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Mallard Beakman
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Atlanta. COVID sanity. Bitcoin not crypto. Gay not LGBT. Former biochemist turned patent litigator.

Wondering how to receive zaps without WoS

Don't ever let magical thinking replace adversarial thinking.

IMO, the ONLY instance where it's appropriate to type or store a seed phrase on an Internet-connected device is to test if your machine has been compromised.

Put $50 of BTC in there, and you'll know you've been hacked if it goes missing.

New office, new view.

*shuts blinds*

Please don't crash before Thanksgiving.

As a lawyer I really hate the "lawyer" words. Seriously please stop with the "aforementioned," "wherefore," "heretofore," and "theretofore" 🤮

Simple, plain English benefits everyone.

I'm 6'7". If you try to recline your seat in front of me, you will not be reclining lol.

Hypothetical: If a home intruder kills half my family and flees into a dense crowd before vowing to return, do I have a right to throw a grenade into the dense crowd to neutralize the threat?

If not, and if you find Israel's intervention justified, where does the analogy fail?

It's weird that Intuit Mint is removing the option to pay for no ads.

Is there any other software out there that automatically categorizes transactions so I can see what I'm pissing away my fiat on?

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This pisses me off tbh. At least BlueSky is absent on the list.

Holy shit I can't believe how many people use Pinterest.

How can I stay humble when all the evidence confirms I'm a fucking genius?

FinCEN's disastrous rule has now been published in the Federal Register. federalregister.gov/documents/2023…. Comments are due January 22, 2024.

Comments are an important way to develop a record to show that an agency's rule is "arbitrary and capricious" and therefore invalid under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Thus, to help defeat this grotesque infringement of privacy, it's important that FinCEN receives comments with specific facts or reasons why the proposed rule would harm or unnecessarily burden innocent parties, why the proposed rule would be ineffective, why any of FinCEN's assumptions are erroneous because of flaws in chain analysis, why FinCEN is overstating the illicit use of bitcoin, etc. Ideally a lobbyist would do this for us, but we may need to decentralize this effort.