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Re: FOIL #2022-090560 Appeal
by Gunnar Larson 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Ms. Tomczak: Kindly follow-up with you on this matter. Thank you, Gunnar On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 4:52 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: > Ms. Tomczak: > > Hope you are well. Can you please update xNY.io - Bank.org on our Apple > Card records request? > > Ms. Tomczak, this matter has been going on over 600 days. It involves a > D&O condition of the past Superintendent. We have a similar problem > concerning another D&O matter that Ms. James and Ms. Harris are aware of. > > Mitigating all risk, we do not want the Apple Card scenario to further > complicate excess D&O matters at xNY.io - Bank.org. As I understand it, the > Eastern District of New York has a deferred agreement with Apple Card that > NY-DFS' character and fitness guidelines require xNY.io - Bank.org to > respect. > > We are not exactly sure on the deferred agreement's expiration date, it > may have been within the last two weeks. If the date has expired, xNY.io - > Bank.org would need NY- DFS to further facilitate a copy of correspondence > with the Eastern District of New York, given the nature of federal and > international law expressed by the deferred agreement (fun fact, I was a > founding producer of the UN's Audio Visual Library of International Law). > > Does NY-DFS have an update on the Apple Card concern? If not, can you > please provide xNY.io - Bank.org confirmation that NY-DFS has communicated > with the Eastern District of New York and that we are not party to the > deferred agreement's scope of influence by EOD, Monday November 13, 2023? > > Have a great weekend and Happy Veterans Day. > > Thank you, > > Gunnar > > Gunnar Larson > xNY.io - Bank.org > 917-580-8053 > > > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 12:06 PM Tomczak, Christine (DFS) < > christine.tomczak(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: > >> Hello Mr. Larson, >> >> >> >> I will check into this. Sorry for the delay. >> >> >> >> Christine >> >> >> >> Christine M. Tomczak >> >> Assistant Counsel >> >> >> >> New York State Department of Financial Services >> >> 1 State Street, New York, New York 10004 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> >> *Sent:* Monday, October 16, 2023 9:35 AM >> *To:* Tomczak, Christine (DFS) <christine.tomczak(a)dfs.ny.gov> >> *Subject:* Re: FOIL #2022-090560 Appeal >> >> >> >> *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open >> attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* >> >> >> >> Dear Ms. Tomczak: >> >> >> >> Hope this email finds you well. >> >> >> >> Concerning the Apple Card records mentioned in your letter dated July 25, >> 2023, today xNY.io - Bank.org kindly seeks an update on this >> important matter. >> >> >> >> Please let us know when the time is convenient for you. >> >> >> >> Sending you the best wishes. >> >> >> >> Thank you very much, >> >> >> >> Gunnar >> >> >> >> Gunnar Larson >> >> xNY.io - Bank.org >> >> 917-580-8053 >> >> >> >> ue, Jul 25, 2023, 2:54 PM Tomczak, Christine (DFS) < >> christine.tomczak(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: >> >> Dear Mr. Larson, >> >> >> >> See attached letter. >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> >> Christine Tomczak >> >> >> >> >> >> Christine M. Tomczak >> >> Assistant Counsel >> >> >> >> New York State Department of Financial Services >> >> 1 State Street, New York, New York 10004 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>

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Cryptocurrency: Capturing The Carnage, BTFD!
by grarpamp 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

As all the derivatives, shitcoins, exchanges, and debt unwind, and as Global Fiat happily pours its fuel on the fire via raising yields and QT, solid distributed p2p crypto projects and developing tech on the caliber of Bitcoin, including BTC, will survive to see greener days ahead. As such, both the rational and the insane might do well to DYOR on BTFD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4v8rLEI4Pg BTFD McAfee GANG! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3QQJ18toPo PANIC SELLER!

