Yaël @yael@freewheel.social

The only peeps slidin’ into my DMs are crypto scammers

No, Autocracies Don't Make Economies Great https://theunpopulist.substack.com/p/no-autocracies-dont-make-economies?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

by @tomgpalmer@twitter.com

#kurzmusszurueck

When Federal Employees Telecommute, Why Are Agencies in D.C.? https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-federal-employees-telecommute-why-are-agencies-in-d-c-pandemic-relocate-11637963307

Your lockdowns will never be over https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/25/coronavirus-surge-united-states-south-america-canada/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3561310%2F61a114979d2fdab56ba15957%2F598a7be1ae7e8a68161f00d3%2F36%2F72%2F61a114979d2fdab56ba15957

EP99 of @ConsumerCRadio@twitter.com — @ClementLiberty@twitter.com and I recount our Venetian excursion for @ConsumerChoiceC@twitter.com

-we speak with @petermjaworski@twitter.com on paid plasma bans in Canada and when it'll change
-tomorrow on @sauga960am@twitter.com @bigtalker1067fm@twitter.com at 10AM EST

or via podcast https://podcastindex.org/podcast/106679

Garanti…d’accroître l’inflation https://www.lesaffaires.com/secteurs-d-activite/gouvernement/quebec-veut-contrer-l-inflation-cheque-de-275-verse-aux-personnes-a-faible-revenu/629241?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=postfity&utm_content=postfityf8e52&fbclid=IwAR17EUYOso5iJ_ST0so0-q8mzIDfyiFCOokCRbGmkJrz1QuOaUG4SWiqGAM

Some great journalism on Serbia’s (potential) lithium revolution and those who may halt it

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/19/rio-tintos-past-casts-a-shadow-over-serbias-hopes-of-a-lithium-revolution?fbclid=IwAR1-NdNLzCGp03_-s8BOw4EgvG-F8oroNVtXhRmkUDa81pHg6FoWmCvX5XA

Changing the goal posts again. You’ve been locked down. You stayed home. Avoided travel and family & friends. You got the jab. You’ve followed the rules. Now @who@twitter.com says you better not get too damn comfortable, ‘cause it ain’t over.

9/ The arguments of the best cryptocurrencies can and should be fought, and coiners already vote with their wallets, their code, and their clicks. But regulation matters.

.@ConsumerChoiceC@twitter.com's @kokota@twitter.com and I made our case for Smart Crypto Regulation here: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/principles-for-smart-crypto-regulation/

8/ The lower we can make the transaction costs (as an economic principle, not dollars and cents) to on-off ramping, the closer we can get to broad crypto adoption. And that means treating crypto as a category in any policy debate or conversation, whatever our personal preference.

7/ Or a threat that only certain countries with more relaxed rules will allow on-off ramps, which will necessarily limit market penetration and any crypto future.

6/ Until people independently charge and get paid in crypto, or create mining collectives in their communities, the on-off ramps will shape adoption, and because these ramps are governed by financial regulators, there will always be a bottleneck.

5/ That's because the greatest impediment to any growth in the crypto economy, "hyperbitcoinization", or whatever you want to call it, is the on and off-ramps. Fiat to crypto, crypto to fiat.

4/ And this only gets worse if we don't push smart and innovation-friendly solutions that will keep the confiscatory and bureaucratic tendencies of national and supranational governments at bay.