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Cryptocurrency: Hal Finney, Crypto Based Economies... Will Keep Growing
by grarpamp 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Economies based entirely upon crypto are growing rapidly, Agorist, Voluntaryism, Libertarian, AnCap, Charitable, Communal, Social, Personal and Financial Sovereignty, Privacy, Entire communities and even Nations now... Humanity adopting Freedom via Crypto... https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/btc-circular-economies/ This was forseen and intended by the cypherpunks, from back then, through today, and will continue to be onward... From: Hal <74076.1041(a)CompuServe.COM> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 17:37:40 PST To: CYPHERPUNKS <CYPHERPUNKS(a)TOAD.COM> Subject: Why remailers... Tim mentioned that not many people on the list have expressed interest in the remailers, and it occurs to me that maybe people don't all share the vision of why this crypto technology is important. I'm trying to recall how I learned about the possibilities of this technology. I recall reading "True Names" a few years ago. Vinge had his netters exchanging mail anonymously. The hero downloaded a big batch of messages from a BBS and tried decrypting all of them to see which were for him. Okay, I thought, that would be a way of disguising which messages you were _receiving_. Then Vinge said something like "and using more elaborate techniques, the sender of a message could be hidden as well." Hold on, I thought. That will never work. If they tap your line, they're going to know exactly what messages you're sending. Too bad. Vinge had a clever idea going, but it's flawed. I only learned about Chaum's crypto stuff last year. Somebody on the Extropians list mentioned PGP, and I'd always had a casual interest in crypto, so I downloaded it and played with it some. I thought it was great and really got into it in a big way. This got me interested in crypto in general, so I started doing some library research. When I found Chaum's stuff, it just blew me away. The first article I found, I think, was his CACM paper which is an overview of many of the things that are possible. I started trying to track down other papers by Chaum. Here were all the technologies needed to make Vinge's world work, technologies which Vinge apparently knew about long before I did. It seemed so obvious to me. Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. Unlike the world of today, where people are more or less at the mercy of credit agencies, large corporations, and governments, Chaum's approach balances power between individuals and organizations. Both kinds of groups are protected against fraud and mistreatment by the other. Naturally, in today's society, with power allocated so disproportionately, such ideas are a threat to large organizations. Balancing power would mean a net loss of power for them. So no institution is going to pick up and champion Chaum's ideas. It's going to have to be a grass-roots activity, one in which individuals first learn of how much power they can have, and then demand it. Where do the remailers fit in? They represent the "ground floor" of this house of ideas - the ability to exchange messages privately, without revealing our true identities. In this way we can engage in transactions, show credentials, and make deals, without government or corporate databases tracking our every move as they can today. Only by securing the ability to communicate privately and anonymously can we take the next steps towards a world in which we each have true ownership and control over information about our lives. Chaum's ACM paper is titled, provocatively, "Security Without Identification - Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete." The work we are doing here, broadly speaking, is dedicated to this goal of making Big Brother obsolete. It's important work. If things work out well, we may be able to look back and see that it was the most important work we have ever done. Hal Finney 74076.1041(a)compuserve.com

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FTX Was Creating Money Out of Thin Air Like the Fed; and Trading Its Own “Stock” Like the Wall Street Mega Banks in their Dark Pools
by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

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Live: Elon Musk Testifies on $55 Billion Tesla Pay Package (TSLA) - Bloomberg
by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Live: Elon Musk Testifies on $55 Billion Tesla Pay Package (TSLA) - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2022-11-14/elon-musk-testifies-in-…

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Ubiquitous quantum encrypted internet will solve " True Names "
by professor rat 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

But while you're waiting Trade securely on the first Fully Encrypted Exchange (FEX) https://www.enclave.market Even dwarves started small

