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 @npub1l65a...sfth are doing incredible work all around the world 🌎 🧡 Build the world you want to see

OpenSats

Rajarshi Maitra Found a Point of Light in the Dark Cave, Quit His Job, and Built Bitshala

Rajarshi Maitra walked away from a stable engineering career to build Bitshala, India's school for Bitcoin developers.

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

@npub1guh5...6hjy 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

Bitcoin Design

Silent payments

How silent payments impact and improve bitcoin UX

.. or both! And then go ask your exchange when they're deploying support for your Silent Payments address! If you’re wondering what Silent

Thanks @npub1gxpk...fx5j - this was a fun chat about the @npub1fcea...sy0m 🧡 Look forward to seeing you in Byron Bay at the next ‘bash https://fountain.fm/episode/u0axhB2uOpwZw3HpyyY3

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Call for Applications

OpenSats is seeking grant proposals that advance base layer privacy.

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Freezing coins (theft) is right up there as giant red flags for those of us in Bitcoin who value its *unconfiscatable* property The “it might damage the price” reasoning confirms that these change proposals are not coming from protecting the very features that value actually derives from As @npub10gnx...mjy2, and more recently @npub1k7tc...8edl in his Bitcoin Magazine essay have highlighted, the legal systems of the world are slowly converging on Bitcoin as property .. and there’s NO wiggle room in the *action* of spending someone else’s coins (no matter how long they’ve been “dormant”) being theft The idea that dormancy abdicates ownership is right up there with the framing that saving is hoarding