August 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Red Lights at Hong Kong Crosswalks Are Helping Phone Zombies Cross the Street
by Gunnar Larson 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Red Lights at Hong Kong Crosswalks Are Helping Phone Zombies Cross the Street https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-22/hong-kong-s-new-traffic-…

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How much is that DAO in the window?
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Emmi Bevensee, Jahed Momand, and Frank Miroslav also make the compelling case that DAOs present “windows for radicalism or at least harm reduction.” They outline how some of these organizations are “[b]uying back and repatriating stolen African art[,] . . . [f]unding Indigenous land back[,] . . . [and] [s]upporting BIPoC artist collectives,” and a “handful of projects are now focusing on these innovations in stewardship from an Ostromian point of view, even going so far as adopting Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) wholly into the goals of their projects."[5] Altogether, they conclude that “there’s a very strong undercurrent trying to push speculative finance toward sustainable public goods that most people can participate in and benefit from.” Perhaps then, if coupled with a long-term shift toward a decentralized, flexible, and cooperative mode of production—in addition to large-scale labor organizing—blockchain technology, in particular DAOs, may be a part of the strategy of the future. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/eric-fleischmann-crypto-will-not-sa… Reposts suck ass

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The right to be lazy
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Buffer Slayer uses proof of Hellmouth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_space#Proof_of_space-time

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Cryptocurrency: CBDC's Rising, Support Them Now
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

You still don't know what you're dealing with - do you? The perfect uploaded organism - its virtual perfection matched only by its hostility to email threading.

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Good cypherpunk money drives out bad
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Like Eric Hughes was driven out for being a giant cluckin' Chickenman. 3.3. The Cypherpunks Group and List 3.3.1. What is it? Formal Rules, Charter, etc.? no formal rules or charter no agreed-upon mission ( The Cyphernomicon 1995 ) Tomorrow is unwritten and unknown - there is no future but what we make of it. I hope I can help you understand that. 2.5.5. “Do I need to study cryptography and number theory to make a contribution?” Absolutely not! Most cryptographers and mathematicians are so busy doing their thing that they little time or interest for political and entrepreneurial activities. Specialization is for insects and researchers, as someone’s .sig says. 2.5.16. “Won’t more powerful computers make ciphers breakable?” The effects of increasing computer power confer even greater advantage to the cipher user than to the cipher breaker. 2.4.17. "What does “Cypherpunks write code’ mean?” a clarifying statement, not an imperative technology and concrete solutions over bickering and chatter if you don’t write code, fine. Not everyone does (in fact, probably less than 10% of the list writes serious code, and less than 5% writes crypto or security software https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt No formal rules, charter or mission means no Austro-Libertarian, Randite, Paultard morons can survive here. Peace-loving agorists especially GO FUCK YOURSELF. Carpetbagger c-punks and ' natural rights ' anarchists may be shot on sight. GET OFF OUR LEFT-ANARCHIST LAWN! Those who make anarchist revolutions half way simply dig their own graves and a fool and their reputation-capital are soon parted. Now on to CYPHERPUNK 2027. Globalized secular anarchist revolution.

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How to make millions off morons like Gramps
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Jon started betting against die-hard Trump supporters who were convinced Hillary Clinton would go to jail. Jon won big shorting Donald Trump in the Iowa Caucus and basically felt like he had discovered a money-printing machine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/predictit-gambling-polit… Reposts not perverts

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Cryptocurrency: CBDC's Rising, Support Them Now
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Hold your nose and support them or leave them alone on the basis of never-disturbing-your-democidal-enemy-when-they're-making-a-mistake. That's my honorable & deeply principled stance ( And if you don't like it etc ) The more of these stupid shitcoins there are the more airdrops, the more regulatory arbitrage, the more laundering, the more crypto-anarchy in the end despite inevitable setbacks now and then. No-brainer - globalized digitized networked economy - pressure for UBI everywhere, all the time. Statism continues its overall decline. The crypto fat lady starts her singing exercises. Amiwrong?

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Cryptocurrency: CBDC's Rising, Smash Them Now
by grarpamp 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Visualizing The State Of Central Bank Digital Currencies https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-state-of-central-bank-digit… https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/ Central banks around the world are getting involved in digital currencies, but some are further ahead than others. In this map, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Ku uses data from the Atlantic Council’s Currency Tracker to visualize the state of each central banks’ digital currency effort. Digital Currency – The Basics Digital currencies have been around since the 1980s, but didn’t become widely popular until the launch of Bitcoin in 2009. Today, there are thousands of digital currencies in existence, also referred to as “cryptocurrencies”. A defining feature of cryptocurrencies is that they are based on a blockchain ledger. Blockchains can be either decentralized or centralized, but the most known cryptocurrencies today (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.) tend to be decentralized in nature. This makes transfers and payments very difficult to trace because there is no single entity with full control. Government-issued digital currencies, on the other hand, will be controlled by a central bank and are likely to be easily trackable. They would have the same value as the local cash currency, but instead issued digitally with no physical form. Central Bank Digital Currencies Worldwide 105 countries are currently exploring centralized digital currencies. Together, they represent 95% of global GDP. When aggregated, we can see that the majority of countries are in the research stage. We’ve also divided the map by region to make viewing easier. Africa Asia Europe Middle East South America North America What are the Benefits? A major benefit of government-issued digital currencies is that they can improve access for underbanked people. This is not a huge issue in developed countries like the U.S., but many people in developing nations have no access to banks and other financial services (hence the term underbanked). As the number of internet users continues to climb, digital currencies represent a sound solution. To learn more about this topic, visit this article from Global Finance, which lists the world’s most underbanked countries in 2021. The 9% Just 9% of countries have launched a digital currency to date. This includes Nigeria, which became the first African country to do so in October 2021. Half of the country’s 200 million population is believed to have no access to bank accounts. Adoption of the eNaira (the digital version of the naira) has so far been relatively sluggish. The eNaira app has accumulated 700,000 downloads as of April 2022. That’s equal to 0.35% of the population, though not all of the downloads are users in Nigeria. Conversely, 33.4 million Nigerians were reported to be trading or owning crypto assets, despite the Central Bank of Nigeria’s attempts to restrict usage. Status in the U.S. America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, has not decided on whether it will implement a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Our key focus is on whether and how a CBDC could improve on an already safe and efficient U.S. domestic payments system. – FEDERAL RESERVE To learn more, check out the Federal Reserve’s January 2022 paper on the pros and cons of CBDCs.

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Russia's vast disinformation machine -- and the influential women fronting it
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

KGB LIARS - Go FUCK YOURSELF! Darya Dugina's death provides a glimpse into Russia's vast disinformation machine -- and the influential women fronting it . . . https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/27/europe/darya-dugina-russia-disinformatio… Reposts nada etc

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Cryptoanarchism violently rejects racism, misogyny, homophobia & other forms of bigotry
by professor rat 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

In stark contrast to self-described " Natural Rights anarchist ", Juan Garafolo ( from the Argentine region? ) who preaches and practices antisemitism non-stop. http://www.spunk.org/library/otherpol/critique/sp001283.txt Reposts etc

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