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Re: Shame on trolls
by John Young 27 May '20

27 May '20

My comment was not aimed at you, a number of folks have posted requests to enlist supporters, researchers, funders, for their projects. A few have repeated the tequests for many months, became irate and accusatory at lack of response. Might wonder if the aim is/was to grab free work, or proselitize for an ideology, overcome loneliness and isolation, front for others, or to just fuck with somebody. All these have been happening on cpunks since its earliest days. Lack of moderation allows that abuse or promise. Promises have sometimes come true. Moderation never delivers on promises, usually suppresses them as off-topic or calling them trolls.. At 06:35 PM 5/26/2020, you wrote: >>Hey, >>It's notable that your software is closed source, and I really >>understand open source as what is expected to be supported on this list. >> >>But Punk-Stasi was "flaming" you and you don't need to listen to >>that. People aren't censored here. That means random criticism >>comes through. Do you need help setting up filters? >>K > >Nah, one thing is criticism and other is a guy calling you >repeatedly a scammer when you are showing up your work. That is not >precisely good taste. > >the source code is GPL, but I haven't published it yet, that's all. >Is in the roadmap. For reasons it will be released before 1.0 > > >>On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:06 AM other.arkitech >><<mailto:other.arkitech@protonmail.com>other.arkitech(a)protonmail.com> wrote: >>Dear readers, >>My intention is to respond to a public attack against my honesty >>and the legitimacy of my proposal. >> >>I am pretty annoyed for the behavior of this individual in the list >>towards the system I am presenting here. >> >>I don't know anything about him or her or whether they are a group >>of gansters operating the same moniker. >>The only thing I know is that they are pushing my project USPS is a >>SCAM and thus I am a SCAMMER, or the other way around. >> >>I call to everyone willing to read the landing page of my project, >>which I provide a pdf attached, >>and, from it and the ideas grasped in this list, manifest IF it >>could be deduced that this is a scam, or looks like. Please manifest. >> >>Otherwise, everyone undermining legitimate and respectable projects >>run by others, in any stage of development, on any stage in their >>roadmap, with counter positive and public undermining attitude. >>Those should be IMHO punished with public ashame until an apology >>is published by, in this case, PunkStasi. >> >>I leave it this way, >>Please, anyone, let me know reasons for which this email is WRONG >>or/and RIGHT. >>Thanks. >>-- >>Other Arkitech >> >>The project this subject airs as a scam: >><http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/>http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ >>Ref: >><https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html>https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html >> >>

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NSA tracking program
by jim bell 27 May '20

27 May '20

NSA's tracking program is FAR more extensive than previously thought https://mol.im/a/8358769 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Shame on trolls
by other.arkitech 26 May '20

26 May '20

Dear readers, My intention is to respond to a public attack against my honesty and the legitimacy of my proposal. I am pretty annoyed for the behavior of this individual in the list towards the system I am presenting here. I don't know anything about him or her or whether they are a group of gansters operating the same moniker. The only thing I know is that they are pushing my project USPS is a SCAM and thus I am a SCAMMER, or the other way around. I call to everyone willing to read the landing page of my project, which I provide a pdf attached, and, from it and the ideas grasped in this list, manifest IF it could be deduced that this is a scam, or looks like. Please manifest. Otherwise, everyone undermining legitimate and respectable projects run by others, in any stage of development, on any stage in their roadmap, with counter positive and public undermining attitude. Those should be IMHO punished with public ashame until an apology is published by, in this case, PunkStasi. I leave it this way, Please, anyone, let me know reasons for which this email is WRONG or/and RIGHT. Thanks. -- Other Arkitech The project this subject airs as a scam: http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ Ref: https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html

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AnarchoVegas needs a co-panelist on political prisoners on July 18, 2020
by jim bell 26 May '20

26 May '20

AnarchoVegas I have been invited to act as a co-panelist on Saturday, July 18, 2020, along with Lyn Ulbricht (mother of Ross Ulbricht), to speak about being a political prisoner in the Internet age, They have asked me to make a suggestion for another speaker, and I decided to put the question to you, the people of Cypherpunks. If anybody has an idea who would be good in this position, please speak up. Jim Bell

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Re: [Cryptography] Proposal for a PoS blockchain
by other.arkitech 26 May '20

