So in case anyone is wondering, basically the gov says there can be no legal funds in a mixer bc they are in a mixer therefore operating a mixer is not illegal but if you operate a mixer you will be charged with a crime.

Hope that clears things up for everyone 👍

Gm

These are the problems that Bitcoin was meant to solve but unfortunately we are all busy whining about stablecoin yield

Got so excited about this that I had to tell my normie friend and she called me a fucking nerd

Someone send help

If you care about financial privacy, then this is probably the most important research you will read all year.

The Dutch Court of Audits has released a paper on the effectiveness of AML measures, and lo-and-behold: it found that there is no evidence that AML actually works.

These laws are what are used to debank law-abiding citizens, throw developers in prison, surveil every transaction you make, and collect your identity in central databases that end up hacked.

Governments have built a complete and total surveillance dragnet around your finances under the guise of AML, and this Dutch Court just said the quiet part out loud:

AML is discriminatory, overly expensive, and we have no proof of it stopping crime.

Scheduling twitter posts over tor browser is so hilarious bc twitter wont let you change the time zone and grabs it from your exit node

2pm greenwich time? No idea what that is, lets go

If you are a user or developer of non-custodial privacy software, you should be extremely fucking angry right now.

A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit against Pam Bondi, in which a developer laid out that the US Government's prosecution of non-custodial privacy devs was keeping him from publishing his own non-custodial privacy software, directly affecting his freedom of speech.

The court today found that this is not true, claiming that the developer is not at risk of prosecution because "he says he just develops software," "he wouldn't knowingly transmit illicit proceeds," and "TODD BLANCHE ISSUED A MEMO PROMISING THAT DOJ WOULDNT PROSECUTE DEVELOPERS ANYMORE."

This is EXACTLY what Roman Storm was arguing: he just published code, he only learned of illicit proceeds after the fact, and Todd Blanche issued a memo promising to no longer prosecute people like him.

And what did the DOJ do? PROSECUTE HIM ANYWAY.

It is NOT SAFE for privacy developers in the US right now, and the courts made clear today that they have no intention of making it so.

Iran‘s speaker of Parliament just threatened to blow up anyone who purchases US treasuries.

If you think that this sounds crazy, you better not look up what Israel did on Oct 8th.