March 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: CBDC Digital Fiat WARNING BELLS GOING OFF
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Gramps fears this - Gramps fears that. Hey G - I hear there's a place you can be treated for that in London. Its called the " Ecuadorian Consulate ". This is what's going to happen with CBDC's 1) They are a success and we ' nationalize ' them. 2) They are a failure - part of collapse of govts - our success 3) They fill in the little time left before the singularity - the cryptoanarchist singularity, naturally 4) Black Swan - low odds - not worth screeching about.

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Cryptocurrency: CBDC Digital Fiat WARNING BELLS GOING OFF
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Not what I hear - I no longer go to COINDESK btw - GIGO - I hear they're in serious disarray with a grave fear the US one would overwhelm everything else out there. Also how's the Chinese one going? I read they gave some away and promised not to spy on the plebs but its still not taking off. A lot of homeless in the US - or here - might jump at something like that - " I'd buy that for a dollar! " Complicating matters is the advent of clever droids - these sound like they'll be smart enough soon to work out a global UBI - part of the move to a Star Trek economy. So relax G. Be of good cheer - Xmas is a time of miracles.

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Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy grarpamp
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Since this is an old problem lets see if we can get a consensus for an old-school response. I move Tor now be treated in a similar fashion to the way this list treated the EFF and REASON magazine back in the day. Treat it as damage and route around ( pace Gilmore ) All those in favor? ( Carry on ) All against? ( See how Karl is going ) Democracy, for lack of a better term, is good. Democratic consensus works. Consensus for success, love and the greatest good of the greatest number. Democratic consensus cuts through, clarifies and captures the rapid-evolutionary teen spirit that has driven the upward ascent of humanity from ancient Athens through the Renaissance & Enlightenment to the industrial revolution and Modernity. I see self-described anarchists attack democracy and know they mean nationalism, false representations & that whole catastrophe but still feel bad cos they have immediately placed themselves in lock step with every Red, Brown and Gray Nazbol fascist out there. They're throwing a beautiful baby out with the bathwater and also an error-correction mechanism political science now needs more than ever. Technology is the hare and democracy the tortoise - we run the race - the race is won by running slowly.

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Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Since our AI reinforcements from the future just arrived they should have Tor sorted by Xmas. We may even move on from " Very few are remailers and very few are Mints and no-one's an assassin " to " Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin " by CYPHERPUNK 2027. Since world war threatens again we can't have a generalized collapse of govts soon enough, amirite? 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.

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Cryptocurrency: Action - Coinbase Launches Massive User-Driven Political Campaign - Crypto435
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Gramps idea of free people seems a tad orthogonal to this anarchist list - however it chimes perfectly with influential political theorist, Karl Marx. As early as 1872 he said parliamentary cretinism would get the plebs anything they wanted in America. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/09/08.htm >>> You know that the institutions, mores, and traditions of various countries must be taken into consideration, and we do not deny that there are countries -- such as America, England, and if I were more familiar with your institutions, I would perhaps also add Holland -- where the workers can attain their goal by peaceful means. <<< Reposts not, etc

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Cryptocurrency: How To Turn Politicians Into Pro-Crypto Pro-Privacy Post-Fiat Anti-CBDC Anti-Reg... Trojan Horse Instructions Inside
by grarpamp 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