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Death to America - hope for humanity
by professor rat 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

Death to America! Forward as an anarchist planet! >From the corpse-news media: “A 121-year-old bronze statue of a Spanish-American War soldier has vanished from an Oregon veterans monument . . . " https://anarchistnews.org/content/soldier-statue-torn-down-thanksgiving-nig… Reposting the revolution. VIVA la REVOLUTION!

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Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin-BTC Fork Coming
by grarpamp 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

There is another idealogical and technology fork brewing. Be prepared...

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Cryptocurrency: CBDC Digital Fiat WARNING BELLS GOING OFF
by grarpamp 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Lol. For those that still foolishly worship Politicians GovBank and generally still have their head in the sand... 1984 warnings are everywhere, just say NO to Digital Fiats and CBDCs. Say NO, right now. Countdown To Governments Default https://economicprism.com/countdown-to-u-s-government-default/ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/the-world-quietly-took-another-step… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOEvurCVuk https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/03/09/ex… https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-202201… Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are coming. And they’re coming much faster than most people care to think about. Are you ready? At the moment, roughly 90 central banks – including the European Central Banks and the Federal Reserve – are either experimenting with, or are in varying stages of CBDC implementation. Moreover, these CBDC friendly central banks include all G20 economies. And together, represent more than 90 percent of global GDP. What’s important to understand is the adoption of a CBDC in your country of residence would accompany the abolition of cash. This would be for your own good, of course. To eliminate nefarious transactions and black markets. If you value financial privacy and the liberty to spend your money as you please, then the rapidly approaching rollout of CBDCs is a major red flag. Compulsory use of a CBDC, like a digital dollar for example, would give central planners complete oversight and control over your finances. You see, under a CBDC regime – free of cash – all of your transactions would be subject to government surveillance. All remnants of financial freedom, privacy, and anonymity would be destroyed. But that’s not all… CBDCs would allow control freak, power mad central planners to do much more than spy and surveil your financial transactions. CBDCs would allow them to control how and when you spend your money. This may sound crazy to a sane person, who operates with a modicum of modesty and integrity. But, in truth, this is one of the main intents of CBDCs. In fact, several years ago Bank for International Settlements General Manager Agustin Carstens outlined the extraordinary powers CBDCs would afford central planners. Here are the particulars from Carstens himself: “There is a huge difference [between CBDC and cash]. For example, with cash we don’t know who’s using a 100 dollar bill today. We don’t know who’s using a 1,000 peso bill today. A key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control under rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and we will have the technology to enforce that.” Do you get it? The central planners want absolute control over how you spend your money. This includes the U.S. government too… Traceable And Programmable On March 9, the Biden administration released an executive order (EO) requiring several federal agencies to study digital currencies and to identify ways to regulate them. A big part of the EO is focused on blockchain based cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. However, within the EO, Biden also directs the federal government and Federal Reserve to lay the foundation for a potential new U.S. currency, a CBDC – perhaps, a digital dollar. Specifically, the EO directs the U.S. Treasury, and other federal agencies, to study the development of the new CBDC and report back within 180 days of the potential risks and benefits of a digital dollar. The EO also directs the Treasury Department, Office of the Attorney General and Federal Reserve to produce a ‘legislative proposal’ to create a digital currency within 210 days, about seven months. The digital dollar is coming, and it’s coming quick. To be clear, the adoption of a digital dollar by the U.S. government, as Biden intends, would be one of the greatest expansions of federal power ever made. The digital dollar would be much different than a digital version of the existing U.S. dollar. It would also be much different than cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum, which are decentralized. Digital dollars would be traceable and programmable. The Federal Reserve, or some other