Eric Kuehnle

[Eric Kuehnle @ericnumber258]

@QTRResearch @DefiantLs 😂

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

"Not one member of the US military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world"

Why, then, was the Oregon National Guard sent to Iraq and Syria a few weeks ago?

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

The Joke’s on us.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The Party of Democracy sits around guffawing at how anti-democratic and vote-free and secret was their process for choosing and then imposing the new Democratic presidential nominee on the country.

[Today In History @historigins]

The way Tupac and Snoop Dogg effortlessly flow off each other at House of Blues was legendary.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The Biden/@KamalaHarris administration charging station plan delivered seven out of 500k promised stations and cost $7.5 billion.

In 2021, Biden/Harris set aside $65 billion for rural internet access (unclear how much if any progress we have made to date) when Starlink could do a better job with minimal taxpayer funding.

Now, @KamalaHarris promises to build 3 million housing units in four years.

How is that going to work?

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

The lawmakers, central bankers, and banking system as a whole increase the broad money supply by 38%.

Price inflation begins moving through the system. Revenues, expenses, and profits rise because the denominator is falling.

More money chasing the same amount of stuff.

[Craig Warmke @craigwarmke]

Wild.

[Eric Kuehnle @ericnumber258]

@gladstein Oh no, what made them go bankrupt? Do they at least still have some counterfeit currency that they can print more of and force their citizens to work for as they reap the benefit of printing to buy what those workers created, endlessly?

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

Without government, who would steal $42.5 billion from everyone to spend on high speed internet for no one?

[Bitcoin for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

Imagine working 9-5 for 50 years then The Fed prints 40% of the total money supply and inflates away 20 years of your work.

[reason @reason]

The Department of Justice indicted the creators of @SamouraiWallet, an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously.

[Tuur Demeester @TuurDemeester]

“When I look at a door lock 🔐, as a historian, I don’t like it. It’s based on the idea that we should not trust strangers to come into our house. It’s a technology of distrust.”

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

It’s increasingly the case that a lot of good bitcoin apps work in dozens of other countries but not in the United States.

The US is kind of slowly firewalling itself from the rest of the world in terms of financial innovation.

[Lyudmyla Kozlovska 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @LyudaKozlovska]

Since US law enforcement agencies have been able to identify a money laundering offence involving this particular wallet, then they are well equipped to detect such crimes, and there is no need to criminalise mixers or #bitcoin wallets as a technology and its developers in general.

This is exactly what we talk about in our meetings with regulators: we understand that US law enforcement has all the tools to track #Bitcoin transactions on the blockchain. That is why real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money.

Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional banking and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They don't want and don’t need to use such tools.

And to be precise, I definitely think it's very harmful to promote or ask oligarchs, criminals to use your privacy payment tools. It gives more opportunities to weaponise this kind of rhetoric by any kind of government.

Our 15 years of human rights practice shows that real oligarchs prefer other tools for laundering dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement authorities failed in their attempts to hold her accountable for money laundering. https://t.co/D32AR2m4YF

Kazakhstani regime used political lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.

This scheme works for the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.

They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top Western law firms.

Mixers and self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.

Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what #Turkey, #Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with #Russia, #Iran, #China to repress dissenters abroad.

In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or @stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.

Therefore, an effective fight against money laundering would begin not with the criminalisation of privacy payment tools and their developers, but with ending the impunity of authoritarian regimes and their oligarchs in using legal schemes to circumvent sanctions through the banking systems of third countries.

[halfin @halfin]

Looking at ways to add more anonymity to bitcoin

[Eric Kuehnle @ericnumber258]

@SDNYnews @IRSCI_NY @NewYorkFBI Everyone's fourth amendment rights have been violated by the federal government for decades. The federal government is no different than a foreign occupying force that doesn't respect our constitution. Using fear to take away people's rights is an authoritarian move.

[Eric Kuehnle @ericnumber258]

@notlouisck @TimeFreedomROB USD is printed.
Equities are diluted.
Bonds yield negative in real terms.
Housing is most scarce of these options, and thus has been monetized.

This is the same reason China has built entire ghost cities where no one lives. It's turned into an asset.

Hard money fixes this.

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

Hard to believe this is real but here’s a superb World Economic Forum (!) video on how renewable hydro Bitcoin mining is acting as a lifeline for one of Africa’s largest natural parks, and how the heat externality is used to process cocoa more efficiently