May 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Arpanet pioneer becomes pure
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

Only the impotent are pure https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/05/david-walden-passes/ In 1969, Mr. Walden was part of a small team of talented young engineers whose mission was to build the Interface Message Processor. Its function was to switch data among computers linked to the nascent Arpanet, the precursor to the internet.

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The last shoe to drop
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

Mongs quotes on assassination-marts / dead-pools remain relevant till they go viral. He got everything else he wanted - unbreakable crypto, digital-cash - so what else is there? Govts don't always collapse by themselves. If your crypto-activism doesn't include APster you're too stupid to be an activist, let alone any kind of ( propaganda-of-the-deed ) anarch. Then the dumbest of the dumb go in for COINTELPRO style accusations. Like Nazi-Punk and his Turkish Spungen.

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Mong was one of the very few cypherpunks to ever worry the USG
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

So what if he was a fascist? Nobody's perfect. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/PrivLawPRpr/1996/26.html

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Tim and Rat
by zeynepaydogan 06 May '22

06 May '22

He's been sharing Tim may's quote for years: TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003 He probably wants to encourage the people here.He's clearly making goverment propaganda, just like Tim.Soon,He'll say “ I'm an anarchist”

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Dawn of the dead
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

Deadpool Creator Rob Liefeld on His Controversial Career in Comics https://decrypt.co/99578/deadpool-creator-rob-liefeld-walking-nft TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992 TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003

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Cryptocurrency: Litecoin-LTC Gets A Privacy Mode, Privacy Rising
by grarpamp 06 May '22

06 May '22

https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/1521370708105859073 https://twitter.com/LTCFoundation/status/1521366615715049472 https://github.com/litecoin-project https://www.coinbureau.com/education/what-is-mimblewimble/ https://github.com/ltc-mweb https://medium.com/beam-mw/how-mimblewimble-works-18ea3980cffe There are more privacy-enabled projects every day... Monero, Zcash, Bitcoin Cash Fusion, Litecoin, Zcoin, Pirate Coin, Deep Onion, Dero, etc ... Some others may even be importing the Bitcoin-BTC UTXO set again. An entire project could be made to evaluate their privacy and other properties. Early days... privacy-enabled cryptocurrencies finally rising! Bitcoin-BTC will be coming under fire from them, and their maxi's will be panicking with no face-saving way out of utterly refusing to enable any privacy for over 13 years now.

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Cryptocurrency: Get Free Coin Privacy Research Results Via FOIA
by grarpamp 06 May '22

06 May '22

Where are the FOIA's for all these contract results and related things...? https://news.bitcoin.com/chainalysis-and-integra-win-1-25-million-irs-contr… US20200160344A1 “Blockchain Transaction Analysis and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Systems and Methods”

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Cryptocurrency: State and ASIC Hashpower Is Not In Your Interests
by grarpamp 06 May '22

06 May '22

State hashpower, and State sponsored subsidied tax-abated permitted regulated etc hashpower, ASIC hashpower, especially as seen in Western States, is a pending nightmare. The Western cabal will force all commercial miners to be compliant... censored, KYC, AML, OFAC, no-fly, childrens unlicensed Kool-Aid stands. Then they can 51% the rest of the world, it's also part of the push to PoS, they have more money to spend and print towards that attack. Commercial miners have already begun testing transaction censorship. ASIC miners, already insanely expensive, will become licensed and customs-blocked goods, end users won't be able to obtain them. ASIC-hard CPU-PoW privacy-enabled coins solve this. No one can see it, all users around the world can fairly mine it.

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Powell Says Fed Doesn’t Have a Credibility Problem with the American People – Despite Gallup Poll Showing Lowest Confidence Since 2008 Financial Crisis
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

You say "the national security and economic future of the United States hangs in the balance " like that's a BAD thing. Going by the XRP-Ripple circus the USG is so weak and worthless it can't even regulate a centralized shitcoin. It seems uncontroversial to say the ' American Century ' is over - and has been for some time. So there's no tension. No suspense. No drama. Score is Cryptoanarchy 1 - USG 0 VIVA LA REVOLUTION.

