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Cointelegraph: FBI: Crypto Is A “Significant Problem That Will Get Bigger And Bigger”
by jim bell 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Cointelegraph: FBI: Crypto Is A “Significant Problem That Will Get Bigger And Bigger”. https://cointelegraph.com/news/fbi-crypto-is-a-significant-problem-that-wil… Jim Bell's comment: Government is a problem that will get bigger and bigger.

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Re: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 77, Issue 51
by Rob Avina 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Thanks. I REALLY like this song, and Tim Bergling in general. This one in particular is pretty appropriate RN. Message: 3 Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 15:44:52 -0300 From: Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> To: CypherPunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Subject: [OT] [Music] "Silhouettes" - AVIICII Message-ID: <CAG2tMp5kq3nci-=rL61upvL6ySjoZJon5p_f0YWaXgVNhFGQBg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" "Silhouettes" - AVIICII https://youtu.be/6VJBBUqr1wM Press play, fast forward Non stop we have the beaten path before us It was all there, in plain sight Come on people, we have all seen the sunshine We will never get back to To the old school To the old rounds, it's all about the newfound We are the newborn, the world knew all about us (We are the future and we're here to stay) We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back, at the faded silhouette We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back Look back at the faded silhouette Straight ahead on the path we have before us Day by day, soon the change will come Don't you know we took a big step forward Just lead the way and we pull the trigger And we will never get back to To the old school To the old rounds, it's all about the newfound We are the newborn, the world knew all about us (We are the future and we're here to stay) We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back, at the faded silhouette We've come a long way since that day We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back, at the faded silhouette We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back Look back at the faded silhouette

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Fitbit privacy
by jim bell 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

People are throwing away their Fitbits over fears about privacy https://mol.im/a/7665731 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Energy Markets, Green Power, Etc [ex: Chile]
by grarpamp 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

> We cannot support a world population of billions without large amounts > of energy. > We could in fact produce the required energy without carbon emissions > What green energy projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conservation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power Nextgen #OpenSource #OpenAudit nuclear energy is clean and safe baseload until every rooftop is solar. Nuclear fuel is obviously limited supply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower Hydro recycles itself, but fucks with water systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power Geothermal is generally unlimited, but not very powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power Solar and wind power, are useful for offgrid cypherpunks venturing energy independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery Various storage systems for punks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen Hydrogen is interesting closed loop between solar electric cracking, gaseous fuel usage, and water. > CO2 Likely more problematic than strictly CO2 alone, likely for decades past and some to come, is all the toxic pollution products and byproducts, destruction wastelands, industrial, farming, vehicle runoff, nanoparticles, etc mentioned before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane Many LNG (Methane) / LPG etc gas combust relatively cleanly to CO2 and H2O, but not under some non-ideal combustion cycles that are in use today. Production processing is not exactly clean or efficient either. > higher energy prices > seize the means of production, and most of them want to shake down the > energy grid. Ever notice how, even though you've been more or less forced to migrate from incandescent watts and even CFL and CPU watts, for LED and 7nm watts... your total electric bill has actually increased ever since incandescent was cut out of the market. > People want to continue traveling around Walk and sailboat, bitch. Don't forget your papers, please. https://papersplease.org/ > invariably shuts down people > If warmists believed a word of their own bullshit, green energy projects > would produce useful energy, instead of superior holiness. Must be decentralized. > lifestyles Tooling around in your yuppie jackass SUV smokin endo and buying up all the bullshit at yet another mall... is not a lifestyle, it's a pointless waste. Die already. > frequently get blackouts and brownouts Same as always really.

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One result from google ' "ethereum" "augur" "assassination"
by jim bell 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

2019 October 17 | Techrights techrights.org › 2019/10/17Oct 17, 2019 - The CHAOSS core of Augur and GrimoireLab currently supports over two .... cause problems, especially to people not very familiar with Ethereum and the ...... a journalist, you are not exempted from assassination if you're a son of a bitch.

