September 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: The World Needs What We Are Building
by grarpamp 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

“Hello friends, MtGox is gone. So let's prepare ourselves. On Tuesday, and for the rest of the week, all hell will break lose in the media. It will be blamed on MtGox, it will be blamed on Bitcoin, it will be blamed on the "bug," and it will, more than anything, be blamed on the "lack of regulation." Pundits and "experts" of all types will weigh in on the calamity. It will be world news in a matter of hours. Get ready, because it will be an ugly week. For all of you who lost money, my heart goes out to you. Some people lost a little, some lost a fortune. It will make people sick, and depressed, and full of grief. Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back. If misery loves company, then we'll be enjoying a grand feast today. I should have known better, of course. I take responsibility for leaving those funds with an entity that had proven incompetence repeatedly. I chose to ignore even my own warnings, for nothing more than the sake of convenience. Gox is still at fault, to be sure, but I have learned the lesson. I hope it is not such an expensive lesson for others. And for all you observers, please take a moment to consider it as well. Be mindful, however, that the wrong lessons are not learned, for that would be the true tragedy, indeed. Let me suggest that the lesson is not that Bitcoin is broken. Bitcoin is fine. Similarly, the lesson is not that security is impossible. Those who know what they are doing, can achieve it and help others to do so. The lesson is not that nobody can be trusted. There are countless good men and women in this community who are worthy of trust, and some of the very best people I've ever met. And finally, the lesson is not that we ought to seek out "regulation" to save us from the evils and incompetence of man. For the regulators are men too, and wield the very same evil and incompetence, only enshrined in an authority from which it can wreck amplified and far more insidious destruction. Let us not retreat from our rising platform only to cower back underneath the deranged machinations of Leviathan. The proper lesson, if I may suggest, is this: We are building a new financial order, and those of us building it, investing in it, and growing it, will pay the price of bringing it to the world. This is the harsh truth. We are building the channels, the bridges, and the towers of tomorrow's finance, and we put ourselves at risk in doing so. We are at risk from accidents. We are at risk from fraud, from corruption, and from evil. We are at risk from journalists seeking headlines and from politicians seeking power and glory. We are at risk from the very market we are trying to build - a market which cares not about our portfolio, our ambitions, or our delicate sympathies. For all these risks, devastation will befall us repeatedly. Some of us will be discouraged. Some will be ridiculed and insulted. Some will be tricked, or swindled. Some of us will be crushed or caged. We will be set upon by all manner of antagonists, repeatedly, for a long time. So why do we do it? Why do we build these towers that fall down upon us? Why do we toil and strain and risk our precious time, which is the only real wealth we possess? Because the world needs what we're building. It needs it desperately. If that matters to you, as it does to me, then hold to that thought. You will see through the smoke, and your wounds will heal. So shake it off, brothers, for this won't be the last calamity endured before the win. Tonight, my heart is with you all. Tomorrow, my head is down. My eyes are open. And I am building. Toward peace and freedom, -Erik Voorhees”

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Success has a thousand fathers
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

Defeat is an orphan file https://coinedition.com/xrp-community-claims-credit-for-decentralized-justi… Reposts not insane clown posse of carpetbaggers

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Cryptocurrency: The Fiat Standard vs Worker Unions
by grarpamp 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

