Posts by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
(DIR) Post #AlNsJi6t8eKN1DYif2 by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2024-08-26T20:27:16.000Z
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The French government's press release on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is completely unhinged. It not only references complicity in CSAM, money laundering, organized crime and drug trafficking, but also seems to state that Telegram did not acquire a license to provide "cryptology services". This is interesting because France apparently *does* have regulations which require licenses for the distribution of cryptology unless used for authentication purposes, as governed by the Code de la Defense. [Not a lawyer, just researching my way through this hot mess.]https://m.primal.net/KOUE.png https://m.primal.net/KOSz.png https://m.primal.net/KOTJ.png Full press release: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdfFull regulation on cryptology: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000801164
(DIR) Post #Ap9kj8ID7aM9hloQ9g by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2024-12-17T20:16:38.000Z
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David Bailey just posted the draft for an executive order for the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve under Trump – and it's an absolute nightmare for anyone using bitcoin as money.First, the draft order defines Bitcoin as "a finite store-of-value asset, akin to digital gold."As someone who has lived on Bitcoin for a fairly long time, I can say that Bitcoin is not merely a "store-of-value asset", but a money for payment and day to day purchases.Defining Bitcoin as a "store-of-value asset" reinforces the ossification narrative (who needs to move a stonk several times in a day?) which may put developers at risk when prioritizing changes to btc to make it more usable as money (think scaling for example). With this definition, a softfork to activate covenants may become an issue of US national security that goes against the US' definition of its primary goals - directly putting developers in the firing line of the United States Government.The draft states that federal agencies, such as the US Marshall's Service, may not auction seized Bitcoin off, but must contribute them to the strategic reserve.This not only reduces the Bitcoin in circulation available to the public, but additionally sets the incentive for the US to increase its seizing efforts – think increased AML/KYC.While I'm no fan of the strategic reserve in general, this draft is an even bigger disappointment than Sen. Lummis' proposed Bitcoin Act.To compare this to how El Salvador has implemented Bitcoin, which I admit I initially wasn't a fan of either, ES directly gives citizens rights to use Bitcoin as money - which is a huge upside to benefit the people, and not just the national security state.No offense, but letting a couple of children that just graduated college and a guy who runs a magazine draft US policy is a scene straight out of idiocracy. Next time, maybe try speaking to the people actually building and using bitcoin, not just to the boomers and national security goons that sit on the money like a fat kid at the cake buffet.Incredibly unprofessional conduct here by BPI, a huge risk to anyone using Bitcoin for anything other than an investment, and a testament to the people involved being more interested in furthering their own importance than to empower people with a money without state.Sincerely hope that this EO is drastically challenged on all levels and hopefully somehow deemed unconstitutional to protect btc and the people developing it.
(DIR) Post #AqWFuku470Xw6JZrmq by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2025-01-27T18:28:55.000Z
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Another day, another exchange I am suspended from. All of my funds are conjoined or swapped between LN/XMR for privacy before sending to exchanges, triggering all sorts of nonsense AML flags.The exchange I am with now is requesting proof of funds, meaning it wants to see fiat coming into my bank account from an entity I have a business relationship with, asking me to "kindly assist them" in surveilling me.Except that all of my business relationships are handled in bitcoin – meaning that it is impossible for me to show proof of fiat funds. Alternatively, the exchange says, I could send them “the address” to which I received payment in the last year, matching the amount of money I have exchanged on their platform.Obviously no such address exists as I create a new address for each transaction (and so should you). Additionally, much of my money comes in through donations, for which I simply do not have an invoice.I could now send them every single zap I ever received on nostr in the past year – for context, that would be over 250 zaps in the past week alone, s/o to all the zappers – or I could move my business to Switzerland, where I can exchange up to 1000 CHF per day KYC-free (for now), which is what I’m going to do.However, since I’ll be more heavily relying on peer-to-peer exchanges from now on, I’ll likely have my bank account flagged for receiving weekly payments from randos on the internet, making it fairly foreseeable that I’ll be losing my bank account in the coming months as well.Fundamental rights violations aside, the amount of complete nonsense work – and with that costs – this system creates both for the Government and private institutions is absolutely astonishing. If there ever was a true bullshit job, compliance officer would no doubt be it.It’s time we end the global discrimination complex inherent to the financial system in which we are all guilty until proven innocent, only to upkeep an inefficient system that is useless in preventing crime but formidable for imposing mass surveillance on the people.So no, I will not "kindly assist you" in surveilling me, and if I die on this hill.Until then, shill me your favorite tools to pay my bills in bitcoin 👇 https://m.primal.net/ODEx.jpg
(DIR) Post #AsLWy9zQtF2yxf1wWm by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2025-03-23T12:12:34.000Z
