Conversely, I don't want to hear "only conservatives suffer from debanking", "Trump will save us from debanking" or such similar nonsense. You get debanked when those in power don't like you. And the people in power change.

Somewhat surprisingly, the European Banking Authority #EBA did respond to my complaint regarding the Travel Rule "satoshi test": > The Guidelines were the outcome of several exercises done with the industry (including consultation). The Satoshi test is one of the existing verification methods used by the industry alone or in combination with other verification methods. Although your arguments were not put forward by those who replied to the consultation, your complaint raises privacy considerations which we continue to review and assess to determine whether the Guidelines should be amended View quoted note →

Lots of interesting stuff from a former SEC insider:

Dutch newspaper NRC just gave up on following US news and gave all their subscribers a one year New York Times subscription :-)

Nice of #VNVnation to swing by #Utrecht!

Maybe the selfish-mining emperor doesn't have any clothes.

Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Why is a selfish-mining attack with bad propagation (γ=0) still profitable?

The 2013 selfish-mining paper by Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer [0] introduces a variable γ:

We denote by γ the ratio of h...

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I generally don't both evangelizing Bitcoin with merchants. Every human on the planet knows it exists and makes a conscious choice to not use it, even by inaction. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. However, whenever I'm stuck in one of those loops where I have to email both the merchant and the creditcard company to get their shit together, based on useless error messages along the lines of "computer says no", I do judge people. Quietly. Why do you choose to make your customer experience suck?

This was a fun one!

Fountain

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas • 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails • Listen on Fountain

A lot of science goes into crafting the perfect cocktail. Balancing sweet and bitter notes, providing the right amount of aeration and dilution, ge...

Friendly reminder that if you ever ran a Slack community, and it's no longer active, you should delete it.

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New rule: if you have a hard shell suitcase, you need to check it in. The entire point of these annoying things is that they can survive the airplane hold and ground crew tosses. As hand luggage they are ridiculously space inefficient and make boarding take twice as long as needed. Just don't do it.