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I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify *not re-using Bitcoin addresses* as "mixing"

There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxes

As well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans)

And a whole lot more bad stuff

IMO Coin Center does vital work to fight this and to protect privacy tech

They are a compact team and do a lot with the resources they have

They sue the OFAC and Treasury

They consider the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional and act accordingly

I just spent some time with their leadership team, asking questions, and came away impressed, I would strongly suggest a donation today

coincenter.org

You turn on the light in a dark room, a giant spider is caught in a compromising position. Frozen. Staring at you. You staring at it. It's a stand off. Who'll go first? Who is making moves? Something is about to go down...

Stream from zap stream -> Re-Stream to Legacy Social Media -> Chill zap.stream -> Download your Stream With the Highest Quality -> Edit Stream -> Upload edit to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 or nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj satellite -> keep edits as backup (optional) -> Publish to the #nostr verse.

That’s my personal way to both use the “free” services and not chill YouTube links or any other.

IMO, I want to people to come in, not to push people out into other “free” places.

One day, it would be nice to see a well-capitalized challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act on 4th amendment grounds.

The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they saw that people need a license to transmit money, or that the government thinks it has the right to surveil and censor everyone’s money and transactions.

The default is privacy. To infringe on someone’s privacy should require probable cause and come with checks and balances. Ubiquitous surveillance shouldn’t be the default, since it enables tyranny.

Never fails.

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A metaphor for you

I like to think of UTXOs as chucks of metal you slowly buy parts from friends and the store, each is unique and different. One day you're like let's make a sword. So you go to a blacksmith and they say no problem, but every time you toss a chunk of metal in costs you. So you decide to make a bunch of short swords light and easy to work with. In my case, I missed that last part and have a double-handed longsword. It's powerful but makes me an easy target for attack. I should have forged/ consolidated into smaller arms to protect myself.

If you have your own keys, do you know how to UTXO consolidate?

I can assist with “best practices”

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m talk convinced me to start and study this platform. Let's Go!

Disney culture is a trip.