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Are You A Frying Pan? You May Be A Money Transmitter

L0la L33tz

L0la L33tz

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Are You A Frying Pan? You May Be A Money Transmitter

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New from The Rage: Meet FATF: The Financial Bullies Memberclub Trying To KYC The Planet

Podcast discussion: Samourai, Tornado Cash & FATF https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/1787082298883453358

The DOJ compares money transmitters to cooking equipment https://twitter.com/L0laL33tz/status/1784285361234977101 | https://twitter.com/Mandrik/status/1784310930089681308

Samourai Wallet prosecutors have a bad case of jibber jabber https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/samourai-did-nothing-wrong-self-custodial-tools-are-not-money-transmitters

Tornado Cash prosecutors say FinCEN can stick it https://x.com/sethforprivacy/status/1784298343755055214

Feds still have no chill https://www.theblaze.com/return/the-feds-are-trying-to-stifle-bitcoin-and-crypto-with-draconian-new-regulations

EU also has no chill https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/pirates-eu-cash-cap-and-ban-on-anonymous-hosted-crypto-wallets-results-in-financial-paternalism/

Andy Greenberg copy/pastes another press release https://www.wired.com/story/ai-crypto-tracing-model-money-laundering/

Elliptic may have been psyopped by truly embarrassing nerds https://x.com/davidzmorris/status/1786151578337947882

Wasabi Wallet coinjoin coordinator is shutting down https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-is-discontinuing-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-1st-of-june/

Snowden wants to decentralize Wasabi coinjoins https://x.com/Snowden/status/1786169613425803455

Kruw already has decentralized Wasabi coinjoins https://twitter.com/Kruwed/status/1786115888925614223

People are having a good time discovering FATF's Travel Rule https://x.com/Adelgary/status/1786489568465678542

Elizabeth Warren wants to ban Bitcoin because CSAM https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/26/warren-flags-crypto-ties-to-child-sexual-abuse-in-letter-to-doj-homeland-security/

Elizabeth Warren wants to ban Bitcoin because Iran https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/at-hearing-warren-calls-for-applying-strong-anti-money-laundering-protections-to-cryptocurrency-to-shut-down-financing-for-us-adversaries-and-terrorist-groups

Nigeria wants to ban Bitcoin because NSA https://techcabal.com/2024/05/03/p2p-crypto-ban-imminent/

Michael Saylor is still a loser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQWj6P0P1k

Tether still doesn't have audited reserves, but it now has Chainalysis https://tether.io/news/tether-enhances-compliance-measures-with-chainalysis-ecosystem-monitoring-solution/

Seth for Privacy made a list https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/

Feds get caught doing unlicensed money transmitting https://x.com/LaurentMT/status/1786496685000049150

Dan Gould fixes privacy https://twitter.com/bitgould/status/1786116422256496764

Nifty fixes privacy https://twitter.com/niftynei/status/1786283721299055090

Calle fixes privacy https://twitter.com/callebtc/status/1786329069723722033

Bonus: Podconf reaps havoc on Rabbit Hole Recap https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1786462609916486003

Mood https://twitter.com/benthecarman/status/1783907715682595016/photo/1

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