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Remember when I told you that under the Trump administration financial surveillance would go up, and you all called me a FUDster? The IRS now plans on sharing confidential tax information with ICE and DHS to carry out deportations. This practice is *not* unprecedented:The systemic use of tax information and financial records is one of the practices majorly credited with enabling H*tler’s mass deportations of Jews beginning in 1938, enabling the 'industrialization' of the Holocaust. If you think this is fine because you are legally in the US, remember that Trump is currently attempting to deport and revoke a student’s green card for organizing protests at Columbia University.Last week, the administration deported at least two Venezuelan asylum seekers legally in the US to El Salvador’s terrorist detention center, known for torture and inmate deaths. Neither had a criminal record – the basis for their deportation were allegedly misidentified tattoos.If you think this is fine because you are a US citizen, remember that last week, the Treasury announced that it would lower the currency reporting threshold in 30 counties along the Mexican border from $10,000 down to $200 in attempts to fight gang activity – affecting anyone living in the area.Over the past weeks, we have additionally seen a drastic increase in using deportations to prosecute political speech. Four days ago, a French space researcher was denied entry to the US for messages critical of Trump, which the administration allegedly described as ‘terrorism’.This is the *second* major increase in financial surveillance in the US in the last two weeks.If history has taught us anything, it should be that fascism does not stop at the people you don’t like.Please zap/share this post as wide and far as you can – It was shadow banned on the free speech LARP for using banned words. https://www.therage.co/irs-shares-tax-data-with-ice-dhs-deportations/
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2025-04-23T08:41:28.000Z
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I know a lot of MAGA people are annoyed by the constant comparisons of Trump to the Nazis, but it would be a lot easier to not do that if his administration didn't constantly introduce new measures that are the *exact same thing* the Nazis did.For reference, as it seems that many are not aware of this, building gigantic databases of medical records starting in 1933 – with the help of IBM – is exactly what made the Nazi's Holocaust so efficient. Under the law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, private medical records were made available to the Government so the administration could more easily track people to be sterilized, deported, and sent to death- and working camps. If people spent as much time reading about the Holocaust as they did bitching about people being big meanies to king trumpy, they would know this, by the way. https://m.primal.net/QaMz.pngnevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpk9xancv89h24rme53yhl6dh0hyhwce528eu5hrrfcsgvkg3vermqyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qqsyfld7nfakl4j3syktngcvd2p3guxj2v2k8mazuj9hl07ejdj6jycq57vdp
(DIR) Post #B1uZqzJYAPVGEBG93o by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2026-01-03T12:02:46.000Z
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The journalist Martha Root infiltrated a white supremacy dating site with an LLM, extracted all data, and deleted all accounts and databases live on stage at CCC.More of this please 🩷 https://blossom.primal.net/b7edb120f972d1398b39fe7cfe2a1dba53aa5dfd2ed26bcb646a2a6289553464.mp4
(DIR) Post #B1ubUUxsWbx7dbWi6i by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2026-01-03T15:26:31.000Z
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full circle my guy
(DIR) Post #B2SZJaeRqgyeLPc3sW by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2026-01-19T17:07:42.000Z
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How do you decide who is an activist and who isnt? Can you add a translate button?
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2026-01-19T18:15:59.000Z
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So its a US regime change app that supports people advocating for war crimes and reinstalling dictatorships.Too bad, wish you all the best with it though
(DIR) Post #B2SZJdQNXSVOwe3Mrg by d8a6ecf0c396eaa8f79a4497fe9b77dc977633451f3ca5c634e208659116647b@mostr.pub
2026-01-19T19:20:37.000Z
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Yeah, people seem to be missing a lot of context especially on world liberty congressHere’s a TLDR:Leopoldo was the mentor of Juan Guaido, the US-backed interim president of Venezuela that looted the country for Billions of $WLC (& HRF) strongly support Maria Machado, the Venezuelan opposition candidate who advocates for the US bombing her own people & condones its war crimes executing civilians at sea (& recently gifted her nobel peace prize to trump, lol)WLC vice-president (&former HRF chairman) is Gary Kasparov, a raging Islamophobe who still says bombing Iraq back into the stoneage killing hundreds of thousands of civilians was the right thing to doWLC president is Masih Alinejad, a US financed “activist” who works for Voice of America, which was established as a propaganda outlet by the USG during WW2 with close ties to the CIA - she’s received close to 1M USD in USG funding for her work and is a big advocate for US intervention in Iran, especially to reinstall the pahlavi monarchyReza Pahlavi works directly with WLC, who proclaims himself to be the next leader of Iran - he is the son of the US-installed Iranian Shah after the CIA toppled its democratically elected leader who became infamous for various human rights violations, incl. torturing, disappearing & murdering journalists, opposition and dissidents, oppressing freedom of the press & freedom of religion, forbidding all political opposition The problem I see (and I dont hold anyone responsible for working with them for) is that these organizations are the only ones financing “freedom tech” - no other org in this space finances journalism/activism/education, so they’ve become the singular source on any geopolitical definition of “freedom” that is dangerously skewed to support US interestsJust find it very sad to see good people building good products who are psyopped into thinking that they are supporting human rights when in reality it is very much the opposite