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🚨 Google is bringing Zero Knowledge Blockchain tech to the mainstream! 🔒🌐

Here’s how it’s rolling out:

🔹#GoogleWallet now supports #digitalID's like driver’s licenses & passports 🪪✈️

🔹Using zero-knowledge proofs, you can verify your age (think: 18+) WITHOUT sharing your birthdate or personal info 🙅‍♂️📅

🔹Expanding to #TSA checkpoints, dating apps like Bumble, and more 💬🛫

🔹Launching in the UK, 4 new US states, and 50+ countries 🌍

🔎Why does this matter?

🔹Less friction across apps & services 🚀

🔹More privacy-share only what’s needed 🔐

🔹Google is racing to be the go-to digital ID provider 🏁

🕵️What’s next?

🔹Phones could finally replace your physical wallet 📱💳

🔹Safer onboarding for banks, e-commerce, healthcare, travel 🏦🛒🏥

🔹Real-world use for #ZKproofs and portable digital credentials 🌟

This isn’t just about payments anymore-it’s about owning the digital identity layer. The future of privacy is here! 👁️‍🗨️✨

Only a few states currently support this.

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🚨 US Federal Regulators Greenlight Banks to Buy, Sell, and Custody Cryptocurrency 🚨

In a landmark shift, US federal regulators have clarified that regulated banks can now buy, sell, and custody cryptocurrency for their customers-without needing prior approval. This move, announced in May 2025, marks a major recalibration of crypto oversight and opens the door for broader integration of digital assets into the traditional banking system.

Key Highlights:

✨ OCC Clarifies Crypto Services for Banks
National banks and federal savings associations can now buy and sell crypto assets on behalf of customers, as well as provide custody and related services. They may also outsource crypto custody and trading to trusted third parties with strong risk controls.

🚫 No More Pre-Approval Required
The OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve have removed previous requirements for banks to seek formal approval or notify regulators before engaging in crypto activities. These services will be overseen through standard supervisory processes.

💼 Permissible Crypto Activities Include:
  🔹 Buying and ...

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Quiet weapons for quiet wars | David Icke

(Dinarian Note: Just for the record, I agree with most of David's things, but not all. I believe he is too spiritually disconnected to a point.)

"Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" is a document that has been referenced by conspiracy theorists, including David Icke, who has discussed it in various contexts. The document is alleged to detail a New World Order plan for world domination, a topic explored in Milton William Cooper's book "Behold a Pale Horse."

David Icke has mentioned "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" in his work, particularly in a conference titled "The Robot's Rebellion" in 1994. He has also discussed the document in his show "Escape the Matrix."

The document and its theories have been the subject of various discussions and analyses, including in articles and social media posts.

It's important to note that the document and its theories are not widely accepted by mainstream scholars and are considered conspiracy theories.

Additionally, "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" is ...

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🚨 BIG NEWS‼️

Acting CFTC Chair @CarolineDPham has announced that they will soon be participating as an observer in industry tokenization pilots. 👀👇🏼

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👉 Coinbase just launched an AI agent for Crypto Trading

Custom AI assistants that print money in your sleep? 🔜

The future of Crypto x AI is about to go crazy.

👉 Here’s what you need to know:

💠 'Based Agent' enables creation of custom AI agents
💠 Users set up personalized agents in < 3 minutes
💠 Equipped w/ crypto wallet and on-chain functions
💠 Capable of completing trades, swaps, and staking
💠 Integrates with Coinbase’s SDK, OpenAI, & Replit

👉 What this means for the future of Crypto:

1. Open Access: Democratized access to advanced trading
2. Automated Txns: Complex trades + streamlined on-chain activity
3. AI Dominance: Est ~80% of crypto 👉txns done by AI agents by 2025

🚨 I personally wouldn't bet against Brian Armstrong and Jesse Pollak.

👉 Coinbase just launched an AI agent for Crypto Trading
The Khafre Project, Subterranean Structures Under Giza 👀

Filippo Biondi is the scientist behind the latest sensational announcements of possible large-scale subterranean structures at Giza. In this interview with Jay Anderson he explains his method.

In this Exclusive​ interview I am joined by both Professor Filippo Biondi and investigative researcher & egyptologist Armando Mei to discuss the Khafre Project teams incredible findings, tackle the critiques from the mainstream and dispel misconceptions of the studies.

