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tldr; Switzerland's troubled Credit Suisse and its rescuer, USB, are subject to an investigation into whether bankers helped Russian oligarchs evade Western sanctions, according to a media report. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent out subpoenas to employees of the two Swiss giants as well as some major U.S. banks, two people familiar with the inquiries told Bloomberg.
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>and its rescuer, USB
they actually called it USB in the article too lol

TLDR;
Switzerland’s troubled Credit Suisse and its rescuer, USB, are subject to an investigation into whether bankers helped Russian oligarchs evade Western sanctions, according to a media report. Some major U.S. banking institutions are also under scrutiny within the probe initiated by the Justice Department, sources say.

Not trying to convince you of anything, but it may be worth mentioning that you can make an encrypted cold wallet out of a 5$ USB drive.
As for the cost of transfer, ERC20 is certainly a pain in the ass in that regard.

Yes… obviously I’m only comparing the features it has or should have. Are you actually insane enough to suggest CarPlay should drive your car for you over a USB or wireless connection?

Is there any way I could turn my USB key into a crypto physical wallet for free ?

It's hard to properly air gap a pc. You still need to get transactions on there, so a possible attack vector is still the USB device that you use to transfer.
There is the glacier protocol that makes use of this, but really, it is so complicated that it's going to take hours to set up. And even when you know what you do, hours to withdraw anything from it. Not to mention that you have to remember all of the steps correctly.
Don't make it harder than it needs to be. A hardware wallet solves all those issues. Sure, they are bit pricey. But if you have a substantial amount of BTC it's a no brainer to use one or even multiple of them.
You can get pretty good security simply by using singlesig + passphrase or a 2/3 multisig approach.

Funds like SCHD are a great vehicle to creating wealth but they spread the butter....I wish this thread was geared more towards stock picking for dividend stocks for maximum gain...I bought heavily into NYCB, MPW , USB, PRU, and O at last week's lows. Many other great opportunities but I ran out of pwder...lol

With the current climate as a US citizen I've decided I want to move my XRP to a cold wallet. I realize there are encrypted USB options available but I was looking to go with an old school paper wallet as I believe I can keep the paper just as safe.
After watching a couple of videos on paper wallets and how to do one safely, I noticed they're all geared toward Bitcoin. The primary method I've seen is using BitAddress.org off-line, via a live Ubuntu install to a USB drive. From there, with a physically connected printer, you can print out cold wallets in a relatively safe environment.
My question is, for anyone who's done this, will BitAddress.org work for XRP? If not, what method is use able and safe? Thanks!

not a good idea. Do not store keys in digital. USB drives is among the first places to scan if you are malware, even if keys are encrypted in it.

The crisis continued in the United States but has spread to European countries. Large Swiss bank Credit Suisse also fell into trouble and decided to sell itself to USB Group for $3.2 billion a few days ago.

Boot Tails from USB, write them in a file, encrypt it with OpenSSH, create a VeraCrypt container, add the encrypted files in it.

People kept a .dat (text) file with their private key on computers or USB drives. If it was larger sum, the computer was offline at all the time (cold storage). Backups on paper were possible, they just had yo be really careful because the backup was a string of letters and numbers instead of seed words, we use nowadays.

that's the joke. they dont understand it and think if you dropped your USB on the lake/ocean, its gone forever. so they will believe it

