#rettig legacy

[dailykafka]

Unlike often-compared works by Jean-Paul Sartre and others, Kafka’s writings offer no exposition about their meaning, no treatises on alienation in modern life or the lessons to be gleaned from his surreal fables. The alienation is experienced, not described, and therein lies its literary power.

— Haviv Rettig Gur, How an Israel that never liked Franz Kafka came to own his literary legacy

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Lavender has joined the social media career path and is slowly gaining a following on simstagram.  She hosted New Year’s Eve at her place but it was a bit of a flop honestly.  Her older siblings were unimpressed to see her and Naksh’s new place and it’s lack of basic necessities. 

[weekinethereum]

January 11, 2018

News and Links

Constantinople is coming. [Also, this is the January 11, 2019 issue but I can't fix the title without breaking links]

Upgrade your clients ASAP! EF FAQ and blog post. From MyCrypto, what users need to know about the Constantinople fork

Layer 1

[eth1] Rinkeby testnet forked successfully. Update your clients ASAP!

[eth2] What’s New in Eth2

[eth2] Latest Eth2 implementer call notes

[eth2] Validator economics of Eth2. Also a thorough Eth staking ROI spreadsheet model

[eth2] Discussion about storage rent “eviction archive” nodes and incentives

web3foundation, Status and Validity Labs update and call for participants on private, decentralized messaging, a la Whisper

Layer 2

Live on Rinkeby testnet: Plasma Ignis - often called “roll up” - 500 transactions per second using SNARKs for compression (not privacy), no delay to exit, less liveness requirements, multi-operator. Check out the live demo.

Georgios Konstantopoulos: A Deep Dive on RSA Accumulators

Canto: proposed new subprotocol to allow sidechain-like subnets

Fae: a subnet by putting Fae’s binary transactions in the data field

A RaidenNetwork deep dive explainer

Can watchtowers and monitoring services scale?

Counterfactual dev update: full end to end implementation of Counterfactual with demos and dev environment will be live on Ropsten in next 2 weeks

Stuff for developers

Embark v4.0.0-beta.0

Ganache v2.0.0-beta.2

ZeppelinOS v2.1

Updated EthereumJS readthedocs

Solidity CTF: mirror madness from authio

Solstice: 15 analyzer Solidity security tool

EVM code fuzzing using input prediction

Compound’s self-liquidation bug

Gas Stations Network, an incentivized meta transaction relay network, live on Ropsten

Understanding Rust lifetimes

How to quickly deploy to Görli cross-client testnet

Maker CDP leverager in one call

Codefund2.0 - sustainability for open source project advertising without 3rd party trackers

RSA accumulator in Vyper

Analyzing 1.2m mainnet contracts in 20 seconds using Eveem and BigQuery

0x Market Maker program. 15k to run a market making bot on a 0x relayer

POANet: Honey Badger BFT and Threshold Cryptography

Ecosystem

Afri’s Eth node configuration modes cheat sheet. A great accompaniment to Afri’s did Ethereum reach 1 tb yet?  The answer is obviously no, state plus chaindata is about 150 GB.

MyEtherWallet v5 is in beta and MEWConnect on Android

Ethereum Foundation major grant to Parity: $5m for ewasm, light wallet, and Eth2

Enterprise

What enterprises need to know about AWS’s Blockchain as a Service

2019 is the year of enterprise tokens?

Governance and Standards

Notes from latest core devs call, includes ProgPoW section. On that topic, IfDefElse put out a ProgPoW FAQ including responses from AMD and Nvidia. Also check understanding ProgPoW from a few months ago

Martin Köppelmann on the governance protocol of DXdao

Pando Network: DAOs and the future of content

EIP1682: storage rent

EIP1681: temporal replay protection

ERC1683: URLs with asset and onboarding functionality

ERC1690: Mortability standard

ERC820 Pseudo-introspection Registry Contract is final

ERC1155 multi-token standard to last call

Application layer

Demo testing on Kovan testnet of the Digix governance platform

Brave at 5.5m MAUs, up 5x in 2018. It also got much more stable over the year, and being able to use a private tab with TOR on desktop makes it a must (mobile has been a must for a long time). Here’s my referral code if you haven’t switched yet.