Professor Filippo Biondi is a signals processing scientist who's patented SAR/Doppler integration method is responsible for the incredible claims from the Khafre Pyramid Project team regarding colossal substructural engineering extending over 600 metres from the base of the Khafre Pyramid, with additional structures across the Giza Plateau reaching depths of up to 2km!

🚨 Google Maps Can Now Scan Your iPhone Screenshots for Locations-But Privacy Concerns Loom

Google Maps just rolled out a new feature for iOS that uses AI to scan your screenshots for place names and automatically saves those locations to a private list in the app. While this could be a handy tool for travelers and foodies who often screenshot addresses or recommendations, it’s also raising serious privacy concerns.

How the Feature Works

🔹 AI-Powered Scanning:
Google Maps uses its Gemini AI to scan your iPhone screenshots for any text that looks like a place name or address.

🔹 Automatic List Creation:
Any detected locations are added to a private “Screenshots” list in the Google Maps app, found under the “You” tab.

🔹 Review & Save:
You can review each detected location. If it’s correct, tap “Save” to add it to your map; if not, tap “Don’t Save.”

🔹 Auto-Scan or Manual Add:
If you grant permission, Google Maps can automatically scan all your screenshots for locations. Alternatively, you can choose to add images manually.

Why People Are Concerned

🔹 Privacy ...

🚨 Former Bush Official Claims U.S. Built $21 Trillion Secret Underground City for the Elite 🚨

A sensational claim by Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Bush administration housing official, is making headlines: she alleges the U.S. government has secretly spent $21 trillion building a vast network of underground “cities” and bunkers designed to shelter the rich and powerful in the event of a near-extinction event.

🔑Key Highlights

🔹 170+ Underground Bunkers Alleged:
Fitts claims that since 1998, around 170 subterranean facilities have been constructed across the U.S. and even beneath the ocean off the coast, with more rumored to exist globally.

🔹 Massive Secret Spending:
She bases her claims on a 2017 report by economist Mark Skidmore, which identified $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending” across the Departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development from 1998-2015. Fitts suggests this missing money funded the construction of these secret facilities.

🔹 Advanced Technology and Energy:
According to Fitts, these bunkers are connected by an elaborate transportation system and powered ...

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⚠️International Public Notice: Central Banks
👉 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ~The Dinarian
We were gifted by a video interview with G. Edward Griffin, author of "The Creature From Jekyll Island" —one of the few books about the Federal Reserve Banks and Federal Reserve System that is worth reading.  Another is "Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustace  Mullins.  
 
Strangely, G. Edward Griffin didn't tie the concept of "central" banking down and didn't define it beyond the idea that central banks are all privately owned and working with a government under contracts that allow them to control the country's monetary policies and supplies. 
 
This is a little bit like defining a horse by its hooves.  
 
Controlling monetary policies and monetary supplies is one of the primary jobs of a central bank as opposed to a commercial bank or a trade bank or a retail bank or an investment bank or, or, or....  It's also true that all these so-called central banks which supply all the other banks with money, credit, or both are privately owned and are not public institutions at all.  
 
These are interesting facts and they deserve to be fully known, understood, and deemed important by the Public at Large, but by themselves these facts fail to convey the far larger scope of customary central bank activities and the endless opportunities for unjust enrichment that a central bank contract provides. 
 
In our case the Federal Reserve has haunted our country and its government since Colonial days. Like all other modern central banks that we are familiar with the Federal Reserve is not a single bank, but rather a consortium of private banks that are ultimately in the business of rigging commodities and defining securities and assigning tariffs and duties to be paid as taxes and customs fees. 
 
The member banks of this central bank consortium shift and change over time, but most of these institutions are stable and it's relatively rare to see a major bank member go broke— for example, Lehman Brothers Bank during the 2007 - 2008 meltdown. 
 
Money just happens to be among the most important commodities that central banks rig according to the demands and priorities of the governments that they both serve and ensnare. 
 
The quid pro quo of the central bank is —hey, we are going to do all sorts of illegal and immoral things, but don't worry your little head about it.  Just look the other way, members of Congress (or Parliament), and you, too, can be rich, rich, rich.  
 
