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Re: [Cryptography] Review of UBIC
by grarpamp 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

> It would be a mistake to exclude Solar input from your consideration. "Other than" is not exclusion. > The links you gave don't belong to our project. I do agree with you on some points and a road map has been posted on the Bitcointalk since: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3021063.0 > https://www.reddit.com/r/UBIC/ > A white paper will also be released soon. > Regarding your point of view about UBI you can also see it this way: > The UBI reward you get after registering your passport is a little bit the way Bitcoin worked in the early days when one could mine it with his or her personal computer. Nowadays you can still mine on your computer, but even after a year the amount you would have mined wouldn't be enough to cover the costs for doing a single transaction. > At the beginning Bitcoin was the money made by the people for the people. It has now become the money made by the mining farms for the speculative investors. > With UBIC the majority of new coins will always be generated by the people and without wasting precious energy. > There will also be no hyperinflation because the amount of monetary units created with every block is static and it doesn't increase when more people join. Makes no difference what way anyone sees or sells it. It's just another exotic coin distribution scheme that does not create anything, records no share ownership of external ROI producing entities, and can't pull in forex forever. Further, there's no holdback for faux "investment", or leveling, so early UBI'ers are made rich, while late's likely remain poor, and each new pki'd user acts as a forceful tax upon the "UBI" stream of existing participants. Though presumably country payouts are population ratios. Further, the "UBI" mining airdrop it claims to distribute is actually nothing more than money printing dilution, continuous zero shifting rebasement, or deflation if burnt... not truly income. Which again, were it real exernally sourced income, has growth limitations / unbalances / wars in a closed cycle. > https://pkddownloadsg.icao.int/download The E-passport pubkey sig verification / voting is interesting, but can as easily be integrated and treated as a class in any already existing mainstream coin tech. Forcing "the masses" to fall to their knees before force of governments to beg for passports to get fake handouts... this will have problems, and be met with resistance from various places, analysts, and movements. Likely best to let agnostic coins work in open markets.

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Tor Project Director Steele Stepping Down
by grarpamp 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/22/17042544/tor-director-shari-steele-steps… https://www.cyberscoop.com/shari-steele-tor-director-resigns/ https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-execdirector.html.en https://blog.torproject.org/weve-launched-search-our-next-executive-director https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=tor%20director%20steele https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=tor%20project

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Cryptocurrency: Possible Attacks
by grarpamp 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/80mwa6/possible_attacks_on_bitcoi… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/80px4n/leaked_sec_agreed_not_to_pursu… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/80pory/bill_gates_claims_c… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/80mnxh/soon_will_be_an_explosion_… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/80pkza/bisq_adds_7_new_payment_me…

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Re: [Cryptography] Bitcoins and lobbyists
by grarpamp 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > (I'm going to use the term "Bitcoin" here as the best-known examplar of many block-chain-based cryptocurrencies.) > > I was listening to a radio program where an investigative reporter was describing the (laborious) process by which she traced campaign contributions using the various disclosure statements required by the U.S. government. > > It occurred to me that she was performing -- by hand -- many of the same steps that a Bitcoin miner has to perform, by tracing the sources and sinks of the various money flows through individuals, corporations, LLC's, law firms, etc. > > If these money flows had all been Bitcoin-based, her job would have been trivial: the government would simply require the disclosure of the Bitcoin addresses of the various participants, and the Bitcoin miners (and the various Bitcoin tracing technologies) would do the rest. > > Thus, instead of *resisting* Bitcoins & blockchain technologies, perhaps democracies interested in "open" governments should *embrace* Bitcoins, and indeed, *require* Bitcoins for all lobbying transactions. > > Thus, the "Fourth Estate" -- the press -- performs "mining" for the control of democratic governments themselves. > > Thomas Carlyle and Edmund Burke would have approved. Perhaps it is closed governments that are "interested" in democracies, lobbying, and the press. And that control rests with crypto users as a route around such layers.