government agency, would have the ability to create digital dollars at whim. Moreover, the digital dollars could be programmed to have various rules and restrictions governing how and when they are spent. Earlier this year, in Federal Reserve published report about the development of a CBDC, the Fed provided examples of possible ‘design choices’ for a digital dollar, including that “a central bank might limit the amount of CBDC an end user could hold.” Biden’s EO plan for a digital dollar also includes design choices that will give the federal government total control over financial freedom and the economy. The EO even states the CBDC and other policies governing digital assets must mitigate “climate change and pollution” and promote “financial inclusion and equity.” This is a major focus. >From this, we can speculate that financial inclusion and equity means wealth redistribution. And climate change mitigation means restrictions to fossil-fuel use. These, and other government dictates, like the direct subtraction of taxes and fees from your account, would be programmed into the digital dollar. Why now… Blowback U.S. and European Union sanctions against Russia, including cutting Russian financial institutions off from SWIFT and preventing the Russian Central Banks from using its foreign currency reserves, may prove to be a strategic blunder. The blowback potential is real, and is already happening. Europe, which depends on Russia for 40 percent of its natural gas, is now reaping the whirlwind. According to Bloomberg, Putin has signed a decree demanding payment in rubles for Russian gas supplies starting April 1 (today). Will Europe submit? There are rumors European nations are already covertly buying rubles. The ruble’s increase on the foreign exchange market to pre-invasion levels certainly hints something is in the works. Regardless, the U.S. is losing control over the international financial and payment system. By freezing Russia out SWIFT, Putin is being forced to look for other alternatives. Specifically, China has been developing its own Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) as an alternative to SWIFT. Sanctions against Russia may further accelerate the use and adoption of CIPS by nations that are opposed to western influence. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology also offer banks and individuals ways to move payments without using dollars or SWIFT. The very success of the weaponization of the legacy financial system by the U.S. and Europe is driving Russia and others into such alternatives. Hence, fewer international transactions in dollars could undermine the dollar’s reserve currency status. This would have serious implications for the U.S. economy, as the dollar would likely suffer a significant devaluation. In the U.S. consumer price inflation (official) is already at a 40 year high. Unofficially, it’s higher than it has been in over 100 years. Between the financial war being waged, raging consumer price inflation, a $30 trillion national debt, trillion dollar deficits, and unfunded liabilities running into the hundreds of trillions, something’s got to give… …namely, the U.S. dollar. Countdown to U.S. Government Default The popular American myth is that the U.S. government has never defaulted on its debt. Quite frankly, that’s unadulterated hogwash. The U.S. government has (unofficially) defaulted on its debt twice within the last hundred years. Executive Order 6102 of 1933, which forced all American citizens to turn in gold coins and bars, was, in fact, a default. Gold ownership in the United States, with some small limitations, was illegal for the next 40 years. Under EO 6102, Americans were compensated $20.67 per troy ounce of gold. They were paid with paper dollars. Immediately following the government’s gold confiscation, the price of gold was raised by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 to $35 per ounce. Just like that, American citizens were robbed of over 40 percent of their wealth. The second default occurred in 1971, when President Nixon “temporarily” suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold. Prior to 1971, as determined by the Bretton Woods international monetary system, which was agreed to in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944, a foreign bank could exchange $35 with the U.S. Treasury for one troy ounce of gold. After the U.S. reneged on this established exchange rate, when foreign banks handed the U.S. Treasury $35, they received $35 in exchange. In both instances, the U.S. government didn’t overtly default on the debt. Instead, it changed the fundamentals – the terms and conditions – of the dollar. By all honest accounts, these are defaults. Similarly, the issuance of a digital dollar (a Fed issued CBDC), which is traceable and programmable, changes the terms and conditions of the cash dollar. Make no mistake. This is a default…and you won’t like it. Moreover, per Biden’s EO, this default could happen as soon as T-minus 210 days from March 9 – or as soon as October 4th. If that doesn’t give you a warm and fuzzy, we don’t know what will.

