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Before Zuckerberg there was his fellow-moron, Phil Salin
by professor rat 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

In 1987, May's friend Chip Morningstar introduced him to the economist and entrepreneur Phil Salin—a meeting that would lead May to formulate the concept of crypto anarchy. Salin was building the American Information Exchange, or AMiX, the first online marketplace for buying and selling information. "It was clear he was a strong libertarian of the Hayek sort," May recalled. "We all shared the same views." But Salin's vision of an e-commerce platform that would reduce transaction costs, facilitate cross-border trade, and make localized expertise more widely available didn't resonate with May's anarchism. . . " J. Epstein - *REASON*

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Choice cuts
by professor rat 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

"There's a received view among crypto people that libertarianism is driving all of this. ... I'm not at all convinced that's true. When these things work it's always because you have communities built around them," Peter Ludlow, philosopher and editor of the book "Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias," told CoinDesk in a phone call. "It might be something more interesting." https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/11/24/cypherpunk-crypto-anarchy-and-how-… In fact, the Hail Mary pass of blockchain-but-definitely-not-crypto came when Facebook and its Libra project showed up barking like a Jack Russell terrier in a room full of kittens, only for Mark Zuckerberg's empire to tuck tail and prostrate itself before the regulatory equivalent of a basset hound. Libra was all technology, a deviously inspired business plan and zero actual conviction.

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Moron lies about APster
by professor rat 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

https://medium.com/chainrift-research/dark-markets-tim-mays-blacknet-7b7738… SOFT DRILL assassination marts don't need no steenkin' anonymity.

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Identity politics
by professor rat 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Encrypted identity authentication and protection? https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/decentralized-identity-protocol-hy… With Fedbook in the news its worth recalling Vinay Gupta supported their fast ID recognition as the global standard just this year. So - combine that with deadender Mange support - and there's a lot of creeping crypto-fascism about cypherpunks.

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Changing labels / names / brands
by professor rat 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Maybe Batshit Crazy can change the anarchist ' Brand ' name to NR anarchism. And expose all the fake libertarians ( like garbage Gramps and Jim Dumbell! ) It will take some effort - but he could be the Mark Zuckerberg of cryptoanarchy. Know this though. Over the years many left-fascist scumbags have tried to steal the good name of anarchism. Council-communists - Situationists - Autonomen - Communizers. One by one they tried. They tried and died.

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Well I " Joogled " Natural-Law Anarchist "
by professor rat 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Positive law by your definition implies legal order, i.e. hierarchical law enforcement under a state, so we can throw that one straight out of the window. Natural law is a bit more tricky. A lot of anarchists reject normative morality as being too easy to use for justifications of hierarchical domination. In addition, from my short skimming over the wikipedia article on natural law, it seems to be born out of an essentialist philosophical approach to human nature which is widely rejected by anarchists. A social constructivist critique would consider the concept as just another construct created by society which has no basis in nature, and that there can be no inherent, objective moral principles that all people can agree to. Anarchism advocates for voluntary association with decentralized institutions, which could mean there could be consensually agreed upon rules within a group or community, but no universally binding rules. I've seen ancaps being fond of natural law but conversely, we don't consider them to be anarchists. FROM https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/b2ja6c/natural_law_and_anarchy/

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FEDBOOK Skin-bound
by professor rat 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Sharing a holodek with Data https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/29/facebook-steals-another-crypto-ide… Expletive Thielson deleted https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/concern-around-facebooks-ambition… Four brand changes and a funeral https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg

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Syntropy open-source protocol improving the internet via encryption
by professor rat 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

"... optimistic about NOIA, the native token of the Syntropy ecosystem. Syntropy is an open-source protocol aimed at improving the internet via encryption and optimized performance. NOIA is trading at $0.36 at time of writing, up 12.5% in the past seven days. ... ' https://dailyhodl.com/2021/10/29/top-trader-capo-says-hes-still-all-in-on-a…

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Phys.org: High-speed laser writing method could pack 500 terabytes of data into CD-sized glass disc
by jim bell 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Phys.org: High-speed laser writing method could pack 500 terabytes of data into CD-sized glass disc. https://phys.org/news/2021-10-high-speed-laser-method-terabytes-cd-sized.ht…

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Android Police: Google Fi's adding support for end-to-end encrypted calls
by jim bell 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Android Police: Google Fi's adding support for end-to-end encrypted calls. https://www.androidpolice.com/google-fi-adding-support-for-end-to-end-encry…

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