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Another company has given money to Ukraine. Dunamu, which runs the largest South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit, is the last one to do so.

The fate of the world is in the hands of a man who is weak-willed and mentally ill, to say the least.

The Kremlin may have put a lot of money in off-shore accounts.

Would the US benefit from the introduction of central bank digital currency (#CBDC)?

Today's journalists are not speaking truth to power by covertly advocating for direct military intervention in Ukraine.

The global Financial Stability Board is closely monitoring the usage of crypto assets during the Ukrainian conflict, amid concerns that they could be used to circumvent Western sanctions against Russia.

''In her lecture accepting the Nobel Prize for literature, Svetlana Alexievich explained that in Russia 'suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce constantly.'''

Responsible diplomacy is anticipating how other regimes will react to perceived threats—and acting to avert wars by recognizing and addressing these views. The US appears to be more concerned in virtue signaling.

The Turkish lira had lost 44 percent of its value versus the dollar in one year before handing over the unenviable distinction of the world's worst-performing currency to the Russian ruble. Its purchasing power at home has also dwindled: depending on whether you believe official figures or private assessments, inflation in Turkey ranges from 54% to 124%. So, how did the residents react? For one thing, the tech-savvy classes opted for cryptocurrency.

'[A]ny electronic-cash model that necessitates regular human oversight will eventually be captured by the same legal regimes that govern the legacy financial system, because the presence of human actors (who, of course, can be fined, jailed, or forced into plea bargains) represents a vulnerability that government actors can and will exploit to assert control. The one-sentence explanation for bitcoin's success is that it solves this challenge in what appears to be the only way possible: by removing human decision makers entirely from the system.'