Very excited that Kyle Fletcher, Head of Brand Creative at Cash App, will be joining us for Bitcoin Design Week
On 9/18 Kyle will give a keynote on "Cash App Brand Design & lessons it may hold for branding bitcoin"
We can't wait!
Apply to attend the Thursday 9/18 Deep Dive Session here:
See the full agenda for Bitcoin Design Week here:
https://event.bitcoin.design/#agenda
Will it be recorded?
Most people only want to hear that Bitcoin is going to be worth millions because all they actually care is getting richer. It's understandable. Not what I like to see, but understandable.
Thanks!
So a lot of people seem to have the hope that Trump will pardon the Samourai Wallet developers.
While waiting for the Storm verdict, I took some time to read through the White House Digital Asset Report to see what this administration thinks of financial privacy, and my guys - if you still believe that the Trump WH is in *any* capacity friendly to these undertakings, you are in for a very rude awakening.
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Effectively, the White House urges FinCEN to deem *all* privacy measures in digital assets a “primary money laundering concern” under the PATRIOT Act.
This includes:
-> single use addresses, wallets and accounts
-> swapping between networks & chains
-> mixers, obviously
-> “pooling” or “aggregating” cryptocurrencies from multiple wallets
Many will now say: oh, but there’s so much good language in the report as well, like the protection of self-custody.
That’s true, but the protection of self-custody is contingent on the *lawful exchange* of assets between users.
That’s why the White House additionally urges Congress to *expand the PATRIOT Act* and *amend the BSA to cover “DeFi” services*.
To ensure compliance in “DeFi,” the White House suggests the implementation of digital identities, that would tie all of your transaction history to your name, so that “DeFi” services have the power to approve transactions.
Even when implemented with ZKProofs, as the White House suggests, this would effectively turn a permissionless system into a permissioned one.
I know we live in the age of celebrating all the Bitcoin wins, but sometimes things that glitter are just a massive pile of shit, my dudes.
This guy is a greedy evil man. All he cares about is HIS bitcoins going up at all cost. To achieve that he'll say what ever amount of bullshit it's necessary.
Sono molto contento di aver trovato un podcast su Bitcoin piu bello, e anche in Italiano!
In Argentina, we have a tax called RG 4815: a 35% surcharge on any foreign purchase — like buying in USD, paying for services abroad, or using your card while traveling.
It’s not a final tax. It’s a “just in case” advance for income or wealth taxes.
If you don’t actually owe those taxes, you can ask for a refund the following year and wait months for it to (maybe) arrive.
Basically: they take it now, you figure it out later.
#Argentina #FinancialAbsurdities
we are living through a depression. the silent depression.
bitcoin makes the invisible visible
https://blossom.primal.net/1339042769d6f7560fe35f82d3b90a7783da592ae6d14304ca2a319fec46abee.mp4
Very interesting point of view. I'm going to do some research and see what I find for other time periods.
Day 425 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html
Support non-custodial. Support peer-to-peer. Support freedom. Every donation makes the difference #freesamourai
The streets of Rome sound like Saturday in Argentina.
My friends
Sunrise in Mar del Plata
every day more and more I feel like we're going towardsa digital gold and not cash usecase
"The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of 'authority' is to accept that the choice is the master's alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave."
- Larken Rose
#us #dollar is losing shares as central banks' reserve currency while #gold is getting back to levels last seen in the late 1970s.
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