India's assault on privacy: Due to a directive from CERT-In that requires VPN providers to store names, emails, IPs, etc for 5 years, VPN services have left India.

The list providers who have removed servers in addition to @ProtonPrivacy in the 🧵below
wsj.com/articles/proto… @Norton VPN no longer available in India community.norton.com/en/forums/acce…

This piece may seem to be positive for Bitcoin and loudly applauded by the Bitcoin and crypto community, but in fact, it is deeply concerning. Thread:

https://twitter.com/MichaelJMorell/status/1381971120841183235

The report surfaces a couple conclusions: "the broad generalizations about the use of Bitcoin
in illicit finance are significantly overstated" and "blockchain analysis is a highly effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool... a 'boon for surveillance.'"

This thread is my story battling symptoms this last week. They started differently than what has been reported, which caused some confusion and later fear, and might have led to other's exposure. I believe there are a things we (collectively) can do to better combat #COVID My wife (Melody) and I were exposed to someone that was sick and in our home a few days before we started seeing symptoms. Melody developed a mild fever, headache and was nauseous a little over a week ago. She also had digestive issues.

.@zooko and I recently returned from Japan, Singapore and Korea on a Zcash related tour. A few things we did and learned... We had more than 2 dozen meetings with regulators, developers, thought leaders, business leaders and press.

I have been working through an approach and mechanism to support Zcash adoption with @zcashco. What does adoption mean and how do we get there? Here’s the plan. All of crypto is still in its infancy with low levels of adoption. Innovators are creating the foundation for the revolution. Early adopters are visionaries that can see the promise and buy into the revolution.