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Re: [Cryptography] Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies
by grarpamp 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 4:36 AM, James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > On 12/20/2017 3:27 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> >> Bitcoin is nowhere near private or anonymous. >> Genuine cryptographic privacy needed for that, such as found in >> the Zerocash (Zcash) family of coins, > > > We already are facing big trouble over scaling. Zerocash is too damned > slow. https://z.cash/ shows near term updates coming that significantly raise performance. > I suggest that rather we should employ the coinjoin algorithm. https://reddit.com/r/joinmarket There are surely other mix implementations you could list, including mix coins such as Monero, or simple swap services such as helix / fogcore. > Pretty soon, the state is going to declare some bitcoins to be "blood bitcoins". Already happens, search: chainanalysis > Coinjoin, like zerocash, makes > equality of bitcoins a fact of mathematics, rather than a policy of humans. Which is why all of swap / mix / privacy methods may be useful in certain use cases. However as before in the Zcash thread, in general, a well studied reviewed and used true cryptoprivacy coin may seem to be most and long term resistant to analysis, usage error, liquidity / anonymity set, unlike swaps / mixes. > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus Needless, untrustable, bloating, assertion.

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Morgan Stanley says the true price of bitcoin might be zero
by g2s 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

And they should know because they PWN ur btcz gambler. They can put you "In a cardboard box by the river" any time they choose. http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-on-bitcoin-value-2017-12

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Qubes
by Ryan Carboni 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

I don't recommend Qubes. I attempted to try it within Virtual Box. Didn't work. Not certain on the number of devices that Qubes is certainly known not to work with and not planned to be supported. Never used it for more than ten minutes.

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[SPACE] did anyone get a copy of this? - “(VIDEO) NASA’s Orion Engineer Admits They Can’t Get Past Van Allen Radiation Belts”
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

This 'tube video is now “ERROR: NlXG0REiVzE: YouTube said: This video does not exist.” Was from March 14 (or earlier) 2015: http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/03/14/video-nasas-orion-engineer-admits-the… Did anyone get a copy they could email (if it's small enough) or reupload? Here's the text of the above article: (VIDEO) NASA’s Orion Engineer Admits They Can’t Get Past Van Allen Radiation Belts March 14, 2015 By 21wire 2 Comments 21st Century Wire says… If this does not get the skeptics going wild on the moon debate, we don’t know what will. In the video presentation below, NASA engineer Kelly Smith explains about many of the risks and pitfalls surrounding the new Orion Deep Space Mission to the planet Mars. Surprisingly, chief among Kelly’s concerns is whether or not his spacecraft can successfully pass through the perilous Van Allen Radiation Belts. Such is the prospective danger in fact, that NASA will have to send a dumbie craft first in order to ‘test out’ what the potential radiation effects will be on future human crews, as well as on the ship’s delicate sensors and equipment. Hold on. Why the guessing game by NASA? Why don’t they just use the same 1969 technology they are said to have used on the first Apollo moon missions? SuperPerformance72 explains, “This video released by NASA about the upcoming Orion space exploration craft, shows a NASA scientist admitting that they still haven’t worked out how to properly shield the spacecraft from the radiation emitted from the Van Allen belts.” This is the ultimate conspiracy, as it brings together two huge issues – the viability of the Apollo Moon Landings, as well as dreams of a human colony on Mars. This latest admission by NASA places both of these in jeopardy. Watch… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlXG0REiVzE Thanks, Z

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ALL I WANT FOR YULETIDE: ANARCHY
by Yule Father 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

> juan juan.g71 at gaymail.com > Sun Dec 24 09:11:33 PST 2017 > wikipedia content is political propaganda o'rly Gay pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward "gay" people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality, rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate diversity and variance."" Black pride is a movement that encourages black people to celebrate black culture and embrace their African heritage."" White pride is a motto used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist organizations in order to signal racist viewpoints."" Source: wikipé̩dia.org/itsokaytobewhite [pic related] But I did find this: wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement Joyful Yuletide Everyone. And a Salty Shitpost New Year!

