• Binance US no longer supports withdrawals in US dollars.  (Coindesk)
  
  If you want to get your money out, you can convert it to some kind of "stablecoin" (a cryptocurrency pinned 1:1 to the US dollar), transfer that to another service, and then withdraw the money there.
  
  Binance blames this on its banking partners, who in turn blame it on the SEC, which blames it on Binance.
  
  And there's actually some truth in all of that.
  
  
  
• Probably not Real USD though, because despite the name that is suddenly worth 53 cents.  (Web3 Is Going Great)
  
  So weird how that keeps happening.

• In less than two years, a billion computers will be officially orphaned.  (PC Magazine)
  
  70% of the world's PCs still run Windows 10, and most of those can't officially upgrade.  Not that Windows 11 is an upgrade so much as an endless sequence of annoyances.
  
  But while it is relegating a billion perfectly functional computers to landfill, Microsoft is use 20% recycled plastic in its latest mice.  So there's that.
  
  
  
• After being sold by Epic Games and picked up by Songtradr (who?) Bandcamp's entire union bargaining team was laid off.  (404 Media)
  
  So weird how that keeps happening.
  
  
  
• What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable that makes it cost so much.  Rather a lot, as it turns out.  (Twitter)
  
  USB-C cables and Thunderbolt cables look the same on the outside, but inside they are very different, and this Twitter thread runs the cables through a CT scanner to see what's going on.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 20 2023 02:19 AM (BMUHC)

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