I sure hope you're right because the community needs a morale booster now more than ever.  The tidal wave has been feeling more like this lately:   

correlation != causation

I miss seeing posts from BM and Toast too but let's not get ahead of ourselves


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How do I redeem the tokens from sharedrop?

$19 million??  Geez what a waste 

casinoUSD 

"  Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities "

Looks like "hacking" or "malware" to me ......

Yup, mostly targeting hackers and malware.. though uses vague enough terminology to cover most any cyber activity they consider a threat.  I find it interesting that they have declared a national emergency over it.  If I was a gambling man, I'd put my money on foreign hackers targeting the stock market again.  Black swan, perhaps? 

For those of you that hang around here much you know where I stand on the idea of privacy, BM & I got into it over the changes in TITAN, where the "I" was changed from Invisibly to Instantly. BM also wrote a blog about the nature of privacy, which made several very important points, one being once lost, privacy is almost impossible to regain. Just ask any celebrity. Why do you think Satoshi Yakamoto protected his / her / their real world identity from the get go? Why do you suppose BM more or less gave up on trying to become anonymous? Most likely it's b/c he knew that "the cat was already out of the bag", and it would be nearly impossible to recapture it.

I have seen many threads here of people who echo the sentiment, "I've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal, so I'm in one more database". I urge you to open your mind, stop and think for a minute about the ramifications to the decisions you make about what you publicly disclose.

There a numerous reasons in our modern era that compel a casual attitude about information sharing. The Internet is an odd tool of irony with regard to freedom & privacy, government control and personal autonomy, reputation and anonymity.

Before you rush to build an identity registration system, or, to submit your face, fingerprint or DNA to such a system, please, please please take a moment to think what your decision may do to your future, and that of the people in your life. I get a major chill when I think of VOTE and government involvement in identity registration.

You've all heard of the "how to boil a frog" analogy, which is actually a "slippery slope" logical fallacy, but ask yourself, is there truth in it? Please do the same with this Corbett Report and act accordingly.

Quote

Half a century ago people had to be reassured their social security card was not bing used for identification. Now there are federally standardized and globally synchronized ID cards, government-sponsored online ID projects, DNA databases, and even secret databases of your newborn baby's genetic information and nobody bats an eyelid. How did we get here, and how can we break this conditioning? -- James Corbett



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8SU3DSKSDU

I agree with with on all points made and glad you brought it up; however, I think it's important to distinguish private vs governmental registration/verification.  From what I've seen and read so far, all proposed verification methods are through third parties not a government which is no different than how banks operate.   With that said, I'm not verifying anything !