Marty's Ƀent Issue #1324: Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Protecting Incumbents, Not Consumers It's time to begin pushing back against the ghouls at FATF. They should not be able to restrict financial freedom while consolidating power among those who are the biggest facilitators of financial crimes.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1323: Interesting joint statement on banking the bitcoin industry I can say that this type of statement was something I was not expecting.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1229: A new FATF report drops at the end of the month Prepare yourselves, freaks. Things are about to get spicy.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1170: This is what a real attack on Bitcoin would look like In a world filled with weak men driven by profits, it isn't hard to imagine that many corporate miners in the West would bend the knee to try to accommodate this so they can stay in business.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1051: No taxation without representation Bitcoin completed another kind of step over the last couple of weeks; it cemented itself as a force to be reckoned with in US politics.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1045: The Treasury is trying to stifle Bitcoin adoption in the US The Treasury Department headed by Janet Yellen, ex-Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, is the driving force behind the aggressive language pertaining to Bitcoin within the bill.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1036: The attempts to inject the Travel Rule into the protocol level have begun Expect more of this moving forward. The network is going to be constantly attacked via avenues like this by Bitcoin businesses that feel the pressure from regulators and public market capital.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1031: Some EU Lawmakers want to outlaw Proof of Work Could you imagine if the ECB was made the ultimate regulator of Bitcoin within the EU?
Marty's Ƀent #984: New York wants its citizens to suffer While many states are actively drafting legislation and publicly posturing to attract bitcoiners, others are going in the opposite direction.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #959: 100M more individuals harmed by KYC/AML It's time for strong men and women who have any sense of decency and the ability to think critically to stand up and speak out against these ineffective and overtly harmful data collection policies.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #955: The FATF demons are back The powers that be don't have a leg to stand on, they tend to be the biggest criminals and prove to be totally incompetent time and time again.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #923: Bitcoin is freedom money Yet another authoritarian move from the powers that be in Nigeria.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #906: They don't have a leg to stand on How many times does hypocrisy have to be laid bare before we stop giving these maniacal assholes power over very important aspects of our society?
Marty's Ƀent Issue #900: A step towards Hal Finney's vision of Bitcoin? Regardless of how it plays out, the OCC's announcement creates regulatory clarity that will enable banks to attempt to compete.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #891: Is today the day Munchin Butts cements himself as the biggest idiot in the history of the Treasury? Be prepared for both civil disobedience and civil discussion. Let's hope the latter prevails.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #876: Keep swimming down The third parties that interact with the protocol may be co-opted, but the protocol itself will remain pure and bereft of regulator taint.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #844: Why do we put up with this? Companies are essentially being taxed and forced to create new, systemic arms of their businesses in an attempt to comply.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #840: Some industry participants are enemies of Bitcoin This is totally anathema to the ethos of Bitcoin and goes against everything Satoshi set out to accomplish when he launched Bitcoin in 2009.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #839: Signs of a mature market? The charges against BitMEX were a loud shot across the bow of the industry.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #828: Two-tiered justice. Nothing new. Overburdening individuals and companies with KYC/AML compliance has done little to curb criminal activity within the financial system to date.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #674: Bitcoin is a communications protocol No more pushing for bitcoin to be defined as a currency, even though it can be leveraged by people who want to use it as a currency, it needs to be defined as free speech.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #673: The battle is well under way This fight for Liberty and the changes needed to protect it will take time and courage.
