this is okay because of Hamas.
Hamzah: What about the children, the babies?
IDF Soldiers: The babies is good to kill.
Hamzah: Really, in Lebanon?
IDF Soldier: Yes, in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Iran
Hamzah: Have you ever killed any Palestinian children?
IDF Soldier: I killed
Hamzah: How many?
IDF Soldiers: I don't know.
Hamzah: You don't keep track?
IDF Soldier: No, but I killed.
Going to war with a country, then immediately floating the idea of lifting sanctions on its oil to prevent your own economic collapse, is the definition of strategic failure
Worth remembering how that happened though - the industry handed them that authority by repeatedly failing to self-regulate. Every FTX, every Celsius gave traditional finance and their regulators a legitimate argument that crypto needed guardrails. The irony is that the fastest path to removing banks from the gatekeeping role is building products that don’t need rescuing. Clean compliance architecture, transparent reserves, genuine investor protection. Hard to argue crypto needs bank oversight when crypto demonstrably doesn’t need it.
@AriDavidPaul I’d be cautious about relying on quick Google summaries for such serious claims. Middle Eastern politics and regional conflicts are extremely complex, and many of the statements and figures you mention are contested or interpreted very differently by historians and analysts.
The most interesting part of this announcement isn’t the tokenisation itself - it’s the compliance architecture. Kraken will sit at the gateway doing KYC/AML, bridging permissioned and permissionless markets. That’s the model: regulated entity as the compliance layer between TradFi and DeFi. Lets see how regulators respond to this in practice.
BREAKING: The people of Tehran woke up to toxic acid rain after the U.S. & Israel bombed oil storage facilities. 10 million people exposed to a serious environmental hazard that causes chemical burns to the skin & damage to the lungs because of war crimes committed by pedophiles.
i agree that crypto needs to reconnect with its original principles but we can’t ignore why retail stepped away. For many people it isn’t just the banana NFTs, it’s the feeling that the broader system is stacked against them. Governments and regulators are tightening the rules in ways that look less like consumer protection and more like preserving the status quo. So even when the technology is ready, people feel the fight is too big, too political and too exhausting. Retail hasn’t lost interest in empowerment, they’ve lost faith that it’s still possible to take on the system and win.
Calling that troll a “cheeky X user” perfectly showcases why people don’t take @Cointelegraph seriously. Instead of reporting, they’re busy curating playground taunts and pretending it counts as insight. When a real technical issue happens, they choose the loudest meme over the most accurate information — and then wonder why the industry sees them as noise rather than news. Bleh!
Decentralization doesn’t mean “no police.” It just means no single person can force the network to act. In a decentralized system, people decide for themselves how to respond—including whether to report a crime. Calling the cops doesn’t centralize the blockchain; it simply shows that each participant, not one authority, chooses how to handle an incident.
@circle@jerallaire@IMFNews If frictionless payments come at the expense of privacy, then no thank you—email got fast too, but we didn’t sign up for everyone reading it.
These young adults are already participating in these markets. Restricting their access doesn’t eliminate risk — it simply forces them to go offshore where the potential for real harm is far greater. If the goal is genuine consumer protection, the focus should be on education, not on creating artificial barriers.
I find this debate to be problematic. It describes 18-year-olds as though they were minors in need of sheltering, despite the fact that they are full adults with capacity and legal responsibility to make significant financial decisions. Yet when it comes to crypto, the instinct is suddenly to place them under a form of state supervision. That is not sensible regulation - it’s paternalism.
Totally agree. The more non-essential data you put on a blockchain, the more attack vectors you create. It hands regulators new opportunities to intervene under areas of law far beyond finance. When that happens, the whole ecosystem ends up paying the price—the good gets punished with the bad.
@lex_node Seriously?? That’s just delusional. AI doesn’t think, feel, suffer, or have any concept of self. Treating code like it’s an “emerging person” is how we lose grip on reality. The next i’ll hear is that faster math turns code into a conscience