September 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

CARI's question for Batshit remains unanswered
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Why are you always claiming people are government agents ? Banning someone would be a government like action..." - Cari Machet Aug 15 - 2021 Batshit Crazy won't put up any evidence for his numerous ' Govt Agent Truther " assertions. Put up or shut up. Btw there is one real easy way to fight big Govt - that is stop trying to act like it.

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Jeremy Hammond needs killing ( My 2k USD$ )
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

https://raincoaster.com/2020/11/17/jeremy-hammond-is-free/ Jeremy Hammond has had plenty of time to apologize for his criminal involvement with the anti-social criminal, Julian Rand Paul Assmange - his failure to do so and then completely withdraw from all anarchist activism marks him for death. Yr mileage may vary.

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Cryptocurrency: Cryptophobia - Biden’s handpicked banker declares war on digital freedom...
by grarpamp 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Cryptophobia - Biden’s handpicked banker declares war on digital freedom... https://americanmind.org/salvo/cryptophobia/ It’s a tale of two crackdowns - and two cultures. While Beijing scrambles to stamp out immaturity and laziness among its males, Washington is terrified of... wait for it... cryptocurrency. Gary Gensler, Joe Biden’s deeply establishmentarian SEC head, has dropped a bomb on the crypto community with his sudden attack on Coinbase, the leading crypto platform. Perhaps it was naïve for some in the space to have imagined Gensler, once the co-chief of global finance for Goldman Sachs, to be a promising appointee because he spent time teaching and studying crypto at MIT. But it wasn’t until China crushed out their booming crypto economy that American policymakers faced the decision that seems to have led to Gensler’s rash and punitive move. Beijing’s successful anti-crypto turn flowed logically from their statecraft model: crush alternate sources of power and authority for intimately Chinese reasons, then spin it in ways that pressure America to behave counter to national interest. In this instance, ridding China of crypto holdings and mining meant strangling a rival to the Party’s social credit system in its crib. For the Chinese leadership, crypto is just another destabilizing Western innovation, upsetting cosmic harmony—not to mention regime stability—by taking an excessively instrumental view of the power of technology. But for Western audiences, a crypto crackdown can be marketed and propagandized as a heroically ethical defense against eco-unfriendliness and social inequity. And that’s just how it has been portrayed. That’s despite bitcoin consuming less energy than fossil fuels, the petrodollar, or, say, China, even without taking into account how long a way even a little nuclear power could go toward reducing emissions for miners as well as the rest of us. And more important still, it’s to fly in the face of the simple fact that, in a digital age, Americans face a well-nigh impossible task in preserving their way of life without the rich ecosystem of creating memorable and valuable culture through crypto. The reason is this: there’s no more powerful tool or weapon today than the datacenter. Unlike previous tools and weapons, however, datacenters are all-purpose and interoperable. Their computational force can do just about anything in our almost fully digitized world. But, at least for now, thank God, that force must be told what to do by human operators. That means if you’re not telling a datacenter what to do, someone else is… and if you’re not telling the datacenters your data is in what to do, someone else is telling those datacenters what to do to you. At the same time, digital technology is drying up twentieth-century forms of socioeconomic agency, as everyone now sees but many struggle to understand what to do about. Amid the collapse of “good jobs” and all that comes with it, damaged woke obsessives desperate for the control over the bots, and the safety from digital disenchantment they think that control will bring, are fighting full tilt to re-found America on a basis of (delusional) spiritual purity and punitive purification. But digital, of course, isn’t at all sapping the strength of bitcoin or the datacenters it runs on, and it doesn’t disenchant our cultural practice of making, sharing, and exchanging soul-nourishing products and services. Quite the contrary. Without the ability to participate in this durably human form of life—without the ability to compel datacenters and compute to serve us in this way—ordinary Americans will grow ever more captive to people and institutions who wish to use digital technology to terraform us into a new, ultimately subhuman kind of submission. Gensler may not see himself as this kind of digital villain. But his biography suggests that, even if his intentions are better, his outrageous intervention into the crypto space is all but certain to enable the villains. His experience in crypto—via the MIT Media Lab, a fluffy outfit tarnished by the proximity of its former head to Jeffrey Epstein—is relatively shallow and, judging by the Media Lab program on crypto, has always been fundamentally adversarial. And his fanatically partisan history—as part of the Goldman group that injected big bucks at a helpful time into the Obama campaign, reaping rewards like Gensler’s appointment by Obama to lead the obscure agency tasked to overhaul regulations after the 2008 financial crisis—is hardly encouraging. The fact is that Democrats today are the party of untrammeled corporatist power as an arm of the woke state, a schema totally at odds with both the basic freedom and the organic prosociality of bitcoin and crypto-backed agency. There’s no better way for Americans to reclaim control over their destiny in the digital age than by using crypto to command compute to serve our soulful, human purposes. It’s not a surprise that the Biden administration has placed itself at such radical odds with our values and interests. But it is unacceptable. And without a concerted response, the onrushing subhuman future being manufactured for us will only accelerate. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/pbr124/gary_gensler_the_chairman_… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pgkzvk/crypto_wont_survive… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/oy3vu8/dont_be_confused_when_gary… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ox6yif/sec_will_police_cry… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk2gjc/brian_armstrong_ceo… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk36ip/ceo_of_coinbase_bri… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk2xg4/some_sketchy_behavi… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pkghca/mark_cuban_says_the… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pko5kb/coinbase_should_not… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pkq64a/our_community_shows…

