But can it get any worse?
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You dummies are getting played like a fiddle
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"I watched the Crypto4Harris town hall, let's make bitcoin bipartisan!"
lol, lmao
Will there be any net positive benefits to society if the Google breakup is successful, nostr:npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak ?
Hi! Not an expert in monopoly breakups, but cory has some good thoughts on this https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/
I need a nap and 2 million dollars
While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.
The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.
The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.
It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".
While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".
Full story:
https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/
The US just recommended a 30-year prison sentence for alleged Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov.
Sterlingov's case became known as the case to "put cryptocurrency tracing on trial", as much of the evidence presented was collected using Chainalysis' blockchain analysis software Reactor – The prosecution "haven’t pointed to any smoking-gun digital evidence retrieved from Sterlingov’s possessions or devices", as WIRED reported following Sterlingov's arrest.
Chainalysis described Sterlingov's guilty verdict as setting precedent for "Chainalysis blockchain analytics being used by prosecutors as evidence when they take criminals to court", arguing that the verdict "affirms the ways in which our solutions have become the industry standard, made possible by our partners in government who use our tools everyday to fight illicit activity".
The only problem: experts believe that the government's got the wrong guy, and that the jury has convicted a user of Bitcoin Fog as its operator – arguing that Chainalysis' tools are "flawed" and "shouldn't be trusted to convict defendants when they face decades in prison".
2024 is the year of dangerous precedents in which not just your right to privacy is on the line, but the very question of how much science matters in a court of law when it comes to BTC.
All the tea:
hahah no its SP – the scanning works fine, it just stops as soon as i close the app even though background sync is turned on. The UI toggler is also super sensitive for SP scanning so sometimes it turns off by accident, if you can link me to the github repo happy to make a bug report
I'm on a friend's server so that shouldn't be the problem, but my background sync doesn't work on iOS 😞 not sure if thats a known issue, lmk if there's a fix
I wake up ♻️ More blocks to scan
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