January 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

To have done with the judgement of Big God
by professor rat 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Artificial scarcity isn’t real. This may seem like a blindingly obvious and rather tedious observation, but it has important implications for how you think about the future of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies and other digital assets like virtual land. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/11/metaverse-scarcity-isnt-real/ Death of scarcity means scarcity of death Value-in-scarcity theorists should move to APster futures - if they know whats good for them. A world where assassination politics is safe, legal and, well … scarce. The common good demands nothing less. And our children should thank us, not curse us.

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Zero-Knowledge empowers more anarchist networks
by professor rat 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

As told by Polygon, recursive zero-knowledge proofs were largely theoretical in 2014. By 2019, it took about 120 seconds to generate them. In 2020, that number fell to 60 seconds. This year, Plonky2 is set to allow such proofs to be generated in just 0.17 seconds. The network's developers allege that it is 100x faster than existing alternatives. Such a class of algorithms could potentially enable horizontal or linear scaling of blockchains in the future. Nodes do not need to store the history of the blockchain's transactions to be up and running, thereby increasing the network's capacity with each one added. https://cointelegraph.com/news/zero-knowledge-scaling-tech-plonky-goes-live…

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Fwd: xNY.io - Bank.org
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Kraken may go out of business. We had a call with them today, and what they think about New York has never worked out in history. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:51 AM Subject: xNY.io - Bank.org To: Ayse <ayse(a)kraken.com> Cc: Alexi Anania <a(a)xny.io> Ayse: Thanks for reaching out. Kraken's approach to New York is flawed. Get back to us with new changes. Gunnar -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Kennedy vs vaccine nazis.
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=005D48D2456B03A3138A57EB0D8FA1F5 The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health and when I say vaccine nazis I mean motherfucking turds like jim bell, the Emperor of US nazi 'anarchism'.

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Mainstream Media Has Morphed from Battling the Fed in Court in 2008 to Groveling at its Feet Today
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

xNY.io - Bank.org is not 'fighting the Fed' that would be nuts. I actually like, and really respect the New York Fed. Meanwhile, the good people at WallStreetonParade.com keep pumping out good stories. ------ It’s now day 13 since the Fed released the names <https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/OMO_transaction_data.html#rrp> of the Wall Street trading houses that borrowed $4.5 *trillion* cumulatively, just in the fourth quarter of 2019, from the Fed’s repo loan facility. Not one mainstream media outlet has reported those names of the Wall Street firms or the amounts borrowed – despite the fact that we have prodded them to do so, and despite the fact that some of the largest borrowers were also bailed out by the Fed during and after the financial crash of 2008. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/mainstream-media-has-morphed-from-ba…

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Ars Technica: Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers how to defeat its DRM
by jim bell 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Ars Technica: Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers how to defeat its DRM. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/chip-shortage-has-canon-telling… For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from buying third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their chip-enabled cartridges can “enhance the quality and performance” of their equipment, provide the “best consumer experience,” and “protect [the printers] from counterfeit and third-party ink cartridges.” Left unsaid is the fact that requiring first-party cartridges also ensures a recurring revenue stream. It’s an old business model—Gillette sold its razor handles cheaply to sell more razors, for example—and it's one that printer companies have enthusiastically embraced. Lexmark, HP, Canon, Brother, and others all effectively require users to purchase first-party ink and toner. ...

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Brother-Sisterhood
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Let nobody stop the dream of brother-sisterhood. This is not so complicated. Give them the best, they will prosper. Do it for the species. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Poxie Fishook's Life-Invader work for Conde Nast
by professor rat 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Deserves payment in kind - the skeevy liar's tryin' to chisel in on our fix! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmUQptXfiWs GTA V's Signal Mission

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Death of " The fork in the road "
by professor rat 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

To the end of his life in 2018, Mong was still promulgating a false binary opposition between cryptoanarchy and dystopia. That sort of mindless Manicheism doesn't fly anymore. Victory is here - since May 2005 - its just not evenly distributed yet. Which is why articles like that Coindesk one I just linked to posit the choice between a quick and dirty simulacrum of crypto-anarchy and the real-deal. The possibility of a global police-state just doesn't even register any more. Not even for frightening slightly retarded, little children. As some Batshit Crazies are wont. Welcome to the various iterations of global anarchist victory. Veni Vidi Vici.

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Most personal computers aren’t running a node,
by professor rat 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

“Web 3″ is a decentralized internet backed by blockchains and cryptocurrencies. If “Web 2″ is the internet as we know it today, where companies like Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft provide the back-end tools for users to make their own websites (i.e. cloud computing structures and rentable servers), then “Web 3″ should be an internet built on public blockchains, without centralized corporate mediators. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/10/is-moxie-marlinspike-right-about…

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