Horrific-Terrific - 🤷🏻♀️ Robot Vacuums
Hello readers, have I told you recently that I love you? This week was sort of okay I guess? 🤷🏼. Ah, the sweaty central fold of my five-point scale. But why?
🌪️ Swirl it! Mix it! Twirl it!The US treasury has banned the use of Tornado Cash in the US. Tornado cash a ‘mixer’: it takes what ever crypto you put in and blends it together other people’s tokens to completely obscure your activity. So, you can send money to someone, and they won’t know it was you, and neither will anyone else. It’s called PRIVACY. Let’s explore the various questions that I now imagine are sloshing around your brain matter: 🤔 Doesn’t THAT MUCH privacy make it really easy for people to launder money and sell illegal products? If by ‘really easy’ you mean even easier than it was before with crypto, yes. 🤔 Why have the treasury banned it? Because they are ‘tough on crime’. 🤔 But won’t this also stop the non-criminals from sending and receiving money? Yes, that’s why it’s funny. Just to clarify, Tornado is not a company or any sort of entity. It’s just an on-chain protocol that people use to send and receive money in the most private way possible. It’s for the hyper-libertarian crypto bro, who’s business is exclusively their own. When you have channels that are as private as Tornado, you cannot do anything about any illegal activity that might occur through them — that’s why this whole thing is so dumb. They have literally banned the virtual equivalent of a dark alley. This is one of the worst ways to stop people from selling child pornography, and one of the best ways to get people who are already anti-government to hate you even more. 🏭 Amazon |
💌 Thank you for subscribing to Horrific/Terrific. Maybe you should pay for it seeing as you like it so much?
If you need more reasons to distract yourself try looking at my website or maybe this ridiculous zine that I write or how about these silly games that I’ve made. Enjoy!
Key phrases
Older messages
👍 Stifling Innovation
Friday, August 5, 2022
FTC sues Meta over VR acquisition | Facebook does nothing to end ethnic violence in Kenya | Some guy is using AI to dig up lost bitcoin
👎 Open App!
Friday, July 29, 2022
This week we have a special guest contributor! | Two key US tech regulations will likely not pass the vote | Robots: bad at chess, good at breaking bones
🤷🏻♀️ Closed AI
Friday, July 22, 2022
DALL-E 2 is coming out on subscription — brace yourselves
👍 Enforce It!
Friday, July 15, 2022
Twitter are suing Elon | GDPR wouldn't work even if you could enforce it | It's time for… 'meat'
🤷🏻♀️ Cyber Espionage
Friday, July 8, 2022
The Digital Services Act has been approved! | China continues to be 'a threat to our way of life' | Data on 1bn Chinese residents up for sale for 10BTC
You Might Also Like
🖥️ Why I'm Never Going Back to a Windows PC — Tips Before You Buy a Smart Ring
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Also: How to Clear the Moisture Detected Warning on Samsung Phones, and More How-To Geek Logo May 1, 2024 Did You Know A single 1 oz shot of espresso only has approximately 40 mg of caffeine, whereas a
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1428 [Hard]
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Daily Coding Problem Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today. This problem was asked by Microsoft. Given an array of positive integers, divide the array into two subsets such
Top Tech Deals 👀 Samsung Gaming Monitor, Pixel Watch 2, MacBook Air, and More
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Get a discounted M3 MacBook Air or expand your Xbox storage. How-To Geek Logo May 1, 2024 Top Tech Deals: Samsung Gaming Monitor, Pixel Watch 2, MacBook Air, and More Get a discounted M3 MacBook Air or
Infographic | Visualizing Global Gold Production in 2023 🏅
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Gold production in 2023 was led by China, Australia, and Russia, with each outputting over 300 tonnes. View Online | Subscribe Presented by: Access European benchmarks with a trusted 25-year history
⚙️ GPT-5 may be releasing sooner than expected
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Plus: Amazon rebrands AI branch
Noonification: How to Create a CI/CD Pipeline Using GitHub and AWS EC2
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Top Tech Content sent at Noon! Get Algolia: AI Search that understands How are you, @newsletterest1? 🪐 What's happening in tech today, May 1, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon
Arc for Windows is better than Chrome
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Adobe bug bounty; Rabbit's first R1 software update; Dream podcaster mic -- ZDNET ZDNET Tech Today - US May 1, 2024 placeholder Arc browser is now available for Windows and it's so much better
Is TikTok trying to get banned from the App Store early?
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
TikTok is offering some users a way to buy its in-app tipping tokens outside of Apple's App Store. View this email online in your browser By Alex Wilhelm Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Good morning, and
Get Compliant in 2024 - Download Ultimate PAM Policy Template Today
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Privileged Access Management Policy Template What are your PAM policies for 2024? Get ready for the New Year Is your approach to Privileged Access Management as current and effective as it could be? In
What's new in Autodesk Inventor 2025?
Wednesday, May 1, 2024