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SAM BANKMAN-FRIED needs killing ( My 200 sats )
by professor rat 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

>>> SBF's suggestion that tools enabling retail traders access to DeFi protocols be regulated triggered horror among those who argue apps like Uniswap are simply software and thus can't be censured. One particularly loud voice is that of scupytrooples, the pseudonymous founder of DeFi protocol Alchemix, who tweeted a list of unsubstantiated complaints against Bankman-Fried. "I see them using the playbook of large corporations, where they ascend to the top, and then get involved in lobbying to make rules favorable for them to hurt the competition, and ultimately cement their position there," scupytrooples told The Block. "No different from Amazon, Exxon Mobil, Goldman, etc." "He's been on the record that he doesn't care about crypto and is only here for the money." Anthony Sassano, a well-known independent Ethereum educator, also criticized the FTX boss: "SBF is and always will be a cancer on this ecosystem," he wrote to his 225,000 Twitter followers. "Anyone supporting him and his cronies should be ashamed." <<< >From THE BLOCK newsletter Remember that Arb from the 80's , Ivan Boesky? Someone tried to assassinate him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Mulheren

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New stamp honors women cryptographers
by professor rat 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

Gramps is a Liar, Fraud, and Royal Asshole ( grarpamp ) But youse knew that.

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Cryptocurrency: PlanB Whale Forum Oct 28-29 2022 Lugano... Is Bitcoin Serious re Freedom?
by professor rat 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

Next silly question. OG c-punks like Mongo and Dumb-Bell noted Btc's public-facing aspect as a worry early on. Then it soon gathered a bunch of professional losers to manage its rapidly sinking narrative. Austro-libertarians, Gold Buggers, NAP headed nitwits, Randites, Paultards - the usual suspects. Its a miracle that it catalyzed trillions in new value - but then the entire anarchic net is built on the serendipitous kludge. Being platform agnostic I don't waste much time wishing Btc ill - merely note superior alternatives are possible. In the case of AVAX they may have already arrived. The first really huge globalized crypto could even be a centralized shitcoin - the red-fascist Chinese have first-mover-advantage here and have set the markers for regulatory arbitrage. Recall the SONY Betamax standard was supposedly superior to VHS. BTW maybe I'm just getting old but I could once program a Video-recorder while todays wallet documentation may as well be in Mandarin to me. Meh. Welcome to the flawed, contradictory, messy, stop-and-start, global-revolution. Bitcoins last stand. PUT UP or SHUT UP.

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Cryptocurrency: PlanB Whale Forum Oct 28-29 2022 Lugano... Is Bitcoin Serious re Freedom?
by grarpamp 20 Oct '22

20 Oct '22

https://planb.lugano.ch/pbf-speakers/ Yet another pomp money conference. Will they talk about making Bitcoin fulfill crypto's promise of onchain p2p scaling, adoption via use as cash, etc? Will they talk about their utter failure to do anything re abhorrent total lack of privacy, storage bloat, Lightning Network fail and anti-features, etc? No... too embarassing those forbidden narratives are. Time to fork Bitcoin's UTXO's into new minimalist fair launch ungoverned unfounded unstaked un* p2p privacy cash coins ! Will a single word about Freedom, Voluntaryism, etc, reducing and even ending the problem of the State as it exists today be publicly speeched on record at these conferences for all humanity to hear... No, they're subjects and cowards. 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New stamp honors women cryptographers
by professor rat 20 Oct '22

20 Oct '22

New stamp honors women cryptographers of WW2 https://twitter.com/JackRhysider/status/1582853759545540608 Reposts part of WW5

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Cryptocurrency: WTF Happened In 1971?
by grarpamp 20 Oct '22