I saw some warnings about tokenized US equity DX.exchange that was in the last newsletter. I have no idea if they are legit or if the warnings are in bad faith but the reason that Szabo’s “trusted third parties are security holes” gets repeated frequently is because it is true. If you choose any cryptoasset that depends on custody of a third party, caveat emptor.

Origin now has editable listings and multiple item support

Nevada counties are storing birth and marriage certificates on Ethereum

Scout unveils its customizable token/protocol explorers for apps, live on Aragon and Livepeer

Veil prediction markets platform built on 0x and Augur launches Jan 15 on mainnet. Fantastic to see the app layer stack coming together. Not open to the USA because…federal government.

Gnosis on the problem of front running in dexes

Status releases desktop alpha, v0.9

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Joseph Lubin on Epicenter. Some good early Eth history here.

Curation Markets community call

Ryan Sean Adams on the case for Ether as money on POV Crypto

Nice Decrypt Media profile of Lane Rettig

Q&A with Mariano Conti, head of Maker Oracles

Andrew Keys on the American Banker podcast

Austin Griffith 2018 lessons learned talk at Ethereum Boulder

Starkware’s Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa on Zero Knowledge

Nick Johnson talks ENS and ProgPoW on Into the Ether

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Paul Kohlhaas: bonding curve design parameters

Ryan Zurrer: Network keepers, v2

Zastrin to sell a tradeable NFT as a license to use its blockchain dev courses.

Sharespost says it did its first compliant security token trade of BCAP (Blockchain Capital). Link opens PDF

Actus Financial Protocol announces standard for tokenizing all financial instruments.

Missing DeFi piece: longer-term interest generating assets

Gemini’s rules for the revolution on working with regulators.

Blockchain Association proposes the Hinman Standard for cryptoassets

Blockchains LLC releases its 300 page Blockchain Through a Legal Lens

China released restrictive blockchain rules including censorship and KYC

Why Ether is Valuable

General

ETC got 51% attacked. Coinbase was first to announce it, though it appears the target was the gate.io exchange. Amusingly, the price hardly suffered. The amazing thing is that a widely known and relatively easily exploited attack vector like this didn’t happen during bull market when this attack could have been an order of magnitude more profitable.

Michael del Castillo tracks the supply chain of an entire dinner using blockchain products like Viant

Julien Thevenard argues Ethereum is on par or safer than Bitcoin in terms of proof of work.

Coindesk video interview of the creator of HODL. He isn’t at all convinced by Bitcoin’s new “store of value” meme. Very entertaining use of 8 minutes.

That very odd Bitcoin nonce pattern. Phil Daian says it is caused by AntMiners

Researchers brute force attack private keys of poorly implemented ECDSA nonce generation.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 14 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 10-Feb7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon

Jan ~16 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 24 - List of things for Aragon vote, including on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 25 - Graph Day (San Francisco)

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)

April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

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IRS Criminal Investigation releases Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report; celebrates 100 years

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IRS Criminal Investigation releases Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report; celebrates 100 years

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Internal Revenue Service: Criminal Investigations Division (CID): 2019 annual report

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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today released the Criminal Investigation Division's (CI) annual report , highlighting significant successes and criminal enforcement actions taken in fiscal year 2019. The report also commemorates CI's 100th year anniversary as a law enforcement agency.

“CI is critical to the overall enforcement efforts of the IRS in pursuing its Mission in a fair, impartial, diligent and, where appropriate, tenacious manner.” said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. “The Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report summarizes various CI activities throughout the year but vastly understates the importance of CI to the overall IRS mission. CI supports the efforts of compliant taxpayers by visibly demonstrating the risks of noncompliance thereby helping otherwise honest taxpayers stay honest and compliant.”

Key focuses of CI in fiscal year 2019 included cybercrimes, with an emphasis on virtual and crypto currencies, traditional tax investigations, international tax enforcement, employment tax, refund fraud and tax-related identity theft. Other areas of emphasis included public corruption, corporate fraud and money laundering.