In free markets unions achieve market results. In corrupt controlled markets unions are uneconomic psyops and pawns of the corrupt controllers (Biden pickets with UAW). History proves that such artificial unfree unions propped up by the "laws" and enforcers of government socialism, always fail. Crypto leverages free capital, routing around controlled markets to re-establish free markets and cultures of voluntary charity. Striking Autoworkers Will Only Harm Their Own Livelihoods https://mises.org/wire/striking-autoworkers-will-only-harm-their-own-liveli… Authored by Connor O'Keefe via The Mises Institute, https://mises.org/topics/anarchy https://www.vox.com/2023/9/15/23875044/uaw-strike-news-contract-demands-wen… https://www.autonews.com/suppliers/2023-uaw-strike-would-savage-struggling-… https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-convertibility-ends https://mises.org/library/feds-2-inflation-target https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=18ZEm https://mises.org/library/deflation-free-or-compulsory https://store.mises.org/Fiat-Standard-The-Debt-Slavery-Alternative-to-Human… https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/11/10/financialization-and-incom… https://mises.org/wire/financialization-why-financial-sector-now-rules-glob… https://mises.org/library/roots-housing-shortage https://mises.org/wire/how-government-regulations-made-healthcare-so-expens… https://mises.org/wire/current-farm-bill-fraud-government-usual https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/16/the_green_movement_is… https://www.axios.com/2023/08/23/electric-cars-autoworkers-contract-strike https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Critique-Political-Economy-Classics/dp/01404… https://cdn.mises.org/Capital%20and%20Interest_0.pdf https://uaw.org/about/ https://cdn.mises.org/Restrictionist%20Pricing%20of%20Labor_Rothbard.pdf https://www.vox.com/2023/9/15/23875044/uaw-strike-news-contract-demands-wen… https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Bastiat%20Collection_4.pdf On Friday, September 15, 12,700 members of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) walked off the job at plants owned by the “Big Three” automakers - Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (which owns Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram). The walkout marked the beginning of a series of long-expected targeted strikes aiming to give the UAW leverage as it renegotiates contracts with the three companies. And Friday September 22, the situation escalated. The strike is grounded in frustrations over worker compensation. Union members and their supporters point to high profits and CEO pay at the Big Three and compare them to stagnant wages and rising costs of living among autoworkers. They feel like they’re being ripped off. And they’re right. Like the rest of the working class, autoworkers are being ripped off. Decades of interventionism have built an economic system that harms workers while helping the corporate and political classes. The first reason for this is monetary policy. Ever since President Richard Nixon abolished the gold standard in the early 1970s, a handful of bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve have been charged with determining the value of our currency. And those bureaucrats have decided that the dollar should lose value every year. They aim for a decline of 2 percent annually, but the rate has been higher in recent years. Dollar devaluation is a political choice. And it hurts workers. In an unhampered market, money becomes more valuable as societies grow wealthier. Goods become better and more affordable. And money saved grows in value. Under our current inflationist fiat regime, the opposite happens. Savings shrink in value by design. The result is spelled out by Saifedean Ammous in his book The Fiat Standard: The culture of conspicuous mass consumption that pervades our planet today cannot be understood except through the distorted incentives fiat creates around consumption. With the money constantly losing its value, deferring consumption and saving will likely have a negative expected value. Finding the right investments is difficult, requires active management and supervision, and entails risk. The path of least resistance, the path permeating the entire culture of fiat society, is to consume all your income, living paycheck to paycheck. We can see, then, how monetary policy leads to mass consumption, low savings, and hyperfinancialization—all at the same time. In fact, one of the most notable examples of the financialization of the economy since the 1970s has been the growth of the Big Three automakers’ financial arms—GM Financial, Ford Credit, and Stellantis Financial Services. In fact, as Ryan McMaken highlights: “By the early 2000s, a majority of GM’s profits were coming from its financial operations and not from automobile production.” In other words, the automakers have profited from the very same government policies that devalue their workers’ paychecks and savings. But monetary policy is only one part of the story. Governments at all levels restrict the supply of housing by limiting building. That makes housing less affordable. The federal government also bids up demand for healthcare services while restricting the supply of doctors and hospitals, and it shields drug manufacturers from competition. That makes healthcare much more expensive. Meanwhile, Washington’s agricultural policy aims to prop up crop prices, which impacts the price of many foods. All this artificially drives up the cost of living. That’s bad enough for autoworkers, but the Biden administration is also trying to force a transition to electric vehicles (EVs). For autoworkers building engines, transmissions, and exhaust systems, that’s a threat to their jobs. And because the ramp-up of EV production is driven by politics rather than consumer demand, the transition is set to hurt all workers who rely on cars. Considering all that, it is obvious why autoworkers are frustrated with their financial situation. But unfortunately, their justified anger has been hijacked by another source of their problems, the UAW. Support for labor unions rests on an economic myth from the mid-eighteenth century. In short, it’s the idea that companies make profits by not paying workers the full value of their labor. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk dismantled this socialist exploitation theory 139 years ago when he introduced time into the analysis. Companies pay workers in the present for labor services that may lead to saleable goods in the future. Because of the universal trait of time preference, the certainty of money now is often more appealing than the possibility of more money later, which is why so many people choose to sell their labor services on the job market. Böhm-Bawerk’s insights are easy to see in auto manufacturing, where workers are paid up front to help build cars that will be sold later. Still, the flawed idea that profits signify wage theft caught on, and in 1935, autoworkers founded the UAW. The present strikes speak to the persistence of this myth. Labor unions often appeal to worker solidarity, but in truth, they epitomize the exact opposite. Because as Murray Rothbard has shown, they can only raise wages for some workers by lowering the wages or eliminating the jobs of other workers. At the Big Three automakers, this can be seen in the heavy use of temporary and part-time workers, who are placed on a lower pay tier—the elimination of which is ironically a core demand of the UAW strike. But this situation is just what’s visible. All those who are blocked entirely from the jobs that would be available to them if not for the union remain unseen. America’s autoworkers are right to be angry about their economic situation. But the restrictionist labor demands of the UAW are a distraction that will, at most, help some autoworkers at the expense of others. The real solution lies in ending union practices that unnecessarily pit workers against each other, ending the policies that force companies to produce things consumers don’t even want, ending the multitude of government programs and political privileges that artificially raise the cost of living, and ending the monetary system that destroys the value of workers’ paychecks and savings while propping up the financial class. Abolish all that, and the benefits will extend far beyond the auto industry.

