There definitely are things you can do, but in my experience when you feel this way it is really hard to do them.
I've been reading and listening to a few things that are helping me. One thing I've been learning about recently are the body's responses to chronic stress, such as the release of cortisol in the body, and the long term damage that can do. And about allostatic load, which helps explain how it gets perpetually worse as time goes by.
The author's experience is real of course, but it doesn't sound like she is an authority to discuss if it can be cured or not.
Rick Hanson has been a life saver. He is a psychologist with lots of meditation practice. https://www.rickhanson.net/
Also I've really enjoyed Heart Math. That book is where I learned about the physiological explanation of stress. And it has exercises that have helped me in moments of aniexty. Like waking up at 3am with worries and stress.
You can say the same of FB, Instagram, etc but coming to the "top top" is not an easy task and give you leverage for launching the next app. But you missed my other observation: it was difficult for Chinese companies to launch western attractive apps, you can take TikTok as an outlier or lucky app or you can be alert of the things that might come next.
You don't seem to know much about gov financial regulation.
1. Gov didn't embrace bitcoin, they regulated it. The exchanges have to do KYC and AML monitoring and report activity.
2. If you think FB doesn't 100% control it, I have a bridge to sell you.
3. This doesn't really mean much at the end of the day. It's a tactical decision with low impact on regulations.
What you're failing to appreciate is how important it is for governments to control their financial operations. They don't make it hard just to make it hard. They make it hard because if they don't criminal activity will flourish.
The thing is, money is an iou from the government. If people start using other ious, the influence and power of the government will fade. Result is that libra will control a country.
Luck. Invested in Alibaba and Yahoo JP (and he funnelled money into the latter pre-2001 from other projects to boost revenue). Got money from banks that didn't close him out when they should have (this would have happened anywhere in the world bar Japan and, possibly, Germany).
Son's record as a VC is horrible. He raised something like 6 VC funds before 2001. None produced anything but busts. And he actually invested more capital on the way down.
His only quality is zealotry. This the absolute worst possible trait for an investor (he isn't an investor, he is a salesman).
It'd still be enabled prior to the original charge being made. The details in the link suggest that some charges would be exempted anyway (eg ones that don't use the new Checkout, ones over a certain threshold). So it's a question of whether or not a given individual charge is insured, not a question of whether your Stripe account as a whole is insured.