20 Oct '22

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtf1971.com/reading-list/ https://twitter.com/WTF_1971 https://discord.gg/3qv6Wf2 https://wtf-1971.creator-spring.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/podcast-discussions-in-order-of-appearance/ WTF Happened In 1971? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/599460007284834324/78585125510814105… “I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.” – F.A. Hayek 1984 Newsletter Get WTF 1971 Merch Support Our Research Discussions WTF Happened In 1971? Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt The History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard The Road to Serfdom by F A Hayek The Ethics of Money Production by Jorg Guido Huulsman Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises Democracy the God that Failed by Hans Herman Hoppe The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Anthony Sutton Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikotter Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Man Economy and State by Murray Rothbard The 7th Property by Eric Yakes For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World by Mark Spitznagel October 18, 2022 #83 Price Deflation (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 6) Read Part 5 of this Series Author’s note: This series of blogposts will be my paraphrased notes on a lecture given by Murray Rothbard called “The American Economy and the End of Laissez Faire“. This… October 6, 2022 #82 The National Bank Act & Industrialization (The End of Laissez-Faire part 5) Read Part 4 of this Series Author’s note: This series of blogposts will be my paraphrased notes on a lecture given by Murray Rothbard called “The American Economy and the End of Laissez Faire“. This… October 5, 2022 #81 Lasting Effects of the Civil War (The End of Laissez-Faire part 4) Read part 3 of this series Author’s note: This series of blogposts will be my paraphrased notes on a lecture given by Murray Rothbard called “The American Economy and the End of Laissez Faire“. This… October 4, 2022 #80 Expansion of Statism & the Civil War (The End of Laissez-Faire part 3) Read Part 2 of this series Author’s note: This series of blogposts will be my paraphrased notes on a lecture given by Murray Rothbard called “The American Economy and the End of Laissez Faire“. This… October 1, 2022 #79 The Protestant Revival (The End of Laissez-Faire part 2) Read Part 1 of this series Author’s note: This series of blogposts will be my paraphrased notes on a lecture given by Murray Rothbard called “The American Economy and the End of Laissez Faire“. This… September 30, 2022 #78 The American Political System (The End of Laissez-Faire part 1) Author’s note: This series of blogposts will be my paraphrased notes on a lecture given by Murray Rothbard called “The American Economy and the End of Laissez Faire“. This means the post will contain some… August 16, 2022 Fiat Lux: The Origins of Modern Money Author’s note: This article was originally written and published on medium in the Spring of 2021 (and then also published in Bitcoin Magazine), but it was a compilation of a lot of the work I… February 14, 2021 #77 Reader Q&A: Unemployment and Recessions Hi Collin, A friend pointed me at Unpopular Opinions 119 where you are Ben wereguests. I hadn’t seen it before or heard of WTF1971 or Bitcoin EchoChamber. You stood out as the one who could… October 4, 2020 #76 Base Layer Settlement An important distinction we like to make, which I feel is often lost in confusion these days, is that the differences between a currency and money is mostly semantics. Allow me to explain… The historical… October 1, 2020 #75 The Asymmetry of Risk & Reward It seems to be commonly misunderstood today, the relationship between risk and profit for the entrepreneur and the vital role the accumulation of capital plays in a free and fair society. An entrepreneur (or at…

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the eco-jewnazis in germany
by punk 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

this is such an amazing depiction of the western jewnazi 'soul' "Germany’s Green Party conference held last weekend was a repulsive spectacle. The 817 delegates gathered in Bonn outdid one another with demands for an escalation of the war in Ukraine." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/19/b918-o19.html so yeah. All the worst right wing 'libertarian' trash of this list, i.e. grancrap, bell and co. are fully aligned with the 'greens'. And vice-versa.

