Happy 9/11 everyone!
In the spirit of a country that has learned absolutely nothing from its 20+ year “War on Terror”(tm), the Treasury and Congress are actively working on legislation that would apply the PATRIOT Act to digital assets.
This includes a blanket ban on any tools (and behaviors!) that grant users transactional privacy, as well as the authority to ban *transaction types* without public input or notice.
Not reported anywhere else, so make sure to drop us some soon illegal bitcoin so we can continue doing this work.
Everybody knows about E2EE Messengers, Private Browsers and VPNs...
But when you need something else, sometimes it's almost impossible to find an alternative to closed source software.
So here are 12 Open Source apps I use daily on my phone👇
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Now go one step deeper and ask why is the CEO of Reuters on Pfizer's BOD and how did this play into the large scale social deception that conned @elonmusk into taking a liability free contaminated shot?
Will @DOGE go there or are there parts of this investigation that are off the table?
Good morning! It's January 3rd, which means its not your keys, not your coins day.
Unfortunately, this year the EU has decided to make withdrawing from exchanges a hell of a lot harder by extending FATF's Travel Rule to digital assets.
What this means for you: If you want to withdraw funds exceeding €1.000, you'll need to prove that you own the address you are intending to withdraw to to your custodian.
It also means that exchanges are required to forward your personal information, including things like your name and address, to any custodian you are transacting with, and that an exchange may collect information on whom you are sending funds to and whom you are receiving funds from.
The Travel Rule does not just make withdrawing from exchanges harder, as custodians will need to employ third party software, employ a signing protocol like AOPP, or have you conduct a micro transaction to the custodian before making your transfer.
It also poses an incredible risk to your financial privacy and security, as your KYC info will not just be stored with a custodian you trust, but with any custodian you transact with – increasing the risks of hacks and identity theft.
But here's the funny thing. In its current form, the Travel Rule has been mandatory in tradfi in the EU since 2012 – But nobody seems to know whether it actually works to prevent money laundering or not.
That's why I filed a FOIA request with German authorities last month, requesting data on all money laundering convictions in Germany since 2008.
Interestingly, the Ministry of the Interior responsible for national security and overseeing Germany's law enforcement, responded that it had no such information - instead asking me to file FOIA Requests with the German Ministry of Finance, the German Customs Authority, as well as with every public prosecutors office...
...which means that the updated Travel Rule is the extension of a law to whichs effectiveness law enforcement appears to have no data.
(FOIA Response in picture translated with ChatGPT)
💥EXCLUSIVE: FDA lab uncovers excess DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines
Explosive revelations as a study conducted at FDA's own lab found residual DNA levels exceeded safety limits by 6 to 470 times. Experts say it's a 'smoking gun.'
https://t.co/V3PyKy1PMG @Kevin_McKernan@Jikkyleaks
🎉Happy Birthday, Bitcoin!🎉
On January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin genesis block of 50 coins was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, marking the birth of incorruptible money.
Here's to 1️⃣6️⃣ years of decentralization and freedom!🥂
@francispouliot_@Dieter75@pacificemeralds@rektbuildr@zherbert Yep, and there's a paper no one wants to give publicity: in Italy COVID was there at least from September 2019 (not a typo) and everyone was fine until someone declared a "pandemic" in March 2020.
https://t.co/PUq7MEpWZE
@crazycanuck1963@BGatesIsaPyscho The NORAD capable to track Santa failed to stop a terrorist attack. And where was Donald Rumsfeld?
https://t.co/551NK5tsZK
What about PTech as testified by Indira Singh?