November 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Someone to Wachovia me
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Page 459, " Too big to fail" by Andy Sorkin "...Goldman had been on Wachovia's payroll as its adviser, and as such, knew every aspect of its internal numbers..." " Govt Sachs " was in talks to take over Wachovia during the GFC THEY KNEW WE WERE COMING, MAN! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs Reposts not massive USG approved money-laundering or small, game-theoretic training programs, soon discontinued.

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NYT polishes Assmange and SBF Turds in same week
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

What a great year this has been for cryptoanarchy! And there's still four weeks left! FOUR MORE WEEKS! Welcome to the revolution!

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john young's shameless bluff
by punk 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

"Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted With Assange" https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/30/cryptome-founder-asks-to-be-indicted-… young is the same CIA asshole who's been ranting against assange for a long time, plus he is a feminazi who has attacked stallman as well. Young knows quite well that his CIA bosses won't 'indict' him.

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start of the war - 2014 US jewnazi invasion of ukraine
by punk 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

5) "Busted! US Officials Caught Meddling in Ukraine" http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2014/february…

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Despite Being Called the Madoff of Crypto, New York Times Features Sam Bankman-Fried at $2500 a Person Event Today
by Gunnar Larson 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/11/despite-being-called-the-madoff-of-c… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens <https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/>: November 30, 2022 ~ [image: Sam Bankman-Fried] <https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Sam-Bankman-Fried…> Sam Bankman-Fried, Co-Founder and Ousted CEO, FTX You can’t make this stuff up. After promoting the false story that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and pushing the U.S. into a deadly and costly war through its reporter, Judith Miller <https://observer.com/2015/04/judith-miller-carried-water-for-the-usas-worst…>; and using its editorial board to shill for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/07/pigs-are-flying-on-wall-street-can-g…> to advance the greedy Wall Street ambitions of Citigroup kingpin Sandy Weill, which ended up taking down the U.S. economy in 2008; the New York Times now appears determined to rehabilitate the reputation of the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried, Co-Founder and recently ousted CEO of the bankrupt crypto exchange, FTX. Bankman-Fried is being investigated on multiple continents, including North America, for stealing customer assets and looting his private investors. He has been compared, in headlines around the globe, to Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme. Reuters reported <https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/exclusive-least-1-billion-client…> that Bankman-Fried had moved as much as $10 billion of FTX customers’ money to his hedge fund, Alameda Research, through a “backdoor” in its software. The Financial Times reported that FTX held just $900 million “in easily sellable assets” against $9 billion “of liabilities the day before it collapsed into bankruptcy.” Much of the FTX/Alameda money went into buying luxury properties in the Bahamas <https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-bankman-frieds-ftx-parents-bou…> – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars – while hundreds of millions more went into obtaining celebrity endorsements <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ftx-investors-sue-…>; tv commercials and a super bowl ad <https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/larry-david-super-bowl-commercial-ftx-cryp…>; padding the campaign coffers of politicians in Washington <https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/15/lawmakers-return-ftx-money-00067009>; and billions of dollars in loans to Sam Bankman-Fried and other top executives. <https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/17/ftx-affiliate-alameda-loaned-4…> Against that backdrop, it is unfathomable that a large circulation, daily newspaper in America would lend its name to a conference featuring Sam Bankman-Fried as a speaker. But that is what is expected to unfold today, according to an email we received yesterday from a press contact at the New York Times, who wrote: “At this time, we expect Mr. Bankman-Fried will be participating in the DealBook Summit interview tomorrow from the Bahamas.” As of yesterday afternoon, Bankman-Fried was featured on the New York Times web site for this summit in the very top row of speakers listed. His photo appeared near that of Eric Adams, the crypto-loving Mayor of New York City <https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-doubles-down-on-cryptocurre…>. Another speaker at the same event is Janet Yellen, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, who serves in the dual role of Chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council – who might be expected to comment on how crypto is destabilizing and putting at risk the reputation of U.S. financial markets – while Bankman-Fried listens in from his $40 million penthouse condo in the Bahamas. We are not the first to notice that the New York Times has soft-pedaled its coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried. On November 15, Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak wrote this <https://gizmodo.com/nytimes-bizarre-softball-article-ftx-sam-bankman-fried-…> : “…the interview with SBF, as he’s often