L0laL33tz
L0la L33tz

Independent Journalist. Bylines in too many places. "Anonymous Internet Commentator" –US Department of Justice. Writes therage.co

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2024-09-02 21:04:38

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Interesting, this is exactly how I feel about audio info – might as well be speaking Chinese to me. I hear the words but they don't compute.
The other day I asked someone for the results of the Eurocup games, and they read the stats off their phone to me. Had to ask them to repeat it four times. They thought I was retarded.

2024-08-28 15:08:46

I have been chasing this story since October 2023.
I spoke to sources in Gaza whose Binance accounts had been frozen – The addresses they provided were not listed in Israel's official seizure orders.
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I was then put in touch with Turkish and Saudi Arabian nationals whose Binance accounts were frozen, who were allegedly told to contact Israeli police.
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The claim that Binance is freezing all Palestinian accounts, to my knowledge, is not correct. And this is what kept the story from being published.
Palestinians in the Westbank appear to be unaffected, while Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were only affected so long they had a certain balance in their account. But we couldn't figure out what that threshold was, as communication into Gaza was effectively cut off.
So I reached out to other news outlets hoping that I'd get help investigating the story. I reached out to CoinDesk editor in chief Kevin Reynolds, both via email and on the personal phone number he gave me – and got ghosted.
I reached out to Forbes, who were initially interested in the story, but Forbes refused to let me publish under my pseudonym.
Just recently I reached out to Bennet Tomlin
and Cas Piancey of Protos and got ghosted there too.
In November 2023, a journalist from Reuters contacted my source to write about the account seizures, but dropped the story as well.
Binance owes us an explanation under what legal framework it seizes the accounts of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip not listed in official seizure orders, and under what legal framework it seizes the accounts of foreign nationals on behalf of the Israeli government.
#note17en…8f89

2024-08-27 11:43:58

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❤️‍✊ 🏴

2024-08-26 20:27:16

The French government's press release on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is completely unhinged. It not only references complicity in CSAM, money laundering, organized crime and drug trafficking, but also seems to state that Telegram did not acquire a license to provide "cryptology services".
This is interesting because France apparently *does* have regulations which require licenses for the distribution of cryptology unless used for authentication purposes, as governed by the Code de la Defense.
[Not a lawyer, just researching my way through this hot mess.]
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Full press release:
https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf
Full regulation on cryptology:
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000801164

2024-08-25 22:08:37

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🔥

2024-08-25 21:49:09

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nice!!

2024-08-25 21:08:40

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Oh no, it sounds like everything by Kathy Acker will now have to go on my reading list 📚 Thank you!

2024-08-25 20:57:54

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'Readers also enjoyed: Mark Fisher, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari' – vibe check complete 🤝

2024-08-25 20:35:35

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Greeks and Romans were statist cocksuckers, sorry not sorry

2024-08-25 20:25:30

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fuck yeah
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2024-08-25 20:13:21

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nice!

2024-08-25 20:09:07

Supremely bored by bitcoin Twitter's book recommendations. It's always the same thing – Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Ayn Rand, that sovereign individual, yawn, yawn, yawn.
I want books that make me think, not books that reinforce what I already know. Give me niche post-structuralists, anarchists and revolutionaries. Give me poets and weirdos and outcasts, not CIA funded neocon thinkbois. Escape the echo chamber, anon.

2024-08-25 13:02:05

Mental illness https://image.nostr.build/84e35a2932079cc35d3bb99a5ec4e304d8ffd8c1dc379c9a9bdf25970007d5f7.jpg

2024-08-23 09:55:02

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This is awesome, thank you for sharing!

2024-08-23 09:01:09

Deutsche Bank has terminated the account of a UN accredited human rights activist.
AML/CFT laws are routinely weaponized to silence dissent without any recourse or due process. It's the outsourcing of policing powers to private institutions without democratic oversight, where the presumption of innocence and right to fair trial do not exist.
AML/CFT needs to be abolished today.
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2024-08-20 08:18:15

The National Crime Agency is making some pretty bold claims on cryptocurrency and end-to-end encryption, but provides no data to back up its claims. I filed a freedom of information request to find out how it came up with its conclusions.
Make FOIA your self care routine 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/ca035847523e43058be6f98059ca968ac77fc24efa0af6541497c7f0811e0247.jpg

