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TBD, Circle, Linux Foundation Announced New Initiative for Decentralized Identity and Open Payment Standards⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (11/4/2023) - "Today, alongside Circle and The Linux Foundation, we’re opening the call for members to establish a new non-profit foundation focused on creating open source standards for digital identity, credentials and open payments." Continue Reading

Bitcoin Numerology⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (11/1/2023) - I am not a hippie. I acknowledge that the title of this article, “Bitcoin Numerology,” could seem annoyingly esoteric. Nowhere in this article will you find any mention of price predictions, astrology, or any other hippie-dippie things; just some interesting significances with Bitcoin and numbers which I felt compelled to share with you. Buckle up... Continue Reading

Bitcoin, Terrorism, And A $130 Million Misunderstanding⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/27/2023) - In fact, Hamas announced last spring that they had halted their bitcoin fund raising efforts due to the traceability and transparency which created safety issues for donors. According to a Forbes article published last year, illicit transactions are still much more common in the traditional banking system Continue Reading

Bitcoin = Anti-Totalitarianism⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/25/2023) - Senator Elizabeth Warren and numerous congressional members, they leverage international crises to further their own political agenda and curtail financial freedoms. Armed with a freshly published Wall Street Journal article that falsely suggests Hamas raised a significant sum of crypto funding to attack Israel - the truth couldn’t be more obscured. The irony of the… Continue Reading

Bitcoin’s Rise Fueled by U.S. Investors Buying Ahead of Potential Spot ETF Approval: Matrixport⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/25/2023) - The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), has risen 25% in the last month, with most of these gains accumulating during U.S. trading hours, crypto services provider Matrixport said in a note on Wednesday. Continue Reading

Correcting the Record: Inaccurate Methodologies for Estimating Cryptocurrency’s Role in Terrorism Financing⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/22/2023) - "Given blockchain technology’s inherent transparency and the often public nature of terrorism financing campaigns, cryptocurrency is not an effective solution to finance terrorism at scale. " Continue Reading

How Hamas’ Crypto Fundraising Backfired⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/20/2023) - "Hamas learned the hard way what so many criminals have learned before: sending money over the most advanced, transparent payment system ever invented makes it nearly impossible to conceal illegal behavior" Continue Reading

In the Fight Against Extremism, Don’t Demonize Surveillance-Busting Tools like Signal and Bitcoin⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/19/2023) - "Most Americans may not yet grasp that financial privacy is just as important as communications privacy for our democracy—that your spending habits say more about you than your words. In an open society, the ability to buy political books, have discreet medical procedures, and build communities without government surveillance is essential." Continue Reading

Hamas Struggles To Earn Crypto But Raises Money In Other Ways⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/19/2023) - "How did Hamas, seemingly cut off from the global financial system as a designated terrorist organization, get the funds to carry out such a deadly and seemingly sophisticated surprise attack against Israel?"..."cryptocurrency makes up only a small piece of a much larger terror financing puzzle." Continue Reading

Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/18/2023) - "Based on the findings from this phase, detailed in a report published today, the ECB has designed a digital euro that would be widely accessible to citizens and businesses through distribution by supervised intermediaries, such as banks." Continue Reading