No need to ask where all the money is coming from.  It's coming from the central bank, of course, and being laundered and manipulated and trafficked by central bank agents on a worldwide basis. 
 
If this language seems rather brash it's only because people rarely think about, much less discuss,  what central banks do. 
 
Where do central banks come from? 
 
From Prussia.  Central banks were created during the tumultuous reign of his grim and royal majesty King Frederick the Great.  Note it was "royal majesty" not "Royal Majesty" in his case, because he was literally the king of the land mass known as Prussia and not just the figurehead chief executive of a business calling itself the Kingdom of Prussia.  
 
Frederick the Great was a homosexual who was forever traumatized when his Father had his first love executed in front of his eyes in an effort to make the young prince settle down and tend to the family military business.  If he became a warped soul with a plethora of odd fears and passions we can hardly blame him.  
 
Frederick's love of whippets, small, delicate greyhound-like dogs spawned a whippet fashion rage throughout Europe —once he  won all the dozens of wars and skirmishes including a war with seven (7) fronts and nearly every other kingdom in Europe standing against Prussia—and with Voltaire's help, he emerged as the most unlikely fashion icon ever in the history of the world. 
 
Imagine a German Liberace who played with cannons instead of pianos
 
It is to this bizarre, broken, haunted, restless, nearly insane man that we owe the concept of central banks. 
 
Frederick the Great had odd misgivings about coffee, which was introduced to German society during his Father's reign and which became an increasing focus of one of Frederick's many oddball phobias.  He resented the idea of Germans sending their precious silver coins overseas in exchange for coffee beans when their King was fighting, at a minimum, a three front war and barely surviving
 
Into the breach strode a strange little Freiherr whose name translates to "Rollingstone"—- who had a solution to the King's dislike of coffee and his need to keep his war efforts funded: a central bank that would relieve Frederick's government of the noisome duty of collecting taxes, and, conveniently levy a stiff import tax (that is, a tariff)) on all coffee and coffee products imported to Germany.  
 
Two problems solved for the price of one, and Frederick the Great was supremely pleased with the invention of a central bank.   Once he became a fashion icon all the other royals couldn't wait to create a central bank to do their dirty work, fill their coffers and manipulate their commodity markets to benefit friends and punish political enemies to their heart's content. 
 
Soon every country in Europe had a central bank and advocates of various stripe were crazed to get a central bank established in this country, too.  They could never foist it off onto the Americans but they had no trouble convincing our British Territorial Federal Subcontractors who were deeply in debt to their own King and in need of the services a central bank could provide.  
 
The British Territorials (Tories) had borrowed lavishly from their cherished Monarch so that they had the means to fight the American rebels for him.  After they lost Yorktown they had to face the immense war debt they owed King George for the privilege of fighting and dying for him in nice uniforms
 
A central bank supported by British sympathizers in Europe meant having a grubstake to rebuild, sources of credit even though they were already in over their heads, and a way to secure business investments.  The first Bank of the United States was born, a Department of the Treasury was born, and Alexander Hamilton was made famous as a traitor for supporting the hated foreign bank that was enabling the defeated Tories to enjoy such a surfeit of credit
 
A central bank.  
 
The first such bank went down in ruins and a second, but like a shark watching its moment, the deceptively named "Federal Reserve" was circling and waiting its opportunity to loan money and central bank services to the American Government.  
 
They had had dealings with the Americans during the Colonial period and entertained debts from the Houses of Burgesses.  During the Revolution their French partners extended credit to the Americans They were well-positioned when the War of 1812 provided another opportunity. During the Civil War they backed Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and were instrumental in negotiating acceptance of Lincoln's "Greenbacks".  
 
The Federal Reserve, an informal consortium of mostly mainland European banks was ready to move in prior to the 1906 bankruptcy of The United States of America, Incorporated, and finally succeeded in 1913 with the secretive Federal Reserve Act making the Federal Reserve cartel empowered to do central bank functions in this country, issue cash and securities for the British Territorial Government, set monetary policies and interest rates,  and tax U.S. Citizens using the Internal Revenue Service.   
 
A few years later another service provider doing business as "the IRS" would start direct private tax collections from Municipal citizens of the United States.  
 
