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Elon Musk-controlled satellite internet provider Starlink has told Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel it will not comply with a court order to block social media platform X in the country until its local accounts are unfrozen.

Anatel confirmed the information to Reuters on Monday after its head Carlos Baigorri told Globo TV it had received a note from Starlink, which has more than 200,000 customers in Brazil, and passed it onto Brazil's top court.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes last week ordered all telecom providers in the country to shut down X, which is also owned by billionaire Musk, for lacking a legal representative in Brazil.

The move also led to the freezing of Starlink's bank accounts in Brazil. Starlink is a unit of Musk-led rocket company SpaceX. The billionaire responded to the account block by calling Moraes a "dictator."

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You need to pay a bank or something to trade your money to bitcoin, the bank only need to log what bitcoin it send to you or your wallet, the thing is, bitcoin isn't anonymous it was never made to be, something like monero would be better, but you still need to trade your money for the crypto

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone can send anyone with a wallet bitcoin. There are services that do anonymous trades, the feeds don't look great.

Thing is, it doesn't have to be bitcoin to be opaque to the banks, there are dozens of payment services that don't clearly state the end provider. just doing paypal is enough to hide it from an occasional glance.