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Stellar Lumens / Tether USD
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TLDR:
The Stellar Development Foundation launched the Stellar Ambassador Program, a global initiative with four progression tiers: Explorer (onboarding), Contributor (workshops and mentoring), Builder (project deployment), and Ecosystem Leader (regional initiatives). The program connects local chapters to the Stellar Community Fund pipeline, offering up to $150K in XLM for projects moving from concept to mainnet.

TLDR:
The Stellar Development Foundation launched the Stellar Ambassador Program, a global initiative with four progression tiers: Explorer (onboarding), Contributor (workshops and mentoring), Builder (project deployment), and Ecosystem Leader (regional initiatives). The program connects local chapters to the Stellar Community Fund pipeline, offering up to $150K in XLM for projects moving from concept to mainnet.

Coinbase randomly required I revalidate my bank account, but it wanted me to do so using Plaid. Plaid actually required at that time (and still might) access to your banking web portal. They literally created fake bank login screens that looked like your bank, and if you entered your username and password, it would then sign into your bank account to "verify" your account. I realized something was off, so I refused to sign in at requested to my bank account.
They wound up getting sued for this and settled a $58 million dollar class action lawsuit (admitting no wrong, but happy to pay out).
In order to fund Coinbase, I used a convoluted way which involved setting up an account with Fidelity because they do not charge for wires, wiring funds to Kraken because they didn't charge to receive wires, converting the USD to XLM, transferring the XLM to Coinbase with low fees, then selling the XLM at a percentage or two above for a small bump.
The funny thing is I would up really liking Fidelity and have since been investing in stocks rather than crypto. I do miss the 24/7 trading, but I'm lucky to have about broken even with all of my crypto adventures (did well with BTC, lost on alts).
And if you want volatility, the Elon stocks are that. Bought TSLA at sold for 130% profit. SPCX is doing the exact pattern of a new crypto on an exchange, opens and spikes, then drops below to initial price and slowly declines. I fully expect that SPCX will be another TSLA over the next few years, so DCAing it.