The only discussion right now is reserving part of the spectrum for various commercial or military purposes (which would be encrypted)
However, the FCC can’t do this willy-nilly. They must make a proposal and solicit comments.
My organization submitted these comments on behalf of Meshtastic users against licensing the lower end 900mhz to keep it open for all of us
This week’s newsletter is out. Check your email or read it online.
https://newsletter.unlimitedhangout.com/2024-10-25-newsletter/
James Corbett
good man!
Are there any Meshtastic specific relays/follow lists to subscribe to?
It seems a lot of the community are in fbook groups (wut) or discord, but surely there’s a better nostr way
I just published a new read on Nostr!
Self-custody is Nonnegotiable
As policy advocates who seek to influence smart, defensive rules on Bitcoin, our prime directive must be protecting, defending, and demarcating self-custody from custodial solutions.
Check it out: [https://highlighter.com/yael/Self-custody-is-Nonnegotiable-crce0r](https://highlighter.com/yael/Self-custody-is-Nonnegotiable-crce0r)
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https://highlighter.com/yael/Self-custody-is-Nonnegotiable-crce0r
We wrote these model policies in 2021-2022 for state legislators to adopt. I’ve worked with many state legislators on these issues and have gotten great feedback. They champion these bills and do a great job.
I can’t speak to any other org and how they communicate on how bills get passed
Now at *4* state-level Bitcoin-friendly bills signed into law via open-source model policy while 3 more await votes.
Both the “Reject CBDCs Act” and “Smart Cryptocurrency Rules Act” remain open on GitHub for adaptation and forking for state legislators.
Happy to chat to anyone on ways to improve or you can directly make a pull request.
These model policies are “negative rights” bills. The goal is to restrain government’s ability to implement bad policies for Bitcoin.
All charges against Binance employee + former IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan have been dropped after months of pretty awful detainment by Nigeria.
Binance was accused of "money laundering" by authorities and they arrested him because he was an employee
https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-fg-drops-all-charges-against-binance-executive-gambaryan/
no, but I think it'd be strong enough as an anti-CBDC provision so there'd be no funny business by the feds
We now have an excellent Senate bill for consumer privacy and no CBDCs, the "Saving Privacy Act" introduced by Sens. Mike Lee and Rick Scott.
–Repeals the Bank Secrecy Act’s SAR and CTR reporting requirements while maintaining recordkeeping provisions.
–Repeals the Corporate Transparency Act.
–Strengthens Fourth Amendment protections, bolstering warrant requirements in the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978.
–Repeals the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) database.
–Requires congressional approval for any new databases that collect personally identifiable information of U.S. citizens.
–Prohibits the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency.
–Requires congressional authorization for financial regulations deemed major rules.
–Institutes penalties for federal employees who illegally seek constitutionally protected financial information.
–Establishes a private right of action for Americans and financial institutions harmed by illicit government activity.
Very happy to have my supporting comments attached to the bill.
The social graph be damned
It seems Madrid has similarly capitulated to the taxi lobby and the KYC police state panopticon 
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Diarios de motocicleta, but non-communist, non-Che version where it’s a couple of guys who like beer, Bitcoin, and ham radio
The simplest and best hack to take back your time and your life is an alias email service with disposable addresses.
yeah but I wanna bet on events
Staying in the EU band, so I’ll be fine there, but pretty sure my antenna wouldn’t be strong enough
Bringing Meshtastic on my trip to Madrid. You think doing LoRa on the plane is kosher?