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Independent Journalist. Bylines in too many places. "Anonymous Internet Commentator" –US Department of Justice. Privacy is not a crime. πŸ’œ https://primal.net/therage πŸ’Œ DMs via email only: lola@therage.co

There would be several human rights courts to address in theory

I think that the things he is saying are dangerous (privacy is bad for bitcoin, we don't want "ETH features" or "ETH developers"), and I think the things he is doing are dangerous (stopping entities from giving no-strings-attached funding to devs). The article simply serves to inform you on the people MSTR works for, and gives an overview of how intelligence infiltrates open source projects via the embedded FOSDEM Talk. Wether they're related is up to you to decide.

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Daily reminder that financial institutions surveil our every move to *checks notes* confiscate 1.1% of criminal proceeds

https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/criminal_asset_recovery_in_the_eu_web_version.pdf

I had a fun run-in with the Portugese police a few days ago re Samourai Dev. There's been some updates since from SNDY (I don't know how to link to videos, see Frank Corva/BM). Twatter cross postπŸ‘‡

New info on TDev, or rather more non-info. Portugese Metropolitan Police responded to have no info (this was to be expected).

But here's where it get's interesting. I just called the Policia Judiciaria, and their stonewalling is insane. After identifying myself as a journalist, the officer's tone completely changed. She told me I was not entitled to any information and even refused to give her name. I have never experienced anything like this.

@ Policia Judiciaria: Under Articles 10 and 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights, to which your country is a signatory, you are required to inform the press on cases of public interest. In addition, your officers are required to identify themselves on request.

Your agency is thereby not just obstructing the public's right to receive information without interference by public authorities, as well as Mr. Hill's right to transparent judicial proceedings, but also in violation of your own local laws governing identification requirements of public officers. I suggest you get your house in order.

It seems to me that a lot of people don't seem to understand the significance of Michael Saylor's statements re Bitcoin Core funding, so I've unpacked my Saylor folder tracking his ties to US intelligence and statements shedding light on what the 'Gigachad' appears to understand by protecting the network's stability:

β€žIf Bitcoin diverted all of their energy to make itself private and became known as a network of complete and utter privacy, it probably is counter productive to its own interests, because you don't really want the United States government to say Bitcoin is completely private, because now it becomes the perfect tool for money laundering, now it becomes the enemy, now we're going to shut it down.β€œ

(Signing out of here for today because the billionaire cope gives me some serious second hand embarrassment – if you have something to say, you can zap me.)

Since we seem to be suffering from early onset dementia

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This is the future we are heading towards. P2P services being pushed into exclusionary practices based on prosecutor witch hunts acting on the interests of a global mass surveillance cabal. Unacceptable.

My brother in christ I literally have no idea what I'm doing – it said "copy link to note", do you know what the correct way of doing it would be? Or is this more of a general problem?