October 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
by jim bell 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/atomic-clock-general-relativity-time-wa… Jim Bell's comment: Who really knows what time it is? https://youtu.be/7uy0ldI_1HA

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FBI move in on Batshit-Crazy
by professor rat 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-russian-tycoon-next-door-putin-… Putin ally is tied to one of D.C.’s swankiest mansions

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Bitcoin is the catalyst - not the product
by professor rat 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/bitcoin-is-back-above-50000-…

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Peter Thiel's cocksucker blues
by professor rat 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

https://theworld.com/~mhuben/mason.html The Economics department of George Mason University has been strongly shaped by tens of millions of dollars of donations by the libertarian Koch Foundations of the billionaire Koch brothers

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German chancellor protests Austrian fascism
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Michael Burleigh called Adolph Hitlers complaint about Dolfuss, " a rare case of Hitler taking the moral high ground ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss Hayek was beaten like a drum by Keynes before completely disgracing himself in Latin America. He's like the Donald Trump of economics. https://crookedtimber.org/2013/06/25/the-hayek-pinochet-connection-a-second…

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Anarchism works in practice . . .
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

But it will never work in libertarian theory. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney.org/~hal/ Politics Unlike many early Cypherpunks, I never viewed cryptography as a gateway to a libertarian society .. ." https://libcom.org/library/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval

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Austrian economics considered harmful
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

In practice this discredited and bankrupt form of quack economics has aided Dolfuss style fascism in Austria ( Mises ) and Pinochet in Chile ( Hayek ) Murray Rothbard told these idiots they could never be anarchists https://mises.org/library/are-libertarians-anarchists They are as deaf as the are dumb. Austro-libertarian Kochsucker economics OR crypto-anarchy. Choose one.

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Keep the corpse of Uncle Sam propped up with bullshit
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/bitcoin-and-the-us-fiscal-r… Bitcoin represents an enormous strategic opportunity for Americans and the United States as a whole. With the right legal infrastructure, the currency and its underlying technology can become the next great driver of American growth. While the 21st-century monetary order will look very different from that of the 20th, bitcoin can help America maintain its economic leadership for decades to come. AVIK ROY

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GLEPSTEIN - conjoined twins
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Jim Epstein Retweeted Alex Gladstein @gladstein · Oct 14 . . ." Not seeing much take up of your horseshit narrative, Gleppers. And does everyone in the human-rights foundation know what a lying cunt you are yet?

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Puh-leeze don' throw me in dat sanctions briar-patch, Massa Fox
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

OH LORDY, LORDY NO! https://decrypt.co/83779/digital-assets-weaken-us-sanctions-regime-treasury… USA " Govcorp ' is a paper-tiger believed in by idiots ( Hi Gramps, BS, Karly )

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