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[Kexkey @Kexkey]

@Mt212846 @Jefffillion > Si le courant est essentiellement libertarien cela ce termine bel et bien toujours en gau-gauche.

J’aimerais mieux comprendre ce que tu veux dire? Merci!

[Theo Mogenet @theomogenet]

Nouvelle démonstration de l'importance de Bitcoin pour la survie de notre civilisation ⚠️

Un projet de loi visant à lutter contre "l'entrisme islamiste" en France a été déposé au Sénat par M. Retailleau et est actuellement en cours d'examen.

En réalité le texte ne se cantonne pas à "l'entrisme islamique" mais cible toutes les formes d'atteintes à l'ordre Républicain, tous les appels à discrimination fondés sur la race, l'ethnie, la religion, ou l'appartenance à un groupe, ainsi que tous leurs auteurs et entités qui en seraient les relais.

Mais ce n'est pas ça qui est intéressant.

Il existait déjà divers dispositifs législatifs permettant la dissolution de tels association et la poursuite des individus ou groupes qui s'adonnaient à de tels discours (lois qui ont déjà été instrumentalisées à de nombreuses reprises, cf. Zemmour, Dieudonné, etc.).

Cependant, ce nouveau projet de loi, via son article 6, §4(cf. photo) va beaucoup plus loin en permettant:

"le gel des fonds et des ressources économiques [...] qui appartiennent à ou sont possédés, détenus ou contrôlés par des personnes physiques ou morales ou toute autre entité qui, soit provoquent ou contribuent par leurs agissements à la discrimination, à la haine ou à la violence envers une personne ou un groupe de personnes à raison de leur origine, de leur sexe, de leur orientation sexuelle, de leur identité de genre ou de leur appartenance ou de leur non-appartenance, vraie ou supposée, à une ethnie, une nation, une prétendue race ou une religion déterminée, soit propagent des idées ou théories tendant à justifier ou encourager cette discrimination."

Un tel gel peut être décidé conjointement par le ministre de l'économie et le ministre de l'intérieur (séparation des pouvoirs, allo?).

Or, nous avons déjà constaté par le passé comment des termes aussi flous que "la haine", qui ne peuvent aucunement admettre une définition objective en droit puisqu'ils dépendent du ressenti et des sensibilités de la personne concernée (contrairement à la diffamation par exemple, qui doit, elle, s'appuyer sur des éléments objectifs), peuvent être utilisés pour permettre l'application de telles lois à toute personne qui dérange.

Nous observons aussi depuis de nombreuses années, que les institutions de crédit (les banques) et autres plateformes monétiques, n'hésitent pas à fermer ou geler des comptes de certaines personnes ou groupes pour des motifs similaires. La pratique existe déjà, mais elle a désormais une base légale. Plus encore, elle pourrait désormais être forcée par le gouvernement et être donc effective pour toutes les institutions qui vous donnent accès à votre argent ou vos biens, vous excluant purement de toute vie sociale et mettant en danger votre subsistance (notamment puisque le cash c'est cracra et donc bientôt interdit).

En lisant cet article, il est aisé de comprendre quelle "nation", "ethnie", "race" ou "religion déterminée" l'on cherche à protéger avant tout. Sauf que quand certaines religions ou certaines ethnies s'amalgament dans des nations, on en arrive à la situation mortifère ou une critique de la politique extérieure de ces pays deviendrait légalement équivalente à un appel à la haine et la discrimination contre les "religions, ethnies, ou races" qu'elles représentent.

Allons plus loin.

De nombreux groupes de l'extrême gauche identitaire (RN) à l'extrême gauche multiculturaliste (LFI & co), s'adonnent régulièrement à de telles discours discriminatoire à l'encontre de personnes appartenant à une certaine "nation, race, ethnie, ou religion".

Il pourrait donc exister une base juridique pour geler les ressources des deux partis actuellement majoritaires en France. Et tout cela, bien entendu, sous couvert du motif totalement légitime d'empêcher un nouveau Bataclan ...

Mesdames et messieurs les représentants de l'extrême gauche héxagonale, en ce que vos idées sont des variations d'étatisme et de socialisme, je les déteste.

