December 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Last letter from Tim May
by juan 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

CoinDesk asked cypherpunk legend Timothy May, author of the “Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,” to write his thoughts on the bitcoin white paper on its 10th anniversary. https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get-rich-quick-lam…

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Cryptocurrency: BCH puts UTXO Set on IPFS, OpenSwap Atomic DEX, The 51%
by grarpamp 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

https://reddit.com/r/btc/comments/a7hffx/chris_pacia_the_bitcoin_cash_utxo_… https://github.com/tomasvdw/bips/blob/master/ecmh-utxo-commitment-0.mediawi… https://github.com/tomasvdw/bips/blob/master/ecmh.mediawiki https://github.com/tomasvdw/bips/blob/master/ecmh-utxo-commitment-0.mediawi… https://ipfs.io/ ipfs:QmQECm1yUgKh7oQg2syCFo5BLvhFSSH9m95fw41b3GTrXV block_height:556767 https://reddit.com/r/btc/comments/a7j45v/announcing_bchd_0130beta2_with_fas… https://medium.com/@bchd.cash/announcing-bchd-0-13-0-beta2-with-fast-sync-m… https://github.com/gcash/bchd https://github.com/gcash/bchwallet https://www.bitcoincash.org/ Cryptocurrency world realizing entire blockchain history is not really needed... massive privacy invasion, costly waste of storage also limiting dev of other DB and large tx block tech... only rolling update mechanisms for maintaining UTXO database are needed. https://reddit.com/r/btc/comments/a7giyd/openswap_v01_released_bch_btc_atom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va2m6ePNVqM https://github.com/markblundeberg/openswap https://www.crypto51.app/ https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket

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Greetings
by erikrepo 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