26 May '20

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 2:07 PM, <matbit(a)airmail.cc> wrote: > On 2020-05-24 11:31, other.arkitech wrote: > > > I am running an idea comparable you yours: > > http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ > > Hi, Many thanks for your offer about your network. I would like to join > your network or maybe you help me in new network. Both are ok for me as > long as find our intentions are same. > I have a bunch of questions about your network’s features and structure > and software design (is it forked?) and consensus algorithm (is it PoW?) It is not forked. Built from scratch in C++. It is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant algorithm. In contrast to Po* variations of a competitive consensus mechanish. The one I invented is collaborative, allowing ALL nodes to get a payoff for the validation work done each consensus cycle (adaptable depending on the load, set to min 1 minute to save CPU/and bandwidthresources). The security of the network is based on the number of nodes, the biggest the best. Sybil attack is prevented with an invention based on IPv4 protocol. Allowing the homogeneous spread of the network across the surface. IPv4 are publicly discosed, but (with the collaboration of chaff traffic included in the development roadmap) this is not a concern to privacy assunming a huge number of nodes, because all you can see is whether or not a node is running behind a paricular IP. > and so on. I didn't find much documentation about those stuff. If you > already have documents, please send me. BTW I write some of more > important issues here. For the moment, while I am coding, I discipline myself to not focus on formal documentation. All my interest is to get people involved after informal conversations. That would progressively change while approaching a release date, when All possible docs should be ready to be read. > > What is “your motivation” of establish this network? Is it just a new > cryptocurrency or you meant for something else? I am involved in the crypto-movement as developer of BCH, until I went for my own ideas by the beginning of 2017. I have for many years or decades a thread running underneath about replacing governemnts by low cost machines changing the way society organizes, making everyone involved (I mean 3rd world) and rising their and our lifestyle. Which I think is very possible. when I realized the Satoshi paper I was immediately trapped and commited to align this tech with my ever goal. So I changed my work from Aeronautics to Crypto-Finance, where I got inmersed in bitcoin-core, then I went along the BCH fork because I was in agreement with rising the block size. > > > A multi-coin platform with enhanced trading capabilities. For the shake > > of privacy and self-managed societies. > > What do you mean for “multi-coin”? Is it the concept of “colored coin” Imagine you operate USPS. You can create a Coin (MatBitCoin) becoming the mint. You control everything about it included creation and destruction of volume. That coin could well represent your own value as a worker, so you could start using it in the same way central banks control the mint optimizing their economy. Same extended to millions would create a rich soup of value-exchanges. > of Bitcoin or something else? > Frankly speaking I like the idea of “privacy” and “self-managed > societies”. Can you explain it in details? Systems able to remove 3rd parties are threatening politics as well. Since politicians are simply your intermediaries towards public budgets decision making. This system models a flat society where every participant is using a node to fast interact P2P with other individuals, groups or companies > What types of privacy practices have you implemented or added to current > existing privacy tools, on your network? What do you intend for > “societies”? Just some online groups, or there are something in real > world that represent these societies? Which parameters form a society? The world society seen as 10Billion people, 10B different mindsets, that many 'centralized systems' (a node is a centralized system itself, with the only function to execute the owner's intent and will, without any discrimination). So the target is 10-100 Billion nodes. Then we can see on one side a human side composed of all humans, they cannot be traced to the node they run unless they leak it), and on the other side the interaction (half public/half private) among the participants. > Which parameters characterize a society comparing another society? What > type of “self-management” do you mean? Only management in coins > distributions? Or managing in consensus rules as well? whatever we need to live without the need to have a central ruling gov that steals our power and a good fraction of the money they say we earn. > > What kind of security practices have you done for network? Except > running a “semi-hidden” network between 49 computers that already > compromised their IPs list, and an adversary can easily seize physically This is my alpha deployment that doubles as testbench. It is the seed of the network. If intead of 49 they are 10 billion, you can consider the risk of being a target negligible. I mean if all IP addresses are public and all have a node there is no compromise at all. Obviously the network, when little, can be seen as a target. This is the risk of any birth. To complicate a physical adversary these IP's are anywhere in the world. > or stop them via cyberattacks (either providing greater hash power or > simply DoS attack or blocking the IPs, or vector attack), have you > alternate strong security guards? > Obviously the adversaries won't let you continue if they feel the > threat. Bitcoin succeeded, because no one paid attention to it at that > time, and it had enough time (at least 3 years) to outgo the > adversaries. > I don't want to offend you, but unless you do not have a strong defense > plan you have not chance to survive. The security strength is obviously > depends on your money and your network’s feature. That is, if your > network and your money is not a threat for state you won’t need that > much defense effort, BTW there will always be competitors who are happy > with your failure. I trust the GNU/Linux Operating System will do a good job here. > > There are many more questions, but for sake of brevity I stop here and > looking forward to your response. > > Regards > Hu Sincerely, Other Arkitech

