It is being reported that Ryan Garcia has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. It is really disappointing that this great win is now tarnished and will probably be overturned. There was so many potentially great fights that will now have to wait and may not even materialize.

There was even talk of Ryan being the new face of boxing after he gained millions of new followers after this win. Unfortunately, Ryan can’t manage to get his act together. He is more interested in being an influencer than having a legitimate career.

The first three fights between Rafael Marquez and Israel Vasquez were also in this weight class and are considered some of the greatest fights of all time. Even thigh there is usually more talent in higher weight classes, super bantamweight has always been a notable exception.

Size isn’t all that matters. Inoue might be shorter than average, but has managed to reach the top of the pound for pound rankings and become a major attraction, selling out the Tokyo Dome. Skill level and entertainment value are what really matter the most, which is why this bout is so highly anticipated .

As long as someone isn’t using a VPN for multi-accounting or to bypass a self-exclusion or other type of ban it is generally acceptable at many casinos to use a VPN. It isn’t always the case so I wouldn’t take it as a guarantee and would be considerate of how much I’m willing to risk if they haven’t explicitly stated that it’s allowed.   

ESPN is reporting that it will be sanctioned as a professional fight. They will fight 2 minute rounds instead of 3 minutes and they will use 14-oz gloves, basically sparring gloves. If they need special rules then it clearly shouldn’t be considered a professional fight.

Texas is known for having a very corrupt commission so it doesn’t surprise me they would allow this. This is the same commission that allowed Antonio Margarito to fight when nobody else would license him due to the plaster hand wraps incident. They also barely do any PED testing. I could go on and on with examples of why they’re one of the worst commissions.

Jake is desperate for recognition and validation as a legitimate fighter. I am sure there was some quid pro quo involved for them to allow this complete sham to take place.

Tornado Cash developers aren’t the martyrs you think they are. Just like zkSNACKs, they took precautionary measures to minimize the risk of getting their rights taken away and their lives destroyed by overzealous government persecution. Their website had a built-in compliance tool which would do chain analysis on your transaction. They also blocked US sanctioned countries from their domain.

Si Samourai puede ser clasificado cómo un MSB, esto pudiera tener implicaciones para las demás carteras de Bitcoin. Samourai nunca tuvo posesión sobre los fondos de participantes de los coinjoins. El servidor solamente estaba pasando mensajes para crear una transacción entre 5 personas. Una cartera regular, como Electrum, también hace lo mismo pero solo tiene la participación de un individuo en la creación de transacciones.

There’s no doubt Tank had an unfair advantage but Ryan bears some responsibility for agreeing to those terms. Canelo and Floyd have used similar tactics before, but it has not had much impact on their legacy. For me it diminishes their accomplishments, which is why I consider Beterbiev, Nakatani, and Bivol better pound for pound fighters than Canelo, even though many lists have him third only behind Inoue and Crawford.

If Muun is considered a lightning wallet then Aqua and Marina are also lightning wallets. They are all using swaps to make lightning payments but the difference is Muun uses on-chain BTC while the others use Liquid BTC.

Blixt and Mutiny wallets are also good lightning wallets. Alby is a custodial wallet but it can be useful if you want to receive tips or donations while you are offline.

Samourai was a legally registered company. The founders had used their real names when they registered. That is contrary to what Satoshi did, but then again Satoshi didn’t create Bitcoin as a for-profit business venture. I believe their original company was dissolved and then registered as an anonymous LLC in Wyoming but it would’ve been helpful if they’d been anonymous from the beginning.

Aside from developers keeping their identities private, their project needs to be as decentralized as possible. Samourai had a single point of failure which is their centralized coordinator. In contrast, with Joinmarket there isn’t a centrally controlled server that interacts with participants. They could still decide to target Joinmarket but it would be a much weaker case.

Knowing how hostile the U.S. government is towards cryptocurrency, privacy, and its geopolitical rivals, the ways in which they marketed their service were often incredibly foolish. If they were going to be this arrogant they should have made sure to develop the project in total anonymity and located in a jurisdiction with more respect towards individuals' right to privacy and financial autonomy.

The overall case against them has significant flaws. An offhanded remark made on Twitter should not be the reason why they spend decades in prison. Russian oligarchs have far better ways of laundering money through traditional investments and banking institutions. While those comments weren’t very tasteful, it is not enough evidence of a conspiracy to commit money laundering or evade sanctions. It would be different if they had actually been in direct communication with oligarchs, which is not the case.

The indictment documents against Samourai state that “KEONNE RODRIGUEZ and WILLIAM LONERGAN HILL, the defendants,
owned, controlled, managed, and supervised Samourai, which was engaged in the business of transferring funds on behalf of the public." That is not how Whirlpool works but prosecutors are counting on jurors being too ignorant to understand that a non-custodial service does not meet the definition of a money transmitting business. Even some forum members who have many years of experience with Bitcoin did not understand that the coordinator never holds any user funds.

It will be difficult to win against a rigged justice system, but with a strong defense some of the charges might get dropped, which might limit the harm they want to inflict on privacy providers and Bitcoin users.

