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Looking at ways to add more anonymity to bitcoin

Unpopular opinion (apparently, even in the bitcoin community) Governments should not own bitcoin. We should delay or prevent their acquisition of BTC for as long as possible.

The American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA) would authorize the U.S. Treasury to acquire up to 200,000 bitcoin per year for five years, targeting a reserve of 1 million BTC. The bill was introduced Wednesday by Rep. Nick Begich with 16 original cosponsors. It is a rebranding and expansion of the original BITCOIN Act co-introduced last year by Begich and Senator Cynthia Lummis. It would codify Trump's March 2025 executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into permanent law that cannot be reversed by a future president. The bill classifies bitcoin as a "Tier 1" strategic reserve asset, putting it on the same legal footing as gold. A separate digital asset stockpile would hold other federally owned crypto. All acquisitions must be budget-neutral. The funding mechanism is revaluing Federal Reserve gold certificates from their current statutory price of $42.22 per ounce, set in 1973, to current market prices. That gap generates hundreds of billions in accounting gains without new taxpayer debt. The bill also ends the practice of auctioning off seized bitcoin. All future seizures would be transferred directly to the Strategic Reserve instead of being liquidated by the U.S. Marshals Service. Existing government holdings would be consolidated into a single audited ledger. Bitcoin in the reserve would be held for a minimum of 20 years. The bill establishes federal custody standards including geographic distribution of private keys across air-gapped facilities, multi-signature governance requiring authorization from the Treasury, the Fed, and an independent third agency, and investment in "quantum-resistant cryptographic upgrades." Rep. Pat Harrigan, one of the cosponsors, said "The United States government already holds billions in seized bitcoin with no coherent strategy for managing it, and that needs to change."

Limiting or weakening the BRCA is a non-starter. Prosecuting non-custodial developers will not help law enforcement. It'll waste valuable enforcement resources chasing folks who do not custody customer funds, execute trades, or control user assets. The CLARITY Act must protect developers and preserve the BRCA’s core protections. You do not strengthen America by prosecuting developers for writing code.

just quick napkin math on how long this took (unless i missed where they said): the published CoT summary is 111,145 tokens long. it's really hard to say how much they summarized, assume 3x-20x reduction in tokens? and i'm assuming this is gpt-5.6 pro, so taking Artifical Analysis' benchmark of 51ms tok/sec at 100k input for gpt 5.5. underestimate prob hard to say this seems a bit low so going to multiply all of this by 2x then this probably took anywhere between 5 hours to 32 hours. so like $120 - $1000 in gpt 5.5 pro tokens whole point is not that long for a result of this magnitude!

I have not heard nor seen a single person use Mobilecoin in Signal. It was completely unnecessary to begin with and I wish they would rip it out. I am reminded of Mobilecoin because now they've implemented pop-up ads to donate to them. What was the point of Mobilecoin then? Moxie was a technical advisor.

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Malawi has no forex. Every Malawian card fails abroad. The parallel market is illegal but it is the only option. So I asked: what if stablecoins could fix this?