I suppose there is one risk to using a cold wallet often: if your use if that wallet is normalized, then it can be harder to spot malicious things when they happen, if you are not diligent.

Take that hack that happened last year on that one exchange (I forget which). It was reported in the press that their cold storage was hacked, but in reality what happened was an extremely targeted attack that redirected cold wallet transactions to addresses controlled by the hacker without the signers’ knowledge. The same thing can happen on a hot wallet, of course, but you have fewer funds in that, don’t you?

So just to be safe, if you use a cold wallet for transactions like this, make sure to limit the number of devices you use it with, and practice good internet hygiene on those devices.

As long as all the keys are sufficiently random, there isn’t realy any additional risk to paying directly from a cold wallet, it just has more steps.

So, they lied, as part of their official duties. In a sane world, that should get them fired.

It’s important to realize that immigration courts are not part of the Judiciary here, they are administrative courts that are part of the Executive Branch. So the judge works for Pam Bondi and Donald Trump, and has no independence whatsoever.

Have you ever been to an El Salvadorian prison, Joey?

If the judge thinks they are ignoring her orders, she absolutely can jail certain officials for civil contempt. Civil contempt has no set term, they simply stay in jail until the order is complied with. And since it is a civil charge, Der Gröpenfuhrer can’t pardon it.

In this case, though, the order is just to provide regular updates on the progress of the case. So an official goes to jail, and then just gets released when those updates come.

Sure does. But see that ® after her name? It means that laws and ethics do not apply to her.

I hope that judge is pissed off enough to start jailing Administration officials for contempt.

I guess we are now officially tired of all the winning…

Yes. And if he is allowed to do this to immigrants who came here legally under policies he doesn’t like, he will extend this to other people he doesn’t like, like people with too much melanin, or people who don’t agree with all his policies.

Heck, he could extend this to people with vaginas, under the theory that they shouldnt need a financial identity separate from their husband’s.

Haha, he is literally canceling people he doesn’t like, who got their social security numbers legally at the time they got them. Quite literally “unaliving” their financial identity in the US.

If this stands, this won’t be the last group he attacks.

The big issue is that Trump promised his supporters that he would root out the millions of “criminal illegals” in the country who “rig the vote” for Democrats. It turns out, though, that the undocumented people who are here are just as law-abiding as everyone else. (And they don’t vote, because they can’t, and they understand that misrepresenting that is a sure ticket to getting kicked out.)

So in order for Kristi Noem to keep her made-for-TV raids on the air, they need to go after hardened criminals like students, veterans, and gay people. As well as non-citizens who are already in the system (and abiding by the law). There is no plan, other than to harass anyone who looks like they don’t belong, and let them know they are not welcome here.

Check Elon’s basement

I think you are making a mistake in assuming that publically resigning is “avoiding doing something”. It is making an affirmative statement that you were told to do something so unethical that you couldn’t continue in that capacity. It is doing something quite consequential. Done correctly, it can be more impactful than letting them fire you.

But there will be some people who assume that if a Federal employee is handcuffed/arrested/forced out, that they must have done something wrong.

Assuming you are in the US, you can sue over anything you want to. But there is a cost to that, and your management company may be banking on that cost being higher than your rent.

Also, if you have all the documents, you should be able to read those and learn what stipulations there are if the lease terminates and you are a month-to-month situation. It could be that you needed to give them more notice. They could have buried it in the fine print. It would suck to pay a lawyer money only to be told “yup, they can do it”, and now you are out more money.

The problem with the “make them walk you out the door” idea is that then they control the narrative. They will never say they fired you because you refused to compromise your ethics. They were firing you because of “insubordination”, “poor performance”, or some other bullshit.

By taking the initiative first and resigning, you get to control the narrative regarding your departure.

They’re gonna get rid of you one way or another if you defy them. Sticking around is not gonna magically fix things.

I bet Trump doesn’t listen to Rafael because he doesn’t go by his birth name…

Ooh. I know this one. Parts of NYC still use a steam heating system that was first designed in the late 1800’s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

This process is so ingrained in the process here in the US that if you look up price estimates of used cars online, they will give you both a “dealer trade-in” value and a “private party” value.