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World Peace isn't insurmountable
by Ryan Carboni 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

What if the world isn't dysfunctional? What if it is so by design? What if all nonfeasance and misfeasance is really malfeasance? Isn't the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship a matter of active consent vs passive consent? If five hundred random people were stuffed into Congress and made the laws, would they run the country in the same way? Well, I suppose there are true heroes, like Litt who said that DES couldn't be cracked, and Clapper, who said a "truth" to Wyden who really should have known better. Anything exceptional that I pointed out is a product of pure deduction, a quality few possess, that the school systems intentionally attempt to deprive their students of. To perhaps parody Cloudflare's complaint about ARX-512 making ChaCha20 nearly as fast as AES-NI, clearly Linux's /dev/random/ is not fully understood and should be avoided. For the entropy estimate only counts the entropy of individual events, but not the total combinatorial complexity. Since operating systems have no real time guarantee, and all entropy is a product of unobserved events, the order in which events occur certainly adds entropy. Given that combinatorial complexity is not factored in entropy estimates, the entropy estimate should be considered flawed. In fact, this combinatorial complexity significantly impacts one's ability to manipulate the output of the generator without knowing the full state, and it might be dangerous for /dev/random/ to treat any source of entropy as 8 bits per byte. Perhaps only those capable of communicating in pure deduction can only be trusted by others capable of communicating in the same fashion. Of course the ability to deduce has long been regarded as the prerequisite to investigate or understand anything, and is the foundation of all logic and reason. In the end though, I must repeat someone else's observation, that Google could flip a switch, and 7% of all internet traffic will use a new protocol they devised. I would prefer, in the following order, MitM-vulnerable cryptography, backdoored forward secret ciphers, and then key length restrictions. Not... an impossible to design product, with the source code given to any government (Kaspersky gives their code to the US, IBM gives their source code to Russia)... Hmm. You can make any software licensed under the GPL if you demand it I suppose (yet it doesn't stop bundling anything with proprietary code). So much happening right in front of your eyes, I doubt if you object to any of it, you can possibly stop it. P.S. To expound upon my previous statement that what one says only has to be facially true, the argument barely has to justify itself, even using weak evidence the audience may very well accept what you say as truth. This makes anything you learn about debating to be a cruel waste of time.

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Bitcoin and Islam Halal, Jewish Kosher, etc
by grarpamp 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/1tjgsp/bitcoin_fiat_and_islam/ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=islam+bitcoin Islam and Bitcoin Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsB9GrJSBXHE6c6_7rFrGg/videos https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rabbi+bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3B_nIS438 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bitcoin+and+religion Cryptocurrencies serving unique communities and needs, or not.

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Re: [Cryptography] Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies
by grarpamp 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.lopp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > See what happens when you spend too much time in the /r/btc echo chamber? > You start believing their FUD videos about second layer networks creating > banks or Blockstream running Bitcoin. Two different points of view in video form were listed by posters. The reader can now research analyse discuss debate support and decide for themselves which point of view / tech is better / for them. Unless of course they try to do that in the widely documented as being *censored* echo chambers of bitcointalk and /r/bitcoin. Or they can set that aside as outside their scope / capability as users / investors and simply research the FACTS of the current operating market... BTC falling from 100% market cap share to under 48%, now with ridiculously and even prohibitively high fees and confirmation times for many end user use cases for months, and multiple competing coins now being turned up in the payment processors and exchanges for retail use. No longer the defacto leader, are BTC's days as a leading coin now numbered? Which coins are now jointly carrying forward the ethos of "Bitcoin" including any cypheranarchopunk virtues that might be distilled from the message in Satoshi's Genesis Block? Which coins have features, movements, governance in directions that might in fact allow banks, governments, and other adversaries to indeed exert undue / unwanted influence over them? Which coins are actively catering / designing to and partnering with said entities, whether to counter disrupt, or simply to provide [exclusive] cryptocurrency solutions / replacements for printed fiats and other existing systems in the finance space? Which coins are and do not? ... There is more than one coin now, and these and more that could be posed by others are all fundamentally important questions that must be openly asked, answered, and understood by all in the space. Which chambers people choose are up to them, indeed diversification is a fine strategy to avoid being tied up in just one, unless of course that suits their fancy.

