⚡️LunarDAO, a DAO for Privacy Investments with Anonymous Founders
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Has anyone heard of LunarDAO? I don't usually discuss alt cryptos here but this one caught my attention. Its main focus is to invest into privacy projects, it seems to be connected with the folks from DarkFi. It is directed by a group of 6 anonymous stewards. An excerpt from their manifesto:

Information is power. Privacy and transparency are two antithetical dimensions of information. Transparency must apply to those in power, to lay open their machinations and hold them accountable. This includes any government, supranational entity, corporations and conglomerates. Privacy is for the people, to prevent the agents of power from intruding in the innermost parts of our individual and social existence.

The mouthpieces of the surveillance state claim that our sanctuaries and agoras are enabling criminals to sell drugs, weapons and human beings, and laundering money through cryptocurrencies. They use this as an excuse to block our access to DeFi and privacy tools and limit our autonomy. All the while the crimes we stand accused of are carried out day by day on a massive scale by well-connected and legally protected people, aided by national governments, their courts and law enforcement bodies. While attacking tools that empower people, they commandeer the black market and launder money through esteemed international banks.

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There are some fun mechanisms in their governance processes such as the ability for voters to ragequit and immediately leave with their funds if there is a proposal they strongly disagree with.

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⚡️Tree.Market - a P2P Free-Market on the Dero Blockchain
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tl;dr - P2P Private/Free Market is crowdfunding a token that gives you lifetime features on the platform. You can support and get lifetime features until midnight tonight.

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Its been one of my dreams to see a P2P market spun up so that people could exchange freely with one another using a private cryptocurrency. I even gave building one of my own a shot in 2022 with Above Market, which I ultimately let go of.

Now I'm glad another team is taking up the banner for a project like this, Tree.Market is a P2P marketplace built on the Dero blockchain. The market is non-custodial (your funds stay on your wallet), is private by default, and has plans to be fully self-hostable down the line.

There are a lot of great features planned such as the creation of stores, building reputation, messaging systems - all within a web application.

In order to get some funds to get the development started, they just launched the SEED lifetime token which will give you all advanced features on the market forever. This is typically $299 but people will receive 2x the amount of tokens, meaning that its really $150.00

I'm getting my lifetime token in the hopes that the team will push the development forward into a usable web application. Right now they have the alpha version working with the Tree Market crowdfund.

You can currently purchase the lifetime token in Dero, Bitcoin, XMR and other currencies.

https://tree.market

If you want to hear from the founders - here's their interview on The Conscious Resistance.

Here's their Github!

As development progresses I will be sure to get the founders on for an interview.

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⚡️Everything You Need To Know About FISA's 702 Reform Act
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With the renewal of FISA now making waves, I decided to make a 4 part post that satisfied my own curiousity of what it is, how it gets used, and what it means for everyday people. Here's part 1:

What is FISA?

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was created to give federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies a process for surveilling foreign targets using communication service providers within the reach of the US government.

Areas of surveillance include electronic surveillance, wiretraps / pen-registers, physical searches, and business records. The NSA is primarily responsible for this data collection by compelling these providers and working with 30 different countries to conduct foreign surveillance. The NSA itself estimates it only ‘touches’ 1.6% of the internet.

Agencies like the NSA, FBI are authorized to search this database, and information can be shared with other agencies if useful:

- There are hundreds of thousands of targets, and queried the database this 3.4M on Americans without a warrant
- The FBI abused this system 278,000 times, including Americans suspected of crimes, up to 10,000 FBI agents used this system.
- The NSA Stellar Wind program collected e-mails, telephone conversations, financial transactions, and internet activity.

What is happening now with FISA?

FISA was set to expire this April, however the The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) proposed an amendment that renewed FISA and expanded its scope. On the surface the bill appeared to curb surveillance by limiting the amount of authorized FBI agents, but in reality the bill is a trojan horse that alters small phrases that drastically change the extent of surveillance.

Why the renewal is making FISA stronger:
- Expands scope from communications provider to ‘any service provider’ who has access to the equipment that is being used to transmit or store such communications
- The bill still does not require a warrant to conduct surveillance on Americans
- The bill still does not require the agency to inform the target of surveillance unless they are in Congress
- If you travel outside of the US you are eligible for surveillance

Several representatives pushed back to include an amendment that would require a warrant for gathering the data of Americans, however this was tabled for a future vote that must occur by tomorrow.

This means that the NSA could ‘compel’ any service provider, or anyone who has access to the equipment. This could be anyone from the CEO of the communications provider, owner of the data center, building owner, or to the person who sweeps the floors at night.

Pt. 2 will look into how the NSA builds the FISA 702 database.

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