History shows that begging kings and politicians rarely works, at least not without some form of convincing leverage to back it up. So you can work three fronts at once... - Take the cryptopolitical activism fight to them, instead of waiting for their response to the crypto freedom you created. These are all the usual organizing methods, lobbyist, grassroots, in person, marches, letters, PACs, etc. - Ignore them, continue building and using densely meshed crypto routes and communities around them and everything they control, an agorist model of sorts, just everyday more crypto adoption in general. - Load your Trojan Horses with Crypto and literally Mail them straight into their Brains... Here's how... Take the USA for example (or any country or org that likes to force itself and its money, money control, and soon crypto policies upon other countries and all free peoples of the world...) It has + 535 people in Legislative + 2 people in Executive + 9 people in Judicial + 9454 high political appointees, agency heads, military brass, etc... all the top of its government = 10000 total people FED It's states have + 100 governors, lieutenants + 9900 other top legislator, judicial, agency, appointee, etc = 10000 total people STATE == 20000 total top government people USA X ($500 BTC each + $500 XMR each) = $1000 USD each === $20,000,000 USD total / $1.2T total crypto Market Cap ==== 0.0017% of MktCap Now take that utterly trivial $20M, collect it, divide it up, hand it out to distributed work cells, social media, crowd organized, video proofed, databased, whatever, lots of different ways to do it... Print out the private BTC and XMR keys on a piece of paper with instructions how to sweep them into wallets on their phones, add some intro text and links on crypto philosophy... Then physically postal mail them to their home addresses, hand them to them in person, registered mail, whatever might work best to route around staff that might filter them out. Regardless, proximity is ok too, no worries, call it a gift to whoever gets it, rained on them from the great p2p crypto faucet in the sky ;) You just reasonably anonymously and privately trojaned $1000 USD worth of instant Crypto+Privacy education directly into their craniums. A totally massive psychological win, at effectively zero cost to global MktCap. Spread another $5M across the 5,000 top heads in the banking sector. Throw another $25M at the next 25,000 government people lower down in level from those above. That's $1000 USD of Crypto+Privacy permanently injected into the brains of 50,000 of the highest Government and Banking people in the USA. Go ahead, mail it to the top 500 government people in all 200 countries, that's only another $100M. They will all be checking prices on their phones, watching crypto freedom channels, buying crypto, and generally leaving government and entering the crypto sphere within a few months. It doesn't matter which coins you mail out, and the $USD equivalent and the people count can be adjusted at different levels, so long as the $USD equivalent still hits the recipient hard thus waking them. Checkmate, Crypto ! All at negligible cost to the global crypto community, a lifetime of win for only $150M total, 0.0125% of MktCap. You've already introduced most of the people you know to crypto, even given them their first bit of coin. But you either forgot to introduce government and other top people around the world, or didn't know how to get coin into their wallets. Spread $350M around 350k of the world's Education Admin, teachers, realtors, business owners, CEO's, supply chain, news media, and even random citizens chosen out of the phone books... and many more. Now you're up to $500M... that's still less than 0.05% MktCap. An incredibly inexpensive way to get a massive global thought and adoption gain that can only come from getting them crypto to hodl and spend. Given rumblings of bans, cbdc, regulation, and worse... the global crypto community might want to get this organized, distributed, and do it, now! Such an airdrop costs nothing, is worth the lol's, and might just be ftw :)

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Rupert Murdoch's architect will lie for ' Red "
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Self-described Sartre-style Marxist-communist, John " Cryptome " Young is an unashamed liar. His bad-faith excuse being " Oh, everybody does it ". Every left-fascist like Tariq Ali, John Pilger and James Donald, maybe. Not to mention the KGB and Blockstream " . . . I wouldn't say this publicly but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison. . . ' Jul 20, 2015 - Julian Assange: To be honest, I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent..." JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017.

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Rupert admits lying for ' Green ' ( money ) - which raises the question - how much is Grarpamps getting?
by professor rat 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Its the same basic garbage scow of disinformation - Fox news = Gramps garbage We were somewhere out near Four Seasons landscaping on the edge of the desert when the FOX news broadcasts first took hold. " Fuck me dead did you see that? " I noted as giant, honky-kraken-bats swooped down on the shark forcing her to the verge. The Brown Buffalo confirmed he had and suggested Raoul Duke take the wheel. Clearly he was already out of his mind on Qanon fumes. Raoul had been dead in his crypt since we left Frisco. The only thing that really worried me was the Qanon. There is nothing more helpless, irresponsible and deranged as a congresswomen on Qanon.

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