Day: November 19, 2025

Wirex and Stellar Launch Dual‑Stablecoin Visa Settlement for 7M+ Users

2025-11-19 By admin

Wirex and Stellar activate onchain Visa settlement using USDC and EURC for over seven million Wirex users. Wirex announced on November 18, 2025 that, in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation, it has gone live with dual‑stablecoin settlement using USDC and EURC on the Stellar blockchain, integrated directly with Visa to settle card transactions onchain […]

Question – x86 and ARM architectures comparison thread.

2025-11-19 By admin

This post is brutally honest. You may not like it. x86 on the consumer side is becoming irrelevant. It’s so soundly beaten by ARM that it’s not funny. Let’s suppose Intel’s chips have the same performance and power efficiency of the M4 series. You guys would be calling for AMD’s funeral. Heck, even a 20% […]

Question – are video card prices headed down yet?

2025-11-19 By admin

Set your future hardware price expectations accordingly, it’s going to suck for a long time. Yeah, I have my doubts that GPU pricing is ever going to go back to the “old normal” any time soon, or even in my lifetime (I’m in my late 40s). Best find the deals that you can. A lot […]

Mastercard Selects Polygon to Power Verified Username Transfers for Self‑custody Wallets

2025-11-19 By admin

Mastercard expands Crypto Credential to self‑custody wallets using Polygon to enable verified, username‑style aliases. Mastercard, Polygon Labs, and Mercuryo announced on November 18, 2025 that Mastercard Crypto Credential will extend to self‑custody wallets, with Polygon chosen as the initial blockchain network and Mercuryo as the first issuer to onboard verified users and create alias‑based credentials. […]

Discussion – Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

2025-11-19 By admin

Intel’s upcoming Z370 chipsets, for its Coffee Lake-based processors which are schedule to start rolling out in August, will not feature integrated Wi-Fi and USB 3.1. Intel originally planned to release the Coffee Lake platform in 2018 with the 300-series chipsets to feature Wi-Fi (802.11ac R2 and Bluetooth 5.0) and USB 3.1 Gen2 , but […]

Question – are video card prices headed down yet?

2025-11-19 By admin

Set your future hardware price expectations accordingly, it’s going to suck for a long time. Yeah, I have my doubts that GPU pricing is ever going to go back to the “old normal” any time soon, or even in my lifetime (I’m in my late 40s). Best find the deals that you can. A lot […]

Revolut Integrates Polygon for USDC, USDT Payments and Remittances

2025-11-19 By admin

Revolut integrates with Polygon Labs to enable near‑instant USDC, USDT and POL remittances for UK and EEA customers. Polygon Labs announced on November 18, 2025 that Revolut — Europe’s largest fintech with over 65 million users across 38 countries — has integrated Polygon to power stablecoin remittances in USDC and USDT, and POL transfers, within […]

Question – x86 and ARM architectures comparison thread.

2025-11-19 By admin

This post is brutally honest. You may not like it. x86 on the consumer side is becoming irrelevant. It’s so soundly beaten by ARM that it’s not funny. Let’s suppose Intel’s chips have the same performance and power efficiency of the M4 series. You guys would be calling for AMD’s funeral. Heck, even a 20% […]