All those "Federal Income Taxes" were being imposed by the private "Federal Reserve" bank consortium and collected and enforced by agents hired by the Federal Reserve Banks operating two private foreign concessions—- one income tax collected from the British Territorials as an Estate Tax and another income tax collected from Municipal citizens of the United States by the IRS as a Gift Tax.  
 
This explains the conundrum that baffled generations of Americans who questioned whether the Federal Income Tax was an unlawfully administered direct tax or some kind of excise tax.  The answer is — neither. 
 
The Federal Income Tax was always a gift and Estate tax collected as a private contractual obligation of Federal Dual Citizens.  
 
And it was collected by hired agents of the Federal Reserve— the Municipal IRS and Territorial Internal Revenue Service.  
 
The U.S. Congress which is ultimately responsible for abdicating its unique responsibility to levy taxes handed that duty over to the Federal Reserve cartel. And they get a healthy kick-backed profit share.  
 
This would have been questionable at best if the Federal Reserve had limited its activities to actual Federal Dual Citizens who would have been paying a payroll kick-back tax as a condition of employment, but deliberately scheming to impose this "private" tax on the earnings of average Americans is a bridge too far.  
 
The Federal Reserve Banks, their collaborators in the British Territorial U.S. Congress, and their minions working as Agents for the IRS/Internal Revenue Service are all guilty of racketeering and collusion and unlawful confiscation of American property assets and American labor resources.  
 
The judges working for the UNITED STATES TAX COURT and the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS  and United States District Courts have aided and abetted and acted as accomplices to this criminal conspiracy against the American people whom they have deliberately impersonated and misrepresented and defrauded via crimes of personage and barratry. 
 
And this is just one particularly egregious example of how foreign interests organized as central banks have acted in gross breach of trust and criminal undisclosed self-interest against their American employers who are all owed "good faith service".  
 
The Federal Reserve crossed the line and is a crime syndicate by definition, while their Agents at the Department of Justice and manning the Field Offices of the IRS and Internal Revenue Service  have been misdirected to bully, threaten, and attack average Americans who never owed these cretins a dime.  
 
There are many other salacious crimes that have been carried out by these banks, their collaborators and henchmen, but their implementation and enforcement of their corporation's Sixteenth (By-Law) Amendment on average American workers and unincorporated businesses is enough — all by itself — to justify the arrest of the Perpetrators, the liquidation of these banks, the liquidation of these  courts,  and the permanent abolition of these "services".  
 
The so-called Sixteenth Amendment was never ratified by our States of the Union, making every improper act of enforcement against average Americans a crime and conspiracy against our Government and the Constitutions and the Constitutional processes we set forth and ordained for these employees.  
 
Mr. Trump had better move to take these actions liquidating the offenders and arresting the Perpetrators sooner rather than later, or his Administration will risk looking like an accomplice to these continued outrageous crimes. 
 
Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger -Fiduciary 
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 
May 8th 2025 
 
See this article and over 5300 others on Anna's website here: www.annavonreitz.com
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Affirm, Costco Launch BNPL Partnership for eCommerce

Affirm is partnering with Costco to offer online shoppers the option to pay over time for transactions.

The financial services company announced the collaboration Thursday (May 8) in a shareholder letter. Customers, if approved, will be to able select monthly Affirm payment plans when shopping on Costco’s website.

“[We] are proud to announce our online partnership with Costco — a brand and a retailer I have personally admired for a long time because of their unwavering commitment to customer experience and transparency,” Affirm CEO Max Levchin wrote. “It will be a privilege to deliver honest financial products to their members.”

Costco has been looking for ways to use BNPL to drive loyalty for some time. In 2023, the warehouse club chain partnered with Citi for Costco Anywhere Visa cardmembers to access the Citi Flex Pay BNPL option to pay for purchases.

Affirm, for its part, has been expanding availability across several sectors. This month, the company launched a partnership with airline-owned network UATP to enable travelers to use BNPL. In April, fashion retailer Revolve Group announced it was integrating Affirm’s pay later functionality.

The adoption of pay-over-time options has become more prevalent among consumers as an alternative to traditional credit cards, particularly amid rising interest rates and elevated inflation. According to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Pay Later Revolution: Redefining the Credit Economy,” the size of the BNPL market in the U.S. now amounts to $175 billion and usage is on the rise. Near the end of 2024, 38% of U.S. consumers were using BNPL, up from 24% the year prior.