2024-08-19 13:44:19

Oh boy. The UK National Crime Agency's latest Risk Assessment finds "cryptoassets are increasingly used to launder non-digital proceeds of crime" and names increased risks to children through end-to-end encryption.
The only problem: the assessment provides no concrete data to backup its claims and stands in direct contrast to industry findings.
You will be surveilled and you will be happy, even though we are terminally incapable of publicly demonstrating a need for increased surveillance at all.
Source: trust us bro.
https://www.therage.co/uk-nca-national-risk-assessment-2024/

2024-08-18 14:39:54

"So how's it going with your Bitcoin thing"
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2024-08-15 18:20:13

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It's where the boomers battle over who has the most retarded lingo
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2024-08-15 18:18:00

But can it get any worse?
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#note15w8…lghw

2024-08-15 17:51:35

You dummies are getting played like a fiddle
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2024-08-15 17:46:50

"I watched the Crypto4Harris town hall, let's make bitcoin bipartisan!"
lol, lmao
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2024-08-15 17:42:22

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Hi! Not an expert in monopoly breakups, but cory has some good thoughts on this https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/

2024-08-13 20:39:26

🤝
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2024-08-11 23:17:51

I need a nap and 2 million dollars

2024-08-11 22:53:49

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2024-08-11 22:52:45

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🤝

2024-08-11 22:16:33

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See ya there

2024-08-11 22:00:31

While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.
The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.
The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.
It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".
While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".
Full story:
https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/

2024-08-09 22:26:24

The US just recommended a 30-year prison sentence for alleged Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov.
Sterlingov's case became known as the case to "put cryptocurrency tracing on trial", as much of the evidence presented was collected using Chainalysis' blockchain analysis software Reactor – The prosecution "haven’t pointed to any smoking-gun digital evidence retrieved from Sterlingov’s possessions or devices", as WIRED reported following Sterlingov's arrest.
Chainalysis described Sterlingov's guilty verdict as setting precedent for "Chainalysis blockchain analytics being used by prosecutors as evidence when they take criminals to court", arguing that the verdict "affirms the ways in which our solutions have become the industry standard, made possible by our partners in government who use our tools everyday to fight illicit activity".
The only problem: experts believe that the government's got the wrong guy, and that the jury has convicted a user of Bitcoin Fog as its operator – arguing that Chainalysis' tools are "flawed" and "shouldn't be trusted to convict defendants when they face decades in prison".
2024 is the year of dangerous precedents in which not just your right to privacy is on the line, but the very question of how much science matters in a court of law when it comes to BTC.
All the tea:
https://www.therage.co/bitcoin-fog-sentencing/

2024-08-09 11:58:08

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hahah no its SP – the scanning works fine, it just stops as soon as i close the app even though background sync is turned on. The UI toggler is also super sensitive for SP scanning so sometimes it turns off by accident, if you can link me to the github repo happy to make a bug report

2024-08-09 08:32:34

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I'm on a friend's server so that shouldn't be the problem, but my background sync doesn't work on iOS 😞 not sure if thats a known issue, lmk if there's a fix

2024-08-08 11:38:49

I wake up ♻️ More blocks to scan
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2024-08-04 19:20:40

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🤝

2024-08-04 19:15:28

I want to very sincerely thank the anon that donated +1M sats last week to The Rage. Your contributions are what make independent journalism possible.
We are currently fundraising to be able to cover the Samourai Wallet and Tornado Cash trials in September and December in NYC. If you value independent reporting, please consider donating to our Geyser Fund.
https://geyser.fund/project/therage

2024-08-04 19:04:19

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🫡

2024-08-04 19:01:27

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Yep, for every Euro:
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/how-financial-surveillance-threatens-our-democracies-part-2

2024-08-04 18:57:39

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🤔 does it work now?

2024-08-04 18:48:59

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2024-08-04 18:38:36

As the democrats are jumping on the bitcoin train, let's look at the relationship between AML and social justice.
Power asymmetries emerge more easily where consent is easiest to coerce. As long as we can manufacture opinion to an extent that serves our needs – such as the widely held belief that dragnet financial surveillance is necessary to maintain liberal democracy – dominance is imminent, particularly when it goes unnoticed.
This ignorance is AML’s superpower - so much so that a party vowing to end inequality can reconcile its commitments to policies that exacerbate the divide it allegedly aims to overcome.
AML is the systematic rounding up of entire groups of people for collective punishment for the doings of a few; in political philosophy, we call this fascism. AML is the opposite of social – and it definitely isn’t just.
84% of people view homelessness a very or fairly serious problem - but if you don’t have a home, you can’t get a bank account, and if you can’t get a bank account, you can’t get a home. Yet democrats continue to rally behind increasing AML/CFT regulations.
Last year, US financial institutions reported compliance costs of $85 Billion. Eight in ten democrats believe that efforts to ensure racial equality have not gone far enough, but the reason for racial inequality in banking – and therefore much of the rest of life – are increasingly exorbitant compliance costs raising minimum account requirements, keeping millions of households unbanked.
Politicians talking about Bitcoin may excite you, but we shouldn’t lose track of why we’re excited about Bitcoin.
Subscribe for free or read all issues online:
https://www.therage.co/rage-weekly-on-aml-and-social-justice/

