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  1. hi! you really have to at least mark the sections in the podcast- what story is discusses when, or what part is news and what is charts, as they do often on youtube podcasts. it’s so long and there is a lot of lengthy and disorganized discussion, often some stories I don’t want to hear a whole 10 minutes on and with no way known when the stuff I’m interested in will be talked about. I want to hear what you have to say but just a 2 hour blob of uneven discussion is a lot for me! I’m sorry to be blunt but this has a been a pain point for me in the new format of Money & Markets,and I imagine for others too.

    1. I generally avoid the video format especially the indulgent format with one talking head. I download, and transcribe that if I need the gist.
      Money and Markets though, is exceptional. The interplay adds a lot to the discussions.

    2. As far as sub titles to search out nuggets, I need to take it all in, and look forward to and am sometimes surprised for what they talk about next..
      It would not bother me a bit if they went beyond the two hour mark by an hour or more. It’s all meat and potatoes to me.
      Even though, sometimes I may not understand everything, over time it all “Fitts” together…many aha moments sometimes months later. So, for me…?…I enjoy every moment and look forward to Money and Markets every week. Best Wishes, Steven .

      1. I second that, Steven. I am glad there is still one episode left before the end of the month.

  2. Re: John’s questions about the Sundance article – new rules were imposed on cryptocurrency transactions. The cellphone comment means: (a) EU phone number is a known-weak proxy for sanctions-compliant digital identity, until eIDAS 2023 provisional agreement is formally adopted by EU, (b) the “loophole” is likely a white-collar data-collecting speed trap for profiling future targets.

    https://resources.fenergo.com/blogs/5-things-in-2022-that-changed-how-we-do-kyc-in-banking

    For a country of Russia’s size to become the subject of such sweeping, rapidly introduced sanctions … is unprecedented … banks had to adapt to a new regulatory landscape … immense pressure on financial crime risk and compliance teams … KYC and risk management were the key to withstanding regulatory scrutiny and safeguarding banks’ reputations from association with oligarchy. 

    … it was feared crypto could enable sanctioned oligarchs to move their assets and wealth outside of the traditional financial system and regulatory frameworks … EU sanctioned “all crypto-asset wallets, accounts, or custody services,” no matter the value, the US issued numerous sanctions and bans against crypto and ‘mixers’, and the UK made it a criminal offence for exchanges to not report sanctions breaches. 

    eIDAS: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2021)698772

  3. I was surprised to hear Metamask mentioned in your story on “The Western Sanctions Against Russia and US CBDC”. The reason is that Metamask is billed as a self custodial wallet. I don’t personally use it, but I was considering doing so.

    Check this story out:

    https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/03/04/opensea-metamask-block-users-sanctions/

    Digging deeper though, I find the post from Metamask:

    https://support.metamask.io/hc/en-us/articles/360059386712-Why-Infura-cannot-serve-certain-areas

    It’s not that Metamask is compromised per se. That is you won’t lose access to your crypto keys, but it’s the on ramps and off ramps like Infura that are still subject to KYC, sanctions, etc.

    What does this mean? The way Metamask gets around KYC rules is they aren’t actually managing or monitoring any of your data. They’re just putting a tool in your hands. It’s self custodial.

    But if you want to sell BTC for USD, you need to find a buyer who has USD and wants BTC. This would be really inconvenient if you had to wait for someone in your friends circle to want to trade with you. You could be waiting a long time. So what these exchanges are doing is essentially holding the inputs on both sides in escrow until the trade completes. They take out the need to trust the other person, or meet with them in person, know where they live, etc.

    It’s hard to imagine how you could do this at scale without an intermediary like this. You could decentralize the buy/sell orders easily. But for the transaction itself to occur in a trusted, reliable context, you need an entity capable of handling both USD in all its variety of forms (cash, check, credit card, venmo, paypal…) as well as the various crypto assets.

    Let’s say you did want to approach this without an intermediary. If you have a contract signed by both parties cryptographically, and you trust that the person with USD or other off-chain asset lives in a jurisdiction that will enforce the contract, you could then fulfill your end of the trade, and if the other party fails to do so you could take legal action against them.

    It’s reasonable to imagine that such trades could happen, especially amongst friends, but it’s definitely wild west compared to the current transactional systems.

    If this sort of approach were to become easier and more convenient for a user these steps would pave the way:

    • Development of a decentralized buy/sell listing
    • Development of a standard for the contract (existing solutions are likely adequate)
    • Integration of these features into the UI of the self custodial wallet
    • Guarantees at the jurisdiction level that cryptographic contracts can be presented in court and will be enforceable
    • Binding arbitration by experts competent in both law and crypto (to make the court determination more straightforward and reliable)
    • Potentially an insuring agent, which could be a government or for profit entity. The insurer would take responsibility for completing the trade, and would then be responsible for pursuing the party that failed to pay.

    I don’t know enough about KYC and sanctions to say if an insuring agent would be subject to the same kinds of restrictions. But I hope it’s clear where I’m going with this – decentralized transparency efforts and state level action (in USA) could be combined to result in jurisdictions where free unmediated exchange reaches a similar level of convenience as the “trust the bankers” approach. And I think you could take this in such a way as it dodges “facilitating the transaction” and instead “insuring the transaction”.

