"Blockchains have the potential to decentralize how trust is guaranteed in anything that can be stored digitally, which includes money, data, identity and ownership records. It is hard to exaggerate the potential disruption of legacy institutions & business models." @laurashin
🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔
They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant
The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you:
They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through
There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want
Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔
French cyber police stated that a crypto tax service had a data leak which led to people being kidnapped.
If you're paying taxes on crypto, use burner email, avoid linking it to real identity as much as possible.
Better yet, use self-hosted software like @rotkiapp.
🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:
Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.
France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages. The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.
Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.
Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.
We've been made aware of a malicious phishing email titled "Critical Vulnerability Notice".
This email is not from Trezor. Here’s how you know it’s a scam:
⚠️ It creates a false sense of urgency.
⚠️ It urges you to click a link and perform updates outside official channels.
⚠️ It may ask for your wallet backup.
Trezor will NEVER ask for your wallet back under any circumstances.
Help spread awareness by sharing this post.
They are coming for your Bitcoins. Tax on "improductive assets" coming in France. (...it excludes art collections of course)
French Bitcoiners, if the Sovereign Individual is right, it's time to pack your bags while you can.
Don't fret, brother.
Crypto is, and has always been, 99% nonsense grifty garbage/scams/jokes, and 1% fundamental global financial system revolution.
But this 99/1 is based just on quantity of projects.
Considered by market cap, it's more like 75% quality, 25% nonsense. Bitcoin is good. Ethereum is good. Stablecoins are good. Several dozen defi projects are good. Wildly cool technology permeates through all of it, and sound economics underpins its long term growth, though the short term feels often like an appallingly irrational market.
How to cope with this dichotomy?
Embrace the degen frontier and have fun, and recognize that amidst it all, a decentralized financial system is real, is important, and is working. None of it is forced on anyone, after all.
We are building and we are attracting the world toward us... and much of the world simply wants to gamble and have fun. This is okay, and actually provides capital for the important work happening behind the casino.
It is, actually, working.
We are realizing the wildest dreams of those who are into it for all the right reasons, despite the accompanying fantasies of those who aren't.
Just keep building, and build well.
Looks like Blackrock might be trying to fork Bitcoin.
Don’t believe me? Their SEC filings suggest I’m right.
If you own Bitcoin, you need to read this 👇
Bitcoin was hijacked because the state doesn’t like competition and the original Bitcoin would have crippled the dollar.
Bitcoin was originally about creating competition to the U.S. Dollar and the payment processing monopoly of Visa/MC. Today it’s all about digital gold.
The state wasn’t about to let us just win.
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@DefiIgnas XRP. It was called Ripple back in my time 😆 Like some would think it was related to a company, luckilly the token was renamed to avoid the confusion /s
Where's the money, @Scroll_ZKP ?
Let's calculate the size of your drop allocation.
Completely linear distribution. Spoiler: the top 10 wallets will receive 11.7% of "The Community Drop"
The top 100 will receive 34%. ->
@sandypeng@VitalikButerin
🙂↕️Calling out @binance to explain this
😂 @binance Pre-Market is literally scam
👇Here are the reasons
1️⃣They call it Pre-Market but $SCR listed in Spot
2️⃣Pre-Market means non available of tokens, deal happen with collateral
😂Buy I can sell my Launchpool tokens already
3️⃣Binance front running actual Token launch, TGE didn't happen but I can already sell my Launchpool tokens
4️⃣No Airdrop checker but Binance Launchpool tokens can be sold
😂Binance literally listed the token even before Airdrop
😂Before Airdrop users dump the tokens, Binance Launchpool users can dump their tokens
✅Only users who can benefit from this is Binance & it's Launchpool whales
🤣Making a joke of the Project & users farming the project for 2 years
🫠Launchpool users just farm for 2 days & dump the tokens in Spot even before project users know their eligibility
🤔What do u think? agreed?
🤔Why @Scroll_ZKP team & everyone silent about this?
🤗Let me remind u
🪙5% of the scroll supply is already in circulation via Binance Pre-Market
😂Actual scroll users only 7%
💙Like
🔁RT