2024-08-02 10:07:32

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2024-08-01 16:59:48

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2024-08-01 15:19:30

GM, FATF has issued a new report claiming that „Virtual Assets are increasingly used by terrorist groups“.
The only problem: Their statement is directly contradicted in their own report and lacks any corroborating data to back it up, while highlighting that *a lack of data* – particularly for peer-to-peer transactions – remains a main challenge to FATF compliance.
Of course, that doesn’t stop FATF from recommending that all jurisdictions „act rapidly“ to implement the FATF Travel Rule, which requires ‚VASPs‘ and financial institutions to „obtain, hold, and transmit specific originator and beneficiary information immediately and securely when transferring Virtual Assets“ to address the „emerging and increasing risks“ which, again, cannot be corroborated by the report itself.
It is unbelievable that an organization with *such* low standards is being taken seriously at all, never mind allowed to guide the implementation of AML/CFT around the world.
Full Story:
https://www.therage.co/fatf-report-finds-virtual-assets-increasingly-used-by-terrorist-groups/

2024-07-29 16:10:11

GM fellow money launderers, let’s start the week with some great news.
The House has passed the „Financial Technology Protection Act of 2023“, which will establish an „independent working group“ consisting of representatives from the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI as well as representatives from „Blockchain Intelligence“ to report on and propose regulation and legislation to combat the use of „digital assets and other relating technologies“ in money laundering and terrorist financing.
The Bill aims to „provide a forum for engagement between federal law enforcement and intelligence professionals, and private sector technologists and researchers“ – It’s primary concerns lie "with digital asset platforms that have 'substantially deficient' anti-money laundering programs that operate outside of the U.S.".
In case it isn't clear, the Financial Technology Protection Act is the fox guarding the hen house. If the Bill becomes law, we should all get ready for some extraordinarily „independent“ findings on the use of Bitcoin in money laundering and terrorism.
Full Story:
https://www.therage.co/house-passes-bill-to-establish-independent-crypto-working-group-feat-cia-dhs-blockchain-intelligence/

2024-07-28 22:17:25

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In my educated opinion your presidential elections are a joke

2024-07-28 21:38:36

Those of you who have paid close attention to Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024 may have noticed that the former President – accidentally or intentionally – appears to have given away a lot more on his plans for the future of Bitcoin than meets the eye.
Despite his assurances to protect open source development and self-custody in the US, Trump is first and foremost a national security president, highlighted by his remarks on terrorism and immigration. A loosening of AML/CFT laws, which currently see several open-source developers under indictment, seems unlikely (though a democrat law enforcement officer in the White House may arguably not do us any better).
During Trump's past presidency, the US passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which increased penalties for AML/CFT offenses and established beneficial ownership requirements for LLCs to FinCEN.
While Trump vetoed the NDAA, it appears that he did not do so due to the AMLA2020, but rather because the NDAA kept Trump from his crusade to repeal Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which protects Internet Service Providers from liability for information hosted and transmitted.
According to Trump, Section 230 is a "national security risk" which "will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct".
If you had hoped that a Trump presidency would reduce the risks of developers being held liable for "illicit activity", you may do best in thinking again – "Broadcasting" 'illicit transactions' is precisely what Samourai Wallet currently stands accused of, which would hardly be arguable under the striking of Section 230.
Between incoherent ramblings on god, AI, and electric cars, Trump essentially used his 50-minute speaking slot to introduce The Bitcoin Dollar between the lines: a CBDC alternative to expand US hegemony beyond the petrodollar system directly into consumer wallets across the planet.
Don't forget that the vast space between your ears is intelligence's field of play. For Trump, Bitcoin is merely a tool to "extend the dominance of the US Dollar to new frontiers all around the world", and if his speech showed us anything, its that you are nothing more than another pawn at the end of the identity politics chessboard, where a banner hangs that reads: Congratulations, you’ve been played.
This Rage Weekly is out featuring a full opinion on the much anticipated Trump speech at Bitcoin 2024. Subscribe for free or read all issues online:
https://www.therage.co/strap-in-for-the-bitcoin-dollar/