    Anyway, I hope that adds some clarity and maybe plants some seeds for further development. If anyone wants to work on something like this, let me know. I’ll repost this on Solari Connect as well.

  4. The controlled opposition / modified hangout got a good outing in this episode.

    Miri Anne Finch (https://miri.substack.com) has a saying: “If you know their (household) name, they’re in the game.”
    Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson et al. Also Russell Brand and beware even of Andrew Bridgen (a shifty character to say the least. See for instance https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/leicestershire-mp-lied-court-over-6969502)
    .)

    We all need to watch each other’s backs and help each other snap out of our respective blind spot(s) / trance(s). Because these controlled opposition are the wolves in sheep’s clothing and exactly what Elze von Hamelen and Michele Stiles discussed.

  5. All meat……carnivore in this one Miss Catherine and Mr John. Suggest in a week or even now make this a public one where we subscribers can share it and use it for two things. One to wake as many up as possible, two maybe get Solari more subscribers. Comment, is Trump just a distraction? As you guys pointed out months ago if the charge of him showing the codes on the golf course is provable he is toast, nope that was not in the news then or now. Seems they want a giant mess around election time but keeping all distracted now is important to let more cross the border? Why would mr global let an election happen they can not control eg M Obama etc? Seems better chance of Soros blowing up the country as he helped South Africa turn into a killing field. And what part of the take down will be from internal China Military? Eyes open going to get real crazy before this year is done. Pray that Gideon’s Amy guided by Angels and Ark Angels arises soon. Shining our light and prayer……..oh so important. One other comment on Trump, I have a classmate who was totally disabled 2 weeks after the jab, and she knows and says it was the jab. Yet she gives Trump a total pass says he could not have known. I just shake my head.

  6. I struggle with the idea of anyone on our side who is successful is, ipso facto, an operation. Tucker Carlson, who boldly went to Russia against deep state resistance, to interview Putin, which I would say looked good for Putin, he’s an operation, you think? Joe Rogan, obviously a renegade tough guy and pothead with genuine MMA chops, he’s an op. Elon Musk, despite his one time idea that people could be integrated with computers, is now breaking away from perhaps his government sponsors, and putting Trump (and free speech) back on the Twitter platform and speaking against the deep state, he’s an op. Trump, who didn’t in your opinion, handle the onslaught of COVID the way you would have liked it, but who has been persecuted more than anyone including Jesus Christ–and has been a unique president, he’s an op. Russell Brand – op. You’re typically full of admiration for the wisdom of blacks, and they seem to be supporting Trump in droves now. What say you to that?

    Now, Bobby Kennedy, grandson of “American royalty” patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who argued for detente with Hitler when he was FDRs ambassador to bellicose Great Britain, he opposes the COVID vaccine, as do most of the aforementioned “ops,” to you both, he’s totally legit, even though he favors slavery reparations for blacks, and the climate change op, which we all agree are fugazy. There’s no way Kennedy can become the chief executive and not bring every kind of terrible Democrat baggage with him. He would be another bad president. You will have to explain yourselves better.

    You know, in a chess game, you’re going to lose some pieces on your way to winning the game, no matter what. Our job is to see that the right pieces get to the right positions, and not to worry too much about what their history has been.

    1. Hi John, your note reflects a reality. There are factions within the parties, and Trump, Biden, Kennedy are parts/elements of those factions. Every “faction” is looking for their own benefit: either status, money, safety, control, popularity, etc, for themselves and for their families and not necessarily to benefit the population as a whole. And, as a default, individuals closer to them, or working for them, will benefit as well. Any body that has been “working at higher levels in an organization or with the gov knows this”, and they play their best game to keep their wealth and health.
      Now – what is happening with the so call ‘control grid’ agenda, is much bigger and it is being handled by mayor forces/groups working together, such as: US, Russia, China, etc., all to maintain the control and to establish a “permanent hold” into everyone’s assets and how they use those assets. Simply speaking, it is called, Colonialism. All of them are working together distributing the earnings among “groups” that are beginning to fight among themselves because “capital, cash…is getting rare and expensive”. So, they manipulate the markets with crypto, gold, silver, ETFs, etc etc, depending who they want to benefit or deter and for what. Every big event (natural or socially oriented) is not happening organically but has been organized, and countries and populations around the world are being killed and sacrificed for their agenda.
      The sad part of all this is that it took years to evolve in the dark, and now people have more information (light) – thanks to the internet – but still – we cannot stop it because they have accumulated most of the wealth in the world.

      1. Thanks for your answer and thoughts. In spite of our disadvantaged position, we have a unique opportunity to push back by putting Trump back in the White House. It doesn’t really matter what his shortcomings are; what matters are the evils that are being perpetrated against Americans, and Trump is the poster child for this phenomenon. Here’s a chance for everybody who thinks INJUSTICE SHOULD BE THWARTED to give whoever these demonic people are who wish us all ill, the BIGGEST F. U. EVER.
        I promise everyone if they don’t pull together on this, the ship will have sailed and won’t be coming back.

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