February 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

When Will Litigation Finance Enter Africa?
by Gunnar Larson 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Check out my new story: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/when-will-litigation-finance-enter-afr… In Africa, there are 340 money agents per 100,000 people. Yet, only six ATMs per 100,000. With the continent yet to embrace any real ambitious litigation finance marketplace, the question remains if a new form of business such as litigation funding can sweep across Africa. Simon-kucher.com’s new report <https://www.simon-kucher.com/en/blog/agency-banking-how-banks-and-fs-provid…> on banking in Africa outlines the pivotal role mobile money has played in innovation of the continent’s banking sector. Similarly, money agents offer financial services including taking deposits, cashing out funds and facilitating transactions. The report suggests that the future of litigation finance in Africa consists of building strong litigation investment portfolios. The value in African litigation finance lies in capturing premium cases in key markets. Also, international human rights litigation can be acted upon simultaneously in large Western markets (like New York State). For example, a human rights claim of a large bank in New York who had potentially violated human rights in Kenya could be a segway into building a strong ligation investment portfolio in Africa. There are many barriers to entry for litigation funders in Africa, but as the report notes, there is opportunity as well. -- *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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Democratic DAO Suffers Coup, New Leader Steals Everything
by professor rat 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Anarchism periodically suffers mini-coups against democracy. This has recently been described as ' The Tyranny of Structurelessness " after an essay by a leading democratic feminist. In theory, crypto-anarchist organizations ought to better protected against this by APster - " Everyone an assassin ". In practice there's still a lot to do with " Everyone a remailer " and ' Everyone a Mint ". The whole crypto-anarchist project is still proceeding at a healthy growth rate and promises to grow faster as we approach Cypherpunk 2027 This is now only five years away at full warp. Chance favors the prepared mind - cheats never prosper and - welcome to the revolution!

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Batshit-Crazy, Leigh Dundas on the loose
by professor rat 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

OliviaLittle · 5h NEW from me: A QAnon-affiliated January 6 insurrectionist is now organizing US anti-vax trucker convoys — Leigh Dundas promoted violence at the Capitol, spread election lies, and compared both Biden’s victory and public health measures to the Holocaust https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-affiliated-janua… Repost not endorsement

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She defended a man who had a hatred for other women.
by professor rat 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013. And WL's data dump on women in Turkey opposed to a far-right, religious-fascist coup isn't the first time they've been criticized for thoughtless leaks. US congressional reports give a snapshot reading of whats' on US congress-critters minds at any one moment. This signal gets lost in a general flood release noise of such specialized reports. As I said at the time WL did this. I've also been saying for many years now that WL has not even justified its existence - it promised the unvarnished truth - and it delivered a basted turkey. The only possible rationalization for a strictly limited and critical solidarity with it is if they tipped the scales of the 2016 US election. That was such a squeaker it will probably never be known for sure. WL is not helping itself by being so opaque on it. If journalism is the first draft of history then history will not be kind to Wikileaks. Ashes to ashes - dust to dust. And good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Democratic DAO Suffers Coup, New Leader Steals Everything
by jim bell 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

https://cryptocurrency.com.tr/democratic-dao-suffers-coup-new-leader-steals… Democratic DAO Suffers Coup, New Leader Steals Everything After seizing control, the new leader drained the DAO's treasury, liquidity pools, and minted over 1 billion tokens for themselves.EOBy Edward Ongweso JrFebruary 15, 2022, 9:43am - - - "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, are blockchain groups that are supposed to be democratic. They are the part of web3 that gets people very excited: They can, boosters say, replace corporate structures and create a system where people have votes according to how much work they put into the DAO. "This sounds OK in theory, but a group called Build Finance DAO just suffered a coup in which one person amassed enough tokens to get a vote passed, then voted to give themselves full control of the DAO, then, using this power, took all of the money. In a sense, the DAO did replace a corporate activity with its own version: the hostile takeover.

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Data leaked - women living in Turkey
by professor rat 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey's Women? https://nymag.com › intelligencer › 2016/07 › why-did-w... 27 July 2016 — In response, Turkey swiftly blocked access to wikileaks.org, which some took as proof that the leak's contents were legit. WikiLeaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason https://www.huffpost.com › entry › wikileaks-erdogan-... 25 July 2016 — Snowden couldn't have been more wrong about an act that was irresponsible, of no public interest and of potential danger to millions of people. WikiLeaks puts millions of Turkish women at risk - أورينت نت https://orient-news.net › news_show › WikiLeaks-puts-... 28 July 2016 — Zeynep Tufekci, in her latest article published by The Huffington Post, condemned the spread by WikiLeaks of some 300,000 emails they called ... WikiLeaks publishes personal details of almost every woman ... https://metro.co.uk › News › World 26 July 2016 — WikiLeaks published personal details of almost every woman in Turkey after the coup for no reason. Women supporting Erdogan after the coup ...

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who created the bat-porongavirus?
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787 "Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26552008/ "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence " LMAO!!! - Wait, the story about the chinese eating raw bat soup is US military propaganda for US KKK white trash? Nah, that's impossible.

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Call for an American KGB
by professor rat 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

CIA should be using the knout on feminists https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/the-cia-and-the-new-dialect-of-p… Lies-by-omission about Carrie Mathison - but is honest enough about the sort of FSB it wants in the " USSA ".

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Did Justin Trudeau Just Make The Case For Crypto?
by jim bell 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

https://youtu.be/lAWepx96D4Q

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Data Leaked: people living in the US
by zeynepaydogan 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Data leaked: Full names, Home Addresses, Income/Salary, House cost, Amount of children, Phone Numbers, Email Addresses (Some people have multiple linked), Amount of pets, and a lot of other data. Look at the CSV headers. Note: There are no passwords in this leak. 250,807,711 row All data on people living in the US Torrent url magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DB37E82521500BEE7570F97479225D825B0598DB&dn=250807711.7z&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&ws=udp%3a%2f%2fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f104.28.1.30%3a8080%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f104.28.16.69%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f107.150.14.110%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f109.121.134.121%3a1337%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f114.55.113.60%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f125.227.35.196%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f128.199.70.66%3a5944%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f157.7.202.64%3a8080%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f158.69.146.212%3a7777%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f173.254.204.71%3a1096%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f178.175.143.27%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f178.33.73.26%3a2710%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f182.176.139.129%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f185.5.97.139%3a8089%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f188.165.253.109%3a1337%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f194.106.216.222%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f195.123.209.37%3a1337%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f210.244.71.25%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f210.244.71.26%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f213.159.215.198%3a6970%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f213.163.67.56%3a1337%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f37.19.5.139%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f37.19.5.155%3a6881%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f46.4.109.148%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f5.79.249.77%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f5.79.83.193%3a2710%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f51.254.244.161%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f59.36.96.77%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f74.82.52.209%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f80.246.243.18%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f81.200.2.231%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f85.17.19.180%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f87.248.186.252%3a8080%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f87.253.152.137%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f91.216.110.47%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f91.217.91.21%3a3218%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f91.218.230.81%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2f93.92.64.5%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2fatrack.pow7.com%2

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