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Directors Resign from the Boards of Five Companies in Response to Justice Department Concerns about Potentially Illegal Interlocking Directorates
by Gunnar Larson 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/directors-resign-boards-five-companies-respo… Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Directors Resign from the Boards of Five Companies in Response to Justice Department Concerns about Potentially Illegal Interlocking Directorates Resignations Reflect Antitrust Division’s Efforts to Reinvigorate Enforcement and Deter Violations of Section 8 of the Clayton Act WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that seven directors have resigned from corporate board positions in response to concerns by the Antitrust Division that their roles violated the Clayton Act’s prohibition on interlocking directorates. Section 8 of the Clayton Act (Section 8) prohibits directors and officers from serving simultaneously on the boards of competitors, subject to limited exceptions. Over the last several months, the Division announced its intent to reinvigorate Section 8 enforcement. This announcement is the first in a broader review of potentially unlawful interlocking directorates. “Section 8 is an important, but underenforced, part of our antitrust laws. Congress made interlocking directorates a *per se* violation of the antitrust laws for good reason. Competitors sharing officers or directors further concentrates power and creates the opportunity to exchange competitively sensitive information and facilitate coordination – all to the detriment of the economy and the American public,” said Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. “The Antitrust Division is undertaking an extensive review of interlocking directorates across the entire economy and will enforce the law.” By eliminating the opportunity to coordinate – explicitly or implicitly – through interlocking directorates, Section 8 is also intended to prevent other violations of the antitrust laws before they occur. In response to the Division’s competition concerns, the following companies and directors unwound the interlocks without admitting to liability: 1. *Definitive Healthcare Corp. and ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. *– Definitive and ZoomInfo operate go-to-market information and intelligence platforms used by third-party sales, marketing, operations, and recruiting teams across the United States. One director served simultaneously on the boards of both companies and resigned from Definitive’s board in response to the Division’s concerns about the alleged interlock. 1. *Maxar Technologies Inc. and Redwire Corp. *– Maxar and Redwire are providers of space infrastructure and communications products and services. One director served simultaneously on the boards of both companies and resigned from Redwire’s board in response to the Division’s concerns about the alleged interlock. 1. *Littelfuse Inc. and CTS Corp.* – Littelfuse and CTS are manufacturers of components and technologies for use in transportation applications, including sensors and switches for use in passenger and commercial vehicles. One director served simultaneously on the boards of both companies and resigned from CTS’s board in response to the Division’s concerns about the alleged interlock. 1. *Skillsoft Corp. and Udemy Inc. *– Skillsoft and Udemy are providers of online corporate education services. One director served simultaneously on the boards of both companies, as did the investment firm Prosus, through that director, because he represented Prosus on both boards at the same time. The director resigned from Udemy’s board in response to the Division’s concerns about the alleged interlock. 1. *Solarwinds Corp. and Dynatrace, Inc. *– Solarwinds and Dynatrace are providers of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software. One director served simultaneously on the boards of both companies, as did the investment firm Thoma Bravo, through this director, because he represented Thoma Bravo on both boards at the same time. Two additional directors also represented Thoma Bravo on the Solarwinds's board. All three directors resigned from Solarwinds’s board in response to the Division’s concerns about the alleged interlock. Companies, officers, and board members should expect that enforcement of Section 8 will continue to be a priority for the Antitrust Division. Anyone with information about potential interlocking directorates or any other potential violations of the antitrust laws is encouraged to contact the Antitrust Division’s Citizen Complaint Center at 1-888-647-3258 or antitrust.complaints(a)usdoj.gov.

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Re: [ot] What I am doing for Biosignals Logging atm
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

