A Canadian miner is selling NFTs to get funding for a mining project in Namibia, by tokenizing uranium.
“The agreement will allow the company to access ‘significant funding at a premium’ to analysts’ valuations of the company and has the potential to ‘revolutionise the funding of junior miners,’ Parnham says. Production of uranium at the company’s projects remains several years in the future.” Read more
The digital assets use ‘”Lux Network, the 1st decentralized blockchain integrated with and operated by a network of regulated bank and money transmitter partners.” “Lux Network is a proof-of-stake, decentralized blockchain packed with innovation, designed to power the next-generation of DeFi.”
Lux Partners Ltd is of course an Isle of Man corporation, where there are no capital gains and no corporate taxes.
“Excited to fly to Ghana soon for the AfroBitcoinOrg [First Pan African gathering of Bitcoiners. December 5th-7th, 2022] organized by Farida_N [Farida Bemba Nabourema – AfroCryptoShill in Gladstein’s network] and the team to meet like-minded people to discuss the role of Bitcoin, Tether & Keet.io in unleashing Financial Freedom and Freedom Of Speech.”
What is keet.io?
“Keet.io is a Peer-to-Peer Chat App, built with the Holepunch platform that allows anyone to create apps that don’t use any servers.” – “With Bitcoin Lightning and USDT micropayments built-in, it’s easy to implement and use powerful paid features in apps.”
What is Holepunch?
Why did a crypto exchange and “stablecoin” generator develop a communication app?
“Some of the leading players in the cryptocurrency space have jointly developed a new encrypted protocol dubbed Holepunch, which they claim is designed to ‘unlock global communications, empower freedom of speech, and combat censorship around the world.’”
“To put it in another way, Holepunch, jointly developed by Tether, Bitfinex, and Hypercore, is a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform that’s designed to help developers build the next generation of data-intensive Web3 apps.”
Both sites don’t give any information on who’s behind etc.
“The Site is operated by Holepunch Inc., a limited company registered in the British Virgin Islands […]”
“The 3 companies have invested a total of $10M into Holepunch’s development, and are expecting to take on additional companies as interest starts building up.”
The site still says “Mobile (coming soon)”…
Is Paolo lying here? Could be Google or Apple might ask for a share of in-app payments…
“Although I’ll admit I’m hoping it’s more an issue of ongoing US DoJ investigations into Tether, and the Govt not being too thrilled with the idea of them expanding their reach.”
Small Patatas on Mastodon
Seems, that as usual, the cryptocolonialists are targeting Africa (see FTX…), at least for the launch… even if not having an app on the continent yet will be a serious limit, but they’re probably at the conference to “evangelize” developers, as they all do…
May 2022: MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy.”
MARA was supposed to be Central African Republic’s official crypto partner… A relationship with the Central African Republic was confirmed by the exchange team. MARA will function as the country’s official crypto partner, advising the government on best practices, strategy, and planning as it considers greater adoption of cryptocurrencies. No news, since the botched Sango Coin launch.
Around 11/16, promotions for the launch of their own token started, based on a brand new layer-1 blockchain. Since then, any mention was quietly deleted…
New FTX chief slams ‘complete failure of corporate controls’ at crypto exchange. John Ray criticises ‘absence of trustworthy financial information’ at sprawling digital assets group
