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Re: [Cryptography] Krugman blockchain currency skepticism
by grarpamp 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 7:05 AM, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Krugman has a column today that's saying some things that have already > been posted here. Hopefully will gain traction. > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/opinion/transaction-costs-and-tethers-wh… Hopefully not. "Why would you want to do [cryptocurrency]? What problem does it solve? I have yet to see a clear answer to that question. ... So that’s why I’m a crypto skeptic. Could I be wrong? Of course. But if you want to argue that I’m wrong, please answer the question, what problem does cryptocurrency solve? Don’t just try to shout down the skeptics with a mixture of technobabble and libertarian derp." Krugman article wouldn't stand a chance at any OG "libertarian" cryptocurrency conference. Because that's the very 'derp' behind cryptocurrency... the element needed to understand it. Freedom isn't derp. Anyone could tear that article apart, but you would censor it, so what's your point of even approving it here for comment? Propaganda Anti? Downplaying decentralized cryptocurrency to any cryptos here who might otherwise want to work on it? > You wrote "eight years". Could you correct that, too? Good point, nine years is closer to the ten year mark where cryptocurrrency's unstoppability and fundamental qualities begin to accelerate.global capitulation towards it. > http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2018-February/033917.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQQFA9YXCZ0 ;) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bitcoin+documentary What's in your wallet? [bcc cypherpunks]

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Storage
by grarpamp 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

https://aravindh.net/post/zfs_fileserver/

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How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
by Steven Schear 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-fut…

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Defense Distributed 3D Guns Under New Legal Assault
by grarpamp 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Legal filings https://www.scribd.com/user/27612332/joshblackman

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Bittorrent Owned by TRON, Distributed Storage
by grarpamp 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-o… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17646502 TRON, better than competition (Sia/Filecoin/Storj/Maidsafe/etc)? TRON has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent. BitTorrent will continue operating from TRON’s new San Francisco location.

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Zero Knowledge Proofs: Distributed ZKP zk-SNARK zk-STARK Zcash
by grarpamp 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_knowledge_proofs https://zkp.science/ https://github.com/ZKProofs/ZKProofs.github.io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527846 https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-i… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13102738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669840 http://qed-it.com/2017/07/the-hunting-of-the-snark/ http://qed-it.com/2017/07/challenge-one-the-functionality-of-zk-snark/ http://qed-it.com/2017/10/challenge-two-crafting-constraint-systems/ https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks.html https://boompig.herokuapp.com/blog/secret-santa-protocol http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/10/interactive-sudoku-zero-knowle… http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/03/05/exploring-zero-knowledge-proof… DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/691 https://github.com/scipr-lab/dizk https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark https://github.com/howardwu/libsnark-tutorial Z Conferences https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL40dyJ0UYTLK507afWUMgzUYeh-i4qQWS https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZK0x01 Coda and o1_labs https://medium.com/codaprotocol/coda-keeping-cryptocurrency-decentralized-e… https://codaprotocol.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302841 https://medium.com/@mhluongo/zero-knowledge-proofs-zcash-and-ethereum-f6d89… Gemini and Coinbase Offering Zcash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEP02sreGpA # ai

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Cryptocurrency: Music, John Galt and Freedom Heaven
by grarpamp 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

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India and China: Not Playing Around
by grarpamp 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

http://www.geekdave.in/2018/07/indias-first-risc-v-is-here-linux-boots.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642872 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/07/27/america-chin… https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-American-Century-Decline-Dispatch/dp/1608467…

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Paging Jim Bell
by juan 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

https://www.ccn.com/first-assassination-markets-appear-on-gambling-platform…

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what libertarians really stand for
by juan 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

I have been dealing with scum who call themselves 'libertarians' for a long time. For those people 'libertarianism' is a flimsy excuse to promote the most anti-libertarian criminals and their 'businesses'. Case in point : there's this mafia called 'students for liberty', and I assume people in this list are familiar with supreme criminal scum peter thiel who is just a 'private' facade for the NSA - and a christian libertarian, to boot. So what do the 'libertarian' 'students' for 'liberty' have to say about thiel? Check this out https://www.studentsforliberty.org/2011/08/26/the-billionaires-may-be-onto-… Not only thiel but other criminals at the top of the corporatist hierarchy get their cocks theoroughly sucked. Any mention of thiel being the NSA? None that i can see... Next, you might want to learn what "crony capitalism" is : https://www.studentsforliberty.org/2017/03/09/south-koreas-problems-stem-be… "It is more accurate to say that South Korea is a ‘crony capitalistic’ country,..." ok so far, so good. "...a country where the government intervenes and influences private companies" wait what. Government 'influences' 'private' companies? No sonny, crony capitalism means the government is the handmaiden of your fake 'private' companies. "President Park Geun-hye was able to force Samsung to fund her best friend..." force samsung? Crony capitalism means the government of korea is owned by samsung. last but not least : https://www.studentsforliberty.org/2012/08/14/why-it-would-be-a-disaster-if… the url says it all. While any decent person who knew the A of the ABC would want to hang the 'super rich' by the balls, since the richer they are the more crimes they are responsible for, libertarians on the other hand are the most crass apologists of criminals like, thiel, samsung, and the 'property rights' that enable corporate thievs and murderers to 'own' billions or trillions in resources stolen from the general population of the whole planet.

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