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A basket of currencies and value stores seems like it would be the least volatile.
> basket of currencies and value stores seems like it would be the least volatile For whom? The least volatile asset relative to dollars are dollars. The moment you start building a money-market fund you have novel risks, from credit to rates and FX. (And, in the extreme, legal.)
For people outside of the US.
Of course, one side effect will be crippling search engines as well. Maybe less important for driving traffic in the social media era?
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> basket of currencies and value stores seems like it would be the least volatile For whom? The least volatile asset relative to dollars are dollars. The moment you start building a money-market fund you have novel risks, from credit to rates and FX. (And, in the extreme, legal.)
> For whom For people outside of the US.
They’re better off with their own currency or an international currency (currently, Euros or dollars). Almost never a basket. (The IMF has SDRs. And various trade-weighted baskets are constructed for metric purposes. They aren’t practical instruments.)
I assume this is for people who don’t want their sites crawled and ingested for AI training. With the goal of making it cost-prohibitive to do so. Of course, one side effect will be crippling search engines as well. Maybe less important for driving traffic in the social media era?
I assume this is for people who don’t want their sites crawled and ingested for AI training. With the goal of making it cost-prohibitive to do so. Of course, one side effect will be crippling search engines as well. Maybe less important for driving traffic in the social media era?
"Rules, triggers, and workflows can be embedded directly into payments, making them smarter and adaptable." -- are they smart contracts? What kind of workflows? Does the workflow involve sending messages to agents or making HTTP requests?
> Does the workflow involve sending messages to agents or making HTTP requests? It looks like it will be an API for agents [1]. [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...
Basically, "pay to bypass our CAPTCHA!".
Is US dollar backed a good thing? At this point we should be backing things on gold, platinum. The Australian dollar has gone up about 20% vs the American dollar since Trump.
So Cloudflare is establishing themselves as the toll station for the internet.