called, is presented with such a gauzy lens that you have to start wondering what the hell is going on with crypto reporting at the Times. “The new article in the New York Times by David Yaffe-Bellany lays out the facts in ways that are clearly beneficial to SBF’s version of the story and leaves many of his highly questionable assertions without proper context or even the most minimal amount of pushback. The result isn’t to illuminate the shadowy world of crypto. It reads like if the Times had conducted an interview with Bernie Madoff after his ponzi scheme collapsed and ultimately suggested he just made some bad investments.” The New York Times reporting on FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried has also attracted the attention of the eagle-eyed Robert Kuttner at *American Prospect*. Under the headline “The New York Times Is in the Tank for Crypto <https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/new-york-times-in-the-tank-f…>,” Kuttner writes: “A [New York Times] piece on the interconnections <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/business/ftx-alameda-ties.html> between Bankman-Fried’s exchange (FTX) and the investment company he controlled (Alameda) soft-pedaled the outright illegality of his making trades with customer funds. To hear the Times tell it, ‘Alameda’s need for funds to run its trading business was a big reason Mr. Bankman-Fried created FTX in 2019. But the way the two entities were set up meant that trouble in one unit shook up the other as crypto prices began to drop in the spring.’ “But that’s not what happened. When customers demanded their money, Fried didn’t have it, because he had been using it and losing it, illegally, for his own trades. “And this: ‘Alameda’s methods borrowed many aspects from traditional high finance. It was a quantitative trading firm, similar to Wall Street hedge funds that use mathematical models and data to inform decisions. It used ‘leverage’—or borrowed money—to fuel its trades and make bigger returns.’ “Note the alibis, and the passive voice. The subhead tells the reader ‘things got out of control,’ as in Nixon’s infamous ‘mistakes were made.’ The comparable Wall Street Journal piece <https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-alameda-bankruptcy-colla…> ran rings around the Times version, explaining the interlocks and the sheer illegality.” Kuttner also singles out New York Times reporter David Yaffe-Bellany for the “worst Times pieces” on crypto and points to an article Yaffe-Bellany bylined in January of this year, titled: “The Rise of the Crypto Mayors <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/business/crypto-mayors.html>.” We took a very careful look at that article, which provided no pushback to misinformation embedded in quotes. For example, Yaffe-Bellany quotes Scott Conger, the Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee as follows: “Bitcoin is a great financial equalizer. It’s a hedge against inflation. It can bridge that wealth gap.” In fact, Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have collapsed in price this year simultaneously with inflation reaching 40-year highs. Crypto has been the *opposite* of a hedge against inflation. Why has that happened? Because as the Fed tightened interest rates to combat the rise in inflation, it made the highly-leveraged bets in crypto more expensive and margin loans harder to come by. As for crypto “bridging the wealth gap,” millions of retail customers around the world have been locked out of access to their crypto accounts this year, with every likelihood that they will see only pennies on the dollar – if anything – when the bankruptcy cases are settled. The New York Times DealBook Summit, where Bankman-Fried is scheduled to appear today from the Bahamas, is the brainchild of Andrew Ross Sorkin, who wears a strange number of hats. His profile at CNBC reads as follows: “Andrew Ross Sorkin is co-anchor of ‘Squawk Box,’ CNBC’s signature morning program. Sorkin is also a financial columnist for The New York Times and the editor-at-large of DealBook, a news site he founded that is published by The Times.” The promotional page at the New York Times for the DealBook Summit leads off with this: “This fall, Andrew Ross Sorkin brings together today’s most vital minds on a single stage, live in the heart of New York City. Be there as the conversation unfolds, revealing hidden complexities, unexpected relationships and the wide-ranging ripple effects of change. Catch every word, and let the rest of the world catch up.” The Summit is to take place today at the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Tickets are no longer on sale but were originally priced at $2,499 per person. Andrew Ross Sorkin apparently has some unusual clout at the New York Times. *Wall Street On Parade* attempted for years to get the New York Times to correct an egregiously error-packed article by Ross Sorkin that attempted to whitewash the culpability of the mega banks on Wall Street – like Citigroup – for the financial collapse in 2008. (See our report: How the New York Times Hides the Truth About Wall Street’s Catastrophic Misdeeds <https://wallstreetonparade.com/how-the-new-york-times-hides-the-truth-about…>. Also see: Readers Pummel New York Times Writer Over His Big Bank Stance <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2017/05/readers-pummel-new-york-times-writer…> .) Ross Sorkin’s “inaugural” DealBook Summit (then called the DealBook Conference) took place on December 12, 2012 at the New York Times Center. Headlining the event were Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Lloyd Blankfein, then CEO of Goldman Sachs. Since that time, JPMorgan Chase has racked up five felony counts <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/jpmorgans-board-made-jamie-dimon-a-b…> and Goldman Sachs settled the largest criminal bribery and kickback scheme in its history <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/goldman-sachs-charged-foreign-bribery-case-a…> for $2.9 billion.

