January 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

How does George Bush sleep at night?
by zeynep＠keemail.me 14 Jan '23

14 Jan '23

https://youtu.be/I-taJf2Ks6U "Mr. Bush, when are you going to apologize for the million Iraqis that are dead because you lied? You lied about weapons of mass destruction, you lied about connections to 9/11,You sent me Iraq to 2003, My friends are dead.Joshua Casteel. You killed people. Because You lied, You need to apologize! Apologize!

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A protocol for passing cryptographically signed messages around a peer to peer network.
by professor rat 14 Jan '23

14 Jan '23

" . . . Transportation, deliveries, housing, food, finance, energy, infrastructure, governance: all can and should be provided peer-to-peer with no government involvement. . . " You're making sense. And that worries me, Max. Maybe Mong's big ' Fork in the Road ' wasn't just State-capitalist fascism or Cryptoanarchy but a seemingly endless tension between revolutionary decentralization and reactionary re-centralization. I don't plan on going to all the trouble of violently destroying all religions and nation- states only to replace them with MS, IBM, AWS, FB, Google, Hollywood & Tik Tok. But the masses love these fucking convenient behemoths. Michael Corleone - Everytime I try and get out they pull me back!

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Any Bloomberg experts in the house?
by professor rat 14 Jan '23

14 Jan '23

Bloombergs tiny chip of privacy-death - where is it now? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-u… Reposts not hot Wall St Poop everywhere

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Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin Conf Miami May 18-20 2023
by grarpamp 14 Jan '23