Hello all! It's "the kid", well actually I am no longer a kid, I am almost 25. I figured I would tell my story. It all starts with my brother. Around when I turned 12 my brother began seeing strange dreams which he claimed were from the future. He told me about various events in my life, people I would meet, as well as things that would happen. When my brother told me about the cypherpunks and futuristic technologies. I started learning about encryption & the cypherpunks and I decided I wanted to become one of you. I remember when I first read various writings like the cypherpunk manifesto and it made a lot of sense to me. So I began working on an encryption program as well as a puzzles, which I hoped would impress you all enough to accept me. (I know there is no real group to be accepted into but at the time I though that was the case) The technologies my brother described really inspired me, I wanted to create something similar myself. As I wanted to impress you all, I also sent the encryption program to my brother. So that he could look it over and improve it. I was worried it would not be optimal. I created the name Satoshi Nakamoto from my laptops name Toshiba Satellite and me and my brother's last names. Then I made the GMX account satoshin(a)gmx.com with a simple password "******" I sent the program to this mailing list with an email going along the lines: "Here's an encryption program me and my brother wrote let me know what you think?" I didn't even tell my brother who what I was doing with the program or that I was sending it here. Two weeks later I got a reply which I recall going along the lines of: "Hey kid your program turned out to be a breakthrough, it became Bitcoin." After which I was asked how much do I want? So from the top of my head I said 1/20th as it seemed like a nice number. It ended up working well with 1 million for me & my brother and a 21 million cap. But I didn’t take the coins instead I trusted them with Nick and others. I am not sure why. Often I am not aware why I do some things, I go by intuition and feelings. All I know is I wanted to create something that would liberate all mankind. Though unfortunately it looks like it has created a lot of arguing, fighting, and hashwars everything I wanted to avoid. I never liked fighting as whenever my parents would fight I would end up crying and hiding in my room with my computer. In high school I had barely any friends since no one liked me and I got bullied a lot. People would call me an Asperger, autistic, and the worst ones would tell me to go kill myself. Which is partially why I have always been worried that I would not be accepted by the rest of the cypherpunks as I usually don't get accepted by any group whether it was school or social groups. As people didn't tend to like me computers and the internet became my friends. As high school was an awful experience I decided to go to university as I had been told that, people are a lot more accepting in higher education etc. So I went to university in the hopes that it would be a better experience than high school, instead of concentrating on the project. Though that was not the only reason. I also started getting increasingly worried about being exposed. Though if you want to know what scares me the most it's not the authorities or governments, but opening up to people. That’s why I hide behind a mask of anonymity and I never told anyone about myself on here. I would always dodge question regarding my whereabouts and identity. But in university I learned to open up to people. People aren't all trying to trick, bully, and make fun of me etc. I know some of you may have read the Satoshi Family Foundation book. It was actually written as a back story to my life by my friends. Though it did have some spelling errors etc. I do can write kind of sloppily sometimes lol. I know some may not have been happy regarding me going to university instead of concentrating on the project, but I think it was worth it. Being older I hope I will better be able to understand the philosophy etc. behind the cypherpunks. Maybe I will even expand on it and write my own manifesto one day, at least one can dream. University was actually quite good. I even got to experience love :) Though it was short lived as she got diagnosed with Menieres disease. Generally if something can go wrong it does go wrong in my life. Even with my brother having told me about all the mistakes I make I still end up making them. I supposed one cannot change faith. The girl I loved broke up with me because she did not want to hold me back. Though I would have loved her forever. I wish I had had the chance and the courage to say so. Her seizures, reduced hearing etc. did not matter as I loved her enough. But then I remembered a song with the lyrics: "If you love her, let her go" and so I did. She has found someone else by now, I just hope she is happy that is all that matters. Next time I will be braver and say what I truly feel like. I just recently figured out why my brother told me I needed a cabin in Alberta. I believe that is where I am meant to live together with my true love one day. Music has also always been a big part of my life. I use it to tune myself out of my surroundings. As well as to inspire myself. I enjoy matching the song to my mood, surroundings, or just to cancel noise out. I often go on long walks late at night to listen to tunes and just think. While living in Canada I would love the cold crisp air and the starry skies at night. So far everything my brother has told me about my life has come true. I hope some of the things he has told me won't happen though. My brother said he would die of a brain aneurysm in 2 years :( We have both had fairly rough lives. My parents got a divorce when we were young (I was 5-6 and my brother 8-9 years old) after the company my parents established together went bankrupt. My mom remarried a couple tough years later needing someone to help and support her, a decision she regrets to. One thing causing regret for my mom is that my step dad threw my brother out of our house to my dad's place. Though it was not fully my step dad's fault as my dad was not paying child support. The divorce impacted my brother very poorly, I have been more fortunate and resilient. My brother recently got kicked out a second time after a fight with one of my dads girlfriends. My dad did no like what he had to say about my dad girlfriend so they got in a fight. If there is one person that deserves credit from all this it is my brother. I at least got to be Satoshi for a while before leaving for university. I am not sure if he even believed me when I told him where I sent the program and who I am. But hopefully he will believe me soon. Erik Repo

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Cryptocurrency: 1M+ Exchange Users, Donate
by grarpamp 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

https://www.longhash.com/news/ranking-crypto-exchanges-by-total-daily-users https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAfOCqgS8gs https://www.coinfi.com/news/411479/bring-on-the-blockchain-on-western-union https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1075571952989954048 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBP9dpVM70 Price down, pick up! Feed me btc:1L2SyuiWaP1LhtGUHCu8qR1YUqWksuXWZR

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Wave-soldering method using a fountain.
by jim bell 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2Ubb74ZDA An interesting method of doing wave-soldering that I wasn't aware of. At 5:40 through 6:02. Jim Bell

