I don't mean to be too dramatic or anything, but the unsystem may
be entirely unable to perform it's stated mission if the members
do not un-do some bullshit arrogance and mission creep.

You'll wake up to find the feminine has killed the black dog of
cyberwhatever while you were thumping your chests and dancing
around about how you won the latest battle with the terrible and
evil state.

see http://books.google.com/books?id=Gmn8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT129&lpg=PT129&dq=changing+planes+the+black+dog&source=bl&ots=xNCjfZocad&sig=DiJInPeUhnZgYpZVbjkpYO_od3Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n2UsVPreJ42XyAT1poCYCQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=changing%20planes%20the%20black%20dog&f=false


Go fricking schedule a damned meeting with the lady and explain
how high-frequency trading is funding ISIS, and the unsystem would
like to offer it's collective knowledge, experience, and energy to
track down who's making anonymous trades on the commodities and
stock exchanges, and buying military weapons with it.

Is this not a shared goal of both the unsystem and FINCEN?

And don't ever call a woman a bitch if you want me to take you
seriously.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:04:53PM -0700, Odinn Cyberguerrilla wrote:
> Folks, I don't mean to be too dramatic or anything, but it's
> entirely possible that before the end of 2015, FinCen (though it
> will not cease to exist) will be unable to perform its own stated
> mission. Sure it's a part of the US Treasury and all that, but look
> at it's long-term IT modernization efforts...
> http://www.fincen.gov/about_fincen/wwd/ITModernizationEffortsFAQ.html
> (It's a .gov but I'll summarize it here)
> Basically they are still working out the details of e-filing for the
> Bank Secrecy Act and supposedly attempting to "re-engineer the BSA
> data architecture, update antiquated infrastructure required to
> support data capture and dissemination, implement innovative Web
> services and enhanced electronic filing, and provide enhanced
> analytical tools."
>
> If FinCen was really modernizing, they wouldn't be just studying
> ring signature or "looking into it" as the coindesk article seemed
> to imply. FinCen would be USING it. Or bitcoin. Or both!
>
> By the time they figure out how to fix their own shit, the rest of
> the world will be light years ahead of them.
>
> I remember clearly (and even have a little blog and printout) of
> (FinCen Director) Jen Shasky-Calvery's testimony from Nov. 18, 2013
> on the US Senate Hearings on Decentralized virtual currency. She
> said the same thing on Nov. 19, too, basically just repeating word
> for word today what she said back then....
> ""We work to achieve (our) mission by implementing the Bank Secrecy
> Act... Illicit actors might decide to use virtual currency... (it's)
> relatively anonymous.... does not typically have transaction
> limits.... may have been created to facilitate money laundering..."
> "(This) is not nearly theoretical..." (References Liberty Reserve,
> Silk Road)
> "It is also important to put virtual currency in perspective...
> Approximately 8 billion dollars in transactions (in virtual
> currency) over the past year."
> "It is in the best interest of virtual currency users to comply with
> (our) regulations..."
> (From her statements which she repeated on Nov. 18 and 19, 2013
> before the Senate. Same parrot-talk)
>
> It's our responsibility to reach a helping hand out to those who are
> trying to figure out how to live without things like FinCen invading
> every square inch of their lives. Getting back to that now...
>
> Just as an aside though, were it not for that zombie-like image of
> the FinCen Director with The Flag(!!) behind it, one could almost
> see her squatting somewhere with a bunch of hungry DW developers,
> lounging over a screen...
> pipe dream o possible future reality? <le sigh>
> Anyway...
>
> End the state. Autonomy is here. It's not here in the form of some
> future far-off perfect software. It's right here, now, in the form
> of decisions we make.
>
> DW, Forward!
>
> On 2014-09-30 20:33, Amir Taaki wrote:
> >http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-director-villainize-bitcoin/
> >
> >"Of particular concern, Calvery said, are informal bitcoin dealers who
> >may think they can operate outside of the agency’s oversight.
> >
> >“I hear reports that there are folks who say that they’ll wait and see
> >if there’s any enforcement behind our requirements before they take it
> >too seriously, so that’s unfortunate. I have to hear that folks want to
> >see folks do wrong, and take action before they’re willing to comply,
> >but we’re willing to do that if we need to,” she said."
> >
> >so you will need ID to trade bitcoins for fiat basically.
> >
> >pin minded careerist trying to one up lawsky.
> >
> >“We don’t start at a product and villainize a product, we
> >villainize the
> >bad actors and find out what they’re doing with their money.”
> >
> >"We ask that you think about it from an anti-money laundering (AML)
> >perspective, what could you build in [to the technology]?"
> >
> >"Rather, Calvery said that bitcoin’s status as a newcomer to the
> >financial ecosystem has made it the target of bad actors."
> >
> >"“When I looked through it [BitLicense], I saw a lot of concepts that I
> >was already familiar with from New York and other places,” Calvery
> >said."
> >
> >
> >
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