Smith

Crypto & stocks enthusiast.

[Smith @pew_shot]

@Valarian11 I'm not talking about short-term headline-driven moves. The war has to end sooner or later, and they will probably lift at least some sanctions on Iran, including the ban on oil exports. Don't you think it will lower long-term oil prices?

[Smith @pew_shot]

@TXMCtrades I wouldn’t call him a clown. The clowns are who buy mstr instead of buying btc or keep praising him assuming he is doing something good for btc.

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@TXMCtrades Millions of billionaires

[Smith @pew_shot]

@IncomeSharks 4 billion? Its current market cap is 4.66 b

[Smith @pew_shot]

@krugman87 At this point it looks like a fake war. 3 missiles here, 5 missiles there… Ukraine and Russia send hundreds of drones each other every night

[Smith @pew_shot]

@22loops 😂

[Smith @pew_shot]

@krugman87 What do you think about $ETH after the latest BMNR news? Have you not changed your long term view?

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.

Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.

Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.

Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.

The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

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[Smith @pew_shot]

@blknoiz06 Should I be worried now that he is posting about $BB?

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@IncomeSharks Do you really believe we will get a summer btc rally?

[Smith @pew_shot]

@crypto_condom He's right that you shouldn't "ape" into anything just bc someone mentioned it. If you don't have conviction, you will panic sell on the first pullback. But he's wrong to blame you. I made the same mistake but never blamed anyone except myself. My trade, my responsibility.

[Smith @pew_shot]

@TXMCtrades I meant on a hundreds of years horizon lol

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@mining That's so sad for $USAR holders:(

[Keonne Rodriguez @keonne]

Tonight is the last time I will sleep in my own bed next to my loving wife. For the next 5 years I will be housed in a federal prison at taxpayer expense for a "crime" without a victim. Just one of many victims of lawfare perpetrated by a weaponized Biden DOJ where truth and justice were sidelined in favor of a political anti innovation agenda. Where evidence was hidden and suppressed because it didn't fit the story highly partisan line prosecutors needed to tell. Where Supreme Court precedence was ignored by activist judges.

Tomorrow I will surrender to FPC Morgantown. I will no longer be Keonne Rodriguez inside that institution, instead I will be a number, 11404-511. But outside of those walls my name will be kept alive. My loving wife, my family, my friends, all of you who have supported #pardonsamourai will make sure of that. I know walking into that institution that the story doesn't end there.

I maintain hope that President @realDonaldTrump is a fair man, a man of the people, who will see this prosecution for what it was: an anti innovation, anti american, attack on the rights and liberties of free people. I believe his team @AGPamBondi @EdMartinDOJ @DAGToddBlanche and others truly want to end the weaponization of the DOJ that the previous administration wielded so effectively.

The framers of our Constitution gave the Executive the power to pardon for exactly this reason, to balance out and restore justice when no one else would. President Trump has proven he takes that power seriously. I believe he will continue to wield that power for good and pardon me and Bill.

Keep up the noise. Thank you all for your support. See you on the other side.

[Smith @pew_shot]

@TXMCtrades Am I? I consider wanting a broken and corrupt world for pumping your bag as pathetic.

[Smith @pew_shot]

@TXMCtrades I didn’t know I don’t get notifications about dm. I accidentally noticed them when I opened the chat out of curiosity. There are some really weird ux solutions on this platform.

[Smith @pew_shot]

@Tom__Capital damn, I needed to move to Australia instead of Europe, I wouldn't need to trade now.