CryptoCHATS for @cryptoFEEDERS

Iran eyes crypto toll for oil tanker transits through Strait of Hormuz, according to FT. Iran plans to collect cryptocurrency and other digital payments as transit fees from fully loaded oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, said the report. CoinDesk

Investigative journalist John Carreyrou says he identified the founder of Bitcoin https://sh.itjust.works/post/58335311

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🇪🇺 The EU wants to force mandatory ID checks on anyone using social media — and ban people under 18 from accessing it. To that end, the EU Commission spent over a year building an “age verification app”, which its president pompously unveiled yesterday. Today, this app got hacked in just 2 minutes. But don’t rush to laugh at EU bureaucrats. Their age verification app was hackable by design — it trusted the device (that’s instant game over). Unless the EU is run by clowns 🤡, this is their real plan: Step 1 — Present a “privacy-respecting” but hackable app. Step 2 — Get hacked (*YOU ARE HERE*). Step 3 — Remove privacy to “fix” the app. Result — a surveillance tool sold as “privacy-respecting”. The EU bureaucrats needed an excuse to silently start turning their “privacy-respecting” age verification app into a surveillance mechanism over all Europeans using social media. Today’s “surprising hack” just handed this excuse to them. 🦇 Stay vigilant!

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⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load. 🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission. 🪙 MTONGA

ECB’s Lagarde Pushes Back on Euro Stablecoins, Warns of ‘Structural Weaknesses’. The European Central Bank chief says Europe "knows which port it is sailing to,” and it's not towards a euro stablecoin. Decrypt

It has been a while since the last SmileyUpdate... The SmileyProject has advanced quite a bit: We now have 3000+ students at 70+ sites in 10 countries. They study using the SmileyTutor, earning SmileyCoin as they progress and use those coins to purchase stuff in SmileyStores. Some sites now have fruit trees, with fruit to be sold for SmileyCoin in the SmileyTree project. We haven't stopped... right now we are building a few chicken coops where students will learn a bit about agriculture and the products will be sold for SmileyCoin in this "SmileyKuku" project (kuku=chicken in Swahili). In the next phase we plan to have the SmileyCoops operating *completely* in SmileyCoin, along with a SmileyStore which uses two currencies, shillings and SmileyCoin. Exciting times.

2 days ago Elon released the new X algorithm ​ Since then I have read all \~22,000 lines of code 8 times over. Skipping almost every meal Here are the 8 things I learned: 1. Followers mean basically nothing. Small accounts can now get more engagement than large accounts. It's just about the quality of your content 2. AI slop is dead. There is literally a slop detector built in. Stop posting AI videos of fairies fighting dragons 3. Undisclosed advertisements will DESTROY your reach. X is picking up on this now. Play by the rules and label your posts appropriately 4. Spamming the timeline is pointless. Every subsequent post during a day is shown on the timeline less 5. Microniches are everything. Become an expert at a microniche. Stick to it. Create valuable content on it. You'll blow up 6. X wants to eliminate toxicity. If you’re consistently attacking or trolling others the algorithm will pick up on it 7. It’s all about retention. If you create content that keeps people on it for a long time, you will get engagement no matter what your follower count is. 8. X is a video first platform. Videos are being push more than ever. It’s time for you to start making videos All of these previous rules come down to one thing. Don’t game the system. Don’t be a jerk. Raise the vibrations of X. If you’re only goal is to create engagement, you’re going to lose. If you’re goal is to create great content and generate conversation, you’re going to win https://redd.it/1tjpzdn @redditoor

We will see

Someone just burned $8 million of bitcoin https://infosec.pub/post/47053000

Dutch cryptocurrency trading platform Knaken suddenly taken offline | NL Times https://share.google/56BOW5hEPxkYsuudS

Over $100 billion of market cap has been lost in the last 7 hours between Ethereum and Bitcoin. Crazy...Seems like investors are going risk off for now. US dollar might strengthen wih the New Fed chair? Source: https://www.blossomsocial.com/posts/Market-Cap-Losses-in-Bitcoin-and-Ethereum

Researcher who found Zcash's bug adds Monero to his audit queue https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70124444