2024-07-28 09:00:43

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Hi, thank you! Afaiu whats novel about their suggested approach is that they propose for this data to be fed into a ML algorithm shared across institutions (and likely jurisdictions) to build a „behavioral map“. Something like Palantir‘s Gotham comes to mind, which has been penalized/ruled unconstitutional in several EU jurisdictions as it recycles data collected for specific purposes. If you ever want to talk, my DMs are open ;)

2024-07-27 09:48:43

Bitcoin 2024, summarized: cheering on politicians wanting to confiscate private property and build Billion dollar bitcoin reserves financed by your tax money. Who's the communist now, dumbfucks.

2024-07-27 09:42:18

We all need to be very aware that what @npub1sn0…jdv9 is describing here is not some distant dystopian future. It's our dystopian reality.
In May, Elliptic, together with researchers from MIT and IBM, developed a dataset to identify "the shape of money laundering" on the blockchain.
This dataset attempts to predict money laundering activity that has "not yet been labeled" by distinguishing between what the dataset defines as "anomalous signatures" and Bitcoin transfers between "licit services".
Falling out of these clusters deemed normal by intelligence financed corporations already leaves you penalized. Avoid KYC services? Flagged. Can't tie your transactions to a bank account? Flagged. Frequent user of coinjoins? Flagged.
You are already being debanked because a computer program has decided that you are a money launderer – not because you did something illegal, but because your transactions are deemed abnormal – and you have no legal recourse as suspicious activity reports swear financial institutions to absolute secrecy.
It's the full on criminalization of privacy in finance. The future is here, and it's Orwellian.
https://m.primal.net/JgAW.mp4

2024-07-25 23:16:43

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👋 👋 👋

2024-07-25 15:56:58

Nostr nuked my following list, pls drop some 🧡 if we are friends

2024-07-25 14:40:08

Playing around with this new Alby Hub thing and honestly its incredible to me how far we've come in Lightning.
Six years ago I was running a RaspiBlitz in my bedroom that almost caught fire, today you can zap me straight to my self-custodial wallet where I can manage my channels in two clicks from my browser. Bullish that Lightning self-custody can be this easy.
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2024-07-24 16:33:43

With Proton's plans to build a Whirlpool client, it seems obvious that their decision on whether or not to follow through will hinge on the outcome of the Samourai Wallet trial – But the Tornado Cash trial is arguably much more important to Proton's potential coinjoin plans.
Samourai Wallet stands accused of conspiracy to money laundering – in part thanks to their rather entertaining Twitter posts – and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money service business – mainly pertaining to the operation of the Whirlpool coinjoin coordinator.
This should effectively only minimally influence Proton's decision on whether or not to build a Whirlpool client, as a client and a coordinator are technically different things, and obviously you can't just be arrested for writing a user interface... or can you?
One of the main arguments made in the Tornado Cash trial is that TC maintained a User Interface that enabled people to access the Tornado Cash protocol. In the Tornado Cash trial, the prosecution is deliberately attempting to equate control over a UI to control over the software itself, trying to paint the development of UIs for privacy software as a conspiracy to commit multiple alleged felonies.
These allegations stem directly from FATF recommendations, which attempt to classify anyone as a money transmitter who is "a central party with some measure of involvement of control," such as "developing user interfaces for accounts holding an administrative "key".
If Roman Storm and Roman Semenov are found guilty of conspiracy to money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed MSB, and conspiracy to commit sanctions violations in the US on the basis of the prosecution's claims, then *anyone* building user interfaces for self-custodial privacy software could be next – including Proton if a Whirlpool client is built.
Learn more about how your rights are at risk in the Tornado Cash trial, see both cases from a FATF perspective, and consider donating to Roman Storm's defense (in ETH) (dumb comments on shitcoins will be ignored as this is not the time for your retarded tribalism):
https://juicebox.money/@defend-roman-storm
https://www.therage.co/why-your-rights-are-at-stake-in-the-tornado-cash-trial/
https://www.therage.co/meet-fatf-the-financial-bullies-memberclub/

