@life_is@no-pony.farmMeine Mutter hat entschieden, die Bankenampel zu ignorieren und es darauf ankommen zu lassen. Die erste Überweisung ist bereits gescheitert. Brief der Bank kam nach etwa einer woche. Sie findet es wohl nicht gut, die überweisung noch mal machen zu müssen und beschwert sich (bei mir).
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@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageBalancing Compliance and Privacy in Offline CBDC Transactions Using a Secure Element-based System
Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Anthony Mack, Cameron Clark, Linus Chen, Johannes Sedlmeir, Andreas Veneris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25469
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's central bank opens a digital yuan hub in Shanghai; a Chinese state media report says the hub will oversee cross-border payments and blockchain tech (Foster Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tether and others participating (RT Watson/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/375874/tether-joins-39-million-f…
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialDas ist doch heute wieder mal ein schönes Geolokalisierungsrätsel für alle Kenner:innen des alten Ostberlins: https://mastodon.social/@schwarzPhotoBot/115569642696574196 (via @…
@pre@boing.worldA panel on bitcoin treasury companies.
Because investment law makes it hard for institutions to buy bitcoin in their funds. You can't own BTC in you tax free ISA. So some companies that do hold bitcoin, notably microstrategy, became proxy investments. If you can't hold BTC you could maybe own a company that owns BTC instead.
Microstrategy started because it's ceo realized it's dollar treasury was being debased by dollar printing. So tried buying BTC instead, with fantastic success.
Copycat companies proliferated. They boomed and then busted. One panelist calls that a grift. A way to memeticly pump share price.
A line can be drawn between profitable companies just storing their profit in bitcoin Vs those raising debt to buy without having a profitable business.
Imagine a world transiting from using seashells for money to using gold coins. A company gathers seashells from investors to buy gold coins, which will do better than sea shells. Trouble is the next step where the company pays back it's investors with... More seashells.
If you own shares in the company, you do not own bitcoin. You'll just get more old fashioned bank money.
Still. It's worked as marketing, more people being convinced BTC has value.
If you do buy a treasury company, check it's bitcoin not "digital assets" including shitcoins.
#bitfest #bitcoin #bitcoinTreasuryCompanies
@DominikDammer@mastodon.gamedev.placeif you dont like eel on musk and want to get away from #paypal , you can do so starting october with an eu system without middleman!
https://wero-wallet.eu/
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialDeblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto.com follows Circle, BitGo, and others in applying for a US bank charter, as it seeks to further its custody-service business for products such as ETFs (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWestern Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wes…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based Fnality, which lets banks transact in a digital cash asset backed with funds at the Bank of England, raised $136M led by BoA, Citigroup, and others (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDigital banking group NOBA plans to list on Nasdaq Stockholm in Q3 2025, in a deal expected to value the company at around $3.74B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/digital-bank-noba-plans-sweden-ipo-valuing-firm…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA new simulation from the European Central Bank shows that the digital euro could trigger a deposit outflow of up to €700B during a run on commercial banks (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/digital…
