Could somebody else confirm whether quad nine is blocking the rage? I use their DOH service and I kept getting the host server could not be found, but when I switched to a different DOH provider it works again.
Last week, the UN General Assembly adopted the UN Cybercrime Convention – a global treaty to formalize the cooperation of law enforcement agencies between UN member states, that officially voids bank secrecy laws.
Here's what this means for you:
When other countries want to access your financial information for law enforcement investigations, they currently have two primary methods to rely on.
First, there's information sharing via the Egmont Group: a global consortium of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), which allow countries to request financial data for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing investigations from other FIUs. A similar program already exists within the UN, called goAML – a database to share financial information.
Data shared via the Egmont Group is highly confidential and for investigative purposes only, i.e. not allowed to be used in court.
To legally act on the information obtained, countries have mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), which require law enforcement agencies to cooperate with each other for example in the seizure of assets.
Under the UK-US MLAT, if the UK receives a request by the US to freeze or seize a person's assets due to a money laundering investigation, the UK is required to oblige by the US' requests, and vice-versa.
In contrast, for example, the UK currently does not have an MLAT with China. While both are parties to the UN, and some cooperation agreements for UN member states already exist, the UK may currently tell China to fuck off if it requests the seizure of assets held in the UK.
The UN Cybercrime Convention essentially functions as a UN-wide MLAT. The only prerequisite to the Convention is that the crime a country requests assistance in is also a crime in the country it requests assistance from.
With the UN's Cybercrime Convention, China, and any other UN member state, may now request other countries to freeze, seize, and forfeit assets on behalf of the requesting country – MLAT or not.
The Convention is now expected to be ratified by UN member states, and it's an absolute nightmare for the security of your funds, putting you at risk of asset seizures through authoritarian regimes – no matter what country you are in.
https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/
Just a heads up. It seems as though quad nine may be blocking the rage.
I collaborated with Sam Callahan to publish a research report on fiscal dominance:
https://www.lynalden.com/full-steam-ahead-all-aboard-fiscal-dominance/
This was a really in-depth look. Thank you guys for putting it together.
#RetoSwap had 1 trade every 63 minutes on average in December 2024
With all that said, I appreciate Bitcoin and what it has done for the world. If somebody asks me if I would recommend them to use Bitcoin or fiat, I would absolutely tell them that they should use Bitcoin. But I would steer them towards Monero and say, this is what I believe to be a better option. I can't recommend Bitcoin and remain with a clear conscience. To me Bitcoin no longer is the We need to change the world burn it all to the ground and replace it with something better Thing that it used to be. If by some miracle Satoshi is reading this, I just have to say, thank you. What you have done for humanity is absolutely amazing.
I dont have a proper answer to 1 other than range proofs prove that the amount of monero sent is a posative number. If it were able to be negative it would cause inflation through that because a small negative number becomes like 2^62. Luke Parker might be better able to answer that one though.
As for 2, not everyone needs to run a node. Hell, Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver makes good arguements that even Satoshi thought btc nodes would be run in data centers. There absolutely must be a lot of nodes but "lot" is not well defined. Monero currently has ~18000 nodes so seems well decentralized. Node requirements seem well tuned to grow slower than bandwidth, cpu, storage, etc which would keep it in the bounds of usability. A pruned Monero node is ~80gb and perfectly fine for the average person to run for family and friends or even small communities.
Hard forks are not "easy" to roll out, they still take years of debate and work. They are "easier" for sure because technology changes as time moves on. Take SMTP as an example, it has no sort of encryption and cannot be updated at all because it is far to difficult. It is stuck in amber and will eventually have to be abandoned if we ever want true email encryption. Technology must be able to evolve over time as long as that process is slow and well thought out.
As for the exchanges thing, the Monero community celebrates every single time Monero is delisted from a centralized exchange, because that means you have to acquire it in a decentralized manner by earning it from a job, selling an item for it, buying it on a decentralized, non-custodial exchange, etc. Governments pressure exchanges to remove it because it actually works as peer to peer digital cash that they can't spy on and they are incredibly afraid of it. AI makes it trivial to do chain analysis on blockchains such as Bitcoin. It was easy enough before, but now it just becomes even easier. And they cannot do that with Monero.
I think you need to ask yourself why you are interested in Bitcoin. If you are interested in it for the number go up, that's one thing. But if you are interested in it for peer to peer digital cash that does not require the system that oppresses you, that's a whole different story.
Did not expect this episode to go where it did. Incredibly wholesome. Reminds me of OG Bitcoin days.
AlaskaAnon is one of those real people who aren't afraid to speak the truth. He is definitely worth listening to and that was a very good episode.
Because it pushes people to use non-custodial services and since Monero is private, it's not known whether you're using it or not. The Monero community is really extremely rabid about not your keys, not your crypto. And are always saying, keep your money off of exchanges. Do not use centralized exchanges. Do not use centralized services, etc. The people in the Bitcoin community in 2012 and before are the people in the Monero community now. They know the harms caused by custodians and are in crypto for an alternative to the system. And that's what they fight for.
I did read the article, and after doing so, I came to the conclusion that Monero is the answer to this.
You should never convert your crypto into fiat. They control the fiat system. And so to break their control, we must not use their system. I pay for absolutely everything I can in crypto, and only if I absolutely cannot pay for the item in crypto, do I convert back to fiat, and then only in the amount that I need.
The FATF Travel Rule, now applied to bitcoin, requires extensive KYC data sharing, causing serious concerns about privacy, financial freedom, and personal safety.
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Monero is the answer here
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Is it on chain or self custodial lightning? If not, then it's not real. Because not your keys, not your coins.
Weird, my Wi-Fi is actually really stable. And if my ISP offered some sort of backup cellular solution for if the fiber was down, then my Wi-Fi would be even more stable. But even as it is, it's pretty stable already. The cellular solution would only be needed in the 0.001 percent of downtime.
Not at all surprised this guy was murdered by the police.
Monero means money. While lightning can be used in a non-custodial manner, it's extremely difficult and not going to happen at large scale. And not your keys, not your coins.
Not your keys, not your coins. If you store your coins on a centralized exchange or centralized service of any kind, you are just going to be the next victim, because eventually it will be compromised.
Yep, I've been using that functionality on my device for the past year and so far it works really well.
Almost correct. They need Nostr and Monero.