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“The internet is not a good idea” -Newspapers
“Email is not a good idea” -Post Office
“Television is not a good idea” -Radio stations
“Streaming is not a good idea” -Blockbuster
“#Bitcoin is not a good idea” -Central banks

#TECH

GhostTouch: Targeted Attacks on Touchscreens without Physical Touch
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/wang-kai

Google to pay Illinois residents $100M in privacy lawsuit settlement
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/06/03/google-pay-illinois-settlement-photo-privacy/7495827001/

Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
It’s not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/record-labels-dig-their-own-grave

#HEALTH

4 companies control 90% of the US #babyformula market
4 companies control 85% of US beef
4 companies control 80% of US soy
3 companies control 72% of US cereal
Greed and price gouging are the problem, oversight and competition the answer.
Ban the Filibuster NOW!

Hey, Hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?
In the 1960s all the Dixiecrats & other racists became Republicans.
The people for civil rights became Democrats.

‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758

Legal Director @DavidColeACLU thoroughly rebuts the argument that @ACLU has “lost its way.” Even a cursory review of the docket of the ACLU and its affiliates demonstrates that the organization remains an indispensable guardian of the First Amendment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2022/05/aclu-amber-heard-title-ix-kavanaugh/629959/

The Federal Reserve is looking into creating a centralized digital currency — aka digital cash — and how it could provide privacy to consumers without complete anonymity or facilitating illicit activity.

Ron Wyden @RonWyden May 19
I wrote Aaron’s law nearly a decade ago to protect researchers from misguided, overzealous prosecutions. Glad to see DOJ is finally recognizing good-faith security research isn’t a crime, it actually makes us all safer.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-new-policy-charging-cases-under-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act

Today, we and our partners let them know: Anonymity is non-negotiable.

The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature

Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis

Portland doctors ‘first in world’ to apply new cancer therapy
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/portland-doctors-new-cancer-therapy-tumor-reduction/283-549b1b8f-ced6-4bc9-af50-10a6516e44a6

EPA moves to give states, tribes more power to protect water
https://apnews.com/article/environment-climate-and-water-quality-government-politics-9057b0dbb146b6d45d364720665a67dd

Bees Are Fish, California Court Rules
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgnn8/bees-are-fish-california-court-rules

Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/glyphosate-weedkiller-damages-wild-bumblebee-colonies

Pharmaceutical contaminants discovered in South Florida bonefish
https://news.fiu.edu/2022/pharmaceutical-contaminants-discovered-in-south-florida-bonefish

#BITCOIN

New Bill Would Force Congress to Disclose Crypto Holdings

New Bill Would Force Congress to Disclose Crypto Holdings

Why should I run a bitcoin node? — 7 reasons

7 reasons to run your own bitcoin node

Bitcoin Legality by Country Map
https://www.bitrawr.com/terminal/legality-map

Oil Companies In The Middle East To Use Excess Gas For Bitcoin Mining
https://cryptonews.net/news/mining/7502583/

Kenya’s largest electricity producer to offer its surplus power to Bitcoin miners

Kenya’s largest electricity producer to offer its surplus power to Bitcoin miners

Give some bitcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/five-ways-to-gift-bitcoin

#CRYPTO

Vitalik tweets he is conflicted after watching Luna burn to the ground. He realises he gave birth to a gorgon that is eating everything in sight and maybe he should have just played around with #bitcoin instead of wasting the last 9 yrs on a monster that will haunt him forever.

Jesse Berger @jayberjay
When Vitalik tells you that #ethereum is unstable, centrally controlled, fragile, elitist, ideologically deficient, overly-complicated, and willing to bend the knee to evil… believe him.

Labor Department Sued for Opposing Crypto in Retirement Accounts
https://cryptopotato.com/labor-department-sued-for-opposing-crypto-in-retirement-accounts/

Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company

Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company

OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Arrested by the FBI

OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Arrested by the FBI

Aaron Wise: “I hear a lot of people speak fawningly about Arthur Hayes, the “genius” who they think still owns thousands of bitcoin. Few recall that in response to months of investigation, Hayes finally admitted (on April 30, 2018) that BitMEX traded for-profit AGAINST its own customers.

