Martin (mx)

If you care about financial privacy or are developing non-custodial tools, you need to pay attention to this. The US Government is claiming that *all funds* that went through tornado cash could be criminal, because they could be used to conceal the actual criminal proceeds. This is how the „crypto capital of the world“ operates. Speak out before it is too late.

On June 5, 1991, Phil Zimmermann released a piece of software called PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Within months, PGP had spread across the globe. Human rights activists used it to protect their communications. Dissidents in Eastern Europe sent Zimmermann grateful messages. "Let it never be, but if dictatorship takes over Russia, your PGP is widespread from Baltic to Far East now and will help democratic people if necessary." The US government's response was a three-year criminal investigation. Zimmermann was investigated for violating the Arms Export Control Act. The charge was exporting munitions without a license. The munition in question was encryption software - mathematical operations that anyone could perform with pen and paper, but which the government classified alongside missiles and bombs. At the same time, the Clinton administration introduced the Clipper Chip - an encryption device with a built-in backdoor for government access. The idea: Americans could have encryption, but the NSA would keep a copy of every key. The cypherpunks fought back. When the government claimed that software was different from speech, Zimmermann worked with MIT Press to publish PGP's source code as a physical book. The argument: if you can't ban a book, you can't ban the code it contains. The strategy worked. By 1996, the investigation was dropped. Federal courts ruled that encryption is protected by the First Amendment. The Clipper Chip was abandoned after researchers found fatal flaws in its design. In the 1990s, the cypherpunks defended the right to write encryption software.

Warning🚨 CPU-Z and HWMonitor websites have been hacked and are delivering malware downloads. Do not download CPU-Z or HWMonitor right now. Reports confirm the official CPUID website was compromised and some downloads were replaced with malware-infected installer files. If you downloaded or updated either app recently, run a full antivirus scan immediately.

Bitcoin should not force a tradeoff between trust and privacy. Private BTC flows with self-custody and fast settlement make a real difference for everyday users and serious capital alike. This is the kind of infrastructure that moves privacy from theory to standard.

Japan has 9 million abandoned houses. By 2038, it's projected to be 1 in 3. Many of these sell for near-zero prices. The government covers 30–75% of renovation costs. Japan also places no restrictions on foreign property ownership, identical rights to citizens. Only a very specific profile would consider this. But there’s a lot of similarity to Italy's €1 home schemes, which were dismissed as gimmicks and are now attracting serious buyers to villages across Sicily and Sardinia. Japan's abandoned house market is a real entry point for people willing to look past the obvious. In Kyushu, you can also find move-in ready houses for $15,000–20,000 in towns with hot springs, fresh seafood, and Shinkansen access. I will be exploring later this year personally, but quality of life in Japan looks to be incredibly high. Is this one of the most overlooked property plays in Asia right now?

Connect the dots ... the censorship of the dollar -- the freezings of dollar bank accounts, the confiscations of dollars, etc . that you blithely call "sanctions" -- is the chief reason *why* other countries are moving away from the dollar.

Telegram does NOT end-to-end encrypt by default. Regular chats and ALL group chats sit on Telegram's servers in readable form. Only "Secret Chats" are E2E encrypted, but they're buried in menus, work only for 1-on-1 chats, and almost nobody uses them.

BREAKING: A Mexican gold miner who was trapped 300 meters underground for two weeks has just been found alive. The rescue footage shows him standing in waist-deep water, telling rescuers he never lost faith during the ordeal.

🚨BREAKING: U.S Men aged 18-25 will be automatically registered for the US military draft starting December 2026. Non-compliance is a felony: • $250K fine or 5 years jail • No student loans, federal jobs, or citizenship path Congress passed this quietly in the 2026 Defense Authorization Act framed as "saving taxpayer money on recruitment ads." Meanwhile: • Army just raised max recruit age to 42 • Draft registration compliance dropped to 81% (lowest in years)

26 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds. One drained our client $500k wallet. We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us. Within several hours, we can directly take over ~400 hosts. Check our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08407

🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month. Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...

🚨 WhatsApp’s “end-to-end encrypted” privacy is a total lie. New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors like Accenture, and third parties read, intercept, and store your private messages WITHOUT consent. All while marketing it as “only you and the recipient can read it.” Zuck lied to billions. Your chats were never safe.

Stop feeding YouTube your watch history, location, and personal data while watching endless ads! These free open-source tools and privacy-first alternatives give you full control in 2026. 1. Privacy Guides gives you trusted recommendations for private YouTube clients and instances: privacyguides.org/en/frontends/ 2. NewPipe is a lightweight ad-free YouTube client for Android with background playback and no Google tracking: newpipe.net 3. FreeTube is the best desktop client that blocks ads, tracking, and keeps all YouTube features locally: freetubeapp.io 4. Piped is a privacy-focused YouTube front-end that proxies everything without any tracking: piped.video 5. LibreTube is a clean Android client powered by Piped for maximum privacy and SponsorBlock support: libretube.dev 6. SponsorBlock uses crowdsourced data to automatically skip sponsors, intros, and outros on any client: sponsor.ajay.app 7. Invidious is a self-hostable open-source YouTube front-end for complete anonymity and no ads: invidious.io 8. Want to ditch YouTube completely? Check out @OdyseeTeam & @Bitchute!

"BlackRock wants to turn EVERYTHING nature gave us—forests, rivers, entire ecosystems—into tradable Wall Street tokens on a blockchain." ~Whitney Webb It's a heist: infinite new collateral for their endless debt machine, all tracked & controlled by their AI overlord, Aladdin. All under the feel-good banner of "saving the planet"... This isn't environmentalism. This is total financial domination of the living world.

France is passing a law forcing anyone who holds more than €5k euros in a crypto wallet to declare it to the tax authorities . This is the same government that had an IRS agent SELL the data of people who declared crypto to criminals, who then went on to kidnap their families and cut fingers off.

JUST IN: YouTube deletes Bitcoin .com’s YouTube channel, claiming it was “harmful and dangerous”

1/ Recently an unnamed source shared data exfiltrated from an internal North Korean payment server containing 390 accounts, chat logs, crypto transactions. I spent long hours going through all of it, none of which has ever been publicly released. It revealed an intricate ~$1M/month scheme of fraudulent identities, forged legal documents, and crypto-to-fiat conversion. Enjoy the findings!

Most software is built on a simple assumption: the system knows ~everything. The database knows all the records. The server knows all the users. The ledger knows all the transactions. This makes programming straightforward - you can query anything, compute anything, verify anything. But it also means privacy is always an afterthought. You have to actively work to hide information from a system designed to know everything by default. DarkFi inverts this. Anonymous engineering starts from a different assumption: the system knows nothing except what it must. Think about what it means to build applications where: ·A DAO can verify votes without knowing who voted ·A market can match trades without seeing the traders ·A payment can prove validity without revealing sender, receiver, or amount ·A credential can confirm qualification without exposing identity None of this is possible with conventional programming.

Iran will only let 10-15 ships per day pass the strait of Hormuz during the 2 week ceasefire currently 15-20 ships per day pass the strait before the war, 150 ships per day passed this is not bearish oil

I'm advising Wagyu - the protocol bringing XMR to DeFi without nuking its privacy in the process. $200m+ volume in two months. Not bad for something the "can't be done" crowd wrote off immediately. A thread on what it is, and what I'll be doing🧵 /1