14 Jan '23

https://twitter.com/TheBitcoinConf/status/1613580699369603073 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Welcome to the world’s biggest #Bitcoin conference 🎟 Join us making history in Miami, May 18 - 20, 2023 🌞 Grab your ticket before they run out 👇 Bitcoin b.tc/conference/ Joined December 2018 Tweets 8,269 Following 778 Followers 154,983 Likes 15,886 2,617 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf 8 Jul 2022 Bitcoin 2023 will be back in Miami Beach one more time! Education, celebration and hyperbitcoinization will once again be on the agenda. Join us May 18-20, 2023. b.tc/conference/bitcoin2023 411 307 71 1,060 101,588 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine 2h $20,000 #Bitcoin 181 216 11 1,512 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf 6h 272 53 396 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf 2h #Bitcoin 2023 ticket prices increase in 7 HOURS 🚨 Lock in our lowest price of the year & join us at the world's largest #Bitcoin conference! TICK. TOCK. NEXT BLOCK. 🎟️👇 bm.b.tc/bitcoin-2023 The Largest Bitcoin Conference | Bitcoin 2023 We’re excited to welcome you back to Miami Beach for Bitcoin 2023! Join us for the world’s largest gathering of bitcoiners as we celebrate another year of progress towards hyperbitcoinization.... b.tc 5 10 The Bitcoin Conference retweeted Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine 5h Replying to @BitcoinMagazine @PeterSchiff The Future of #Bitcoin Starts Here #Bitcoin 2023 ticket prices go up TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT! 🎟️👉 bm.b.tc/bitcoin-2023 Feat. @DavidFBailey @Breedlove22 @Martellfox 100 21 5 126 7,298 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf 10h They’re changing the way CPI is calculated again to make it look like inflation is "not that bad" 🚨 47 77 7 344 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf 7h #Bitcoin 2023 ticket prices increase TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT 🚨 Lock in our lowest price of the year & join us at the world's largest #Bitcoin conference! TICK. TOCK. NEXT BLOCK. 🎟️👇 bm.b.tc/b23-tickets The Largest Bitcoin Conference | Bitcoin 2023 We’re excited to welcome you back to Miami Beach for Bitcoin 2023! Join us for the world’s largest gathering of bitcoiners as we celebrate another year of progress towards hyperbitcoinization.... b.tc 8 3 12 The Bitcoin Conference retweeted Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine 11h JUST IN: Africa's oldest National Park is mining #Bitcoin to survive loss of revenue amid disease outbreaks and guerrilla attacks 🇨🇩 If it wasn't for Bitcoin, "we would have gone bust" - Virunga National Park Director 🙌 81 369 22 1,666 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 13 #Bitcoin Winter is HEATING UP in Miami Beach 🔥 Check out our BRAND NEW website & get your tickets before prices increase FRIDAY at MIDNIGHT! 🚨 🎟️👇 b.tc/conference/?utm_medium=… The Largest Bitcoin Conference | Bitcoin 2023 We’re excited to welcome you back to Miami Beach for Bitcoin 2023! Join us for the world’s largest gathering of bitcoiners as we celebrate another year of progress towards hyperbitcoinization.... b.tc 89 35 3 141 The Bitcoin Conference retweeted The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 Fiat in Venezuela is so worthless people threw it out with the garbage 🇻🇪 needs #Bitcoin 386 1,410 161 4,347 478,027 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 US CPI 6.5% 🆚 Food at home inflation 11.8% 58 167 11 687 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted Brandon @BranBTC Jan 12 Join us @ #Bitcoin2023 bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/… Bitcoin 2023: Build Back Bitcoin With every bear market, we can build Bitcoin back stronger than ever. The Bitcoin 2023 conference will be our next chance to do so. bitcoinmagazine.com 59 20 2 96 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 Fiat in Venezuela is so worthless people threw it out with the garbage 🇻🇪 needs #Bitcoin 386 1,410 161 4,347 478,027 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 #Bitcoin 2023 ticket prices increase TOMORROW at MIDNIGHT! 🚨 Don't miss out on the lowest price of the year! 🎟️ TICK. TOCK. NEXT BLOCK. 🎟️ bm.b.tc/b23-tickets The Largest Bitcoin Conference | Bitcoin 2023 We’re excited to welcome you back to Miami Beach for Bitcoin 2023! Join us for the world’s largest gathering of bitcoiners as we celebrate another year of progress towards hyperbitcoinization.... b.tc 8 5 2 30 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 US CPI 6.5% 🆚 Food at home inflation 11.8% 58 167 11 687 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 #Bitcoin Winter is HEATING UP in Miami Beach 🔥 Don't miss out - ticket prices increase TOMORROW at MIDNIGHT! 🚨 🎟️ TICK. TOCK. NEXT BLOCK. 🎟️ bm.b.tc/b23-tickets The Largest Bitcoin Conference | Bitcoin 2023 We’re excited to welcome you back to Miami Beach for Bitcoin 2023! Join us for the world’s largest gathering of bitcoiners as we celebrate another year of progress towards hyperbitcoinization.... b.tc 5 1 1 18 The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 12 #Bitcoin Winter is HEATING UP in Miami Beach 🔥 Check out our BRAND NEW website & get your tickets before prices increase FRIDAY at MIDNIGHT! TICK. TOCK. NEXT BLOCK. 🎟️👉 bm.b.tc/b23-tickets 3 10 29 966 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted Stacy Herbert 🇸🇻🚀 @stacyherbert Jan 12 Miss El Salvador needs to emcee the @TheBitcoinConf In this outfit, of course 🇸🇻🍊💊🚀 13 26 3 249 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 11 CBDC is slavery, #Bitcoin is freedom 118 238 6 883 Show this thread The Bitcoin Conference retweeted The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf Jan 11 #Bitcoin 2023 ticket prices increase FRIDAY at MIDNIGHT! 🚨 Don't miss our lowest price of the year - get your ticket & join us at the world's largest #Bitcoin conference! 🎟️ 👇 b.tc/conference/?utm_source=… 40 42 1 162 Load more

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Cryptocurrency: Fixes Corrupt Monetary Policy, Ends Criminal Poverty, Restores Economics
by grarpamp 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