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Re: [liberationtech] What could we at Liberationtech do to help pro-democracy HK activists protest China's new security law?
by grarpamp 26 May '20

26 May '20

> What could we ... do to help pro-democracy ... activists > ... > do things that have not been done in the past. Stop teaching them that they can somehow break free from whatever shithole government they're under now by claiming democracy is some magical font of freedom worth aspiring to. It's not, at all. It's just another form of same slavery, force, murder, trickery, theft, war, false authority... Spread out, infused, diluted, harder to see and kill than their average dictator, by design... a ruse, a ploy, a trap for confusing the sheeple. And it worked. "B-ah-ah-ah" they all said, "oh please give us that" they begged, while scrambling over each other in queues hundreds deep to cast discard their own fates down some worthless memehole in a box... a final act of spiritual suicide transformed into one of joy by the programming of the wolves that still rule over all of them. Regarding "government", there is only one thing that hasn't been done in the past.

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A new direction - TDS' Anglin lays down what`s important going forward - How to front run covid fascism? - human rights baby!
by Zenaan Harkness 26 May '20

26 May '20

For those who missed the memo, the biggest n.ggah on the web just changed direction in the last few days - to a conservative (compared to the last few years :) ) new profile of the truth behind the corona fascism coming down the pipeline and how we might handle this as the pre-ordained "second wave" is ramped up in September/October with things like global "I'm vaccinated" travel passes, martial law style lock downs and the real fight for our freedoms, both individually and collectively. OK, so we avoided World War 3, but we still have work to do to avoid a fascist dystopia from being imposed. Imagine your role in the thick of this - imagine what you might do right now and over the coming weeks to lift others in awareness, in preparation, in will to do some small thing in support of one or more of our fundamental rights. Then, get to it :) Human right to association. Human right to make all choices over one's body in relation to all medical matters, modulo quarantine if you are known to carry an actually deadly disease. Human right to freedom of communication, thought, belief. Human right to freedom of movement. Just remember our duty of care to one another, and all is as well as we can make it... Life free fellow Souls, live free Top 💯 Stormer Articles from the Last Week http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/top-%f0%9f%92%af-stormer-articles-from-the-la…

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Re: Cryptocurrency:
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 26 May '20

26 May '20

On Tue, 26 May 2020 02:01:48 +0000 "other.arkitech" <other.arkitech(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > If I am scammer your a troll, all said. nope, you are a scammer. > > I can think otherwise If I notice a change in your attitude towards new technology. I suggest you go peddle your scam somewhere else. The 'market' for shitcoins(like yours) is very vast. As Karl said, there are ~1500 shitcoins/scams. Yours will fit in perfectly. > By default I do what you do with me, I just ignore you. exactly what should be done with a scammer like you who has some 'secret method' protected by 'NDAs'....to run his little raspberry botnet (oops, yes, that's what's your project is...a botnet with 'borrowed' nodes...)

