Dont do podcasts but will make an article about it by next week :)
The Right to Digital Integrity is probably the most important movement to protect yourself from exorbitant state surveillance going on today – And the best part is: you can just copy paste the program and introduce it wherever you live.
The Right to Digital Integrity codifies the right to an offline life, the right to not be evaluated by a machine, and the right to not be surveilled or analyzed – all things that are at risk around the world with the introduction of facial recognition, biometric scanning, Digital Identities, CBDCs, and the use of AI through governments around the world.
(And of course, it was started by a Bitcoiner ;) )
The initiative is in German as it's introduced in Switzerland, but I highly recommend to take a few minutes to translate it and read it through:
In October, we reported that Colombia's Financial Intelligence Unit was under investigation for the purchase of Pegasus Spyware.
Now the US admits that it helped make the deal:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/colombia-pegasus-nso-group-israel-white-house
Since we're all busy celebrating that Ross will be free Day One, did you know that the US Government is using Ross' conviction to go after Tornado Cash?
In the Tornado Cash case, the government directly cites the Silk Road prosecution, arguing that neither Ross, nor Roman Storm, needed to have conspired with the users of their software to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
The Government calls Storm's and Ulbricht's cases "analogous" – and its the same argument applied to convict Roman Sterlingov.
Unless Ross' conviction is overturned, anyone developing software that the Government doesn't like is fair game.
The dangerous precedent his conviction set will continue to be used to be used by the US Government to overstep its boundaries and hold software developers accountable for crimes they did not commit.
Ross Ulbricht should never have been in prison. And neither should others prosecuted under the same flawed argumentation.
Freeing Ross is not enough. Overturn US v. Ulbricht day one.
Unfortunately the answer to that question seems to be overwhelmingly yes.
Roman Sterlingov, the alleged operator of the Bitcoin mixer Bitcoin Fog, has just been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison.
The government is now seizing the little Bitcoin he has left (hint hint that's how your strategic bitcoin reserve gets built), while the Billions of Dollars he allegedly made operating Bitcoin Fog continue to remain unaccounted for.
Here's a primer on the wild story of his prosecution and why it shook the chain analysis space – full story coming when more info on the sentencing is available.
Keep fighting.
Copy/Pasting this conversation here since it seems important to understand how exactly a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve will be financed.
Bailey points out that Lummis' Bill notes that nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the gov to seize, confiscate, or otherwise impair any property right in the >>>lawfully acquired Bitcoin holdings<<< of any person.
To Lummis, as she lays out in both her amendment to the 24 NDAA and the Responsible Financial Innovation Act I cited in my previous post, lawfully acquired Bitcoin holdings are Bitcoin acquired in adherence to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws and IRS compliance.
Lummis' Bill does not need to authorize the confiscation of Bitcoin as the confiscation of Bitcoin is governed just like the confiscation of any other asset, namely forfeiture law. This is how the government has acquired the Bitcoin it already owns.
Lummis' NDAA amendment plus her introduced Responsible Financial Innovation Act will greatly expand the Bitcoin the government is able to seize by increasing KYC/AML/OFAC requirements, codifying IRS compliance, and outlawing privacy, i.e. "combating anonymous crypto asset transactions."
Bailey also points out that Lummis plans to finance the reserve with the Fed's surplus fund. But the Fed's surplus fund only generates a surplus when the Fed buys securities. When the Fed buys securities, it expands the money supply. When the Fed expands the money supply, it increases inflation. When inflation increases, purchasing power sinks, resulting in an involuntary tax.
The secret ingredient to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve continues to be ✨stealing✨.
Glad to see that the incelverse is alive and well on Nostr too.
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Hate to be the one to shit on the Parade, but a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve *will* be built through confiscation and taxation.
Here's Senator Cynthia Lummis already hard at work to make it happen:
Cynthia Lummis teamed up with Elizabeth Warren to propose the regulation of Bitcoin under anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws to "combat anonymous crypto asset transactions".
Cynthia Lummis also re-introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act "inspired by Senator Warren", which introduces higher penalties for "crypto asset crimes", regulates "mixers and tumblers", and increases KYC requirements.
For the amount of time Bitcoiners have claimed to be of peculiar intelligence, you are all getting played *incredibly* hard right now.
If you seriously believe that its possible to use any digital device anonymously in the face of the US Government you have clearly not been paying attention for the past 15 years.
Former presidential advisor Pippa Malmgren on the legalization of Bitcoin:
"If you make crypto and Bitcoin legal [...] you can't hold them anonymously, you have to declare them."
"You're not going to be able to escape the reach of the US Government. [...] And because we're in the data age, you can't have Bitcoin accounts that nobody knows about."
"It's on your phone, its detectable, and again, we've got a government now full of tech bros that know how to read your digital twin incredibly easily."
Legalization always has been a Trojan Horse for censorship.
More miners chiming in on censorship.
If we want Bitcoin to remain a tool for freedom of transaction and humanity, IEEPA and the Bank Secrecy Act need to be abolished – or at the very least drastically reformed.
This is not the time to sit around and wait how things play out.
Same shit different bag
I wrote a whole fucking article on why miners should brace for the application of sanctions law under a Trump administration but the TLDR is you're all fucking retarded
https://www.therage.co/trump-2025-sanctions-are-good-for-bitcoin-2/
Very bullish on the next four years making Bitcoin a fully compliant asset, congrats to everyone involved ✨
It's only a small donation but please keep up the valuable work and exposing these fraudulent cunts!
thank you! 🫡 ❤️🔥
Governments take the security of your financial data very seriously. That's why they use email to send it around the internet. *squints*
