February 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The Cause of All Problems is Profit-Motivated Communication
by Karl 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

We need to reduce advertising, until it ends. We desperately want to share information based on people needing to learn it, not based on it producing money. Profit can outcompete good reasons, because money is the primary mode of survival in our culture. This makes a trend where information flow reliably moves away from what is important. In the 1800s people had salons to discuss political topics productively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)#Conversation,_content_and_t… Nowadays we have talk shows where everybody yells and laughs, and nothing new is exchanged between the sides, for decades and decades.

1 0

ZENAAN Harkness investigated for capital crimes
by professor rat 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/i-wouldnt-want-to-be-roger-stone-righ… "...so long as they conspired with these arrested individuals to carry out this attack. And now today the Washington post says that Roger Stone, Alex Jones, and others are indeed being investigated for precisely this ..." Austria's Neo-Nazi Terror Hotline is FREECALL 1800 123 400 If you see something - say something.

1 0

Still life in Second Bull Run
by professor rat 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Imperfect cryptoanarchist currency infrastructure aka ' Bitcoin ' is having an extended growth period starting last year and lasting well into the new. Latest ATH now over 56K. Market valued over a trillion while billions more poised to flood in. "When cypherpunks are called financial terrorists we will have done our job " Stand by for accelerated growth of cryptoanarchy at full-warp all the way to CYPHERPUNK 2027! Volatility is so 2017. WELCOME to the REVOLUTION!

1 0

Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin-BTC Smashes $1T MktCap at $54k
by grarpamp 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKA1pW0CBA Dollar Vigilante - All The Way Up! $1Treeeeellllllliiiiioooonnnnn Dollarz... massive psychological boundary broken. Next stop... $100k. Crypto says... Never sell = Price go up. When many econ participants have crypto, economies begin denominating. When economies denominate, no reason to sell, trade happens, price stays. You are become economy... got bags? This kind of knowledge, word, and time aint cheap... So... fuck you, pay me... haha ;) bitcoin-btc:1JjWdsFAWB4UDZXFMpHQ5sqNMSvWah8S9q All the way up!

2 1

Making a killing with prediction marts
by professor rat 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

I decided to make an experiment on the blockchain that I helped to create: I bought $2,000 worth of NTRUMP (tokens that pay $1 if Trump loses) on Augur. Little did I know then that my position would eventually increase to $308,249, earning me a profit of over $56,803, and that I would make all of these remaining bets, against willing counterparties, after Trump had already lost the election ..." https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/02/18/election.html

1 0

Zenaan Harkness is Austria's Rush Limbaugh
by professor rat 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

Stiffs.com February 17, 2021 09:40 AM Heigh ho! Rush Limbaugh rolled snake-eyes! If you're interested you can check out how this has changed the leaderboard. If you're not interested, you're probably just not that interesting. Zenaan Harkness is wanted for Nazi-fascist conspiracy to attack democracy on Jan 6, 2021 If youse see him call the Terra Hotline FREECALL 1800 123 400 Tell em I sent ya

1 0

Me so horny, Lambo baby!
by professor rat 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

New Btc ATH over 50k New bounty - 10 AVAX for the head of the POTUS in an icebox. Welcome to the cryptoanarchist new-world-order. Viva la revolution!

1 0

SpaceX successfully launched more Starlink internet satellites, but lost a rocket booster in the process.
by jim bell 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-internet-falcon-9-launch-el… The rocket booster was supposed to land on a ship waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.

1 0

CNBC: Why there's a chip shortage that's hurting everything from the PlayStation 5 to the Chevy Malibu
by jim bell 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

CNBC: Why there's a chip shortage that's hurting everything from the PlayStation 5 to the Chevy Malibu. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/10/whats-causing-the-chip-shortage-affecting-p…

3 2

500,000
by Peter Fairbrother 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

I am no longer trying to convince anyone of anything, just remembering those who have died. Most of us know at least one or two of them by now. Peter Fairbrother

2 1