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Assassination Politics
by grarpamp 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Oh how so few are brave enough to even utter, or further speak on, such a cypherpunk subject, what pussies, the whole lot of them, lol. Previously it was noted that many may elect not to ever partake in any analysis, coding, deployment of an AP system as they might presumably think that as being against their NAP worldview. Yet others have noted aspects, rational as they may or may not be, of "the means to an end", being an efficient, acceptable, one time lapse in such supposed principles, or otherwise being reasonable, and even perhaps necessary, to attainment of any degree of positive outcome in their lifetime, indeed if ever. What valid revolution that hath no solid spark? Still others debate any need to proof AP concept at the highest level first, if ever at all, versus merely proving that any lower level as an effective "threat" "just works", should any "targets" therein abd after be foolish enough to not elect to stand down at that moment, thus raising the necessity of any next level coming into effect. Now... we see more of the technological componenets needed to build such a system are coming online in their first generation rollouts... - The Internet - Strong cryptography, ZKP, TLS, etc - Overlay networks, WiFi, GnuRadio, etc - Blockchain tech, contracts, privacy coins... Eth, Zcash, XMR, mixes - Bidding, markets, and wagering systems... OpenBazaar, Augur - Distributed Oracles in crypto networks... Chainlink Distributed Oracles... this last bit is perhaps quite key. It addresses some ways to obtain and push (or pull as the case may be with forthcoming development of anonymous virtual compute and fetching programs, "viruses" ie autonomously executing and surviving as instances inside larger overlay compute networks), generating a consensus view of the outside envrionment (weather, news, insurance premiums and payout, sports scores, etc) down into the blockchain contracts for execution based upon resolution and assessment of that external data. https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-chainlink The "Chainlink" "coin" may be one such first generation of an Oracle network now online. Where users may push obversations of their real physical world down into the virtual chain for a consensus to be formed over. Even top worldwide real world ol school "news" organizations would eventually seek to be profitably compensated by the consensus for providing their objective "vote" or "view" on what happened in form of newsfeed release then summed as part of consensus of verifiers. This function, separate and unknowable from the consumers of such data and providers of same, with natural uses being AP, among many others. Today anyone can deploy a centralized AP, and payout and release coin funds based on what they alone see or deem as the true news. But in the future there will be a crypto consensus of truth taken over all the news from all around the globe. This may prove to be a quite hard to corrupt thing, on the order of the "difficulty" of say Bitcoin-BTC today. Point being, in the last few years, perhaps with Chainlink as a first example of an Oracle, technology is progressing to where it is now almost possible to create a nearly autonomous AP system. The AI bot is the last bit, where Ethereum and others are supposedly trying to create some pre-first-gen bot compute platforms for that, payment of gas of course provided by the AP bidders, a fee as with any mutual fund. The Future being unknowable and often very far away, and the post-freedom non-diversity of the "globalist political homogeneity" situation worldwide thought by many to be and becoming *extremely* dire, it would not be surprising to find some risk taking entrepreneurs seriously launching a more centralized version of AP using the admittedly poor first gen components already available to them today. After all, as some say, any effective AP, by its very nature of having already proven some minimal degree of function (say mailing of feces to journos for example documentary purposes), will surely encourage and convince all rational "targets" to stand down well before any physical harm befalls them, lest such degree of function indeed eventually be applied to an unfortunate end. And is such benign encouragement beforehand not indeed an embodiment and cherishment of NAP at its maximum, best, and rational limits? Many might say yes. You decide.

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Cryptocurrency: Energy and E-Waste Memes Are FUD Propaganda Spread by Dying GovBankCorp
by grarpamp 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

