buddy, what's with all these Voltage updates
Yaël
yael@yael.at
npub15dnl...3lfc
deputy director @ consumer choice center
fellow @ bitcoin policy institute
québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien
Different cycle, same story.
They want your bitcoin, anon
Will you fall for it this time for a little yield?
if I use a VPN (let's assume)
👉no email tied to the account
👉only a randomly created identifier
👉everything end-to-end encrypted by default
👉no-logging because there's nothing to log
👉payment using bitcoin lighting or XMR
👉warrant canary
👉blind relays
Few.
cannot for the life of me think of why I'd need a Wyoming stablecoin
Wyoming Stable Token Commission
No longer shall we live under tyranny!
Unfortunately my interview on Fox News got bumped yesterday, but I had a solid 10 minutes on why younger generations are drinking less, why neoprohibitionists lost, and why the Nanny State will still never go away despite people choosing healthier options.
They may use it here soon in case RFK does something insane
Thanks to Ashigaru, we're back
+beefyclothes35
now we're getting there...
sent out a press release on an fintech lawsuit (criticizing government action), and a banking trade journalist snarkily emailed me in response to ask if I'm a "bitcoin lobbyist" and accused me of being a shill.
Happy Wednesday
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
euronews
Return of chat control: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of image scanning and chat control to detect child sex abuse material. Now, they hold the keys...
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
View quoted note →
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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