Mais pour paraphraser Voltaire (en tout cas cette phrase qu'on lui attribue) :

"Je désapprouve ce que vous payez, mais je me battrais toujours pour que vous en ayez le droit"

En tant que bitcoiners, variation défenseurs de la détention en propre (self-custody), garantir l'accès inconditionnel à vos ressources financières et l'inaliénabilité de votre propriété privée est le cœur de notre combat.

Bitcoin ne sait pas que vous êtes déficients mentalement (marxistes), ou raciste, ou étatiste, ou sexiste, ou je ne sais quoi d'autre encore que l'on vous reprochera demain.
Bitcoin ne connait que les mathématiques ; il ne reconnait que des signatures mathématiquement associées à des clés publiques/adresses, et vous accorde ainsi accès à votre propriété privée par la simple détention d'une information, chose qu'aucun gouvernement, aussi totalitaire ou autoritaire qu'il soit, ne pourra jamais vous empêcher de posséder.

Je sais que vous détestez, méprisez, ou ignorez largement Bitcoin, mais je vous garanti que vous allez bientôt l'adopter.

Les portes de @BullBitcoin_ vous sont grand ouverte.

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[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

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[Kexkey @Kexkey]

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[OpenTimestamps @opentimestamps]

Interesting project!

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“The more the state ‘plans,’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”

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Dans un Québec pas si lointain, un premier ministre qui a clairement fait allusion au fait que le Québec serait attaqué militairement par les États-Unis aurait été questionné et exposé sans relâche par les médias. Aujourd'hui, ça passe comme une lettre à la poste. Pire encore, le lendemain, le même PM annonce des projets spéciaux avec des compagnies de défense AMÉRICAINES. Le niveau de journalisme et de commentariat politique au Québec est d'une débilité abyssale.

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[Lion Advocacy @LionAdvocacy]

So under this proposed new law, combined with existing FINTRAC rules -someone could get kicked off the internet, and debanked, with effectively no legal recourse, & without even knowing why. Can’t access funds to get legal representation to fight this unconstitutional law.
Epic.

[calle @callebtc]

This is a long post that hopefully bridges some gaps between technical people (devs) and non-technical users and how they look at spam prevention in Bitcoin. I hope that it clarifies why I think that there is such a huge misunderstanding between both camps.

I'll preface this post with first disqualifying any malicious attempts to misrepresent the motives of either camp. Everybody wants to improve Bitcoin as money. Money is Bitcoin's use case. It's not a data storage system. If you think otherwise, there are countless shitcoins to play with.

Alright, let's get into it.

I have worked on anonymous systems for over a decade. I have read tons of research on spam detection, rate-limiting, and I've implemented spam prevention techniques in the real world.

I am very confident to say that there is not a single known method to prevent spam in decentralized anonymous open networks other than proof of work.

This is what Satoshi realized when he designed Bitcoin and it's why only transaction fees can reliably fight spam without sacrificing any of Bitcoin's properties.

Let me explain.

Spam prevention is a cat and mouse game. As a system's architect, your goal is to make the life of a spammer harder (increase the friction). This is why, on the web, you see captchas, sign-ups, or anything that can artificially slow you down. Slowing down is key. This is why Satoshi turned to proof of work.

Let's contrast this to other methods for spam prevention. This is not an exhaustive list but it illustrates the design space of this problem, other methods are often derivatives of these:

CAPTCHAS are a centralized form of proof of work for humans: Google's servers give you a hard-to-solve task (select all bicycles) that will slow you down so that you can't bombard a website with millions of requests. It requires centralization: you need to prove Google that you're human so that you can use another website. If you could host your own CAPTCHA service, why would anyone believe you're not cheating?

LOGINS with email and passwords are most popular way to slow down users. Before you can sign up, you need to get an email address, and to get an email address, you often need a phone number today. The purpose of this is, again, to slow you down (and to track you to be honest). It only works well when emails are hard to get, i.e. in a centralized web where Google controls how hard it is to get an email account. If you could easily use your own email server, why would anyone believe you're not a bot?

The next one is the most relevant to Bitcoin:

AD BLOCK FILTERS are another form of spam prevention but this time the roles are reversed: you as a user fight against the spam from websites and advertising companies trying to invade your brain. Ad blocking works only under certain conditions: First you need to be able to "spell out" what the spam looks like, i.e. what the filter should filter out. Second, you need to update your filters every time someone circumvents them. Have you ever installed a youtube ad blocker and then noticed that it stops working after a few weeks? That's because you're playing cat-and-mouse with youtube. You block, they circumvent, you update your filters, repeat.