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MUH COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOINS !
by Bitcoin Cash Shills Be Like 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

I will try to keep my post as easy to digest as possible, but this is a lot of information that actually stems back to cpunks and the help of a very based anon. 1. Pre-August 2017 - /pol/ anon makes post warning other anons about the implications of the User-Activated Soft Fork on Bitcoin's blockchain. This User-Activated Soft Fork activates software called Segregated Witness, a "scaling solution" funded by a company called Blockstream, who happens to be funded by venture capital groups. This "network upgrade" initiates on August 8th 2017, and if all the miners do not follow the abundance of nodes on the network, a chain split results, which looks terrible for Bitcoin. Because of this, and previous arrangements that will benefit the miners later on, Segwit is activated. Right before activation, Roger Ver states that he does not agree with what SegWit claims to do for Bitcoin, and in turn hard forks the network in order to preserve Bitcoin's ecosystem before this radical upgrade took place. WHAT IS SEGWIT? Segregated Witness is a software upgrade that forces every-day users such as you and I off of the main blockchain. It does this using a fee-based "solution". Fees to broadcast to the main blockchain are raised x1000, going from less than $1 to $1000 EOY 2018. Instead, average users will go through Side-Chains - a patented software that allows banks to control their own centralized blockchains, this means that they choose the transactions that will and will not be allowed to be broadcasted to the main blockchain, while you as an individual must pay them a fee to even use the sidechains. This means that banks have control over who can and cannot send money, something that was previously not possible with Bitcoin. 2. Post-August 2017 Roger Ver splits the Bitcoin blockchain with his hardfork, resulting in a new Bitcoin offspring named "Bitcoin Cash (BCH)" - Bitcoin Cash follows the original roadmap laid out by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, while Bitcoin (BTC) is now a science project of Bitcoin Core and Blockstream. Nothing is too bad on 4chan, a lot of people talking shit about Bitcoin Cash, but from my perspective it seems to be pure ignorance rather than any actual shilling. WHAT IS BITCOIN CASH? Bitcoin Cash is the original idea of Bitcoin, laid out by the creator of Bitcoin, and using solutions that Satoshi Nakamoto explicitly states exist for the future of the currency. These solutions allow for Bitcoin to scale according to the amount of users on the network, without the high-fee-based scalability model. This means that regardless of whether you are rich or poor, if you have Bitcoin Cash (BCH) you can broadcast your transaction to the blockchain for close to nothing. Censorship-resistant money. 3. Bitcoin Cash Gains A Foothold As Bitcoin's (BTC) fees grow in price, less people begin to use it, the promise of Lightning Network and Sidechains are still being worked on, according to Core and Blockstream, but as of now, there is no immediate solution to these people. Raising the blocksize past 1MB is not possible. In turn, many businesses begin to drop Bitcoin, some turning to Bitcoin Cash, which results in newfound confidence and a new floor @ $1000 USD. At this point, 4chan begins to see many people shilling against Bitcoin Cash and either attempting to point people's attention toward alt-coins as the successor to Bitcoin, rather than Bitcoin Cash, which shares the same Genesis Block with Bitcoin. WHAT COINS ARE BEING SHILLED? With the failure of BTC being just around the corner, shills see this as an opportunity to begin their attack. They choose very specific coins for a VERY specific reason. Ethereum and Litecoin are the main alts being shilled. WHY ETHEREUM? Ethereum Enterprise Alliance - search it. WHY LITECOIN? Litecoin, created by Charlie Lee, is a fork of Bitcoin created in or around 2013. What is so special about Litecoin? Nothing anymore. The most notable feature though, would be Segregated Witness, which was activated on Litecoin FAR before it was activated on Bitcoin. Since Segwit is software owned by Blockstream, if the majority of Bitcoin's market cap were to flow into Litecoin, banks would have won regardless of whether BTC dies or not. Either way both have Segwit activated, so Blockstream and banks win. 4. Bitcoin Cash Begins to Suck the Life Out of Bitcoin As of Nov 15th 2017, Bitcoin Cash has begun to absorb Bitcoin's market dominance at a rapid rate, swinging between .1 and .3 Satoshi in comparison to BTC. Eventually Bitcoin Cash is projected to be at a 1:1 ratio with BTC, and afterwards will kill BTC completely, as they both work using the same hardware and mining algorithms. Bitcoin Cash has some added features including an adjusted DAA that stop miners from being able to kill the network by making it to expensive to mine at a loss when hashpower is removed. In other words, Bitcoin Cash's blockchain is a lot stronger and more resistant to the chain-death spiral that could completely (and will) kill Bitcoin. 5. Coinbrase adds Bitcoin Cash As of Dec 20th 2017, Coinbrase announces that it will add Bitcoin Cash as a USD pair, shaking confidence in BTC and bringing the market down for a short period of time. Due to not enough liquidity, the price of Bitcoin Cash shoots from $4000 USD to $9000 USD within 6 minutes, and coinbrase disables trading, as they do not believe the price is healthy and may be manipulated. WHY IS ANY OF THIS IMPORTANT? As Bitcoin Cash has grown, BTC has began to die, which ultimately was the plan of banks anyway, they never wanted Bitcoin to work. They want to kill it or control it, now they have a big issue to deal with. POINT? Anyone calling Bitcoin Cash "Bcash" is doing so in an attempt at shifting the narrative and pulling Bitcoin Cash away from the "Bitcoin" name.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS: MAKE CHRISTMAS YULETIDE AGAIN
by Yule Father 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

