ECB Board Member Warns EU’s New Crypto Rules Not Sufficient
A European Central Bank Supervisory Board member has warned that the crypto rules in the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) bill “will not be sufficient on their own.” While emphasizing that “MiCA will set out important safeguards to prevent incidents similar to the FTX case from occurring,” she cautioned: “Certain areas still need further strengthening.” ECB’s McCaul Warns of EU’s Inadequate Crypto Regulation Elizabeth McCaul, a...
Robert Kennedy Jr: Government Could Ban, Seize Bitcoin — CBDCs Could Lead to Financial Slavery, Political Tyranny
Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a warning regarding the Federal Reserve’s new Fednow system and the potential risks of central bank digital currencies leading to financial slavery and political tyranny. He additionally warned: “We should not be blind to the obvious danger that this is the first step in banning and seizing bitcoin as the Treasury did with gold 90 years ago.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Warns about...
TPB Founders Are Not Involved in the “The Pirate Bay” TV Series
Two years ago, reports began to surface about a new six-part TV-series on The Pirate Bay’s turbulent history. The project was initially scheduled to start last year but after an apparent delay, filming is now expected to begin this fall. Pirate Bay TV Series The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are definitely a worthy subject for a series. While most pirate sites hid in the shadows, Pirate Bay’s founders were public...
60-Year-Old Music Pirate Faces Prison in a Country Part-Run By Pirates
Rick Falkvinge founded the first Pirate Party on January 1, 2006, and then rallied the masses in Sweden six months later in the wake of the first police raid against The Pirate Bay. At the European Elections of 2009, Swedish Pirates won over 7% of the vote. Christian Engström went on to become the first Pirate Member of the European Parliament, with Amelia Andersdotter taking the second seat in 2011. When Felix Reda of the German...
A search engine for Creative Commons
A search engine for Creative Commons Don Watkins Sat, 04/08/2023 – 03:00 Are you looking for content that is openly licensed that you can reuse? Then you might be interested in Openverse. Openverse is an innovative tool that searches over 300 million pictures from an aggregation of different databases. It goes beyond just searching for an image by giving users access to tags created by machine learning models and one-click...
