Some countryside vibes
I only take my flight tomorrow morning, but I’ll see some of you wild folks in Oslo this week.
My fourth Oslo Freedom Forum, but the first where there’ll be substantial bitcoin content alongside inspiring and persevering stories of absolute human rights heroes
Here’s one of my articles from 10 years ago:
https://yael.ca/motley-crew-of-fighters-and-heroes-unite-at-oslo/
I only take my flight tomorrow morning, but I’ll see some of you wild folks in Oslo this week.
My fourth Oslo Freedom Forum, but the first where there’ll be substantial bitcoin content alongside inspiring and persevering stories of absolute human rights heroes
Here’s one of my articles from 10 years ago:
https://yael.ca/motley-crew-of-fighters-and-heroes-unite-at-oslo/
I’ll catch all you beautiful people at Europe’s largest Bitcoin conference in the beautiful city of Prague — grab your tix @ btcprague.com nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r
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Ok fam, let’s place a Bitcoiner as Coinbase’s main EU lobbyist and thwart the Digital EUR stablecoin plans
Goodnight anon 
Premier ministre du Québec François Legault à interdire l'accès aux réseaux sociaux pour les moins de 16 ans ?
Ce n'est ni nécessaire ni sérieux. On doit respecter les droits des parents !
C'est simplement un geste cynique visant à freiner l'élan du PQ
Soutenir de mauvaises idées comme stratégie ? 👎
not 2-way. Only once you've had contact with that number. But I find the trade-off okay if I just use another app like mysudo
For those of you who follow Michael Bazzell's Extreme Privacy series of guides, he just released a new one where he recommends the Cloaked app for VOIP and number-forwarding services on phones.
I agree, and it's been a great service specifically for masking phone numbers. It seems Bazzell has used the masked card service as well (I believe it's in beta).
selfishly, here's my promo code. I believe there's a free trail for a few days
https://join.cloaked.app/?utm_source=referral&utm_campaign=mc084xrm40
trial, whatever
For those of you who follow Michael Bazzell's Extreme Privacy series of guides, he just released a new one where he recommends the Cloaked app for VOIP and number-forwarding services on phones.
I agree, and it's been a great service specifically for masking phone numbers. It seems Bazzell has used the masked card service as well (I believe it's in beta).
selfishly, here's my promo code. I believe there's a free trail for a few days
https://join.cloaked.app/?utm_source=referral&utm_campaign=mc084xrm40
I’m left with the my mouth agape! Our beloved senior Senator from the state of Massachusetts! Hero of the people! Progressive stalwart!
parfois, ils publient aussi mes idées en français.
cette fois-ci, c'est à propos du plan « Génération sans tabac » à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard
le plan d'interdire le tabac graduellement en augmentant l'âge légal pour l'acheter ne fera qu'ajouter à la criminalité et mettre plus de gens en danger.
Au lieu de ce plan terrible, le gouvernement devrait s'ouvrir à promouvoir des alternatives comme les sachets de nicotine et le vapotage
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2076723/interdiction-tabac-jeunes-generation-z-ipe
questions yes, but the Senator or Congressman does not write the ANSWERS for the agency they're supposed to be overseeing
The point is for people to have an alternative to smoking. I understand you’re against it for non-smokers, but it’s a pretty good tech for people who’ve been breathing hot fire for years
I haven’t seen too much analysis about it, but the new federal law requiring all LLCs to give FinCEN names and identifying details of their owners (updated Corporate Transparency Act) is a bad day for financial privacy (don’t really care about millionaires and billionaires, since they use strawman manager arrangements).
https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2018/04/what-you-may-not-know-about-the-beneficial-ownership-rule/
Ordinary middle-class Americans have used the privacy-preserving features of LLCs to protect their assets, investments, and property for years. If you wanted a modicum of privacy for your home or investments, whether from stalkers, tabloid press, or spiteful ex-partners, LLCs have always been ideal. These structures have been vital in the privacy community, and for good reason.
Beneficial owners have always had to report income to the IRS, but this new reporting mechanism is an additional step that will open up that information for all to view, as well as introduce new opportunities for your rights to be denied or abridged by other government agencies and companies they regulate.
Proponents (including the control whackos at FATF) say this is necessarily to deter crime and tax evasion. But court orders have always had the ability to unmask this information (especially with existing banking regulations). Not to mention the loathsome Bank Secrecy Act.
The vast majority of Americans are law-abiding and follow tax laws. Further reducing the financial privacy of 350 million people to “chase” the 0.5%-1% is a perilous path.
For many Americans abroad, the cruel reporting standards forced by the US government on banks abroad (#FATCA) already force many millions of US expats to use these LLCs in lieu of bank accounts where they live (namely because LLCs don’t require physical presence in the US). Getting a bank account as an American abroad is absurdly complicated (again because of US reporting standards imposed on foreign banks).
What we’re seeing here is a slow-roll attack on financial privacy for ordinary people. Again, the billionaires can easily route around this.
The ratcheting-up of KYCing every financial transaction or relationship (including bitcoin) is definitely part of a larger trend. And by any measure, it’s about reducing privacy for individuals, not broader concern for global crime.
The Cato Institute just submitted an excellent amicus brief in a related Supreme Court case that would undo the Corporate Transparency Act
https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/national-small-business-united-v-us-department-treasury
I’m shocked, shocked to find that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been the DC machine’s anti-Bitcoin puppet master all along.
Fingers in the pies at SEC, the White House, and who knows where else