Yaël
yael@yael.at
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deputy director @ consumer choice center
fellow @ bitcoin policy institute
québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien
offical suitcoiner
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and it’s the EU Commission proposal to break encryption via chat control.
My critical article (somehow) makes it into EU-funded Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/08/08/return-of-chat-control-something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark
We’re allowing the feds to treat legal business in most of the country like second-class citizens. This is an untenable situation that makes us a nation of scofflaws while the illicit cannabis market runs wild
my op-ed in the OC Register newspaper:
DEA stonewalling is allowing cannabis black markets to thrive – Orange County Register
Rescheduling cannabis won't solve all of our problems overnight, but it will at least signal that American institutions are capable of keeping...
The first domino fell when Austria passed its own surveillance and encryption law last month
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Return of Chat Control: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
My contribution to EUTechLoop on the the proposed regulation to break encryption in the European Union…and who is still supporting it
EU Tech Loop
Return of Chat Control: something is rotten in the state of Denmark
The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of CSAM scanning and chat control. Now, they hold the keys to make it a reality.
You can just run another node in a VM and no one can stop you
writing an article now on the latest proposal for Chat Control in the EU, which aims to break end-to-end encryption. This time it's Denmark who leads the charge.
Had some good quotes today in a Newsweek story on using Bitcoin for a mortgage
Will they never learn
Something tells me Dave Ramsey is stacking sats like the rest of us now
“A well encrypted Internet, being necessary to the privacy and security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and deploy VPNs, shall not be infringed”
Does anyone know the devs of silentium?
I have sats stuck in there from testing silent payments and keep getting mempool API errors when trying to withdraw to another silent payment address
What is the real-life version of Evil Corp’s Ecoin?
boy I hope many of these highly capitalized and VC-funded DeFi and crypto projects outside Bitcoin world will donate to @The Rage for all the great coverage on the Tornado Cash trial, considering how important the legal questions are to their lines of business
no replacement for great journalism!
bitcoin accountants trying to understand your zaps
latest bitcoin mining smear job just dropped
The best laws are based on negative rather than positive rights.
It’s why i don’t believe in a “Bitcoin law” — just let people live and use tech.
Restrict state action, empower individuals within reasonable frameworks, and punish those who harm others
do any of you fellow pleb miners use Parasite Pool
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