Coincenter does good work. They stopped this unjust power grab in the nick of time over Christmas break, for example. https://www.coincenter.org/join-us-in-responding-to-an-unfair-and-discriminatory-midnight-rulemaking/
They are unfairly criticized by bitcoiners for protecting shitcoiners. The thing about constitutional protections is that they apply equally to you and to the people you hate.
The ACLU's finest moment was when they protected the first amendment rights of Nazi's when no one else would do so. It can be brutally isolating. Today's ACLU doesn't have the spine for this kind of work. Or maybe it is the rest of the world that has changed...
I think you do us all a disservice by attacking Coincenter. Plus their Bitcoin T-shirt swag is đ„.
Coincenter does good work. They stopped this unjust power grab in the nick of time over Christmas break, for example. https://www.coincenter.org/join-us-in-responding-to-an-unfair-and-discriminatory-midnight-rulemaking/
I haven't heard very much about it since then. It seems like a not-so-sexy infrastructure upgrade that most people will never even know is happening under the covers. One of the thousands of optimizations that makes lightning "just work". But super duper cool engineering for the nerds out there who dig this stuff. đ
Socratic Seminar style: just highlights on the web page and an open discussion where questions are encouraged.
I presented on this at TABconf last year. Or at least I prepared to...I can't remember if we covered it at the Socratic session.
https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/announcing-rapid-gossip-sync/
There is a crime called "structuring" where they can ruin your life for sending transactions just under the reporting limit.
Coin Center's case challenging Congressâs expansion of Section 6050I of the tax code was dismissed yesterday.
You should be paying attention, because this will impose mass surveillance on ordinary Americans, no CBDC requiredâŠ
Remember that sneaky addition to Bidenâs Infrastructure Bill in 2021 that most people forgot about?
Now that Coin Centerâs case was dismissed, on Jan 1, 2024 this law will require anyone receiving crypto / #Bitcoin payments > $10,000 to report to the transaction to the government AND report the personally identifiable information of the sender as wellâŠ
No warrant required.
From Coin Center:
âThe reporting mandate would force Americans using cryptocurrency to share intrusive details about themselves, both with each other and with the federal government. Under the terms of the mandate, everyday senders and receivers of cryptocurrency would be forced to reveal their names, Social Security numbers, home addresses, and other sensitive personal identifying information.
Receivers would then have FIFTEEN DAYS to report all of that information about both parties, along with the details of their transactions, to the federal government.
The 2021 amendmentâs reporting mandate would also require the receivers to maintain records of their transactions and the personal identifying information of senders for five years.â
This is a blatantly unconstitutional move by the Biden Administration.
The question is: will any of the pro-Bitcoin candidates speak up about this?
https://www.coincenter.org/app/uploads/2022/06/1-Complaint.pdf
is it $10k per transaction or annually or what?
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You can leave the puritans on facebook. I'll take the pornstars tyvm.
Iâm digging into Rapid Gossip Sync this morning, following my lunch conversation yesterday with nostr:npub1ke470rdgnxg4gjs9cw3tv0dp690wl68f5xak5smflpsksedadd7qtf8jfm. I am super grateful for the opportunity to hang out with brilliant #Bitcoin-ers andâmore importantlyâfine humans like him daily. Thanks, friend. đđŒ
rgs is magic
and that time I got 30 likes on a funny joke
mostly bitcoiners but its getting more diverse
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I would be remiss not to mention Elon and the new fail whale
you also da real mvp, but from the other side of the court lul
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y'all da real mvps đ€đ€
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that's a fed question bro
time to take a long break and do some thinking
i think i need to throw away all the code i have written in the past three weeks and start over
UGGGGHHHHHH