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Cryptocurrency: PTJ on Crypto Gold Inflation
by grarpamp 25 May '20

25 May '20

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4345426-paul-tudor-jones-compelling-case-f… https://www.docdroid.net/file/download/H1fuimX/the-great-monetary-inflation… MARKET OUTLOOK MACRO PERSPECTIVE Paul Jones & Lorenzo Giorgianni THE GREAT MONETARY INFLATION

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rights, nationalism, socialism, racism, authoritarianism, anarchism, and China's groupthink
by Zenaan Harkness 24 May '20

24 May '20

China's "nationalism" is not the same as we in the West imagine nationalism to be. There is a group consciousness, and supreme tribalism within the Chinese where (almost the complete majority of) Chinese nationals do in fact live for the party, the motherland, and most importantly, for all Chinese. Remember Bruce Lee screaming "I am Chinese!". Observe how the Chinese in Western lands are aware and watching all around them in a way that is quite foreign to most Westerners, as they clamour for opportunity. But this "opportunity" that Chinese people seek is not for the individual (the glorious penultimate "individual" direction the Westerner is taught to seek), but for his family and his entire (1.5 billion in number) tribe. Remember the definition of "business" in Chinese: it means "take advantage". The Northern/Nordic tribes necessarily - i.e. for their/our very survival - had to work collectively, or the winter had a way of ending your and or your family's lives. For the Chinese it's been a few thousand years of "who can grow more rice" than his neighbour, and with ~1.5 billion people, competition for very survival. So a Chinaman abroad is literally seeking resources - new land, food, energy etc - for his family and for a billion other people. Watch: China Expert Warns Communist Regime Unlike Anything "Since The Third Reich" Cabot Phillips via Campus Reform https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-china-expert-warns-communist-r… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcD3cD8uFUM .. Pointing first to China’s response to COVID-19, Chang called out the attempt to place blame on other nations, saying “What we are seeing with the coronavirus is an attempt by the Chinese Communist Party to change the narrative around the entire world… the virus has an origin in Wuhan. Beijing has tried to change that, at times suggesting it came from the United States.” .. Xi believes China is the world’s only sovereign state. .. Chang detailed how their Confucius Institutes “report in reality to the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. That means these are attempts to subvert other countries. Why would China spend so much money on U.S. campuses? It’s not just because they want to teach the Chinese language. They want to put forth narratives and restrict what is said about China on American campuses.” Pointing out the lack of reciprocity, he noted, “The U.S. is not permitted to have institutes like this in China. You don’t have a Lincoln Center or Roosevelt Institute… we know that propaganda is absolutely critical to totalitarian regimes.” In closing, Chang noted the impact political correctness has had on the failure of American colleges and universities to call out China’s infiltration efforts. “What we’ve seen in the U.S. is political correctness gone wild in connection with coronavirus.. where any criticism of China is deemed to be xenophobic or creating racism against Chinese Americans. That’s absolutely wrong. You’ve got to remember that the Chinese regime is deeply racist with its Han nationalist ideology. This is something we haven’t quite seen since The Third Reich. To say criticism of a racist regime is racist is absolutely wrong. People have serious concerns about China and we have to have the right to have open discussions about it without the name calling.” Also note that the lack of reciprocity between China and the rest of the world extends to many many aspects of our "modern industrialized societies", for example land ownership - China has for decades (and still to this day) been given an incredibly unfair advantage by our own governments (Labour Party in Australia, Democrats in the USA etc) to buy any and all land, businesses, buildings etc in our countries, whilst we cannot buy "even one matchbox full" of "Chinese" dirt! A litany of such plainly unfair imbalances exist. We the White race are literally the minority on this planet - although to many it may not seem so. And in the face of the raging dragon, we have lost much, possibly most, of our previous competitive advantages on the world stage - namely manufacturing and commerce, which China nowadays utterly dominates, and note well, this is "the real economy" which NO amount of financialization can ever compensate for in the long term! We have a right as voluntarily joining collectives under the banner of families, states and nations, to protect our culture, and to have conversations around all of this - it is not racist to talk about what we as individuals (individually and/or collectively) want! It is not racist to have personal preferences in relation to culture, association, and political preferences. It is not racist to want to maintain a majority of our own race of people IN OUR OWN COUNTRY! The angry dissenters of the world decry every reasonable preference by reasonable people as a screeching "RACISM!" supposedly justified by past evils. But destroying a people and destroying our culture, is not the right solution to past evils. Doing the right thing now, including upholding the rights of all of us to have a say in our own countries, and withdrawing from evil actions, and holding evil to account, are the right pathways. Wrong action is not the solution to wrong past actions, just as censoring speech is not the solution to bad speech. The solution of course is right action, upholding and living our rights, and more good speech. Live your rights. Hold evil to account.

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