November 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

13% of Americans still say they’ll “never” get vaccinated
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

13% of Americans still say they’ll “never” get vaccinated. That’s still a lot of dummies. But it’s barely half of what the number was six months ago. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/we-knew-these-numbers-would-go-this-w…

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Federal court orders Justice Department to stop extracting data from James O’Keefe's phones
by jim bell 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Federal court orders Justice Department to stop extracting data from James O’Keefe's phones https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/federal-court-orders-justic… Jim Bell's comment: I find this search, of Project Veritas, to be outrageous. Obviously, PV opposes just about everything Biden and his cronies work for. For excellent reasons!!! It's not even clear why the FBI has any jurisdiction in this case. Other than a mere allegation that Biden's daughter's diary was stolen, remember that Biden didn't hold Federal office for nearly 4 years prior to the 2020 election. Biden should not be allowed to use the FBI to harass political opponents.

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Imprisoned Russian Artist Selling NFTs to Support Family & Fellow Inmates
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

This Imprisoned Russian Artist Is Selling NFTs to Support His Family and Fellow Inmates Pavel Skazkin, aka “Papasweeds,” found a creative outlet, a sense of purpose and a source of income to supplement his meager inmate’s salary, thanks to the NFT market explosion. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/11/this-imprisoned-russian-artist…

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The problem of torture in Russian penitentiaries is very acute
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

“The problem of torture in Russian penitentiaries is very acute and the government is not doing enough to ensure effective investigation, security of victims and whistleblowers and accountability for perpetrators,” https://nypost.com/2021/11/11/inside-putins-torture-conveyor-belt-prisons-w… "In the Russian vocabulary there is no such word as honour" - Karl Marx - 1853 " The Russian commune (obshchina) is the natural basis for oriental despotism " - Engels 1874 JULIAN "of course Russia understands this game and Putin understands this game for a long time now" ASSANGE 2013

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IF there was a Big God it would be essential to destroy it
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Kenneth Griffin, billionaire CEO of American hedge fund Citadel, thinks a currency on the Ethereum network will replace Bitcoin (BTC) as crypto’s top dog. Citadel manages over $40 billion of capital — a quarter of the trading volume in the United States stock market. During this Wednesday’s Nov. 10 DealBook summit hosted by The New York Times, Griffin said that he anticipates that the “Bitcoin-based conception [will be] replaced by the Ethereum-based conception in the next generation of cryptocurrencies.” He added that Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies have “the benefits of higher transaction speeds [and] lower cost per transaction.” Ethereum is only slightly faster than Bitcoin at present but will significantly scale up transaction speeds and lower costs when Ethereum 2.0 is fully implemented. ( Cointelegraph )

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Re: cyber-libertarians or crypto-anarchists
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Cyber liberty ( for right libertarians ) or crypto anarchy ( for left anarchists ) Choose one. There is only one question here - who is to be master. That's all. This may help you. Twilight of the crypto-geeks. Ellen Ullman’s Salon sees a pattern of lone-wolf digital libertarians beginning to abandon their faith in technology uber alles and espouse suspiciously socialist-sounding ideas. https://theworld.com/~mhuben/cypher.html

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Re: Defragging Crypto
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Some cypherpunks are now happy hodlers, the other nocoiners among them are frozen and lashing out in fear of crypto's ongoing anarchist assault. No prizes for guessing whose going to the guillotine. BTC may not use more dirty fuel and electrons than all GovMilBank Worldwide but theres zero harm in framing them like that. Morons like M. Saylor and Samson Mow make this easy when they go on CBS and bray Big God will go up ' forever '.

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cyber-libertarians or crypto-anarchists
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Choose one https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2021/11/10/bitcoin-politics-from-left-to-rig… TSTBALAA

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SOL pleads Grow-the-Pie, Win-Win and Kumbaya pussy collaboration
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Shall we gather at this foamy river? https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-labs-co-founder-we-don-t-want-to-kill… Pie in the sky when you DeFi bye and by

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Funny Non-Fungible-Token thread
by professor rat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

There’s a kind of libertarian utopianism at work in the whole digital currency market. It’s sort of like everyone preparing for a post-apocalyptic world where banks and governments no-longer exist, but the internet does, only there’s no longer any central servers, just a bunch of wi-fi hot-spots, so you have to pay for things by transferring a cryptographic “object” from your phone to someone else’s phone without having that transaction go through a bank. It will be sort of like technological “mad max”. FROM https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/explaining-nfts.h…

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