Odds and Ends — 12 May 2021
A sign of mainstreaming? The grocery store I shop at most often just installed a new crypto kiosk. The old one they’d had for the last year was Bitcoin-only, this one offers 20 other cryptocurrencies. Fees are quite significant. When I was there, they were selling Bitcoin for $65,594.41 as coingecko.com was showing a $56,234.41 current price.
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Politics:
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Trump Family Got ‘Inappropriately Close’ to Secret Service
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…there’s another even more sinister trend among conservative politicians that deserves greater attention: an unwillingness to concede any electoral victory by a Democrat as legitimate, and an eagerness to punish any Republican elected official who concedes the will of the voters. The Big Lie that Trump really won the election is now canon among a majority of Republican voters. Any Republicans who refuses to toe the line is branded a heretic, and elections officials who dared to certify Biden’s win are being censured or stripped of their power.
Newsom Plans Cash Payments to Californians
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'Voter Integrity'? Or 'Jim Crow 2.0'?
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Whoa, that’s quite a premium for BTC! I bet people are buying from them too because it’s “easier”.
Another fantastic collection of intelligence to check out. You are better than any algorithm!
We are eyeing a retail location for our marketing company and I REALLY want to hang a bitcoin neon sign in the window and have one of those machines for people to use. Crypto hasn't popped up in this small town physically but I know PILES of people investing.
I need one of those!
Their fees are huge.😉
Is Canadian KYC as onerous as America’s?
Pretty much.
Which makes these things more valuable as you can create a paper wallet and pump cash into them without having to touch the banks and exchanges.
Maybe in Canada, but not here:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@preparedwombat/re-taskmaster4450le-qt054v