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Re: Your messages to cypherpunks
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/206272883?hl=en&msgid=206732947 Gmail uses a wait-and-watch policy to ensure any changes made in response to spamming related incidents (if any happened with your domain) are not temporary and it may take several weeks before the sender or the recipient notice a positive change, even more so if the SMTP or outgoing server is a shared server/IP address that also hosts other domains which may continue to engage in dubious practices or you have had any recent spam related incidents. Let me know. Somnath Diamond Product Expert Product Expert and Mentor for Gmail and Google Accounts. Mar 18, 2023 Additionally, can you share the domain name? If you do not wish to post about the domain name, post it separately, leave it on for a minute or so and delete it so that I can receive an email notification and do some checks based on it.

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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

to help others work with the numbers, we add notes regarding the number 2 and number 0 that we are not certain whether they will stay the same numbers, and assertions we make about them are dependent on them being “0” and “2” in ascending order. if they change to other numbers, assertions regarding their relation with “1” may no longer be true.

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Messy Epitaph for Karl (in case squelched)
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

I came to coderman on the offtopic tor irc channel in the mid 2010s. He forwarded me here. I returned to the channel and it seemed to havenchanged, and people talked like they were involved in what was happening to me (“we are controlling you”). When I managed to return to that channel some years later, it had disappeared (“dumpster fire”) and I was muted when I tried to discuss things. I expect I am here because I don’t know what to do, it seemed like my last resource to sort things out. Coderman said he doesn’t remember the exchange. This is my whole life, and I don’t know what it is, but people near here did. Because of it I live in two parts, always battling not to harm others and myself. It’s similar to psychotic breaks but more dissociative, focused on my behavior and thoughts with conflicting reasons. It’s nice to be able to express a little in the spam posting after having been so strongly silenced, and it gives the other part ease to be spamming. It’s really helped me think occasionally. Honestly something wasn’t expecting PGP to be so hard, and I wasn’t expecting coderman to not remember this exchange. It was a gamble, and now I don’t know what to do.

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Why does Grarpamp hate women so much?
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

Pushing the lunar-right narrative here years after the death of Mong? Why that's Semich-grade spamming & stupidity! But youse knew that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_rights_in_Latin_America Reposts not neo-nazi talking points from cacophonous cranky cretins

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" . . . pass given to Julian Assange . . . "
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

Known fascists still apparently loyal to the Mange include left-fascists, John Pilger, Tariq Ali and John Young. Amirite? Young and Ali also looked like the walking-dead, last time I looked. Right, Grampus? They could all be in Lenin's Tomb by now. Easier to imagine the death of Communism than capital, these days. Fortunately!

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The Signal Protocol used by 1+ billion people is getting a post-quantum makeover – Ars Technica
by jdb10987＠yahoo.com 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

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Film: Bill Foster - An ordinary Man, Pushed a little too far
by grarpamp 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

When society and nations are being wrecked by socialism, wokeism, homoism, globalism, economic nonsense, and fully pointless corrupt and unnecessary governments, when the peoples are taxflated to death, have no freespeech, no freedom, war is raging, AI tracks and influences everyone, the world is falling down, and you can't even get a simple Whammlette at the Whammyburger two minutes past the Corporate serverbot cutoff... One man has had enough... https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1704261831722770655 Yes, there he is... My Man !!! :) " There is really no society at this point. I dont even really blame the guy. Society hasnt done anything for me lately. Or really ever. I dont feel I owe it much. Or really anything. Whats the point of putting on clothes if you dont feel like it? Who do you owe it to to wear clothes? The Jews and immigrants? The women who control everything? I dont owe these people. Moving forward, I might just go around nude. Buying and wearing clothing is a burden that I dont really have the tolerance for anymore. Conservative white men all have this idea that society is on their backs and theyre the ones holding it together. Well, that part is true. But they have this idea that they have a duty to do that. But its a duty to whom? What exactly are you getting out of maintaining the illusion that we live in a society? Youre basically getting nothing but hassle and punishment. In the video, the guy recording yells at the nude stroller: "my man." This is a way of communicating: "yeah, that guys right -- fuck everything. Who cares?" If someone can come up with a good reason not to walk around in the nude, Id like to hear it. -- Andrew Anglin Publisher of the original most censorbanned blog on the planet. https://gab.ai/AndrewAnglin https://vk.com/dailystormer14 https://chat.efnet.org/#dailystormer http://stormer5v52vjsw66jmds7ndeecudq444woadhzr2plxlaayexnh6eqd.onion/ "

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