BREAKING TODAY – Ursula von der Leyen just crowed that the EU’s age verification app is “technically ready” and will be shoved down our throats any day now. Ireland is one of the “frontrunners” — already building a digital wallet that verifies your age using your PPS number (that’s your Irish social security ID, folks).
They want you to download their app, feed it your passport or national ID, and then “prove your age” every time you hit an online platform. Just like buying booze in a shop, says the EU President. “No more excuses” for platforms.
But here’s the punchline they’re ramming down with their jackhammer: the app “respects the highest privacy standards in the world,” is “completely anonymous,” and based on open-source code so even non-EU countries can copy the surveillance model.
Bullshit.
This is the same EU that wrote GDPR, their precious data-protection bible and then immediately violates every core principle in it.
• Data minimisation? Gone. They’re demanding your PPS, passport, or full digital wallet just to browse.
• Privacy by design/default? Destroyed.
• DSA Article 28(3)? Ignored — it explicitly says platforms cannot be forced to process extra personal data for age checks.
• eIDAS 2.0? Exposed as a lie. The wallet was sold as “voluntary.” Now it’s the mandatory key to the internet.
An EU official even admitted on the record that the whole process will be “annoying” but hey, it’s “worth it” to protect kids. Translation: your freedom and privacy are collateral damage in Brussels’ digital dictatorship. The grotesque irony of protecting the children brought to you by the Epstein class, that protects the Epstein predators.
Privacy campaigners in Ireland are already sounding the alarm about handing over PPS numbers for every click. Digital rights group EDRi nailed it: this age-gate obsession is a distraction from the real issue — platforms’ own accountability. But the EU doesn’t want real fixes. They want control.
They built GDPR, the DSA, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights to virtue-signal about privacy and free expression. Now they’re using “protect the children” as the pretext to build the full surveillance panopticon — the EU Digital Identity Wallet as the gateway drug to tracking every adult online.
This isn’t protection, but enslavement dressed up in odious protect the children propaganda, as they protect the Mandelsons, the Rothschilds and the entirety of the Epstein class.
This is a blatant, illegal violation of:
• GDPR Articles 5, 25 & 35 — data minimisation, privacy by design, and mandatory impact assessments. Blanket surveillance fails the proportionality test instantly.
• DSA Article 28(3) — explicitly says platforms are not required (and cannot be forced) to process extra personal data just to guess if you’re a minor.
• eIDAS 2.0 — the Wallet is supposed to be VOLUNTARY. You cannot be denied service for refusing it. Turning it into mandatory internet ID is straight-up authoritarian overreach.
We beat them with their own rulebook:
File complaints with every DPA citing GDPR Arts 5, 25 & 35 + DSA Art 28(3) + EDPB guidelines. Demand the DPIAs they can’t produce. Drag them to the CJEU. Expose the hypocrisy.
Resist the app, reject the Orwellian the wallet, and crush the Brussels digital prison.
The EU isn’t shielding children, it’s chaining adults in the name of “safety" and bullshit "protect the children" as they exploit your children as tools to ensure compliance of all future generations that come after your children.
#AgeVerification #EUDI #EUwallet
Share this. Fight this. Before the jackhammer turns the entire internet into a gated EU authoritarian checkpoint.
While I'm inactive on Twitter these days, and generally don't hype my work to absurd degrees (preferring to actually do the work), I'm really happy with the progress here. Wrapping up testing, testnet, and then... ready for deployment? 👀
The audit of Serai's blockchain has completed! We are incredibly excited to have our node implement all of the required protocol functionality and to have received review from Security Research Labs @SecReLabs, leaders in the Substrate/Polkadot ecosystem.
March Payment Stats are in… and the shift is hard to ignore.
XMR: 69.72%
BTC: 15.86%
USDT: 14.41%
FIAT: 0.01%
Lightning: 0.00%
Monero is firmly back in the lead. After February’s near 50/50 split, March shows a decisive move toward privacy again. $XMR 🥇
What stands out even more: $USDT is now nearly matching Bitcoin. That’s a rare alignment and a notable change in how customers have chosen to pay.
$BTC remains strong part of the mix, but the gap has widened significantly.
GrapheneOS, an open source Android-based OS, has declared that they will not adhere to age verification laws.
“GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.”
@Fujohnt There are quite a few people in the Middle East right now who, if they were wise, would be converting many of their trusted-third-party assets into Bitcoin or Monero.
