Federal Reserve official Kashkari says "very few transactions happen on crypto, unless it's drugs or illegal activity."
99% of my bitcoin transactions have been to buy legal products.
99% of my bitcoin transactions have been to buy things other than drugs.
🤷♂️
I think:
- Human trafficking
- Drugs
- Weapons
- Hitmen
- Warfare
- Pederasty
- Prostitution
And in general any type of crime is paid in dollars or local fiat currency.
Kashkari should watch less cyberpunk movies 😂 🤡 .
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I've seen many people link to an artist who plays the guitar while performing percussion with the same guitar as if he were a genius, little music have you heard.
This is a genius, Paco de Lucia.
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Are you aware that the US and many other governments are storing absolutely all the data you leave on the internet?
From your history of websites visited, your comments on social networks, your photos, your bank details, your tax data, the calls you make, absolutely everything.
All that is stored until they need to accuse you of something or spy on you for some reason.
Besides, now, with the fake artificial intelligence, it is very easy to analyze this data and correlate them.
Humans have become very predictable thanks to all the data they have on us, the riots are over, the government has perfected the boiled frog syndrome to the extreme.
It's a bit hopeless, I think we will eventually end up agreeing with the unabomber.
Technology is making us more and more slaves. We need cryptography to protect us from the government, but maybe we should involute in some aspects, especially social ones. Return to the countryside and create a more atomized society with circular economies and cryptography.
Los que lucharon en la Guerra Civil española y levantaron el país tras la guerra cobraron una mierda de pensión; ellos fueron los hombres fuertes que crearon tiempos buenos.
Los boomers son sus hijos, y son los que más pensión cobran en comparación con el sueldo medio de los jóvenes; son los que reciben más dinero del que han aportado, y son los hombres débiles que han creado malos tiempos.
Saylor thinks you are a paranoid crypto anarchist if you hold your own keys and don't trust the government.
He has always been a bad actor, I will repeat it as many times as necessary.
https://m.primal.net/LcwW.mp4
Yet another example that to get privacy in cryptocurrencies you need privacy at the blockchain level and privacy at the network level.
This last point is not understood by most people, and it is not only enough to use tor, even ecash (cashu) is vulnerable to this.
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The attacks in ln are different since the data is encrypted and no record is kept in any blockchain, plus the routing complicates everything (it is similar to the Tor network) attacks can come more from channel probing or from the logs of an LSP.
Yet another example that to get privacy in cryptocurrencies you need privacy at the blockchain level and privacy at the network level.
This last point is not understood by most people, and it is not only enough to use tor, even ecash (cashu) is vulnerable to this.
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I am being transparent in my analysis, and assuming my mistakes, you are not and inventing nonsense.
You are ignorant and a danger to privacy.
To outline:
- Samourai Android does not manage tor identities.
- Sparrow has faulty management, so ultimately it does not manage tor identities either.
- the whirpool client manages the identities but reuses in the remix the input identity, therefore the outputs can be linked.
I will never understand the cult when privacy is at stake.
Accept that you have a flawed solution, you respond the same way you did when it was shown that you exposed the public key in your Android Wallet.
For the record, the whirpool-client code does have Tor identity management. The code I showed belongs to the new soroban implementation and I did not review the old client (very badly structured code). However neither the android app nor sparrow manage identities.
The android app because it is computationally expensive, hence one of the reasons why wasabi never had a phone client and sparrow because it was not implemented correctly.
I don't know what percentage of people were using said desktop client, but evidently everyone who has used the android client or sparrow has not been protected.
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I am not the only one, whirpool's shortcomings have been addressed before by others, both xpub exposure, lack of identity management, and key tagging vulnerabilities in signature management by the coordinator.
When I refer to sparrow it is using the whirpool function.
I've obviously never used that shit, from the very beginning it has had several red flags.
I only used it with Sparrow (which is also useless).
I'm just checking the code.
By the way the whirpool client code reuses the incoming tor connection.
In any mix you have made you can tag inbound and outbound even though it uses a new connection on the outbound.