including list, which i didnt do by accident On 10/19/22, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, I’m not sure what you’re referring to, so I’ll just state what I > perceive on my end. > > On 10/19/22, HisName <hisname(a)protonmail.com> wrote: >> Disregard the stupidity of my last reply to this thread. I apologize for >> my >> absurdity to the list. I've been an off and on luker here since the mid >> to >> late 90's. I've only posted a few times. I didn't catch the sarcasm. > > I tend to have passive aggression but I didn’t intend any sarcasm > here. The intended audience is people being inflicted covertly with > mental and physical maladies. > >> >> Sent from Proton Mail mobile >> > > On 10/19/22, HisName <hisname(a)protonmail.com> wrote: >> Wow, I haven't opened Cypher Punk lists for awhile. This is astounding. >> To >> me, this is quite the coding challenge. You wrote all that? > > I wrote only my kluge for uploading to arweave. It is a coding > challenge only if coding is hard in general i.e. I don’t see coding > challenges in my world anymore ever really, occasionally big libraries > that look rushed to relesse. Might be something I’m missing. > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> On Oct 19, 2022, 1:55 AM, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >> Survivor >> of Many wrote: > > The name is a little misleading, although it is because of this that > lifelogging is valuable for me. I’m thinking I was targeted by a > political cult a decade ago. I understand this is common for > cypherpunks to some degree. > > I was heavily jnfluenced not to reveal I was being mistreated, so it > helped me push myself around — i.e. manipulate my own triggers — to > change my name, and now I’m kind of confused around it. Part of the > confusion is likely that I’d prefer to use an anonymous identity, as > is appropriate for this list and public things in general. > >> >>> First of all, be aware there are communities of lifeloggers who love to >>> log their biosignals. I’m not up to speed on that. There are also groups >>> you can join where they collect medical data from you for the public >>> good. >>> I’m also not up to speed on that either. Second of all: I am still >>> _practicing_ this. I haven’t verified that anything is actually working, >>> so it should be assumed that it doesn’t yet. The current biggest hiccup >>> for this email is that I don’t have a public entrypoint to find my data. >>> With some digging, a lot can likely be found. Karl’s current EEG >>> situation: I am using a Muse S with the Mind Monitor app to collect >>> occasional brainwaves. I practice doing this by wearing the headband >>> even >>> when the app is not running. Over time, it gets more comfortable until >>> it >>> is pleasant like other clothing. I have backup headbands for swapping >>> out, >>> and I get warrantees on them, because my experience is that with >>> extended >>> use their lifespan is reduced. The default setup with the Muse and Mind >>> Monitor yields a lot of data loss for me. I am always getting bluetooth >>> connection blips. Mind Monitor also has a bug where it squeezes dropped >>> packets in the data, resulting in timestamp corruption. Still, I have a >>> ton of data. I’ve spent a lot of casual daydreams thinking of ways to >>> repair the timestamps, I don’t think it would be hard. I have also used >>> OpenBCI equipment and recommend it mostly to support efforts that have >>> both community and mainstreamness. I believe it provides much more data >>> than the Muse; however I believe the Muse also makes accelerometer and >>> gyroscope recordings which are likely good for tagging physical events. >>> I >>> presently store my recordings zstd-compressed in a git-annex repository, >>> and from the git-annex repository I believe many of my braineave >>> recordings have reached the arweave blockchain using an arweave git >>> annex >>> remote I kluged together. I would like to upgrade to an open hashing >>> system more streamlined for this than git-annex and my kluge. git-annex: >>> It’s cumbersome to use git-annex for this, although it does work, one >>> can >>> run into space exhaustion problems and file count problems that are >>> easier >>> to stimulate than recover from. Nowadays git-annex does support an adb >>> remote that can pull directly from android phones; I haven’t tried it >>> yet, >>> but it would ease use. If git-annex seems appealing, I recommend >>> learning >>> datalad rather than git-annex first, as datalad has more provisions for >>> handling things like large filecounts or deterministic transforms such >>> as >>> zstd compression. Voice Recording: I have both a voice recorder and a >>> mobile recording app, that I use to take voice recordings. Since I >>> haven’t >>> streamlined storage yet, I usually don’t run these 24/7 but rather turn >>> something on when I am engaging a situation that can be confusing for >>> me, >>> or saying something I value. Sometimes I’ll run more than one at once as >>> a >>> backup, since I can easily run into unexpected issues. I manually copy >>> the >>> recordings into a git-annex repository. This would be streamlined by >>> setting up my devices as a git-annex remote or such in some way, which I >>> haven’t done yet. It can take a long time to copy them. They then >>> eventually can end up on arweave etc. I’m excited when both voice and >>> EEG >>> are running at the same time, as this means the conditions and workings >>> of >>> my mind can be profiled and checked more accurately via the second >>> channel. Additionally, having more than one audio channel recording at >>> once provides data to triangulate where things are physically located >>> and >>> moving in increased detail. Keystrokes: I am also recording all my >>> terminal sessions using asciinema with its —stdin flag. Asciinema >>> includes >>> millisecond timestamps, so this records the timing of my keypresses. >>> These >>> are also added to a git-annex repository where they end up on arweave. >>> Since keypresses are made by my muscles and mind, they can also be used >>> to >>> profile my mental state as it changes from day to day or event to event, >>> especially given the potential accuracy of asciinema’s timestamps. There >>> is a more normative terminal recording program than asciinema, but I’ve >>> lost track of what it is. Video: I occasionally record both desktop >>> video >>> and self-surveillance. Some of this may have also reached the arweave >>> blockchain. This takes much more resources than the other things due to >>> the data size, although it is possible to configure qualities low enough >>> that things become more reasonable. On linux, there is a video recording >>> device that treats X sessions as a video input. I would really like to >>> get >>> video going better, as most of my weirdness has been gross human >>> behaviors >>> I engage in, such as hiding objects from myself. Video also provides the >>> peace of mind of physical security. I let doctors know I suspect I might >>> have occasional seizures and want investigation of this, and from doing >>> this I hope to have medical video and eeg at some point. I’m thinking it >>> could give me a leg up on videorecording to try to mimic the setup a >>> doctor provides, letting my issues more easily remember it is medically >>> important. >