2024-07-24 15:14:15

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I'd imagine that the plan is to do something similar to what WW is doing today, offering an interface to connect to a third party coordinator. Since the SW coordinator is down we'll have to wait and see whether they'll flock to WabiSabi, if the SW coordinator comes back online after trial (in case running software is still legal then), or whether other coordinators for Whirlpool will pop up. I'd imagine that this also depends strongly on how the Tornado Cash trial turns out where they're trying to criminalize building UIs for privacy services.
For WabiSabi there are already a few coordinators with decent liquidity, which imo is the better choice as its easier to protect your xpub in a lightweight client but bullish nontheless
https://wasabist.io/

2024-07-24 14:54:20

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They removed all TBD before release

2024-07-24 14:26:07

@npub18q5…rs6f planning a rust Whirlpool client LFG
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https://github.com/ProtonWallet/andromeda/blob/ed40ce30615d1f39cbecbf6b40a22310cc8562b4/README.md

2024-07-24 13:23:49

This is the way @npub18q5…rs6f
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2024-07-24 11:07:06

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What's interesting is that the majority of their proposal (access to IP addresses, device IDs, data retention) is completely illegal under EU GDPR 🥰

2024-07-23 20:30:05

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hmmm i just updated the LN address to the Geyser address, I wonder why that's not working

2024-07-23 20:06:44

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does it work now?

2024-07-23 19:58:30

Imagine you had to verify your social media profiles in order to get a bank account. This is what the world's biggest banks are proposing in order to combat the complete ineffectiveness of their own AML programs as found in a statement by the AML/CFT consortium Wolfsberg Group.
Full story: https://www.therage.co/banks-aml-inefficient-access-to-social-media/

2024-07-16 17:37:45

The Tornado Cash trial against Roman Storm is not a trial against one person. It is a trial against us all.
Is the right to financial privacy protected by the US Constitution? And will code remain classified as free speech? Will we turn the law on its head by arguing that those seeking to keep their private life private must be guilty until proven innocent, and that any person aiding in such undertaking is deemed guilty of conspiracy to commit a crime, because criminals want privacy too?
Who is criminally liable for the anonymizing of funds taking place via Tornado Cash today? Does money equal speech?
The questions posed by the Tornado Cash trial are as broad as they are significant and will define how the US Constitution is applied to the digital age.
Full rundown of the case by David Z. Morris 👇
https://www.therage.co/why-your-rights-are-at-stake-in-the-tornado-cash-trial/

2024-07-08 10:18:24

AML/CFT laws make you less safe. Not more.
In 2022, 78% of European banks experienced a data breach. Yet AML/CFT laws continue to attempt to mandate increasing amounts of data collection, from IP Addresses to social media activities. This data is routinely targeted, exploited, and sold on dark markets.
In honor of gigabrain takes like "We NeEd SuRrVeiLlAnCe To FiGhT CrImE", this Rage Weekly I compiled a list of 40+ recent data breaches involving the leak of personal data – just in case anyone tries to tell you that increased surveillance leads to an increase in security.
Full list 👉 https://www.therage.co/rage-weekly-data-breach-special/

2024-07-06 09:52:32

Good morning. Today is a good day. The US Government has agreed to release TDev on bail according to a letter filed on July 3rd.
TDev's defense makes incredibly smart arguments, stating that the US Government's prosecution is as "aggressive as it is expansive, akin to charging Apple for cybercrimes commited with MacBooks. And like such a charge, it impermissibly uses criminal law to affect policy change. He is facing charges he can, should, and will contest at trial."
Putting the charges in context, the defense states that "to stop Bitcoin wallet providers from providing privacy and security services, or to force them to police their customers as banks must, the government has not sought to change the law, or even FinCEN’s guidance on it."
The letter states that the US Government "has prosecuted individuals operating a service they had every reason to believe was legal, and stretched to decorate the charges with decontextualized quotes that attempt to sketch out their agreement to criminal transactions the government does not allege they knew about in advance or explicitly agreed to".
Full article:
https://www.therage.co/william-hill-release-on-bail/

2024-07-02 08:48:55

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2024-07-02 07:23:48

GM, AML/CFT is the illicit activity 👇
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https://www.therage.co/weaponization-of-fatf-standards-rusi/

2024-06-26 22:02:39

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So we're still not talking about it. cool cool. thanks for clarifying where your organization stands on protecting opposition leaders comparing muslims to cockroaches and making promotional videos of shooting them though. priorities, i guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blsyFzpqDI

2024-06-26 21:36:09

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So is now the time to discuss how HRF has made no statements on Assange's persecution besides defaming him on Twitter or no
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2024-06-26 17:58:57

