Mathieu Buffenoir

Kombucha brewer
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[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@cryptosaurien Oh lala j'ai bien ri

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@River This present the first solution as the best one... But also overlooked the main problem of custodial services, they can be hacked of rug pull you anytime. Nice ad for your services though.

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@cryptosaurien @SurfinBitcoin Bien arrosé aussi ! Miam

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@naziakhan455 P p.

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@JamesLucasIT 0

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@Proxy18387764 @cryptosaurien Franchement je trouve pas que l'adoption augmente farouchement dans Bitcoin à vrai dire (et ca fait 11 ans que je suis de très près)

[Les Soulèvements de la terre @lessoulevements]

Un cadrage médiatique indigne à la veille de la mobilisation contre l'#A69

Depuis mardi, certaines rédactions se font le relais zélé des mensonges et manipulations de Darmanin, du préfet du Tarn et des renseignements.

Notre réaction à ce cadrage criminalisant.

THREAD 🧶⤵️

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Government™ has made an ad about the state of Democracy™, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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[KriptoLabor @KriptoLabor]

@bitcoinarchive 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@MauriceMakalu @MarioNawfal Tragedy? Bye bye the butcher 👌

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Here is an short animation of the monthly global surface temperatures, 1940 - present, with a quadratic trendline.

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS @RyanSAdams]

This is a sad day for the Netherlands.

It's a sad day for the founding principles of open societies and western liberal democracies.

Today crypto privacy developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 5 years in prison by Netherlands court for developing an open source tool that allows people to keep their crypto transactions private.

Today they made privacy illegal in an EU country.

You think I'm overstating this.

Then tell me, what is the legal way to keep peer-to-peer crypto transactions private?

We have HTTPS for email and internet messages - what's the equivalent for crypto and who's building it?

It doesn't exist because they're putting our devs in jail.

One judge called Tornado Cash a tool intended for criminals. How far we've fallen when our courts assume anyone using privacy tools is a criminal.

Your courtrooms should be celebrating cryptographers as the stewards of the hard-fought democratic freedoms passed down to us from the enlightenment - instead you jail these patriots and strip the people of the only tools powerful enough to hold back a dystopic feudal age digital panopticon.

If your free society bans privacy and jails developers then you no longer live in a free society.

The Netherlands has fallen. The EU is slipping.

Will American hold?

All eyes on Roman Storm case in the U.S.

[Grégory Raymond 🐳 @gregory_raymond]

L'arrestation des deux créateurs de @SamouraiWallet est une nouvelle atteinte à la liberté dans le monde occidental

Tout le monde devrait s'en inquiéter

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@nremond @bsa_epfl Ah then not may 2nd! Hihi, maybe I actually ca. Be there

[Joel Valenzuela @TheDesertLynx]

The US government is actively targeting crypto privacy and self-custody.

Even worse, crypto users are unwittingly playing right into their hands! 😬

This is the plan, and how they'll be able to execute if we don't do something. Bookmark this post🔖and read the whole thing, then tell me later that I was right (especially about Monero).

STEP 1: Funnel Privacy and Custody Into Honeypots

The first part is to restrict Bitcoin's on-chain capacity and kill development of on-chain privacy so that users would increasingly need second layers to use it, or third-party services to use it privately.

Other cryptos don't have these limitations, but by weaponizing the SEC to chase after exchanges that list non-Bitcoin (and maybe non-Ethereum) projects (and let's be honest, probably promote a culture of toxic maximalism), they're able to funnel most usage right into Bitcoin.

Because Bitcoin can't work as freedom money on its own, people start using Lightning and mixers like Samourai Wallet.

STEP 2 (we are here!): Attack Honeypots!

Samourai Wallet (privacy tool) was shut down and its founders arrested for alleged money laundering and enabling sanctions evasion. Wasabi Wallet similarly withdrew from the US. Now, there's no native Bitcoin privacy, and most users are probably terrified to try to make their own mixers, or even use anything that still exists.

Next, Phoenix, the most well-connected semi-noncustodial Lightning service, withdrew from the US (after Wallet of Satoshi already left). Expect similar services to follow suit eventually. Custodial, KYC wallets will remain, according to plan.

Regular users won't realistically be able to actually use Bitcoin without identifying themselves and turning over their identity and private keys.

STEP 3: Keep Users in Full-KYC Custodial Platforms

Once the previous steps have been achieved, users will be stuck, from beginning to end, in fully-custodial and identified platforms. Attempts to buy peer-to-peer with cash will be squashed, as they already are. I know several people who have gone to prison for selling P2P, causing a chilling effect on the rest.

But where does Monero fit into all this? 🤔

Already, the most-touted alternative after Bitcoin failed is Monero. And with good reason! It's a decentralized, scalable, and private digital currency.

Here's the twist: the Feds know this, and are already setting up their next move.

First, take advantage of toxic maximalist rhetoric ("Monero is the ONLY freedom tool, ONLY private coin" etc.) to funnel all the nonconformists into one ecosystem. Brand users of this one tool as criminals, and take advantage of pro-lawbreaking rhetoric from users.

Second, shut down on-ramps. We're already seeing this with delistings of privacy-enhancing assets, but some (including coins with even more robust privacy) have adopted exchange addresses and other tools to remain accessible to new users. Monero structurally can't do this, so its on-ramps are being isolated and minimized.

Finally, fish in a barrel: buying Monero is immediately probable cause for surveillance (especially if it's a P2P cash purchase, so expect those to be full of Feds). Crypto-accepting businesses shy away from Monero. And finally, as is already happening, exploit its decoy model and limited ring size by flooding the network with spam transactions to weaken the privacy of the remaining users.

Note: I'm not saying stop using Monero! I'm actually saying the opposite: it's one of the many good tools for financial privacy. But we can't only use it. We need to use any and every cryptocurrency that works for digital cash purposes.

Especially zero-knowledge crytpos like Zcash, Firo, etc. which don't use a decoy model like Monero and thus leak less data (though after Seraphis, Monero's anonymity set will be quite high and difficult to exploit).

Remember: we're being actively targeted now. The game is survival.

To survive, we need a wide range of robust, decentralized networks to provide sovereignty. They can't take them all down!

Small-block Bitcoin-only put us in a terrible spot. Monero-only is the next exploit. Reject all of the above.

Live on crypto before it's too late. Good luck anon! 🫡

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@lucas_lclc Really it's indexed on revenue?

[otteroooo @otteroooo]

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[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Police officers screaming at people who showed up to Navalny’s funeral today, telling them to keep moving quickly.

Riot police, body scanners and police dogs.

Nothing has changed in Moscow

[Mathieu Buffenoir @MBuffenoir]

@peterktodd Thank you, will check them out