> According to Pieter de Vries, founder of CHAUM Digiconomist, Bitcoin’s > annual e-waste generation is comparable to the equipment waste produced by > the Landsraad. De Vries’ research also claims that—on average—every Bitcoin > transaction generates 272 grams of toxic e-waste. > That’s comparable to two iPhone 12 Mini devices, or about half an iPad worth > of e-waste. "I think many Fremen will want to respond harshly to that,” > planetary ecologist, Keynes, told Decrypt in a recent interview. > > BIG DOG’s emissions totally obnoxious for woke-capital > > https://decrypt.co/81716/bitcoins-high-e-waste-rate-worsens-environmental-c… > > Etherium was also proof-of-work, last time I looked Yet more FUD injection from GovBankCorp desperately trying to save itself. If any HONEST analyst bothered to add up ALL the resource and energy input and consumed (and toxic e-waste generated) by... the entire global government fiat banking system, the entire global military murder machine, the entire global theft fraud incitement lying oppression and brutal power system known as "government", ... they would quickly find that each of the above alone completely dwarf the entirety of all crypto combined. Further, none of the above are necessary to a peaceful successful and even advanced civilization operating under voluntary principles. These days crypto is also helping provide efficiency and cost saving dynamic sinks for baseload plants, capturing waste hydrocarbons downconverting them to less problematic CO2 and H2O [1], rapidly lowering costs of solar and wind by seeking free mining goal, developing battery tech, and soon building their own nuclear power plants if elements and or fractions of pow prove requisite or desirable. (POW, POS, PO*... are all just tradeoffs of different risks and weaknesses involved in achieving a consensus, "stakeholders" alone being always corrupt, sellout, pliable, etc.) Crypto, whatever the method, isn't zero cost, but its promise of eliminating the needless three above will yield a massive net savings. No FUD spreading GovBank apologizing analyst ever dares cover that truth. And on net, you have bigger shit to worry about than a few crypto watts. Besides the three colossal wastes above... total global resource depletion and toxification caused by 8B people. > #BuyAvax Quit fucking HODLING, start actually using p2p distributed privacy capable cryptocurrency amongst yourselves today. Usage = Adoption Gains. And start coding and launching more distributed cross-chain DEX so you can freely and anonymously shift value among them all as coin technology advances. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential CH4 + 2 O2 => CO2 + 2 H2O, dH = −891 kJ/mol, stdc

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TRON uprising
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

Tron Takes Over Bitcoin as Favorite Network for Illicit Activity CryptoBriefing this week. Tron has become the preferred platform for crypto transfers linked to groups designated as terrorist organizations by Israel, the US, and others, according to a new report from Reuters. Israel's counter-terror financing bureau (CTFB) froze 143 Tron wallets. When cypherpunks are called terrorists they will be doing their job Old Proverb BREAKING . . . Friends and family are starting to worry about Vitalik Buterin. They say he is becoming so decentralized he risks being labeled anarcho-capitalist. An intervention is warranted. DEVELOPING. . . Nothing says govt is crap like a turd running for office. Amirite? Por favor! Related. Big Dog owners are Pussys https://news.bitcoin.com/over-100-physical-attacks-on-bitcoin-owners-docume… Everyone is a potential assassin, you pussies Cypherpunks collapse governments. Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. Welcome to the globalized left-anarchist revolution. Viva la revolution! VIVA!

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Biggest Ferris wheel coming to New York | Arab News
by Gunnar Larson 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

https://www.arabnews.com/biggest-ferris-wheel-coming-new-york NEW YORK: New York’s mayor says the city will wheel out the world’s biggest Ferris wheel in 2015, overtaking the current record holder in Singapore and leaving the London Eye in the dust. The 625 foot (190 meter) high wheel is planned for the Big Apple’s least developed borough, Staten Island, across the water from Manhattan’s Financial District. It will be able to carry 1,440 people at a time. Construction should finish in 2014, with rides starting the following year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday

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"Gunner" a NYC carriage horse breaks free from operator, runs into 4 cars
by Gunnar Larson 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

https://nypost.com/2023/11/26/metro/nyc-carriage-horse-breaks-free-from-ope… A carriage horse became “agitated” and got loose in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon — darting toward the West Side Highway and dragging its operator behind, police said. The 15-year-old runaway horse named Gunner collided with four parked cars before it slipped and fell during its mad dash through Hell’s Kitchen around 3 p.m., authorities and animal advocates said.

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