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Bitcoin + Open Source Software + Privacy = Freedom. Stay humble and stack sats🤙
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Smith 1 year ago
Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and other marginalized communities Government use of FRT needs to be banned or it will be abused
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Weak "Guardrails" on Police Face Recognition Use Make Things Worse
Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and ...
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Smith 1 year ago
Up until November 2021 Meta was scanning the face of every person in photos posted on the platform. Glad to see Texas is fighting back and stopping companies from capturing biometric identifiers for a commercial purpose
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Texas Wins $1.4 Billion Biometric Settlement Against Meta. It Would Have Happened Sooner With Consumer Enforcement
The Texas settlement is welcome, but it also highlights the need to give consumers their own private right of action to enforce consumer data priva...
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Smith 1 year ago
The banks are pretty sure they have our money
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Smith 1 year ago
A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate. It's time to consider a different type of mining pool like Ocean.xyz Ocean is a non-custodial #bitcoin mining pool. It was relaunched recently by @Luke Dashjr @npub1wnlu...n3wr with support from @jack
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A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate. As demonstrated by this consolidat...
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Smith 1 year ago
Great episode @Daniel Prince with @npub1wnlu...n3wr, @giacomozucco & @leo_haf. Very informative discussion about SPAM on bitcoin. If you are on the fence about this issue it's time to pick a side and support filtering out these types of transactions
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Smith 1 year ago
#Bitcoin #Mining is not decentralised, the hashing is but only about 12 main mining pools construct the block templates and decide what transactions go in the blocks. That is way too much power in too few hands! Listen to @npub1wnlu...n3wr explain the problems and solution to @Stephan Livera
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Smith 1 year ago
Check out @preston podcast where @GrassFedBitcoin explains how bad it is for Bitcoin to have only 12 main mining pools deciding what transactions go into blocks and how important new mining pools like Ocean are for keeping Bitcoin decentralised and censorship resistant.
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Smith 1 year ago
Check out @preston podcast where @npub1wnlu...n3wr explains how bad it is for Bitcoin to have only 12 main mining pools deciding what transactions go into blocks and how important new mining pools like Ocean are for keeping Bitcoin decentralised and censorship resistant
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