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Top 10 passports ranked by visa-free access.
Singapore retains the top spot, while the US remains at the bottom.
I'm getting ready to move to Singapore.
A US passport + Singapore permanent residency feels like a solid combination. 😂
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You grandsons, your grandpa has made it official:
Xinhua News Agency: The Strait of Hormuz is now shipping out 15–20 million barrels of crude oil daily, not far below the 20 million barrels before the war. U.S. military formations have been providing scheduled escorts for passage on the Omani side for more than 10 days.
Iran has already lost everything: including its naval, ground, air, and missile forces, all “sea-condition radars,” and any ability to scan the movements of vessels at sea.
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The next U.S. stablecoin fight is not about the peg. It is about identity. A joint proposal would require permitted payment stablecoin issuers to maintain effective customer identification programs.
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The legal move is simple and consequential: treat permitted payment stablecoin issuers as financial institutions for Bank Secrecy Act purposes. That brings sanctions, AML, due diligence, and customer-ID logic closer to issuance.
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Under the proposal, an issuer’s program would use risk-based procedures to verify each customer’s identity. Before opening an account, it would obtain core information such as name, address, and an identification number.
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For individuals, the proposed information includes date of birth. For entities, it includes date of formation. The issuer would need procedures for documentary or non-documentary verification, and for cases where identity cannot be
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confirmed.
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Important distinction: this is issuer-side customer identification for accounts and relationships with permitted issuers. It is not a final rule imposing a universal identity check on every self-custodied wallet.
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The practical implication is obvious. The compliant stablecoin issuer starts to look less like a crypto project and more like a regulated financial institution with a reserve business attached.
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My view: stablecoins will not win mass adoption by pretending regulation does not exist. But regulators should target the issuer and the fiat gateway—not turn every piece of open-source wallet software into a bank branch.
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来源 1/3 · Federal Reserve Board
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来源 2/3 · Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and partner agencies
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来源 3/3 · Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
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Circle reported that its Agent Stack now hosts 900+ paid services, and that 99.3% of x402 agent-payment volume settles in USDC. Company-reported data, but a notable sign of where stablecoin utility is being tested. —Circle
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The UK will expand the Global Talent visa in August: more than 100 innovative research companies will be able to support top research talent moving to the UK. Talent mobility policy is becoming more directly tied to R&D and industrial capabilities.
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The UK has expanded the support scope of the Global Talent visa to more than 100 innovative research companies. Competition for talent increasingly depends on whether companies can participate, not just on the name of the visa program. Source: UK government.
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Assigned ChatGPT 5.6 some simple tasks.
Damn it, I won’t even get into the process—I almost smashed my computer.
Forget comparing it with Fable; it falls far short even compared with OPUS 5.0.
They’re all employees, but Fat Wave is a PhD team that works so hard smoke practically pours out. OPUS is a bunch of diligent second-tier university undergraduates.
Sol5.6 can only be considered a group of eager little kids. They want to try everything, but can’t get anything done.
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Trump returns to New York and delivers a speech in Nassau!
Everyone who deeply loves America can take a look and ask the same questions as President Trump:
1. Why are the cabinets selling toothpaste and razors in New York all locked?
2. Why are convicted criminals who have been arrested quickly released back into society?
3. When will New York be made better?
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In New York, everyone driving a BMW is a public nuisance.
Every single one, with absolutely no exceptions!
In and around the city, 80% of the people weaving through traffic and speeding are in BMWs!
The other 20% are definitely in Hondas!
In the past 10 years, I really haven’t seen any other cars speeding recklessly!
Can someone who knows explain why?
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