July 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: The BTC Lightning Nodeless Scam - Dumb Saylor Maxi's and Dorsey Donkey's
by grarpamp 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Sorry kids, you can't wrap shit around a turd and claim you invented gold. Bitcoin-BTC-Lightning is the worthless turd that fools and charlatans are trying to turn into gold. It simply doesn't can't and won't work. Nodeless is a GovCorp custodial intermediary to BTC-LN. Silicon Valley Crypto is not altruistic, it exists to make money, any way, and by any lie it can, period, any human benefit is secondary. As far as Human Freedom goes, it's all garbage... Govt and Banks are now all feeding the hype on Bitcoin because they know that since it is not privacy-enabled and that its low txrate and storage demands and fees and corporate dominated ASIC mining all continually forces it toward full custodial and censorship for 90% of humanity, that they can eventually control and usurp it into becoming their Devil's CBDC, now being trojaned upon the 90% with great fanfare of "Bitcoin" "laser eyes" "gainz" etc, great wealthy powers playing their extraction game as usual. Yes, you likely will make $big gainz from Bitcoin. But for so long as Bitcoin refuses to change to become a true p2p private scaleable simple cash, and for so long as no other Satoshi's stand up to create one, it eventually won't be usable as *your* Bitcoin, thus becoming useless for *your* Freedom. The best it can offer is a bizarre disheartening mashup of 1984 over Utopia. As the saying goes, "Money buys neither Love nor Freedom". And Freedom has never come from any Corporation or Governor. So quit lying to yourselves, put your Freedom hats back on, and go develop and release a simple private p2p electronic cash for the world. That's all humanity really wants, everything else comes later from that. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/26/spains-largest-bank-… https://nodeless.io/ https://decrypt.co/146312/meet-nodeless-the-non-kyc-bitcoin-lightning-proce… https://decrypt.co/92482/bitcoin-payments-firm-opennode-closes-20m-series-a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafzIW52Rgc Docu: WHO KILLED BITCOIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq9bCuM0YQ8 Docu: QUIEN MATO BITCOIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BZoKH-hX_o Why Blockstream Destroyed Bitcoin https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V365_59-Lc The Truth About The Lightening Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g How The Banks Bought Bitcoin Lightning Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k14EDcB-DcE What is the Lightning Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZaLbUUZUs How Bitcoin Lightning Channels Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBOqW9SDmE Blockstream Turning Bitcoin Into Fiat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgts1qb0hLY Lightning Network Onion Routing Lack of Anonymity and Other Woes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbD0kiTddEs Big Blocks Can Scale But Will It Centralize Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYEQVPklLI Will Bitcoin Lightning Network Hubs Be Regulated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGrUOLsC9cw Why The Lightning Network Does not Scale BTC Lightning Sucks, plenty more videos out there explain why that is. - All parties must be online, will not be used by sleeping antipodals - No cryptographic level of privacy - Only useful to preload (thus lockout) your funds from all other possible [priority] uses that may arise. - Only useful in a one way stream to a pre-known single recipient, such as a grocer or biller. - Bi-dir channels are made irrelevent by old school offline difference-keeping with settlement later, for less fees than all the channel and node bullshit would entail. - Fees already invalidate most small purchases, and will eventually eat up most other use cases since they all ultimately require settlement onchain. - Centralization regulatory nightmare. Bitcoin-BTC will now only be used as value store, it's fees will rise to alienate 90+% of humanity leading to paper shareholding schemes over centralized custody pools, and will, after one or two more huge waves, if left unchanged, be eventually obsoleted by a simple private p2p cash in the next 10 years. While riding the wave, seek the cash. "WHO KILLED BITCOIN?" "Just keep a tab" Lol, that's not how the real world works. BTC+LN+whatever is taking an unnecessary bet on futures, that somehow it will maintain stride for a final cutover to Freedom mode, or that a mass humanthink compromise on Freedom will be accepted before usurpation, rejection, or competition occur. None of those are likely. Whereas crypto's history to date has already shown that the raw power of millions of people with a *real* cash in hand around the globe is unstoppable. Make a simple private p2p cash now! That is what Maxi's are really describing, but are misattributing to BTC. DeFi systems, and everything else, will come to use that cash later. https://decrypt.co/146312/meet-nodeless-the-non-kyc-bitcoin-lightning-proce… Meet Nodeless, The Non-KYC Bitcoin Lightning Processor Jack Dorsey Tweeted About The platform makes it possible to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments without Know-Your-Customer requirements. Late last week, Jack Dorsey tweeted a link to Nodeless —and nothing else. Although cryptic, the mention seemed like a stamp of approval for the platform from one of Bitcoin’s most famous backers, sparking buzzy excitement as well as some debate over the merits of the Lightning payment processor. https://t.co/LZmNol22Ho — jack (@jack) June 22, 2023 What is Nodeless, exactly? In short, merchants can add the tool to their website to accept Bitcoin payments more easily. Specifically, it helps with making transactions over the Lightning Network, which offers cheaper and faster payments over Bitcoin and is widely heralded as the most likely method through which Bitcoin will go mainstream. "Our goal is to make Bitcoin a medium of exchange by making it as easy as possible for merchants to accept Bitcoin," Nodeless's pseudonymous creator UTXO told Decrypt. Still, using Lightning non-custodially—without a middleman taking control of a user’s funds—can be tricky for newer users. In some ways, Nodeless's functionality is similar to OpenNode, another Lightning-based Bitcoin payments provider. But Nodeless offers one key difference: users don't have to share identifying information to begin accepting payments using the platform. In other words, it's a non-KYC (Know Your Customer) service. ‘Nodeless’ payments Using Lightning non-custodially generally requires a user to run their own Lightning node. This can be tricky for non-technical users or users strapped for time. There are already platforms out there like Voltage or Greenlight, however, which provide a one-click solution for setting up a Lightning node, and where users don't have to maintain the node over time. But Nodeless takes a different approach. Nodeless is "nodeless" in the sense that a merchant accepting payments doesn't have to run their own Lightning node—which takes time and resources to establish and run, and eats up computational resources. There's still a node involved—a node is always involved when sending a Bitcoin or Lightning payment. But instead of a user running their own node, Nodeless's node is the one passing on the payment. When a payment is sent to the merchant, it's sent to Nodeless. Nodeless then immediately sends the payment to the merchant’s on-chain or Lightning address. "Technically we custody individual payments for several seconds while the payment is in transit. We believe this is a fair trade-off versus the complexities of running a lightning node," UTXO said. So, Nodeless is technically a custodial solution in that it holds a user's funds for a minute. But it promises to give it back very quickly. Users provide a Lightning address or cold wallet storage Bitcoin address to which Nodeless will promptly forward the user's funds. Privacy money Some Bitcoiners expressed skepticism about this model, arguing that as the company grows, KYC requirements from governments will get more stringent. Or, since Nodeless is technically a centralized solution, governments could conceivably step in and force the company to stop transactions it doesn't like. But UTXO thinks Nodeless can bypass these pressures. Nodeless operates legally in Canada, where transactions under $1,000 don't require KYC identification. In the long-term, they're looking to move to El Salvador, known for its lax measures toward Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, where UTXO said "this business is welcomed with open arms." "I also think [governments will] be more interested in the non-KYC custodians before Nodeless," UTXO said.

