Imagine if the Trump family had used their massive platform to educate people about Bitcoin instead of launching shitcoins with huge insider allocations…

I guess the desire to pump their own bags was too irresistible…

Why microdose when we can do macrodose?

#hola a todosss

quien viene a La Panchitos Party hoy?

Wasabi Donations Campaign

Thank you to all our donors for your incredible love and support!

With #Wasabi v2.4.0, we introduced Silent Payments and the new "Donate" button to kick off a donations campaign. But even before we could ask, the community stepped up to help—thank you!

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BTCpayserver can do this. There are special plugins for this situation. Similarly, the combination of BTCpayserver + Strike is also possible.

@btcpayserver

What is the best solution for an international business that wants to accept Bitcoin for payments, and will need to convert some of the received bitcoin into fiat automatically to cover expenses? Strike? zaprite? BtcpayServer? something else? #AskNostr

#TravelRule #MiCA #DORA #Bitcoin

So it's not what I described. In my example, even Monero could be accepted, because the stores would deliver the name and total of the payment to the government.

Essa nova norma da Receita me fez pensar que, se em algum momento as pessoas decidirem usar um sistema de pagamento em que o governo não tenha acesso às informações de pagamento, como o Bitcoin, o governo simplesmente emitiria uma nova lei exigindo que o comércio formal, ao receber um pagamento de uma compra, fizesse a identificação do cliente, e enviasse os dados do total gasto e o nome do comprador automaticamente para o Governo. O comércio faria o papel que os Bancos e emissoras de cartão estão fazendo atualmente.

Isso significa que, mesmo que uma pessoa usa-se moedas como Monero, não faria diferença nenhuma, concordam?

Hei salut!

Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

About the #travelrule in Europe.

A rant to end the year.

Close to no one actually seems to care.

Three years ago, my podcast started because the first proposals for this law were being worked on in the EU Commission.

Since then, only a handful of people have reacted.

The rest just shrugged it off with some nonsense like, "I'll be outside the EU by then," or even worse: "Who cares? Some tech mumbo jumbo will solve it if you run 15 tools and use 15 compiled solutions that only 100 nerds really understand."

This is about our entire Bitcoin space being overrun by middlemen selling lies, bullshit, shitcoin casinos, credit cards backed by venture capitalist garbage, or even worse: untested solutions or toy-grade hardware wallets with buggy software or attached middleman services.

And now our main man, Jack Mallers, whose company rolls over to deliver the EU the Strike honeypot data by implementing the travel rule?

I remember

@Trezor

taking a huge shitstorm online a few years ago for unilaterally implementing the #travelrule, but now... hardly anyone reacts.

Yes, I get it—you can’t expect a bigger company to just ignore the law and continue without repercussions. But the Strike app is no longer an onboarding tool (we saw this coming, of course). Still, try onboarding someone to Bitcoin in Europe after January 1, 2025, and it’s either going to be:

KYC + criminalization + high taxes and a mountain of paperwork,

or

Just tell them, "Don’t bother with Bitcoin. It’s over. We live in the European Union—you should move elsewhere if you want freedom."

The fact that Europeans aren’t even organizing a single protest, a single act of defiance, or any resistance is telling of the sort of total patsies we’ve become. I see no end to this.

We now live in a totalitarian state as of January 1, 2025.

We should either resist or run.

But resistance at this point requires many brave people to stand up, instead of wasting time on Netflix or TikTok.

Unfortunately, for many of us, running is not an option or a desired outcome.

The travel rule is here, and for me personally, it feels like defeat—while the ones I should be fighting alongside in the trenches are rolling over like trained poodles.

GOOD AFTERNOON

I GOT SOME TROUBLE WITH EU REGULATIONS AND MY BUSINESS

WHEN FREE MARKET ?

GOOD AFTERNOON

I GOT SOME TROUBLE WITH EU REGULATIONS AND MY BUSINESS

WHEN FREE MARKET ?

GOOD AFTERNOON

I GOT SOME TROUBLE WITH EU REGULATIONS AND MY BUSINESS

WHEN FREE MARKET ?