July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Chaum in Time: untraceable cash "root of all evil"
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

'Paper money is, I hate to say it, the root of all evil', says DigiCash Founde Chaum, who argues that the traceability of electronic cash will mean the end of some tiypes of crime. 'What kidnapper would take a ransom payment by check? Once you build the infrastructure for electroni cash, the incremental cost of replacing paper cash is small. And the social benefits could be amazing." Who was it that said "A liberal statist with a privacy fetish?" https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95279369520812&w=1

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The year is 2036
by Douglas Lucas 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Today historians look back on what got humanity through the 2020s. "It was a bunch of angry ravings on the cypherpunk email list," Dr Thoughtful Brain told Exasperated Quarterly. "Randos insulting other randos clinched liberation." World nonleaders of anarchism plan to establish an international holiday celebrating the hard work of cypherpunks blotting out insightful knowledge with useless rants. Asked for details on cypherpunk ideology, Dr Brain said the focus was on building fandoms for computery celebrities selected for amplification by corporate media. "The list went for years without a single line of code posted," he said. During the conversation, an environmentalist shoved his way in and demanded this writer report on declining oxygen resulting from plankton extermination. Cypherpunks responded with the subject line: "Fuck oxygen, whatever that is. Computers don't use it. Off topic."

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This would appear to be orthogonal to anarchism
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Honestly Dave - this conversation can no longer serve any useful purpose. https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03 " . . . How to issue a central bank digital currency David Chaum, Christian Grothoff and Thomas Moser Issue 2021-03 . . ."

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Some great ideas here
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

But the market is treating them worse than " Satoshi Vision ' https://xx.network/archive/praxxis-emerges-from-stealth/ " . . . Using Elixxir, financial transactions denominated in Praxxis coins can be executed efficiently without leaking metadata. Alternatively, Praxxis can provide identified check-like wallet transactions. The full technical details of the Praxxis approach will be included in a forthcoming whitepaper currently being prepared for release later this year. . . . " That was 2019 btw.

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David Chaum's spectacular wallow in bullshit
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

No way to talk about Prof Gun-Sirer " . . . It’s a nice cocktail-party line for academics to say they want to change the world. They’re not trying to save anything. In the blockchain space, we’re sort of clear on what the incentives are. It isn’t so clear in academia. . . " A poor workman blames his tools " . . . In those days, we were working on these distributed and decentralized systems. We converted our beautiful conference room into a “decentralized cash” lab, and worked on into the evenings. It was a passion – but you know, in those days computers weren’t really up to it. . . " ( Chaum ) Jesus Fucking Christ - make it stop!

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CHAUM's ugly ignorance and arrogance again
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Another howler . . . " . . . before Snowden, I never made a personal decision whether the government was really spying on everything or not. I just left it as unknown because it was just unclear, but still focused on countermeasures. Anyway, I can say objectively that none of these academics – it's mainly academics and some industry people who attend these events – the real people who know about cryptography are very concerned about this. . . ." Before Snowden it was becoming clearer every year a huge amount of state-surveillance was going on. You had " Homeland Defense - a Modest Proposal ' in C-net as far back as 2002. Then delayed revelations in the NYT - deliberately delayed by the NYT. 2005. So its negligent ( or criminally negligent! ) to say this mass spying was 'unclear.' TSTBAALAA again! The ' real ' people in his audience were almost certainly as aware as any normie might have been and probably concerned enough in a way not familiar to a borderline imbecile ( idiot-savant type ) or psychopath like Chaum. The Amash-Conyers bill was almost passed by such laymen. ' Real ' members of Congress. Look if Chaum has any 'real' friends they might want to stage an intervention now because the way he's going he's certifiable already. Really.

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David Chaum's turned into a Vinay Gupta type Blowhole
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Chaum shared that he was confronted point-blank by federal agents because of his work with encryption. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/08/i-jumped-in-with-all-4-legendary… 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. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertar…

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Re: " . . . possible use of monkeypox as a biological weapon instead of smallpox."
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Since its possible, if not probable, COVID-19 was a biowarfare attack from a CHEKIST dictatorship that raises suspicions about the rogue terror CHEKIST state of Russia. The Jerusalem Post Monkeypox might be a new kind of STD, Israeli doctors say A reminder that Vladimir Lenin suffered from STD symptoms. TL/DR Marxist-Communism represents a clear and present and dangerously acute threat. Similar to the AXIS in WW2. BTW - All Marxists are racists. If you are not political you are not paying attention. Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: “ The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc…” Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): “We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor … ”

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DONALD J. TRUMP, vs. HILLARY R. CLINTON
by Gunnar Larson 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Hey guys: Just sharing this with you, 185 highlights to DONALD J. TRUMP, vs. HILLARY R. CLINTON: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zggK7lgptlZ6Qn11EndzbDloqqVxRifv/view?usp=… These same tactics are happening here in Chelsea. Strange sometimes. I am not political at all, but the scenario is something. Hope you had a good weekend. Thank you, Gunnar

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" . . . possible use of monkeypox as a biological weapon instead of smallpox."
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

In 1998, Alibek reported that "there was significant discussion of the possible use of monkeypox as a biological weapon instead of smallpox." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_program#:~:text=A%2…. In the 1980s, the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken. These agents were prepared to be sprayed down on enemy fields from tanks attached to airplanes over hundreds of miles. The secret program was code-named “Ecology”.

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