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings: Bitcoin, China, Banks, Education, Art

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#BITCOIN

“The internet is not a good idea” -Newspapers
“Email is not a good idea” -Post office
“Television is not a good idea” -Radio stations
“Streaming is not a good idea” -Blockbuster
“#Bitcoin is not a good idea” -Central banks

“almost every cross-border payment passes thru one of just 15 banks” per @GeoLeib’s book. And, as @transferwise’s recent Fed comment letter showed, 2 US banks have ~50% share of the ACH payments market. Regulations made the biggest banks bigger.So ripe for disruption…

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TIP: Don’t be Ignorant
Stop using Bitcoin and Crypto interchangeably because they aren’t. Any politician who can’t seem to understand that needs to be voted out. Any journalist who can’t write about this correctly stop reading!

#Bitcoin #Cryptocurrencies #Bitcoin Price #Investments #Markets #Market Analysis

#Bitcoin is the first global, private, digital rules-based monetary system in the history of the world. It’s funny how people still don’t get it. Just sit down and think about it for a minute.
Q Why is blockchain so important?
A In order to make an immutable ledger.
Q Is there any other implementation of blockchain that can’t be reorged or rolled back?
A No. #Bitcoin is the only one.
Bitcoiners are an actual community that cares about the civil rights of people by building nodes to support the network. NO other coin has that.

Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk History
https://evanlhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10
Len was a true Cypherpunk— equal parts brilliant, irreverent, and idealistic. He devoted his life to defending personal freedoms through cryptography, working as a developer on PGP encryption and open-source privacy technology, as well as an academic cryptographer researching P2P networks under blockchain inventor David Chaum.

Gensler isn’t trying to regulate anything he just wants the power and to keep get appointed to run the Fed. He knows the CFTC is in charge of Bitcoin. Congress needs to pass legislation and tell Gensler what they want.
There are a few proposals in front of them now. According to a Bloomberg report, the proposed bill includes guidelines and overarching regulations on taxation, stable coins, and consumer protection. Furthermore, the bill proposes a new regulatory group that combines top financial regulators in the U.S.—the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

#EDUCATION

#Educational #CyberPlayGround – The #Civilian Conservation Corps (#CCC) camps were in operation.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/americanadults.html decided that men in #CCC camps could be given the opportunity of #vocational training and additional #education! they did a GREAT JOB. #Adult #Literacy
https://twitter.com/MakeAugusta/status/1529091289488269314
In the 1940s, things like radio and vacuum tubes were fairly new technology. To keep the edge in WW2, the Army had to teach farm boys with a fifth grade education how to repair radios. If you want to learn electronics, the Army did an ELI5 on it 80 years ago. #ElectronicsTwitter
https://twitter.com/MakeAugusta/status/1529091289488269314

#DEFI

The Math Prodigy Whose Hack Upended DeFi Won’t Give Back His Millions
An 18-year-old graduate student exploited a weakness in Indexed Finance’s code and opened a legal conundrum that’s still rocking the blockchain community. Then he disappeared.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-19/crypto-platform-hack-rocks-blockchain-community

#SEARCH ENGINE PRIVACY

DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission for trackers despite strong privacy reputation
As reported by Bleeping Computer, security researcher Zach Edwards posted on Twitter that “while DuckDuckGo blocks Google and Facebook trackers, it allowed Microsoft trackers to continue running.” The company explains that “this issue is occurring on browsers and only pertains to non-DuckDuckGo websites.”
https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/25/duckduckgo-privacy-microsoft-permission-tracking/
Tests showed that the browser allowed trackers related to Bing and LinkedIn domains while blocking all other trackers. Edwards’ thread got the attention of DuckDuckGO CEO Gabriel Weinberg, which said the browser intentionally allows Microsoft trackers third-party sites due to a search syndication agreement with Redmond.

