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Honored to have been invited by @LeahWald to give a talk on #Bitcoin to her impressive team at @ValkyrieFunds following the exciting news of their Bitcoin ETF filing! 🙏🙏🙏
A technical understanding of #Bitcoin provides a basis for intuitive answers to the first half of your questions and will lead you to surprising conclusions on the other half
...and I have made it easily attainable:
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This story shows how hilariously broken online identity verification is from all relevant angles.
1. Your SSN, DOB, address history, etc. are sitting in countless data breaches and data-broker dumps. They’re cheap and widely available to basically anyone who looks.
2. KYC/AML mostly just checks that the data exists and matches a real person. It doesn’t confirm the person signing up is actually the real person behind that identity.
Result: Amanda Smith spent three nights in jail and now faces up to six years in prison over a $1,000 CashApp scam account opened with her SSN and DOB. It wasn't necessarily opened by her, and the phone, IP, device, address, and other details don’t match.
The funniest (and yes, saddest) part is CashApp wouldn't give her information about the account because she can’t prove she’s the owner. Her personal info was good enough to open the account, but not good enough to access it in the future, apparently. To be clear, CashApp is likely just following the law here.
Anyway, we need to burn it all down and start fresh.
New: someone made a CashApp account in her name. She spent 3 nights in jail and now faces up to 6 years in prison
Amanda Smith was arrested because a scam led to a CashApp account in her name. But she says she didn't make it, and the data doesn't line up 404media.co/amanda-smith-ope…
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if you ever want to make a european or canadian jealous tell them that in america it's completely ordinary to get an MRI same day or the very next day
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The IRS sent armed agents into a family bakery and drained $68,382 from its bank account.
Their “crime”? Depositing their OWN CASH in amounts under $10,000.
Then the government demanded ANOTHER $160,000 and a guilty plea to a FELONY.
The IRS called it “structuring”: deliberately keeping deposits small to dodge bank reporting rules.
DAVID VOCATURA: “I said to them, ‘Maybe I should get a lawyer.’ And they said, ‘You don’t need one, step in the back.’”
“Until the day they came in, I had no idea what structuring was.”
“I’m a law-abiding citizen. I can’t remember the last time I got a speeding ticket.”
Nearly three years after seizing the money, a prosecutor came back with a deal that carried up to FOUR YEARS IN PRISON:
DAVID VOCATURA: “They wanted us to pay another additional $160,000 in fines and plead to a felony charge of structuring.”
They refused.
You bake bread for three generations.
You pay your taxes.
You put your own money in the bank.
And the IRS treats you like a criminal, demanding nearly a quarter million dollars.
CONTEXT: Fortunately, the IRS didn’t get away with this one. Hours after the Institute for Justice sued, the IRS agreed to return all $68,382.22. Two weeks later, it withdrew a grand jury subpoena demanding eight years of the bakery’s business records. Crazy that they tried to ruin a business over depositing money into their own bank account.
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You've seen the footage of the Idan family after Hamas shot Maayan, the sister of the family.
One daughter — suffering from survivor's guilty — speaks out.
"We hid under the bed, we hugged each other, if I didn't let her go, she would still be alive"💔
On October 7th, the Idan family of the Nahal Oz kibbutz lost their daughter Maayan, 18. Then, Hamas kidnapped her father Tsachi to Gaza and killed him too.
🕯️Mr. Tsachi Idan (49)
🕯️Maayan Idan (18)
This is the last video of Tsachi and his family.
Moments before, his 18-year-old daughter, Maayan was shot by terrorists who invaded their safe room.
This cannot happen again.
I pray for a world of peace.
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ואם כבר סיפורי תושיה, נזכיר את בן שמעוני ז״ל שבניגוד כמעט לכולם החליט להימנע מבריחה מהנובה דרך כביש 232 שהיה מרושת באותו בוקר במחבלים, אלא ירד לחולות ונכנס עם הג׳יפ שלו דרך פירצה בגדר שעשו המחבלים באותו בוקר היישר לרצועת עזה>>
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Never forget Noya Dan, 12.
She was autistic, loved Harry Potter and dreamed of helping kids with autism.
She was killed 3 years ago on October 7th 2023.
Her dream and legacy are now being honored through the creation of the Noya Dan Center for the Autistic Experience.💔🇮🇱
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The 85-year-old who chose to die to save his family.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists went from house to house in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
Shlomo Ron, 85, understood what was happening - but he had a plan.
He told his wife, two daughters, and grandson to hide in the safe room. They tried to convince him to come inside with them.
He refused.
Shlomo believed that if the terrorists entered and found an old man sitting alone in the living room, they would assume he lived alone, kill him, and move on without searching the rest of the house.
So he sat down in his armchair and waited.
The terrorists entered.
They saw Shlomo alone.
They shot him dead—and moved on without searching the rest of the house.
Exactly as he had hoped.
His wife, daughters, and grandson survived.
Shlomo Ron, one of the founders of Nahal Oz, was 85 years old and unarmed.
His final act was to give his life to protect his family.
#October7Heroes #October7
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They said, ‘You are not God, you are not going to kill him,'” Manes recalled. “We didn’t want to kill him, we just wanted him not to kill us.”
The perfect snapshot of the middle east.
Arabs always think that we are trying to kill them because their own societies are filled with extreme violence and retribution. While we just want to be left alone. They don't get that. Can't internalize what it means.
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Crew of hijacked plane clashed with heroic Israeli passengers, demanded tied-up terror pilot be freed trib.al/H7EDoWh
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100 Israeli passengers vs One Muslim Pilot. What a completely disproportionate response from israel.
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Thoughts and prayers to the FlyDubai Co pilot who was viciously beaten and detained by Israeli passengers. You can donate at kickstarter.com/projects/lyl…
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You know what's weird? Use GoogleEarth and scan up the seaside. No destruction (a few marine ports, yes), but basically untouched.
Why?
You can't tunnel near the sea. Water table is too high.
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BREAKING:
‘Israel, Pfizer Knew COVID Vaccine Caused Fatal Heart Condition — But Waited Months Before Alerting Public’
Evidence of one of the greatest crimes against humanity we will witness in our lifetime continues to accumulate
Only wilfully blind cowards can’t see it
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The official British government position is to recognise “Palestine” in Judea and Samaria, our ancestral heartland (in the aftermath of October 7) ,to deny Jerusalem is our capital, to fund antisemitic propaganda in the BBC, to fund UNWRA that was complicit in the October 7 massacre, to put an arms embargo on Israel not too long after October 7, to sanction our ministers and conservative organisations, to fund radical left wing anarchist NGOs in Israel and to condemn Israel for building houses in our capital.
The official position of Argentina under Javier Milei is to support Israel full stop, and to be one of our closet allies.
Why the hell are we suppose to take your side and not Argentina’s?
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Meh, depends. In many workshops and tutorial people are told to use external source and THEN important the BIP39 format, checking the xpub in more than one device (or once as a test in the same device). This method, which people in my circle always promoted (we've always done it in workshops, with poker cards), is safe against basically all entropy bug, and possibly vulnerable only to more sophisticated and harder to hide exfil backdoors.
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It’s been 578 days and not a single Democrat from the Obama-Biden regime has been arrested.
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If a pilot at Delta discovers evidence that a pilot at Jet Blue fabricated his credentials and is then fired for bringing this to light, you might reasonably wonder whether airlines are less interested in your safety and more interested in protecting pilots from scrutiny.
