February 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Kanye West For Crypto President 2024
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

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Cryptocurrency: Demystifiying SMPC (Secure multi-party computation) and its threat model
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

> https://hardenedvault.net/blog/2023-02-02-smpc/ Nobody can read the link you posted because you put it behind cloudflare which is a US spy agency that attacks the entire internet and everyone using it. It might also be some more FUD about how 'trusted setup' is bad and can't be trusted, when in fact the concept can, and that FUD is just FUD spewed by competing coins. Yes ZK left themselves open to FUD by naming it 'trusted setup', they should have called it 'mitigated trust', 'one-in-many trust', 'saints trust' or something more objectively indicative of its capabilities.

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Cryptocurrency: Is Fighting Against The OCC and FED De-Banking War
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Stitching together recent news reveals a major coordinated push to kill crypto by killing its banking. All they are doing is empowering and speeding up the long term revolution of the bankless into cryptoprivacy ;) The Fed and OCC are in the midst of a massive crypto de-banking operation. "what is going on is draconian and aimed to kill crypto". The Fed and OCC are going after Morgan Stanley, Custodia bank and even states that are crypto friendly like Wyoming. Paxos Global and others were told by the OCC to either withdraw their banking charter applications or they would be denied by Friday. "VC’s are starting to become very, very concerned that their crypto portfolio companies are being de-banked en masse." The OCC is said to produce a paper shortly that is said to be so draconian that a sizable portion of OCC employees may depart. "I don't want to alarm, but since the turn of the year, a new Operation Choke Point type operation began targeting the crypto space in the US. it is a well-coordinated effort to marginalize the industry and cut of its connectivity to the banking system - and it's working" - Nic Carter Quotes and Source: https://twitter.com/AP_Abacus/status/1623346563069116417 https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1622973966360133634

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Voluntaryism Beats "Democracy": NZ Queen Ruler Jacinda Ardern Has Mental Breakdown, Quits
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

"In several opinion polls, Ardern's domestic popularity had reached all-time lows in the past few months" That is what being an Evil Authoritarian Tyrant Politician does to themselves. Locking down Humanity, forcing people to ingest things, smashing their businesses, stealing and extorting money from people under threat of prison and death, cancelling Human Freedom and transferring it from Humanity to themselves and their cronies, lies, power, debt, psyops, war, and endless reams of needless bullshit regimes growing till they implode. This is what politicians do, history proves that there are no exceptions. At least every once in a while one of them publicly suffers the mental consequences of their own soul robbing anti-Human Evils, thereby demonstrating all that is wrong in that. "Inability to commit" ... "I no longer have enough in the tank" -- Ardern "Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country. -- Helen Clark" There is a reason for that... "Democracy" is totalitarian and murderous at its core and claims the invalid non-authority of the "majority" to do so. Democracy is a fatally flawed violent anti-Freedom concept concocted by politicians seeking power, and it is now being exposed as such all over the internet. You are now at risk of Nuclear War because "Democracy" has taught as its false universal truth that it is right to forcibly rule your designs for and over top of other peoples who have done nothing to you. The Internet has now not only clearly exposed that flaw, but also provided the knowledge and path to a voluntary society. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voluntaryism There is no longer any reason to put anyone in power over you, no Politician, and no Government, anymore, ever. And no longer any reason for you to "vote" yourselves into power over anyone else, anymore, ever. So stop doing that. Learn and adopt voluntaryism. Become Free. And introduce the healing path of Voluntaryism to those who have inflicted the moral and mental breakdown of Democracy upon themselves.

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Cryptocurrency: You Foolish Crypto Soy Morons Begging For Regulators... You Are Killing Crypto
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dubai bans Privacy Coins because YOU STUPID SHEEP LET THEM. *YOU* are letting ALL of crypto be killed because *YOU* LACK BALLS. STOP doing that. It's a simple bigger balls psychological power game. So GROW SOME BALLS and a VOICE and tell the regulators to FUCK OFF. You will win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc No Regulators !!! Dubai Prohibits Privacy Coins Like Monero Under New Crypto Rules https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/08/dubai-prohibits-privacy-coins-un… Dubai has prohibited all activities related to anonymity-enhancing cryptocurrencies such as monero (XMR) as of Tuesday. The UAE published its long-awaited crypto regulations, which sets licensing and authorization requirements for virtual asset companies and issuers looking to operate in Dubai. Japan has similar rules in place and the EU is considering similar restrictions.

