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Southeast AsiaJoined August 2011

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If you are a Dev in town and wanna learn more about ZK, probably you should join us along , (), (), for a fruitful tech evening. Special thanks to for hosting!
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史上首個852zkNight!@852devxyz 威返次,一次過請嚟三個重量級ZK Layer2 projects - @aztecnetwork (@NoirLang), @Scroll_ZKP, @StarkWareLtd (@zkLend) 嚟同大家做技術分享,打響頭炮。 🍽️🥤 到時現場會有嘢飲嘢食,參加者仲會獲得靚靚POAP,名額只有50個,快啲報名啦: lu.ma/852zkNight
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The IMF released new data on currency composition of global central bank currency reserves on Friday. While the CNY share went up from 1% to near 3% from 2017 to 2021, the share actually edged lower during 2022. Despite all the talk about the CNY gaining reserve currency… Show more
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Too big to fail is a model being rewarded, coming at the expense that are, or soon will be, too small to compete. The fact that most agree this is intuitively undesirable but likely still necessary speaks volumes about the underlying system.
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This is truly incredible. Here is an exchange with Senator James Lankford & Yellen. He asks, "Will every community bank ... get the same treatment as SVB?" Yellen: "Banks only get the treatment if ... the failure to protected uninsured depositors would create systemic risk."
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Interesting how coverage of Adani's alleged $40 billion fraud (4x the FTX fraud) doesn't include any op-eds calling the stock market a "scam" and calling for greater "protection for retail" (read: gatekeeping)
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Full disclosure: 1. Mirana is the investment arm of bybit. 2. Mirana only manage some bybit company asset. Client fund is separated snd bybit earn product doesn’t use mirana. 3. The reported 151m has abt 120m of collateralized positions which mirana had already liquidated.
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Recognizable names among Genesis creditors: • Gemini: $765m • Mirana (Bybit?): $151m • Moonalpha (Babel): $150m • Coincident Cap (Mex/Finex Leaderboarders): $110m • Decentraland: $55m • VanEck: $53m • Abra: $30m • Cumberland: $18m • Stellar Foundation: $13m
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I just used #AI to write a poem for my wife as a joke. But it's actually too good and now I have a difficult decision as to whether or not I fess up
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Interestingly, in the first few paras of Bridgewater's recent note, we see this: "The markets have not priced in what we see as the very likely effects of the [monetary] tightening." And there we have it - the ol' priced-in, not-priced-in debate
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One of the cool things about #blockchain is you can watch your transaction confirm and send in real-time, every step of the way. Unlike the creaky old SWIFT system that takes multiple days using literal wires. Wires! In this day and age
. is once again late to the game, “protecting” no one. Quite clear that his political “regulation through enforcement” strategy hurts everyday Americans.
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We @SECGov charged Genesis & Gemini for the unregistered offer & sale of crypto asset securities through Gemini Earn. Crypto intermediaries need to comply with our securities laws. This protects investors. It promotes trust in markets. It’s not optional. It’s the law.
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👀 New research indicates boomers make better crypto investors! 📚 Almost 34% of boomers spend “a few days” doing due diligence on a project before investing. 🤔 How about millennials and zoomers? Read more here: shor.by/8rLt #Bybit #TheCryptoArk
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Automatically downgrading every single thing SBF believed in is an error. It's important to actually think and figure out which things contributed to the fraud and which things didn't. Don't be the guy who would have tried to cancel vegetarianism in 1945.
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We can't backdoor your MetaMask accounts to go buy yachts and penthouses. That's the whole damn point. It will be a long few months of explaining it, but everyone should explain the difference to anyone who will listen. It's on all of us to distinguish from this mess.
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