July 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Druggie KnightMB Loses 370k BTC
by grarpamp 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Old lore reissued... https://wallmine.com/people/36050/michael-w-brown https://coinfomania.com/this-user-once-owned-10-of-the-btc-supply/ This article discusses the story of Michael Mancil Brown, also known as KnightMB, who once owned over 370,000 BTC, equivalent to 10% of Bitcoin's total circulating supply. However, Brown eventually sold or donated his BTC holdings and got involved in a cryptocurrency project called Timekoin. He was later arrested for blackmailing Mitt Romney in exchange for Bitcoin and was convicted of wire fraud and extortion. Currently, there is no individual or institution holding such a large amount of BTC, with publicly-traded companies like MicroStrategy and Marathon Digital being the largest holders. The article highlights the significant increase in Bitcoin's price since KnightMB's ownership, with BTC currently trading at $29,100.

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ANARCHISTS UPSET SWISS TRAIN SCHEDULES
by professor rat 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

A large-scale meeting of international anarchists in Switzerland has disrupted the smooth running of the rail schedule by forcing the cancellation of several trains. From swissinfo.ch July 22, 2023 The sprawling five-day event involving thousands of anarchists has centered on the Swiss town of St Imier, but some participants have decided to camp too close for comfort to the railway tracks. At first, trains were ordered to cut their speed on Saturday morning. But the service between La-Chaux-de-Fonds and St Imier was later completely cut. A replacement bus service has been laid on, but the Watson news portal reports calls from some anarchists for up to CHF60,000 ($70,000) in compensation for the inconvenience. The Swiss authorities told Watson that a decision on the matter would have to wait until the anarchist event ends after the weekend. The anarchists’ gathering marks the 150th anniversary of the Congress of St-Imier which, in 1872, saw the foundation of the Anti-Authoritarian International movement. The event includes 268 lectures and workshops, 48 concerts, 42 screenings, 11 theatrical performances, seven exhibitions and a book fair, according to the association “150 Years Saint-Imier Congress”.

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The term " Tankie "
by professor rat 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

The term " Tankie " cannot be used in any weaselly way to distinguish so-called Stalinists. And that's because what's called Stalinism is simply ramped up Leninism. The only difference is scale. The term " Tankie " applies to every Bolshevik active in Russia from the German warmongers finance of Lenin’s train-ride on… And Zinoviev didn’t just talk about liquidating millions of Russian’s he helped enable the deaths of thousands in the Tambov region. “…Tuchachevsky also had chemical weapons, which Zinoviev had purchased in Halle while attending the German Communist " Splitting” congress in October 1920…" - P319 " The Russian Revolution - a new history " Where they use WW1 weapons of war - trains, poison-gas, etc - there they will use TANK’s. All Tankie’s are Marxist-LENINISTS. No more games.

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Cryptocurrency: Crypto Anarchism
by professor rat 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Crypto economics is taking over cryptocurrency that itself took over from the fabled ' digital cash ' we talked up here for years ( Everyone a Swiss Bank! ) Privacy is lagging but enough lip service is paid it so we may also claim long-term victory is assured. We will have ubiquitous anonymity just as we will all enjoy the benefits of the globalized crypto-economics that are most assuredly coming soon. Not to run victory laps here so much as look forward to setting further goals for our collective effort. Learning how to be rich and powerful in our own right. Cryptoanarchist revolutionaries have the chance to build on a new global paradigm. We don't need business as usual transferred into a Matrix. We won't need suits and we won't need specialists so long as free speech is encrypted code and vice versa. My modest proposal is cryptoanarchist C-punks build a consensus ( conversation - narrative - etc ) over more ambitious goals moving forward. Such as a globalized UBI from below sans all direct govt and/or religious support, then linked by a consent or release form digitally signed stating that the recipient pleb agree to recognize they may be subject to APster justice. Nothing fancy - just kill off all the existing powers. Because when the ancien-regime is gone that's when you know you've had a great revolution. The death of all govts, all religions and all large corporations is our life. Welcome to the revolution.

