Good to hear you Vinny! Some pretty wild things going on with self-custody and the FBI these days huh? Hope you are well!
Intelligent people can be retarded too, really kind of sucks. Would love to have been a fly on the wall of that presentation.
Imagine still using Microsoft products? Or Apple, Google? Or (please feel free to ennumerate the rest of the garbage software corporates here...)
Hmmm, interesting thought. I would imagine the wrong-think police are already on this. I'm conflicted as it sort of does sound like free speech, insidious and disguisting, but free, I think?
I just sort of assume the interwebs is crawling with bad actors all the time, everywhere and even more so when in "freedom" spaces. Sort of like playing "spot the FED" at an anarchy festival. That being the case, anyone policing free speech (or trying to finger wag thoughts/ideas they don't like) or soft-DOX people in open forums should themselves be outted as jackboot-light.
Ahhh, Thailand, I love it there! I have not been to Trat Province, some day :)
Living among retards is soul crushing. I'm still proud of all the relationships I intentionally dissolved so as not to conform to any of the scamdemic stupidity.
Awwww, jealous! I'll bet you have lychee growing as well! The only rambutan we can get here in N america are brown and insanely expensive....like $7 for 6 or 7 fruits 😢
bullshit unless you provide links.
Absofuckinglutely. Decentralization, cryptography and annonymity are the only things that truly matter as the state bears its teeth. People need to grow the fuck up. Stop giving away your sovereignty to intermediaries (politicians, bankers, corporates, etc). Own your human experience, or be a slave. Time to choose.
Chinese type of tyranny is coming to #Canada. Who is surprised? 🤮
BREAKING: A few days ago, Canadian Prime Minister #Trudeau announced the launch of a social rating system in the country, following the example of the Chinese one.
https://video.nostr.build/ff1438f6e5423969f18469c641c45e3af5c34912b79b65009b0e5c20a4f7b709.mp4
Yippie. Now the government is permitting you to earn slave kuddos to put toward the purchase by way of dead pledge (mort-gage) of the home you can't afford. Oops, now the corporations and government can track you easier RE the previously mentioned slave kuddos. Tarded system, scumbag corrupt leaders, all this shit is failing.
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https://video.nostr.build/e9aa14d8abf005907530dd726e8ed63af373243cb0f508c41637a256ad5a8ec4.mp4
Durian!! Heck yeah, my Malaysian wife is drooling (me not so much).
Yep, 4.1%. Sad really. As a person living in the US, it seems very clear that the shitheads in charge of this country enjoy weaponizing everything. That being said, I don't blame any legitimate foreign biz that wants to quit the US and save the hassle. More decentralization, then who gives an F about borders.
Disagree. The whole gun issue is a partisan thing that keeps people engaged in a corrupt, duopolistic political paradigm (reds - yeah, muh 2FA!...blues- guns are killing everyone, save us gubment!). As the American empire continues to fold in on itself, the elitists running this corrupt enterprise will bear their teeth in a more apparent manner and really move to squelch guns. I think the people who no longer play the political game realize that the entirety of the governement structure is a control matrix and not worthy of any level of participation. Pleading with the empire by utilizing its corrupt legal system will not work out well for you as the decline continues IMHO.
It is, but it has been for many years. This is the entire reason decentralization has come to pass. Thank you for Mutiny, I am enjoying it and am very grateful.
Keep calm and HODL #Bitcoin.
Everyone seems to be overreacting to the Samourai arrests, the FBI PSA, and Phoenix leaving the US. Here's my attempt to break it down.
Samourai
You have to unpack all of the different elements. Could this be a state attack on self-custody and privacy? Maybe. Probably not.
There are a few components here that need to be evaluated on their own.
1⃣ Samourai was a self-custodial wallet
2⃣ Samourai was a mixer
3⃣ Samourai was providing normal people with privacy
4⃣ Samourai were knowingly marketing the service to criminals and flaunting that fact
Reading the charges, it seems like #4 is pretty cut and dry for this case. Their getting arrested for #4, doesn't automatically mean #1, #2, #3 are under siege as well. If Samourai was a taco stand laundering money and bragging about it, I'm sure they would be taken down too.
They may be accused of running a money transmitter now, but that may or may not stick. We'll find out in the trial.
All that said, we should always be vigilant to attempts to erode privacy and the ability to self-custody. It just does not seem that this fight is *that* fight.
FBI PSA
Seems pretty normal that the FBI would advise people to use compliant services, and the entire announcement seems to revolve around potential disruptions due to Samourai being taken down, and potentially others in the future. Given they took action, they have to post some bulletin about it.
Remember that when people lose funds or have funds stolen from them, they do go to the FBI for help. From their point of view, the best thing for people to do is use compliant services where they can potentially help.
The announcement concludes saying that services that purposely break the law will be investigated - so again we go back to #4 above. This is nothing new, and self-custody is not being criminalized.
Phoenix Leaving
As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said, it's feels completely unnecessary. Phoenix obviously is not a MSB and they are not doing anything illegal. In my view, their exit from the US app stores is a complete overreaction.
Keep Calm
Could "they" come after wallets, developers, mixers, nodes, LSPs, sidechains, eCash, VPNs, encryption, etc? It's totally possible. But if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about.
To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights (nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu).
It would be very difficult to change the law or stretch it to incriminate these things because it's all just information and software, which is speech. Some will try. But as they are trying, #Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream and integral to the world's financial system.
#Bitcoin is freedom technology and it will continue on.
Go outside this weekend and think about why you're here.
You seem to indicate that the system of laws/justice system in the USA as indicated by your comment, "We'll find out in the trial" is legitimate and uncorruptible (Perhaps Phoenix doesn't share your view, hence, exit) . Either you are trying to be cute or you haven't been keeping up with the state of the US legal process over the past 10 years.