A Short Essay On Sound Monetary Policy https://mises.org/wire/short-essay-sound-monetary-policy https://mises.org/books/sound_money_salerno.pdf https://mises.org/library/inflation-inferno-i https://mises.org/books/tmc.pdf https://mises.org/humanaction/pdf/HumanActionScholars.pdf This will be brief, appropriate to the topic at hand. It consists of a quote from Milton Friedman found in Joseph Salerno’s outstanding book, Money: Sound and Unsound: If a domestic money consists of a commodity, [such as] a pure gold standard or cowrie bead standard, the principles of monetary policy are very simple. There aren’t any. The commodity money takes care of itself. (emphasis added) Imagine that. If we have sound money, we don’t need the Fed. Or Congress. We just need sound money. End of essay. Postscript: Economist Nouriel Roubini once attacked the gold standard: Roubini raises the following question: If you are on a gold standard, or modified gold standard, what do you do in the event of a bank run—if you don’t have enough gold to fully back the currency? Translated: What happens if the banks have created bogus IOUs for their depositors’ gold? Suggestion: Have them indicted for fraud. Gold doesn’t “back” anything. It is the money. The banks issue IOUs for the money. When they issue more IOUs than they have gold on hand, they’re cheating. Murray Rothbard: In my view, issuing promises to pay on demand in excess of the amount of the goods on hand is simply fraud, and should be so considered by the legal system . . . This is legalized counterfeiting; this is the creation of money without the necessity of production, to compete for resources against those who have produced. In short, I believe that fractional-reserve banking is disastrous both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions of the market economy. Roubini also says that a “gold standard limits the flexibility and range of actions that central banks can take.” He thinks it’s a shortcoming, but that alone should recommend it. At the start of World War I, the belligerent governments went off the gold standard so they could fight the bloodiest war in human history. Gold, since it can’t be created on demand, would have severely limited the “flexibility and range of actions” governments could take. Sound money is not a product of central bank policy decisions. But who cares about sound money when you want to engage in massive human slaughter? More recently, Roubini said, “The world is on a slow-motion train wreck.” The unmolested gold coin standard avoids train wrecks, “Dr. Doom,” by staying on track. A gold standard doesn’t need Roubini. It doesn’t need Jerome Powell. It doesn’t need Congress. It doesn’t need the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. It doesn’t need the WEF, the FOMC, or AOC. It just needs to be left alone. The gold standard “requires nothing else than that the government abstain from deliberately sabotaging it,” Ludwig von Mises wrote in The Theory of Money and Credit. What all the enemies of the gold standard spurn as its main vice is precisely the same thing that in the eyes of the advocates of the gold standard is its main virtue, namely its incompatibility with a policy of credit expansion. The nucleus of all the effusions of the anti-gold authors and politicians is the expansionist fallacy. Credit expansion—inflation—is indispensable to a growing government. >From Human Action: The gold standard removes the determination of cash-induced changes in purchasing power from the political arena. Its general acceptance requires the acknowledgment of the truth that one cannot make all people richer by printing money. The abhorrence of the gold standard is inspired by the superstition that omnipotent governments can create wealth out of little scraps of paper. If wealth could be created out of scraps of paper or their digital equivalent, world poverty would be a thing of the past. Remember, the commodity money takes care of itself—and us too, if we let it.

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Re: A protocol for passing cryptographically signed messages around a peer to peer network.
by professor rat 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Its hard to explain anarchism to someone - like you, Pete - whose identity appears to revolve around NOT understanding it. But if its not too much to ask would you mind reading some archives and showing some fucking respect?

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2001-3 was the last time 5-VEY ' GovCorp " could have rolled out overt fascism
by professor rat 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

They squibbed it and plumped for covert fascism instead - now look where they're heading ( post cryptocurrencies ) https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1613750395465248768/photo/1 Reposts not sapient wisdom from anointed priesthoods

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I’m shocked PONZI scam bitconnect used ’ The cryptocurrency revolution " in scamming people.
by professor rat 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

SHOCKED! https://decrypt.co/119110/victims-old-school-ponzi-bitconnect-receive-17-mi… Reposts not fake revolutionary verbiage used to fool morons

