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"Starting in 2021, the European Commission will roll out a U.S. style electronic travel authorisation system for visitors from countries that are currently not part of the EU."


To be precise: pressure from the US. Now the US is Switzerland.


Many people are missing this point. US banks, until this point, do not exchange information on their foreign customers. FATCA is more like: Hey Hong Kong, Swiss, London, nice business you have over there, maybe I can get in the action too. All of the action actually.


And as a result of that the US is now the worlds largest offshore banking center for the rest of the world. It's a pretty safe place to hold your money, after all.



Interesting: "Previously it was suggested that PoW block rewards would drop to 0.6 eth, with PoS validators getting 0.22 eth per block. Making it effectively a halvening+. Whether that still remains the case, however, we haven’t seen confirmed."



The question is: If I buy a commercial license for the Grid component, can I use it in my Apache2/GPLv3 open source project? In my view it's no longer possible to use any of the commercial-only components in an open source project.


Yes, but Switzerland is not part of the EU. I guess that's why he compared it to USA with Canada.


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