Holy crap.
You have no idea what you are talking about:
- if you make a mix with samourai the coordinator knows ip in and out which is the same
- if you do a mix with sparrow and remix the same thing happens.
- if you remix with the whirpool client since they reuse the input connection you have the same problem again.
I have proved it to you, don't repeat the same lies of Samourai.
I am being transparent in my analysis, and assuming my mistakes, you are not and inventing nonsense.
To outline:
- Samourai Android does not manage tor identities.
- Sparrow has faulty management, so ultimately it does not manage tor identities either.
- the whirpool client manages the identities but reuses in the remix the input identity, therefore the outputs can be linked.
I will never understand the cult when privacy is at stake.
Accept that you have a flawed solution, you respond the same way you did when it was shown that you exposed the public key in your Android Wallet.
"Stop lying, we will never use fake coinjoins protocols."
You just talk nonsense, but you prove nothing.
Answer me, if the android app has tor off by default, if you also filter the xpub, what good is coinJoin?
Answer me, if I enable tor, what good is it if it does not manage identities and the coordinator correlates the incoming and outgoing ip?
Answer me, if I use the desktop client for remixing, what good is it if it generates a new outgoing identity if I constantly refuse the incoming identity?
Answer me, what's the point of using sparrow if it doesn't handle tor identities?
The cult is the most important thing for you.
I don't promote anything, I study the different methods and use combinations of them.
From coinjoin, statechains, lightning, swaps, even Monero.
Those of you who are closed minded and worship are the followers of a tool that is a disaster like Samourai.
Well, it's honestly a really difficult question and it depends largely on who you are protecting yourself against.
A three-letter agency is not the same as a national government or any user.
For the record, the whirpool-client code does have Tor identity management. The code I showed belongs to the new soroban implementation and I did not review the old client (very badly structured code). However neither the android app nor sparrow manage identities.
The android app because it is computationally expensive, hence one of the reasons why wasabi never had a phone client and sparrow because it was not implemented correctly.
I don't know what percentage of people were using said desktop client, but evidently everyone who has used the android client or sparrow has not been protected.
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If we are talking about privacy in chain, wabisabi from my point of view is the one that gives the best privacy, besides solving the problem of toxic change.
It would be great if in the desktop client you could pay through coinjoin without having to depend on BTCPay Server.
I love Nostr, being able to speak your mind without fear of being censored or banned.
The Nostr protocol is as undervalued or more than Bitcoin.
It's the ideal space for real journalists, for activists and for any crazy guy like me 😂.
Different consensus rules is badly expressed by me, using different implementations to Core favors consensus, you avoid dictatorship and manipulation of the rules by a group.
The example is that Core does not filter spam properly with either the datacarrier or op_return option. Knots filters it.
Prometheus surprised me, it was fresh air despite being an alien prequel.
Alien: Romulus disappointed me, same old formula, human on ship, alien enters ship, alien breeds, alien chases human, human kills alien.
The European Union is the consequence of the German defeat in World War II.
The European Union was created to subjugate above all Germany to the interests of the Anglo-Saxon world.
While the United States embraces Bitcoin, Europe rejects it, think why.
In neo-communism (current democratic system) it is difficult to draw the line or discern between state and big capital (corporations and central banks).
All work in unison, an example is Blackrock whose largest shareholder is Vanguard and Vanguard whose largest shareholder is Blackrock.
At the same time the major shareholders of large companies such as Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, etc. are Blackrock and Vanguard.
On the other hand Blackrock and Vanguard have power groups that pressure governments to legislate and regulate in their favor avoiding among other things competition and free market.
And finally, we have the central banks that through the printing of money and in collaboration with the states make the worker lose purchasing power using the CPI tool (not linked to real inflation).
All this conglomerate that I call neo-communism has only one goal, and that is to keep the masses on the verge of poverty in order to subjugate them and make them sufficiently productive for the achievement of their interests without killing them.
The vice of power has no limits.
This is a total declaration of war by the ECB towards Bitcoin, this is totally ridiculous and demonstrates the moral character of the European Union.