#CHINA

News: Canada to ban China’s Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61517729

Beat The Market By Investing In Freedom – And Shunning Places Like Russia And China
On a visit to Shanghai, Tolle befriended a woman named Maggie. Both were 23 years old, but her new friend’s dark backstory shocked Tolle. While Tolle had enjoyed a suburban upbringing in Plano, Texas, Maggie lived in the shadows. She had no birth certifi­cate, no school or hospital records and no safety net. To the Chinese government, Maggie didn’t exist. She was one of tens of millions of kids victimized by the Communist Party’s one-child law, in effect from 1980 through 2015. Because her parents already had a son, they concealed her upbringing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2022/05/24/beat-the-market-by-investing-in-freedom–and-shunning-places-like-russia-and-china/

#BANKS – THIEVES

Former Louvre Director Charged In Antique Trafficking Case
Former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez, who led the world’s largest and most-visited museum from 2013 until last year, has been charged in connection with the trafficking of antiquities from the Middle East, according to French media outlets.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/05/26/former-louvre-director-charged-in-antique-trafficking-case/

JPMorgan totally doesn’t have their shit together the left hand doesn’t agree with the right.
F**ck Jamie Dimon Bitcoin is Garbage and you will get fired
https://medium.com/@blairerickson/how-is-a-corrupt-criminal-like-jamie-dimon-not-in-prison-for-fraud-f3a1e7eb4cf6
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/01/jamie-dimon-gets-31-5-million-pay-despite-banks-criminal-charges-as-u-s-slides-below-uruguay-on-corruption-index/

Now Jamie Dimon says it’s better than real estate. Took this criminal bastard long enough. JPMorgan Says Bitcoin Is Undervalued By 28%, Cryptocurrencies Are Now A ‘Preferred Alternative Asset’
In a note to clients issued Wednesday, the bank has also stated that it is replacing real estate with digital, or crypto, assets as its preferred alternative asset class along with hedge funds, citing “potential lagged repricing” in private equity, private debt and real estate. Alternative assets typically refer to ​​investments that aren’t stocks, bonds or cash.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/05/25/jpmorgan-says-bitcoin-is-undervalued-by-28-says-cryptocurrencies-are-now-its-preferred-alternative-asset/

How Private Equity Looted America
Inside the industry that has ransacked the US economy—and upended the lives of working people everywhere.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-apollo-blackstone-kkr-carlyle-carried-interest-loophole/

4 companies control 90% of the US #babyformula market
4 companies control 85% of US beef
4 companies control 80% of US soy
3 companies control 72% of US cereal

Democrats know that greed and price gouging are the problem — we fight to make oversight and competition the answer.

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How do I apply for one of these bailouts?
Bitcoin CEO will not announce a recovery plan. Hang tight. There is no CEO. This dip is for the plebs.

In order for bitcoin to grow in the long run, the various blockchain fleas that ride on its coattails have to be shaken off once in a while.

$btc is storing traded time energy of each human and no one can debase it once it is stored. In My opinion, Greatest discovery/invention so far in human history. The best way to store is the $ cost average (DCA).

If a decentralized network can be paused it is not a decentralized network.

@Saifedean on bitcoin Etherium is a scam.

@stablekwon
Master of Stablecoin #Luna
Cryptocurrency luna now almost worthless after controversial stablecoin it is linked to loses peg

#Tether CTO @paoloardoino says Algorithmic Stablecoins don’t make sense. Tether Avoiding audits and acting like it’s all backed also does not make sense. What doesn’t make sense is a billion dollar market cap company refusing to release an audit while apparently hold one of the worlds largest commercial paper holdings. NY AG already exposed Tether’s corruption. Game over. What do you guys have backing your coin? Stop blocking FOIA requests. …aaaaaaand still no audit & zero proof of backing for Tethers
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21

BITCOIN FOR LOCAL BUSINESS PAMPHLET
print it out and use it with anyone
For every transaction you make using fiat, there’s an opportunity to start onboarding more bitcoiners.
You can help the local business you already love and support, adopt a better savings and payments network
You’ll benefit by creating a bitcoin economy for your daily needs, and the merchant will have the security of a superior asset in their balance sheet.
Be patient, friendly, and recognize that a lot of merchants are not ready for the switch yet, but we have to start somewhere.

