The EU's latest mass-surveillance initiative Going Dark is taking aim at the Lightning Network, 'mixers' and self-custody in its latest encryption report, but still lacks fundamental data to back up its claims that more surveillance does equal more security.
The EU's apparent regulatory strategy of "we'll just say things and hope no one notices" now seems to continue to manifest in its evaluation of financial privacy services.
https://www.therage.co/eus-going-dark-takes-aim-at-self-custody-mixers-and-the-lightning-network/
"As long as autocrats hope to use computers to surveil or control the rest of us, cypherpunks will find a way to bring resistance money to the world."
Must read on Samourai Wallet pointing out the DOJ's inconsistencies in argumentation and the dangers of the case for all Bitcoin businesses. 👇
https://blog.ronindojo.io/freesamourai/
A lot of people seem to see voting for trump as „the lesser of two evils“, wondering what else they can do to protect their bitcoin from regulatory overreach.
But the US isnt „the greatest country in the world“ because of its presidents - if anything, it is *in spite* of them.
The US government consists of more than the presidency. It has a fairly well working judiciary in place, which exists to help the people hold the government accountable and ensure that no laws will be passed infringing on your rights (doesnt always work but often does).
From a legal perspective, the US is a great place for bitcoin due to its laws around free speech and enterprise, which enshrines the use and ownership of bitcoin not just as property, but as a tool for communication.
The problem ergo isnt the politicians. The problem is your own complete political apathy when it comes to anything other than elections.
If you want to protect your bitcoin, stop spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours supporting political candidates who will say anything to get your votes only to drop you like a hot potato once elected. Instead, use that time and money to boycott and organize - its what the system was designed for.
There are enough grounds to sue the US government, private citizens, companies and institutions if the right to own, use or interact with bitcoin was to be infringed, and its how the majority of civil liberties were established.
Ending racial segregation in schools didnt happen by presidential decree - it happend through Brown vs. Board of Education. The right to an attorney: Gideon v Wrainwright. Interracial marriage: Loving v Virginia. Burning of the US flag as speech: Texas v Johnson. Right to abortion (though now overturned): Roe v Wade. Same sex marriage: Obergefell v Hodges. Porn on the internet: ACLU v Reno.
You have rights, and you need to stop thinking that you are powerless without some babbling politician to enforce them. Spend the time and money on grassroots organizing, which is much more in the spirit of bitcoin anway. Politicians hate this trick.
lol
cry harder loser
you should try looking up editorial independence, that should help
Did a quick image search before posting so I don't think so, but there's enough more to choose from if that helps with your conscience
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-history.html?pgtype=Article®ion=Footer
Bitcoiners simping for Mnuchin's speechwriter who helped sell the printing of trillions of dollars was definitely not on my 2024 bingo card.
These people have no morals, and you are selling out to them like the good little cattle they expected you to be. We've really come a long way in the wrong direction.
Read the article, shut your mouth
After 20 years of forever wars, growing social decline and exacerbating economic demise, it seems that we are still immune to learning that politicians lie.
Most politicians run from responsibility like a fat kid from a diet plan, and electing an overweight billionaire won’t lessen the White House’s appetite for cake.
Voting for Trump may temporarily muffle the echo haunting that empty space between your ears as you convince yourself to at least have done _something_ to fulfill your imaginary patriotic duties, but it can’t change the moral corruption inherent to US politics – and it sure won’t change anything for Bitcoin.
When your morals can be bought, you are not a patriot – you are a sell out.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/orange-man-good-selling-out-on-the-campaign-trail-
I haven't used Ghost, but I've just discovered that they do expose an RSS feed out of the box🤟 https://www.therage.co/rss/
lol nice, thank you!
We have a weekly newsletter that goes out sunday night with new pieces, but Id def be down for doing RSS if someone tells me how!
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CAN SOMEONE STOP THE INTERNET ARCHIVE DDOS I CANNOT WORK LIKE THIS
In case you missed it, the Corporate Transparency Act has come into effect in the US. It is a slow-roll attack on financial privacy.
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Update: Bitrefill has granted me a refund – thanks to everyone who drew attention to this. Have to say I am pretty disappointed that it took a public outrcry to get my money back, and I don't find this very fair treatment for people that may lack a public platform.
Still going to continue using their services as I've never had issues before, so I hope this will be the first and last time. Also hope that they'll work on improving their customer service and be more diligent in selection and description of products in the future to avoid situations like these for others.
There are two forms of Sybil protection in Joinmarket, because of the taker-maker asymmetry. Both forms use utxo ownership. The takers have to produce what we call a "PoDLE", a commitment to a proof of discrete logarithm equivalence - in English, they publish a hash and have to reveal the utxo behind that hash to makers that agree to join with them, revealing the utxo behind it. The attack this dissuades: constantly spamming request to find out maker utxos. If someone can see all the makers' utxos they can deanon coinjoins, so it's a "snooping" attack. With PoDLE you are quite heavily rate limited in how many coinjoin requests you can make.
See the first two articles on my blog (P(o)ODLE and Racing against Snoopers) for more on that. https://reyify.com/blog/racing-against-snoopers-in-joinmarket-0.2
The makers have to publish a fidelity bond, as others have noted. See docs/ subdirectory in joinmarket-clientserver for some explanation and links to further explanation.
Fidelity bonds directly dissuade Sybilling and are much weightier, in general (the size of the utxo involved tends to be large), but note that in neither case are utxos spent, they are just held (for PoDLE) or timelocked (for FB). And FB UTXOs are actually published, which is a bad thing; I've recently spent a lot of time looking for efficient utxo set proofs, partly motivated by that.
(Although it's a bad thing, those utxos can be completely separate from utxos used in coinjoins, so it's not *that* bad.)
Thank you!