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Cryptocurrency: Banks and Govts Put Their $150M Bailout Debt On Your Backs
by grarpamp 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Meanwhile all you do is keep begging them to fuck you harder... When are you sheeple going to rise up and bankrupt them out of power by adopting and using crypto they can't touch... "The Creature from Jekyll Island" The real price of out-of-thin-air money: UK taxpayers faces £150bn bill to cover Bank of England’s QE losses https://www.ft.com/content/ee8e33ee-e16e-459b-af32-5709db6874de https://archive.is/Eeiju "The BoE is indemnified against losses on the QE programme under an agreement signed with the Treasury in 2009, intended to ensure that monetary policy is not constrained by the implications for the central bank’s balance sheet."

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Remembering Aileen O'Carroll
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

The prince of search engines formerly known as Google appears to be going dark faster than we are - oh well . . . The recent memory holing of a communist commissar in red-fascist China reminded me of this gem from 1992. notes for a talk given to the Dublin branch, March 11th 1992 by Aileen O'Carroll https://struggle.ws/talks/cheka.html Ripostes not snortments. El pueblo unido will never be defeado.

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NYS Regulator Fined Deutsche Bank $150 Million Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein but Says It Doesn’t Have a Scrap of Paper on JPMorgan and the Sex Trafficker
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/07/nys-regulator-fined-deutsche-bank-15… On July 5, Wall Street On Parade filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request with the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the state agency that investigates and penalizes financial institutions for engaging in illicit activities. We were curious as to why the DFS had fined Deutsche Bank upwards of $150 million on July 7, 2020 for its illicit dealings with the sex trafficker of underage girls, Jeffrey Epstein, but had remained silent on any investigations or fines against JPMorgan Chase. Our curiosity was heightened by the fact that Deutsche Bank had only a 5-year banking relationship with Epstein, from 2013 to 2018, while JPMorgan Chase had a 15-year banking relationship with Epstein, from 1998 to 2013. When we examined the details in the consent order that the DFS had filed against Deutsche Bank, our curiosity was heightened further. According to the consent order, over the course of Deutsche Bank’s relationship with Epstein, more than $800,000 in cold hard cash was withdrawn from Epstein’s accounts. On Monday, in a filing in federal court in lower Manhattan, the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands revealed that “Between September 2003 and November 2013, or approximately ten years, JPMorgan handled more than $5 million in outgoing cash transactions for Epstein — ignoring its own policy discouraging large cash withdrawals….” Laundering $5 million in cash for a sex trafficking ring is 6.25 times that of laundering $800,000 for a sex trafficking ring, so we would have expected to see a fine by the NYS DFS of at least $937.5 million against JPMorgan Chase, especially given the fact that JPMorgan Chase is a recidivist criminal with five felony counts already brought against it by the U.S. Department of Justice and admitted to by the bank. The Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan Chase in federal court and demanding more than $190 million in monetary damages as well as injunctive relief – meaning that the bank has to change the way it conducts its business. The U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit charges the following: “Plaintiff, the Government of the United States Virgin Islands (‘Government’), claims and will prove that Defendant JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (‘JPMorgan’) violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1581-1597 (‘TVPA’), by knowingly participating in and benefitting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking and by obstructing investigation through its concealment of Epstein’s suspicious transactions from law enforcement. Discovery confirms that JPMorgan knowingly, recklessly, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which Epstein’s recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of Epstein’s trafficking. JPMorgan had real-time information on Epstein’s payments that the Government did not and had specific legal duties to report this information to law enforcement authorities, which it intentionally decided not to do.” The federal court in Manhattan now has hundreds of internal emails, dozens of depositions, and thousands of documents backing up the claims being made by the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. Virgin Islands is approximately 1,600 miles from JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Manhattan. The DFS headquarters in Manhattan is approximately 5.9 miles from the Park Avenue headquarters of JPMorgan Chase at the time Epstein was a client. The DFS main office at 1 State Street in Manhattan is