If the FBI was honest, or cared about its credibility, it would tell Americans and others to use software that is:
* open source and well audited
* non custodial (not even an FBI raid can harm you)
* does not collect data (KYC is a red flag, but this also relates to server logs)

Long shot, but if anyone has more information on William Hill AKA TDevD [No KYC, no T&C, no 🍌] -- in particular, name/contact info of his lawyer if he has one -- please let me know?

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New frontiers in hate crime hoaxes.

Athletic director of Baltimore high school Dazhon Darien arrested for using AI to create audio of white principle being racist and saying that black kids at the school can’t take tests.

Absolutely no ground should be ceded on the absurd argument that the DOJ is making that Samourai constitutes a money transmission business. Full stop. They do not. This is an insane overreach that affects every self custodial tool in this space. bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/samourai…

Reminder that “money laundering” is a fake, fiat-era crime.

It presupposes the state has the right to know nearly every financial transaction made by its citizens, despite the 4th Amendment.

It has only been a crime since the 1986 Money Laundering Control Act. And the term

“Though it's a worst-case scenario, you should assume that your xpub was compromised, and thus all previous mixes you have done have been unwound and are now traceable.”

Until today it was pretty reasonable to assume Samourai was a fed op, precisely because of this.

I sincerely hope the Samourai guys are able to fight their case and win, especially since the indictment threatens every service which coordinates collaborative transactions (nonsense!)... even if was constantly attacked for pointing out the risks of them collecting user xpubs.

Never been a fan of the Samourai team but they absolutely do not deserve to be prosecuted, this is an attack on freedom

how do you delete an xpub from someone else's server?

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CALL ON EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO VOTE AGAINST EU AMLR PROPOSAL NOW!

Tomorrow the European Parliament is going to vote on its latest #EU #AMLR proposal.
Unfortunately, the Trilogue procedure led to the removal of all civil society recommendations, weakening the position of the only

In that alternate timeline I tripped over that chair and hit my head pretty hard.

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Genius marketing: by designing in a ridiculously broken penny auction dynamic, you create opportunities for content and community engagement from people figuring out how to beat that broken system.

If the auctions just worked, the degens would have nothing to talk about.