The fact that you need to update your filters is critical and that's where it ties back to Bitcoin: Suppose you have a mempool filter for transactions with a locktime of 21 because some stupid NFT project uses that. You maybe slow them down for a few weeks, but then they notice it and change their locktime to 22. You're back at zero, the spam filter doesn't work anymore. What do you do?

You update your filter! But where do you get your new filter from? You need a governing body, or some centralized entity that keeps updating these filters and you need to download their new rules every single day. That's what ad blockers in your web browser do. They trust a centralized authority to know what's best for you, and blindly accept their new filters. Every single day.

I hope you see the issue here. Nobody should even consider this idea of constantly updating filter rules in Bitcoin. This would give the filter providers a concerning level of power and trust. It would turn Bitcoin into a centrally planned system, the opposite of what makes Bitcoin special.

This is why filters do not work for decentralized anonymous systems. They require a central authority. Until now, these rules were determined by Bitcoin Core, but they have realized that these rules do not work anymore. Transactions bypass the filters easily and at some point, carrying them around became a burden to the node runners themselves. Imagine you're using an outdated ad blocker but instead of filtering out ads, it now also filters out legitimate content you might be interested in. That's what mempool filters do, and that's why Bitcoin Core is slowly relaxing these filters. This has been discussed for over two years, it's not a sudden decision.

The goal of this change is not to help transactions to slip through more easily. The goal is to improve your node's prediction of what is going to be in the next block. Most people misrepresent this part. They say "it's to turn Bitcoin into a shitcoin" but that is just a false statement at best, or a manipulation tactic at worst.

Let's tie it back to proof of work and why fees are the actual filter that keeps Bitcoin secure and prevents spam reasonably well: Satoshi realized that there is no technique that could slow down block production and prevent denial of service attacks in a decentralized system other than proof of work. Fees prevent you from filling blocks with an infinite number of transactions. All the other options would introduce some form of trust or open the door for censorship – nothing works other than proof of work.

He was smart enough to design a system where the proof of work that goes into block production is "minted" into the monetary unit of the system itself: You spend energy, you get sats (mining). This slows down block production. How do you slow down transactions within those blocks? You spend the sats themselves, original earned form block production, as fees for the transactions within the block!

This idea is truly genius and it's the only reason why Bitcoin can exist. All other attempts of creating decentralized money have failed to solve this step. Think about it: without knowing who you are, whether you're one person pretending to be a thousand, or a thousand people pretending to be one. Bitcoin defends itself (and anyone who runs nodes in the Bitcoin system) from spam by making you pay for your activity.

People sometimes counter this by saying: the economic demand for decentralized data storage is higher than the monetary use case. First of all, I think that's just wrong. There are way cheaper ways to store data (there are shitcoins for this), and the value of having decentralized neutral internet money is beyond comparison.

However, there's a much deeper concern here. If you truly believe this, I ask you: what is Bitcoin worth to you? If you think Bitcoin can't succeed as money (i.e. be competitive), why do you even care? If you're not willing to pay fees for the use case that we all believe Bitcoin is designed for (money), and you believe that no one is willing to pay for it, how can it even persist into the future?

You can't have it all. If Bitcoin is money (which I believe it is), then we need to pay the price to keep it alive. There is no free lunch.

Either we centralize, or we pay the price of decentralization. I know where I stand.

Peace.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control

The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained".

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.

The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.

Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data.

Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own?

Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.

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L’adoption du Bitcoin par les institutions financières ne devrait pas se limiter à des produits dérivés ou à une exposition artificielle au prix.

Bull Bitcoin s’est associé à la banque canadienne @BowValleyCU et à @balance_canada pour permettre aux habitants de la région d’Alberta d’acheter du Bitcoin directement depuis leur interface bancaire.

Les clients de Bow Valley peuvent désormais acquérir du Bitcoin en quelques secondes, sans procédure d’identification supplémentaire, depuis leur application bancaire.

Ce partenariat s’inscrit dans la vision portée par Bull Bitcoin : permettre aux institutions financières, partout dans le monde, d’offrir une solution clé en main, souveraine et conforme à l’esprit de Bitcoin.

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