Durov announces disabling personal geolocation from Telegram

Telegrams People Nearby feature has been suspected of being a way for state authorities to locate and track dissidents.

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Choose Privacy

Technological capability, on its own, is not enough to create Bitcoin privacy. Unless users and society actively defend and demand privacy, it will die. From "The Privacy Issue".

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AARON: Oceans DATUM Is Tackling Bitcoins Most Pressing Problem

Ocean's DATUM is since this weekend putting transaction selection back into the hands of hashers, benefiting Bitcoin's censorship resistance.

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Oceans DATUM Is Tackling Bitcoins Most Pressing Problem

Ocean's DATUM is since this weekend putting transaction selection back into the hands of hashers, benefiting Bitcoin's censorship resistance.

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Shift to new server provider restores X in Brazil for some users

Brazil recently lifted the freeze on bank accounts for Elon Musks Starlink and the X platform after the companies paid a $3-million fine.

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Tornado Cash sanctions effective, reveal Ethereum weakness: NY Fed

Cooperation with the US Treasury sanctions on Tornado Cash was strongest at the user level and weaker further along the settlement chain.

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X goes dark in Brazil as tensions between Musk and Judge escalate

Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court judge, ordered the “immediate and complete suspension” of social media platform X in Brazil, the BBC reported on Aug 31. The judge directed the countrys telecom agency to block access to X, causing the platform to go dark earlier today, according to the New York Times. The ban was […]

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Brazils Supreme Court threatens to suspend X by Aug. 29

The proposed suspension of services came amid an ongoing feud between Elon Musk and Judge Alexandre de Moraes.

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TON Society issues open letter to France urging Pavel Durovs release

French President Emmanuel Macron has been widely criticized by tech executives such as Elon Musk and Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski.

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Elon Musk lashes out at EU over illegal free speech deal

The European Commission and Elon Musks social media site, X, look set to battle over alleged transparency violations.

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Charles Hoskinson questions AIs censorship and selective training

Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Cardano, raises concerns over AI censorship and the selective training of AI systems at the hands of the Big Tech companies developing the models.

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WATCH: The 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, Financial Freedom Track Livestream

Leading Bitcoin advocates and entrepreneurs are meeting with human rights activists to explore the imperative of censorship-resistant money in the fight against authoritarianism.

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AI makes it even easier for governments to surveil you Nym CEO

Nym CEO Harry Halpin tells The Agenda podcast that artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to conduct surveillance against activists and dissidents.

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CBDCs, stablecoins must ensure liberty-based values former CFTC chair

J. Christian Giancarlo has stressed the importance of upholding values of liberty, privacy and economic freedom in a keynote address in London.

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Do users really care about decentralization? Industry figures clash

Ethereums Dankrad Feist and Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz clash on X over the importance of decentralization, revealing differing views on the crypto markets priorities.

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Pavel Durov defiantly refuses EU demands to censor Romanian election information

Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has firmly rejected the European Union’s attempts to pressure the messaging platform to censor content related to the recent Romanian election. Durov’s refusal to comply with EU demands showcases his commitment to protecting freedom of speech and expression on his platform. In a bold move, Durov publicly stated that [...]

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Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks

Bitcoin is not invincible, but was designed with resilience at its core. The eighth installment of 10 Steps to Self-Sovereignty powered by Ledger.

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Lawsuit against US Treasury argues the government overreached by sanctioning Tornado Cash

Six individuals seeking to lift the ban against cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, the platform that enhanced privacy by mixing transactions, put forth four major arguments in a filing on May 24. The filing supports the Coinbase-backed lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury filed on Sept. 8, 2022. In the latest filing, the plaintiffs argued that this […]

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Bitcoin Ordinals: Controversial but Here to Stay

Bitcoin Ordinals, the ability to permanently store data on the Bitcoin blockchain, are a controversial topic within the cryptocurrency community. However, builders and CEOs of Bitcoin-focused companies see potential for the technology, despite concerns over blockchain congestion and offensive content. Ordinals offer a new use case for the Bitcoin network beyond peer-to-peer cash, allowing for permanent and censorship-resistant storage of culturally significant events and data. (Read More)

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Why Bitcoin Mining Needs Stratum V2

Bitcoin mining is centralizing, but how real is the risk of network censorship? And can a protocol called Stratum V2 save the industry?

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