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Space Startups Are Trying to Make Money Going to the Moon
by Gunnar Larson 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Space Startups Are Trying to Make Money Going to the Moon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-08/space-is-next-frontier-f…

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Demystifiying SMPC (Secure multi-party computation) and its threat model
by ROOT＠HardenedVault 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

https://hardenedvault.net/blog/2023-02-02-smpc/

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Cryptocurrency: Justin Sun Is A Scammer, Like Thousands Of Others
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Justin Sun is the biggest con artist / pump and dump scammer in crypto (possibly in the entire world altogether). Here is list of all of his pump & dumps since 2017 (Buttcoin CityofGrond). https://finance.caixin.com/2019-07-24/101443207.html https://protos.com/sun-grenada-his-excellency-justin-crypto-tron-diplomatic… https://www.theverge.com/c/22947663/justin-sun-tron-cryptocurrency-poloniex As Justin Sun announced his “ChatGPT/AI payments system on Tron”, I wanted to start a running thread on his long history of his bullshit pump & dump announcements over the years promising Tron is on the cusp of mass adoption, all which never came to anything. Sun will one day be known as one of the most prolific con men/ grifters on the planet. He will do and say literally anything to get in headlines and generate fake hype….profiting untold millions off his scams Here’s a big list of just some of his grifts and bullshit so far: 1.Justin Sun aggressively hypes purchasing a $5 million lunch with Warren Buffet (he intentionally canceled it multiple times to grab headlines): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-buffett-lunch-idUSKCN1T42ET 2.Justin Sun makes pinky promise to “donate $1 million to Greta Thunberg”…no proof it ever happened: https://u.today/justin-sun-to-donate-1-mln-in-crypto-to-help-greta-thunberg… 3.Justin Sun teases he will bail out FTX: https://cryptobriefing.com/is-justin-sun-about-bail-out-ftx-tron-boss-swoop… 4.Justin Sun teases “Partnership” with a “$100 million mega corporation”: https://u.today/tron-ceo-to-announce-partnership-with-hundred-billion-usd-m… 5.$100 Billion Partnership turns out to be putting an android app on the Samsung store: https://beincrypto.com/tron-added-to-samsung-keystore-just-another-case-of-… 6.Justin Sun teases “huge partnership” with Baidu for weeks…turns out he’s just purchasing their basic cloud services like a normal customer: https://cryptobriefing.com/tron-trx-partners-baidu/ 7.Justin Sun teases partnership with LC Liverpool Football Club…the club denied they’d ever spoken: https://cointelegraph.com/news/tron-ceo-justin-sun-hints-at-partnership-wit… 8.Justin Sun hosts a giveaway competition for a Tesla…refuses to give the winner their prize: https://blokt.com/news/wheres-my-tesla-justin-sun-refuses-to-honour-competi… 9.Justin Sun faces backlash after involving customers in failed Ponzi scheme in China : https://cryptonews.com/news/tron-s-justin-sun-faces-backlash-due-to-scam-in… 10.Justin Sun calls his own coin a shitcoin: https://coingeek.com/justin-sun-calls-tron-a-shitcoin-annoys-tron-and-btc-w… 11.Justin Sun files bullshit trademark opposition against Disney to grab headlines : https://coingeek.com/tron-foundation-fails-attempt-to-piggyback-on-disneys-… 12.Justin Sun teases $1 billion DCG acquisition that will never happen: https://cryptoslate.com/justin-sun-says-he-may-spend-1-billion-on-dcg-asset… 13.Justin Sun said he partnered with Steve Wozniak…he didn’t: https://www.ccn.com/justin-sun-goes-to-lunch-with-apple-co-founder-woz/ 14.Justin Sun claims he was trying to outbid Musk to acquire Twitter: https://cryptopotato.com/justin-sun-trying-to-outbid-elon-musks-twitter-off… 15.Justin Says says “most of China” uses tron and it will be a future national currency: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1619943206141190144 16.Justin Sun accused of plagiarizing his white paper in 2018 by Vitalik: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/982194680258486273 17.Justin Sun promises to “turn down fake hype”, flees his government ban traveling outside China: https://fullycrypto.com/justin-sun-allegedly-agrees-to-dial-in-hype 18.In 2017 Justin Sun claimed Tron will replace the Apple App Store: https://cryptorand.medium.com/interview-with-justin-sun-founder-of-tron-trx… 19.in 2017 Justin Sun teased Tron was partnering with Alibaba…it was a lie: https://medium.com/@kazuoo/the-vastly-undervalued-tron-to-partner-with-indu… 20.In 2018 Justin Sun announces huge Tron partnership with Baofeng Group, the “Netflix of China”…it never happened: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/950992805932838913 21.Justin Sun buys diplomat position in Grenada for extradition immunity for his crimes: https://protos.com/sun-grenada-his-excellency-justin-crypto-tron-diplomatic… Whatever he says, is a lie, extreme exaggeration, or flat fraud

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Cryptocurrency: Biden Forces Democrats To Disclose Their Energy Consumption
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23588243/bitcoin-crypto-miners-energy-emi…

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[spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by k 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

I'm out of it right now. Maybe this can work for me? --- MCBoss stops their giant robot spider in the midst of rampaging across a metropolis. "Lower the escalator, I want to go down and visit the plebs." 23 crewmembers pull each others' bodies apart and reassemble each other into an escalator. Some are terrified and others muffle their screams. Some spray blood and others block the spray and clean it up. Some are casual about it, like it's what they're used to and experienced with.

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