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USA: 41 Democrats Travel Overseas to One Country at Once?
by grarpamp 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/democrats-affiliated-violates/ https://theintercept.com/2019/06/20/steny-hoyer-aipac-j-street-israel/ https://jewishinsider.com/2019/06/aipacs-congressional-trip-to-israel-leave… House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) landed today in Israel with 41 other Democratic Representatives for a week-long, all-expenses-paid junket sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), the educational branch of the lobbying organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... Ignoring the source links... 41 US elected reps in office traveling at once to one country? That's 10% of that body, not including support and associated political elements... How rare is that, whether to, or even from any other country in the world, under any international situation? Shit these days is beyond bizarre. https://reddit.com/r/Israel_Palestine/comments/cmhc6c/afraid_to_say_their_n… https://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/cmq2gj/israel_buys_owns_the_us_con… https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/To-protect-Israel-… https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/ACLU-files-complai… https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/371/832/1e3.jpg

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Putin: "Big problem - Hillary knows!" - [PEACE] [COMEDY]
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

Well well well, an absolutely UNredacted Trump-Putin telephone transcript. In non Soviet Russia, phone transcribe you! On problem below, subject line postulate with "If". What If Hillary Clinton Was Right... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-if-hillary-clinton-was-right https://www.libertynation.com/hillary-clinton-was-right-a-satire/ The following is a transcript of what Russian President Vladimir Putin recently told President Donald Trump during a phone call. This transcript was provided by an anonymous Russian – possibly the same one from whom Rep. Adam Schiff tried to get compromising photos of Trump. Unlike Schiff, we have not doctored this transcript. Vladimir Putin: “Hello, Trump, this is Vladimir. Hah! Funny man. Vladimir Putin, president of Russia. Listen, we need to have serious talk. We had agreement. You tell me you cooperate if I help you win election in 2016. What’s this make American great again sh*t? I thought that was joke. You start playing with the ball or I’m going to replace you next year with Tulsi Gabbard. “Yes, Donald, I know, but you are not helpful. Not like Obama. When I rigged his election against … what’s his name? That big, stupid Mormon? Romney, yes, Romney. When I helped Obama he promised to be flexible. Yes, he was very flexible – I got everything I wanted. He was, how you say, pushover. I hoped you would be like him, only more white, of course. “You make America strongest country in world, now. You increase energy production – that’s not good for me. You give aid to the sniveling Ukrainian dogs. You do nothing for Russia. No, that’s not funny, I tell you funny Soviet joke: What do you do with peasant who steal sack of potatoes? Send him to gulag for three winters. Hmm, perhaps it lose something in translation – in Russian, is very funny. Of course, as we used to say in KGB: In Soviet Russia, joke laughs at you. “So, listen carefully, Trump. You start helping me or Tulsi gets your job. Yes, she secret Russian asset but we have problem. Clinton knows. Yes, she knows – I read it on the News Fox and the Washington Examination. I don’t know how she knows. Probably those Ukrainian sh*ts told her – you know, the same ones who try to help her win election. “Clinton is stupid woman, though. She think I groom Tulsi to help you win next year. No, I groom her to take your place. Why? Because she better looking than you and also because I am, how you say, woke: I think it’s time to have woman Russian agent running America. I’ve had black Russian agent, orange Russian agent, and now it’s time for woman Russian agent. “Yes, it is very funny that everyone Russian agent except that crazy old communist, Bernie – and he’s the only one who wants to be Russian agent! That is right: Clinton also know that Jill Stein is Russian agent. Clinton think everyone Russian agent – it’s the only thing she has ever been right about. But she think I set up Gabbard for the third-party campaign to help you win. No, she is not smart. When you read as many of her emails as I do, that becomes clear. “What about this third party thing, anyway? You Americans have too many parties. You should have only one, like here in Russia. Your Democratic Party – that is funny name, by the way – your Democratic Party may be fools, but they understand benefit of having only one party. “Yes, I have the dirt on all other candidates. By January, Gabbard will be ready to take nomination and then you get in the line or you lose, understand? “OK, Donald, you know what you have to do or it’s Tulsi time – like the famous American country song. OK, I must go now, I have Biden on the other line. He wants his son to be next head of Russian army.” In non Soviet Russia, you have been, how we say?, line punched.

