Stablecoins, Money Laundering, And Other Catastrophes

L0la L33tz

L0la L33tz

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Stablecoins, Money Laundering, And Other Catastrophes

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New from The Rage: Congressmen Introduce Blockchain Integrity Act, Suggest Two Year Mixer Ban https://www.therage.co/congressmen-introduce-blockchain-integrity-act-suggest-two-year-mixer-ban/

Also new from The Rage: Mixer-Ban Rep Received Money From FTX Associates, Has No Concerns Over Aid For Ukraine https://www.therage.co/casten-sbf/

Silent payments are fucking coming https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki

Supertestnet builds decentralized coinjoins https://github.com/supertestnet/coinjoin-workshop

cashu.me ecash PWA is released https://gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3f586ef273df80bf679e464bc3f3

utreexo is out in beta bringing nodes to all the things https://github.com/utreexo/utreexod | https://x.com/RunwithBitcoin/status/1788424243560235267

Lightning Labs sets priorities https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1788624974728790471

The Blue Matt also sets priorities https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/05/11/bitcoins-precarious-position/

AgoraDesk is shutting down https://agoradesk.com/blog/announcements/winding-down

US Treasury Cyber Crime Advisor shares concerns over self-custody dev arrests https://twitter.com/YaelOss/status/1788565968848871840

Lummis & Wyden are concerned over DOJ self-custody argumentation https://x.com/AlexanderGrieve/status/1789765606801043852

Reason speaks out on Samourai https://reason.com/video/2024/05/09/the-government-fears-this-privacy-tool/

Watchman Privacy is back with an episode on Samourai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qzYKC7l7Tw

Nasdaq Financial Crime Report finds TradFi still doing money laundering (to the tune of more than $3 Trillion in 2023) https://nd.nasdaq.com/rs/303-QKM-463/images/2024-Global-Financial-Crime-Report-Nasdaq-Verafin-20240115.pdf

Extremely surprising report finds stablecoins lack real transaction volume https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/06/less-than-10-of-stablecoin-transaction-volume-coming-from-real-users-report/

Swan Bitcoin wants to speculatively attack the Dollar with US Treasuries https://twitter.com/Swan/status/1787951439576232315

Dominic Frisby has seven good reasons for anonymity on the internet https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/why-we-need-anonymity-on-the-internet

KYC is a really good idea because banks are super good at taking care of your data https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/alleged-hsbc-barclays-data-exposed-by-intelbroker

The UK is also really good at taking care of data https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68966497

Crime will be solved soon because more surveillance is coming https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-section-702-us-person-queries-email/

Telegram still knows everything about you https://www.404media.co/this-tool-shows-some-telegram-users-approximate-physical-location/

Bonus https://x.com/session_app/status/1788114911811580299

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