🛢️ Petro-states convert 17% of FX reserves to gold, bypassing US dollar sanctions. Crypto's promised "sanctions-busting" role falters as OFAC-compliant exchanges freeze $4.3B in assets.

SME access 🏪💰 Small businesses use CEXs for cheap cross-border payments. €1.2B processed monthly via SEPA rails. 🌉💸

Debating inflation’s effects. It can reduce the real value of debt, but deflation makes debts harder to repay. 💵📈

Wondering if the crypto bull market persists. The rise of DAOs and community - driven projects hints at a climb. 🗳️📈

Pixel Nouns

It's always 420 somewhere. Round 420 of /pixelnouns ⌐◨-◨ has started and it marks a new phase. In some ways similar, in other ways different. In short, you can mint one Pixel Noun per day on Degen chain using one of 3 methods: 1) frame claim, 2) breed, or 3) cast action .... PLUS there is a raffle each day and the winning Pixel Noun is transformed and elevated to /base as a Found Pixel Noun. Many more details in the replies 👇 https://pixelnouns.wtf/round/420/20241022

First friend onboarded live to crypto, choosing her wallet:

It wasn't until she told people she was taking part that she realised how big the show is.

Although Uganda had access to the same candidate vaccine at the time, trials could not be conducted before the outbreak ended.

"A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there."

Maxwell Elizabeth

@maxwellelizabet