Specific or not (yes many different types of institutions can access these markets), hedge funds are known for taking highly leveraged bets with this overnight cash. There is a huge market for sponsored repo trades.
Hedge funds were most certainly a part of this problem, and were bailed out.
Cool product! Can you elaborate on the regulatory framework you guys operate under? I am surprised to see so little data collection for such high volumes (up to $10,000 / day). Do you guys have a BitLicense? Or any MT licenses for the other 49 states?
We've structured the product and flow of funds such that we are exempt from MTLs and the Bitlicense. The volume limits and data collection we perform are all within the legal framework for AML. We may adjust them over time as we develop our risk model. I believe it is possible to have security without sacrificing privacy. :)
I am surprised to hear that the NYDFS considers a service that facilitates the sale of cash equivalents for cryptocurrency exempt from licensing. Would you mind sharing more?
Teli has treated us well for years, they use some small cell provider in the midwest for SMS/MMS enablement. Signalwire is essentially Bandwidth.com without the sales funnel.
FWIW, I looked through the APIs and while I did see mechanisms for rejecting phone calls and faxes, I did not see a way to block specific numbers from sending you SMS. Not that it matters, free inbound more or less solves the problem. Thanks again.
The novel Wuhan coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been sequenced, and the virus shares substantial similarity with SARS-CoV. Here, using a computational model of the spike protein (S-protein) of SARS-CoV-2 interacting with the human ACE2 receptor, we make use of the world's most powerful supercomputer, SUMMIT, to enact an ensemble docking virtual high-throughput screening campaign and identify small-molecules which bind to either the isolated Viral S-protein at its host receptor region or to the S protein-human ACE2 interface. We hypothesize the identified small-molecules may be repurposed to limit viral recognition of host cells and/or disrupt host-virus interactions. A ranked list of compounds is given that can be tested experimentally
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Here we combine restrained temperature replica-exchangemolecular dynamics (restrained T-REMD) simulations with virtual high-throughput screening in an ensemble docking campaign to identify well-characterized drugs, metabolites, and/or natural products that may disrupt S-protein:ACE2 receptor interface stability or the ability of the S-protein to recognize the ACE2 receptor. From this ensemble docking campaign,we provide a ranking of the predicted binding affinities ofover 8000 drugs, metabolites, and natural products (and their isomers)with regards to the COVID-19 S-protein and the S-protein:ACE2 receptor. Further, we highlight seven of our top ranked compounds, which are currently available and have had either regulatory approval as drugs or have had multiple prior studies which indicating high-potential for therapeuticuse
What sort of censorship are you referring to? If taproot-schnorr is deployed and adopted, cooperative channel operations will look exactly like normal single-sig transactions. As for routing censorship, if one node fails to route for me, I can open a channel with a different node and route around them.
You can be deplatformed from major node hubs, especially considering the design makes the hubs money transmitters from a US legal standpoint. You can get your channel closed out and be forced to pay the transaction fee, which may be higher than the value in your channel.
None of these are things people want to spend money worrying about.
