I was quoted in this article on Ripple’s political lobbying in DC. The editors cut out my part about XRP’s illogical and immoral funding campaign for Greenpeace’s attacks on Bitcoin mining, but I at least got to mention that they’re trying to sway regulators to protect their bags and pump their token without any promise of innovation.

DC Journal - InsideSources

Ripple CEO Emerging as DC Player – DC Journal - InsideSources

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse knows what it’s like to win. He’s enjoyed a series of high-profile courtroom victories over the Securities and Exc...

Tariffs are taxes on consumers. If Americans are ready for a 65% national consumption tax or VAT, you gotta be honest with them. Someone’s gotta fund the empire

I’ve seen plenty of ecash in use here at @BTC Prague — some fedimints and cashu. What we as users need and want are simple products to run our own mints as easily as a start9/umbrel app or btcpay server plugin. Hell, even a digital ocean image. If we’re using someone else’s lightning node, it might as well be our own

When i meet an XRP shill

Snagged it

Yaël

deputy director @ consumer choice center
fellow @ bitcoin policy institute
québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien

Our panel from @BTC Prague on lessons from highly regulated industries when it comes to the Orange coin. Disintermediate, circumvent, became ungovernable. Or just comply and “put it on the blockchain” @PODCONF

What happened to zap splits

I will be MCing the expo stage this morning at @BTC Prague A pitch contest, great panels, and a damn Airstream!

Ano

If you offer to pay part of Trump’s zillion legal bills, you too can get him to whisper your tribal rhetoric

why do interventionist public officials get such slobbering praise by comedians?

OSSOWSKI: Misinformed Jon Stewart Applauds Biden-Appointee With Dismal Record

It’s not often that the head of a US federal agency is given the red carpet treatment on Comedy Central, but for Jon Stewart, it’s to be expected.

I have one specific journo who always asks me for quotes on “crypto” regulation and policy — but he always brings it around to XRP, the Ripple foundation, and the “bold moves” of Gerlinghouse. At this point, I’m certain he needs to write these articles to pump his own bags…or he’s gotta fulfill that XRP grant… The only people I’ve met who’ve talked to me about XRP are people paid to do so

A new group of policy researchers and bureaucrats in the EU who don’t understand Bitcoin nor the lightning network.

Decrypt

Bitcoin Lightning Network and Layer 2 Scaling Could Be 'Abused by Criminals', Says EU - Decrypt

An EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security report argues that layer 2 solutions could cause "problems for law enforcement investigations."

Is there an updated list of the nostr elite

here comes the SAUCE on the CCP operation to influence Canadian MPs and candidates. We can't get the truth from politicians, so now the principled journalists are churning out the info

Beijing supported Liberal candidate that echoed disinformation against Conservatives: Document Analysis

Key NSICOP allegation of foreign state supporting a witting politician apparently stems from defeat of MP Kenny Chiu and September 2021 CSIS brief

getting all your channels closed on you in Mutiny Wallet after an attempted transaction is one of these high-stress scenarios I don't want to relive

Mate, what's going on here

Travel is the death knell for healthy daily routines

Plusieurs québécois ont cette vision romantique du logement social... Il y a 4 ans, Radio Canada est venu à Vienne afin d'en apprendre plus sur « l'utopie » des logements sociaux moi et un autre gars étions les seules voix dissidentes (à 16:05)

Vienne, l’utopie du logement abordable? | OHdio | Radio-Canada