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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Yup. From the article:

    Payments of the bonds to the descendants of creditors was only finalised in 2015 when the British Government decided to modernise the gilt portfolio by redeeming all remaining undated gilts.

    Since 2018, numerous Freedom of Information Act requests have been sent to the British government and Bank of England for the names of those who were paid with the bonds, of which all were denied.










  • I haven’t heard of WireMin until now. Looking at their FAQs, they have a lot of promises and not much to back them up. There’s a lot of red flags here

    • Closed source. It appears to be totally proprietary, so you can’t look at the source code to ensure that they aren’t lying about their product
    • They will be introducing microtransactions into their chat app; likely using cryptocurrency.
    • It’s full of web3 crypto nonsense. It seems to me the only real plan to fund development is to be bought out by a large investor in the future.