Lots of posts going around that Wikileaks has deleted the DNC Email leak as part of Assange's plea deal.
This is incorrect information. 👇
It is being reported due to a lack of context of the Saipan hearing published by the Australian newspaper The Age.
The Age's live report states that "The court hears the US lawyers are satisfied that Assange has undertaken a requirement to have WikiLeaks destroy the classified information."
This statement only pertains to unpublished classified information as well as to the extent it is in the control of Assange to evoke the destroying of such documents according to the plea agreement.
The DNC Email leak has been widely unavailable returning an internal server error since at least 2023. WL has had numerous server issues over the years - this is nothing new.
(Lots of people also conflating the DNC leak with the Clinton Email leak; these are two separate things.) Let's normalize to always check official sources.
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2024-06-19 17:19:01

If the EU had its way, self-custody, the Lightning Network, and any type of transaction obfuscation - including coinjoins - would soon be illegal in the EU.
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#ChatControl is the first step in building compliance for a totalitarian mass-surveillance regime, in which none of your digital communications can be kept safe.
Chat Control is set to be greenlit by the EU tomorrow. It aims to establish the voluntary-in-name-only scanning of all digital messaging, from dating apps to E2EE messengers on your phone to automatically report suspicious activity to the police.
If providers choose to opt-out of chat control, users will be prohibited from sending photo and video content – because think of the children – Greatly impacting our freedom to communicate without having all of our messages scanned.
Here's what you can do. Sway votes for Chat Control include Italy, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia, and the Czech Republic. Contact your EU representatives today and let them know what you think of their mass-surveillance plans (you can do so by email).
Chat Control needs to be stopped, or it will only get worse from here.
Find your contacts:
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/REPRES_PERM/REPRES_PERM
Read the full article:
https://www.therage.co/eus-going-dark-takes-aim-at-self-custody-mixers-and-the-lightning-network/

2024-06-18 20:49:04

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Thanks for letting me know, should work again now!

2024-06-18 16:25:27

Bitcoin journalism is fucked.
I started The Rage because I'm tired of investors and advertisers telling me what to do for below minimum wage compensation.
What we need are publications willing to let journalists investigate the crap out of the companies, representatives and people enabling the building of surveillance tech behind the scenes.
What we get are publications selling out to corporations, startups and politicians writing public relations puff pieces to keep their returns on track. The point of journalism is to hold power to account, not to become its bedfellow.
There is no lack of talented, experienced, investigative journalists covering bitcoin. The problem is that they write what the powers that be don't want you to hear – so many are out of a job, dabbling away at the next press release for mainstream media, or doing below-minimum wage contract work to pay the bills.
I'm incredibly overwhelmed by all the positive feedback we've been getting for The Rage. In just 8 weeks we've scooped major publications and drove discussions around AML, Samourai and Tornado Cash together with your help. We've even made enough to cover operations with almost 400$ raised, thanks to all the zappers out there.
But here's the thing. I didn't come here to write a good piece every once in a while leaving stories untold left and right because I can't afford to focus on investigations full time. I came here to fuck up the financial surveillance complex. That's why The Rage now needs your help.
We're trying to raise 0.25BTC so we can contract the best investigative journalists in the Bitcoin space to tell the stories that major publications can't afford to print.
If you value your financial freedom, please consider donating via our Geyser fund. We cannot do this without your help.
https://geyser.fund/project/therage
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2024-06-18 12:00:35

My toxic trait is being convinced that banks shouldn't be allowed to collect any information from you to let you open an account, GM 💅

2024-06-17 12:20:21

Good Morning, it's been almost 2 months since the Samourai Wallet
arrests and there is still no sign of TDev in the justice system.
I want to know why there is no public case filed against TDev (cross-referencing United States v. Ver whom the US is also seeking to extradite), so I sent the SDNY and PJ some more questions.
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2024-06-16 22:24:30

Rage Weekly 07 is out: a Racist, a Eugenicist, and a Stablecoin Issuer Walk into a Bar. We cover:
🧨 Stablecoins eye end of petro dollar
🧨 SBF may have funded eugenicists
🧨 Binance intern makes questionable tweet
🧨 SEC closes offices for lying
🧨 Mastercard to introduce biometric login
🧨 Consensus OFAC Panel
🧨 Trump says dumb stuff ab #bitcoin
🧨 Biden does dumb stuff w #bitcoin
🛫 and more
Subscribe for free or read all issues online 🧡
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https://www.therage.co/a-racist-a-eugenicists-and-a-stablecoin-issuer-walk-into-a-bar/

