Chat control in the EU

So the bureaucracy created a procedural loophole to overturn the EU Parliament’s very clear prior ‘NO’ vote on chat control

Horrendous outcome that now enables the bureaucracy to force scanning, logging and recording of every message you send/receive

Yet the real news is the mask-off moment that the EU Parliament is only a circus and utterly irrelevant in any decision making role in EU

If the EU Parliament let this stand then they may as well resign, and pack up and go home for good

Europe has fallen so far 😞

Awesome people like @Raj are doing incredible work all around the world 🌎 🧡

Build the world you want to see

https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-rajarshi-maitra

Plant the mighty trees under whose shade you will never sit

Jurisdictions that restrict access to AI is a lot like the brainiac logic of restricting access to Bitcoin

Ultimately they’re self-selecting out of a global network that empowers their citizens because <reason>

FOSS and Open networks are ALWAYS the long term winners; not any different in AI

Never go full retard
Good advice then; still good now

https://youtu.be/X6WHBO_Qc-Q

@MartyBent on point:

Cause the problem.
Ignore the root cause.
Punish the reaction.
Blame the communication platform.
.. and ..
Tighten the surveillance
Crack down on “unrest”

Authoritarian playbook from history getting dusted off and ramped up

Travel rule & kissing the ring

Does not apply to exchanges sending to plebs holding their own keys .. so exchanges will ask you to confirm you hold those keys

Confirmation is as simple as an attestation, but some exchanges will want to over-comply and talk about white-listing your addresses, or requesting you to sign messages

Smarter exchanges will implement support for Silent Payments so they *and their customers* have less friction and improved privacy. Less friction because as a customer you only have to provide your SP address once, and every withdrawal comes into a discrete address in your wallet; that means ongoing use continues to validate your attestation.

Better privacy .. because that's what Silent Payments is all about .. re-usable addresses that preserve privacy. If you're curious and want to learn more

1. Go play with the new version of Sparrow Wallet on your desktop, or Cake wallet on your mobile; learn through doing!
2. Go dig into the explanation of how this works at https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/silent-payments/
.. or both!

And then go ask your exchange when they're deploying support for your Silent Payments address!

If you’re wondering what Silent

Building blocks like the software libraries, is under-appreciated hard background work .. and

so valuable because it then accelerates everyone who follows

Libraries are accelerators🔥
Libraries are force multipliers🔥