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The Monero Research Lab has provided an update on the audits of the integration of Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++) into the Monero codebase!
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Calling Monero (or any "anon coin") a "pedo coin" is the intellectual equivalent of calling the postal service a "bomb delivery network." It tells me nothing about the technology and everything about the poverty of your argument. When you have to invoke child abuse to win a debate, you've already lost it.
Let's talk about your robbery scenario. Right now, today, criminals steal billions using the traditional banking system. HSBC laundered money for drug cartels. Danske Bank moved 200 billion euros in suspicious funds. Credit Suisse hid money for dictators, traffickers, and tax evaders for decades. Nobody calls the US dollar a "pedo coin." Strange, that.
Cash is anonymous. Always has been. Every kidnapping ransom, every bribe, every corrupt transaction in human history was facilitated by physical cash. Are you campaigning to abolish banknotes? Got any posts on X about how cash is a massive problem and needs to be stopped? Then your problem isn't with anonymity. Your problem is that you don't understand what you're talking about.
Privacy is a human right. It's in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's in multiple constitutions, including the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the South African Constitution, and embodied in a bunch of the amendments to the US constitution. It's in the legal framework of virtually every democracy on earth. The idea that wanting financial privacy makes someone a criminal is so breathtakingly authoritarian that you should be embarrassed to type it out loud.
You know who needs financial privacy? Domestic abuse survivors hiding their spending from violent partners. Dissidents living under authoritarian regimes. Journalists protecting sources. Activists in countries where donating to the wrong cause gets you imprisoned or killed. But sure, let's strip everyone's privacy because you watched a scary YouTube video about crypto.
The entire global corruption and money laundering ecosystem runs on transparent, traceable banking infrastructure, and it thrives because the people running those systems are complicit. Surveillance doesn't stop crime. It never has. It just makes ordinary people easier to control while the powerful route around it with armies of lawyers and offshore shell companies.
Your argument boils down to "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," which is the most thoroughly debunked, bootlicker-tier talking point in the history of civil liberties discourse. I'd suggest reading literally anything about the subject before embarrassing yourself further.
.@cypher_stack completed their audit of carrot_core! https://t.co/i7tNzdgoi5
Summary of results
• The security properties defined in the specification were found to be present in the implementation.
• Both C++ and Rust use Blake2b keyed mode per RFC 7693; the specification notation uses concatenation syntax. Both implementations appear structurally consistent with the specification, though equivalence is not proven here.
• The enote scan algorithm tracks the specification closely; one specification step (Step 18) is not included but is mathematically redunant.
• Step 18 of the specification is not included in either the C++ or the Rust implementation, but it is mathematically redundant.
• All domain separator constants in config.h match the specification byte-for-byte.
Conclusion
The carrot core library closely tracks the CARROT specification. Key derivations, enote constructions, scan algorithms, and domain separators were checked
for consistency with the specification. The only protocol-level deviation identified was the exclusion of Step 18 (redundant by construction). Outside of the
scope of carrot core itself, a divergence regarding the domain separator used in the coinbase extension path was also observed between the C++ carrot core
and the Rust carrot-rs.
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This video is full of mistruths.
Firstly I NEVER got a single penny from Epstein. In my post which Simon references, I said our CEO blocked the deal.
Even if we wanted to, you can see in their emails they actually despise us for being ideological, and instead chose to fund every other Bitcoin dev.
Simon paints me as a "crazy anarchist" as a reason for fighting ISIS. Actually it was not an easy decision at all, but extremely hard and serious. Are you seriously painting it as a negative thing? ISIS literally is a demonic anti-islamic rape army funded by the CIA. How can you make apologetics for them? wtf
It was such a hard decision and I was certain I would die. In fact I lost 100 friends in the war and suffered PTSD for many years (still to this day).
Also that bitcointalk post was a stupid joke in poor taste when I was 21 yr old. Oh wow I took drugs and did crazy things. Do you think people should be eternally judged for stupid shit they wrote on the internet when they were young and stupid. There were no girls, just trolling/scamming. Go check the thread.
I have had an extremely hard youth where I have worked and still work for human freedom. It's a shame to see such bitter resentment to try and destroy me like this without actually trying to promote the good. It's almost like you guys are jealous.
@SimonDixonTwitt why are you spreading lies for engagement.