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Cryptocurrency: "Crypto Bros" Lobbying Congress Prevent Regulation... FTW!
by grarpamp 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Speak the only language they know... this my bros is how it's done! Bribery, buy them out, fill their coin wallets with lots of cryptocurrency, show them its magical properties, a Swiss Bank Account on their phone... they'll never legislate anything against the Crypto-Voluntary future once they've got a few solid cryptos in their wallet, and will be too busy checking the price every hour to fuck anything or anyone else over either, lol ;) https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/15/us-congressman-says-crypto-bros-preventing… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc No Regulators !!! You don't need Regulation to mommy coddle you, what you need is to wake up and Educate Yourself, then make intelligent choices in the free market. US Congressman Says ‘Crypto Bros’ Preventing Legislation by Flooding Washington With Lobbying Money US Congressman Brad Sherman is calling out FTX executives for flooding Washington, D.C. with excessive lobbying efforts that have stymied crypto regulation legislation. The Democratic congressman says he now plans to explore federal legislation that would add regulations to the crypto space after the collapse of digital asset exchange FTX. Sherman, who is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investor Protection and Capital Markets, says in a statement that regulations on crypto have not advanced due to the tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions and lobbying efforts spent by FTX executives. “In the coming weeks, I also plan to work with my colleagues in Congress to examine options for federal legislation. To date, efforts by billionaire crypto bros to deter meaningful legislation by flooding Washington with millions of dollars in campaign contributions and lobbying spending have been effective. A great deal of attention has been given to former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried’s, political donations to Democrats; most of that was spent in primaries (mostly unsuccessfully), not to help Democrats beat Republicans. However, we have also seen Ryan Salame, the co-CEO of Bahamas-based FTX Digital Markets, donate over $23 million to Republican candidates and campaign groups in 2022. When you examine FTX efforts to influence Washington, you have to look at both CEOs, not just the eccentric guy wearing the shorts.”

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jewnazis keep attacking black people
by punk 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

the jewnazis at coindesk fired Isaiah Jackson, black, for telling the truth about the jewnazis at 'ftx'. "Look up the religious affiliation of everyone involved in the FTX collapse. Kanye was right" http://web.archive.org/web/20221112230534/https://nitter.it/bitcoinzay/stat… of course you'll hear nothing about this coming from jewnazi US government agent grarpamp(a)gmail.com

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Goldman Is Hiring in the Middle East to Tap Deals, Fund Flow
by Gunnar Larson 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Goldman Is Hiring in the Middle East to Tap Deals, Fund Flow https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-14/goldman-is-hiring-in-the…

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Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon 'bragged about getting oral sex night before': complaint
by Gunnar Larson 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/goldman-sachs-boss-david-solomon-bragged-abou…

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Goldman Sachs Paid Over $12 Million to Bury Partner's Claim of Sexist Culture
by Gunnar Larson 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Goldman Sachs Paid Over $12 Million to Bury Partner's Claim of Sexist Culture https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-15/goldman-settled-sexist-w…

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How To Blockchain a Git Repository for Public Archive
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

This is not the best way. It is a way I have used. I have typed the below without testing it in depth. Blockchain: Arweave (written in erlang) https://arweave.net/ Tool: arkb (written in typescript) https://github.com/textury/arkb If all the .pack and object files in your bare repository are 100,000 bytes or smaller, the upload can be made for free. Otherwise, it will cost a small number of AR coins. You should get AR coins either way: it opens up your options in the future. If you want to generate a wallet offline, wallet.json is simply a JWK file holding a 4096-bit RSA keys. Arweave has an online process at https://docs.arweave.org/info/wallets/generating-cold-wallet . # install arkb with yarn or npm yarn global add arkb # or with npm #npm install --global arkb # check your wallet address and balance if needed arkb balance --wallet ~/wallet.json # make a dedicated folder to be the upload mkdir deployment_dir # place the repository in the folder git clone --mirror --bare my/remote/repository deployment_dir/repository.git # generate dumb HTTP information in the repository so it can be cloned from a gateway git --git-dir deployment_dir/repository.git update-server-info # might be optional: add .keepme files to any important empty folders find deployment_dir -type d -empty | while read path; do touch $path/.keepme; done # add an index file to show web browsers, or even entire web content echo 'Clone the repository.git subfolder.' > deployment_dir/index.txt # deploy with arkb arkb deploy deployment_dir --wallet ~/wallet.json --index index.txt --bundle --debug # or deploy files all <100,000 bytes using node2.bundlr.network #arkb deploy deployment_dir --index index.txt --use-bundlr https://node2.bundlr.network # when arkb finishes, it will output a url on the https://arweave.net/ gateway # during times of congestion, it may take multiple runs of arkb for success # bundlr automatically retries if that happens; otherwise you may need to # after a couple blocks have been mined, the repo should be cloneable

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