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Cryptocurrency: Diaries of a 'Bitcoin Babe': Cryptocurrency guru claims 91 banks refuse to work with her
by grarpamp 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Officially Registered Small-Biz Independent Traders Canceled Debanked Harassed Investigated Oppressed and Run Out of Biz by Big Banksters https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9968723/Diaries-Bitcoin-Babe-Crypt… Diaries of a 'Bitcoin Babe': Cryptocurrency guru claims 91 banks refuse to work with her and she's on a TERRORISM watchlist – all because of her trading business Michaela Juric, 28, built a bitcoin trading empire from her Sydney home She said the business had 'saved her life' after suffering depression Speaking at a Senate inquiry on Wednesday she said 91 banks have shunned her By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:01 EDT, 8 September 2021 | Updated: 07:01 EDT, 8 September 2021 A business whiz who 'wanted to be her own boss' and built a digital currency empire from her bedroom claims 91 banks stopped dealing with her, she was put on a terrorism watchlist, and was 'bullied' by Australia's financial watchdog. Michaela Juric from Western Sydney launched her 'Bitcoin Babe' peer to peer trading platform in 2014 and quickly became the number one local bitcoin broker in Australia and New Zealand. However, the 28-year-old said the massive backlash from the financial industry has significantly impacted her and put her business under threat. Michaela Juric (pictured) runs Bitcoin Babe and said she has been blacklisted from more than 90 banks because she makes money from digital currency +5 Michaela Juric (pictured) runs Bitcoin Babe and said she has been blacklisted from more than 90 banks because she makes money from digital currency 'I've been very grateful for my seven years in the crypto community and all that I've learned, and the people that I've met,' Ms Juric told the Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre Senate inquiry on Wednesday. 'But at the end of the day, the irreversible damage to my livelihood has been done,' Ms Juric said. The inquiry lead by Senator Andrew Bragg is looking at the practice of 'de-banking' in which financial institutions allegedly ban a digital currency business. Ms Juric received bank ban number 91 a day before she was due to speak at the inquiry - leaving her with few options to deal with traditional banks still essential to run her business. 'There's been instances where de-banking has caused me to be denied from being able to get utilities or phone and internet services, which I think is very concerning.' Ms Juric said. She claimed some of her customers were also de-banked, or told by their banks her Bitcoin Babe business was a scam. 'I've had family members who have been debanked as well, and that's not because they've had anything to do with bitcoin, it's just a matter of guilt by association, whether it be the same last name or same address,' Ms Juric said. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Perfect for Zoom! The $65 'no makeup makeup' buy that beauty... Best friends who spent just $1,500 on launching exfoliating... The banks claim they do this because there is no regulatory framework safeguarding cryptocurrency transactions - which the inquiry hopes to address. The transactions of digital currencies, they claim, could be used for money laundering or terrorist financing. 'I've had banks go as far as report me as being like a terrorist on some databases, and that's what stopped me from being able to get some of these services.' Michaela Juric launched her business in 2014 +5 The 28-year-old said the company had helped her out of depression +5 Ms Juric (pictured) said she had suffered depression in her early 20s and building her company had given her direction and helped her recover Ms Juric previously told bitcoin.com.au she became interested in digital currencies because she liked the idea of being her own boss and was suffering depression and a lack of direction in her early 20s. 'When I found this way to work for myself and not have to answer to anyone, I was really attracted me to it.' 'With bitcoin and crypto, it's always changing – whether it be the price or the rules or the regulations or the people. It's evolving. It's never a dull moment. I think that's why I love it so much.' She said building her business had literally 'saved her life'. Aus Merchant - another cryptocurrency trading platform - was also represented at the inquiry on Wednesday and said they had been de-banked by four institutions in the last year. Managing Director Mitchell Travers claimed banks use the policy to shut down competitive businesses. Senator Andrew Bragg (pictured) is heading up the Senate inquiry into cryptocurrency +5 Senator Andrew Bragg (pictured) is heading up the Senate inquiry into cryptocurrency Ms Juric agreed and said she registered her business with AUSTRAC, the country's financial intelligence and anti-money laundering watchdog, but this made no difference to her getting shunned by the banks. She added even AUSTRAC had threatened her. 'The way that I was approached was quite aggressive. It originally came about as 'we want to review your compliance manual, and if we find things wrong with it will shut down your business', and there were all sorts of threats of legal action,' she said. 'I think there's definitely some bullying tactics going on, at least from the small business perspective as opposed to the large ones, I believe.' The 28-year-old said Australia's financial intelligence watchdog AUSTRAC had threatened her despite her company being legitimate +5 The 28-year-old said Australia's financial intelligence watchdog AUSTRAC had threatened her despite her company being legitimate Commonwealth Bank gave a submission to the inquiry in which they said de-banking was part of due diligence. 'In circumstances where a customer's source of funds and source of wealth is unable to be determined, or their account activity is not in accordance with known business activities, the group takes appropriate steps to mitigate and manage its ML/TF risk,' CBA said. Senator Bragg will deliver the inquiry's report on October 31. He said on Wednesday 'innovation' from young entrepreneurs shouldn't be shut down and wants to see more regulation around cryptocurrency to legitimise the industry. Diaries of a 'Bitcoin Babe': Cryptocurrency guru claims 91 banks refuse to work with her.