approximately 7.2 miles from Epstein’s former mansion at 9 East 71st Street where school-age girls were being sex-trafficked, raped and sexually assaulted for years by Epstein and his rich pals, according to lawsuits filed and settled using funds wired out of both JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank. With such proximity to the scene of the hideous crimes, why has the public heard nothing about any investigation or fines or injunctive relief being leveled against JPMorgan Chase by the New York State Department of Financial Services? Having filed our sunshine law records request on July 5, we waited anxiously for answers from the DFS. Yesterday, July 26, we received a one-page response from George Bogdan, Senior Attorney in the General Counsel’s Office for the DFS. We had asked for any documents that simultaneously included the phrases “JPMorgan” (or J.P. Morgan) and “Jeffrey Epstein” for the period of 01/01/2008 through 12/31/2019. Mr. Bogdan informed us that the DFS didn’t have so much as one scrap of a record responsive to our request; that it was closing our request; and it didn’t regulate or charter JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. But when we checked the DFS portal showing entities regulated by the DFS, we found eight separate subsidiaries of JPMorgan Chase that are regulated by the DFS. State attorneys general are empowered under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1581-1597 (‘TVPA’) to bring cases against sex traffickers and those that aid them. Why hasn’t this been done by the New York State Attorney General? Why is it being left to the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands? More importantly, with the mountain of evidence against JPMorgan Chase that has been developed in the three separate Epstein-related lawsuits that have been filed in federal court in Manhattan, why hasn’t the U.S. Department of Justice brought criminal charges against the bank for money laundering? The DOJ brought two criminal felony counts against JPMorgan Chase in 2014 for laundering money for Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Why the hesitation now? There is a growing feeling among investigative reporters and other engaged Americans that when it comes to JPMorgan Chase and its Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, who has presided over this unprecedented, decade long crime spree at the bank, the DOJ and regulators are simply afraid to take on the 1,000-attorney law firms that the bank hires to battle its way out of its crimes and get cushy deals like non-prosecution agreements and deferred-prosecution agreements. Currently, in the three lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase related to Epstein in federal court (one by Epstein’s victims, one by the U.S. Virgin Islands, and one on behalf of shareholders), the bank has the 1,000-attorney law firm of WilmerHale representing the bank and the 1,000-attorney law firm of Paul Weiss representing its Board in the shareholder lawsuit. Bloomberg News, for its part, is running the equivalent of an infomercial for Jamie Dimon today (paywall). Its video, plastered on its digital front page, carries the headline: “Bankers Want to Work for Jamie Dimon.” Seriously? So they can be charged with racketeering or deposed in a sex trafficking case? The video informs us that: “Wall Street is crushing on Jamie Dimon more than ever…Some bankers, many of whom have only worked in a low rate, cheap money environment, are looking to Dimon as the Wall Street captain they most want to work for.” This is not the first time we have caught Bloomberg News shilling for Dimon. (See Bloomberg News Bashes Wells Fargo While Canonizing JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon, Despite 3 Felony Counts at His Bank (written before the bank got another two felony counts) and The Craziest Video You’ll Ever Watch on JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon. One might be forgiven for thinking that the fact that billionaire Michael Bloomberg, majority owner of the parent of Bloomberg News, whose billions of dollars in wealth derives significantly from the tens of thousands of data and trading terminals it leases to JPMorgan’s trading floors around the world, might be less than aggressive in reporting on the serial crimes at the bank with Dimon at the helm. All of this matters greatly to every American. JPMorgan Chase is the largest federally-insured bank in the United States. Its deposit-taking bank, Chase Bank, has 4,916 branch offices in 49 U.S. states plus another 198 branches on foreign soil. As of December 31, 2022, JPMorgan Chase held $2.43 trillion in deposits, of which only 40 percent were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (The other 60 percent of deposits either exceeded the $250,000 per depositor/per bank cap on insurance or were deposits on foreign soil which are not insured by the FDIC.) To paraphrase Richard Nixon, Americans needs to know if the largest bank in their country is a serial crook, incapable of changing its ways. If Big Law is standing in the way of that, the 1,000-attorney law firms need to be broken up along with the Too-Big-to-Fail banks. If you agree, please call your U.S. Senators today and demand action.

