Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Select U.S. MetaMask users can now fund their wallets with Ether via PayPal. Elon Musk is taking legal action against a user who shared his flight info on Twitter. Want more from us at Waivly? Join Waivly+, the premium Waivly membership with exclusive content, resources, giveaways, events, and so much more, all blended together into one super low-cost and quick to join subscription 🎉 Head over to our website and hit “Subscribe” to get onboard! MetaMask users can now purchase Ethereum via PayPal
Payments giant PayPal has partnered with ConsenSys to allow MetaMask’s users to purchase and transfer Ether (ETH) via its platform. In a press release, the parent company said the service is available to select U.S.-based MetaMask customers starting Wednesday, and will roll out to all eligible U.S. customers “in the coming weeks.”  Our US users will now be able to fund their wallet with ETH via @PayPal! 🦊 Rolling out in the next weeks in the US, excl. Hawaii, through our mobile app (make sure to update to v5.13.0)🧵👇 consensys.net/blog/press-rel… The integration is designed to enable users to seamlessly purchase and transfer ETH by selecting their PayPal account as a payment option within the app. After logging into MetaMask, users can click the Buy button, select ‘PayPal,’ and enter the USD amount worth of ETH to add to their wallet, at which point they will be redirected to PayPal to log in. They can then choose to complete the transaction if they have enough ETH to send, or buy more via PayPal. MetaMask product manager, Lorenzo Santos, said, “This integration with PayPal will allow our U.S. users to not just buy crypto seamlessly through MetaMask, but also to easily explore the Web3 ecosystem.” PayPal first gave U.S. customers the ability to buy, hold, and sell crypto on its platform in 2020, and in 2021, launched a “Checkout with Crypto” feature that supports Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash. Elon Musk vows ‘legal action’ against trackers
Elon Musk has threatened to take legal action against a Twitter account that tracked his private jet after a "crazy stalker" approached a car carrying his son. The Twitter CEO shared on Wednesday that he would be taking legal action against Jack Sweeney, a college student from Florida, who ran the @elonjet flight-tracking account. "Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood," Musk wrote. "Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family." It came shortly after Sweeney's bot, which has more than 526,000 followers, was suspended by Twitter, despite a pledge by Musk to keep it up because of his commitment to free speech. Sweeney told NBC News that he hasn't received any notification of legal action, and the last time his bot tweeted anything was on Monday, "which is not last night, so I don’t get how that’s connected.” "They have their legal standing, and all I’m doing is taking their data and putting it on Twitter," he said. “There’s nothing I’m doing wrong, and I didn’t mean any harm.” Sweeney added: “It could just be a whole scare tactic, too. I don’t know.” Twitter also introduced a new rule to make sharing “travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location” a violation of its “private information and media policy.” Meanwhile, Musk disclosed he sold another $3.6 billion in Tesla shares on Wednesday, bringing the total amount he's offloaded this year to almost $40 billion. The Waves👏 Senator pat Toomey says crypto committed no crime ⁉️ Kevin O’Leary blames FTX’s collapse on Binance 💰 FTX used QuickBooks to mange billions of dollars 🎁 Magic Eden rolls out rewards program Hustle Special5 Quotes about following your passion
Passion can be the driving force behind achieving success. When you fall in love with the journey, it becomes easy to keep going, even when obstacles come your way. Here are five quotes that may inspire you to follow your passion! "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." - Steve Jobs "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."- Harriet Tubman. "One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you." - Jeff Bezos Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” - Anonymous “Passion and perseverance, it turns out, matter more than talent or intelligence when it comes to being successful.” - Linda Kaplan Thaler U.S. senators unveil new bill to crack down on crypto money laundering
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan) have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to crack down on illegal uses of cryptocurrency. If passed, the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act will bring know-your-customer (KYC) requirements to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners, and prohibit financial intuitions from transacting with digital asset mixers, which are tools to hide the origin of funds. The act would also allow the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to implement a proposed rule requiring financial institutions to report transactions involving “unhosted” or self-custody crypto wallets. “Rogue nations, oligarchs, drug lords, and human traffickers are using digital assets to launder billions in stolen funds, evade sanctions, and finance terrorism,” said Senator Warren. “The crypto industry should follow common-sense rules like banks, brokers, and Western Union, and this legislation would ensure the same standards apply across similar financial transactions. The bipartisan bill will help close crypto money laundering loopholes and strengthen enforcement to better safeguard US national security.” To no surprise, the response from the crypto industry has been negative. In a post on Wednesday, crypto advocacy group Coin Centre decried the bill as “an opportunistic, unconstitutional assault on cryptocurrency self-custody, developers, and node operators.”  Senators Warren and Marshall's proposed bill subjecting software devs & nodes to AML is "a repudiation of liberal values and a move towards the types of surveillance and control prized by authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un" “The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act is a direct attack on technological progress and also a direct attack on our personal privacy and autonomy,” wrote Coin Center Director of Research, Peter Van Valkenburgh. The push from Senators Warren and Marshall to crack down on crypto money laundering comes a day after the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced criminal charges against FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Explore the world like a local with Babbel
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