It's sunday and I wanted to say thank you to all the people that are sending me kind messages on here. I don't use nostr for messaging, but I see you and I appreciate you 🩷
TFTC says 98% of the govs digital asset stock pile is bitcoin. Just so we're clear, that's bitcoin stolen from the American people. Much of it likely still bitcoin that belongs to Ross.
They should give it back. Just my 2 cents.
Lmk if you find out what Jimmy Song has ever accomplished besides writing one book and wearing a cowboy hat.
Hearing a lot of people in Bitcoin describe journalists in the space as „doom pillers“ lately.
Its fine that there‘s things you‘d rather stay ignorant of and you prefer to stick to your pink little bubble in which everything in Bitcoin is made of unicorns and rainbows.
But the people writing these stories are doing a very thankless and unlucrative job at great personal risk and expense, because they believe that the stories they are telling can make the world a better place.
Stop trying to tear them down.
Now that Fold App is going public, let's remember that the company partnered with PokemonGo developer Niantic, which was recently revealed to appropriate user data to train a geospatial AI that might be sold to "governments and militaries".
For context, Niantic was developed as an internal Google startup by John Hanke, who previously founded the CIA financed geospatial visualizer Keyhole, which would later turn into Google Earth and Google Maps.
During his tenure at Google, Hanke was responsible for the largest data scandal in Google's history, called WiSpy – in which Google Street View cars stole WiFi credentials while scanning locations, illegally exporting the personal data to Google HQs, includng email addresses and passwords.
Fold has not responded to a request for comment on whether it knew of Niantic's AI training. Fold execs previously stated that Fold's game did not use Niantic's Lightship SDK.
I know a lot of you are friends with Will, but boy does this guy make bad decisions.
I look forward to you telling that to the agents that show up to your house with guns cutie pie
civil asset forfeiture needs to be abolished. Instead, the gigabrains on Xitter want it strategically applied to their bitcoin. incredible.
So the Trump's 'crypto* EO is out, and I'm seeing lots of weak bitches cry that its a shitcoin reserve.
Given the fact that the proposed digital assets stockpile would possibly be built on *seized* coins, let me give you a quick introduction to forfeiture law, and why crying for daddy to please please make its pile of flying horseshit "bitcoin only" *literally* the most retarded thing you could be wishing for, ever.
Forfeiture law – or civil asset forfeiture, to be precise – is this fun little game the government plays in which it does not have to accuse you of a crime to confiscate your property.
Instead of accusing you of a crime, the Government claims that the asset itself has facilitated a crime, and can therefore be seized by the Government.
In civil asset forfeiture, there is no innocent until proven guilty. To get your property back, *you* have to prove that the Government is wrong – which turns out pretty complicated seeing how its impossible to prove a negative.
Civil asset forfeiture results in cases that are not filed against a person, but filed against the property itself. This results in fun little cases like US vs. Binance Account XYZ, or US vs. 123 Wilmington Drive.
To extend this idea to Bitcoin, in a civil forfeiture case, the US Government is in theory able to seize *any bitcoin* that has *ever* come out of a criminal transaction.
Made some bitcoin for selling a service? Bought some bitcoin on a P2P exchange? Unless you checked that the UTXO you received has never touched a criminal transaction in its entire history, your coins can be confiscated, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.
As Cato Institute points out in its piece on civil forfeiture reform, forfeiture law is routinely misused to enrich the Government – Philadelphia, for example, has seized over 1000 homes, over 3000 vehicles, and over $44M in cash over an 11 year period. In 2010, the city tried to seize *an entire fucking house* because a woman's grandson sold less than $200 of weed out of the basement.
If you think that taxes are bad, civil asset forfeiture is straight up evil.
It doesn't matter whether you participated in a crime. It doesn't matter whether you know that someone else participated in a crime. If it involved your property, even if said property was fully legally acquired, the Government will come and take it.
Civil asset forfeiture is the most insane Government funding technique that is out there, and you most definitely do not want this declared as a strategic means to pump the Government's bitcoin bags.
You are *literally* asking the Government to steal your coins with a practice that *every* libertarian advocate wants to see abolished.
GM, the internet says Bhutan is coinjoining
Based if true
I think its a nice idea to onboard people but the way it is setup rn it auto-follows selected accs (unfollow all doesn't work) - would be smoother to have recommendations to follow with the option to follow all
Also kinda sad imo is that the way it works rn it only grows the accs that are already large, would be cool if it worked like pinterest or similar where you can choose who to follow by topic, not by popularity
Can we please remove the auto-follow primal friends thing when creating a new account, I just had to manually unfollow 228 people
Written by David Yaffe-Baloney, can't say I am surprised
Ross Ulbricht was not just robbed of over a decade of his life – he was smeared by the US Government as a human being.
While this corner of the internet celebrates his freedom, others are asking why on earth would we would defend an attempted murderer.
I wrote about the murder-for-hire charges against Ross for nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq3samnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvekhgtnhd9azucnf0ghsz9nhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekkjmr0w5hxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd46hg6tw09mkzmrvv46zucm0d5hszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgunpw35jucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehhyctwvajhq6tvdshxgetk9uq3jamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kz7qpqt8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8sxfw22j – let this be your reminder that:
1️⃣ The agents who investigated Ross, who posed as hitmen and faked Ross' colleague's death, were sentenced to years in prison for corruption, stealing and trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ross
2️⃣ Both agents had administrative access to the site
3️⃣ According to the Department of Homeland Security, former site administrators, and people with personal contact to Ross, DPR was more than one person
4️⃣ DPR logged into his account while Ross was in prison
5️⃣ All murder-for-hire charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they could never be filed again
For all we know, we are all Dread Pirate Roberts 🕊️
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/silk-roads-ross-ulbricht-why-defend-a-murderer
The internet is so back
"Every single transaction that takes place outside the nexus of state control is a victory for those individuals taking part in the transaction."
–DPR
Evidence is mounting that everybody needs a Lyn in their life
No that's about right. The judge can now choose to side with TC's motion to reconsider dismissal based on the sanctions reversal, or side with the gov to continue the case.
The gov's argument still basically boils down to holding the developers of a tool responsible for how the tool is used.
She first seemed to have a good grip of the consequences, see her comparison to WhatsApp: https://www.therage.co/roman-storm-judge-grants-delay-of-tornado-cash-trial/
But then did a fairly surprising 180 in a following oral ruling: https://www.therage.co/tornado-cash-code-not-speech-non-custodial-msbs-knowledge-not-required/