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Re: Goldman Sachs Deferred Agreement
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Mr. Marzulli: Potential, new upward circumstances come to you today. Gunnar On Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 11:30 AM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: > Mr. Marzulli: > > Thank you for our conversation today concerning Goldman Sachs' Deferred > Prosecution Agreement > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yx88RMoeLyyfbNK0RtPl4r-m8N21_1Sp/view?usp=…> > with the United States. > > - We are concerned that the agreement has been violated > - As we discussed together today, Ms. Karen P. Seymour is no longer > with Goldman Sachs > - The agreement outlines that Ms. Seymour having complete and full > liberty of maintaining the deferred agreement's terms and conditions > > Keeping all this in mind, and given Ms. Seymour is no longer with the > firm, does the US Attorney's office have an updated copy of the deferred > agreement given the circumstances? > > Sending you the very best regards. > > Thank you, > > Gunnar Larson > -- > *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* > MSc > <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> > - Digital Currency > MBA > <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> > - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) > > G(a)xNY.io > +1-646-454-9107 > New York, New York 10001 >

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Crypto-Anarchy today
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Tim May is dead. John Galton is dead - and I don't feel very well myself. Govt power may have declined dramatically since the rise of our power - but they still have inertia to spare till the crypto-economic Big Bang. They can tax goods and services more than incomes while playing delaying games via spurious " friendly " regulation. So we're still years away from generalised collapse-of-govts ( CoG? ) I guesstimate four more years at full warp. This brings us up to Cypherpunk 2027. The start of ubiquitous quantum networking, default ( True Names! ) anonymity for all and everyone-an-assassin. Nothing helps pass long overdue reform measures like a good, strong, generalised ( now GLOBALISED) social revolution. Praise Gall. Praise Metcalfe. But, above all, praise Proudhon. Good ideological money drives out bad everytime. And nothing is stronger or better than an idea whose time has come. Roll on the world revolution

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LendingClub: Current Board of Directors
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Pure honesty, what (if anything) does September 11 have to do with LendingClub's Board of Directors (see below)? LendingClub is a peer-to-peer lending company, headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and to offer loan trading on a secondary market. At its height, LendingClub was the world's largest peer-to-peer lending platform. The company claims that $15.98 billion in loans had been originated through its platform ... LendingClub was initially launched on Facebook as one of Facebook's first applications. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Anuj Nayar <anayar(a)lendingclub.com> Date: Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [EXT] LendingClub: Current Board of Directors To: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io>, Investor Relations <ir(a)lendingclub.com>, Press <Press(a)lendingclub.com> Hi Gunnar On September 11, 2021, in connection with her nomination to serve as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, Adrienne Harris notified us of her resignation, effective September 12, 2021, from the Company’s Board. Details can be found in the 8k filed on 9/15/21 (below) https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001409970/bbc437e4-2920-4d5d-8e0… *From: *Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Date: *Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 9:37 AM *To: *Investor Relations <ir(a)lendingclub.com>, Press <Press(a)lendingclub.com> *Cc: *Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Subject: *[EXT] LendingClub: Current Board of Directors *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Madam or Sir: Good day to you. Surveying market research, I was wondering if you can kindly confirm, from LendingClub's July 15, 2021 press release: - Is Ms. Adrienne Harris currently a member of LendingClub's board of directors? - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lendingclub-appoints-adrienne-harr… [prnewswire.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.prnewswire.com_new…> - Reviewing your website, Ms. Harris is not referenced: https://www.lendingclub.com/company/leadership - Bloomberg and other sources do not reference Ms. Harris as a LendingClub board member: https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/LC:US [bloomberg.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bloomberg.com_quot…> Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io [xny.io] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.xNY.io&d=DwMFaQ&c=z…> | Bank.org [bank.org] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__Bank.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=zW-…>* MSc [unic.ac.cy] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.unic.ac.cy_blockch…> - Digital Currency MBA [unic.ac.cy] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.unic.ac.cy_busines…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 ------------------------------ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the named addressee. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the named addressee, you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.

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