The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification. A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

📌 #PirateChain Orchard Public Testnet The Pirate Chain Orchard Testnet is now available for public testing. So get on board and try it out right now. Get #FREE Testnet coins via our developers Forge and Oswald in our Discord server, while they are still available. Orchard is a significant update to the Pirate Chain protocol, removing the trusted setup, reducing primitives (Actions), simplifying state tracking (less risk of bugs), reducing duplicated logic and much more. Follow the link in our bio for the full article and how you can get involved. $ARRR

Epstein funded the devs who killed on-chain scaling

“It’s going to get weirder and weirder...”—Terence McKenna, 1999

Tonight is the last time I will sleep in my own bed next to my loving wife. For the next 5 years I will be housed in a federal prison at taxpayer expense for a "crime" without a victim. Just one of many victims of lawfare perpetrated by a weaponized Biden DOJ where truth and justice were sidelined in favor of a political anti innovation agenda. Where evidence was hidden and suppressed because it didn't fit the story highly partisan line prosecutors needed to tell. Where Supreme Court precedence was ignored by activist judges. Tomorrow I will surrender to FPC Morgantown. I will no longer be Keonne Rodriguez inside that institution, instead I will be a number, 11404-511. But outside of those walls my name will be kept alive. My loving wife, my family, my friends, all of you who have supported #pardonsamourai will make sure of that. I know walking into that institution that the story doesn't end there. I maintain hope that President @realDonaldTrump is a fair man, a man of the people, who will see this prosecution for what it was: an anti innovation, anti american, attack on the rights and liberties of free people. I believe his team @AGPamBondi @EdMartinDOJ @DAGToddBlanche and others truly want to end the weaponization of the DOJ that the previous administration wielded so effectively. The framers of our Constitution gave the Executive the power to pardon for exactly this reason, to balance out and restore justice when no one else would. President Trump has proven he takes that power seriously. I believe he will continue to wield that power for good and pardon me and Bill. Keep up the noise. Thank you all for your support. See you on the other side.

No one wants Digital ID. No one asked for CBDC. No one voted for the NWO. No one needs a carbon wallet. No one wants mRNA injections. No one is safer with 24/7 surveillance. No one chose to surrender their liberty. No one agreed to end national sovereignty.

Community Update: Komodo Acquisition A recent announcement was made by the Komodo Platform ( $KMD ) that Gleec has acquired the Komodo technology stack, including its cross-chain framework and #AtomicDEX infrastructure. We want to clarify what this means for #PirateChain. Pirate Chain remains fully independent and unaffected by any organizational changes at Komodo. Pirate Chain ( $ARRR ) was originally launched as an asset chain of the Komodo Platform. It was the first (and only) fully shielded network to utilize Komodo's #dPoW service. Those early years were an exciting time, and since then Pirate Chain has continued to evolve its own independent blockchain, protocol, and development path. While our origins in the Komodo codebase are well known, Pirate Chain does not depend on the Komodo Platform for its continued operation or development. The current dPoW consensus mechanism provided by Komodo is an optional added security layer, which remains fully operational. The #KomodoWallet (AtomicDEX) continues to provide support for Pirate Chain swaps through the existing web version, as well as alternative builds #FiroDEX, #CheetahDEX, and the Community Edition (0.9.2). The priority of this community has always been, and continues to be, building a stable and secure privacy first network that is independent from any external networks or controls that is independent from any external networks or controls.