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25 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Swedbank—one of Sweden’s absolutely largest commercial banks—just blocked cross-border payments to a whopping 103 countries.
Handelsbanken blocked 50 countries last year and are up to 113 now.
Reason: ”as part of the work to follow updated policies regarding money laundering, terrorist financing, and financial sanctions”.
Swedbank was fined 4 billion SEK ($440m) last year for having insufficient controls around money-laundering in the Baltics and been used in systemic money laundering there (40 billion SEK). The investigation indicated that Swedbank knew about it & withheld info to regulators.
This is the bank that rejected my mortgage application because I had traded crypto FWIW

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Eric Wall Profile picture
24 Nov
I don’t know who needs to hear this but something having a lower gas cost does not immediately mean that once that thing gets adopted, transaction fees will be lower

Gas cost can go down but gas price can go up

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I think if all Ethereum activity got squished into a single rollup L2, it would probably be a mistake to assume transaction fees would go down. ”Cost” would go down, but fees would probably trend back up again
Only with multiple rollups do you have a very good chance of lowering the fees for the longterm, atleast for certain transactions

This comes from that you segregate the bidding contest for block space into separate mempools essentially.
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22 Nov
I own this NFT that gives you a free dinner with the Chief Protocol Architect of $AVAX, @kevinsekniqi.

It's currently on the X-chain. I want to transfer it to the C-chain if there are any good UIs for people to place bids/take offers for NFTs there? Any suggestions? ImageImage
What's cool about this NFT is that you don't need to buy it just because you want to eat dinner with @kevinsekniqi. You can buy it because you expect the demand (and therefore the value) of a dinner with @kevinsekniqi will be higher in the future. It's basically a social token!
Side-question: Am I personally turning this NFT into a security right now by giving you an expectation of profit? @kevinsekniqi issued it and transferred it for free and didn't create any expectations when he issued it. But am I myself committing a crime by marketing it as such?
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21 Nov
We built this city

We built this city

We build this city on bitcoin bonds Image
Technically it’s not built yet and it’s a USD-denominated bond (not a bitcoin-denominated bond) but the loan is used to buy bitcoin and invest in/fund Bitcoin City
I don’t know what I think about the whole authoritarianish gov building a honey pot of crypto wealthy in a country with one of the highest murder rates on the planet but I do love volcanoes and volcano-powered cities & the Sovereign Individual touch where govs compete for people
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20 Nov
ETH is priced as if it can flip BTC (% of BTC mcap)

ETH-killers are priced as if they can flip ETH (% of ETH mcap)

Even though they aren’t optimized as monetary assets

And nobody knows what the value for “smart contract fuel” is..

..when they’re supposed to solve high fees...
There’s a monetary premium here that’s being broadbrushed all over everything that’s on CoinGecko.

Most of it is just valued by association (in relation to something else) even though those links don’t really survive when they’re interlinked in two, three, questionable steps
I’m not complaining but FA is completely broken at this point
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19 Nov
Everyone complains exchanges aren’t enabling Lightning withdrawals/deposits & the narrative seems to be that ”exchanges don’t want to admit bitcoin scales!/they’re busy listing shitcoins” and then @binance integrates @arbitrum Ethereum L2 straight out of the box what’s that about
Binance has every incentive to pretend Ethereum doesn’t scale since it leads to tons of trading volume in other competing L1s, including their very own Binance Smart Chain geth-fork, which they’ve been trying to steer people toward heavily on their withdrawal page interface.
Maybe it’s because all you need to withdraw to an Ethereum L2 is an Ethereum address, no set-up or inbound liquidity needed, and that Ethereum L2s can do large transfers just fine and don’t need to worry about routes?
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6 Nov
Lol, @Vattenfall_Se, Sweden’s own *state-owned* power company (Sweden’s absolutely largest fossil-free energy producer) just completely rejected the notion—put forth by our financial regulator and environmental protection agency 2 days ago—of bitcoin mining’s wastefulness.
Instead, they talked about how crypto mining was an excellent ”buffer” in energy production that is highly useful for controllable load management and a way to monetize excess energy which would otherwise go to waste.
Their stance is that this actually strengthens the power grid, not siphons from it.

That’s from Sweden’s own 100+ year-old state-owned power company.
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