The Money Transmitter Rule with Ek - Stacker News Saturday Newsletter

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Bitcoin paradigm shift thought experiment
- How might bitcoin best prepare itself for a money system handoff? What might cause bitcoin to be least prepared for such a handoff?
- 11.7k sats \ 34 comments \ @elvismercury
Nostr is Identity for the Internet
- Portable, noob-friendly, censorship resistant, internet identities promise to free us from digital serfdom. Nostr gives us a glimpse of what that might look like.
- 6.6k sats \ 50k boost \ 20 comments \ @MaxAWebster
The Network Access Exception To The Money Transmitter Rule
- The indictment of Samourai and the pretrial of Tornado Cash show the US government expanding the definition of money transmission. @siggy47 points to a statute that “network access services,” like lightning service providers, are safe from such redefinitions.
- 12.6k sats \ 42 comments \ @siggy47
Idea for future "Bitcoin businesses"
- Helping local merchants accept bitcoin creates more economic bitcoin nodes. @DarthCoin expects this kind of missionary work to lead to profitable service businesses and names a few.
- 3.6k sats \ 49 comments \ @DarthCoin
10 ways to support ZEUS in 2024
- Zeus being an open source bitcoin and lightning wallet, built on open network, make it easy to support no matter your skillset.
- 14.9k sats \ 27 comments \ @evankaloudis