My first piece for @L0la L33tz's stellar new site "The Rage," detailing my recent conversations with high-level government officials at a "crypto" summit on various cases vital for Bitcoin privacy. The IRS. Treasury. And the OCC. “Maybe just 1-2% of all crypto on-chain activity is criminal,” said Jarod Koopman, Director of Cybercrime at IRS Criminal division. “Criminal use of cryptocurrencies are really more publicized than they should be, because we know most of the crime happens with traditional banking tools. The use of any crypto is only a small tool that has nothing to do with the underlying crime.”

The Rage

Open Source Arrests: US Officials Sour on Biden’s War on Privacy

Biden is waging war on financial privacy, and not everyone is happy. The last several weeks have weighed heavily on those in Bitcoin who use pri...

Positive-rights bitcoin state bills lack enforceability + are mostly declarative. Neither entrepreneurs nor users can count on them in this regulatory environment. Great momentum, but unfortunately not where we should focus our advocacy efforts. BTC was always safe in OK.

It seems The Post Millennial newsletter list got pwned. use masking emails, folks!

that limbo when you're syncing multiple new bitcoin nodes

I do not want to live in a world when most Bitcoin jobs are AML compliance spooks

I do not want to live in a world when most Bitcoin jobs are AML compliance spooks

Is vaping safer than smoking? Obviously YES. Nicotine is not your enemy. But watch me debate those who think differently: Stanton Glantz, Stanford + Sheila Duffy, ASH Scotland Consumer Choice vs. Neoprohibitionism who wins? debate on TRT World's program "The Newsmakers" on the UK Tobacco and Vapes bill

Really like playing with cashu so far. Just don't want to trust someone else's lightning node (funding source). There's legitimately no information on these mints thus far, and the rug potential is huge. Really want to try my own mint to connect with some in my "community". Can't really connect to my main node since I can't extract tls.cert and it seems LNbits SaaS instance doesn't allow new sign-ups. Tried to install nutshell on my own VM and then a separate linux machine, but only run into errors. Same with the other programming languages. I don't really trust running lightning nodes on raspberry pi anymore, so I'm having to re-sync a chain on a miniPC with EmbassyOS, fund it, and then install LNbits on top of it. What's the simplest, easiest way to spin up a mint? Is there a binary or appimage somewhere?

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So if I understand this correctly, if you use a cashu mint, you’re just using someone else’s lightning node for liquidity and all routes? Sending and receiving out of that mint will — in principle — be the funding source, which will just be the mint manager’s node?

So if I want to create my own @CashuMints.space I need to hook it up to my lightning node?

🚨My Q to US Treasury's main cyber crimes advisor here at the FT Crypto summit in London: QUESTION: Why is the US gov't more focused on arresting open-source developers creating self-custody tools for privacy (Samourai Wallet, TornadoCash) than specific ransomware actors whom you can, and have, tracked, those who actually carry out and benefit from these crimes? ANSWER: "I do share your concerns, I cannot speak for other actors or agencies in the government, but there is a method to the madness. Everything else is above my pay grade, I'm afraid"

When evaluating fedimints or cashu mints, is there a better depository or review page than here? It seems each mint has incredibly sparse information about their particular advantages/disadvantages

Bitcoin Mints

In 2014, I paid for a coffee with bitcoin using my blockchain dot info wallet here in London. I remember having to wait an hour before the transaction confirmed. The entire time, I sweat bullets.

At the FT Crypto and Digital Assets Summit here in London. A lot of bankers talking about “tokenization”. I’m here to talk self-custody, separation of money and state, and the decentralized open network of Bitcoin. Haven’t made many friends yet

Nigeria is keeping an American Binance employee in jail – basically until the company pays a $150 million bribe, doxes all domestic users, and shuts off all trading with the naira (local currency). I dislike KYC/AML processes more than anyone, but this is an outrage. If they're willing to go this far in saving their failing fiat currency, it won't end well. Probably not a surprise that they were one of the first countries to introduce a CBDC. I'll be the first to ask: when are we sending the Navy SEALS?

Behind Nigeria’s Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request (Published 2024)

A compliance officer for the cryptocurrency exchange told senior executives and Nigerian contacts that the company had been asked to pay $150 milli...

Nigeria will go so far to protect its fiat currency that will imprison an innocent American Binance employee

Behind Nigeria’s Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request (Published 2024)

A compliance officer for the cryptocurrency exchange told senior executives and Nigerian contacts that the company had been asked to pay $150 milli...

checking out the Financial Times Crypto and Digital Assets Summit this week in London to advocate consumer-friendly principles to protect self-custody for bitcoin, safeguard financial and digital innovation, and facilitate the separation of money and state. let's see if we make some friends

i imported my mutiny wallet seed into my start9 instance, and it closed all my lightning channels. Just a fair warning. One only device, browser tab, at a time, it seems.

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