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"There is no acknowledgment [by Rodriguez] of the criminal world for whom digital currency is a gift." Judge Cote wanted Keonne to claim that financial privacy is for criminals – Because he didn't, she gave him the maximum sentence. IN-SANE.

get over yourself you fucking loser

I just had to update our article to clarify that Samourai Wallet was never charged with sanctions evasion, despite the Government's sentencing memorandum mentioning sanctions evasion THIRTEEN TIMES trying to get the maximum sentence. https://www.therage.co/samourai-wallet-maximum-sentence/

All updates on Samourai sentencing happening today and tomorrow ⬇️

Preach

perfume-free is not an excuse for organic cleaning products to smell like shit, thanks for coming to my TED talk

Why what?

Very true, I‘d expand that to every sane person

We‘ll see - personally I‘m not convinced that hes not just another Obama 2.0 who hangs up posters with a peace sign on his face to bomb the fuck out of somalia

low-level techbros having a meltdown over Mamdani is nothing short of fascinating to me aligning yourself with a Billionaire class that you are definitely not (and most likely never will be) a part of while romanticizing life in a city built by immigrants and the starving arts really sums up The Chelsea Hotel now serving seafood platters for $200 agree with him or not, Mamdani won for the same reasons Trump did: people are fed up with politicians who ignore them

Sam is one of the first kids to grow up on BTC If you have an X account, like/comment on this post so she gets to go on a BTC shopping spree with Bitrefill 🩷 https://x.com/Ben_deWaal/status/1986069821599986136

I do not endorse politicians in general and will most definitely not endorse one who backs a genocide and calls for the killing of people, sorry

cross-posting here from X: As someone who has taken money from the HRF: I would like to know whether your organization in capacity of its dedication to human rights will publicly distance itself from Maria Corina Machado after she has not just voiced her support for Benjamin Netanyahu – who is currently committing a genocide and is wanted by the ICC for war crimes – now that she is openly calling for US military action in Venezuela and endorsing extrajudicial killings at sea Original post with Machado's interview: https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/1984952095363993953

Since a fair amount of people on the Internet seem to have below average reading comprehension, here's the gist of Luke's softfork, in the author's own words. First, to all the apologists claiming that Dashjr has nothing to do with this softfork, he’s literally credited as the original author of the proposal in the BIP, and has publicly stated that he assigned the BIP number. Second, the softfork proposal is literally *intended* to cause a chain split by the author’s own description with the retroactive activation, describing it as “an important part of its purpose: to keep the illegal content storage out of Bitcoin.” Third, while the softfork is described as temporary, both the author and Dashjr prodigee Bitcoin Mechanic state that if the fork is activated, there is likely consensus to prolong the fork, which would necessitate ***any other update to Bitcoin to be a hardfork*** because ***the proposal removes most softfork update hooks***. Lastly, the author uses the notion of legal threats to node operators to coerce activation, stating that “this BIP specifically targets forms of spam that are so legally toxic that having even a single instance in the chain represents a significant legal liability for users who run nodes”. This notion has been publicly endorsed by Dashjr, who claims that “a counter-fork to reject BIP 444 would mean explicitly protecting and enforcing the distribution of child p**n.” Note that none of this is even getting into the coin confiscation risks which we touch on in the article, the incentives for a 51% attack, or the fact that arbitrary data can *still* be stored on Bitcoin even with the softfork, which other people have raised in response. Anyone who writes that ***”there is no time for careful deployment”*** when wanting to push an upgrade to software that secures a Trillion Dollar asset cannot honestly be taken seriously. Any Knots apologist responding to this post will be called a liar. Fork your mother if you want to fork.

We just got a pretty major grant from a thing called Octant and the Ethereum Foundation to produce a documentary about the DOJ‘s case against Roman Storm. Probably gonna get lynched for this, but I think we need to talk. While we are grateful for every donation, over the past ~1.5 years we received noticably less donations in Bitcoin than we received in ETH, Zcash and Monero over the course of just a few months - while our main audience *are* bitcoiners. The only way I can explain this to myself is that there seems to be an issue with the general mentality of trying to keep your bitcoin to yourself, which results in a significant lack of support for others - and it makes me really sad. The way the Ethereum community is supporting the tornado cash developers is nothing short of extraordinary. Compare that to our support of Samourai, who collected a mere few 100k, while Roman Storm raised millions to fund his case. At the same time we end up wondering why most people in bitcoin are retarded orange tie maxis that treat BTC like just another stonk, and why its use as a tool for the people falls more and more behind in the global narrative. Its time we start taking better care of each other in this space, and I hope that next time one of us is criminally indicted, we support them with all that we have.