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Phys.org: Scientists take step towards quantum supremacy
by jim bell 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Phys.org: Scientists take step towards quantum supremacy. https://phys.org/news/2021-03-scientists-quantum-supremacy.html

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Elon Musk and Amazon Are Battling to Put Satellite Internet in Your Backyard - WSJ
by jim bell 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-and-amazon-are-battling-to-put-satel…

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Assassination Politics
by professor rat 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

https://augur.net That platform looks very cool. Just the kind of thing Jim Bell was looking for. Betting for anything you want. ..' It seems to be heading the right direction and I have some skin in the REP game. Buttface Buterin made some money there recently from the Gramps/ Harkness type MAGA morons. Of more interest to this list is STIFFS dotcom. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/julianassange Put me down for another 20$

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Assassination Politics
by professor rat 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Typical Gramps garbage - all noise and no signal. Fuck off, idiot!

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Got unused IP's, bandwidth, or process? VPNGate and Mysterium Nets Fight Exit Bans
by grarpamp 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

https://mysterium.network/ https://vpngate.net/ tor users can integrate with these and other VPN nets to avoid consensus scraping ban-censors of exitIP's, and or to utilize more than just TCP and/or IPv4. Operators can support other nets when under two process per IP and /cidr family restrictions etc. Operators could even publish their VPN node IPs to tor related forums so that tor users can use them. And recover costs depending on the network. More distributed VPNs are out there and in future.

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Florida Teen Who Masterminded Largest Social Media Hack Ever Gets Three Years In Prison
by jim bell 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

https://share.smartnews.com/8cv1

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Cryptocurrency: WabiSabi - Coordinated CoinJoin with Variable Amounts
by grarpamp 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzrx6WfV0ck End of the State As We Know It https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WabiSabi https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/206 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPD7IR2fn34 WabiSabi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5sQwiwscI Wasabi Research #23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3G6CUDPr0c WabiSabi Construction WabiSabi by Analogy WabiSabi is a protocol (work in progress) for constructing CoinJoin transactions with the aid of a centralized coordinator. It utilizes keyed-verification anonymous credentials, homomorphic value commitments, and zero knowledge proofs to achieve privacy and flexibility. This writeup attempts to give an intuition for how these different cryptographic building blocks work by using a real world analogy intended for readers who are already familiar with the concept of a CoinJoin. Setting Several Bitcoin users want to build a CoinJoin transaction with each user contributing one or more UTXOs and arbitrarily reallocating their contributed amount, without revealing to the coordinator or to each other any links between their different inputs or the new outputs they want to create. To facilitate this a coordinator will keep a registry of the separate inputs and outputs, ensuring that a user can only claim the amount of Bitcoin they are entitled to, but without learning about the links between these. The coordinator will need an office to meet with the users, a seal and some sealing wax, an accurate scale with a large tray, and a blowtorch. The users will need a number of envelopes, some sand, their own scales for private use, and some convincing fake moustaches for incognito interactions with the coordinator. We will assume the weight of the envelopes themselves is negligible, or can be easily corrected for, perhaps because they have a standard weight. If you want to have a better idea of how these components of our analogy map to the actual crypto, skip to the final section, or continue reading in order to build up an intuition first. Input Registration For every UTXO a user wants to register as an input she will repeat the following steps. In the privacy of her own home she weighs out a quantity of sand, which we assume is worthless, in proportion to the UTXO's value. She then distributes the sand into a number of envelopes as she pleases, and closes them. With her envelopes prepared, she puts on fake moustache (a different one for each input), so that the coordinator can't recognize her, and enters the coordinator's office. She convinces the coordinator that she can spend the UTXO in question, and places the corresponding envelopes on the scale all at once, laid flat on the tray. The coordinator confirms that the total weight matches the UTXO value, and if everything adds up, applies the seal to the closed envelopes without handling them more than necessary (so that it can't guess the weights), as the user observes. The user can inspect the seal to make sure it matches some pictures, published in advance, in order to be convinced that the coordinator doesn't use slightly different ones to trace the individual wax seals back to a specific input later. The user collects the sealed envelopes from the tray and leaves. Output Registration After all inputs have been registered, users can now use their envelopes to register output amounts. The following steps are also repeated once per output. The user will put on yet another fake moustache, come into the coordinator's office, and place an arbitrary combination of envelopes on the scale. The coordinator checks that the seals are authentic, and then to ensure that the envelopes can't be used again or weighed individually, they are set on fire using the blowtorch, allowing the sand to spill out onto the tray. The coordinator adds the requested output with an amount corresponding to weight of the sand on the tray, and the user leaves. The sand can be discarded having served its purpose. Signing When the input and output amounts are balanced the coordinator can conclude that no non-empty envelopes remain, and builds the final CoinJoin transaction with the registered inputs and outputs. The users go back into the coordinator's office, once for each input (wearing the appropriate moustache) and after confirming that the output registrations have been included in the proposed transaction they sign for that input. After everyone has signed, the transaction can be broadcast. Cryptographic Counterparts The cryptographic counterparts in the above analogy are as follows: The envelopes are homomorphic value commitments, specifically Pedersen commitments. Commitments have two properties, binding, which means that once a value is committed it can't be changed, and hiding, which means that the value in the commitment is not revealed unless the committer opens the commitment. Note that in this protocol the commitments aren't actually opened, instead we only prove statements about the commitment openings in zero knowledge. The scale and sand correspond to a zero knowledge proof system, allowing the users to convince the coordinator of that the values in the commitments are correct without needing to reveal them (note that the sums appear on the blockchain). The wax seals represent keyed-verification anonymous credentials, which let the coordinator verify that it previously certified a specific value commitment as being a summand in the decomposition of an input amount without being able to link it to the input registration where the credential was issued. The fake moustaches represent Tor circuits through which the users connect to the coordinator under pseudonymous network identities. Setting the envelopes on fire is a bit of a looser analogy. First, it represents serial numbers for the credentials (derived from the randomness in the commitment), which are used to prevent double spending. Secondly, it gives an intuition for the homomorphic property of the commitments which simplifies proving that they add up to the correct input and output values without revealing the individual summands.