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JPMorgan Chase’s Rap Sheet
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '22

06 May '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/12259-2/ *JPMorgan Chase’s Rap Sheet* *(Highlights)* April 21, 2011, JPMorgan Chase agreed to settle a civil lawsuit <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CfSUwB2l7yoJ:https://…> and pay $56 million to settle claims that it overcharged members of the military service on their mortgages in violation of the Service Members Civil Relief Act and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. February 7, 2012, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $110 million <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-overdraft-settlement/jpmorgan-s…> to settle consumer litigation that claimed it overcharged customers for overdraft fees. February 9, 2012, JPMorgan Chase reaches an agreement with the OCC <https://www.occ.treas.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2012/nr-occ-2012-20.…> to pay $113 million for unsafe and unsound mortgage servicing and foreclosure practices. August 10, 2012, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $1.2 billion <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Haiu_nV-yUcJ:https://…> to settle claims that it, along with other banks, conspired to set the price of credit and debit card fees. November 16, 2012, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $296.9 million to the SEC <https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2012-2012-233htm> to settle claims that it misstated information about the delinquency status of its residential mortgage portfolio. July 2013, a unit of JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $410 million <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qsHNf-iV-3QJ:https://…> to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to settle claims of bidding manipulation of California and Midwest electricity markets. September 19, 2013, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay <https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-orders-chase-and-jpm….> $80 million in combined fines to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and $309 million in refunds to customers whom the bank billed for credit monitoring services that the bank never provided. September 19, 2013, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $920 million <https://money.cnn.com/2013/09/19/investing/jpmorgan-london-whale-fine/index…> to U.S. and U.K. regulators for its unsafe and unsound banking practices in using bank depositors’ money to trade in derivatives in London. It lost at least $6.2 billion in the trades. This was known as the “London Whale” scandal. November 15, 2013, JPMorgan Chase announced that it had agreed to pay $4.5 billion <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MYOnVBZWdV4J:https://…> to settle claims by private investors that it defrauded them in mortgage-backed securities. November 19, 2013, JPMorgan agreed to pay $13 billion <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-federal-and-state-partner…> to settle claims by the Department of Justice; the FDIC; the Federal Housing Finance Agency; and various State Attorneys General over its fraudulent practices with respect to mortgage-backed securities. JPMorgan acknowledged it made serious misrepresentations to the public. December 4, 2013, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay 79.9 million Euros <https://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/news/companies/libor-europe-fines/?iid=EL> to settle claims of the European Commission relating to illegal rigging of benchmark interest rates. In December 2013, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $22.1 million <https://www.classaction.org/blog/22m-settlement-reached-in-chase-force-plac…> to settle claims that the bank imposed expensive and unnecessary flood insurance on homeowners whose mortgages the bank serviced. January 7, 2014 the U.S. Department of Justice charged JPMorgan Chase with two criminal counts <https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-and-fbi-assistan…> for its banking conduct in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. The bank admitted to the charges; agreed to pay $1.7 billion to a Madoff victim fund and agreed to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. May 20, 2015, JPMorgan Chase pleaded guilty to one criminal count <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-major-banks-agree-parent-level-guilty-p…> brought by the U.S. Department of Justice for its role with other banks in rigging the foreign exchange market. The bank agreed to a fine of $550 million. December 18, 2015 the bank agreed to charges by the SEC <https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-283.html> that it had steered its customers into in-house products where it reaped higher profits without disclosing this conflict to the customer. It paid $267 million to settle these charges. On January 20, 2017 JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $53 million to settle charges that it had discriminated <https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-settles-lending-…> against minority borrowers by charging them more for a mortgage than white customers. October 2018 JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $5.3 million to settle U.S. Treasury allegations that “it violated Cuban Assets Control Regulations, Iranian sanctions and Weapons of Mass Destruction sanctions 87 times,” according to Reuters <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-sanctions/j-p-morgan-to-settle-…> . December 26, 2018 JPMorgan Chase settled claims with the SEC for $135 million <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jpmorgan-chase-settles-sec-claims-for-135…> over charges that it had improperly handled thousands of transactions involving the shares of foreign companies. May 16, 2019, JPMorgan Chase settled charges for 228.8 million Euros <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4Sz4v2DC2Z0J:https://…> with the European Commission that it rigged the foreign exchange market. (Other banks were also fined.) September 16, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/current-and-former-precious-metals-traders-c…> two current and one former precious metals traders at JPMorgan Chase for turning the precious metals desk at the bank into a “racketeering” enterprise. September 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice brings two counts of wire fraud <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jpmorgan-chase-co-agrees-pay-920-million-con…> against JPMorgan Chase involving “tens of thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for precious metals futures contracts, and the second involving thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for U.S. Treasury futures contracts and in the secondary (cash) market for U.S. Treasury notes and bonds.” The bank admits to the charges and agrees to pay $920 million in fines and restitution to various regulators. December 17, 2021, the securities unit of JPMorgan Chase admits its traders and their supervisors were using personal communications devices to conduct company business. The firm failed to record and retain messages from these devices as required under the law. These violations occurred despite similar conduct in the bank’s participation in the rigging of the foreign exchange market, where traders used unauthorized electronic chat rooms, called “The Cartel” and “The Mafia.” That case brought a criminal felony charge against the bank by the Justice Department in May of 2015. In the current case, the SEC fined the firm $125 million <https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-262>. -- *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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