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HOLY MOLY BATMAN!!! SUNDAY NIGHT IS FIRED UP!!! Trump calls for the federal govt to retake direct control over the city of DC.
HOLY MOLY BATMAN!!! SUNDAY NIGHT IS FIRED UP!!! Trump calls for the federal govt to retake direct control over the city of DC.
The federal judge overseeing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump delivered multiple blows to Special Counsel Jack Smith's efforts in a brief Monday.
On Thursday, the Digital Dollar Project (DDP) announced the successful completion of a cross-border central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial in the Philippines, which it developed with Western Union.
The pilot study assessed the potential advantages of using CBDCs for international remittances, leveraging a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform to simulate the transfer of digital dollars and Philippine pesos. It highlighted key benefits such as reduced risks, lower costs, and enhanced transaction visibility.
The pilot explored how a CBDC could improve cross-border remittances in the US-Philippine corridor, one of the busiest in the world.
The Philippines received $36 billion in remittance payments in 2022, representing 8.9% of its GDP. However, the cost of sending money from the US can sometimes exceed 4% of the total transaction value, posing a significant burden on disadvantaged individuals. Nearly three in four Filipino consumers receive money at least once a month, so the challenge is paramount.
Against this backdrop, retail CBDCs promise to enhance cross-border paymentsâ speed and efficiency without displacing the service offerings of established cross-border remittance providers, such as money transfer operators (MTOs).
Global payments giant PayPal (PYPL) is entering the cryptocurrency market with its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), the company announced on Monday.
The Ethereum-based token will soon be available to PayPal users in the U.S. This is the first time a major financial company is issuing its own stablecoin. Users can transfer PYUSD between PayPal and supported external digital wallets, use the tokens to pay for goods and services or convert any of PayPal's supported cryptocurrencies to and from PYUSD.
PYUSD will be issued by New York-based crypto financial-services firm Paxos Trust and will be fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term Treasuries and similar cash equivalents. It is redeemable for dollars and can also be exchanged for other cryptocurrencies available on PayPalâs network, such as bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH), ether (ETH) and litecoin (LTC).
The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), issued the following statement after PayPal announced the launch of its payment stablecoin. This follows the House Financial Services Committee passing the bipartisan Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act, which identifies regulatory paths for approving and regulating stablecoin issuers while ensuring robust protections for consumers through the creation of a uniform federal floor for payment stablecoins.
This announcement is a clear signal that stablecoinsâif issued under a clear regulatory frameworkâhold promise as a pillar of our 21st century payments system,â said Chairman McHenry. âClear regulations and robust consumer protections are essential to enabling stablecoins to achieve their full potential. Thatâs why itâs more important than ever that Congress enact legislation to provide comprehensive digital asset regulation, especially for stablecoins. The bipartisan Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act recognizes the strong role that states have played in regulating digital asset firms and builds on successful state regimes, like New Yorkâs. We are currently at a crossroads to keep America at the forefront of digital asset innovation. Congress is making significant, bipartisan progress on legislation to ensure the U.S. leads the financial system of the future. We must finish the job.â
Rocky Mountain Institute was funded by the US Department of Energy.
In collaboration with RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute), a pioneer in sustainable investing, Ripple is excited to introduce a new company, Centigrade. Centigrade is an open data platform serving the global carbon and nature markets. The platform will provide developers of carbon and nature credits with a low-barrier, intuitive way to bring their projects to market, providing full data transparency and traceability for the entire lifecycle of credits. It aims to open global credit markets to all carbon and nature developersâregardless of size and locationâand boost the availability of capital needed to scale carbon removal and nature restoration projects to the required level.
While carbon markets hold promise as a hedge against climate change, the market for carbon creditsâthe purpose of which is to help offset temporarily unavoidable emissions and fund climate mitigation activitiesâis suffering a crisis of confidence. This is in part due to doubts cast on the efficacy and durability of its inventory, but also because (in its current incarnation) it is glacially slow, inefficient and not scalable.
Ripple and other industry players recognize that blockchain can be a catalytic tool for helping global carbon markets reach their full potential. At its core, blockchain enables more efficient transactions. Unlike proof-of-work blockchains, the open source blockchain technology that powers Rippleâs solutions, the XRP Ledger, is natively sustainable, requiring low amounts of energy and no cryptocurrency mining. The XRPL is the first major blockchain to achieve net zero status through the purchase of renewable energy for its remaining energy use.
In pursuit of this, Ripple began a learning journey through a series of deep partnerships with well-respected, climate-focused NGOs, including Rocky Mountain Institute, the Lexicon of Sustainability, Conservation International, Greenpeace and others. In addition, the company began working directly with leading carbon removal companies with significant traction in the marketplace. For the past year, Ripple has been collaborating with CarbonCure, BC Biocarbon, Carbon Title and Newlight Technologies to tokenize their inventory in ways that capture the full value and diversity of their projects, methodologies and impact.
Elon Musk's brain chip startup Neuralink has raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, months after securing approval for its first in-human clinical trial.
The company did not reveal the valuation at which the funds were raised. In June, Reuters reported that the company was valued at about $5 billion after privately executed stock trades.
"We're extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink," the company said in a post on Musk-owned social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates that List a Covid Vaccine as a Cause of Death
Causes of death refer to the medical conditions that ultimately played some role in the demise of the decedent. To qualify as a CoD, a condition only needs to contribute to the medical decline of the decedent in some way, but doesnât have to be directly responsible for whatever ultimately killed the person. If someone had high blood pressure, and subsequently suffered a heart attack that led to cardiac arrest which killed them, all three conditions qualify as CoD. On the other hand, this unfortunate fellowâs ingrown toenail is not a cause of death, because it in no way contributed to their demise.
Method of curing AIDS with tetrasilver tetroxide molecular crystal devices
A Manhattan bookstore known by some as a neighborhood gem has become a shop of horrors for local dog owners after the storekeeperâs German shepherds mauled at least four other pups â one so badly it was put down last week.
La Libaire des Enfants, a French language childrenâs bookstore on the Upper East Side, is home to five German shepherds including a 98-pound white dog named Syko who charged a toy poodle last week, according to the New York Times.
Online reviews of La Libaire des Enfants either describe a warm and friendly âneighborhood gemâ or warn others to beware of the dogs.
âThe owner of this store and the cafe next to it truly make it hard to be a dog owner in this neighborhood,â one reviewer wrote about two months ago. âThey have [five] untrained, highly aggressive German shepherds always in the store and I am afraid and uncomfortable to walk past with my small dogs. When passing by, the dogs lunge at the doors and windows and itâs usually followed by the owner screaming profanities.â
Following Fridayâs attack, Hudson paid the bill to put Baby down after initially offering to adopt and rehabilitate the small dog â which Tripp denied.
Now, Hudson told the Times she is considering the same fate for Syko.
âThere is really something wrong with Syko,â she said through tears, âand I donât know what to do.â