As I seem to need to make this clear, I did not ask for anyone to send me „recommendations“ on how to use bitcoin P2P. Learn to follow instructions anon. View quoted note →

Wanted to spend the day with my dog, now Im so angry that Im writing a 2,000 word comment on the federal register instead AMA

Have you had your exchange or bank account frozen for using privacy services? Email me via lola@therage.co (no DMs here)

Banned from the exchange again 🖕

Hola mi amigos, I'm reading that some of you are referring to all this KYC/Digital Identity stuff to be unconstitutional I regret to inform you that these proposals are explicitly being justified under the PATRIOT Act There is no constitution where we are going

Freudian slip

A lot of people seem to forget that the cypherpunks did not just fight the Government with code. Instead, they fought them with all tools that were available to them – from online strikes to protests to literally suing the Government. If you care about your privacy, take 10 minutes to leave a comment on the Treasury's new considerations that would implement digital identities in non-custodial services. The Treasury has to consider *all* comments it receives, so the more comments it gets, the longer the process of implementing this nonsense will take. You are not too cool to tell the Government where to stick it, anon👇

Federal Register

Request for Comment on Innovative Methods To Detect Illicit Activity Involving Digital Assets

The U.S. Department of the Treasury invites interested members of the public to provide input on the use of innovative or novel methods, techniques...

6 Myths about privacy on blockchains by a16z Do not fall for the ZKProofs

are we all happy that we taught the Government about bitcoin yet or

GM ☀️

GM, nobody seems to know how much bitcoin the US Government has, and that appears to include Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent, who is still claiming that the Government has up to 170,000 BTC. If Bessent is relying on numbers made available by the blockchain intelligence firm Arkham, it would mean that the US Government is planning to build the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with coins that it doesn't actually own – namely funds to be given back to Bitfinex. If you don’t care whether Bitfinex gets its money back, imagine this: You have 1 BTC stolen in a hack today, with bitcoin at ~$115,000. The Government then finds the hackers, takes ~3 years to finish proceedings, and you get $115,000 back while the Government keeps your coin – which at that point may be worth $500,000. Raise your hand if you want the Government to steal from you 🙋‍♀️ View quoted note →

Get in you guys we're rebranding the Deep State (To people who slap agents with Subway sandwiches)

When I first started The Rage, a lot of people asked me how I thought I could make a difference by bootstrapping a new publication in a space that was already well saturated with big names who were well funded, widely read, covered big stories and had super successful journalists. What would I do differently than what the others had been doing? I told them that my editorial policy would be this

Google has changed its Play Store Policy in response to our reporting. Here's why this is a big deal for developers. Since our story yesterday, several people reached out to me about Google Play Store delisting non-custodial wallets well before the policy in question came into effect in July, asking for local licenses under what was previously known as their Blockchain-based Content Policy. One of these wallets was Electrum Wallet, who thankfully documented their ordeal with the Google Play Store publicly. It seems that as soon as a local jurisdiction codified licensing requirements for software wallets, Google wanted to see that the developers obtained said license, making no distinction between custodial and non-custodial wallets. If no license was provided, it appears that Google auto-banned flagged wallets for policy violations, leaving it up to the developers to prove that they did not need a license under local laws. In the case of Electrum Wallet, getting their wallet back into the Play Store took over 100 days. That's 100 days in which no new installs were possible, while existing users weren't able to pull updates. A big deal, seeing how some updates push critical security fixes. By fixing their newest policy to now specifically exempt non-custodial wallets, non-custodial wallet developers will no longer have to prove that they don't need a license if they are flagged, but can simply point to the fact that they are a non-custodial application, referencing Google's own policy. Never thought I'd say this, but thank you Google for fixing this, and thanks to everyone who helped raise hell to make it happen. Let this be your reminder that protesting injustices actually works, and that we should be doing a lot more of it. As a side note, I am open for apologies and do not hold grudges for dumb takes (@`Jameson Lopp`)