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1995 Cypherpunks Archive is discovered to have been heavily forged.
by jim bell 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

That's exactly it. I found this out a couple of weeks ago, and there has been a discussion on the Cypherpunks list for the subsequent time. About 5 months of emails have completely disappeared, Feb 14 to July 11, 1995. But from July 11 to the end of December 1995, virtually all emails with the following strings have also disappeared""jim bell", "jimbell(a)pacifier.com", " ap ", and "assassination politics". Since you were a subscriber to the Cypherpunks list in 1995 and 1996 (and possibly later as well) you probably remember what it looked like. Your assistance on the CP list is needed. Jim Bell

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WikiLeaks: Set Julian Assange Free
by grarpamp 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

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Sacoolas case: Will it help Assange?
by jim bell 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7922781/America-REFUSES-hand-diplo… [Partial quote follows:] * Motorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, was killed in a head-on collision with a car in August * Anne Sacoolas is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road * She was charged with causing death by dangerous driving but fled the country * US Secretary of State Pompeo turned down extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas By JOE MIDDLETON FOR MAILONLINE and SEBASTIAN MURPHY-BATES FOR MAILONLINE Harry Dunn's furious family have slammed the 'indefensible' US decision to block the deportation of Anne Sacoolas in a 'dark day for the special relationship' and demanded a meeting with Boris Johnson. America yesterday refused to hand over a diplomat's wife who is accused of killing a 19-year-old British biker in a crash near a US airbase. Mr Dunn was killed in a head-on collision with a car on August 27 last year near RAF Croughton, in Northamptonshire. Anne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence official, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road and was charged with causing death by dangerous driving. But she claimed diplomatic immunity and flew to the US. [end of partial quote] Jim Bell's comments follow: The one silver lining to this cloud of a case (biker hit by diplomat's wife in UK, who fled to America claiming diplomatic immunity) is that it might make the British judges think twice about approving the extradiiton of Julian Assange to America. After some looking, mostly using google to find ' "Julian Assange" "extraterritoriality" ' , I haven't found anything credible justifying the extradition of Julian Assange, for any reason. If anything, quite the opposite. I'd sure like to read any filings in a British court on this subject. Maybe the filings haven't been made, yet. Jim Bell ----------------------------- Assange seemingly abandoned by organization of journalists: (and) Assange spied on while in London Embassy. https://www.justice-integrity.org/news-reports/1731-december-2019-news Extradition hearing will begin Feb 24, 2020 for a week, and will continue May 18, 2020 for three weeks. --------------------------- https://dcperiodical.com/all-posts/ "Julian Assange's Transfer Out of Solitary is Good, But it's Not Enough" Jim Bell

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[MINISTRY] capitalism v fascism/ corporatism - what are we (the West) living under?
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

