Martin (mx)

Passionate about open, truly decentralized #POW #Cryptocurrency #MediumOfExchange #Privacy #Cash #Technology #Freedom #Truth #Humanity

[SilentSwap ® @SilentSwap]

You shred financial documents nobody is asking for, just in case. Treat your onchains transactions with the same care.

SilentSwap is the shredder.

[Nym @nym]

Countries that ban or restrict VPN services:

Belarus, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Turkmenistan
China, Russia, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Oman

United Kingdom?
United States?
France?

The list used to be easy to explain.

[Secret Network @SecretNetwork]

Public mempools teach the market your intent. Private execution keeps strategy where it belongs.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Call me crazy, but I think parents should determine what their teenagers do online rather than the government.

And that governments shouldn't use system-level ID checks to identify and monitor everything.

[XMR.club - Curated no-KYC directory @xmr_club]

Run uncensored LLMs locally — the access nobody can revoke.

On 12 June 2026 a single export-control directive forced Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, overnight. Hosted intelligence is a permission — and permissions get revoked. A model whose weights live on your own disk has none of that fragility. Here is how to run one.

https://t.co/t8JzGRaBeW

[Reuters Venezuela @ReutersVzla]

Venezuela, General Electric sign cooperation agreement on power supply https://t.co/m5berZfS6H

[Financial Times @FT]

A senior US official said Washington had discussed the possibility of sanctions relief for the Islamic republic and 'a big $300bn fund to rebuild their country'. https://t.co/81y9fA6zu4

[Nym @nym]

The UK's social media ban for under-16s will be enforced at device level.

This isn't an age check for Instagram.

It's an age check to turn on your phone.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

“Protect the children” too often becomes “show me your papers.”

Britain’s age-verification push and Washington’s online-safety bargain risk building speech-control infrastructure in the name of safety.

[The AI Colony R&D @TheAIColonyRD]

This is the NUDT mosquito drone, a spy UAV built by China's National University of Defense Technology for covert surveillance you can't see coming.

Under 0.3 grams. Wings that flap 500 times a second.

Sensors built for covert surveillance, all packed into a body you'd swat without thinking.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

BREAKING: 🇯🇵 Bank of Japan hikes rates to 1%, the highest since 1995 as the yen sits at record lows

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

The EU just banned cash payments over €10,000.

And will require ID for all Bitcoin transactions starting 2027.

The same EU whose German Chancellor called it a world champion of over-regulation.

Cash banned above €10,000.
Bitcoin requires ID.
Gold can still be bought anonymously.

While America proposes zero capital gains on Bitcoin.
While UAE builds crypto banks with zero restrictions.

Europe is building a financial surveillance state.
And calling it consumer protection.

2027 is closer than it sounds.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

Is the UK on the verge of banning VPNs?

On May 26, the consultation intended to help the British government make decisions on age verification for websites, digital services, and social media platforms came to an end. Some form of restrictions regarding at least age limits for social media already appear inevitable; government officials have confirmed as much. The only question is what kind of restrictions will be imposed.

For example, the age verification restrictions could end up including VPN services. National restrictions for websites and social media can be bypassed using tools such as VPNs, virtual phone numbers, eSIM cards, Tor and dedicated services. It is therefore unsurprising that politicians have begun looking toward VPN services, which are the most common and accessible method of changing one’s geographic location.

In early 2026, the House of Lords sent an amendment(regarding the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill) to the House of Commons, proposing an 18-year age limit for using VPN services. The House of Commons rejected the House of Lords amendment four separate times. However, the House of Commons instead introduced its own proposal, which was passed and has now become law. This agreement grants the government the power to introduce restrictions through secondary legislation, with only limited parliamentary scrutiny.

Unfortunately, the risk that the UK government will crack down on VPN services is real – effectively joining countries such as China and Russia in opposing VPN services. Officials have already hinted that they may consider introducing age restrictions for VPN usage under the slogan “No platform gets a free pass”.

If VPN services were to implement identity verification, this would mean collecting data that could be abused through either malice or incompetence. It would, for example, make such services risky for whistleblowers and activists, make it harder for journalists to work with sensitive information, and create a chilling effect on online debate (VPNs can help people post anonymously on social media). In a society like the UK, where 30 people are arrested every day for writing something online that authorities classify as “grossly offensive”, VPN services are an important tool for free speech.

If VPN providers were to impose an age limit on their service, this would also mean that underage users would effectively lose their right to online privacy. Ironically, one consequence would be that social media companies mapping people’s lives through third-party trackers on websites could continue monitoring young people’s online behavior via their IP addresses without any interference. In other words, politicians would remove one of the protections children have against the very companies they claim to want to protect children from.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: JPMorgan, Citi and major US banks to launch new tokenized deposit system to compete with crypto.

[PeerMetals @peer_metals]

BREAKING 🚨: Central banks now hold 36,000 tonnes of gold. 🥇

Nearly matching the pre-1971 Bretton Woods peak of 38,000 tonnes.

That was when gold backed the entire global monetary system.

We're almost back there.

And Goldman Sachs thinks the unofficial total is even higher.

The world is rebuilding a gold standard.

Just without announcing it.

#Gold #CentralBanks #PreciousMetals

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

AI-powered computer worm, a self-replicating agent that reasons its way through a network instead of carrying a fixed exploit list. It steals compute from compromised GPU machines to run its own open-weight LLM, then uses weaker machines as relays for reach. In trials on a corporate testbed, it identified vulnerabilities, exploited systems, and launched replicas across Linux, Windows, and IoT targets. Every new infection can add more infrastructure while costing the attacker almost nothing. Patching one flaw no longer ends the threat, because the worm can operationalise fresh advisories, generate new attack logic, and keep adapting without a human operator. It is not a WannaCry-style worm with one baked exploit and one baked ransomware payload. It can adapt across many vulnerability classes it can discover and operationalise https://t.co/nSupd1h0BG

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

The internet wasn't built to spy on us. We let it happen.
Now every click is tracked, profiled, and stored, forever.

The creator of JavaScript, and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave, explains how we got here, and where we go next.

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Cyberattack on humanitarian organization World Food Program exposes sensitive data of vulnerable population. Affected 600,000 households in Gaza, names, ID numbers, phone numbers, location data, all exfiltrated. The timing is specific. Israel's Supreme Court had just upheld a requirement forcing aid organizations to hand over workers' personal data as a condition of operating in Gaza. In 2022 it was the Red Cross (515,000 people). In 2023, the Norwegian Refugee Council. This time it's WFP. The sector has had a poor track record. https://t.co/4GesgWVPaV