2024-06-16 18:44:57

The EU's latest mass-surveillance initiative Going Dark is taking aim at the Lightning Network, 'mixers' and self-custody in its latest encryption report, but still lacks fundamental data to back up its claims that more surveillance does equal more security.
The EU's apparent regulatory strategy of "we'll just say things and hope no one notices" now seems to continue to manifest in its evaluation of financial privacy services.
https://www.therage.co/eus-going-dark-takes-aim-at-self-custody-mixers-and-the-lightning-network/
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2024-06-14 14:50:46

Must read on Samourai Wallet pointing out the DOJ's inconsistencies in argumentation and the dangers of the case for all Bitcoin businesses. 👇
https://blog.ronindojo.io/freesamourai/
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2024-06-13 10:40:37

A lot of people seem to see voting for trump as „the lesser of two evils“, wondering what else they can do to protect their bitcoin from regulatory overreach.
But the US isnt „the greatest country in the world“ because of its presidents - if anything, it is *in spite* of them.
The US government consists of more than the presidency. It has a fairly well working judiciary in place, which exists to help the people hold the government accountable and ensure that no laws will be passed infringing on your rights (doesnt always work but often does).
From a legal perspective, the US is a great place for bitcoin due to its laws around free speech and enterprise, which enshrines the use and ownership of bitcoin not just as property, but as a tool for communication.
The problem ergo isnt the politicians. The problem is your own complete political apathy when it comes to anything other than elections.
If you want to protect your bitcoin, stop spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours supporting political candidates who will say anything to get your votes only to drop you like a hot potato once elected. Instead, use that time and money to boycott and organize - its what the system was designed for.
There are enough grounds to sue the US government, private citizens, companies and institutions if the right to own, use or interact with bitcoin was to be infringed, and its how the majority of civil liberties were established.
Ending racial segregation in schools didnt happen by presidential decree - it happend through Brown vs. Board of Education. The right to an attorney: Gideon v Wrainwright. Interracial marriage: Loving v Virginia. Burning of the US flag as speech: Texas v Johnson. Right to abortion (though now overturned): Roe v Wade. Same sex marriage: Obergefell v Hodges. Porn on the internet: ACLU v Reno.
You have rights, and you need to stop thinking that you are powerless without some babbling politician to enforce them. Spend the time and money on grassroots organizing, which is much more in the spirit of bitcoin anway. Politicians hate this trick.

2024-06-12 20:30:02

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you should try looking up editorial independence, that should help

2024-06-12 16:42:49

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Did a quick image search before posting so I don't think so, but there's enough more to choose from if that helps with your conscience
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2024-06-12 15:18:55

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Read the article, shut your mouth

2024-06-12 14:57:26

After 20 years of forever wars, growing social decline and exacerbating economic demise, it seems that we are still immune to learning that politicians lie.
Most politicians run from responsibility like a fat kid from a diet plan, and electing an overweight billionaire won’t lessen the White House’s appetite for cake.
Voting for Trump may temporarily muffle the echo haunting that empty space between your ears as you convince yourself to at least have done _something_ to fulfill your imaginary patriotic duties, but it can’t change the moral corruption inherent to US politics – and it sure won’t change anything for Bitcoin.
When your morals can be bought, you are not a patriot – you are a sell out.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/orange-man-good-selling-out-on-the-campaign-trail-
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2024-06-11 10:46:20

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We have a weekly newsletter that goes out sunday night with new pieces, but Id def be down for doing RSS if someone tells me how!

2024-06-11 10:00:25

Quick appreciation post for everyone keeping The Rage going with zappers and donations 🧡

2024-06-09 20:35:41

Rage Weekly 06 is out! We cover:
💥 OpenCoordinator launch
💥 FreeSabi coordinator watch
💥 Samourai Wallet archives
💥 Coinbase PAC funding controversy
💥 LLC & Dev doxxing
💥 ArkV2 launch
💥 OpenCash launch
💥 Bonus: Hacking the SWIFT system
🛫 and more
Signup for free or read all issues online
https://www.therage.co/coinjoin-news-and-dev-doxxing/
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2024-06-05 16:01:22

CAN SOMEONE STOP THE INTERNET ARCHIVE DDOS I CANNOT WORK LIKE THIS

2024-06-05 10:22:44

In case you missed it, the Corporate Transparency Act has come into effect in the US. It is a slow-roll attack on financial privacy.
New fantastic piece by @npub15dn…3lfc👇
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https://www.therage.co/corporate-transparency-act-privacy-at-risk/

