July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Early Game Theory
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Gramps ' Theory ' being a vacuous imbeciles ' Fantasy ' as seen by . . . >>> And remember, we really tangled with these guys in the 90's. Public key cryptography was regarded a weapon of war back then. The American government was really friggin' pissed off at us, and did as much damage as they could within the law. Constant harassment, legal pressure, people lost their jobs... the whole thing was constantly on the verge of everybody ending up in jail as far as we could tell. <<< No cypherpunk was ever jailed, based on list activities, in the eternal sunshine of a vacuous imbeciles mind.

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Cryptocurrency: Some Early Days
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Early days for Elias Ahonen's assault on the anarchist cypherpunks narrative. But its not a fair fight since he sails the high-seas on a garbage-scow of disinformation - like Gramps - and scribbles his Paultard nonsense for corpse-media, knock-offs like CoinTelegraph. I guess he's going to keep it up till defeated - like Putin keeps attacking NATO's fists with his face. Each to their own ( Hi Zee! ) https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Those are my early days - they're not everybody's.

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Cryptocurrency: World Waking Up To Crypto Economics
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Ooh lookie! Its the Carrie Bradshaw of cypherpunks! >>> What is interesting is the question "what is 'might makes right' in our future?" Missiles taking out a mining data center? Missiles taking out a Bitcoin whale and his/her private key, effectively increasing the value of everyone else's BTC? ASIC chip fabs only selling to certain customers or countries? Bitcoin regulations and sanctions? High transaction fees for some class of individuals and low for others? Geo-political instability with power and resources.... Or just war? A developer blocking a pull request (PR) from someone? Or merging code that is to their own benefit? <<< She can write a whole article with just questions!

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Where they burn transhumanist books . . .
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

. . . there they will burn transexual people >>> Our side grappled with our own apprehensions during our planning stage about the optics of physically confronting the TERFs, even though in any other circumstance we would justifiably call these people Nazis. The content of their speeches can be found on right-wing media outlets, who had their own journalists present. Their rhetoric and tone was explicitly exterminationist. https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-confront-far-right-and-terf-co… Welcome to the transhuman revolution.

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Whose a Rat?
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

JordanOnRecord The list of people Brandon Straka provided the FBI info about includes "Stop the Steal" rally organizers Ali Alexander, Amy & Kylie Kremer and Cindy Chafian, plus more than a half dozen fellow right-wing social media personalities. https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1552755136338034689 JordanOnRecord ·2h Some of what Brandon Straka provided the FBI appears to just be contact information for people who were in a "Stop the Steal" text thread. But he also, according to his attorney, turned over information about "potential criminal activity." https://whosarat.com/

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Antisemitic screeds posted online
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Reminder - Israel Shamir is a Nazi propagandist and bum-buddies with Julian Rand Paul Assmange GOP Pa. governor nominee under fire for ties to white-nationalist site CEO of Gab praised Doug Mastriano for leading ‘an explicitly Christian movement’ in antisemitic screeds posted online emptywheel @emptywheel Why is the story, "Mastriano under fire for his anti-semitic ties" rather than, "Mastriano paid to promote himself on an anti-semitic site"? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/28/gop-pa-governor-nominee-unde… ANTISEMITIC TYPES GO KILL YOURSELF!

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Re: Welcome to the Ghetto
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

While I do agree with some of what that dead fascist Timothy C. May once said, I also told him he was an ' anarcho-phoney ' after a just few months here. ( I started posting here in July or August 2001 ) By contrast, Assmange was here for years and never once complained. Then, correlation is not causation but Mong did call ' Crypto Winter ' soon after I began exposing his political fraud. By then I was regularly calling out his fascism and stupidity. See the list files. We also disagreed on economics as well as politics since I said " the millicent ghetto is the prize " and " Everyone a Mint " I then complained to Cryptome about their hosting a racist letter from Mong. It was removed. I then alerted a Physics list about him when I accidentally bumped into him there. ( Not even wrong - check their archives ) So my anti-fascist conscience is clear. And don't forget - even a fascist can still have a good idea. For example; Hitler wanted all Marxist-Communist Commissar's put to death. Who could argue with that? If you automatically oppose everything a Nazbol says then you're just giving them a stick to beat you with. But maybe you're into that, Zeynep.

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Welcome to the Ghetto
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Ding Dong the Mong is dead https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=102686322326845&w=1 While I tend to agree with Tim about the shorter term trouble with micropayments -- the fact that such payments, well, do not pay -- I'd say in the longer term micropayments are what counts . . . " Welcome to the revolution!

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Milli meet Reg - Reg - Milli
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Small transactions are in the news recently with a probably jurisdiction shopping ' arms race ' opening up between the biggest govt shitcoin banksters. Regulatory arbitrage won't save any pig-govts bacon - but the most liberal could last out the longest. Maybe. >>> . . . I don't think the spread of micropayments will be an exception to the rule. In fact I would argue that the only *lasting* surprise offered by AP was the fact that when mild wants of large numbers of people can be coordinated, economic efficiency can lead to significant, and heretofore unexpected, outcomes (i.e. getting a notable figure killed). In the end I think such new classes of financial transactions, borne of lowered transaction costs, will be far more significant to the society as a whole than anonymity. I also think this is the essence of what is driving the wider P2P circle, at the moment, though few people seem to realize it. <<<

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Before Julian there was Declan
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

List journalists - we ought to have them stuffed https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=102984700431372&w=1 Viva la revolution

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