A few additional notes on Proton:

- they do have access to unencrypted subject, from, to, and timestamp
- they do require recovery email on registration for free accounts, and this address is obviously unencrypted
- if you provide a burner address you can lose access to…

The SBF case got all the attention but the Tornado Cash case may end up being the seminal crypto court case. Which is why you should read the government's response to the defence's motion to dismiss, published last night.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Bank in Canada won’t let customer withdraw cash

they ask him to prove why he needs cash

It's probably the only portfolio tracking tool that doesn't leak it to third parties, an essential tool for people that care about their privacy

Wait what? Only 4 months to develop Udio from scratch? That's incredible speed for such a result. Or did I get something wrong?

1/ Today, BA filed an amicus brief in United States v. Storm, highlighting a critical flaw in the government's prosecution of Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov.
theblockchainassociation.org/blockchainasso…

Today, Coin Center filed an amicus brief in Roman Storm's criminal case. The government has wrongly charged the Tornado Cash developers with criminal conspiracy and we are here to help set the record straight and defend First Amendment rights to publish software.

Our brief…

Today we DeFi Education Fund are proud to submit an amicus brief in US v. Storm, arguing that the court should not validate the government’s unprecedented and damaging theory of criminal liability for software developers. This case has important implications for developers in every…

1/ Here's everything you need to know regarding the current status of Alexey Pertsev and Roman S's trials, what's to come in the next few months, and how you can help support the fight for privacy and the right to publish open-source code.

🤯 The level of sophistication of the XZ attack is very impressive! I tried to make sense of the analysis in a single page (which was quite complicated)!

I hope it helps to make sense of the information out there. Please treat the information 'as is' while the analysis…

Lefteris Karapetsas | Hiring for @rotkiapp Is it possible to register on Farcaster without providing your credit card data and and without Google account?

Real talk: the greatest policy threat to crypto by far is the allegation that North Korea funds its missile program by hacking smart contracts.

We spend so much time every day talking about issues like what the Howey test means and whether DAOs should be wrapped in a legal…

this trial is so fucked up

the judges ask him “do you think your using the chainalysis sanctions oracle prevented criminal use”

Alexey explains “there is nothing anyone could do to prevent users from interacting with the smart contracts”

then, in the next question - “why…

1/ gm from the Netherlands

Alexey Pertsev's trial starts today

he stands accused of laundering $1.2B via Tornado Cash

I believe he should be free—open source devs should NOT be held criminally liable for the crimes of foreign terrorists!

dlnews.com/articles/regul…

This means 'extremists' can be cut off from banking via the same tools used to track terrorists

.@Arbitrum’s DAO is weighing a proposal to allocate up to $1.28 million for the legal defense of 🌪️ Tornado.cash 🌪️ developers, Roman S and Alexey Pertsev.

Sage~ reports
bit.ly/43btEaB

If you can help, please help. Privacy is not a crime.

2024 is the year that will define the rest of my life.
Honestly, I’m scared. But also hopeful that this community cares with a passion.
Please donate towards my legal defense.
wewantjusticedao.org

Each time you sign a structured message using Ledger's JavaScript SDK, it does a request to their servers 😳

This means they have the IP address of everyone who signs structured messages through their SDK (almost all wallets on the market 💀)

Even worse, since you often send a…

I understand the benefits of KYC for donors to protect against Sybil attacks for grant matching, but why is it needed for the devs?