Rage Weekly 016: Palantir's Financial Data Shopping Spree And Other Disasters

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Rage Weekly 016: Palantir's Financial Data Shopping Spree And Other Disasters
Peekaboo, Palantir sees you

I wrote about why we still need to #FreeSamourai

Law360 confirms our reporting from last week that the DOJ's crypto memo is not a carte blanche

Also CoinCenter, who will be filing an amicus brief on behalf of Samourai Wallet together with the Bitcoin Policy Institute

Banks get probes, developers go to jail

Don't worry though the Gov takes your financial data very seriously

Also all of your other data apparently

We reported this last month

Tune in next week for 15 things you should take to the Gulag

Probably best to just not talk to anyone anymore

Case in point

What a totally normal term to use for a cryptocurrency exchange CEO

Not at all the term the EU is currently using in a program to undermine cryptocurrency privacy

Anyway, here's some good news

And some more good news

And some not so good news

Australia sets an example in someting for once

Coinbase advertises Base for sex workers, doesn't realize sex workers are banned from Coinbase

Lazarus shuts down exchanges

SEC announces new round table

Worth a read

Vitalik Buterin publishes pretty elaborate post on why privacy is necessary

AnCaps in disbelief

US Gov says being a nihilist is terrorism

Also criticizing the Gov is terrorism

One more reason to dump the Dollar

Because of course

B10C releases new mining centralization report

Must read from Spiral

Raw Avocado is back with more Bitcoin trivia you didn't know you needed

More CISA things are coming

Coinswaps are live on Testnet4

New Bitcoin Core is out

That's it for this week, tune in next time!

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