February 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Govts Label Self-Custody As Terrorists - FreeSpeech, WarOnPrivacy, Redress Protests
by grarpamp 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Crypto routes around and defunds abusive governments, governments are in panic-response at becoming obsolete, push harder, keep adopting and using crypto... https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/22/canadas-osc-warns-crypto-excha… Regulator in Canada Warns Crypto Exchanges Not to Promote Self-Custodial Wallets: Report The Ontario Securities Commission sent tweets from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Kraken CEO Jesse Powell to the Canadian police. By Sam Reynolds The Ontario Securities Commission's building in Toronto (Paolo Costa Baldi/Wikimedia Commons) Tweets from the CEOs of Coinbase and Kraken that advocated self-custody of digital assets are being looked at the by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for violating sanctions put in place to curb the trucker protests in the country, [144]according to a report from The Logic. * The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) sent the tweets to the police because it believed that the crypto executives were offering advice on how to evade the sanctions on funds, according to the report. * Late last week, the Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police [145]ordered all regulated financial institutions, including crypto exchanges, to cease trading and freeze the assets of “designated persons” involved in the trucker protests as well as 34 associated crypto wallets. * Shortly after Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the measure, both Powell and Armstrong tweeted in support of self-custody wallets. * [146]Self-custody means that the owner of the digital asset holds the private key for the wallet and thus has exclusive access. An appropriate metaphor would be keeping an asset in a safe with only the owner having the combination to the safe, instead of placing it in a bank. * In crypto’s earliest days, this was the preferred way to store digital assets. As digital assets became more mainstream, many investors preferred to hold their crypto on exchanges or with other custodians – many of which are regulated entities with licenses and insurance. * Representatives for Kraken and Coinbase have said that the exchanges intend to comply with the law. [147]Both companies, however, have taken a [148]public stance that they believe money shouldn't be censored and users should have protection from “unjust” seizure of assets. UPDATE (Feb. 22, 12:55 UTC): Updates third bullet to say Powell and Armstrong tweeted in support of self-custody wallets. 144. https://leaderpost.com/the-logic/osc-flags-emergencies-act-tweets-by-kraken… 145. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/16/canada-sanctions-34-crypto-walle… 146. https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-crypto-custody/ 147. https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1494458245259272192 https://cryptobriefing.com/kraken-ceo-warns-users-to-get-your-coins-out-of-… 148. https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbases-philosophy-on-account-removal-and-conte…

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Only dumbfucks admire Vladdy-boy Pooter
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/traitor-donald-trump-goes-off-the-dee…

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This is an act of imperialist aggression by Russia.
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

https://anarchistnews.org/content/against-annexations-and-imperial-aggressi…

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The first Holodomor
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Authority_in_Russia When many Estonian's were deported to Siberia in 1940 some of them found Ukrainian's that had been there 20 years.

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Trotsky - the first KGB butcher-of-Ukraine
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

" . . . millions of lives were shed not just because of the inevitable cost of revolutionary struggle but because Lenin insisted on implementing his own view of how that struggle should develop. Rather than allow the people themselves to establish autonomous and federated revolutionary regimes in the various areas of the tsarist empire — in the Ukraine, in Georgia, in Siberia, and so forth — Lenin insisted that a single regime should rule over all nationalities. This despite the fact he had earlier promised full freedom to all nationalities. The tsarist empire was kept intact with a single party asserting its political dominance — at tremendous cost. The crushing of the revolutionary peasants of the Ukraine is the best-known example. By the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Lenin ceded the Ukraine to Germany as part of his deal to gain peace. The Ukrainian people, though, organised spontaneously to resist German occupation and they were successful. They drove the Germans out of the Ukraine. They also fought off counter-revolutionary forces who tried to take over the Ukraine. Rather than allow the heroic peoples of this region to govern themselves and regulate their own lives, Lenin and Trotsky sent in the Red Army to crush the independent revolutionary movement of the Ukraine. Nestor Makhno is remembered today as one of the more courageous leaders in the fight against the Germans and counter-revolutionaries and, of tragic necessity, against Bolshevik invasion as well. Makhno was but one of many, and the Ukraine is simply the best known of many regions which fell under the rule of Moscow and Lenin. . . " FROM https://buttdarling.insanejournal.com/127165.html?mode=reply Zinoviev in 1919 expressed Lenin’s core idea with inimitable cynicism: We cannot do without Azerbaijan’s oil or Turkestan’s cotton. We take these things which we need, but not in the way the old exploiters took them but as elder brothers who are carrying the torch of civilisation’…

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Squeal like a Thiel, bah!
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

emptywheel - 1h Hillbilly billionaire surveillance oligarchs unite. Quote Tweet Anna Massoglia @annalecta - 2h Scoop: Per Aspera Policy—a “dark money” group steering hundreds of thousands of dollars into a super PAC spending on Ohio’s Senate race in support of Hillbilly Elegy author & venture capitalist JD Vance—has ties to billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel http://crp.org/ptvd

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“a catastrophe for Russian people and all Slavic people”
by professor rat 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

Update: Many Russian mathematicians likely feel the same way about this as Edward Frenkel who calls this “a catastrophe for Russian people and all Slavic people”. Update: The AMS has issued a statement urging the IMU to cancel the ICM and has suspended the AMS-NSF-Simons-ICM travel grant program https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

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A wicked-leaks war
by professor rat 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

JULIAN "of course Russia understands this game and Putin understands this game for a long time now" ASSANGE 2013 [ State intelligence agencies ] "... when they fail they need to be punished and when they succeed they need to be praised..." Assange 2016 May 20, 2017 - Julian Assange announced “the proper war is just commencing...” “#PanamaPapers Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID and [George] Soros,” WikiLeaks tweeted. Putin said: “WikiLeaks has showed us that official people and official organs of the US are behind this.” The “customers” who ordered the Panama Papers’ leak were clear, he said. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/07/putin-dismisses-panama-papers-…

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Re: Friendship of the Rat and Chameleon
by professor rat 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

Whatever his Chameleon antics have been an over-riding and consistent trait of this traitor - John Sandy-Hook Young - is his paranoia. This is a characteristic Stalin also displayed regularly - the same Stalin Sartre swore by till it was too late. And if you don't like the nasty viper-tongued Marxists on this list - James A. Donald being another - then you might also try being consistent and reject the works of those two intertwined serpents, Tariq Ali and John Pilger. Also the current heads of the CCP and KGB. The world hates a hypocrite after all. Amirite?

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Incendium magnum Romae
by zeynepaydogan 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.” The expression has a double meaning: Not only did Nero play music while his people suffered, but he was an ineffectual leader in a time of crisis.

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