This is a write up which some whom you might consider sending it to, could find easy to read, which is the utility of this piece. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-22/destroying-capitalism-has-failed-… Destroying The "Capitalism Has Failed" Narrative Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, http://www.internationalman.com/articles/capitalism-has-failed Today, more than at any time previously, Westerners are justifying a move toward collectivist thinking with the phrase, “Capitalism has failed.” https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/20180122_cap.jpg In response to this, conservative thinkers offer a knee-jerk reaction that collectivism has also had a dismal record of performance. Neither group tends to gain any ground with the other group, but over time, the West is moving inexorably in the collectivist direction. As I see it, liberals are putting forward what appears on the surface to be a legitimate criticism, and conservatives are countering it with the apology that, yes, capitalism is failing, but collectivism is worse. Unfortunately, what we’re seeing here is not classical logic, as Aristotle would have endorsed, but emotionalism that ignores the principles of logic. If we’re to follow the rules of logical discussion, we begin with the statement that capitalism has failed and, instead of treating it as a given, we examine whether the statement is correct. Only if it proves correct can we build further suppositions upon it. Whenever I’m confronted with this now oft-stated comment, my first question to the person offering it is, “Have you ever lived in a capitalist country?” That is, “Have you ever lived in a country in which, during your lifetime, a free-market system dominated?” Most people seem initially confused by this question, as they’re residents of either a European country or a North American country and operate under the assumption that the system in which they live is a capitalist one. So, let’s examine that assumption. A capitalist, or “free market,” system is one in which the prices of goods and services are determined by consumers and the open market, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. Today, none of the major (larger) countries in what was once referred to as the “free world” bear any resemblance to this definition. Each of these countries is rife with laws, regulations, and a plethora of regulatory bodies whose very purpose is to restrict the freedom of voluntary commerce. Every year, more laws are passed to restrict free enterprise even more. Equally as bad is the fact that, in these same countries, large corporations have become so powerful that, by contributing equally to the campaigns of each major political party, they’re able to demand rewards following the elections, that not only guarantee them funds from the public coffers, but protect them against any possible prosecution as a result of this form of bribery. There’s a word for this form of governance, and it’s fascism. Many people today, if asked to describe fascism, would refer to Mussolini, black boots, and tyranny. They would state with confidence that they, themselves, do not live under fascism. But, in fact, fascism is, by definition, a state in which joint rule by business and state exists. (Mussolini himself stated that fascism would better be called corporatism, for this reason.) In recognizing the traditional definition of fascism, there can be no doubt that fascism is the driving force behind the economies of North America and Europe. In addition, the concept of any government taking by force from some individuals the fruits of their labour and bestowing it upon others is by no means free-market. It is a socialist concept. And, in any country where roughly half of the population are the recipients of such largesse, that country has, unquestionably, settled deeply into a socialist condition. However, this is by no means a new idea. As Socrates asked Adeimantus: Do not their leaders deprive the rich of their estates and distribute them among the people; at the same time taking care to preserve the larger part for themselves? So, which is it? Are we saying here that these countries are socialist or fascist? Well, in truth, socialism, fascism, and, indeed, communism are all forms of collectivism. They all come under the same umbrella. So, what we’re witnessing is liberals, rightfully criticising the evils of fascism, but failing to understand it for what it is—a form of collectivism. Conservatives, on the other hand, do their best to continue to operate under their countries’ socialist laws, regulations, and regulatory bodies, whist continuing to imagine that a remnant of capitalism remains. And so we return to the question, “Have you ever lived in a country in which, during your lifetime, a free-market system dominated?” Such countries do exist. It should be pointed out, however, that even they tend to move slowly toward collectivism over time. (After all, it’s in collectivism that they gain their power.) However, some countries are “newer,” just as the US was in the early nineteenth century and, like the US, the governments have not yet had enough time to sufficiently degrade the economies that have been entrusted to them. In addition, some citizenries are feistier than others and/or are less easy to convince that, by allowing themselves to be dominated by their governments, they’ll actually be better off. Whatever the reasons, there are most certainly countries that are far more free-market than the countries discussed above. But, what does this tell us of the future? What can be done to turn these great powers back to a more free-market system? Well, the bad news is that that’s unlikely in the extreme. To be sure, we, from time to time, have inspired orators, such as Nigel Farage or Ron Paul, who remind us what we “should” do to put these countries back on track, so that they serve the people of the country, rather than its leaders. But, historically, such orators have never succeeded in reversing the trend one iota. History tells us that political leaders, in their pursuit of collectivism, never reverse the trend. They instead ride it all the way to the bottom, then bail out, if they can. However, it is ever true that, in some locations in the world, there have always been free-market societies. Over time, they deteriorate under the hands of their leaders and, as they do, others spring up. The choice of the reader is to look upon the world as his oyster - to assess whether he is more or less content with the country he’s in and confident that it will continue to be a good place in which to live, work, invest, and prosper, or, if not, to consider diversifying, or even moving entirely, to a more rewarding, more capitalist jurisdiction.

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"The worship of billionaires has become our shittiest religion"
by Razer 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

"Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something other than fully human." > “Money as a measure of value,” Marx tells us in Capital, “is the necessary form of appearance of the measure of value which is immanent in commodities, namely labour-time.” Money, then, is for Marx a form of sedimented time. But if this is true, then having one billion dollars (or pounds, or whatever) takes one completely beyond all human time. > One billion dollars is far, far more money than anyone could realistically spend, on their needs, within the span of a human lifetime. If you have one billion dollars, you are completely shielded from all ordinary human concerns: Never again will you know hunger, or lack shelter, or suffer from inadequate medical care. Of course, there may very well be lots of comfortable, middle-class people who will also be lucky enough to never know those wants again, but the difference is that the billionaire is isolated even from the possibility of experiencing those wants. They are like the Christian who has been saved from despair in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death, who is eliminating the possibility of despair at every moment. If you have in your possession one billion dollars, then almost literally anything you desire — anything anyone might possibly conceive of desiring — can be yours, just as soon as you happen to desire it. But with no real friction between desire and reality, how does wanting even function? Can someone who lives like this even be said to know desire, anymore, at all? > And just as nobody can spend a billion dollars in their lifetime, nobody can earn it either. People have taken to saying “every billionaire is a policy failure”, because that sort of money makes nakedly obvious the truth Marx tells us about all wealth accumulated under capitalism: that it’s part of a process that is only possible because the people who own the means of production are, effectively, stealing it from their employees," Reasons why you should kill a rich pig as soon as possible >> https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people/ Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Early Warning: Distributed OpenSource Apps and CommsNets (re: Coronavirus, Government Fails)
by grarpamp 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

