Binance has a plan to save crypto—if it’s not too late

Crypto exchanges want to prove that the market can thrive after the FTX collapse.

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[Thad Boyd]

Tulsi does need a VP for her inevitable next run for office...

Does she, though?

 

[graylshaped]

She's got an op/ed up on azcentral today titled "Why I'm registering as an independent".

I commented on it with "Because I can't win a Democratic primary." and hopefully I have the self-discipline to leave it at that and not spend all day in the comments there.

My mom moved from Tucson, but my brother is still there. Let us hope the Democrats can find the right person for the seat. Good luck with your self-discipline. I rooted through the closets looking for mine and came up empty.

 

[Thad Boyd]

My mom moved from Tucson, but my brother is still there. Let us hope the Democrats can find the right person for the seat.

Ruben Gallego has made it pretty clear he intends to run, and he's the likeliest nominee. Though by no means a foregone conclusion.

He's a lot farther left than a typical Arizona Democrat, but I like his odds in a three-way race against whatever lunatic the GOP comes up with and an independent who everybody hates. I'm seeing people wring their hands that Sinema could act as a spoiler, but given the caliber of candidates the AZ GOP's been producing, I think she'll pull more votes from the Republican than the Democrat.

(A plurality of Arizona voters are independent, but for my purposes the distinction between a Republican and an independent who usually votes Republican, or a Democrat and an independent who usually votes Democratic, is irrelevant.)

 

[Scary Devil Monastery]

Ruben Gallego has made it pretty clear he intends to run, and he's the likeliest nominee. Though by no means a foregone conclusion.

He's a lot farther left than a typical Arizona Democrat, but I like his odds in a three-way race against whatever lunatic the GOP comes up with and an independent who everybody hates. I'm seeing people wring their hands that Sinema could act as a spoiler, but given the caliber of candidates the AZ GOP's been producing, I think she'll pull more votes from the Republican than the Democrat.

(A plurality of Arizona voters are independent, but for my purposes the distinction between a Republican and an independent who usually votes Republican, or a Democrat and an independent who usually votes Democratic, is irrelevant.)

At this particular point in time the gap is shrinking when it comes to "indepentents" who still identify as such. The choice these last few years has been between some deranged mad person aligned with fascism, conspiracy theories or fanatical puritanism standing against someone who is at the very least sane.

Anyone still in the "I'm not decided" camp is already someone bereft of sanity and common sense.

 

[Thad Boyd]

At this particular point in time the gap is shrinking when it comes to "indepentents" who still identify as such.

It is, but there are still more independents in Arizona than Democrats. The latest statistics show that independents and people registered under a third party combine to make up the same percentage of the electorate as Republicans, which is down from a few years ago when independents were a plurality of registered voters.

The choice these last few years has been between some deranged mad person aligned with fascism, conspiracy theories or fanatical puritanism standing against someone who is at the very least sane.

Anyone still in the "I'm not decided" camp is already someone bereft of sanity and common sense.

True independents are rare. Most independents have a preference of one of the major parties over the other, they just don't want to identify with that particular party for whatever reason.

(I switched my voter registration to independent for a few years out of disgust with the Holder DoJ when it dropped its investigation into Joe Arpaio, for example. I eventually switched back to Democratic so I could vote in presidential primaries -- Arizona's got this weird thing going on where independents can vote in party primaries except for president.)

That said, simple math tells us that a significant number of people who used to vote Republican have been voting Democratic in recent elections, and particularly in statewide races. Democrats didn't quite sweep the board this election -- they lost school superintendent and treasurer -- but they got governor, senator, SoS, and AG, which is an incredible showing for a midterm election in Arizona in a year where the president is an unpopular Democrat.

 

[ardent]

Sinema switched to Independent to be a spoiler in the election, not because she thought she had a chance to win. She wants to punish Democrats for not embracing her by stealing the next election from them.

 

[Thad Boyd]

(ETA this was a response to a spambot post which appears to have been deleted.)

Thanks for sharing, totally real person!

 

[rosen380]

Not a good start... first a necropost on a thread last commented on in March 2019 and now this.

 

[mausium]

I still believe in cryptocurrencies. Even after the collapse of FTX, I still think crypto coins will survive as they are regulated by private individuals and not by the government.

"Regulated by private individuals"

 

[Thad Boyd]

Ordinarily I'd recommend against quoting the spambots, but just this once it might be useful in case the post gets deleted and then a third spambot shows up to make the same post verbatim.

 

[mausium]

Ordinarily I'd recommend against quoting the spambots, but just this once it might be useful in case the post gets deleted and then a third spambot shows up to make the same post verbatim.

Yeah, best if you just edit out the links in the quote.

 

[MarcoIt]

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[usettastack]

Crypto has been, and always will be, utter bullshit. We shouldn’t be worrying about saving crypto, but rather saving people from crypto.

Why do you think so? For me, cryptocurrency is my whole life, and I make a lot of money on it. I invest in various crypto projects and always come out with more money. I am currently following run matic node, I like this topic. This is the best thing I've seen in the crypto space so far. So soon I will have even more money ))))