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Augur (Rep)
by jim bell 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

https://www.publish0x.com/cryptocurrency/what-augur-rep-comprehensive-guide… [partial quote follows] What is Augur (REP)? [A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Augur] By Mr.CryptoWiki | cryptocurrency | 2 weeks ago Since the gambling and sports betting industry is booming year after year, there is a constant influx of new businesses trying to get a piece of the cake. This has proven true in the crypto industry as well, where dapp development platforms like EOS attribute 70 percent of their overall traffic to gambling dapps and TRON attributes 95 percent of its network activity to gambling-related dapps. Ethereum, however, is much less than this at only 2 percent, largely because the DeFi (decentralized finance) industry makes up the majority of network activity. Nevertheless, the online gambling and betting market are booming and if you apply the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies combined with smart contract capabilities, the potential to create something truly revolutionary arises. One such project doing just that is Augur (REP) – a decentralized prediction market platform where anyone can place bets on literally anything. Bet on sporting events, political outcomes, economies, weather, natural disasters, market crashes, cryptocurrency prices, and much more. With Augur, you bet on the outcome of future events that anyone, anywhere in the world can create to get monetary prizes. The less likely an event is to occur, the bigger the reward you can earn predicting its success.[end partial quote]

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Ethereum/Augur Analysis.
by jim bell 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

https://medium.com/@vntrp/augur-token-fundamental-analysis-caeb80b1d542 [partial quote follows] Highlights - Interesting market with high potential, but lack of active users - Solving a big issue with a bad UX and worrying mechanism design flaws - No break-through technology and a convoluted resolution process - Currently way overvalued on the fundamental side - Augur V2 (to be released in September) might solve some of the issues of the model, but will liquidity and participation rate increase? Business Description Augur is the largest fully decentralized and open-source prediction market platform built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. It was founded in 2014 by Jack Peterson and Joey (Joseph) Krug. Augur’s ICO in 2015 allowed the organization to raise 5M USD and subsequently launch the mainnet in 2018. The goal of Augur is to provide a betting application (and an entire decentralized financial system, according to the Augur Master Plan published in 2017) that is censorship-resistant from platform providers and government bodies allowing any user to create a prediction market. | | | | | | | | | | | Augur Master Plan Augur Augur’s purpose is to democratize and decentralize finance. We’ll do this by enabling anyone, anywhere, at anyti... | | | Based on its convoluted resolution model, Augur’s value proposition lies in forecasting and communicating the outcome of real-world events thanks to designated reporters who get rewarded in REP (Reputation, the cryptocurrency for the Augur ecosystem) for every correct reporting on actual events and the ensuing market resolution. This system aims at creating a universe where market odds should align with real-world sentiment towards a specific event by allowing traders to participate in these peer-to-peer prediction markets. Part 1 — Business Case

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History of Cypherpunks
by jim bell 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

https://servisaberlo.com/articulos-5000-palabras/cypherpunks-definicion/ History of Cypherpunks,in Spanish, but Google will translate.Partial quote follows: Until the 1970s, cryptography was ironically a secret cooked in the military orbit for encryption and decryption of messages in times of war. Available to military agencies, out of the reach of the ordinary user. But soon leading scientists began to make public their knowledge and studies on cryptography on the electronic level, inspiring the creation of tools in the service of privacy and security of user data. CYPHERPUNKS FOUNDERS Eric Hughes, Timothy C. May and John Gilmore are the creators of cypherpunk, a leaderless movement that began as a small group with monthly meetings at Gilmore's company, Cygnus Solutions, in California. First, with discussions between Eric Hughes and Timothy May, which led Hughes to organize a meeting. That first meeting was the same week that, by coincidence, PGP 2.0 was launched. The 'The Cypherpunks' mailing list has been in existence since September 1992 , when several crypto activists went to cyberspace to communicate , organizing a mailing list , where everyone could register anonymously. ERIC HUGHES Mathematician and programmer, Hughes created and managed the email list The Cypherpunks , where he got to spread one of his developments : the first anonymous remailer - created alongside Hal Finney - in 1992. [end of partial quote] Jim Bell

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Wake Up [re: YouTube Censored Tor]
by grarpamp 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

