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Yep. I bought then and still buying today

So one of the benefits I've seen referred to on #Nostr is that if you are banned on Twitter you lose your identity, while on Nostr you retain your identity even if banned on a relay.

With this in mind, what happens if a users private key is compromised? Is there a process for moving from one key to another for example? #AskNostr

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Of course, the proposed FinCEN rules utilizing the Patriot Act have nothing to do with preventing money laundering.

It is about *removing your ability to utilize privacy-preserving tools AT ALL.*

If they actually cared about money laundering every CEO and board at every major bank would be behind bars, starting with JP Morgan, Douche Bank, and HSBC.

You may rightly ask “well what about CASH?? It’s completely private! Why don’t they focus on getting rid of cash if they care so much?!”

And you’d be right… cash is next.

But many, many more people use cash than use #Bitcoin.

So cash is much harder to get rid of than this new-fangled crypto-hoosy-whatty that 99% of people don’t use, let alone understand.

This is their foot-in-the-door.

Make no mistake; they will (try to) remove all cash from circulation and implement a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

But first, they must get rid of any alternatives that would allow you to circumvent their totalitarian CBDC surveillance regime.

Pay attention. Speak up. Keep using privacy preserving tools — it is your fucking right to do so.

Do not comply.

Subvert the State. nostr:note1ld0mzh39p8kkh64gjwfwa66qh9r5w6sqhe3yl836r7pnw69tpkdshe73fk

Getting our first dump today.

I think that's probably pretty accurate.

It seems we will get a bifurcation of Bitcoin into "KYC cuck buck bitcoin" and "NoKYC gray market bitcoin"

Like many other countries with fucked money systems, I think the gray market price can actually be a lot higher than the "official" price.

For those of you that are curious what Topaz client looks like (or at this point, if it even exists), I’ll share a photo of my old alpha build which continues to run and post to this day. Haven’t touched this branch in ages. Internal team has been running various alphas since March that evolved to something like this by late May. It is very high performance, multi-user, and LMDB based.

UI was extremely minimal in these early alphas because the major investments were in LMDB and overall UX. Designed 100% by GPT4 with zero effort to refine really. Bringing years of LMDB implementation experience to this project (including my own libraries), it didn’t take me long to realize that bringing an embedded database to a nostr client only gets you so far in terms of UX polish and consistency.

We need to be reaching so much further into every corner of the stack to deliver remarkable UX. And soon, when we launch the first beta builds in TestFlight, you all will get to see for yourselves.

I am excited to share more soon.

The US Treasury has proposed a rule so broad that it would effectively make sending a #Bitcoin transaction illegal.

After a 90 day comment period, this rule will likely become active. The kicker is they don't even need Congress to pass a new law. They are using a specific section of the Patriot Act to take more of your freedoms.

What is one to do?

Do you sell all your Bitcoin and accept fiat slavery?

Do you try to obfuscate your KYC stack to give you more plausible deniability?

I'm not sure what the right answer is exactly, but I do know you should be thinking deeply about this now. You don't want to look back 90 days from now and wish you took some kind of action that would put you in a better place after this rule is in effect.

So I encourage you all to take time to figure out this problem. Figure out what you're going to do.

Because they're done laughing at us. Now, they're fighting us. And you know what happens next.