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OB - as you have revealed you age to be 51 can i refer you to the HNS definition of old.

Generally, someone over the age of 65 might be considered an older person. However, it is not easy to apply a strict definition because people can biologically age at different rates so, for example, someone aged 75 may be healthier than someone aged 60. Instead of simply age, ‘frailty’ has a bigger impact on their likelihood to require care and support.

Perhaps middle age baldy would be more apt as I now feel distinctly ancient :-((

Muscles - Thats the plan but these things take time.

A couple of quite interesting developments ( well interesting for me anyway) Firstly anyone who has read my ramblings will know that for me the future of digital assets are stablecoins and CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) and Pendulum could/should/would be the bridge from digital assets to fiat.

With the recent turbulence in the market what I think is a (medium term) significant development is the state regulation of Stable coins as centralised regulation provides the crucial turning point in the mass adoption of digital assets.
Well yesterday the UK Govt confirmed their commitment to go ahead with stablecoin regulation
https://news.bitcoin.com/uk-affirms-commitment-to-regulate-stablecoins-following-terra-meltdown/

And Ashley Alder, chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) announced that A global body for regulating Digital assets is likely to be set up next year
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/13/global-crypto-regulation-body-likely-in-next-year-as-covid-19-climate-and-crypto-top-conce

and finally Heath Behncke, managing director of Holon Global Investments seems to agree with my view, recently commenting - The meltdown of the terra stablecoin last week should force policymakers to create safer ways to move fiat currency into digital assets, a leading local investor in technology powering cryptocurrencies -
Welcome to Pendulum (my words)

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/crypto-investor-calls-for-central-banks-to-protect-stablecoin-reserves-20220516-p5alqa

Torreaguas - no Kasuma crowloan date set yet - but should not be too long

The Government has reinforced its commitment to improving water quality including through plans for water companies to eliminate harm from sewage discharges.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/delivering-the-water-quality-we-all-want-to-see--2

Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, made a keynote speech at the National College of Ireland regarding digital currency. The digital Euro is coming.

Finally, at the end of 2023 we could decide to start a realisation phase to develop and test the appropriate technical solutions and business arrangements necessary to provide a digital euro," Panetta said. "This phase could take three years."

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2022/html/ecb.sp220516~454821f0e3.en.html

Muggins - i noticed that you didnt answer my question which is surprising as you usually have a lot to say - Im guessing you missed it so here it is again :-)

you ask others to believe that you are invested here when you have been (as you say) predicting the fall from 30p - so to continue to hold and encourage further drops makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, so one has to conclude that is a little porky, or perhaps you can explain why you actively like to loose money.

Dark - thanks -yes there are quite a lot of articles currently regarding Stablecoins and crypto in general mainly due to two things - the current crypto bear market ( no different from the current bear share market) and the spectacular fall of the Tera Luna which dropped a staggering 99% in 48 hours a because it was pegged to its own Stablecoin (Terra USD) it cause that to drop below the 1 dollar peg - which shoudnt happen.

What actually happened is is very complicated, but it is safe to say that the Terrform labs blockchain has had plenty of warnings from plenty of anylists over the whole project as it was quite a unique idea to create an algorithmic stablecoin where LUNA crypto currency could be burnt in order to ‘mint’ UST to stabilize it whenever it loses its 1:1 peg to the dollar, and vice versa. Without going into the technicalities this is different from how other stablecoins work - In theory the idea could/should work but at best the project was experimental and has clearly failed. There are many commentators out there calling CEO Do Kwon a charleton, stating the technology was just a re-working of other ideas with known issues and in fact it turns out he had a previously failed Korean crypto years back. Either way it doesnt help the general perception of the digital currency market. In fact Pendulum tweeted last week:

Shaky market conditions like these can give birth to huge opportunities.

With crypto volatility going wild, #fiat is a safe haven right now.
We'll be home to many fiat-focused #dApps to earn lucrative yields with the highest security standards in mind.

DarkHero - cant read that article as needs subscription - I assume it refers to Terra Luna token ?

Related crypto news.
Bitcoin to the sky: Emirates to accept BTC payments and launch NFT collectibles
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-to-the-sky-emirates-to-accept-btc-payments-and-launch-nft-collectibles

Hmmmm calm down gentlemen :-)

ICB - A very important point well reiterated :-))

Related info - its interesting that its the developing countries leading the way in digital currency.

African banks embark on major digitisation drive
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/african-banks-embark-on-major-digitisation-drive-3812884

Tanzania Eyes Creating Own CBDC; El Salvador Buys 500 More Bitcoin
https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2022/today-in-crypto-tanzania-eyes-creating-own-cbdc-el-salvador-buys-500-more-bitcoin/

Muggins - I dont want to get into a spat with you but you ask others to believe that you are invested here when you have been (as you say) predicting the fall from 30p - so to continue to hold and encourage further drops makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, so one has to conclude that is a little porky, or perhaps you can explain why you actively like to loose money.

Chesh/Nu
Safe to assume its an upgrade of the PDV6000 Ultra which is actually no longer listed on the website
https://company.aquatechtrade.com/Image/Download?docid=55506&dl=MIJNRAI_TOP_LIBRARY<c=MIJNRAI_LOGIN_PRIVATEFILE

Duke/ Steamy
Googly.gg is registered to Googly Media Holdings Pte Ltd
https://www.eurodns.com/whois-search/gg-domain-name

Googly Media Holdings Pte Ltd are registered in Singapore
https://www.companies.sg/business/202133049E/GOOGLY-MEDIA-HOLDINGS-PTE-LTD-

Not sure what to make of this.

On checking out the Ts & Cs on the website the company named as running it is GOL MEDIA PRIVATE LIMITED. A quick check shows the company registered at House no. 28, 3rd Floor, NRI Complex Greater Kailash Part-4 Delhi South Delhi and two directors involved: Shubhodip Pal and Geoffrey Pollard. The registration does state it as being a Subsidiary of Foreign Company, but no reference to Googly esports who are registered in UK
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12229297 and no correspondence to the UK Directors Timothy Vincent Le Druillenec and Alexis Oliver Abraham.

Also checked the googly esports facebook page with no update or reference since 2019
https://www.facebook.com/googlyesports

Will keep digging

Marc Cuban is an American Billionaire who made his money from the early internet days in software and the dot.com boom. He has recently commented on how the crypto markets are the same as the early internet and is now going through a similar pattern.

Mark Cuban is reliving the internet boom when he looks at crypto. The ‘consolidation phase’ is coming, he says
https://fortune.com/2022/05/09/mark-cuban-compares-crypto-to-internet-consolidation-phase-coming/

. The part that caught my eye was this: He said he sees the biggest opportunity in how crypto companies and blockchains use smart contracts, or collections of code that execute a set of instructions on the blockchain. Businesses that use smart contracts to improve productivity and profitability will gain a competitive advantage, Cuban tweeted. “The chains that realize this will survive.”

DaveTK - Im only here for an entry into Satoshipay - It been a long wait for you since micro payments were going to be the next big thing but digital currency is now starting break through to the mainstream and will be the future (Imo). Still a long long way to go but just look how the internet changed everything. In the Crypto/ Digital currency space there are hundreds of useless, Dapps, Apps, Blockchains, protocols etc so the bet here is whether Satoshipay, with their Pendulum/Spacewalk/bridges/Cross border payment offerings will be able to monetise. If the succeed the sky truly is the limit. We will have to be patient and wait and see, and (unlike) you the market isnt patient.

Dave- five years ago the SP was about 0.10 so you e trebled your money if you havnt sold :-)