#btc solves the Fiat ponzi.
No other digital asset accomplishes this.
Most other digital assets are a form of the Fiat ponzi.

The Do Kwon Fails – Terra #LUNA is now at $0.01. It is officially dead. How does a stablecoin become… unstable? It was never stable.
https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1524785058296778752

Q. What’s that beep beep beep noise?
A. #Bitcoin maxis everywhere backing up the truck.

The Terra blockchain was officially halted at a block height of 7603700.
https://lcd.terra.dev/blocks/latest
Terra validators have decided to halt the Terra chain to prevent governance attacks following severe $LUNA inflation and a significantly reduced cost of attack.

terraluna is filled with posts about suicide.
Good reminder to not shill shitcoins because of the hype.
You can really wreck someone’s life because they think you’re some financial guru when you’re actually more of an influencer for shit posting and trolling.

~ same footprint.
~ same noise.
~ same power requirements.

Mining #bitcoin @ home is not a crazy idea — it’s an inevitability.

Shanghai High People’s Court has declared #Bitcoin to be a virtual asset protected by Chinese law.

“If I have a conversation with nine out of 10 counties, they’re going to tell me we are having difficulty either getting cyber insurance or renewing it,” says @NACo CIO Rita Reynolds

Elon Musk is seeking to scrap his Tesla, $TSLA, margin loan with new Twitter, $TWTR, funding.

Elon Musk’s Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators’ Probes
SEC is investigating Tesla CEO for tardy notification after buying 5% of Twitter’s stock; FTC has separate probe under way of purchase reporting
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-belated-disclosure-of-twitter-stake-triggers-regulators-probes-11652303894

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With the mass exodus of Republicans swearing off trips to Disney World, it truly has become the happiest place on Earth.

Ignorance about religion in American political history linked to support for Christian nationalism

Merrick Garland is ignoring the DOJ’s original mission: Battling seditionists like Donald Trump

VIRUS

A LOT of non-covid viruses circulating since end of mask mandate.

Dozens of unidentified bat species likely live in Asia — and could host new viruses

We Study Virus Evolution. Here’s Where We Think the Coronavirus Is Going.
By Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, Tyler Starr and Nathaniel Lash Mar 28 2022

The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own
We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid
By The People’s CDC

Divided Shanghai Battles Omicron Surge With First Pandemic Lockdown

SATOSHI

@hunterwalk with the money Elon Musk spent to buy twitter shares, he could have given every American family $100,000 and still had enough left over to cancel all student debt.
“This isn’t True! but it’s funny ~ECP”

#Bitcoin adoption is doubling every year.

@SenLummis calls the Federal Reserve a “Lawless Organization.”

“We haven’t seen significant evasion through crypto so far but we’ll monitor carefully to make sure this isn’t a major avenue for evasion,” @SecYellen told @RepJoshG during a @FSCDems @FinancialCmte hearing  on sanctions evasion using crypto.

To call Bitcoin a Ponzi is an insult to Ponzi schemes. While some funds from Madoff’s fraud have been returned to investors, Bitcoin holders won’t be able to recover any funds because there’s nothing there to recoup. And even if there was, who would they phone for help? Miners?

Interview with Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy on Bitcoin
Just as Hal Finney Predicted, Bitcoin Is Being Purchased to Act as a Reserve Currency

Welcome to Satoshi Island

@ExcellionThe #LightningNetwork has a theoretical throughput of 40 million #TPS. That’s the equivalent of 14.4 TB size blocks every 10 min. Lightning enables #Bitcoin to be a planetary scale decentralized medium of exchange.
Lightning Labs raises $70 MILLION to build a stablecoin and asset protocol on #Bitcoin

The 19th million #bitcoin has just been mined. 90.47% of supply is in circulation.

Michael Saylor⚡️ on Twitter: “#Bitcoin represents the great exodus of capital from analog assets in physical space to digital energy.

