February 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Canada's Banks Go Offline, Abuse Rights, Censor Customers [re Life Under CBDCs and GovCorp Coins]
by grarpamp 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

> In case you were wondering what life under a CBDC will look like... > https://bombthrower.com/articles/gofundme-just-proved-bitcoins-use-case/ GovBankCorp continually prove why people need to adopt and migrate to route-arounds... crypto, gold, barterables, skills... Quality cryptocurrencies... 100% uptime starting 13 years straight since 2009, no censorship, no confiscation, no bullshit. https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494064438881800193 There is an Enormous Push for Everyone to Pull Their Money Out of Canada. People are left with Zero Trust with banks and with Any Banking in Canada now over this situation. Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada is hunting bank accounts of those who supported Freedom protests. Freeland is not just a member of WEF, but serves on their trustees board. She was George Soros biographer. Freeland's grandfather was a Nazi collaborator in the Ukraine. The Bank of Canada has been working on Project Jasper for 5 years. It's a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that will do away w/ physical cash. Think about Trudeau Gov seizure of truck convoy funds - CBDC is the ultimate tool of control. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/19/vitalik-buterin-calls-canadas-us… “If your bank account can be frozen for exercising your human right to peaceful protest, as happens to truckers in Canada, democracy has ended,it's dictatorship. Time to switch Canada's Justice Minister says if you are "pro Trump" is one of the factors of whether you ought to be worried about your bank account being seized. Creating waves of stackers out there. Canada’s TD Bank opened an account for Jeffrey Epstein but freezes accounts of Freedom Convoy protestors Canada is playing right into Bitcoin's hand. User experience is the name of the game at the end of the day, and eventually everyone has a moment that shows them how convenient permission-less money is when banking restrictions stop them from using their money how they want to when they want to Bank Run: Canada's top banks mysteriously go offline. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadas-major-banks-go-offli… https://beckernews.com/canadas-major-banks-are-now-reported-to-be-all-offli… Five major Canadian banks went offline for hours blocking access to online and mobile banking as well as e-transfers for customers. The banks hit by the outage include Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), BMO (Bank of Montreal), Scotiabank, TD Bank Canada, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Canada Banks Begin Freezing Accounts Of Protesters Amid Emergency Order After the Canada bank crash, which stocks are best for shorting https://youtu.be/sOndI0q3igk “$100M fine for BlockFi, Canada banking freeze highlights the importance of Decentralized Finance” Has Trudeau made Canada catch up with the USA by making Canada banks criminal enterprises Is Canada's Banking System On The Brink Of Collapse Canada - “Without a court order, banks will be able freeze personal accounts Canada’s banking industry will carry out emergency orders to stop trucker convoy - The emergency orders direct financial institutions to suspend services to both individual and business clients who they suspect are aiding the blockades. Canada's banking industry says it will follow through with the federal government's emergency orders targeting the trucker protesters as discussions on how best to implement them continue. The government published details late Tuesday on the requirements covering a wide range of the financial industry including banks, credit unions, insurance companies, portfolio managers and investment counselling services. "Banks in Canada follow all applicable laws and regulations in carrying out their operations, in keeping with their commitment to protect the integrity of Canada's financial system," the association said. The emergency orders direct financial institutions to suspend services to both individual and business clients who they suspect are aiding the blockades. To have financial accounts unfrozen, either because someone has stopped protesting or because of mistaken identity, officials said individuals would have to reach out to their financial institutions who would then validate the information and take necessary measures. The Insurance Bureau of Canada said Tuesday that the association and its members would work with the federal government to determine how best to implement the orders.

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Profiling the murdering KGB psychopath, Vladdy-boy Pooter
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Profiling the murdering psychopath, Slobodan Rasputin Organized killers are very difficult to apprehend because they go to inordinate lengths to cover their tracks and often are forensically savvy, meaning they are familiar with police investigation methods. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/wicked-deeds/201905/how-the-fbi-pro…

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Cryptography and non commutative cohomology
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Aristide Tsemo In this paper, we study cryptography from a geometrical viewpoint. Let N be a network, we endow N with a natural Grothendieck topology. We use geometric representations of cohomological classes to define encryptions protocols. Link to link encryption is related to the notion of torsors. We use the notion of connective structure defined on a gerbe to define public encryption. We study statistical properties of data conveyed in a network, and define an entropy cocycle. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608790

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So many experts on AP here!
by professor rat 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

With so many experts here on Associated Press, sorry, Assassination Politics, maybe one of them might know when the long-running celebrity deadpool " Stiffs " dotcom started. Next to CJ and I's efforts this site could be the most consequential APster, Law West of the Pecos type effort of the last quarter-century ( or more? ) Inquiring minds wanna know.

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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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