“We are working smarter using data analytics to augment good old-fashioned police work and find those cases that have the biggest impact on tax administration,” said Don Fort, Chief of CI. “We are leading the world in our ability to trace virtual currency in financial investigations while still working our bread and butter tax enforcement mission areas.”

CI initiated 2,485 cases in fiscal year 2019, applying approximately 75 percent of its time to tax related investigations. The number of CI special agents dropped to 2,009 by the end of fiscal year 2019, which is the lowest level since the early 1970's. Consequently, CI has increased its usage of data analytics and strengthened its international partnerships to assist in finding the most-impactful cases.

CI is the only federal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over federal tax crimes. CI achieved a conviction rate of 91.2 percent in fiscal year 2019, which is among the highest of all federal law enforcement agencies. The high conviction rate reflects the thoroughness of CI investigations and the high caliber of CI agents. CI is routinely called upon by prosecutors across the country to lead financial investigations on a wide variety of financial crimes.

“While we have published an annual report since 1920 to highlight our successes during the past year, this particular year had special meaning as we celebrated our 100th anniversary as a law enforcement agency,” Fort said. “Honor the Badge, Preserve the Legacy, Master Your Craft, Inspire the Future. These are the guiding principles that IRS Criminal Investigation lives by and that 2019 was defined by.”

The 2019 report is interactive, summarizes a wide variety of CI activity during the year and features examples of cases from each field office on a wide range of financial crimes. The federal fiscal year begins Oct. 1 and ends on Sept. 30.

[ashleydpalmerusa]

Man Who Would Have Unenviable Task of Overseeing Implementation of New Tax Law Changes at IRS Will Have Confirmation Hearing This Week

That man is Beverly Hills, Calif., tax attorney and member of the Academy of Magical Arts, Charles “Chuck” Rettig.

The Hill reported last Friday that the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing scheduled for June 28 to consider Rettig’s nomination to be the next IRS commissioner. Rettig was nominated by President Trump earlier this year to lead the IRS.

If confirmed, Rettig will be tasked with overseeing the implementation of the new GOP tax-cut law Trump signed last year and will watch over the first tax-filing season under the new code.

He would also oversee an agency that is facing a number of technology and cybersecurity challenges.

[Going Concern correspondent Megan Lewczyk, CPA, recently wrote about the outdated legacy system used by the IRS.]

The Los Angeles Times noted that, if confirmed, Rettig would be the first IRS commissioner in decades to come from the tax world.

For 35 years, he’s been with the Beverly Hills law firm Hochman Salkin Rettig Toscher & Perez, known in the industry as a controversy firm – one that focuses on representing taxpayers in disputes with the IRS or state tax agencies.

And though the nature of his practice is such that he and the IRS are typically on opposite sides, he has also been a longtime member of committees that advise the IRS as well as the California Franchise Tax Board. Attorneys who know Rettig say he has a deep respect for the agency and for the tax system.

With changes of this magnitude to the tax code, I hope, for his sake, he has lots and lots of patience, too.

[The Hill] [LA Times]

Image: iStock/Pgiam

The post Man Who Would Have Unenviable Task of Overseeing Implementation of New Tax Law Changes at IRS Will Have Confirmation Hearing This Week appeared first on Going Concern.

from Accounting News https://goingconcern.com/charles-rettig-irs-confirmation-hearing/

[rettiglegacy]

Edward has been working so hard!  He has 5 in all areas, aside from the 3 in toilet training!  Go Eddie! Anise is really felt a sense of accomplishment when Peter returned from the hospital shattered and Edward began to “Ask Why?”

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Maia gave birth to another son.  Sage’s 2nd grandchild.  Lyric Rettig was born in a hospital much to his grandmother’s disapproval.  Cole and Strummer hung out at home waiting for Maia’s return.  

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HarvestFest was a disaster, but it did end with lots of new seeds for Sage’s garden and Ivy aged up!  Sage got dreadfully ill and was not too keen to take modern medicine so Willow stepped up to the plate and cooked everyone a fabulous tofurkey grand meal.  Sage and Jacob are beginning to find life manageable again as their children age up. 