2024-06-02 21:22:17

Rage Weekly 05 Coinjoin Coordinator Special is out! We cover:
🚀 Wasabi Wallet Coordinator UI
🚀 Ginger Wallet launch & first coinjoin
🚀 Mutiny ecash desktop wallet
🚀 USD stablechannel demo
🚀 CATO on corporate surveillance, sorry I mean corporate transparency act
🚀 Surveillance in FIT21
🚀 KYC in Nigeria is out of control
🚀 Bonus: Saylor Swift sticker pack
and more!
Subscribe for free or read all issues online:
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https://www.therage.co/custom-coordinator-coordination-we-are-so-back/

2024-06-02 21:19:23

Update: Bitrefill has granted me a refund – thanks to everyone who drew attention to this. Have to say I am pretty disappointed that it took a public outrcry to get my money back, and I don't find this very fair treatment for people that may lack a public platform.
Still going to continue using their services as I've never had issues before, so I hope this will be the first and last time. Also hope that they'll work on improving their customer service and be more diligent in selection and description of products in the future to avoid situations like these for others.

2024-06-02 11:02:53

Wake up guys, there's a new coinjoin wallet in town.
Ginger Wallet is a fork of Wasabi Wallet with built-in coinjoin. This seems to be their coordinator: api.gingerwallet.io
I hope they'll launch a site like statistics.wasabiwallet.io to track liquidity – It doesn't seem quite ready for download yet, so I'd follow their Twitter and Telegram channel for updates and try adding the coordinator to the official WW client if it is active.
Remember to use new clients with caution, but guys, we are SO back.
https://gingerwallet.io/
https://github.com/GingerPrivacy/GingerWallet

2024-06-02 10:28:48

hey @npub1vad…nuu7 how does JM protect against Sybil attacks?

2024-06-01 20:03:48

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They just told me that they've expedited the issue, let's see what comes of it.

2024-06-01 19:46:36

Inb4 Bitcoin Magazine:
Wasabi Wallet launches custom coordinator selection. Where to find coordinators and how to use the service 👇
https://www.therage.co/wasabi-wallet-launches-ui-coordinator-selection/

2024-06-01 19:14:04

PSA on one of my favorite bitcoin companies (until today unfortunately).
Bitrefill has sold me prepaid mastercards from a company that appears to be a scam. Unfortunately bitrefill is not answering my DMs and customer support has been handwaving arguments all day. I'm honestly somewhere between angry, sad and disappointed and really at a lost for words rn, so I hope this helps me get my money back.
I bought several of these prepaid Mastercards on Bitrefill's site, advertised as ‚accepted anywhere Mastercard is accepted‘. Except they’re not accepted ‚anywhere Mastercard is accepted‘ – in fact, they are accepted nowhere returning 'this card is not recognized'.
So now my money is stuck, and Bitrefill says it can’t give it back because it sold me a valid giftcard coupon for a product that does not seem to be legitimate.
I’m a huge fan of bitrefill and have been using their services for years, so I’m extremely surprised that they would a) offer such a product in the first place and b) respond (or rather not respond) the way they did when being confronted with the problem.
It seems that bitrefill has done zero due diligence on this product and simply copy/pasted their marketing claims to their site. I have always trusted bitrefill to offer high quality products so I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it would be great if they could give me my money back after a series of very unsuccessful customer support contact with their team.
I have spent all day going through several mind bending headaches in attempts to retrieve my money which seems to be close to impossible looking at trust pilot reviews. As I’ve also shared with bitrefill's customer support agent, I’m not the only person who has had this experience with this card issuer, after which the bitrefill agent apparently decided to just stop responding.
My DMs are open to resolve this issue (and I hope bitrefill will take this product off of their site immediately).
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2024-06-01 09:47:27

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Thank you! I spoke with them yesterday and they‘ll see if they can help us

2024-06-01 09:32:22

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Oh boy

2024-06-01 09:31:23

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If you idea of freedom is what your government allows you may need to re-read your constitution

2024-05-31 14:36:15

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Thank you!

2024-05-31 14:35:13

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True, last time I checked bitcoin.org it also said "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Store of Value System" – Sorry that I missed this

2024-05-31 14:33:48

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I think this is a question a lot of people ask themselves. I think you should then ask: do you want an investment, or do you want freedom money?