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SHA-1 Shambles: Collison, and the PGP WoT, GPG
by grarpamp 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

SHA-1 is a Shambles: First Chosen-Prefix Collision on SHA-1 and Application to the PGP Web of Trust Leurent, G and Peyrin, T (2020) https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf Unix, Win, Mac https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html Simple https://github.com/filosottile/age Email https://www.thunderbird.net/

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ban professor turd
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

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Mongo just giant pussy in game of life
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Not to mention the obvious problems with letting government agents bid > on things like when various unwanted foreign leaders would be > assassinated. > Over on Dave Farber's IP list, it's been pointed out that there is a pre-existing, live, real-money market in futures on these types of events. Go over to www.tradesports.com, and click on 'Current Events' under 'Trading Catagories' on the left. Drill down and you'll find things like 'WMDs will be found in Iraq on or before Sept 31', the value of which has dropped from 80 to 25 over the last few months. Peter Trei https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg51821.html

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Interception - now we have the ball
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

"...various people freaked about the implications. (And they only got as far as it being "an incentive to commit terrorism", without getting to "a funding method for terrorism" or to "Assassination Politics".) Not to mention the obvious problems with letting government agents bid on things like when various unwanted foreign leaders would be assassinated. Gee, maybe SEAL Team 6 can do an office bid, using anonymous cutouts of course, on when SEALs will go ashore at Bandar Abbas to liquidate the Iranian prime minister? Or maybe a CIA wet work guy can make a few extra bucks in the dead pool by correctly predicting the death of the next Vince Foster? Besides being problematic in its own right, it also leaks information, a kind of covert covert channel, ironically. If the bids are truly untraceable (fat chance--the password scheme looked like a trival, breakable Gen 1 security system) then those with knowledge of operations can make money by using their knowledge, all untraceably. This was obvious long before Jim Bell became infamous. Check out writings by some of us dating back to 1988. Once again, government sets itself up as being outside the law. If I were to even make a snide remark about the assassination of You Know Who, I'd get a visit from the SS. Fucking proof that D.C. needs to be obliterated in an act of freedom fighting. Gets rid of a passal of welfare addicts, too. --Tim May

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Mongo just prawn in game of life
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

"... he should have seen the shitstorm which would materialize as soon as this actually reached the public radar screen. Now that's gone public and been deep-sixed less than 24 hours later, it will likely be the end of this particular thing. An official, above-board version is likely to be ipso facto illegal for the same reason office baseball pools are illegal: illegal gambling. If the Pentagon can run a betting pool for its employees on when some event will happen, office workers can bet on the outcome of the World Series, and anyone can bet on the numbers revealed by the Mob. --Tim May https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg51840.html

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I have a hunch
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Markets on Augur Turbo continue to resolve within 4 hours of game ending, giving bettors and LPs a quick turnaround time for their capital. And if that wasn't enough, Turbo now also has crypto price markets for ETH, BTC, DOGE, REP, MATIC, and LINK. Try now: https://augur.net/app

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