silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social

Autistici/Inventati’s Press Release, 5 September 2026
Banca etica shuts down A/I funds

-- https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/banca-etica-shuts-down-a/i-funds/

This is not surprising. Sanctions make you toxic - nobody wants to be accused of terrorism financing or money laudnering. Your bank accounts are frozen and centralized services deplatform you (some may remember TornadoCash and other similar cases).

There are two solutions to this problem: physical cash and decentralized digital currencies. Physical cash only works at small scale, and in some places it is gradually being phased out. The second solution is better. However, A/I donation page says "Sorry, but we don’t accept Bitcoin" and links to a post from 2013 explaining that bitcoins "do not give any specific advantage compared to a normal bank account" and is a "pump & dump done to dupe the ultra-libertarian anarco-capitalists".

Well, fortunately, ultra-libertarian anarco-capitalists didn't see it that way and have spent all these years studying the blade building a parallel financial system which nobody can shut down - even US.

Bitcoin is not perfect but it is much better than a bank because no one can shut down your account. You shouldn't be accepting donations in Bitcoin, though - that would put donors at risk. The chain is transparent and the privacy tricks that exist in Bitcoin (e.g. mixers) are generally counter-productive when you're facing a powerful adversary because they make you stand out of the crowd. The real purpose of Bitcoin is to be a bridge between fiat money and Monero, where everything remains hidden: the sender, the recipient and the transcation amount. Besides meeting in person, it is the only safe way to buy a coffee for a Specially Designated Global Terrorist @cavallette

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Beau-coup@beaucoup@moutons.cafe

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@silverpill@mitra.social @cavallette@mastodon.bida.im
If you spend those bitcoins in a way that is linked to your identity, donors will be exposed.
Would you say that the more Bitcoin is adopted, the less your identity will be exposed? Because people would to pay each other more in BTC. Or will more adoption mean more people using custodial services like exchanges? And in turn be caught off guard when their funds get frozen.
Also, if you spend them together, that would reveal that all addresses have the same owner
Monero beats Bitcoin there, but at a cost that makes hosting it more expensive, which lowers the grassroots adoption (people running nodes). I would accept the Bitcoin cost of pseudo anonymity, since I believe it's the path of least resistance in terms of avoiding a one world government.
silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social

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@beaucoup @cavallette

Would you say that the more Bitcoin is adopted, the less your identity will be exposed? Because people would to pay each other more in BTC

Yes, but I think the privacy boost would not be significant even if the entire world switches to Bitcoin. Merchants who accept bitcoin have to comply with regulations, which may involve KYC. Companies that perform KYC share data with chain analysis companies, who have a gods-eye-view of the network.

I would accept the Bitcoin cost of pseudo anonymity, since I believe it's the path of least resistance in terms of avoiding a one world government.

Are you a Specially Designated Global Terrorist? :)

If not, I think there is no harm in accepting Bitcoin.

elle@elle@weathered-steel.social

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@silverpill

cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08

Under "September 25 is not a deadline for silence":

> People in the United States should not improvise donations, disguise payments or route resources through another person, organization, currency or country.

@cavallette

cavallette[REPOST] The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25Ripubblichiamo (in inglese) un bel post di Sabot Media che ripercorre la nostra storia e la collega a quanto sta avvenendo con la nostra iscrizione nella lista delle organizzazioni globali terroristiche da parte dell'amministrazione americana. Ringraziamo Sabot Media perché ha fatto un lavoro eccellente e che ci aiuta a rispamiare tempo ed energie per la [...]
find you on :butterfedy1: fediverse@frogzone@wizard.casa

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@silverpill @cy @cavallette i'm going to do both, advocate for a right tool like forgefed and complain that it seems development on it has stalled? This seems to have been a really bad few years for communication. I've now even seen a notice at the top of the Cdeberg page signalling they have caved to the sithlords. (see 2.) what does it mean, silverpill?

silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social

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@frogzone @cy @cavallette

>i'm going to do both, advocate for a right tool like forgefed and complain that it seems development on it has stalled?

It has not stalled, but the work on Forgejo federation is very slow. However, there is a another ForgeFed implementation that seems to move faster: https://codeberg.org/activitypub-rs/activityforge

>Cdeberg page signalling they have caved to the sithlords. (see 2.) what does it mean, silverpill?

They don't like crypto: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19820413

What it means for us, I don't know. I've set up a mirror on my own Forgejo instance, just in case

Summary card of repository activitypub-rs/activityforge, described as: ForgeFed implementation in RustCodeberg.orgactivityforgeForgeFed implementation in Rust
deutrino@deutrino@mstdn.io

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@silverpill @cavallette

> explaining that bitcoins "do not give any specific advantage compared to a normal bank account" and is a "pump & dump done to dupe the ultra-libertarian anarco-capitalists"

...I suppose that's what they get for being statists? the possible advantages vs a 'normal bank account' for people who do unpopular shit seem self-evident to me, at least enough to look closely and see if they're illusory or not.

but hey, there's tribal orthodoxy to uphold. oh well :shrug_akko:

deutrino@deutrino@mstdn.io

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@silverpill @cavallette ...looking a bit closer (at the Intercept article, since I haven't been paying attention to current events for a few weeks) it seems that this problem is indeed boiling down to lack of decentralized solutions for 1. online payments and 2. DNS.

I'm very interested in solutions to 2 that don't involve sketchy sharing of un-memorable onion addresses or similar.