Those accusations are disingenuous and have been debunked numerous times already. The PlusToken scammers weren’t caught because they used Wasabi, they got caught because they were operating a ponzi scheme. Moreover, it’s well known they didn’t use Wasabi but instead a modified client they coded to specifically allow reusing the same address. A larger portion of their BTC was self-mixed, poorly, via repetitive UTXO splitting and merging. Also, they were using centralized exchanges which had their KYC information.

The Twitter hackers also used centralized exchanges as well as custodial mixers which you promoted and endorsed, yet I don’t see ChipMixer being blamed for their arrest.


This was repeatedly downplayed by their developers and their fanatical reply guys on social media. Anybody who dared to call it a vulnerability was relentlessly trolled. They had no regard for the possibility of exposing users to this risk, just as long as they were still collecting their fees, that’s all that mattered.

The accusation of being an unlicensed money transmitter is frivolous and should not stand up in court. If Samourai is a money transmitter, then so is every other self-custodial wallet. The only difference between Samourai and other wallets is that coinjoin transactions are structured differently from a typical transaction by allowing multiple parties to spend together. Whether they should be banned from the forum doesn’t matter because nobody can use the whirlpool service anymore.

If coinjoin services like JoinMarket, Wabisabi, or a potential Whirlpool fork should be banned I think it would be a mistake. Coinjoining isn’t inherently criminal behavior. It is something which enhances user privacy, like using a VPN or Tor but for financial transactions.

The best fight on this stacked card might be Tim Tszyu vs. Vergil Ortiz. Ortiz was once considered one of the most promising prospects and was ranked #1 by the WBO, where Crawford was champion, and was also WBA mandatory. Unfortunately, his career was derailed by weight problems and health issues. Tszyu has proven to be a great fighter and will probably be favored, but if Ortiz can reach the potential many believed he had then he is capable of overcoming those odds.

For the main event, this is another nondescript Crawford opponent who looks good on paper but we have yet to see him tested at an elite level. I expect it to be a typical Crawford fight, where he might start slow but becomes increasingly more dominant as the rounds pass and he makes adjustments.

The “land of the free” is a complete fallacy. A US-led global order has increasingly diminished freedom around the world. They went with the North Korean hackers excuse this time — no matter how minimal their involvement, there is always some convenient bad guy for them to justify wider surveillance, more regulation, and restricting how people are allowed to live their lives. You can’t use certain apps or technology because of vague “CCP spying reasons” or “it’s Kremlin propaganda”, yet Israel is allowed to spy on U.S. citizens and influence politics without media conglomerates and congressional representatives raising any concerns.

The reasons given for why they targeted Samourai are obviously BS. Any tool which enables users to transact outside their financial panopticon will be seen as a threat that cannot be allowed to exist. Whirlpool doesn't meet the legal criteria for being a money transmitting business. It’s simply a protocol for collaborative transactions. Arresting the Samourai developers is as absurd as arresting the Telegram or Session developers because those apps are used by pedophiles, drug dealers and hackers.

It might be argued that Samourai didn’t do enough to discourage illicit activity and were almost encouraging of it. If that was the case, they should be allowed to walk away with a fine, as is the normal standard when banks and corporations are implicated in money laundering.

In terms of severity, losing the way Deontay Wilder did to Tyson Fury is worse than how Francis Ngannou lost to Anthony Joshua. Wilder didn’t get knocked unconscious the second time he fought Fury, but he was still on the verge of a life threatening outcome if his trainer hadn’t eventually called it off. It wasn’t just some cuts and bruises that Wilder suffered but also repetitive brain trauma throughout seven rounds.

A real DeFi website wouldn’t ask for your phone number or an email address in order to register. All you should need is a self-custodial wallet to participate. They also accept fiat deposits so it is clearly not a decentralized platform. They set up their website to display Bitfinex in the <title> section so they can trick people who find them on search engines into thinking they are legitimate. It’s such a poorly designed scam but I imagine there are people who are very new to crypto that might still fall for this.

After charging me a $1 monthly fee for the second time this month my card suddenly stopped working. They posted the following message on Telegram:


My remaining balance was too small to be automatically withdrawn so I have to request a manual withdraw and who knows how long that will take. I will not be applying for a new card with them because they have so many issues. PayWithMoon is supposed to relaunch soon. I hope I will have more success with them.

I will usually just write a brief description of what the user did wrong in the report. You don’t need a long drawn out explanation, a few details is enough for moderators to understand the reason why somebody is being reported.

If a violation is egregious enough, then it might be necessary to write a post in one of the dedicated threads for AI spammers, malware links, etc. or creating a new thread in the Reputation section when somebody has alt accounts they are using for behavior that is detrimental to the forum or a campaign.

Getting knocked out cold with a single punch isn’t as bad as taking a prolonged beating. It’s when a fighter takes sustained punishment for many rounds that we see them go into a coma and sometimes passing away or being severely impaired for the rest of their life. I don’t think this fight will reach the point where that happens, but it’s still completely irresponsible to be risking someone’s health in such an unnecessary money grab.

The odds seem very fair. Similar to Garcia vs. Haney, there is a significant disparity in skill level. Munguia is a big puncher so we can’t completely count him out. Unlike Haney, Canelo has knockout power and can also take a punch. Munguia won’t be able to just impose his will by charging directly at Canelo. This will be a fight where Canelo’s higher IQ should make the difference.