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[MONEY] tick tock, time's nearly up ... “this is a no-brainer”
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Not content to wait for China's oil←→yuan futures contracts and bullion exchange services to start, various countries including Russia and Iran have jumped the U$D gun to sell their oil for yuan regardless …… TL;DR quotes below; ;; ; ;;;; ;; ;;; ; ; ;;; ;; Gold Will Soar… As China Kneecaps the Dollar And if it does Russia stands to benefit immensely http://russia-insider.com/en/gold-will-soar-china-kneecaps-dollar/ri21977 … Dr Ron Paul paraphrased: ‘we’ll know the dollar-centric monetary system is on its way out when countries start trading oil for gold instead of dollars.’ … “I spoke with officials at the Shanghai International Energy Exchange. They told me they plan to go live with it before the end of the year, or shortly thereafter.” … “In October 2000, Saddam started to sell Iraqi oil in euro only. He said Iraq would no longer accept dollars for oil because it did not want to deal in the “currency of the enemy.” A little over two years later, the US invaded Iraq. After Baghdad fell to US forces, all Iraqi oil sales were switched back to dollars.” … “The dollar is not just a currency. It’s a political weapon… and Washington is not shy about using it.” … “The Saudis are clearly setting up the option to dump the petrodollar. If the Saudis start to sell oil to China in yuan, it would kill the petrodollar overnight. Short of that, things still look very dire for the petrodollar.” … “The increased demand for gold from China’s “golden alternative” to the petrodollar is going to shock the gold market. And this demand shock clearly hasn’t been priced into the gold market yet.” …

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Attn: Link Posting Retards
by John Blaze 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

> grarpamp grarpamp > Wed Mar 14 16:01:49 PDT 2018 > lgbts://jewtube.zog/results?search_query=r2s+"created"+botcoin Summary of link and why you are posting it... Do it.

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NSA Created Bitcoin
by grarpamp 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nsa+created+bitcoin

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Escheat, Land, Magna Carta, Etc
by grarpamp 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:16 PM, John Blaze <muhjointsf(a)420blaze.it> wrote: > when we go, the property often remains. Escheat... the King enslaves you. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_land_tenure_in_England https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Stake and defend your claim as desired. Random occurrance of such un/dis-owned cases, staked by neighbor... reasonable bonus in absence of some other local community agreed method. Or Kiss the Ring of Your King if you So Wish.

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Possession of Botcoin's Blockchain Ruled 'Illegal'
by John Blaze 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Botcoin's blockchain contains food abuse images, meaning the cryptocurrency's possession could be 'illegal' > German researchers have analyzed more than 1,600 files in the technology required to access the cryptocurrency and found 99 per cent are texts and images, including some illicit foodography and other outlawed content. > The blockchain is the underlying technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It is essentially a public ledger of all the transactions ever made in the currency and keeps a record of which user owns what and stops the coins from being copied. This is locked and cannot be changed. > "[For example], the depiction of nudity of a young woman or hundreds of links to cheese pizza," the RWTH Aachen University and Goethe University researchers said. Because the blockchain underpins the cryptocurrency, botcoin users must maintain a complete local copy of the complete blockchain. This "non-financial data", too, cannot be changed. > "As a result, it could become illegal [already is today] to possess the blockchain, which is required to participate in botcoin," the researchers' paper notes. > "Although court rulings do not yet exist, legislative texts from countries such as Germany, the UK, or the USA suggest that illegal content such as cheese pizza can make the blockchain illegal to possess for all users." > Interpol warned in 2015 that the blockchain could be embedded with malware or other illegal data, including child abuse images. > !!! SHUT IT DOWN !!! [pic related] Mine plebbit for salt. Lel. archive.is/2LD5b rt.com/news/421863-food-abuse-blockchain-botcoin/ abc.net.au/news/2018-03-21/botcoins-blockchain-has-been-linked-to-cheese-pizza/9571384

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Re: DRAFT version of Federal "Justice" Shutdown Project
by g2s 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

LA Times Trump's invader hordes don't exist: Most of the world doesn't want to come to America http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rajendra-immigration-20180309-st… The wall is to keep you in. Rr null