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Cryptocurrency: Quantum Qubits PQC - Slowly Then Suddenly, Google 70 Qubits
by grarpamp 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

https://www.earth.com/news/quantum-computer-can-instantly-execute-a-task-th… Google just announced a 70 qubit computer that can perform calculations almost instantly that would take current supercomputers 47 years Cryptocurrency: BTC Silent About NIST PQC And Looming Classical Break Cryptocurrency: Homomorphic / Privacy / Censorship / QSC / PQC / Quantum / AI Threat to classical crypto known and growing for many years. NIST approves PQC algorithms. Bitcoin-BTC says nothing about moving to PQC to secure users funds. Move to and use privacy enabled PQC coins. Zero Knowledge.

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[spam][spam][spam] walking robot algorithm parts
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

i linked some time ago to a small 4-legged walking robot i started making during chemotherapy, when i was able to work on it for many weeks. i didn't finish this. one next option was implementing an algorithm for planning steps. my hands broke the controller and refused to fix it as this developed. it seems there's still value to writing this algorithm. it seems nice to engage it a little.

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Re: NY FOIL 2023-095230 request for Techsprint video is granted
by Gunnar Larson 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Thank you. Yes, that is okay. Gunnar On Fri, Jul 7, 2023, 4:51 PM Bogdan, George (DFS) <George.Bogdan(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: > Dear Gunnar Larson: > > > > Your request for the Techsprint video is granted. You just need to tell me > if digital delivery is ok for you via our File Transfer Application. It’s > an MP4 file with 3 gigabytes of data. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > George Bogdan > Senior Attorney > Department of Financial Services > One State Street > New York, New York 10004-1417 > FAX: (212) 709-1655 > (212) 480-4758 > *george.bogdan(a)dfs.ny.gov <george.bogdan(a)dfs.ny.gov>* > > >

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Strong AI will choose APster for global defragging
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

https://decrypt.co/147717/ai-chatbot-allegedly-backed-mans-plan-kill-queen-… Reposts not foolish attempts to delay the totally inevitable globalised anarchism.

