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Bitcoin a “disaster” for the environment
by professor rat 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

https://decrypt.co/85330/billionaire-tom-steyer-trashes-bitcoin-calls-envir… And where do they buy offsets for their Maximalists?

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FIL coin: Bitdeer to pool-mine the coin, starting on November 10?
by professor rat 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

https://www.coinspeaker.com/bitdeer-mining-offerings-filecoin-fil/ The enlistment of Filecoin is centered on the revolutionary approach of the platform in offering decentralized cloud storage service, drawing on the capabilities of blockchain technology. Filecoin seeks to store the most important data in the world in a cheap and efficient manner. Besides powering decentralized data storage, Filecoin has the ultimate ambition to wrestle power from the big tech including Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure amongst others.

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Secret Net
by professor rat 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

Secret Network is a layer-one protocol, or blockchain improvement infrastructure, that enables the execution of privacy-by-default smart contracts running on decentralized applications across multiple chains. This means that the protocol can obfuscate data regarding the sender, receiver and the state of transactions, thereby protecting parties' identities. Since its mainnet launch in February 2020, the project appears to have gained significant traction from developers, coupled with a sharp increase in token prices in recent weeks. https://cointelegraph.com/news/privacy-preserving-computing-is-the-future-s…

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[spam] software responsibility
by Karl 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

hello personal journal oh you're not a personal journal you're a mailing list of elite researchers and techs that has been consistently harassed by strange influences for decades? um. hmm. okay, I was going to journal about some issues I have engage tech contributions, that are struggling due to strange influence, but now I feel bad that I may be harassing the members of this list in doing so. this is the purpose of my [spam] tags. is it maybe ok given the [spam] tag? maybe a little? no? you say that some kind of government and corporate surveillance networks can still somehow use my post to harm the people here? or you're worried that some people might read my post, even though it is tagged [spam]? ummmm well, I don't want to worry you this way. i'm really handling a lot of ashamedness here. ummmmmmmmm ummm there must be some way we can sort this out. some way I can contribute to the list rather than harming it? I mean honestly spamming this list is _so_ helpful to me. really very helpful. a boss? a government agency? no, I don't work for anyone. you don't believe me? you wonder how spamming the list is helpful to me if i'm not being paid to do so. ummmm it's hard to talk about that. you knew I would say that? well, maybe i'm not very good at communicating. i've always been a pretty poor communicator. this is really _very_ hard to explain, um .... honestly I was brainwashed by -- wait, don't go! where are you going? omigod are you okay? come back? is that blood? oh! you're spamming the list too! do you think by spamming this list we can somehow get code written? you can't seem to answer that? are you sure you're okay? it's very hard to be forced to spam a list when you think you're working on software. let me show you one of my strategies and maybe you can improve on it. I mark the time as I try to work on software. it's 12:52p EDT on 11/4/2021 and there's been a major development in a pull request I have open in libusb. unfortunately, my cognitive issues have been getting in the way of responsibly addressing it.

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One of the strangest & most mysterious parts of physics is quantum entanglement
by professor rat 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-entanglement-in-the-real-world-iop-publi… Often viewed as one of the strangest and most mysterious parts of physics, quantum entanglement refers to the fact that particles can be linked even if they are physically a long way apart.

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Poe faced crypto
by professor rat 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Poe had an influence on cryptography beyond increasing public interest during his lifetime. William Friedman, America's foremost cryptologist, was heavily influenced by Poe.Friedman's initial interest in cryptography came from reading "The Gold-Bug" as a child, an interest that he later put to use in deciphering Japan's PURPLE code during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe#Cryptography

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[spam][wrong][crazy] what happens when you hack a hacker while surveilled
by Karl 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

made this up 1. you gain control of the hacker 2. a government gains control of you 3. the government uses you to gain control of the hacker 4. the government uses the hacker to gain control of others ... 5. the government bombs themself because they think the hacker has hacked a foreign government but it is a different department 6. the hacker gets therapy, finds the trojans, and hacks the government 7. you are found by a foreign hacker hacking the hacker hacking their own government 8. it rains alien babies

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Artists who want to issue NFTs, but do not want to destroy the environment in the process, should check out Avalanche.
by professor rat 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Artists who want to issue NFTs, but do not want to destroy the environment in the process, should check out #Avalanche. el33th4xor - 38m Avalanche is a Net Zero chain! Artists who want to issue NFTs, but do not want to destroy the environment in the process, should check out #Avalanche. Quote Tweet Mattereum @mattereum · 1h How @avalancheavax @nori @Mattereum changed the world today. In spring Vinay Gupta (CEO of Mattereum) did a rough calc of @avalancheavax CO2 emissions to see if it could be a green chain. It was low. Really low. Double checked with @Nori and they confirmed the estimate. 1/5

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Privacy for the poor - transparency for the powerful
by professor rat 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Such is the cypherpunk way. Where there is injustice - there you will find us. " . . . to reach a formal conclusion on Covid’s origins, researchers wrote that they would need “greater transparency and collaboration from Beijing.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/fauci-says-rand-paul-egregiously-incorrect-…

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That a proton or neutron should contain the equivalent of 1.509 bits of encoded information
by professor rat 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Its a cryptopunks universe we just live in it. Using Shannon's equations, Vopson calculated that a proton or neutron should contain the equivalent of 1.509 bits of encoded information. . .' https://www.livescience.com/how-many-bits-in-the-universe In his 2006 book, Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd contends that the universe itself is one big quantum computer producing what we see around us, and ourselves, as it runs a cosmic program. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Pagels The Cosmic Code Its safe to infer most of this 'code' must be quantum-encrypted and anarchic. Hence background entanglement and decoherence involve quantum gravity. My own pet theory " Split-Key Cosmology " ( from 2015 ) later helps me rediscover Charles K. Rhodes work along these universal cryptoanarchist lines . . . 2003 - Cryptographic Unification of Mass and Space https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217751X03016392?journalCo… 2010 - Cryptographic Theoretical Calculation of the Fine-Structure Constant https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4537 2012 - Direct Cryptographic Computation of the Cosmological Constant ( PDF ) https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1212/1212.5941.pdf A suggested candidate for Dark Matter / energy is lost ' key halves ' which further suggests most of our ( singular, unique ) universe's life-span has been used up. Not your quantum-encrypted keys - not your code.

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