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Merry Christmas and all the best in 2018! :)
by Georgi Guninski 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Merry Christmas and all the best in 2018! :) There is still some time for the cpunks thread "predictions about 2017". -- send gifts for old good times bitcoin:1DV4Y5KGWLJeYB9jYqDLKbjbwQ48ewWr3G

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[VICE] We need internet that isn't owned by big telecom
by Michalis Kargakis 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947992

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Re: [Cryptography] Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies
by grarpamp 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

jameson.lopp(a)gmail.com: > Second layer solutions such as Lightning Network do not require the > introduction of trusted third parties: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrr_zPmEiME > Last I recall, they had been implemented in the Elements Project: > https://blockstream.com/technology/ Many say such proposals as LN can, are likely to, or will, devolve back into the old centralization / trust / economics problems that cryptocurrencies were born from Cypherpunk to solve, and to expect a continual process of proposing testing and discarding such elements that don't advance that solution. How The Banks Bought Bitcoin - The Lightning Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g Blockstream Turning Bitcoin Into Fiat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBOqW9SDmE The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind - Hidden Secrets of Money Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0 Decentralised Truth: Use Beats Authority (Delegation Wrecks Fools) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCVaabu3J04 https://www.reddit.com/r/btc

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Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by grarpamp 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Harper; 1St Edition edition (May 19, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0062362496 ISBN-13: 978-0062362490 Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology, has spawned a global social movement with utopian ambitions. The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments, and a new global currency for the digital age. An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold tells the story of the colorful characters who have built Bitcoin, including a Finnish college student; an Argentinian millionaire; a Chinese entrepreneur; Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss; Bitcoin’s elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto; and the founder of the Silk Road online drug market, Ross Ulbricht. With Digital Gold, New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper offers a brilliant and engrossing account of this new technology. At each step of the way, Bitcoin has provided one of the most fascinating tests of how money works, who benefits from it, and what it might look like in the future.

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Bitcoin Cash Devel, Hal Finney's Letter, Biblical Death Pledges
by grarpamp 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Sticking To Satoshi's White Paper with Amaury Sechet, Lead Developer of Bitcoin Cash Epic Convos: Cash to win vs Core @ Anarcha|Crypto pulco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2KJhyBS2s0 AudioBook - Bitcoin.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2pThP-88A Cryptocurrencies Break Through $500 Billion As People Make Death Pledges To Buy More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOxPfQT-FE The Globalist Plan To Blame Bitcoin For Biblical Level Collapse In 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74A4VUC4t_A https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jsp0s/one_of_the_last_posts_made… "Bitcoin", the philosophy, will live on and strong, regardless of whichever ticker symbol carries its banner from time to time. Keep your coin agile...

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[MINISTRY] France holds a line against The Ministry
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Perhaps France has some liberté cojones left in them after all … the King of bling notwithstanding :) Today "terrorist" "fascism" and "alt-right" are the catch cries of those who would censor the world. http://theduran.com/french-constitutional-court-stands-up-for-free-speech/ French Constitutional Court stands up for free speech in striking down “anti-terrorist” law French judges have made it clear that watching disagreeable content does not constitute a conspiracy to commit a violent act.

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Re: [Cryptography] High volume thermal entropy from an iPhone
by grarpamp 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

Problem with talk in thread about hardware is that it's incredibly hard to impossible to build and run trusted systems on top of untrusted HW. Only fools keep trying to spin their way around fundamental problem... Essentially all HW in production today is in fact completely untrustable. One has not even a single proof about what truly is happening under the hood. Not even the apparent result of 2 to a simple query of 1 + 1 can be trusted because one cannot exhaust all conditions under which it may be asked. That approach is a mental failure. Time again the far better general solutions of OpenFabs , OpenHW , OpenSW are plainly presented by various people, in conference talks, etc. But who is doing the revolutionary work needed to actually fund / get such HW methodologies, production, and economies off the ground in a big way... <crickets>. All it takes is a few large donors to cold boot an OpenFab capable of printing thus OpenHW. Till then you get what you demanded and asked for by silent omission... untrustable garbage HW. Cryptocurrency is one step to fix that in monetary. Where is the steps to fix that in HW... the revolution is monetarily achievable, and long past due.

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