~Elon Musk bought $1.5 billion worth of #bitcoin and the code remains unchanged after a year.
~Elon Musk bought $3 billion worth of Twitter and the code is changing after a week.
~In case the difference wasn’t clear to you.
*Bitcoin’s governance vs all other governance.

If you don’t know Shannon, aspects of almost everything about the modern digital era can be traced to his work, particularly his seminal work on information theory he casually mentioned at the end of that letter.

POLITICS

$300,000,000 of Florida’s pension is wrapped up in Russia and Ron DeSantis has decided to keep it there, hoping Russia recovers. Ron is betting on Russia.

Biden Announces Another Five-Month Pause In Student Loan Payments that is the least he can do! He better cancel student debt now or he won’t win the next time.

Oklahoma lawmakers pass a near-total ban on abortion threatening providers with up to $100,000 in fines and 10 years in prison.

Noam Chomsky, speaks about Brexit, the war in Ukraine and the return of Donald Trump.
On the war in Ukraine: “It’s monstrous for Ukraine…Why did he do it? There are two ways of looking at this question. One way, the fashionable way in the West, is to plumb the recesses of Putin’s twisted mind and try to determine what’s happening in his deep psyche.”
On Trump’s return: “I remember listening to Hitler’s speeches on the radio. I didn’t understand the words…but I understood the mood. And it was frightening and terrifying. And when you watch one of Trump’s rallies that can’t fail to come to mind. That’s what we’re facing.”

  1. Why does Clarence Thomas get to sit on cases about keeping January 6th documents secret when his wife shows up in January 6th documents?
  2. Remember when Rudy ran a shadow foreign policy which resulted in the ouster of our Ambassador to Ukraine in a hurry?
    Remember when the FBI raided Rudy’s home and office?
    Remember Rudy tried to orchestrate the overthrow of our election with baseless challenges?
    Why is Rudy free?

And just like that, the Ginni Thomas story has been buried …
Steven Hassan, PhD on Twitter: “I knew Ginni Thomas. Ginni Thomas was in a cult (the large group awareness training)

Show the FBI Proof that Ginni Thomas is an Insurrectionist

To see the FULL video from this 1986 cult member support group conference, you can see that on my YouTube channel here (Ginni Thomas appears at the 17:30 mark)
For more on Ginni Thomas’ time in a cult, her cult activism in the 80s, and her turn to right-wing causes, this washingtonpost article from 1991 is surprisingly thorough.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress proposed a raft of new rules for the federal judiciary including a formal mechanism to remove judges from hearing cases in the event of a conflict of interest and another intended to reduce secret court filings.

US Lawmakers Pass E-Cash Bill That Replicates Physical Money, Leaving Aside the FED

Indian state gov’t uses Polygon to issue verifiable caste certificates Isn’t this the most disgusting thing you will read about today or maybe this is:
Russian oligarchs on UK sanctions list were granted ‘golden visas’
The Home Office has issued 2,581 investor visas to Russian citizens since the scheme was introduced in 2008.

A stunning portrait of political corruption”: Exactly how Joe Manchin made millions from coal

TECHNOLOGY

Block confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data
Notifications going to 8.5M customers. The breach went undiscovered for four months, and was ultimately blamed on an ex-employee with insider access to customer data.

Google turned on activity tracking for many users that previously turned it off.
Google Workspace admins can no longer deactivate activity tracking for their users, Google says this is helping people.

Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests

Who’s Behind the Okta Hack?
EVEN IF YOU aren’t familiar with Okta, you’ve probably used it. The digital login system is used by thousands of companies across the world to manage employee logins to various cloud services. Which makes it a real problem when that system, and all that login info, gets hacked.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Lily Hay Newman joins the show to tell us about the group behind the recent Okta hack, how the hackers took control of such a vast system, and what happened in the aftermath.

Biden Administration to release 2023 budget today including a new 20% billionaire tax

Anonymous Starts ‘Huge’ Data Dump That Will ‘Blow Russia Away,’ Leaks Rostproekt Emails

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