> https://www.thedailybeast.com/up-against-the-coronavirus-chinas-surveillanc… > https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/28/the-power-of-myth/ > https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-coronavirus-no-need-to-panic.html > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus https://www.wired.com/story/ai-epidemiologist-wuhan-public-health-warnings/ https://bluedot.global/ >From nukes to rabid bats afly, don't expect governments to text you a warning. https://hackaday.io/project/159467-open-source-ultrasonic-phased-array https://hackaday.com/2015/04/07/build-a-phased-array-radar-in-your-garage-t… https://hackaday.com/tag/phased-array/ https://zinka.wordpress.com/ http://www.codeforge.com/s/0/Phased-Array-System-Toolbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/SeedlingHORNE.pdf http://freesourcecode.net/matlabprojects/62210/phased-array-design-toolbox-… https://github.com/jgbos/phased-array-radar http://www.wovre.com/2019/04/matlab-phased-array-toolbox-and-radar.html https://www.theprepperjournal.com/2013/06/17/guerrilla-networking-keep-comm… https://www.excitingip.com/2496/what-is-ftth-fiber-to-the-home-advantages-o… https://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-radar-with-rtl-sdr/ https://flightaware.com/adsb/ https://www.adsbexchange.com/ Whatever nukes, virus, thugs, zombies or other... be building your own PlanB.

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A+ Certification
by rooty 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Hey just wanted to share with friends that I got my A+ certification yesterday. Next up N+ thanks for all the help and support. Rooty

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Re: Cryptocurrencies: alpha-11 US-Public System released
by other.arkitech 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

