February 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Costs of Fiat are Unsustainable Not Crypto, VZ Bitcoin Satellite, CloudFlare
by grarpamp 03 May '21

03 May '21

On 9/26/20, Stefan Claas <sac(a)300baud.de> wrote: >> https://decrypt.co/43000/no-internet-no-problem-venezuela-gets-bitcoin-sate… It's also uplifting to see the speed that some of the crypto food, charity, and monetary networks are able to help provide options and solutions to troubled regions. The libertarian sort of nature of cryptocurrency will continue making larger impacts as time goes on. And thanks to decrypt.co for not using CloudFlare to block Tor users from reading their site. Too many crypto news aggregators and crypto services sites seem perhaps not aware of what their CloudFlare settings are doing in that regard. That's the whole point with satellite, privacy coins, etc... to route around silly censorship blocking. If people like decrypt.co, send them some satoshi for bandwidth, and get them setup with their own .onion / .i2p. > I must say congrats to Venezuela for the idea to > communicate via a satellite in space, > when Internet connectivity sucks. Yes, the leading distributed permissionless uncensorable privacy cryptos are all making cool progress in Venezuela, and in satcom and other comms, as posted in various fora... https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin+Bitcoincash+CryptoCurrencies+CryptoCurrenc… https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-September/082278.html > While I must admit that I am no longer a fan of crypto > currencies (huge global energy resources waste IMHO) And what analysis are people basing that on? It is clear that people are forgetting to add up ALL of the global resources wasted on supporting Fiat Currencies. That is an understandable oversight given that all of the major media and fraudulent anti-crypto "research" reporting on "energy resource waste"... (their analysis is funded by obsolete Banks Governments Corporations all dependant on each other to exist in Fiat)... typically only adds up the mining costs, and fails to do a comparison to Fiat at all, let alone a high quality honest comparison that strives to include... ALL of the... Electricity used by paper bill printing and coin stamping machines globally. All their shredders and smelters and mining and tree sawing and paper making chemical processes deforestation, the distribution channels, and gasoline, diesel, coal, oil, lubrication, maintenance. Pollution costs, lung cancer costs, physical waste costs. Safe storage and transport costs for "money". Printing employee costs, wasted closed market government dictated health care costs. Cash register, security cam, alarm systems electricity. And all that and *much* more is just for physicality of producing and handling with it. Then they did also forget to add up ALL the Bank building costs, maintenance, daily commute costs, wear on and pollution from their tires. The cost fees they steal from you to "hold" your money and move it around for you, 2 and 20 management, and the costs to get it back when they censor and lock your flow. All their computers on their desks, all their lights, all the electricity and chems used to process their feces that flow down their toilet sewers before it hits the river, oopsie. They forgot ALL the existence of Government "laws" around money... all the "law" editors, publishers, glitzy marble government buildings, $170k/year salary that Government "representatives" steal from you to waste hours debating Fiat on their floors, and dabbling in politically immune corruption. Cost of all the Fiat Bank lobbyists, their air travel, and so much more. Cost of prisons and loss of all your assets and property for using it to buy and sell harmless plants, or to exchange cryptocurrencies with each other without a "license". Then add up the entirely Government "leader" initiated WARS over monetary trade imbalances, to take out other "leaders" and easy centralized Fiat targets. Their epic initiations of murderous immoral force to steal more resources and trap up people to fund the "growth" needed to offset the crippling debt inherent with how Fiat is created by Central Banks and Govt without imploding. Go ahead... add it all up, ALL OF IT, all that wasted energy in the entire Global System of Fiat that is rapidly becoming obsolete by cryptocurrency. Fiat currency is so wasteful that it makes even a world based only on Gold and Silver, sans Govt involvement, look resource cheap in comparison to Fiat's all-in costs. Nor do people realize that in the long term, cryptocurrency can, does, and will run on little more, relatively speaking in comparison, than sand (silicon) and solar power. In fact, solar's free clean renewable input will be among few competitive ways remaining, with wind, and nuclear a bit more. And without Government in the way propping up energy legacies, and with open markets and self and other unsystem schooling options, uncensored peer to peer comms around the world, allowing people to see through GovCorp secrets and lies, and make new enlightened choices for their own Earth environment... crypto continues to look very good. Anyone trying to step to cryptocurrency talking the typical dishonest limited scope "energy waste" weaksauce will get destroyed by even armchair estimates of all-in costs.

