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Corporations are people
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Bill Seeks to Ban Fed From Issuing Digital Currency to Consumers Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) proposed a law on Wednesday that would prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) directly to individuals. And in related news . . . financial records reviewed by @RollingStone show three billionaire families -- the DeVoses, the Bradleys and the Scaifes -- funding the braintrust behind the Big Lie, and the plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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Home Covid treatment for I and I, rasta; one-love
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Some marijuana compounds can block coronavirus from entering cells: study New York Post 3 hours ago Cannabis Compounds Prevented Covid Infection in Laboratory Study Bloomberg 12 hours ago

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DOC - Decentralized Onion Communication
by Stefan Claas 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Hi all, maybe interesting for some of, on how to run his own privacy service at home to exchange messages with local friends, while not relying on third-party servers. https://groups.google.com/g/alt.privacy.anon-server/c/_Q9z83QwaV4 Regards Stefan

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GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer
by jim bell 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer https://share.newsbreak.com/bwb47hai

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Night of the long-knives brewing
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Purge looming on ' Natural Rights anarchist " fringe. >>>> and when I say vaccine nazis I mean motherfucking turds like jim bell, the Emperor of US nazi 'anarchism'. <<< These type of Nazbol often take their political disagreements to the next level. Case in point - assassination of John Galton in Anarchopulco. Judging by the anarchist reaction to that these sort of events ought to be encouraged as much as possible. Jim Bell used to even own guns.

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Portrait of a self-castrating eunuch
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Portrait of a self-castrating eunuch https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author An elderly Tony Curtis was once asked about his much younger latest bride - " She dies - she dies ". Signal dies - she dies.

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VERGE fucking for chastity
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

>>> I’m in favor of end-to-end encryption, because in a world of ubiquitous surveillance and rising authoritarianism, I think it’s important that truly private communication systems are widely available. But I also support anti-money-laundering and Know Your Customer (KYC) laws, which are useful in combating terrorists, murder-for-hire plotters, and other harms. <<< Feh. Crypto-anarchism's way of dealing with anti-social crime relies on APster and intelligence. But its hard to make corpse-media zombies understand net-anarchism when their job depends on them not understanding it.

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How Signal is playing with fire - The Verge
by jim bell 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-payments-encryption…

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Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables, not for the freedom users currently care about. (a response to Moxie) https://www.drorpoleg.com/unpacking-the-web3-sausage/ In other words, the web we have is too centralized, leaving too much power and profits at the hands of a handful of giant companies. Web3 is an umbrella term for various efforts to reshape the web and address these issues. Specifically, these efforts include developing decentralized computing infrastructure that is difficult to censor or shut down and developing protocols that allow users to easily port their "accounts" (identity, data, digital assets) across different apps.

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More on Zero-Knowledge SNARKS
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Using zk-SNARKs, it is actually possible for commodity devices to verify the entire chain state, including the semantics of every state transition. Mina uses this architecture today, and using recursive zk-SNARKs achieves a state size of around 22kb. An architecture like this could fill a similar security role to that of light clients, with the added benefit of allowing every-day users to run a fully verifying node on their commodity device. https://mirror.xyz/suzuha.eth/vb5E5lhzmPTcpxOJcz6Q211TDgSvoFwDLA6JSM1V37Q

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