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[ot] What I am doing for Biosignals Logging atm
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

First of all, be aware there are communities of lifeloggers who love to log their biosignals. I’m not up to speed on that. There are also groups you can join where they collect medical data from you for the public good. I’m also not up to speed on that either. Second of all: I am still _practicing_ this. I haven’t verified that anything is actually working, so it should be assumed that it doesn’t yet. The current biggest hiccup for this email is that I don’t have a public entrypoint to find my data. With some digging, a lot can likely be found. Karl’s current EEG situation: I am using a Muse S with the Mind Monitor app to collect occasional brainwaves. I practice doing this by wearing the headband even when the app is not running. Over time, it gets more comfortable until it is pleasant like other clothing. I have backup headbands for swapping out, and I get warrantees on them, because my experience is that with extended use their lifespan is reduced. The default setup with the Muse and Mind Monitor yields a lot of data loss for me. I am always getting bluetooth connection blips. Mind Monitor also has a bug where it squeezes dropped packets in the data, resulting in timestamp corruption. Still, I have a ton of data. I’ve spent a lot of casual daydreams thinking of ways to repair the timestamps, I don’t think it would be hard. I have also used OpenBCI equipment and recommend it mostly to support efforts that have both community and mainstreamness. I believe it provides much more data than the Muse; however I believe the Muse also makes accelerometer and gyroscope recordings which are likely good for tagging physical events. I presently store my recordings zstd-compressed in a git-annex repository, and from the git-annex repository I believe many of my braineave recordings have reached the arweave blockchain using an arweave git annex remote I kluged together. I would like to upgrade to an open hashing system more streamlined for this than git-annex and my kluge. git-annex: It’s cumbersome to use git-annex for this, although it does work, one can run into space exhaustion problems and file count problems that are easier to stimulate than recover from. Nowadays git-annex does support an adb remote that can pull directly from android phones; I haven’t tried it yet, but it would ease use. If git-annex seems appealing, I recommend learning datalad rather than git-annex first, as datalad has more provisions for handling things like large filecounts or deterministic transforms such as zstd compression. Voice Recording: I have both a voice recorder and a mobile recording app, that I use to take voice recordings. Since I haven’t streamlined storage yet, I usually don’t run these 24/7 but rather turn something on when I am engaging a situation that can be confusing for me, or saying something I value. Sometimes I’ll run more than one at once as a backup, since I can easily run into unexpected issues. I manually copy the recordings into a git-annex repository. This would be streamlined by setting up my devices as a git-annex remote or such in some way, which I haven’t done yet. It can take a long time to copy them. They then eventually can end up on arweave etc. I’m excited when both voice and EEG are running at the same time, as this means the conditions and workings of my mind can be profiled and checked more accurately via the second channel. Additionally, having more than one audio channel recording at once provides data to triangulate where things are physically located and moving in increased detail. Keystrokes: I am also recording all my terminal sessions using asciinema with its —stdin flag. Asciinema includes millisecond timestamps, so this records the timing of my keypresses. These are also added to a git-annex repository where they end up on arweave. Since keypresses are made by my muscles and mind, they can also be used to profile my mental state as it changes from day to day or event to event, especially given the potential accuracy of asciinema’s timestamps. There is a more normative terminal recording program than asciinema, but I’ve lost track of what it is. Video: I occasionally record both desktop video and self-surveillance. Some of this may have also reached the arweave blockchain. This takes much more resources than the other things due to the data size, although it is possible to configure qualities low enough that things become more reasonable. On linux, there is a video recording device that treats X sessions as a video input. I would really like to get video going better, as most of my weirdness has been gross human behaviors I engage in, such as hiding objects from myself. Video also provides the peace of mind of physical security. I let doctors know I suspect I might have occasional seizures and want investigation of this, and from doing this I hope to have medical video and eeg at some point. I’m thinking it could give me a leg up on videorecording to try to mimic the setup a doctor provides, letting my issues more easily remember it is medically important.

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