Evolution always comes first, it is natural law, this logic applied by the ECB is totally anti-evolutionary and will lead to the demise of the European Union. Wanting to deny the natural law of the first is pure and simple communism and discourages any entrepreneurship.
That we Bitcoiners are stealing wealth from others? That we bitcoiners will provoke social division? Those who cause social division are you murderous buracrats who create wars, those who steal are you communist bureaucrats with your abusive taxes.
The only thing that is happening is that people are stopping using your fake money, Bitcoin is no longer a child's game, this moment I knew it would come, now it's time to be men, firm men, men with honor, men of conviction, it's time to fight for our dignity.
European Bitcoiners, this is war.
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In Italy they have just imposed a 42% tax on Bitcoin, now they publish this paper, everything seems to be coordinated to try to destroy Bitcoin through regulation and taxes.
by @tuur
This new paper is a true declaration of war: the ECB claims that early #bitcoin adopters steal economic value from latecomers. I strongly believe authorities will use this luddite argument to enact harsh taxes or bans. Check 🧵 for why:
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Rather than praising bitcoin as a tech paradigm shift à la petroleum and the internet, the authors introduce the blatantly luddite argument that "early adopters" ... "increase their real wealth and consumption" ... "at the expense of [latecomers]".
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Then they go on to brazenly advocate for legislation ... "to prevent bitcoin prices from rising or to see bitcoin disappear altogether" in order to prevent "the division of society".
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The authors also model some projections, to illustrate the paltry amount of BTC that will remain available for latecomers. (Woe is me! Conspicuously left out is the reason that has driven 15 years of bitcoin adoption & development: it's simply better tech.)
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In all the years I've been monitoring the bitcoin space, this is by far the most aggressive paper to come from authorities. The gloves are off. It's clear that these central bank economists now see bitcoin as an existential threat, to be attacked with any means possible.
Many of us have warned that this was coming: bitcoin as a major political fault line both in national and international elections. Well here it is. It means that us HODLers must take action to insure that governments respect our basic right to hold property.
And no, this won't be a war between haves and have-nots. Rather this will be a historic clash between those who stand for the natural rights of the individual, and those who clutch at the failed ideologies of collectivism and central planning.
Here's the download link to the paper: "The distributional consequences of Bitcoin". (We need detailed rebuttals. Who's writing one?)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877
This is a total declaration of war by the ECB towards Bitcoin, this is totally ridiculous and demonstrates the moral character of the European Union.
Evolution always comes first, it is natural law, this logic applied by the ECB is totally anti-evolutionary and will lead to the demise of the European Union. Wanting to deny the natural law of the first is pure and simple communism and discourages any entrepreneurship.
That we Bitcoiners are stealing wealth from others? That we bitcoiners will provoke social division? Those who cause social division are you murderous buracrats who create wars, those who steal are you communist bureaucrats with your abusive taxes.
The only thing that is happening is that people are stopping using your fake money, Bitcoin is no longer a child's game, this moment I knew it would come, now it's time to be men, firm men, men with honor, men of conviction, it's time to fight for our dignity.
European Bitcoiners, this is war.
https://m.primal.net/Lajr.mp4nostr:note1ryq95x6uye0a6fwvk3h4gp99nyypm6rkpfyy5a4gfcxf2352sv3qfd09rj
This week the entries in the US ETFs have been more than 30000 Bitcoins, but the dynamics remain the same, that is, globally, we have barely moved and we are around 1.1 million Bitcoins held by the ETFs. What is happening is a relocation from one ETF to another.
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Fascists are communists at the national level, communists are communists at the international level, Western democracies are communists at the interplanetary level.
So much in common.
Fascism = communism = democracy
I don't know why you guys are fighting, deep down they are the same, they just want people's money.
When you find out that taxes were lower in the USSR than in Western democracies you might start to question things.
Democracy is just a label, if you think that by putting a piece of paper in a ballot box every 4 years you are free, you have a serious cognitive problem.
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