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Alright, so Tony could not make it. So I'm going to be running the news. So forgive me. Oh, yeah, okay, these links
Thank you so much tux
All right
So
first up
Which is what was discussed a little bit earlier
Was that Kraken is delisting XMR within Europe very bad news today from Kraken
I guess p2p is the only way to go from now on. We'll install have you know a sappet right out
Yeah Kraken
Had an announcement that October 31st. They'll be halting trading in deposits of all XMR
Pairs and it looks like you'll have until December to withdraw that from the Kraken platform
So we'll see how this goes. I'm expecting it to go a lot better than Binance did
And not be like a fake sell-off like what happened with Binance delisted mineral in Europe
But we'll see what happens with that. Hopefully it doesn't
Cause too much of an issue
Next up irs is cracking down hard next year the irs can trace Bitcoin mixer transactions
Many will get big tax bills soon. Do you really think privacy run won't happen?
I'm not sure exactly what I am looking at here. I think this is some sort of search result of
Of somebody looking up irs trace
So this is a slightly low quality but
If I can find this
If I if someone if someone has this actual article of whatever is being pulled from here
Please link that and I'll go ahead and show that
That would be interesting to know if the irs is no ease. I mean, it's it's unsurprising like Bitcoin mixing is not as
Not as strong as Minero just using something like Minero as you cash
But that'd be interesting to know if they are tracing effect easily tracing mixed transactions
Chain analysis CEO AI agents could be policing all crypto tx's within five years and here we have an actual article from coin telegraph
I
Chain also CEO Michael
Groninger believes it's not much further away before governments use AI agents to catch on chain crypto wrongdoers
Government prosecutors and taxation authorities will use artificial intelligence to scan the blockchain and solve crime within the next five years
according to the CEO of chain analysis
Chain analysis
It's not much further away as a chain analysis CEO Michael Groninger when coin telegraph asked asked whether generative AI agents could step through the blockchain for
governments within three to five years and
Some years from now crypto would be more or less the only way you would want to solve crime because it's far more scalable
It's far easier as far transparent. It's very transparent
You can do it internationally and you could see a lot more insights. So this is just speaking to how Bitcoin is like a haven
for it's like it's like gold for these
intelligence agencies and
anybody trying to
sniff out
People's transaction data. It makes it so much easier. You don't have to go through all this legal framework of you know
doing subpoenas or
Getting approval or whatever you can just you can just look at it. It's public, right?
and
internationally, you don't have to be
necessarily involved with other governments because it's it's public. It's there. You don't have to do anything, right? You don't have to
Try to subpoena some foreign bank or whatever to get transaction details from someone's accounts. Just it's all there
So AI will definitely make this easier in the future
warranting
the further use of privacy coins
It's good to see that Monero is gonna
get ahead of the curb
In the coming year to help reduce this possibility even further
But even using Manero right now is still
infinitely better than using Bitcoin
I just pull up the next one here. Hopefully it'll load and not give me any issues
All right, we have a tweet about Donald Trump's on crypto
Manero Maverick says this is a rug. He's going to crash it then regulate crypto to the ground
Who can survive? So this is Donald Trump's tweet. I think this is from this is from like 2016
This is from quite a long time ago
He used this this is the opinion used to hell that it might still be his actual opinion now
Who knows? He says I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Which are not money and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air
Unregulated crypto assets can facilitate unlawful behavior including drug trade and other illegal activity
And you compare that to now
Where he said I promise to make America great again this time the crypto at world liberty fi is playing to help make
America the crypto capital of the world the white the white list for eligible persons is officially open
This is your chance to be part of the historic moment join blah blah blah whatever world liberty financial.com
Yeah, it's
I think it's just he's he's
Forced to get on this
For the voter base because people like care about this a lot more than they did before I don't know if he actually
I would tend to agree that he probably doesn't care about bitcoin or crypto that much. Um, it's more of just a ploy to
To appease to the voter base, which he has to do because it's it's a big it's such a big thing now
Um, he's gonna crash it the regular crypto to the ground. I don't know
Uh, we'll see how that plays out. He said some good things about crypto. Um, in terms of like having, you know, the right to self custody and
Basically touching the market less
But if you go and look back at previous things he said like this
Doesn't paint a pretty picture for sure. Uh, so we'll see how much of this
Is actually true how much of it's just, you know, blatant lies. Uh, we'll see how that plays out, of course
And
Uh, moving on we've got this
Uh, another reddit post here. Manero is about the scariest coin out there today. If you look at torn
I don't even know what torn is
It was at 40 before the government outlawed it now at $2.50. Anyone's wallet interacting with it will be prosecuted
What if they do the same to xmr? It could go to 20. I know the thing I keep hearing how someone has cracked the code to see transactions in xmr
Uh, yeah, this is more of like a question. Um, which I believe this has probably been challenged in the comments here
Like by here's a comment by minarell bowl responding to this minarell dip to 97 euros when it was listed for finance now at 138
Uh, minarell use is quite basic cryptography. What you hear about is people who get busted despite using minarell
What those articles as people that have mentioned is how exactly the bust actually happened and it's never going through tracing minarell directly
Bitfinex hack these minarell, but also used bitcoin tied to kyc'd sexes to get them busted
Nordic healthcare hacker use minarell, but also upload his entire home directory in case you guys don't remember that one
He uploaded his entire home directory, which included personal info to the the leak dumps
On the dark web, which is very hilarious
Incognito markets ferro while signed in googled about what
To do when your server is offline while the feds were currently available copying the server's data, which is why it was down
Yeah, this is this is the case with all these
This is this is the same thing with all these cases of people getting arrested that has
Some relation to minarell, but it's almost never
Well, it's never through tracing minarell directly. It's always do something external
And there's things that minarell can be improved out of course
But the whole point being is that well, none of these people were actually found directly through tracing minarell
It was something entirely external not even related to it most of the time. So
Yeah, that being said just
Be smart
Uh, and you know also be smart with how use your minarell, but you know, don't do stupid stuff like upload your home directory to a
Darknet dump. Yeah
All right, coming up next we've got
Fluffy on the minarelly listing from kraken. This is a tweet here from fluffy pony kraken