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🇬🇱🇺🇸 TRUMP SLAPS TARIFFS ON 8 EU COUNTRIES OVER GREENLAND - RUSSIA MOCKS "DON'T PROVOKE YOUR DADDY"
Trump just hit UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden with 10% tariffs starting Feb 1. Rising to 25% in June.
Reason: their "dangerous game" of sending military to Greenland.
The message: tariffs stay until Europe agrees to "complete and total purchase of Greenland" by the U.S.
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev immediately trolled Europe on X: "about 1% per soldier sent to Greenland."
Then added Europe shouldn't "provoke their daddy" (referencing NATO chief Mark Rutte calling Trump "daddy" in earlier remarks.)
The dynamics are insane: America threatening tariffs against NATO allies. Russia gleefully pointing out the power imbalance. Europe sending soldiers to defend Danish territory from... American acquisition.
And Russia's sitting back enjoying the show as the Western alliance tears itself apart over ice.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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🚨 EU UNLEASHES ITS STRONGEST WEAPON — TRADE WAR DANGER AHEAD
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron has called on the European Union to activate its most powerful trade weapon against the United States after President Trump threatened tariffs linked to Greenland. This is a major escalation, and Europe is no longer just warning — it is preparing to act.
Macron is pushing the EU to use the “anti-coercion instrument,” a tool designed to fight economic pressure from foreign countries. If used against the U.S., it could restrict American access to the EU market, block U.S. banks from EU government contracts, and even target major U.S. tech companies. This would directly hit some of America’s biggest and most powerful industries.
What makes this even more shocking is that this weapon has never been used before. Activating it would signal a serious breakdown in U.S.–EU relations and could trigger a full-scale trade war. Markets, corporations, and governments are watching closely — one decision could reshape global trade overnight.
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Why Settlement Speed Matters More Than TPS in Crypto Payments
Everyone in crypto loves to talk about TPS—transactions per second. It sounds impressive, but if you’re running a shop, that’s not what you care about. What you really want to know is: when is the money actually yours, locked in for good? That’s what counts—finality. Not how many transactions the network can process, but how quickly you know your payment can’t be reversed.
Let’s find out who’s actually leading the race for real, sub-second settlement.
Finality Rankings: 2026
• Ethereum L2s (Optimistic/ZK): These are fast for “soft confirmations,” but you’re still waiting minutes—or sometimes days—for true settlement on mainnet. That’s a long time to wonder if the funds are truly yours.
• Solana: It boasts 400ms block times and feels quick, but true, irreversible finality usually takes 2–3 seconds. Pretty good, but not instant.
• PlasmaBFT: This one’s unique. Thanks to a special consensus mechanism called “Fast HotStuff,” Plasma achieves deterministic finality in under a second. Blink and you’ll miss it—it’s genuinely that fast.
So, what makes PlasmaBFT stand out?
Most blockchains try to do everything: NFTs, DeFi, whatever’s hot. But packing all of that onto one chain is like putting every car on the planet onto a single road during rush hour. It’s a recipe for congestion.
PlasmaBFT takes a different approach. It’s purpose-built for settlement, focusing specifically on moving stablecoins quickly. The process is simple: the leader proposes a payment, and a supermajority of validators approve it on the spot. No long waits, no bottlenecks. For merchants, it’s the difference between staring at a spinning “pending” icon or seeing an instant green checkmark.
Why does this matter?
As stablecoins become mainstream, the networks that will win aren’t the ones with the flashiest marketing or the highest TPS. The real winners will deliver the “Visa moment”—tap, beep, done.
Disclaimer: Not financial advice.
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon stated on Saturday that he did not receive an offer to become Chair of the Federal Reserve, following a public denial of a related media report by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that President Trump had offered to nominate Dimon for the role, a suggestion the banking executive reportedly treated as a joke. Trump explicitly denied the report in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, a denial later affirmed by JPMorgan.
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“There was no job offer,” Dimon said in a statement.
JPMorgan spokesperson Trish Wexler, in an email to Reuters, acknowledged she should have been "more vigilant" in correcting the Journal's story prior to its publication.
In the same social media post, Trump also announced an intent to sue JPMorgan within two weeks, alleging the bank "debanked" him following the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Wexler stated the bank does not discuss specific clients but affirmed its belief that "no one’s account should be closed because of political or religious beliefs." She added, "We appreciate that this Administration has moved to address political debanking and we support those efforts."
Dimon, a prominent Wall Street figure who has publicly opposed certain Trump administration policies, voiced support for Federal Reserve independence earlier this week. This came days after the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whose term expires in May.
Top JPMorgan executives have also criticized the administration’s proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates, arguing it would cut off credit access for millions of households.
In a Reuters interview on Wednesday, Trump indicated he was leaning toward nominating either White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett or former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Powell.