The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

Post by 1oooqooq » Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

CityOfThrowaway wrote: post #208

Eridrus wrote: post #201

I think the case for why strong encryption is important is much clearer than why untraceable financial instruments are important and I don't think it's super compelling to argue that these things are actually the same, even if your opposition to government control is the same. I think it's actually pretty clear that almost all people are not capable of secure and reliable self-custody and would be better off with an…

Yes, it might be true that most people aren't willing to keep their money under their beds for security reasons. But it shouldn't be illegal or somehow indicative of criminality. Same thing with self custody of crypto.

Post by ninkendo » Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 6:27 PM UTC

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On the other hand you get to vote who is in the gang. So choose wisely.

You only get two options for each vote, and there is no reason that one or both of the options would need to be aware of or be in favor of an acceptable solution to the given problem. In fact, the chance of that happening is vanishingly small.

Post by tastyfreeze » Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 7:20 PM UTC

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Sadly, Percisely. Digital Forensics (the evidence of nothing by the way, a great book), is approaching little more than gluing together datasets from various completely fungible entities. I too could be a master investigator if I could simply compel various busnisses to gift me the tables needed!

Pretty soon they will be able to run all our information through a language model. Models could identify "suspicious" behavior and generate plausible theories to fit the desired witch hunt, based on what they read. Scary.

Post by komali2 » Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 8:13 PM UTC

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Anyone with experience teaching children could tell you that racism is taught. It's just not baked in for kids. However it's also not a very interesting question imo. You will never "reset" a generation from any aspect of culture, and now that we're in the global information age it's triply impossible. We don't need to fool around with naturalist fallacy - it's enough to say that racism is bad and we should get rid o…

I have experience teaching children. They typically don't experience the scarcity that leads to fear and tribalism among adults. Tribalism doesn't have to be taught.

Post by ddtaylor » Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

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Don’t understand this pessimism. There are a large number of countries in the world. You can migrate out of a country if they start doing insane things like this. I would consider leaving UK very seriously if I was building a life there now, as an example.

>Don’t understand this pessimism. There are a large number of countries in the world. You can migrate out of a country if they start doing insane things like this. Unfortunately in 2025 it is a race to the bottom. While some countries (such as the UK) are sinking faster than others, there isn't a single country I can think of that is moving in the right direction when it comes to privacy, free speech and civil libert…