Cryptocurrency: Action - Comment Period, Shut FINCEN Down, Build and Use Privacy Coins

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FINCEN Labels All Crypto Users, All Privacy, As Patriot Act Terrorist
Criminality, Vows Shutdown and to Arrest Coderpunks

https://stacker.news/items/305287/r/BITC0IN

https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FINCEN-2023-0016-0001
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FINCEN-2023-0016-0001

by Fiach_Dubh - announcement

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Remember Remember, The 5th of November…

Please forgive the pomp as I step up to this virtual soapbox for a
little 5th of November chat.

You’re sitting at home, looking for something to do while you wait for
your favorite TV show to come on this evening.

You've got time to kill.

Why not give FINCEN and the Treasury Department a good Yellin-g for
their presumptive assertion over your right to transact privately.
(You have less than 78 days from the time of this post, to make a
comment. Anyone can comment, and comment privately. Current comment
count stands at 768.)

Better still, why not use that time to learn Bitcoin privacy best
practices? That’s right anon, today, you’ve been activated, called up
for general mobilization in the fight for the sovereign individual.

Some of you may remember the last time we went through this 3 years
ago. Trump & Mnuchin tried to pull a fast one on us as they were
exiting stage right, but failed.

Well the Biden admin is trying to do the same thing again, spear
headed by Yellen and the Treasury Department/FINCEN. Welcome to the
eternal struggle.

The powers that be have taken it upon themselves to acquire one more
inch of your-selves. Do not give them your silent consent.

Proposed FINCEN regulations surrounding Bitcoin privacy tools will not
have the effect regulators desire. They will only serve to further
drive the concerning activities further underground, where they will
achieve full actualization beyond their control. Long term, they
embolden the very concerns they hope to suppress. Furthermore, I do
not respect their sub-textual assertion of sovereignty over our right
to financial privacy.

Without economic freedom you cannot have political freedom. By
attempting to capture this economic freedom in a surveillance blackbox
at FINCEN, they will only galvanize a force against their public
offices.

Representatives Who Have Volunteered to be on Our Shit List:

Treasury Department's General Phone Number: (202) 622-2000

Janet Yellen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecYellen

US Treasury Twitter: https://twitter.com/USTreasury

Take your right to transact, to transact privately, explicitly,
without apology and with righteous authority.

You are not consumers or the governed. You are The Citizenry.

Act in good faith, be worthy of your freedoms.

What you can do:

There are four activities that are worthy of your attention today.
Choose just one, and then do a second one if you have the time, and
comment with which one you did. The first is less meaningful than the
second, third and fourth.

Submit a comment to the treasury department regarding their misguided
attempt at regulating/suppressing Bitcoin privacy enhancing
transactions. These rules only serve to ban their fiat institutions
from participating in this ecosystem. Anyone can comment, and comment
anonymously. Some example templates of comments submitted include:

    https://twitter.com/FractalEncrypt/status/1719440960281575907

    https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1719025440663261376

    https://gist.github.com/skwp/16c668bbb96e17f9176d6d4d39cc79fd

    Or, consider submitting a copy of the Cypherpunk Manifesto for the
record. Also, Read It:
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

The more meaningful act you can do is learn how to use Bitcoin privacy
tools. Do a coinjoin and/or payjoin today with joinmarket! Do a
payjoin transaction today with a friend! Learn about the benefits and
trade offs of privacy enhancing Bitcoin tools like paynym’s, atomic
swaps, lightning, and coin selection practices.

Buy and sell your Bitcoin KYC free, Peer to Peer.

Also, lobby Bitcoin wallet developers to fully support payjoins, coin
selection, and other privacy tools.

If you want to go a step farther, you could use a combination of these
tools and have the coins sent to a SATSCARD or Opendime. This could
then be swapped with a friend or group of friends in person for an
equivalent amount of Bitcoin for an in person, offchain, ghost
coinjoin. There are now countless Bitcoin conferences and local
meetups happening all over the world. It would be great if these
events coordinated such privacy enhancing activities. Example physical
in-person coinjoin event.

The third thing you can do is fund open source developers who work on
maintaining and improving privacy enhancing tools today. There will be
crowdfunders out there on this issue. But more than likely these will
raise money for lawyers and lobbyists, who will only talk to senators
and congressmen in Washington. This is a horrible use of funds.

Rather, Please, directly support developers who are working on the
tools we use today for onchain and offchain Bitcoin privacy.

A decent list of Bitcoin developers and their Bitcoin donation
addresses can be found at https://bitcoindevlist.com (Be sure to
support the ones working on Bitcoin Privacy Tools)

If you want to send sats via the lightning network to a general fund
for this purpose, you can use this page that I maintain to donate
sats. I will be sending all collected funds to Bitcoin privacy tool
maintainers and developers.

But be warned, this platform (geyser) takes a 2% cut, and I could rug
pull this donation page at any time. If you don’t want to trust me,
then verify by donating directly to developers, not third party
middlemen like geyser or myself.

Learn the benefits of running a Bitcoin node. Run one, not just for
your privacy, but your overall Bitcoin sovereignty. It’s very easy to
run a node. You install a program (usually bitcoin core) and let it
run. That’s it. This can be done on windows, linux and mac.

Go a step further by verifying the binaries of the bitcoin node
program you download.

Go a step further by building Bitcoin Core from source.

Go a step further by running the node over tor or i2p.

Go a step further by running a BIP324 node (which will be available in
the next release of Bitcoin Core).

Thank you for reading and participating in this civil protest. Whether
it’s making a comment to FINCEN, phoning your representative, using
Bitcoin privacy tools, or just learning about your options to run a
Bitcoin node, any of these small steps are ones in the right
direction. Any one of these small acts matters. You don't have to do
all of them. Just one. Take your pick.

Thank You.

Onward.


https://bitcoinprivacy.me/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/kjr08s/fincen_regulation_megathread_make_your_voice/
https://mises.org/library/theres-no-political-freedom-without-economic-freedom
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023.10.17%20Letter%20to%20Treasury%20and%20White%20House%20re%20Hamas%20crypto%20security.pdf
https://twitter.com/SecYellen
https://twitter.com/USTreasury
https://twitter.com/FractalEncrypt/status/1719440960281575907
https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1719025440663261376
https://gist.github.com/skwp/16c668bbb96e17f9176d6d4d39cc79fd
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyjG2upGO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9COdlsh4inY
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/PayJoin
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/PayJoin_adoption
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5433032.0
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_swap
https://lightningprivacy.com/en/introduction
https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/coin-selection/
https://bitcoiner.guide/nokyconly/
https://twitter.com/BITCOINALLCAPS/status/1720519789452374298
https://medium.com/@Fiach_dubh/off-chain-bitcoin-swaps-with-the-satscard-942b31243c8b
https://bitcoindevlist.com/
https://geyser.fund/project/supportbitcoinprivacydevs
https://blog.lopp.net/securing-your-financial-sovereignty/
https://bitcoincore.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0I-ImS_r8o
https://dev-notes.eu/2020/10/Build-Bitcoin-Core-in-Ubuntu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTkOt8Rr1Q
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/26.0-Release-Notes-Draft
https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/kjr08s/fincen_regulation_megathread_make_your_voice/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/17o3v8v/fincen_megathread_do_not_give_them_your_silent/


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