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Maia Lasten became Maia Rettig, joining Sage’s legacy!  The whole family, including Cole’s half-sister, turned up for the occasion.  Willow, the genius that she is, couldn’t help but find a break in the proceedings to ensure her nephews academics were being taken care of.  

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Ah, memories!  Sage and Jacob’s wedding day.  They decided to finally tie the knot with their seventh child on the way. 

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Flashback: to when it seemed that Sage and Jacob would be content with 6 children.  Here we have Ivy, the twins, and Poppy bonding like sisters. 

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Maia has been working hard at mastering the keyboard.  She’s really hoping to impress her boss at work and get a promotion to a more sociable shift pattern. 

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This may be older and it has been forgotten!  Here though are some shots of Poppy, her wife Madeline and their two adopted children Paris and Beatrice.  They moved to Sulani and became mermaids! 

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A quick (and dark) introduction to the family!  

Sage is the matriarch.  She is an adult now.  She has a renaissance aspiration and completed it shortly after becoming an adult.  She dabbled in the cooking, painting, and gardening as careers but is now a freelancer.  She has written 6 books, mostly about gardening.  She keeps her garden in great condition and has arranged her plants by the seasons in which they flower.  She has also dabbled in flower arranging but has found it hard with raising 7 children.  She recently married Jacob Miele, father to all of her daughters. 

Cole was Sage’s first and so far only son.  His father is Charles Kim who died when Cole was relatively young.  He was married when he met Sage and never did leave his wife.  Cole has a half-sister from his father’s marriage, Sara.  They are best friends.  He has a real talent on the violin and is hoping to become a composer. He is now married to his childhood sweetheart, Maia Lasten and has 2 sons. 

Willow is Sage’s first daughter and first child with Jacob Miele to whom she is now married.  She is a teenager now and is a straight A student and works part time in retail.  She is really into computers and is trying to make her own games. 

Poppy is a confident child.  She is the third child of Sage and the second daughter of Sage and Jacob.  She is also a straight A student and has already completed the motor aspiration and is now working on becoming a whizz kid. She has a close relationship with Willow and has found it hard since Willow became a teenager. 

Anise and Lavender are twins. Anise is a sweetheart with high aspirations.  Lavender is a little more mischievous.  Both are good girls at heart but we can be sure that Anise will be the one setting the table and Lavender the one aggravating the gnomes on Harvestfest.  

Ivy has just become a child.  She is a free spirit and has an eclectic dress sense.  She was the most successful toddler in the family 3/3 potty training and 5/5 across the board!  Ivy is a real charmer and has a special bond with her big brother who moved out just as she became a toddler.  Sage took Ivy with her nearly every day as they visited Cole at his new place and helped him set up his garden.  

Here we have Maia and Strummer.  Maia (nee Lasten) is the daughter of a single mother who constantly moved in with new men.  Maia spent most of her teenage years on a camp bed.  She was so pleased to meet Cole.  She left her mother and together they have built a beautiful scandi-style A-frame home in Willow Creek.  She and Cole recently got married. 

Strummer Rettig is the first son of Cole and Maia.  He is an inquisitive soul and loves to explore his environment and have a little dance at stereo. 

Petal is the seventh (and presumably final?!?) daughter of Sage and Jacob.  She just aged up last night and was so thrilled to spend her first day as a toddler celebrating Harvestfest. 

Lyric Rettig, a second son for Maia and Cole.  He just popped out the other day and deeply upset Strummer. 

[rettiglegacy]

Hey everyone, this is a new Sims 4 legacy blog.  I’ve been running this game for a while and wasn’t sure how it would go but now I am onto the second generation I thought I would make a little blog and write a bit to catch up on.  I did not take many pictures when starting out so here is an accidental screenshot (I take them all the time!) of Sage Rettig’s second child being born.

I will write a little family history soon and catch you up to the present day!  

My main blog is paperringsinpictureframess, a mouthful I know.

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Decorating the Winterfest Tree!