> rooty arpspoof at brotonmail.com > Sat Dec 2 08:46:09 PST 2017 > Danke Yule Joyful Yuletide to you and your family rooty. > the "pic" I have attached an larger version, a Time Jul, and a Suns. > wonderful info. Here is some more. Christmas, as it is celebrated in the west, is the holiday of "Yule", which (((Christians))) "adopted". Pine tree is an evergreen. Evergreens stay green even in the darkest, longest, and coldest winter. Putting one up is a symbol of "life persevering". Red and white is blood on the snow, because Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Slavic tribes used to hang up animal sacrifices to the trees. Christmas ornaments, the round balls, are symbols for animal sacrifice, if they are red, or the sun, if they are golden, and green for life. Lights on the tree is a symbol for the rays of sun, twinkling through the gaps in the pine needles on the next morning, after the longest night of the year, the solstice. A star on top of the tree (although (((Christianity))) substituted an angel) symbolizes the duty of humans to strive toward enlightenment. (In folklore, the first humans were trees in which Odin breathed life, therefore the "Christmas" tree also represents humans.) Mistletoe was used by Loki to kill Baldur, Freyas son. Baldur was said to be immortal because "every poisonous plant, every animal, every weapon in the world" swore to never harm Baldur. The mistletoe was the only plant to not swear to never harm Baldur. Loki tricked Hodr, Baldurs blind brother, to stab him with a spear tipped with mistletoe (mistletoe is poisonous). This killed the otherwise invulnerable god and Freya swore that mistletoe shall never be used as a weapon again, dispensing kisses to whoever near it, instead. The Yule log (which some (((Christians))) still use) in the fireplace is an offering to the sun, the heat, the fire was said to strengthen the sun as it was the weakest on solstice, the longest night of the year. By giving the sun strength, it would rise again in the morning, reborn again, dispelling the night and growing stronger throughout the year, until the next winter. Santa is Odin disguised as a shaman. He goes into the chimneys to leave toys shaped like animals, usually reindeer, to appease the spirits of the animals which the humans hunted and killed through the year, and reminded people to keep a respectful relationship with the animals. Never to kill them needlessly and only ever taking natural resources, like their bones, their hide, their flesh. Never to trap their spirits or corrupt them. The eight reindeer are derived from Odin's horse Sleipnir, who has eight legs. Western "Christmas" is Yule. Living in the cold north of Europa, the sun was very important, and Yule was a celebration for it.

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The Twelve Days of Christmas
by Yule Father 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

> Juan Newman juan.g71 at gaymail.com > Thu Dec 14 18:47:59 PST 2017 > As surely as there is any race, > there is [not] a Jė́wish one.. Not to define or defend "race": DNA shows distict differences between modern and ancient Asioid, Africanoid, and Caucasoid humans. Jė́wish people have been all three but are not a distinct DNA group. Sorry JĪ́DF. > "muh pics" Email has include attachments since Ned Freed, 1992, bitpinchanon. Joyful Yuletide to you and your family, Juan. [pic related]

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Freedom Rains Down Upon Waters Hunted To Extinction
by grarpamp 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/23/north-korea-floodedwith-illicit-… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/23/sea-shepherd-loses-anta… Love.TheWorld.

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Re: USA: National Security Strategy, Juan's Wet Dream
by rooty 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

-------- Original Message -------- On Dec 23, 2017, 12:53 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 3:06 PM, juan wrote: > > and speaking of thor and odin... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas > > "Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of > Jesus Christ," - except that the fucking jesus turd was never > born. My dear Juan, you should consider how complex, illogical, and contradictory are the human beings. Captain America already meet *in person*, at least, two gods and is still a Christian... D'oh! :P Well, you will love to know he always was a villain... Nom nom nom... Sorry, some spoilers because these editions were not published in our countries yet, Juan! :B # https://screenrant.com/captain-america-hydra-evil-explained/ # https://screenrant.com/captain-america-evil-villain/ Happy Hanukkah and a Merry Christmas, dear all!!! Merry christmas sea sea

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