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The Narrative Is that Two Women Under 30 Committed Fraud without Detection by Sophisticated Wall Street Law Firms
by Gunnar Larson 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/01/the-narrative-is-that-two-women-unde… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 13, 2023 ~ Women have been demanding equal opportunity on Wall Street for the past 60 years. We’re pretty sure that equal opportunity to commit crimes on a par with the big boys on Wall Street is not what they had in mind. Confronting women on Wall Street today are two especially disheartening cases. In the photo on the left above is Caroline Ellison, who looks more like the wholesome star of a Disney children’s flick than a woman who has pled guilty to seven criminal counts for frauds she committed as CEO of Sam Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund, Alameda Research. On the right in the photo above is Charlie Javice, founder and former CEO of Frank, a company that was hyped in a JPMorgan Chase press release when it acquired it in September of 2021 for $175 million as “the fastest growing college financial planning platform, to help millions of students and their families navigate their financial journey to college and beyond.” Javice joined JPMorgan Chase when it acquired her company and became a Managing Director. The website for the Frank platform has now been shut down and JPMorgan Chase is alleging in a lawsuit against Javice that she created a list of millions of fake users to entice the Wall Street megabank to buy her company. While Javice is innocent until proven guilty, the lawsuit does include smoking-gun emails between Javice and a professor discussing how best to fake customer information so that it is believable. In both the Caroline Ellison case and the Charlie Javice case, there are details that bring anguish to the veteran women of Wall Street. First, both women had their whole careers ahead of them. Ellison is 28 years old. Javice is 30. (Her alleged fraud occurred when she was under 30 in 2021.) Both women have prestigious education credentials. Ellison graduated from Stanford University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics. Javice indicates on her LinkedIn profile that she attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The suggestion is that both women were somehow able to outwit two of the most sophisticated Wall Street law firms. Big Law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, was outside legal counsel to FTX and Alameda. Two of Sullivan & Cromwell’s former law partners worked in key legal positions at FTX businesses but failed to notice that Alameda was looting $8 billion from FTX exchange customers, according to regulators. JPMorgan Chase, which acquired Javice’s company, is the largest commercial bank in the United States with more than 5,000 branches across America and is one of the largest global trading houses in the world. It operates in more than 60 countries. It is represented by many of the oldest and largest law firms in the world that are paid extremely well to prevent JPMorgan Chase from being ripped off to the tune of $175 million by a 20-something woman. (Conversely, these law firms are also extremely well paid to defend JPMorgan Chase against its own rap sheet that reads like that of an organized crime syndicate.) On the day that JPMorgan Chase acquired Javice’s company in 2021, she posted a statement on her LinkedIn page which thanked Sidley Austin law partner Idan Netser “and his team at Sidley” for being “amazing advisors in this process.” According to the National Law Journal’s 2022 ranking of law firms, Sidley Austin employees 1,893 attorneys. Javice adds this in her 2021 statement at LinkedIn: “In just around four years, Frank has become the leading and fastest growing college financial planning platform serving over 5 million students at over 6,000 colleges. >From day one, our approach has been clear: students always come first.” It took 30 seconds on Google to learn that 6,000 colleges might be a tad of an exaggeration. According to CurrentSchoolNews.com, there are only 5,300 colleges and universities in the United States — and that includes beauty schools. So both the legions of in-house lawyers at JPMorgan Chase and the lawyers at Sidley Austin missed the smoking gun that Javice was claiming to have captured 113 percent of her targeted institutions. Netser is still a partner at Sidley Austin. His bio at the firm states that he “focuses his practice on international emerging technology companies, venture capital, and corporate and partnership taxation issues, including cross-border international investments, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, transfer pricing, tax planning and restructurings, international IP [Intellectual Property] planning and exploitation, and tax controversy.” (The word “exploitation” is probably not a good word for any law firm practice.) As of yesterday afternoon, Netser still lists among his representative clients, “Frank (acquired by JPMorgan Chase).” Perhaps he has yet to learn that JPMorgan Chase is calling it a big fraud.

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Voluntaryism: Haiti Now Hiring All Hands For Reboot Into NAP Compliant Society
by grarpamp 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

https://twitter.com/jeffsky_poincy/status/1612554595154395137 As of today, Haiti does not have a single elected official. The 3 branches of power are dysfunctional. The International community (BINUH and The Core Group) is the main decision-maker. We are perhaps further away from democracy than we were in the early 90s

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