>> closed sources running in a dedicated environment = no risk regarding security. >> For those concerned about running a node behind a firewall there is always the option to isolate it >> remote login ... ssh port 16671 >DMZ or not, the box is internet connected, and nobody >knows what it's doing or can do. Even if not connected, >you could be trojaning their flash / firmware / microcode. Yes I potentially could, and I assume you think I am evil. but still the unique point for raising concerns is the network activity, since who cares what is going on in the raspberry pi apart from how much electricity is taking or how much heat is dissipating. Think what do you know about the software running in your router, likely proprietary software, same thing. Regarding network activity all you'd see is around 15 connections to other nodes exchanging around 10kbps of encrypted packets. Particulrly you are able to verify the node is niether scanning the LAN not attempting to connect to any local computer. You can even run it in different vlan to prevent it. So, even when I am firmly an open-source advocate and the whole source code of the system will be released, this won't happen before I have enough user-base to justify the creation of a dev-community. >It's not your box, undisclaimed this would be unethical >positioning, especially for money environments, doubly >when it's not your money either. >If you need logins, run your own nodes, >and ask for $ if you need for buying them. >Sure people can be asked to accept the risks. >But missing the risks is not making crypto optics. >> But this is like disconnecting your OS from automatic updates. >If this is the reason, make sure people know >it's important for development that they pull >down their own updates. Besides, the ongoing >network will have so many old and hacked up attack >versions that now is good time to experience and >deal with that in protocol. Else the network will fall >apart on day one. Updates are pulled by an script on the node that retrieves signed binaries from other nodes. I do not need, as the one who is compiling the binaries, to have access to nodes. If I do during alpha development is only for development purposes and any possibility of anyone accessing your node including me is controlled exclusively by the node-owner. >> It is fully AGPL only of the software is executed on a licenced mainnet >> The restriction is that if you want to run a private system ot generate another public genesis you have to be licenced. >A rather anti-fork iron-fist approach :) Indeed, although I support nodes working for different forks, I don't want to lose the mainnet (I call it channel 0) In fact I have running two forks. There are nodes working in both channel 0 and channel 4348 which is a licensed private network, different blockchains. I'd like to see a big number of forks with different ledger structures running different local economies. All nodes securing other blockchain also secure channel 0 blockchain, this is the main licence restriction, it is not about paying money for acquiring licences, to make a big public system. >Real crypto money is by nature anti-statist, and must be >generally anon to survive long term, else just admit fiat >and go use that. And who are you that is going to >stand and sue the planet, with what money (tax?). >And how are you going to sue when users take it on darknet >and screw your license anyway. What about how top-secret >actors and govcorp lawmakers won't care about abusing even >the HESSLA license to abuse users, or try to shut it down. >What about clean reversing and cloning the protocols. >Are you hoping to sell product to govcorp, that will be funny. >A real cryptocurrency should stand on its own >such that forks are not tempting or relavant. I am not enforcing licences. Think microsoft, they dont pursue home piracy, they just make sure big corps are paying for their software. >>Users don't want to sign up (aka: leak info) to >>some central to run their money either. This is anonymous system as far as underlying tech allows (IP4 transport). > And they won't want to be seen hooked to clearnet IP > broadcasting their transactions and traffic patterns into > trivially network analyzed clearnet. They will want TLS and > compatibility with onion / i2p / cjdns / socks5 and whatever > else happens to give at least some cases better than clearnet. Information travels encrypted end2end, aka node2node >> Sybil / IPv4 >Sybil attacks are mostly a human problem with mostly a >human solution, some web of trust. People have no idea how >easy it is for agents to spin up IP nodes worldwide, IPv4 is not >an obstacle for them. >Even Tor can nuke 100 fakeass nodes a month. Roll human >solutions into the node culture, and or pump adoption numbers >so high that Sybil becomes negligible irrelavant ratio, then >Sybil gives up and goes home, to run its own legit node >so it doesn't starve to death. >Politicians are a Sybil too, until you show them how to get >unstoppable decentral Swiss Bank on their own Phone :) My algorithm just enforces there are no more than 6 nodes per IP4. Enough measure to safely grow to million nodes from the perspective of 51% attack. Once reached millions, more nodes can be allowed per IP or even IP6 can gradually be enabled. The system doesn't care whether there are many people running a single node, or there is one person running multiple nodes. The global economy is run on the basis of nodes/addresses for the shake of anonymity. It can be assumed the network would stabilise on a node-human ratio distinct of 1:1. Which is fine. No need to enforce 1:1. Enforcing 1:1 would require disclosure of identities breaking anonymity. >Also, there are millions of legit and desirable users behind NATs, >tens to thousands behind one IP... schools, corp workers, >phones, roomates, hotels, VPN's, tor... and users transporting >their nodes all over with them, etc. They'd end up blocked out. Innocent people could be prevented from running a node given the IP4 restriction mentioned above. But this would be happening only while the network grows in size. Reached a point, preventive countermeaures could be relaxed allowing the participation of more people. >> If in the Tor network the entry/guard nodes (who are witnesses of >>your IP4 address) could forward a hashed version of the IP4, I would >>solve the sybil protection based on IP4 without exposing the real IP4 >>address. I don't (initially) think it would compromise anonymity >Rainbow tables for all IPv4 IP's already exist. I am not tackling specially the problem beyond IP4 disclosure. I first solve the system assuming IP4 disclosure is OK for 80% of the people. If the demand goes big enough a separate work on how to hide IP4 addresses can be undertaken without invalidating any of the work done so far. >> secp256k1 >>https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ >>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography >>Sure BTC and a lot use secp256k1 so there can be >>motivation there, but if for purely to follow potential >>legacy BTC choice, that choice should probably >>seek some review before deploy. >> As part of scalability solution I am spinning around the following idea: >> what problems I am not foreseeing this approach imply? >Seems to get into things like DHT, message routing >between clusters, etc. Not clear if you are seeking >potential solutions, or have potential one for review. >> mainnet beta 50 nodes now >So what is the launch mechanism... >Beta is a premine, no new genesis, leadtime till genesis, etc? The program is: genesis block, Node #1 - Nov-2018 FFF arounf the world invided to collaborate. alpha-rc6, Node #50 - Apx Feb-2019 Told everyone to not spread the word, so I keep maneageable network size for dev. alpha-11, around ~60 Nodes (Jan 2020) ... (more nodes, I invite more people, YOU?) beta ... 1.0 >> Sounds impossible. >> In order to find the current state you need to process the blockchain. >This is legacy first implementation default ideation. >Seek ways to make what is thought impossible... possible. >It may be possible to do away with backhistory >and simply maintain a UTXO db. There were generic >posts on "UTXO" here, and some "history chain since >genesis not needed" "UTXO database" whitepapers do >exist out there on the subject, you will have to find and >post them please. > investigate more on how cheaper a public system could > be compared to current ones. >#OpenFabs and #GuerrillaNetworks >Publishing a philosophy and technical overview whitepaper >would assist all the understanding, review, and development >processes, and answer a lot of people's questions. Without >paper, or source code, it's hard to see what you propose. >Covering classic scaling, coin privacy, economics, consensus, >etc... all the usual issues, plus whatever your value add is. >Protocol modularity and ability to smoothly transition >any parts of the system as needed. etc. For the shake of leveraging my effort I am not writing much literature yet. Will do as caring about the impl is less needed and can allocate more time to doc. >You see how all the cryptocurrencies fight. >If you are creating something unique, just ignore everyone, >else they will take away the unique and any solution it offers. That's how I am going on : ) >I think I understand some picture of your coin philosophy, >and look forward to whitepaper for more. Thanks. Thanks to you, Cheers OA

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