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  1. Not so fast!

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/07/quadrigacx_crypto_wallets_empty/

    Since Cotten's reported death, at the age of 30 while traveling in India, those left running the exchange have been keen to recover the CAN$184m (US$137m, £105m) in clients' crypto-cash thought to be residing in the aforementioned cold storage. In February, after receiving temporary protection from creditors from a Canadian court, QuadrigaCX said, despite weeks of toiling, it had been unable to recover "our very significant cryptocurrency reserves."

    Those reserves now appear to be less significant than suggested. On Tuesday this week, Ernst & Young (EY), the financial powerhouse appointed by the courts to oversee QuadrigaCX's fate, published its third report revealing there's literally nothing to worry about – five of the six offline wallets in question were emptied in April 2018, about eight months before Cotten's death. And the sixth was emptied in December 2018.

    https://news.bitcoin.com/quadrigacx-saga-founders-widow-owns-5-6m-properties-hospital-confirms-cottens-death/

    The shifting narrative is now being challenged on multiple fronts, with skeptics claiming that the 30-year old CEO faked his death to evade paying customers. A recent report in The Times of India confirms that Cotten did die on Dec. 9 and his widow was granted a death certificate and police clearance to take his body back to Canada.

    Without DNA confirmation, though, the report will do to little to douse the skepticism surrounding the saga. Cotten is thought to have methodically gone about his “death,” naming his wife the sole executor of his estate 12 days before passing, and bequeathing properties from a jointly operated company to his in-laws.

  2. Interviewer guy: "Is not Universal basic Income though kind of Socialism by other means?"

    Yang: "Um, it's very much not...It's Capitalism where income doesn't start at zero."

    Mr. Yang thinks the US has some kinda "Technology Dividend" that we can treat like oil wealth.  I disagree with that sentiment.  He does though, echo a sentiment from higher up in this thread: Trade jobs are less susceptible to automation, and we'd be good to encourage young folks to pursue them.

  3. 2 minutes ago, Nivek said:


    Well, he was a pussy wimp.

    Woah there, Son.  He was an artillery officer in WW1, and is the only person in History to order the use of a nuclear weapon.  Twice.  In the same week?  You and I have done none of those things.  If he is a "wimp," what does that make us?

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  4. Starting this thread to keep the F35 thread free for bashing the F35 and quoting Top Gun.  Starting it here and not the CR so it hopefully doesn't get ate up with stupid.

    https://ahvalnews.com/nato/turkey-nato-stand-coming-head-times

    Erdoğan’s insistence on buying Russian-made S-400 air defence missiles and the country’s pivot towards the east is an obvious problem for NATO, which was founded to counter Russian power, the Times said. 

    Turkey signed a contract with Moscow worth a reported $2.5 billion in December 2017 for the purchase of the S-400s despite objections from its NATO allies, who are concerned that the system could collect data on NATO jets and undermine their defences.

    “We can’t have the F-35 and S-400 in the same place,” the Times quoted Hodges as saying. “I would want to know more about what Turkey is asking for with the Patriot that industry is not willing to give them.”

    Choose your bedfellow, Turkey.  Choose it wisely.

  5. 9 hours ago, Rusty Shackelford said:

    F-35 related, but a serious WTF Turkey? Should they be kicked out of NATO? Is that their goal to align with Russia?

    https://ahvalnews.com/nato/turkey-nato-stand-coming-head-times
     

    Turkey signed a contract with Moscow worth a reported $2.5 billion in December 2017 for the purchase of the S-400s despite objections from its NATO allies, who are concerned that the system could collect data on NATO jets and undermine their defences.

    The U.S. State Department on Tuesday warned Ankara that purchasing S-400s might result in a reassessment of Turkey’s participation in the F-35 programme and risk other potential future arms transfers, as well as leading to potential sanctions.

    “We can’t have the F-35 and S-400 in the same place,” the Times quoted Hodges as saying. “I would want to know more about what Turkey is asking for with the Patriot that industry is not willing to give them.”

    The US is the only nation who can do stealth today, and letting someone like Turkey have it, where they'll immediately let the Russians reverse-engineer everything; no way.  Turkey gets a pass for a lot of things because of their geographic location, but come on.

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