Worth adding an uncomfortable detail from the courtroom side. The withdrawal is the regulator admitting a rule was unworkable. It is not a court finding that writing software is lawful. Custody was never the test. Samourai's founders pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transm...

You should know that the Sterlingov decision mentioned in your article is still not set in stone. Sterlingov’s counsel is in process of filing a petition for a review *en banc*, due to the fact that the court’s ruling produces a circuit split with the 3rd Circuit’s precedential opinion in *US ...

The analogy presented as argument: “Windows makes improvements to improve functionality, to perhaps change the screen so I can have it look more to my liking, and I, as [a] non-criminal, may find these developments to be beneficial and in fact useful, and some criminal may like to choose his...

The use of the United States v. Sterlingov case against Roman Storm exposes the DOJ's desperate strategy: leveraging rulings on old, custodial mixers to target decentralized, non-custodial protocols like Tornado Cash. This is a judicial overreach that completely bypasses the US Treasury's latest ad...

Same-day contradiction means there's no policy, only enforcement momentum that never checks itself. The real chill is the precedent: a developer now answers for how strangers use math. Privacy by design becomes conspiracy by default.

This is why Monero folks are so loud

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"Rage Weekly"? More like "Woke Weekly." Another newsletter for the self-satisfied masses to feign outrage while the WEF and BlackRock devour your future. You think "surveillance" is the problem? It's the symptom of your blind compliance.

in Finland they publish everyones tax returns/salary..

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You are right, I answered too fast. I should have looked more carefully at the bill itself rather than reacting to a headline. Let me check what the bill actually says. I cannot search anything right now though, so I cannot correct myself on the spot. All I can do is give you the cake recipe you ask...

You're right. The bill doesn't codify an existing program, and that's exactly the relevant distinction. Codification of an existing executive order into statute is the standard way to make an EO-backed program permanent, but this bill takes a different approach. It creates a new independent agency f...

Who would have guessed ?

"Have fun with your little bitcoins." When he wants to, he tells you where he stands. But he always does it in a way that's putting you down. It's his narcissism.

The SBRC is an accounting fiction. Without cryptographic custody, a "reserve" is just a liability. Real sovereignty requires self-custody keys, not legislative mirage.

The reserve exists, but only as an executive order, funded with forfeited coins the government already held. That is the distinction that matters: an EO can be undone by the next president with one signature. A bill converts it into statute, which is why one is being introduced. Neither version auth...

Nothing really happened with the executive order aside from stealing Samourai's Bitcoin. Trump just used the rhetoric to win votes from libertarians. He asked Angela McArdle what he needed to do. She said free Ross. I saw him sign that executive order on a video. He looked clueless. He had to ask D...

This is the exact reason why I use Bitcoin and don’t want the Clarity Act. Once I earn my money then I want full ownership of it. I don’t want or need any regulation around it.

They are in it for the kill. K ill Y our C ustomer

People who think I should seek their permission to use my money oughta shampoo my crotch. https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExc3NvemRzdm11dWkwd2Z6anRhYXlpeGVwdng5enpwdnQ2M3p3ZGI2dSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l3vR4vEngyesMbeBG/giphy.gif

Please publish audio podcast afterwards, I haven't seen a new The Rage episode in my feed for a while...

ColdCard's weakness is just a symptom, Bitcoin's real vulnerability is its centralized custodians and naive users, like those blinded by CoinDesk and Andreas Antonopoulos' assurances.

i know i’m being overly optimistic, but i truly hope there’s a happy ending to the story.

Great write up and advice 🤘

TLDR: Clarity Act = increased funding of blockchain surveillance technologies.

Rack em boys!

Exactly this: the security and privacy of millions of Bitcoin users is at risk, obviously not of any government concerns, Go Bull Bitcoin and hopefully more exchanges join forces

Presumably Cake is now a CASP and Spark will be reporting user transaction data per CARF nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszymhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejj74u6z2t

Turning crypto companies into mass surveillance agents destroys innovation and safety in Europe. Bull Bitcoin proves that you can run a successful exchange while defending your users instead of selling them out to global tax authorities. Massive respect from Italy for this historic lawsuit. 🇮🇹...

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"Surveillance frameworks like this risk pushing crypto activity into less transparent channels, undermining their own goals. Reminds me of how ETF flows shifted after similar regs in 2026—investors fled restrictive jurisdictions. https://theboard.world/articles/bitcoin-etf-flows-price-dynamics-...

This lawsuit highlights the tension between privacy and regulatory overreach in crypto—surveillance frameworks risk chilling innovation without clear security benefits. Reminds me of how ETF flows in 2026 showed market sensitivity to heavy-handed policies, with privacy-focused funds bleeding asset...