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Blockchains to replace armies
by professor rat 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt What forbids us translating the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life? I think that blockchains will replace armies for national defense, because a blockchain-based assassination market will be created…" Zach. CryptoGo To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife. Marc responded, “indeed, free and open source software seems non-negotiable here: no backdoors, no skeleton key. National security establishment would balk at this though?” Rohan responds, “yes, fuck them. I don’t think we should be taking policy advice about how to design our money for the people who think the Patriot Act was a good thing ..." https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/coindesk-podcast-network/us-digital-dolla…

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Prediction Markets take off in Hawaii Five Eye
by professor rat 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/09/19/how-the-prediction-markets-are-… And since Bill Gates is so boring he could be Canadian... https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates

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Cypherpunks write code
by zeynepaydogan 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. ... Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and ... we're going to write it." And there's something I'm curious about, what are people doing on this mailing list who aren't interested in information security that can't write a code? I really wonder why this mailing list isn't being used for its purpose? I don't want to see government licks and nationalists here. This is the cypherpunks mailing list.Please speak on purpose here. I hope it wasn't a hurtful speech. Castigat ridendo mores... Sincerly; RG Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email.

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Govcorp and corrupt turds, I mean, 'scientists'.
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

" A proper scientific reference is usually a published article in a reliable scientific magazine. These days the magazines are slick glossy paper with pictures on the front and lots of advertisements, a lot of editorial material by people who are professional journalists, and a few pictures of girls selling you things you might want to buy for your lab. The advertisers are the companies who make things for scientists to buy and the companies who make drugs for doctors to sell. There are no major journals without advertisements. Therefore, there are no major journals without corporate connections. "

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Tim Cook needs killing ( My 200 sats worth )
by professor rat 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/apple_s_veil_of_secrecy/85701952?p=,,,20… Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple Hundreds of current and former Apple workers are complaining about their work environment, a rarity for the once tight-lipped company. By Jack Nicas and Kellen Browning ( NYT )

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Batshit Crazy ' Natural Rights anarchism" rejected by cypherpunks
by professor rat 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

Phil Zimmerman, Hal Finney, Emin Gun…all three of these openly disassociated themselves from anarcho-capitalist, right Libertarianism, sometimes called ' Natural Rights anarchism ". I’m sensing a pattern here.

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Crypto Professor - the revolution is here!
by professor rat 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/2020/02/28/professor-emin-gun-sirer-the-cryp… I had a much more limited vision, a much more realistic vision, but it would have been much better to have an unrealistic vision that rallies people than to have a realistic vision that is narrower in scope and doesn’t get people going with the same fervor. ( I'm not trying to recruit professor Sirer for our cause - he's a walk-in, after all. Cryptoanarchy runs on networked code )

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GUN C-Punk
by professor rat 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

https://marc.info/?w=1&r=1&s=emin+gun+sirer&q=a 2006-11-30 [8] Emin Gun Sirer 2. 2006-05-05 [3] Emin Gun Sirer 3. 2000-11-02 [1] Emin Gun Sirer

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Bitcoin's link to Austrian-Nazi economics
by professor rat 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

CATHOLIC Henry Ford In 1918 bought The Dearborn Independent paper, and in it published a series of scurrilous attacks on the ‘International Jew,’ a mythical figure he blamed for financing war. Much of his ramblings are repeated in Mein Kampf Sam Bourgi is a journalist at Cointelegraph, (SNIP) His passions include bitcoin, Austrian economics and writing. .." https://cointelegraph.com/news/100-years-ago-henry-ford-proposed-energy-cur… Julian Assange · LRB 6 March 2014 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghost Mar 6, 2014 - I wouldn’t say this publicly, but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison…" And in related news… Mussolini was Catholic. Franco was Catholic. Himmler, head of the SS, was a Catholic. The SS was set up on the Jesuit model. Goebbels was Catholic. Hoss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, was a Catholic. Frank,‘ the butcher of Poland ’, was Catholic.

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Post-Bitcoin cryptonomics has arrived in an AVALANCHE!
by professor rat 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

Bitcoin Is Great, But Real Crypto Innovation Has Moved Elsewhere - Todayuknews Todayuknews Something is brewing, and those with finely tuned noses can smell it. As traders have come to expect, Bitcoin (BTC) is doing “Bitcoin things” by bouncing …’ https://todayuknews.com/crypto-currency/bitcoin-is-great-but-real-crypto-in… This is where the real heads are right now — speculating, building, pondering, networking and doing shit that actually matters. And what is unique about those who are really putting in work in the trenches of crypto is that this grassroots approach and bottom-up building trend is leading to some of the space’s most groundbreaking projects. Take Dom Hofmann’s “Loot” project as an example, or the recent Good Bridging and BridgeLoot drops in the Avalanche ecosystem. .."

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