Long: MLR
SHORT: AN, GPI, SAH, ABG, LAD, COF, ALLY, WFC, SAN, BAC, TFC, USB, TD, PNC

The Bitcoin City in sunny El Salvador will be the prequel to the real Bitcoin City moon base. This is an excellent exercise in writing and imagination. It's fun to mull about your second favorite dream, the first being settling in Moscow. Inevitably, Russia will make BTC THE legal tender and start demanding BTC only for Oil/Gas/Grain/Neon, etc. But till then, or even alongside, settling on Bitcoin Beach would be akin to heaven too.
I have not yet moved to ES but I have thought about it countless times. The 3 BTC limit earlier (which must be like 5 BTC right now) is something that many people can afford, not just the 1%. Maybe 20% of people in the world can do this if they really want. $100k is not that big of an amount. Even poor people in India have houses that cost this much. I'm solo mining and maybe I will hit 6.15 BTC if the fates are kind, or maybe I will get enough fiat to buy enough to move to ES and live a good life.
I suppose moving will not be ridden with bureaucracy like in the usual 'western' countries. And everything, the basic necessities, like water, electricity, internet, roads, cleanliness, hospitals and schools will be available. One thing that scares people about ES is MS13 and other Hispanic gangs, and El Presidente is taking tough actions against this only negative of ES. So everything seems to be in order.
You just take a toothbrush and memorize your seed phrase, buy a one-way ticket to ES and that's it. You reach, invest 3-5 BTC in a local business that employs at least 3-5 people and buy whatever is affordable in Bitcoin City or Bitcoin Beach or anywhere you like in ES.
With Bitcoin, even If another El Presidente wanted to devalue the currency and steal the people's resources (like the Roman Emperors after Ceaser started doing), it won't be possible. Hopefully, no price fixing beyond the essentials would be done. Nothing could possibly go wrong, other than the big bully next door. But with a defense pact with either Russia and/or China, that problem can be taken care of.
From the pictures I have seen, Bitcoin Beach looks just like Goa, it is even on the same latitude. There are water bodies, lakes rivers, highlands, plains, and a vast coastline, it's perfect. A huge highway can be built on the coastal plains from ES to Oaxaca and this could be the neo-riviera of the world. The possibilities are endless.
Bitcoin City can be the model for future global city-states. As it is, people the world over are congregating in cities so much so that certain cities have more power than the entire states they are in. It must have electric vehicles. It should not be over-capitalistic and combine the best of capitalism and communism in a fine balance. Essential industries, defense, space research, hospital, and schools must be state-owned. Specialized sectors can be private. It must be a utopia. A Bitopia.
It is a blank slate on which things can be built in a planned way. All other big cities in the world suffer from centuries of mismanaged haphazard development. It is a chance for a new life, away from the woke culture and political oppression, it is the new New World. El Presidente has a big task on his hand - how to correctly build the promised land. More power to him.
It must make cannabis legal, the drug problem will automatically get solved. Those who want to destroy their minds and bodies with chemical drugs should be allowed to do so in a secure facility away from the population on some mountain. Give them as much as they want and let them remove themselves from humanity.
It must be a beacon of hope for the intelligent people of the world, but most of all, it must be a beacon of hope for the impoverished people of South America. No longer should they need to go wash dishes in a fast food restaurant in racist USA. They are a proud people of ancient civilizations, where is all their Aztec gold? Who took it? No matter, Bitcoin is the new gold, and if all goes well, ES will be swimming in bitcoins.
And it can change Bitcoin mining forever too if a fund of 100 billion dollars can be created, to give to a manufacturer who will build and distribute 1 billion home miners of bitcoin, which gives a capacity 10 times the total mining power in the world right now and completely changes the bitcoin game. A box powered in almost every urban home of the world. A small electricity bill is added which is the cost of a few bulbs. ES will need to plot out a parcel of land called The Bitcoin Country which will be land sold by Govt. to a billionaire/fund/crowdfund. That country will be built with only bitcoin businesses, no chemical food grown by farmers, no GMO, no pharma, only mushrooms weed ayrurved shamans, etc. and only natural Healthcare, with fruits vegetables poultry fishing also grown there itself a self-sufficient bitcoin Country of a million people, like The Island 2.0.
Basically, 100 billion will be the cost of a factory, workers, technicians, chips raw material, and courier of 1 billion USB devices and hubs. So if a person who can do that, deliver that, other than 100 billion dollars, what else could such a person want? Imagine if Elon Mush does this instead of buying Twitter and basically changing the world economic system within 6 months. How many billionaires are there in the world? There are 56 million millionaires. There will be 1 million plots of land for sale in bitcoin, and whoever scores a bitcoin block, which is a lottery that happens every 10 minutes, gets a free plot of land too. Since this network of solo home miners outpaces the power of everyone else 10 to 1, every 9 out of 10 bitcoins every 10 minutes will be owned by one of these homes. That means even at the current discount prices they are worth over 150k dollars instantly and can afford the high cost of land in a financially sovereign country which will be costly for companies and businesses Whoever does this will actually spend nothing and in fact, the Box factory will make huge profits as people will buy 2 more on top of the 1 free box they get to multiply their monthly income which will be used for paying for internet, shopping, TV Netflix, Amazon, etc. Basically making all monthly payments free for people for like the cost-of-a-good-dinner extra electricity bill every month. If 1 single company tried to pay for this much power for a big facility in one place, it would be a very huge number and the electricity will be too costly. But when distributed across the globe in every urban home, it will actually stabilize the electricity grid and create a new power to digital money network, something like what Nikola Tesla imagined. 
When the world is suffering from an energy crisis, ES has rightly chosen to harness limitless clean natural high-intensity Volcanic Energy. It beats everything else including nuclear if the right harnessing technology is applied. South America is a vast untapped resource, an ancient land that had ancient civilizations predating even the Indian and Chinese civilizations. And the neighborhood has had some good immigrants since WW2, let's not forget, unlike the USA which got the English and the French. It may soon turn out that Mexico will indeed build the wall and Americans will pay for it.
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What happens when they are due now that archegos is dead, handed to credit Suisse, who also died, now USB who is on the verge of dying. What happens now?

USB, and PARA are the only down stocks I see as potentially having deep f***ing value. Also, anything pharma has an appeal. COVID made all these rich pharma fat cats get off their asses and spend money on R&D

FRC & USB. TOPS & SHIP. DRMA & PXMD.

There’s a huge risk of the bank being diluted and bought out by rival banks in a similar way to USB did with CS when the shares plunged to $1.
The possibility is very real, hence why so many people are avoiding it.