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RedPill: Crypto Speech re 2ndA, Black Community Flips to Support Trump, Kyle Rittenhouse Defends from Thugs
by grarpamp 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Cryptography depends on the 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech depends on the 2nd, history shows all four of the above are under constant risk of being banned, and most of the world has already succeeded at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbeBSp6KEDU 2ndA is Ending Exclusion of Minorities from Their Rights, Racist Biden Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFo59MOxN-8 Bryson Gray on Why I Left the Left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bFl0SLKQQ Kamala Harris Mission to Destroy Freedom, Supports Theft and Violent Force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgC1yrWRNo0 Gun Control Doesn't Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rzyqr4cbw Colion Noir: Nuanced Perspectives... BLM Marxists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5D5cyS0Xzg Chicago Lightfoot is Incompetent Lying Two-Faced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhsxgx-h2M Ava Flanell on How She Got In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpzl9IQHc9s Gun Totin Patriot by Bryson Gray "If ya wanna come and get my rifle... good luck." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKus9Euv7UI Kyle Rittenhouse Defends Self 1x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryQSpxSlrg Kyle Rittenhouse Defends Self 2x 3x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlmbM03IQI Trump Remarks on Kyle Case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_4r_3D5TVI Internet Summary via ClownWorld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twSYsZfL5QY Kyle Speaks From Jail via @CaliKidJMP Rittenhouse Defense https://fightback.law/ https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood https://mobile.twitter.com/CaliKidJMP https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin https://mobile.twitter.com/MarinaMedvin https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse-working-lifeguard… https://i.imgur.com/C9vfdvK.jpg On Amendments 2 and 1 https://old.reddit.com/r/DIYGuns+Firearms+gunpolitics+progun+secondamendmen… Meanwhile, co geriatric and cognitive declinee partner to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi whines about her hair and plots how to force you to wear masks... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-was-setup-pelosi-blames-salon-covert… Same as with guns, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats definitely DO NOT want you to own, use, and develop any cryptography munitions privacy, or 3-D printing technology, either. More Crypto munitions coming soon...

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Cypherpunks: There Are None Here (ex: Privacy 1984: Predictive Policing on the Rise)
by grarpamp 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

> grarpamp, your posts are awesome work! Thank you. My posts, while noting obvious news for those without insight, are otherwise complete garbage, and are rightly offtopic filtered straight to trash by most. Further, hardly any discussions ever ensue from anyone's post, quite a very sad state of affairs given the variety of relatively charter relavant topics posted by whoever, for which 90% of your posts are completely offtopic and should be shitcanned by readers as such. Anyway, it is quite reasonably doubtful that any so called "Cypherpunks" or "Crypto Anarchists" or even any lesser Libertarians even exist here, at least effectively none who are remotely capable of bringing that game out to the public speaking activism sphere on how, among other things, that Peace Love and Crypto-Anarchism could work to bring a better world regarding any number of charter related topics, perhaps starting with simple AnCap Voluntaryism, or even just basic An-*. No, the list is more full of disgustingly silent Leeches, Journos searching for their next story, harvesting bots, sadistic Agents looking for their next entrapped life ruining and pointless bust, and GovCorp surveillance to preempt game and get 1-up headoff lead on future developments in history. > prayer, or more prayer Prayer is for the meek who shall not inherit anything in this Earth but their own sheepledom. Cypherpunks are not sheep, they write code and execute [on] program. Stop being fucking sheep.

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Revolutions famously eat their own
by professor rat 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

OKCoin Bans Bitcoin Cash, BSV Citing ‘Misinformation War’ https://decrypt.co/58270/okcoin-bitcoin-cash-sv-craig-wright-misinformation… This is similar to the work I'm doing here banning Nazi's like Batshit Crazy and Zendy Harkness. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls?
by Georgi Guninski 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls? I hear that this list is target of (paid) trolls and browsing it appears to support this. Why so? I don't see enough "value" in the list for such attack, short of just propaganda playground.

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Has anyone seen Cecilia (sea sea)
by rooty 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

I think she may have ran away with rwacko and I’m worried she may be getting into trouble. Please let me no if anyone no’s her location Regards rooty

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Hackaday: Homebrew Metrology The CERN Way
by jim bell 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Homebrew 8 1/2 Digit DIgital Voltmeter (DVM)Hackaday: Homebrew Metrology The CERN Way. https://hackaday.com/2021/02/26/homebrew-metrology-the-cern-way/ Jim Bell's note:. In 1974, one of my early electronics projects was to design and build a 4 1/2 Digit DVM, including a custom-designed printed circuit board that I laid out and etched. It used a MK5002 counter chip. https://www.datasheetarchive.com/?q=MK5002

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Global Semiconductor shortage
by jim bell 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

https://hbr.org/2021/02/why-were-in-the-midst-of-a-global-semiconductor-sho…

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Treating diabetes with stem-cells
by professor rat 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Human stem cells can be converted into insulin-producing cells to control blood sugar levels – and in effect “cure” type 1 diabetes https://www.drwf.org.uk/news-and-events/news/researchers-discover-potential… Avalanche has already established itself as a good alternative to Ethereum for launching DeFi applications, as its fast, low cost transactions are carried out in a secure and scalable network. https://coinlist.me/news/biconomy-to-bring-gasless-meta-transactions-to-ava…

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misbehaving system halting work
by Karl 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

The work i landed on for a while was software called 'brainflow'. I am actually part of the organisation now. I am presently stuck on https://github.com/brainflow-dev/brainflow/pull/247 and don't really know what to do. My system apparently has corruption, but it is pretty complicated for me to resolve that, so I am just debugging things on the corrupt system.

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