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Bluesky Safety (@safety.bsky.app):
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Professional Hater (@pyrholidon.bsky.social):
One potential drawback to the domain verification is that someone can set up a domain to work as just a redicrect to someone's verified social media. That should absolutely not be treated as officially verified on its own, especially if the website is relatively new or doesn't have a landing page
PL (kar) (@karitham.dev):
How does that help them? They can't impersonate the 3rd party anyways. I couldn't impersonate @pragmaticengineer.com without owning the domain?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It works as:
Bad Actor A makes account impersonating, let's say, Hans-Hermann Hoppe; registers AustrianSchool dot xyz, makes it their account handle & points the domain at the Mises Institute's website.
Incautious Person B believes @austrianschool.xyz is actually Hoppe, buys their bitcoin offer.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Or Miseslnstitute.org
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Catherine (@cathy3of6.bsky.social):
Anybody here who buys and sells bitcoin should be blocked. And their account deleted
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't think there should be a universal site rule against it, but I do have a blocklist for cryptocurrency promoters / traders.
NFTs? No F*#$&in' Thanks!
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(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
Wait, like buys and sells bitcoin anywhere, even outside the platform, anywhere?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My issue with bitcoin is threefold:
Promotion of it is often spam / UCE;
A significant market for it is in financing terrorism and human trafficking;
Contribution to anthropogenic climate change.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
1&3 are mitigatable; 2 is not, and that's by design of many cryptocurrencies. 2 makes it unconscionable to trade in.
ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 (@dav1rus.bsky.social):
Sorry, but 1 and 3 are mitigable and 2 is just untrue.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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This is literally what I do day to day, so kindly 180° out of my mentions
ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 (@dav1rus.bsky.social):
Simple question if you are an expert: how big of a % of Bitcoin transactions are related to crime/terrorism?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Enough to kill people, s*x trafficking women & children, and keep terrorists operating.
This is not a game of "how much suffering / which groups suffering, shall we tolerate". Like lead in diets, there is no safe acceptable minimum.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Inconscionable".
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ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 (@dav1rus.bsky.social):
What? So apply the same logic to all money. They get paid in gold and fiat too. Abolish that too. Same level of imoral.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Gold transfer & paper money transfer involve logistics, which can be used evidentiarily to counter & prevent the trade, prosecute after the fact, etc. Gold is harder to trace in small amounts but is also non-trivial logistically at scale.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
S*x trafficking is wrong, & cryptocurrency facilitates it like no other instrument.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Note: If you are a BitCoin / cryptocurrency marketer, turn around and do not enter my mentions, or you will be shamed and then placed on my blocklist. Three have tried in the past hour.
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William Nelson (@boogers.io):
I thought the one crypto guy's "gotcha" was a pretty funny self-defeating argument, "if we banned crypto, they'd just use cash."
The fact that they don't use cash should tell us something. They're probably not just fans of the idea of decentralized finance. Crypto materially helps them operate.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Cash has serial numbers, which banks have been able to make automated records of for a decade+ now. Gold incurs significant logistics difficulties at scale. Crypto is around the world in the push of a button, & laundered from there in automated scripts.
William Nelson (@boogers.io):
I think sometimes people lose track of issues of scale. I think the average guy could probably launder $100k without anyone noticing.
But scaling up to a million? Five million? 50 million? Things get really complicated.
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(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
USD cash is used overwhelmingly in human trafficking and terrorism. If bitcoin disappeared, it would represent close to 100%. What are your thoughts on dollars?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The issues arise from differences in how the compared stores / conveyances of value / trade function. Cryptocurrencies function differently than banked transfers & cash.
(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
So its not that bitcoin is used in human trafficking and terrorism -- it's that it doesn't work in the same way as dollars can be used in human trafficking and terrorism?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm not going to play a game where you put words in my mouth. You are free to re-read what I've already written in clear and concise English.
Lord Kajafas (@lordkajafas.bsky.social):
Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but I didn't understand and I'm generally curious to what your argument is why using crypto for trafficking is worse than when dollars are used
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's because the "defeat regulation / government oversight / auditing / forensic accounting" feature of most cryptocurrencies. When a bank is used to transfer money to buy s*x slaves, that paper trail & oversight can be used to find & stop them.
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(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
First link: "Cryptocurrencies are not the main financing stream of terrorism"
I mean, how outsized is your distaste of bitcoin, compared to, say, hawala?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Not the primary" =/= "not significant"
Again - And I will not say it a third time - I'm not playing games where you put words in my mouth, and you can read what I wrote.
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Brent (@netmojo.ca):
2 & 3 are not true.
2. The U.S. dollar and banking system is by far the largest share of the $4 Trillion money laundering market.
3. 10 out of the last 11 peer-reviewed research papers on Bitcoin's impact found it to be a net benefit. Will soon be carbon negative. Citations @ x.com/dsbatten/sta...
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