On 11/8/19, Joe <joebtfsplk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > I'm sure it's a moving target trying to figure out what some sites are > doing wrt Tor. > Google changes its yt coding constantly so "youtube browsers / > downloaders" don't work. For most services there is some workaround. And chances are if there isn't, the services often suck so bad as to be of no interest to many population anyway. > I assume they get most of the content free CDN's aren't free, VEVO etc are surely paying nice sums to have their junk hosted on YouTube. > then try to serve ads or > grab as much data about users' browsers. > It's nice when a company gets its raw materials or wholesale products > for free. > That way, they have more money left to continually develop tracking > methods & personal data accumulation. :) Models are beginning out there where you can actually host your own for free... When encrypted anon p2p overlay networks and meshnets exist, combined with decentralized distributed content browsing applications, and privacy cryptocurrencies for monetizing your own, all the garbage services like YouTube and Facebook disappear. Only thing you have to pay on for is your internet connection. Even that is free if you built your own meshnet guerrilla net. Look at DTube for an early and incomplete example. > Of course now, more & more people are using VPNs Tools are still handy... encrypt, hop, obfuscate all the things. > I wonder what the average person signing up for Google acct & giving > their real phone #, just because "they asked for it?" Given the choice most people would not do that. They did not fight, so they have no choice or negotiation. > Unless they're using burner phones. Useful if the account is worth the $ to people, but that option is going away fast, because people are not fighting enough to keep it. Many many countries require privacy invading ID to buy a SIM, invasive shipping ID to get SIM shipped cross border, and invasive passport ID to travel to countries that don't. https://papersplease.org/ Much better if Google YouTube and all other online services accepted privacy cryptocurrencies, a roughly SIM cost amount, as forfeitable deposit on account behaviour. Or even a plain old deposit / payment mailed in via the post. Or deployed various community and algorithm methods. But they don't, because behaviour isn't the issue, their goal is to enslave you, for which making behaviour enforcing as growing accepted norm is but one way. > I'm fairly certain people have no idea how far or > fast their phone # can travel & all the personal data that will be tied > to it, when they the phone # to (many) companies like Google. Nor how easily their phone # can be SimJacking attacked and SDR Stingray OpenBTS intercepted. Nothing really wrong with privacy preserving TOTP RFC 6238 and other two-factor schemes, even dating back to s/key opie. But no, they want the phone # to datamine crosslink your ass, while lievertising you that phone # is secure, private, etc. So many examples in news of what these GovCorp really doing on backend with all the data. > I just give the nosy businesses the same number (like for warranty purposes) > w/ an area code that doesn't exist. Last N digits of many ID systems are enough to correlate with other data, lots of whitepapers on that. Number ranges are known and throw exceptions, facial ID checkout register cameras linked to doorway IMEI recorders, to receipts, to paycards, etc. When opponents have all the data, tech, "laws", and control, hiding is not a win, it is not a fight, it is a decreasingly effective temporary feelgood substitute for fighting the policy itself. Did you read the latest news on USA DNA Biometric Facial mandatory databases creation and abuse, inside country, and at borders, and around the world. All interlinked with secret backend vendors databases. Amazon Ring secret partnering with "law" enforcement. Mailing shipping services new ID and size policies. Social credit scores in your own country. 0-days against your systems sold off to the highest Gov bidder. On and on the list goes, the chains closing around everyones ankles faster than you can break them off with your neato tools. Yet tools are nothing without instructions. > They're as happy as little clams. Except then most chances to educate the clerk are gone, for at least on that visit you totally reconfirmed their brainwashing for them by demonstrating sheepledom as being ok. Helping people be sheeple is not helpful. Sure, create and give them nice crypto tools. But first help them wake up and fight. That is the shift that needs to happen.

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[OT] [Music] "Silhouettes" - AVIICII
by Cecilia Tanaka 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

"Silhouettes" - AVIICII https://youtu.be/6VJBBUqr1wM Press play, fast forward Non stop we have the beaten path before us It was all there, in plain sight Come on people, we have all seen the sunshine We will never get back to To the old school To the old rounds, it's all about the newfound We are the newborn, the world knew all about us (We are the future and we're here to stay) We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back, at the faded silhouette We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back Look back at the faded silhouette Straight ahead on the path we have before us Day by day, soon the change will come Don't you know we took a big step forward Just lead the way and we pull the trigger And we will never get back to To the old school To the old rounds, it's all about the newfound We are the newborn, the world knew all about us (We are the future and we're here to stay) We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back, at the faded silhouette We've come a long way since that day We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back, at the faded silhouette We've come a long way since that day And we will never look back Look back at the faded silhouette

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