September 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

China Confirms Edward Snowden's Revelations
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

Anyone genuinely interested in the China- Ed Snowball nexus might ask those cpunks with direct experience. Jacob Appelbaum & James A. Donald, for example. As for any suggestion Jim Bell is playing Cointelpro style games here, he would be playing L-ONG catch-up ball with the repulsive likes of Agent Karl Semich and Garbage-scow-Gramps. I see little evidence for this so long as stupidity is a preferred explanation over conspiracy. Finally, lord Snowman proved he is an enemy of all humanity , and not just this list, when he wrapped himself up in a USG flag for Conde Nast. This disgusting KGB puke has needed killing ever since ( my 2k sats )

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China Confirms Edward Snowden's Revelations
by jdb10987＠yahoo.com 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

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Carrying a torch for APster
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

That green-light eluded us then. But thats no matter. Tomorrow we'll run faster. Stretch out our arms further. " . . . Paul Sztorc has been trying to launch a BTC-pegged sidechain prediction marketplace, Truthcoin (now renamed Hivemind), since 2015. Peter Todd called the eight-year-old idea “clever crazy instead of stupid crazy,” although he still thought it was crazy enough to have a “low chance of success.” Truthcoin/Hivemind has never launched a mainnet. Its founder, Sztorc, continues to promote two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), 300 and 301, which would allow him to launch the prediction market sidechain on the Bitcoin network. He recently raised $3 million for his company, LayerTwoLabs, to champion BIPs 300 and 301. . . . " FROM https://protos.com/heres-why-the-us-govt-always-shutters-prediction-markets/ Reposts not wholly blather from wannabe big-shots

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Textfiles: Simplified Privacy DotCom
by grarpamp 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

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Backstabbers Thousand Year Reich
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

Following Friedrich Engels and Auric Goldfinger, Adman Block, promotes a thousand years rule for his el slavador PIG GOD ( Porco Dio ) Jesus Fucking Christ. Like Friedrich Engels and Adolph Hitler, Adam Back promotes a thousand year rule! https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cypherpunk-legend-adam-back-bitcoin-is-… Reposts not hubristic cliches that are dogmeat pal

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China Confirms Edward Snowden's Revelations
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

This makes Jake A, the Marco Polo of cypherpunks. And the Chinese might help us evaluate Ed. Say, 20% good - 80% bad, yeah? No? Or is it too soon to tell? Help us James A Donald. What say the Marxist-Communists?

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Cryptoanarchy, coming ready or not
by professor rat 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

" . . . On a practical level, thinking about crypto politically is almost certainly a waste of time. And more importantly, once you start basing decisions around what the government will allow in reference to crypto, the game is lost. . . ." AND " . . . In fact, let’s not vote for or against any political candidate based on their stated views on crypto. There are more important things in the world beyond the fate of stablecoin regulation. And, being honest, it’s hard not to see the politicization of crypto as anything but rhetoric. . . ." FROM https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/21/vote-if-you-want-but… Reposts not US govt brown-nosers like Eric Hughes, Julian Assmange, Karl Someitch and that MAGAT-ridden hump, Gramps. Its a brave new world. Chickenmen need not apply.

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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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