While some consumers are adopting the payment method by choice, using it to optimize cash flow and manage payment for larger purchases, others are using it out of necessity. Individuals doing so by choice spend more on average using BNPL ($777) than those using it because they have to ($576), according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “New Data: Defining the New Buy Now, Pay Later Consumer.”

Amid economic uncertainty, many consumers are turning to the option to manage their spending.

“[People] want certainty — especially in an environment where, economically, things are a bit uncertain,” Versatile Credit CEO Ed O’Donnell told PYMNTS in March. “Planning is important and confidence is important — [and with pay later] you can create your own confidence within your own budget.”

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Persistence April 2025 Update
In April 2025, we launched Persistence DEX on Babylon Genesis, introduced new incentives, and took key steps toward becoming the BTCFi liquidity hub.

April was a crucial month for both Persistence DEX and the broader BTCFi community, with the Babylon Genesis Network going live in early April. To strengthen our position as the BTCFi Liquidity Hub, we actively engaged with the Babylon community and secured our spot as one of the first DEXs to launch following Genesis.

The launch of Persistence DEX later in the month reflects a shared vision between both teams – to bring utility and liquidity to Bitcoin and related assets, supporting Babylon’s mission to make BTC usable across DeFi.

Over the next few weeks, we’re focused on rolling out new trading pairs, introducing pool incentives, and onboarding more users into the Persistence DEX on Babylon. The DEX was purpose-built for trading stablecoins, LSTs, and Bitcoin assets, and it plays a key role in our roadmap to unlock meaningful Bitcoin-centric DeFi use cases. More on that below.

Let’s take a look at what happened throughout April.

Persistence One Highlights

  • We also published a blog, Introducing Persistence DEX alongside Babylon Genesis, for the communities, solidifying our case. In the post, we summarised the key features of the DEX and highlighted why it’s a natural fit for the Babylon ecosystem.
  • forum post on Babylon about the deployment of Persistence DEX also sparked healthy discussions within both communities.
  • We encouraged everyone in the broader BTCFi ecosystem to jump in and share their thoughts and feedback on the forum discussion and in our community chats.
  • Throughout the month, we continued working behind the scenes on our BTC Interoperability Solution, and towards deploying pool incentives for trading pairs on Persistence DEX on Babylon Genesis Network. We shared these updates through this infographic.

Keep reading further for other key highlights.

Media & Community

Here are some standout moments from the media and community front during April:

  • Our COO, Jeroen Develter, joined a podcast with All In BTC to talk about what’s next in Bitcoin DeFi, our upcoming intent-based Bitcoin bridging solution, Persistence DEX, and more. Listen here.
  • Jeroen further spoke about why he thinks building for Bitcoin Powered DeFi is the biggest opportunity right now, through multiple short video snippets on X (formerly Twitter).
  • Further, the community also tagged several projects to build liquidity on Persistence DEX on Babylon Genesis, after we encouraged them to drop suggestions.
  • Jeroen also highlighted how BTCFi now represents nearly 6% of all DeFi, having grown nearly 20x in 2024, and how it’s positioned to outpace the broader DeFi space.
  • After the deployment of Persistence DEX on Babylon Genesis, multiple DeFi media outlets covered us as one of the earliest DEXs to launch on the ecosystem.

XPRT Governance & Token Highlights

Here are some of the most important governance updates around XPRT from April 2025:

  • Proposal #134 was passed to disable the validator bond factor in the Persistence Chain’s Liquid Staking Module (LSM). The change aims to restore the simplicity and usability of staking operations that were impacted by the activation of LSM.
  • Proposal #135 was passed, approving stkXPRT rewards for incentivizing Persistence DEX pools throughout May 2025.
  • Proposal #5 was passed on Babylon Genesis, approving the Persistence Labs team address to upload CosmWasm contracts for the deployment of the Persistence DEX on the Babylon chain.

About Persistence One

Persistence One is building the BTCFi Liquidity Hub, enabling fast, near zero-slippage swaps for BTC, BTC-variants, and LSTs on Persistence DEX.

BTCFi’s rapid growth has created multiple BTC-related assets, making fragmentation a big challenge. Persistence One will provide a single liquidity hub, simplifying value transfer across the Bitcoin ecosystem.

 

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