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Cryptocurrency: Free Talk Live Arrested for Crypto Freedom, Consider Helping
by grarpamp 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

https://freetalklive.com/ 1-855-450-FREE LIVE Everyday 7pm-10pm ET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02andqKlExc Free Talk Live Raided https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sHF15jNALk Free Talk Live Raided https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXojGNG8N1GmTWlCCz4HEA https://manchesterinklink.com/fbi-descends-on-keene-and-surrounding-areas-a… https://www.justice.gov/usao-nh/pr/six-charged-crimes-related-virtual-curre… Those who know crypto adoption history, know of Free Talk Live and Ian Freeman et al their crypto adoption, free speech, FreeState NHFree, Libertarian outreach, and other related efforts over years. Ian Freeman, Colleen Fordham, Renee Spinella Andrew Spinella, Nobody, Aria DiMezzo In lots of countries it is perfectly legal to buy sell barter trade exchange any amount of crypto in P2P way for personal digital "gold and silver" investing, goods and services, business use, and for any other purposes. P2P tx is the original way of cryptocurrency spreading and adoption, since then been subverted by rise of "exchange / atm / payment processing" businesses, by "laws", govt apologists, and FUD mongers. If it is not legal in your country, then your country's government is fucked up, and is against both you and freedom and business, and you need to get rid of such govt ASAP. No victim, no crime.

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GPS data helps feds identify Texas man accused of participating in Capitol riot
by jim bell 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gps-data-helps-feds-identify-texas-man…

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Cyberpunk: Digital and Genetic Immortality
by grarpamp 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35788050/dyson-sphere-digital-res… https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/332066-digital-immortality-turchin Gene manipulation the far more likely path to immortality, given a focus on biomedical research, now readily achievable within a lifetime, and being financed with Bitcoin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality Researchers Believe It's Possible To Become Immortal Might future humans resurrect the dead? Well, Russian researchers Alexey Turchin and Maxim Chernyakov, who belong to the transhumanism movement, wrote a paper explaining the "roadmap to immortality" that involves superintelligent AI systems powered by Dyson spheres as the primary technology might someday make resurrection possible. Turchin and Chernyakov wrote, "there no evidence of an afterlife. But there's also no proof that medical death is the end of subjective experience, or that death is irreversible, or immortality impossible." The paper, which Popular Mechanics first reported, is titled "Classification of Approaches to Technological Resurrection," which offers a roadmap to immortality. "Death seems to be a permanent event, but there is no actual proof of its irreversibility," the authors write. And "while no method is currently possible, many…may become feasible with future technological development." Turchin and Chernyakov examine both conventional and future technologies of making humanity immortal, from cryogenics to uploading brains onto the cloud then transplanted into clone bodies. They said "strong AI" will be the most critical technology to download the brain's contents, but that technology could years away. "The development of AI is going rather fast, but we are still far away from being able to 'download' a human into a computer," Turchin told Russia Beyond. "If we want to do it with a good probability of success, then count on [the year] 2600, to be sure." The authors said the power supply behind the AI would be so powerful that it would need a "Dyson spheres," a megastructure of solar panels that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The paper describes life as a "continued stream of subjective experiences" and death as an end of that stream. Immortality, to the researchers, is a "life stream without end," and resurrection is the "continuation of that same stream of experiences after an arbitrarily long gap." Digital immortality is inevitable...

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