The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was released 19 years ago today.

'Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect.'

Use this one weird trick to know if you are a money transmitter!

Lots of people are so confused lately and unsure if they can operate in the US.

Here's the one simple trick they don't want to you know:

If the US government doesn't like you, you're a money transmitter!

POV: You are deciding which “altcoin” to diversify into

There are 43 unique words from the BIP39 wordlist in the FBI's PSA on money service businesses.

That should make 7,347,251,430,341,222,400 Bitcoin wallets.

Hope they have a license for them.

I just kick shitcoiner's tx out of my mempool

At this stage, it looks like Bitcoin's biggest chance of failure will come from too many sacrifices being made to make it a better MoE, at the expense of the most important thing - ensuring it remains an effective SoV.

Shit.

$109m of capital to make a FPPS sustainable.

Good luck with that.

The makers of Rebel Moon should have spent less of the budget on special effects and more on the writers.

BREAKING - PEOPLE CHOOSING TO LIVE IN AREAS WITH LOTS OF TORNADOES ONCE AGAIN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WEATHER

Because of the blockchain trillemma. There are tradeoffs when trying to optimize a system.

When you scale layer 1, you give up some amount of security and decentralization to do so.

To me and fellow bitcoiners, security and decentralization are paramount. To preserve those…

WE JUST WANT TO KEEP THE MONEY WE EARN AND LIVE IN PEACE

#BITCOIN

Khan ⚡ Khyberpunk - 13%er Start9 is neither a custodian nor an intermediary. We own nothing, we custody nothing, we know nothing.

Free software, free docs, free support. The only thing we own and sell is a commodity computer that can be obtained from anywhere on earth in cheap abundance.

your mom's a money transmitter

KYC / AML - Just say No

Steady lads, I'm money transmitting

Recent announcements from US authorities cast a doubt on whether self-custodial wallet providers, Lightning service providers, or even Lightning nodes could be considered Money Services Businesses and be regulated as such.

americans really need to come to terms with this.

you do not live in the land of the free. you live in the land of bankster anarchotyranny. for many others the entirely credible threat of theft and kidnapping is not worth the hassle of dealing with you.

No one cares about my opinion but, I support Acinq's decision and their absolute right to drop the US to avoid the unnecessary headache. If I was trying to run a small but fantastic business/service like theirs I would drop the US market in a heartbeat too.