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Re: [Cryptography] Review of UBIC
by grarpamp 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Ubicorn via cryptography <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> wrote: > Hello, > we have released a cryptocurrency called UBIC that distributes a universal > basic income to it's users. > We solved the sibyl attack by requiring users to scan the NFC chip of their > E-Passport. > The process works this way: > - The user reads out the PKCS7 file contained on the E-Passport. > - A non-transerable proof of signature knowledge is created on one of his > UBIC addresses using the document signing certificate contained in the PKCS7 > file. > - This proof is broadcasted and included in the blockchain > > The source code of the project can be found here: > https://github.com/UBIC-repo/core > The non-transferable proof of signature knowledge for ECDSA signatures is > generated here: > https://github.com/UBIC-repo/core/blob/master/NtpEsk/NtpEsk.cpp > and for RSA signatures here: > https://github.com/UBIC-repo/core/blob/master/NtpRsk/NtpRsk.cpp > > We are a little bit unsure if our non-transferable proof of signature > knowledge for RSA is completely secure because we had to hack it a little > bit. > It is based on on the Guillou-Quisquater protocol where the challenge has to > be smaller than the RSA exponent. > However because the document signing certificate exponents are almost every > time 65537 we generate 5 proofs of 16 bit entropy each. > > What are your opinions on this? It will fail since its "UBI" distribution must end as long term the cryptocurrency reaches forex equilibrium and thus fails to deliver "ROI", unlike businesses that can. Those without passports won't "invest" aka buy it, nor benefit from it, thus it'll remain massively underexposed to free markets. The leading open cryptos will provide much more "return" to more people before equilibrium. So UBIC coins, be they pure and simple cryptocurrencies, are moot. Nor does the UBIC above have any whitepaper or roadmap in the repo saying anything about what its prospectus is. Though as with any other coin, its tech might be useful to integrate somewhere else. Such as potential form of wallet 2FA, identity assertion into blockchain, etc.

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[MINISTRY] Haaretz "chuck-ing a CNN" → going nuts on guns :D
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Haaretz just can’t, just can’t, just can’t get enough … … of the NRA, that is :D :D Rock Haaretz, rock on! Fellow pepes, 2018 is the year the huwaite normies finally woke, as a group. As Anglin says, “whites winning the battle is not the battle – the battle is getting whites to fight”. <SCREEEEEEE> RAAAAAAAACIIIISSMMMMM </> Oh hey! How bout dat, "racism" has the acronym "cis" in it. I have know idea why CNN and Haaretz are going off the rails in a similar way - perhaps Razer, our local Rabbi-of-da-chosen-bastards can tell us ... In other strange news, a new Weinstein blockbuster this year: “Zio's Go Wild, 2018 Edition” ... even Alex Jones and his hoardes got Jewtube to back down from their almost-banning of Infowars. There's certainly one positive thing we can say about God's chosen tribe and their penchant for enslavement of others - the optics! This is one of the funniest times to be alive. https://dailystormer.name/race-war-the-nra-representing-white-people-agains…

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[MINISTRY] Polish immigrants to blame for 2017's 20% rise in London rapes
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

A hard one to stomach, but snowflakes be trigger warned, dangit! (London) Deputy Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police force Sir Craig Mackey, too, has confessed that “there is something going on with sexual offending in London” I guess the significance is that a lot of right-leaning nationalists have been assuming this rise is due to Islamic immigration. TDS would disagree it seems ... https://dailystormer.name/uk-rapes-in-london-have-increased-by-20-percent-a… UK: Rapes in London Have Increased by 20% and the Police are BAFFLED!

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Paris by Night - motorbike chases down hit and run driver - Santa by night - growing up - stay safe - live life - create your world
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

(Francais.) https://www.rt.com/news/414076-santa-bike-hit-run/ Paris by Night - Motorbike chases down hit and run driver. Live your truth. Play safe.

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The ico model. Aka why icos matter for cypherpunks ?
by mark M 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

https://medium.com/@tensorcoinai/the-ico-model-f74ffb881eaa

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[WAR] Ron Paul interviewed by Sputnik - wars, guns, America
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Classic Ron Paul, keeping it simple enough that perhaps most people can hear him: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201802231061934663-ron-paul-sputnik-interv… 'We Can't Continue to Run the World'

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