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Rage Weekly 015: Free Speech, Digital Identities, and... Cows?

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Rage Weekly 015: Free Speech, Digital Identities, and... Cows?
The cattle revolution is here, and it will end with everyone getting a digital identity

Long time no see! With so much going on in the world, Rage Weekly is back to bring you the news every sunday. If you are not signed up yet, you can do so here.

We wrote about the DOJ enforcement memo, and it ain't all what it seems to be

DLNews has a pretty good read on this as well

We also wrote about some interesting developments in the case against Roman Storm

New dates for Samourai Wallet hearings

The IRS Broker Rule is officially dead! No mandatory KYC for non-custodial services, at least from the IRS!

CoinCenter wrote about the Broker Rule here, which is always worth a read

And we wrote about it here

And here

Virgil Griffith is free after talking to the wrong people

Free speech just generally on fleek

Free lawyering apparently also

Starting May 7th you need Real ID for domestic travel says DHS

And guess what it is, it's a Digital Identity! Who could have possibly seen this coming

Former CFTC Chair Timothy Massad could have seen this coming, who advocated for digital identities to replace KYC this week

FYI this is the same guy who says

But first, the House Agriculture Committee discussed digital identities for cows (this is not satire)

They won't like when we PayJoin all the things

CISA all the things, also

SEC says crypto assets may or may not be securities

Crypto Debit Cards are coming to Kraken

The EU wants to get rid of GDPR, which is a little bittersweet

Obviously, Bitcoiners are developing a much smarter approach to GDPR in Europe, that isn't three gazillion pages of law that nobody understands

This is good for Bitcoin, kinda maybe?

Nodes aren't money transmitters in Kentucky (though federal law could still trump this, no pun intended)

Same thing in New Hampshire but same disclaimer applies

Also whatever this is

DeFi education fund wrote a letter to David Sacks about DOJ criminalizing developers

Christine Lagarde wants Brussels to build a PayPal or something

This is funny

Also this is good for Bitcoin

Congress is pushing the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act which would allow the Government to block websites without due process, so you'll probably want to sign this

UK Court says Home Office can get fucked

This should be important to you because

Palantir does more Palantir things

Thankfully it's really very accurate technology that we should definitely put into all the things

Not to worry though, more international mega prisons are likely incoming – but at least they're both into bitcoin

A coalition of Governments has published a list of Chinese spyware apps for android targeting muslims and other minorities you probably don't want to install

Before you jump on the China is such an authoritarian place train, we do this too

Turns out NSO targeted over 1500 WhatsApp users in 2019, including in the US and EU

That's it for this week, see you next sunday!

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