Now that, at the request of regulators, coordinators are no longer by trusted companies, it'll be an interesting cat and mouse game in which apps become more vigilant on behalf of their users. View quoted note →

The map of financial surveillance and control doom...

CBDC Tracker

A CBDC is a digital national currency. In the case of the United States, a CBDC would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar whereas, in Nigeria, the...

Ouch, cc @OpenSecret Also is there a Nostr wallet connect feature somewhere?

I like the subtle color choice for the Financial Freedom track... and that have climb many steps to such freedom.

Fireside chat between @jack and @npub1vxk5...yv6z at #OsloFreedomForum

It's Santa Claus, why are you laughing? #Oslo

Thanks! Panel (introduction) starts at 3:01:50 https://www.youtube.com/live/T0vJ4uEsCwc?si=2BNE2OJP713xuDFF View quoted note →

The Norwegian press release on their recognition of Palestine is more nuanced than you might expect will all the noise out there. The devil is always in the details with diplomacy, but e.g. they recognize the PLA, not Hamas, and they refer to the Prime Minister rather than the (afaik far more authoritarian) President.

Government.no

Norway recognises Palestine as a state

‘The Norwegian Government has decided that Norway will recognise Palestine as a state. In the midst of a war, with tens of thousands killed ...

Excellent court illustration by @Spiral

@OpenSecret wen Cashu?

More like a 24 lane freeway probably? :-) View quoted note →

Finally some optimistic news! The Netherlands also uses paper ballots and hand written tallies that are published online (in hours to days). Last fall I downloaded and timestamped them all (inspired by Guatemala). Will do the same for the upcoming EU election (for Dutch votes). Probably won't have time to organize a gamefied recount, but there's no rush: once the anchor of truth is deployed you can take your time. View quoted note →

> The court’s reasoning on co-perpetration seems flawed to me. It suggests that Tornado Cash, let’s call it a digital platform or system, independently enacted the acts of hiding and concealing cryptocurrency with a criminal origin. This implies that a system can engage in criminal behaviour on its own—an unusual and potentially problematic interpretation, as it shifts the criminal conduct itself from individuals to systems. > This could have significant implications for software developers if tools are perceived as independently capable of criminal actions, making the developers responsible for the tool’s ‘actions’.

Hertoghs advocaten

#362 Tornado Cash: The developer as co-perpetrator of money laundering

Uncover the legal implications of Tornado Cash judgment and Pertsev's alleged role in concealing criminal Ethereum transactions.

Here's @Super Testnet explaining #Hedgehog to me...

All of Nostr is, but the Mastodon UI is still misleading people into thinking it's only specific profile. Someone should make a pull request to fix that. Overzealous moderation is one thing, lack of transparency is worse - and in this case probably unintentional, so it's easy to fix. View quoted note →