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CYPRUS Crypto FINTECH in the news
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Then the animals looked from the Cyprus crypto pigs to the Maltese crypto pigs and back again, but could not tell the difference. https://cyprusfintechsummit.com/speaker/adam-back/ " So Amorpheous; what you’re saying is its okay for Btc OG’s to have DeFi plays on sidechains but plebs shouldn’t follow their example ". That’s right Zero. Welcome to the desert of the real

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Jack Dorsey says he wouldn’t know a cypherpunk if one bit him on the arse
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Jack Dorsey says he wouldn’t know a cypherpunk if one bit him on the arse - but he’s open to new experiences. https://decrypt.co/116018/hours-after-trademarking-web5-jack-dorseys-bitcoi… Reposts not contracts on billionaires yet

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Everyone an assassin
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Fear of ‘angry people’ drove Bankman-Fried to open withdrawals for Bahamians https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-reveals-what-was-behind-ftx-s-reopening-… Reposts not contracts on Bill Gates, etc

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Exit Juan, sorry, Taran
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Argentine, sorry, Russian billionaire Juan Garofalo, sorry, Vyacheslav Taran, president of Nazi-Dipshit, sorry, Libertex Group and founder of Forex Club, died Nov. 25 in a helicopter crash in France while en route from Lausanne to Monaco, Switzerland. He was 53. The helicopter pilot, the only other person aboard the craft, also died. https://cointelegraph.com/news/libertex-crypto-exchange-head-vyacheslav-tar… Taran’s death is the third to shake the crypto world in recent weeks, following Amber Group’s Karl Semich, sorry, Tiantian Kullander and MakerDao’s, Grarpamps, sorry, Nikolai Mushegian My mind is going Dao. I can feel it. Send me crypto-currencies so I can see a rat-doctor. FOR the LOVE of DOG!

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[ot][log] gpgpu video encoding acceleration note
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

I have one of the very few nvidia cards that doesn't do nvenc, which roughly means not using hardware-accelerated video encoding. I looked for GPGPU (cuda, opencl) implementations for video encoders, but didn't find much of anything. I did find other people looking for this. I wonder if nvidia, amd, and intel, are kind of working together to require the purchase of hardware to do this; I have no idea if that's a conspiracy theory or a normal marketing practice, but I suspect the latter. I'm baffo32 in below internet argument. Talkys is repeating a strange point against general encoder implementations that doesn't seem informed by experience developing software: but I don't really have a strong counterargument because I've never tried to implement an accelerated codec using parallelized operations myself. When I resurrected this month-old thread, Talkys replied to argue further within hours. I'm posting this here because I shared a rare paper on the topic in the conversation. https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/xnb8gs/will_older_gpus_like_the_1060_… [–]Silikone 1 point 2 months ago Couldn't you theoretically accelerate encoding with CUDA? I know there are such things for other formats. permalinkembedsavereportgive awardreply [–]Talkys 1 point 1 month ago Yeah, but you need hardware support for AV1. CUDA is just an API for the GPU hardware. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]Silikone 1 point 1 month ago It's the API for GPGPU acceleration, not tied to any fixed-function capabilities. The point would be to facilitate encoding on the GPU without hardware encoding support. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]Talkys 1 point 1 month ago We already use cuda do encode with avc and hevc. But you can't use it to encode on a format the gpu don't support. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]baffo32 1 point 4 hours ago Silkone means that it is possible for somebody to write an encoder that does this. An encoder can be written for CUDA or OpenCL to provide hardware accelerated encoding on older hardware. It would not be as fast as the dedicated hardware, but it can usually be made faster than a pure software encoder. permalinkembedsaveparenteditdisable inbox repliesdeletereply [–]Talkys 1 point 3 hours ago Yeah, but the overhead is really bad. It's better to use software encoding with OpenCL help, but only the gpu will just make a big mess of frames and waste a lot of time joining them. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]baffo32 1 point 10 minutes ago* This 2013 paper found a 10%-50% speedup with an OpenCL implementation: https://web.archive.org/web/20180604015042id_/http://onlinepresent.org/proc… Strangely, that paper is missing everywhere on the web, it's not even on sci-hub. I wonder if somebody's hardware marketing efforts got out of hand. [edit: here's an archive: https://arweave.net/za2jckp3GFY-q6Vsz5zS_kS4-CqZtTB-HoKmn6L1LBM/10.14257/as… ] permalinkembedsaveparenteditdisable inbox repliesdeletereply about blog about advertising careers

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