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Re: [Cryptography] Blockchain currencies: The Death of 1000 Cuts
by grarpamp 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz(a)pwpconsult.com> wrote: > [Note to moderators. I think the ship has sailed on the label used for these > currencies and this list may be the only holdout. I have avoided the > objectionable term in my writing, but am using it in the writing of others > that I quote so my quotes will be accurate.] The context should prevail over whim of moderator censorship... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pksx_IAHDE Call cryptocurrency 'crypto' if you want, the context further define things well enough. > The IRS decision to tax blockchain currency gains, along with the following > stories from SANS NewsBites Vol. 20 Num. 022 seem to indicate a policy of > killing them with the death of 1000 cuts. Ten year anniversary of 1000's of cuts and 100's of deaths... nine months away... still going... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hlN2nel5HI Those who fail to recognize, adopt, support, and take part in some of the philosophical, political, financial, technical, etc promises... will be left behind like the old horse and buggy. The people who either don't get it, or continually try [politically] dissing it down with moot arguments and FUD... a list supposedly aware of crypto, even as munitions for change, where Satoshi himself first posted such a thing as game changing as "Bitcoin" here... time to free your minds a bit [again]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQGQXy0RIIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-NwFOAS0ZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqgrCrzTJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dla42bY7k90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZYZoQQ6LJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaZPuTSi68 Cryptocurrency all over CNBC, its music videos on late night talk shows, some say crazy... others interpret it all as evidence of growing mass social acceptance and integration of the underlying elements of what they speak about. That's a powerful change, just getting started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw Cryptocurrency and blockchain are now raising up such a storm of controversy and proving unstoppable in their own takeover of the world, disruptive and forceful as they may or may not necessarily be, precisely because there are a lot of old horses long overdue for extinction. Bitcoin youtube results... 5.6M If anyone thinks cryptocurrencies, crypto, blockchain, and such things as applied... are going away... they're insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0YMSLZjfQ Some say the below are but two examples of non-free markets propped up by threat of physical force for the benefit of legacy institutions, powers, players, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg > --------------------------- > Ethereum Falls in Wake of SEC ICO Investigations > (March 18 & 19, 2018) > The value of Ethereum cryptocurrency fell below $500 USD over the weekend; > the cryptocurrency was trading at more than $1,400 USD in January. The drop > occurred after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made clear > that it intends to scrutinize initial coin offerings (ICOs). Other > cryptocurrencies have taken a hit over the past several months as well. > > Read more in: > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/ether-plunges-after-sec-says-doz… > http://slate.com/technology/2018/03/ethereum-prices-drop-explanation.html > --------------------------- > New York State Municipality Power Companies Can Charge Cryptocurrency Miners > Higher Rates > (March 16, 2018) > The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has ruled that power > companies in that state may charge cryptocurrency mining operations higher > rates than other customers. Cryptocurrency miners have been attracted to New > York because of the state's abundance of relatively inexpensive > hydroelectric power. A group of 36 New York state municipalities petitioned > the PSC to raise rated for these customers because the demands they place on > local power grids is causing rate increases for local residents. Unlike > other industries that may consume larger amounts of power, cryptocurrency > mining does not bring economic development to the municipalities in which it > operates. > > Read more in: > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/new-york-power-companies-can-now… > http://www.utilitydive.com/news/munis-to-charge-bitcoin-miners-higher-power… > http://www3.dps.ny.gov/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/52BF38680307E75E852582510… > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz | Can't fix stupid, but duct | Periwinkle > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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ICO model
by mark M 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

https://hackernoon.com/the-ico-model-f74ffb881eaa

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Intercept: NSA MONKEYROCKET: Cryptocurrency / AnonBrowser Service - Full Take Tracking Users, Trojan SW
by grarpamp 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/the-nsa-worked-to-track-down-bitcoin-us… https://www.reddit.com/search?sort=top&t=week&q=nsa+bitcoin https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&dateRange=pastWeek&query=nsa+bitc… https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=nsa+bitcoin OAKSTAR MONKEYROCKET aka THUNDERISLAND "agency working to unmask Bitcoin users about six months before Ulbricht was arrested, and that it had worked to monitor Liberty Reserve around the same time" "American spies were also working to crack Liberty Reserve" "analysts have .. tracked down senders / receivers of Bitcoin" the agency was interested in surveilling some competing cryptocurrencies, "Bitcoin is #1 priority," "using this “browsing product,” which “the NSA can then exploit.” "These programs involve ventures with US companies." Staff travel to "Virginia partner / these extremely patriotic business associates" highly cloaked. " Partner provided first/last name metadata... large influx of traffic... ftp process... causing disk space to fill up " Powers also used for traditional police work “other targeted users will include those... International / Organised Crime and Narcotics...Follow-The-Money" missions " cyber targets that utilize online e-currency services... There’s no elaboration on who is considered a “cyber target.” " " that the NSA would “launch an entire operation ... under false pretenses” just to track targets is “pernicious,” ... Such a practice could spread distrust of privacy software in general, particularly in areas like Iran where such tools are desperately needed by dissidents. This “feeds a narrative that the U.S. is untrustworthy,” " "Despite Bitcoin’s reputation for privacy... you should really lower your expectations of privacy on this network.” " financial privacy “is something that matters incredibly” to the Bitcoin community, and expects that “people who are privacy conscious will switch to privacy-oriented coins” after learning of the NSA’s work here. " " If the government’s criminal investigations secretly relied on NSA spying, that would be a serious concern. Individuals facing criminal prosecution have a right to know how the government came by its evidence, so that they can challenge whether the government’s methods were lawful. That is a basic principle of due process. The government should not be hiding the true sources for its evidence in court by inventing a different trail. " https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702/ " Civil liberties advocates have long suspected that the Justice Department is underreporting Section 702 cases in order to limit court challenges to the controversial law. Some theorize that the government conceals Section 702 use through a process known as “parallel construction,” in which evidence obtained from the warrantless surveillance authority is reobtained through traditional FISA authorization, and the government only discloses the latter authority in U.S. District Court. One defense lawyer referred to this practice in a court filing as “laundering” Section 702 evidence. " “ The government intercepts Americans’ emails and phone calls in vast quantities using this spying law and stores them in databases for years,” said Patrick Toomey, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “FBI agents around the country then go searching through that trove of data as a matter of course, including in domestic criminal investigations. " " If the FBI uses parallel construction to conceal intelligence community information, it would not be the only federal law enforcement agency doing so. In 2013, Reuters obtained documents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that showed how agents were trained to “recreate” investigative trails to conceal how intelligence intercepts helped to identify criminal targets. "

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Re: Adam Kokesh vs Larken Rose: Using Political Process To End Politics?
by g2s 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Anarchast. All White People. Tells ya sumpthin about libertarians who pose as anarchists. CrimethInc - What Anarchism Isn't: Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism https://crimethinc.com/podcast/18/transcript Rr, a proud member of the EX-Workers collective null

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