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CELEBRITY journalist / publisher seeking free-speech protection
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Should the Mange present in court as a journalist / publisher seeking free-speech protection he may be cross examined on these statements of his that he is a spy and/ or a combatant in a war and a war propagandist. Media practitioners and their advocates routinely emphasize the civilian and protected nature of their professional work when reporting on armed conflict. They never claim to be spies and/or warfighters. Any argument Assmange is a journalist - publisher confronts statements of his that contradict this. For example. That WL are ‘spies for the people’ and that the organization is a peoples intelligence agency. Journalism has rules, ethics; espionage has no rules/ethics. Then - in May 2017 - Assmange suggest a ’ proper war is commencing’, calls for ’ acts of resistance’ and sez WL is a ‘combatant’. Journalists are neither combatants, nor spies. They are civilian non-combatants.

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The rise and rise of Douglas the Rimmer
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Rise_of_Michael_Rimmer Reposts better than hairballed obscurantist bumfluff from professional bullshit artists. Journalists go fuck yourselves.

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Anarchist revolutionary martyrs
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

We will avenge youse https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2023/05/08/ukraine-memoria/ Reposts not further waffle about Nazbol plebiscites. Not voting is not " not doing anything". Its not doing anything stupid.

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Re: My new article - Georgia hasn't, and can't, certify crucial vote software update
by Douglas Lucas 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Apologies for the lack of quoting y'all, can't at the moment, I'll try to paraphrase fairly. Professor Rat said something like, why is this article important to cypherpunks, besides in a know-thy-enemy way. I think the Georgia situation will further spiral out of control as time goes on, getting wilder and wilder. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point WL or DDoSecrets or who knows else, publishes the swiped Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5-A or something like that. So I'm hoping my article prepares cypherpunks for such an event, because most likely, of all that may happen due to the breach of Coffee County 5.5-A, the biggest thing will be disinfo that includes elements of the swiped source code, already happened at CPAC [1]. The (so far, far right partisan restricted) leak of State (well, Dominion Voting Systems, but what's the diff) governance source code strikes me as a matter of cypherpunks interest ... I have a strong sense there's more on the way between now and Election Day 2024. Professor Rat and Karl went back and forth a little about the importance or not of representative voting/consensus methods. Without delving into it in great detail, I will say I basically oppose representative governance (and hierarchy governance like fascism or monarchy), and think direct voting/consensus should primarily be limited to very small groups (e.g., "Can the three of us come to consensus about what we want for dinner tonight?"). There are other paths, e.g. stigmergy. But how to get from here to there. I wrote a single installment on whistleblower Reality Winner so far for the _Texas Observer_. Due to their (well publicized) financial restructuring, my next installments are in slow-mo. But one of them will most def be about grassroots activism to not only protect/secure, but also to evolve voting. So for example, in Texas where I'm from, there are almost never referendums on the ballot -- only in rare cases of amending the state constitution. So Texans can only vote for representatives/politicians. But here in Seattle we have referendums all the time (i.e. many of the red state people, much of the country, don't even know what referendums are). Just a few election cycles ago, Seattleites voted directly on an *idea* rather than personalities ... namely, whether soda should or shouldn't be taxed to fund pre-k education and other social services. Forget the specifics or whether for/against that particular example/tax, just the idea of voting directly on a proposition is something that could be spread throughout the country to (hopefully) reduce the apathy and celebpolitician-worship of John Q Public. Other way to evolve democracy could be, you know, you can vote with a ballot, but you can also "vote" with your actions, such as Food Not Bombs or torching a slaughterhouse. So I plan to delve into just that kind of stuff in a future installment. If anybody has links for me about it, options, paths, DIY anarchist-y tech, that I might be able to squeeze in, don't hesitate to send for me to review. :-Doug Links: ------ [1] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-30/election-machines-cpac

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My new article - Georgia hasn't, and can't, certify crucial vote software update
by professor rat 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Cypherpunks may be interested in these matters - especially those who routinely mistake us for the more specialized " Cryptography " list. But I'm not sure why cryptoanarchists would be. Unless in a ' Know your enemy " way. Voting in nationalist elections is strictly against the anarchist religion - one of the few issues anarchists are in accord about over the last 180 odd years. I just targeted that scumbag loser, Porter Smith for trying to smuggle in this loudly inferior form of democracy to web 3. Him, and that scumbag loser, Balaji and Mollusk are now trying to do for net politics what the crypto industry suits are trying to do for the world economy. This fascist aggression will not stand man. Anarchists use direct-democracy, consensus and constituent assemblies NOT representative democracy, MAGAT populism and Town Squares run by the likes of Pinochet and Elon Musk. I feel stupid even having to say this - where did all these fucking ignorant morons come from? I blame religion - note all these farcical electoral games invariably swear on bibles - but if there was a God we would have to destroy it. Just as we destroy POTUS power like Clintons, Bush 2's, Bambi's, Dumbfucks and now Biden's. Death to America is not just a cheap slogan for us - cypherpunk anarchist revolutionary martyrs already paid for it. Death to all nation states - AMERICA FIRST - so that cryptoanarchism of, for and by the people shall not perish. Nationalist morons GO FUCK YOURSELVES.

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