RustDesk vs VNC compared point by point: NAT traversal, modern codecs, built-in encryption, self-hosting, and where VNC's simplicity and ubiquity still win.

I'm my own sysadmin and I only have myself to blame

Enjoyed this chat with @_Rob_Wallace from @BitcoinNewsCom - they do great work for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
We talk socialism, Australia, AI sovereignty and abundance, quantum and why agents are extremely bullish for crypto.

July 12, 2013 (13 years ago)

BitInstant Suspends Service

America's biggest Bitcoin on-ramp went dark one Friday evening, promising a quick upgrade. It never came back, and the real reason surfaced only when federal agents met its CEO at JFK. Brief thread...…

2/9 - Charlie Shrem (@CharlieShrem) and Gareth Nelson founded BitInstant in 2011 on a simple pitch: buying Bitcoin shouldn't require a bank account. You could walk into a CVS drugstore or a Western Union location almost anywhere in the US, hand cash to the…

3/9 - That cash-at-the-counter model was the product AND the trap. No bank meant no friction, which made BitInstant the dominant US on-ramp. It also meant anonymous walk-in money, exactly what resellers supplying Silk Road drug buyers needed. One feature…

4/9 - By July 2013 the machine was buckling. A backlog of roughly 17,300 customer complaints had piled up, most about delayed transactions. Days before the shutdown, customers filed a class action lawsuit. In June, New York regulators had demanded money transmitter…

5/9 - On the evening of July 12, the site went dark. The notice said the team had "decided that the best way to proceed is to close shop and dedicate the entire team's efforts to creating the next generation of BitInstant." It read as routine maintenance.…

6/9 - @CoinDesk covered the shutdown the next morning as a temporary pause for an upgrade, which is exactly how BitInstant framed it. The "next generation" never shipped, and the company never processed another order.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/20…

7/9 - On January 26, 2014, Shrem stepped off a flight at JFK and was arrested on federal money laundering charges. At that moment he was also serving as Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, then the industry's most prominent advocacy group.

8/9 - The charge targeted the cash model itself. Shrem knowingly let Robert Faiella, an unlicensed dealer known as "BTCKing," push over $1 million through BitInstant without AML checks, reselling them to Silk Road drug buyers. He never filed required suspicious…

9/9 - Shrem pleaded guilty and was sentenced in December 2014 to two years in federal prison. In 2018 the Winklevoss twins (@tyler and @cameron), early BitInstant investors, sued him over roughly 5,000 Bitcoin; the case settled in 2019. BitInstant itself…

Miners will always
- enforce nodes (100% support RDTS)
- follow incentives ($429M at stake)

Slides by @dotkrueger 🔥

Whenever someone tells me I should "worry about my reputation," I giggle a little, because it's quite revealing.

Whether they are genuinely concerned or just trying to threaten me doesn't matter.

What they don't understand is that people who are honest…

I love everything about this!
And congrats @GrassFedBitcoin for becoming the Employee of the Year of a company you no longer work for! 🤣

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O grande desafio educativo e humano, então, não é despertar um desejo que já é natural, mas sim elevar o interesse para as coisas mais…