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German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation announces seizure of world biggest darknet money laundering service "Chipmixer"
For all of you asking Wen Lambo, well I got bad news: "Lamborghini has already sold all its cars until 2024"
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AFP officers' details leaked on dark web, but at least their crypto is safe.
Read AFP fact check link I shared You're sharing Trezor twitter account tweeting an emoji? You actually think Trezor would know?
I've been pro climate change my whole life but I'm starting to see how insane some of this. Here's an example of the insanity of how ridiculous the climate change narrative has become and will continue to become because it's co-opted. Your new enemy: Rice https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1647520201850896384?t=6-YarehqkJU5FI_p8Pcsbg&s=19 Another example is Germany shutdown their last 3 nuclear power plants and their environmentalists celebrated this. Meanwhile nearly 95% of the power that is lost now has to be made up by coal. I'm sorry but if you're pro-climate change and anti-nuclear, which is the safest cleanest form of energy, you're not a serious person who understands climate change and cares about the planet.
“More recently, Errol told AFP that Musk had made a hurtful comment to a schoolmate about his father's suicide, and the boy pushed him down a staircase. According to AFP, when he heard what had happened, Errol wanted to defend his son. "But I realised Elon overstepped the mark with this little boy. I had to drop it," he said.” So basically if his dad was the kind of guy who defended him when his classmate pushed him down some stairs he probably wouldn’t be so emotionally stunted.
There you go: https://americansforprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AFP-and-AFPA-2024-Memo.pdf Trump is a (politically) dead man walking. He won't won't even become Republican nominee
>Meta Only for the uninitiated, this has been an ongoing proof of concept since at least 2013, using excess heat from BTC mining to find secondary or tertiary business models that have an ancillary purpose beyond just the mining itself, which does and will likely always have a large energy cost. The only way to mitigate this, is to reduce carbon based fossil fuel usage while simultaneously adding value to the process as a direct incentive to running a miner, this sums it ir rather well, but I will also add context as to why 'tulip mania' was a machination of the media for sensationalization purposes: *That warmth is now heating the hothouse where rows of tulips grow, cutting the farmers’ reliance on gas whose price has soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting the impact on the environment. Meanwhile both the farmers and de Groot’s company, Bitcoin Brabant, are earning crypto, which is still attracting investors despite a recent crash in the market. “We think with this way of heating our greenhouse but also earning some bitcoin we have a win-win situation,” flower farmer Danielle Koning, 37, told AFP.* This underscores the purpose is to recapture a byprodut to create a additional more value throughout the value chain, in this case Media attention grabbing Tulips. If it were Lillys or Roses being grown in NL no one is going to give a damn, this at least gets media attention. Furthermore, Holland did have a short-lived mania with Tulip based derivatives and futures, but it wasn't as significant as it was made out to be, and the reality is that Dutch culture continued to venerate the flower in it's culture: a Dutch protestant merchant was to live an austere life if he were to be pious, but just like Van Gough paintings the value/utility remained, or increased, in the wake of the demise of the artist and the mania as it were. Extra Credits did a real good deep dive on it and the Lies segmen goes into the work by Anne Goldgar and Charles Mckay and the conclusion portrayed by the media of that time is woefully wrong and short-lived. It's worth a watch if you care about Market dynamics and especially the hype-cycles inherit in any new system (in this case the stock market): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5-YbvmYLE&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5DNT-GPewi0mut_y6GM6HTc
A spokesperson for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) told Cointelegraph that there has been an “increase in the number of offenders using cryptocurrencies to facilitate illicit business and attempting to conceal the ownership of assets.”
tldr; An image of Bitcoin and US currencies is displayed on a screen as delegates listen to a panel of speakers during the Interpol World Congress in Singapore on July 4, 2017. - The three-day conference on fostering innovation for future security challenges is taking place from July 4 to 6. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images) *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*
tldr; The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has established a new unit designed to specifically focus on monitoring crypto-related transactions. The unit comes as the AFP has reportedly surpassed its $600 million revenue-raising target two years ahead of schedule. The AFP made its first crypto seizure in early 2018. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*
The complete article, archived from the original news site https://archive.ph/ubyoN The "standalone team" will probably be one officer part-time. The position will be filled as soon an one officer is able to pass the AFP's "Basic Internet Use" course
tldr; Australia's Federal Police has set up a new cryptocurrency unit to crack down on money laundering. The unit was set up in August after illicit use of crypto increased significantly since 2018, according to AFP criminal asset confiscation head Stefan Jerga. In 2021, Australians reportedly lost around $26 million due to crypto-related scams. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*
[Lebanon man hailed hero for holding Beirut bank hostage over savings](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62514631) > An armed man who held a bank hostage for more than six hours in Beirut because he could not withdraw savings has been hailed a hero by the public. > Banks in Lebanon have put tight rules on how much money people can access, amid a deep economic crisis. > The suspect entered the bank with a rifle, poured petrol and demanded his money for hospital bills, AFP reported. Bitcoin fixes this.
Yeah that sounds about right, AFP chasing up a bar tab...after they arrest that last bikie in WA.
>You’re welcome to be trans all you’d like, I support your right to do so, just don’t expect me to play along against my will. Exactly this ! If I feel everyone should address me as "master" will everyone do so to avoid hurting my feelings ? Why not ? If I identify as master, why should I not be entitled to being referred as one. If I identify as person of different age than my birth age, can I change it to match the age I identify to be ? If biological attribute like sex can be legally changed, why not another attribute like age ? A [dutch man](https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673246844/dutch-man-loses-bid-to-change-his-age-plans-to-appeal#:~:text=AFP%2FGetty%20Images-,Emile%20Ratelband%2C%2069%2C%20answers%20journalists'%20questions%20on%20Monday%20in,change%20his%20age%20to%2049.&text=A%2069%2Dyear%2Dold%20Dutchman,says%20he%20plans%20to%20appeal.) actually tried to do this, but was denied. Those discriminating bastards... If a 13-year old feels he's 26 and changes his age, can you deny him the right to buy booze ? If a pedophile identifies as 8-year old and has sex with another 8-year old, can he avoid charges as such acts between children of similar age are not legally punishable in most jurisdictions. Human gender is a biologically determined trait, which can be unambiguously determined in 99.99999% of people using genetics. True equality is not being able to change your gender. It is not needing to. We should strive for society where everyone can live a fullfilling life despite the gender they were born into, without the need to hormonally alter or mutilate their bodies. I consider myself a libertarian, and still anti-trans. I see no conflict in that. Me being a libertarian means, that if you want to pump your body full of artificial hormones and mutilate your genitals, I will not try to stop you or people helping you by using force. Your body is yours to mutilate or hormonally alter if you wish so. But don't you think I will praise you for it or pat your back. Don't you also think I won't voice my criticisms wherever I see fit. Don't think you have the right to silence me just because some things I say offend you or make you insecure about your choices. My body and my thoughts belong to me. You have zero right to force me to play along with your games. If I call you he or she, then that is my choice. If it big enough problem for you, then you are free to not interact with me if you so wish. If you try to infringe on my freedom of speech and opinion, you are not libertarians but fascists. Libertarianism is all about freedom to disagree, freedom to debate, freedom to be different. It is certainly not about freedom from criticism or differing opinions