October 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Burying the Satoshi departure lede
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Correlation is not causation but Gavin Andresen previously served as technical lead developer for the Bitcoin project, and was even credited as Nakamoto’s successor. On April 27, 2011, Andresen publically claimed to be preparing to talk Bitcoin at an emerging technologies conference at the CIA headquarters. A few months after Andresen’s CIA visit, he appeared on a Bitcoin podcast to discuss its development. There, Andresen was quickly asked to reveal the last time he’d been contacted by Nakamoto. “Um, I haven’t had email from [Nakamoto] in a couple of months, actually,” Andresen replied. “The last email I sent him, I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it’s possible that… that may have had something to do with their deciding [to leave].”

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No danger from moral hazard at Bitcoin Magazine
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Nakamoto’s Genesis statement was a challenge to the moral hazard created by the Bank of England, which was functioning as a lender of last resort for British companies that had followed reckless policies and were now in danger of going bankrupt. . . " Or it was a news headline from the Times, a corpse-media outlet beat-up into a crypto-fascist headline by the unconscionable scoundrel Alex Gladstein at his favorite corpse-media outlet.

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Risible weasel-words from bitcoin zine
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

"...To underline the primary importance of scarcity and predictable monetary issuance in the making of digital cash, Nakamoto released Bitcoin not after a government surveillance scandal, but in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and ensuing money printing experiments of 2007 and 2008. .." Who needs money printing experiments when you have e-money capable of Big God divisibility? Bitcoin is divisible up to eight decimal points. 1011 The smallest unit, equal to 0.00000001 bitcoin, is called a Satoshi after the pseudonymous developer behind the cryptocurrency. ... Though the U.S. dollar can be divided into cents, or 1/100 of $1, one Satoshi is just 1/100,000,000 of 1 BTC.

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Why Wikileaks sold all its crypto
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

"... digital rights advocacy groups have largely not recognized nor celebrated the role that proof of work and an unchanging monetary policy can play in protecting human rights. . . " Alex Gladstein

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Libertarian support for the police
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

https://crookedtimber.org/2013/06/25/the-hayek-pinochet-connection-a-second… The Hayek-Pinochet Connection https://mises.org/library/are-libertarians-anarchists Mises worked for the Pinochet of the early 1930's - Dolfuss in Austria

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NAZI Nick Szabo needs killing ( My 2000$ )
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Szabo had certainly aimed for it with bit gold, and others inspired by Austrian economists like Fredrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard had long discussed getting the creation of money out of government hands. .." How do you reconcile libertarianism with support of the police? I’ll admit — my original question was not phrased so diplomatically. It went more along the lines of, OMG what is wrong with you? Do you have any idea how fascist you sound on Twitter?? Nick Szabo https://elaineou.com/2020/06/07/how-do-you-reconcile-libertarianism-with-su…

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Using a peer-to-peer network to check for bullshit narratives
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

“Bitcoin’s solution is to use a peer-to-peer network to check for double-spending… The result is a distributed system with no single point of failure. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact with each other, with the help of the P2P network to check for double-spending...” Cryptoanarchy's solution is to use a peer-to-peer network to check for double-talking… The result is a distributed system with no single point of failure. Users hold the freely distributed crypto keys to their own free e-money and transact freely with each other, with the help of the P2P network to check for double-dealing.

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Bitcoin Magazine lies about cypherpunks
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

"... Some cypherpunks were crypto-anarchists — deeply skeptical of the modern democratic state. Others believed it was possible to reform democracies to preserve individual rights. No matter what side they took, many considered digital cash to be the Holy Grail of the cypherpunk movement…" OR Some cypherpunks acted as revolutionary anarchists diametrically opposed to any and all nation-states, even the best and most popular of them . Their credo is " Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful ". Cryptoanarchism, via global networked revolution, is the goal of this movement. Bitcoin magazine lies-by-omission about the three list c-punks that were jailed 1995 - 2002

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Encrypted "WebMail" Hardly Secure, Consider Standalone and Unix [re: OpenPGP.js Features]
by grarpamp 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

> https://opensource.com/article/21/10/openpgpjs Not your code provisioning, not your keys, not your privacy. All these online web crypto email services... you're trusting an untrustable third party web services, which exist and grovel to survive under license incorporation taxation permission and at leisure of untrustable government, to deliver unsigned unaudited crypto libs on the fly over the web into your browser for execution... that's fatal, and gets routinely exploited by authorities, snoops, courts, companies, crackers, admins, etc. If too incompetent and dumbed down from living a life of WinMac garbage to learn and use something like gnupg locally to safely cut and paste, at least consider using something like Mozilla Thunderbird as a mail client which includes gpg as a standalone local email crypto tool. WinMac is an online security spyveillance profiling phonehome datawhoring exploit nightmare and it just keeps getting worse. People really should start learning and using a unix... They're well documented, run great on common hardware, run web, office, mail, comms, emulators, games, cryptos, database, GUI, etc... and are free so you can donate to support development. https://www.freebsd.org/ https://www.openbsd.org/ https://archlinux.org/ https://linuxfromscratch.org/ https://www.kernel.org/ https://www.debian.org/

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Play anarchist games for a few years and real anarchists start showing up.
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Play anarchist games for a few years and real anarchists start showing up. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_526/…

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