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Banned in the USA: Bump Stocks... Armor Up
by grarpamp 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/bump-stocks-ban/index.html https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5635249/Bump-Stock-Final-Rule.pdf https://www.ammoland.com/2018/08/las-vegas-bump-stock-foia-response-claims-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgybgEKHHI trump Due process: A feelgood fiction of all Governments foisted upon sheeple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kryIJIrD5eQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IOZ-5Nk5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-FV_VRlXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFAosibig88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZCO-06qRgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RdAhTxyP64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTGn76YljUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEH_ms8d1ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNiXABt1JY https://www.gunowners.org/ https://www.saf.org/ https://www.jpfo.org/ https://www.nationalgunrights.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gun_ownership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation In Old English, beran (past tense baer) means to bear, bring, bring forth, or produce; to endure or sustain; or to wear. The Bill of Rights 1689 allowed Protestant citizens of England to "have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law" and restricted the ability of the English Crown to have a standing army or to interfere with Protestants' right to bear arms "when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law" and established that Parliament, not the Crown, could regulate the right to bear arms. Sir William Blackstone wrote in the 18th century that the right to have arms was auxiliary to the "natural right of resistance and self-preservation" subject to suitability and allowance by law. The term arms as used in the 1600s, the term refers to the process of equipping for war. It is commonly used as a synonym for weapon. Inclusion of this right in a written constitution is uncommon. In 1875, 17 percent of constitutions included a right to bear arms. Since the early twentieth century, "the proportion has been less than 9 percent and falling". In their historical survey and comparative analysis of constitutions dating back to 1789, Tom Ginsburg and colleagues "identified only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) that had ever included an explicit right to bear arms. Almost all of these constitutions have been in Latin America, and most were from the 19th century". Generally, where modern constitutions refer to arms at all, the purpose is "to allow the government to regulate their use or to compel military service, not to provide a right to bear them". Constitutions which historically guaranteed a right to bear arms are those of Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua and the United States of America. Nearly all of the Latin American examples were modelled on that of the United States. At present, out of the world’s nearly 200 constitutions, three still include a right to bear arms: Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States; of these three, only the last does not include explicit restrictive conditions.

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Tucker: Malcolm Nance on MSNBC: David Duke and Richard Spencer now "mainstreamed" thanks to Russia, to suppress African-American 2016 vote - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

MSNBC is pitching hard to maintain their (((mainstream narrative))) and just blows the ball off the planet leaving Tucker wondering what they're even saying. This is MSNBC's "Lemon" blowing a hot stream of adjectives, nouns and conjunctions into something resembling, though far from reaching, speech. Impressive. Almost as impressive as Lemon's, sorry I mean Malcolm Nance's self identifying as having been engaged in “35 years of counter intelligence work” - like, OMFG that's so much authority packed into so few words I can't believe it's not television ... oh wait, this MSNBC so yes grasshopper, that is television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqXNY95Rk5Q

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Documentary: Stateless - Anarchy Emigrates by Todd Schramke
by grarpamp 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

A “loose-knit” community of crypto-anarchists emigrate to Acapulco, a city recently ranked as the fourth most dangerous in the world, to escape the powers of nation-states. But several years into the movement, the group diverges into to different visions of liberty. Anarchast Ep.425 Jeff Berwick interviews Todd Schramke producer of the upcoming documentary 'Stateless'. Topics include: an 'Anarchist' in Oakland, questioning the role of government, the 'Stateless' documetary project, change and growth in the Anarchapulco expat community, telling our own story, government mind control, crowd funding the Stateless documentary, the band Kylland, tour plans, Anarchapulco 2019 The Stateless documentary crowdfunding page: https://statelessdoc.com/crowdfunding Find out more about and listen to Kylland: https://www.facebook.com/KyllandMusic https://kylland.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/kylland Tickets for Anarchapulco 2019: https://anarchapulco.com/ Anarchast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anarchast Anarchast: http://anarchast.com/

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BCH finally hit the fan
by furrier 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

https://medium.com/@_unwriter/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-cash-experiment… Libertardians enjoying their scammy experiment

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Facebook non-secrecy.
by jim bell 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Facebook reportedly gave tech giants access to users’ private messages: https://nypost.com/2018/12/18/facebook-reportedly-gave-tech-giants-access-t…

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