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CryptoPotato: U.S. Senator Wants to Save Financial System from “Shadowy Crypto Super-Coders”
by jim bell 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

CryptoPotato: U.S. Senator Wants to Save Financial System from “Shadowy Crypto Super-Coders”. https://cryptopotato.com/u-s-senator-wants-to-save-financial-system-from-sh… "Jul 28, 2021 05:35 U.S. Senator Wants to Save Financial System from “Shadowy Crypto Super-Coders” Crypto skeptic U.S. senator Elizabeth Warren has been on the warpath again, lambasting cryptocurrencies and their supposed threat to the… Martin YoungOn July 26, Democrat senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asking for greater regulation for cryptocurrencies. If she had her own way, they would be banned outright. At a July 27 hearing of the Senate Banking Committee labeled “Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?”, Warren continued to lambaste digital assets proclaiming that “all the warning signs are flashing.” She claims that the tiny $1.6 trillion crypto market is a massive threat to the whopping $25 trillion dollar plus U.S. banking system. “The hype, the volatility, the wild claims that turn out to be false. As the crypto market grows, so do the risks to our financial stability and our economy.” In mid-June Warren labeled cryptocurrencies as a “bogus and lousy investment”. Shadowy Super-Coders She continued to argue that crypto assets are not as decentralized as it seems, much of them being controlled by founders and miners. Like something out of a Marvel comic book, the Massachusetts senator stopped short of labeling those in the industry as evil masterminds: “Instead of leaving our financial system at the whims of giant banks, crypto puts the system at the whims of some shadowy, faceless group of super-coders and miners, which doesn’t sound better to me.” In the letter to the equally crypto skeptic Janet Yellen, Warren warned that “as the demand for cryptocurrencies continues to grow and these assets become more embedded in our financial system,” The digital disparagement continued with a number of examples of how cryptocurrencies could undermine the financial system and banking sector. Warren concluded reiterating her plea for urgency in regulating the sector. “As the body responsible for coordinating amongst U.S. financial regulators, FSOC [Financial Stability Oversight Council] should take a leading role in developing a comprehensive regulatory regime for cryptocurrencies,” In a related development, Treasury Secretary Yellen held a closed meeting with financial lawmakers yesterday to discuss Tether’s reserves among other things. Crypto Markets Rebound Regulatory rhetoric aside, crypto asset markets have continued to build upon gains with a 5.4% increase in total market cap over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin has pushed towards the psychological $40K barrier, trading up 8% on the day at $39,940 at the time of writing according to CoinGecko. Ethereum has moved in the shadow of its big brother, notching up a 4.6% gain to hit $2,300. U.S. politicians and bankers may be railing on crypto but the general public still clearly clamors for it.

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Ninth Circuit limits feds' confiscation of cellphones, laptops at points of entry: report | Fox News
by jim bell 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ninth-circuit-confiscate-cellphones-laptops-poin… "Border agents operating at some U.S. ports of entry, airports and shipping ports are facing new limits regarding their ability to confiscate travelers’ personal electronic devices, according to a report." "In a decision reached in June, the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit all but eliminated agents’ ability to access people’s cellphones and laptops without a warrant, according to Border Report." "The decision – which applies only to the western U.S. states that lie within the Ninth Circuit’s jurisdiction -- effectively places limits on law enforcement in those areas to seek evidence of crime, the report said."

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Re: California 1 - Corbyn 0
by professor rat 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

CODERMAN scribbled ... "... i have to laugh at the tagline: "Make socialism scientific again!" as science is by definition agnostic to such concerns. if you want a lasting socialist order, you need to empower the individual. this is more a fight for "peaceful Hain" than a mastery of S.T.E.M. the fully empowered, fully decentralized individual lives authentic anarchy! (spoiler alert: authentic rational anarchy is the only sustainable socialism :) ..." YES, there is a lot to laugh about authoritarian socialism, and authoritarian socialist type - take our resident poorly-recovering, Marxist, James A. Donald. He's a laugh riot. Then there's the Sartrean Stalinist, John Young. Eat your heart out, Jim Carey. If you want a lasting crypto-anarchist order you have to clean house so that no shitcoiner socialist can realistically accuse us of fascism of the left ( see above ) OR - more important in this context - so no-one from anywhere can accuse any of us of being Randite-Paultard, Austro-libertarian MORONS. Revolutions famously devour their young. So if it takes a bloodbath lets get it over with. Welcome to the global anarchist revolution. Death to America.

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Shit's Been Getting Weirder in the World...
by grarpamp 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Shit's been getting weirder in the world, something opened Pandora's Box a while back... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpPicOZOig

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cypherpunks list archive / cpunks.org archive at archive.org
by coderman 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 i promised Karl i'd archive the cypherpunks list so he's always got a written record to refer to, if desired. in that vein, i have started an Internet Archive for cpunks: https://archive.org/details/cpunks-archive i'll update month by month, as long as i'm able. best regards, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEAREKAH0WIQRBwSuMMH1+IZiqV4FlqEfnwrk4DAUCYP8vQl8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDFD MTJCOEMzMDdEN0UyMTk4QUE1NzgxNjVBODQ3RTdDMkI5MzgwQwAKCRBlqEfnwrk4 DHQOAP4uiLAXpjB5ai1u4aJJXTrkSZTR04xGt4upNVIRsMGGWAEAiqAT1OUZlm9g bDtItkLc140M2kEhJ3eWEVAm4lLZRYU= =z0fI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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California 1 - Corbyn 0
by professor rat 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

" I met Jude in 1999…" - Dickie Bird ( 15 min ) https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/07/californian-dreams-tech-utopia-or-dystopia/

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Safe Whistleblowing Workshop Livestream
by Karl 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

This is going on right now at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0FjpKcCBQ . Whistleblowing is lawful and can be safe with the aid of a lawyer.

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Re: RIP Cecilia Tanaka
by John Young 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Wait, more details please. Thanks. -----Original Message----- Sent: Jul 27, 2021 4:02 PM To: <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Subject: RIP Cecilia Tanaka Ceci Tanaka has passed away this morning. I'm deeply sorry to deliver such a bad news, Ceci was a good friend of mine and she kept many of you close to her warm heart. -- Oda

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[Ot][spam][wrong] cryptographic copwatch idea
by Karl 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

I'm considering this briefly due to something temporarily going on in my life. I'd say the solution presently applicable for me would be to use a web api to bitcoinsv. Just thinking. I'm guessing there's something torrent-based somewhere.

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[ot][spam] breaking the silence better
by Karl 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Part of me believes i'm mind controlled by interests counter to my own. That mysterious things can direct my behavior. What matters isn't whether or not it's true -- what matters is whether I believe it and act on it. The result is the same. [amnesia, inhibition] Yet again, that's the farthest i've ever gotten. [spam -v] very deeply set experience Idea: spam bots and humans, acting together. Possible idea: bots get too smart, learn to direct humans, humans do their job better, some of these humans write bots.

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