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Fwd: [Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster.
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Btc can justify its electricity use 'enough' to rationalize its unique POW existence. Ditto its decentralization ( as opposed to the c-punk, distributed ideal ) Closing it down now - were it possible - would only guarantee a more distributed replacement - look what happened to Silk Road. Then individuals have stashed $8.7 trillion in tax havens - there’s no huge political constituency dedicated to stopping that - and idiots - like that dingbat eunuch-moron, honky-Kraken-rider, Bob Hettinga - keep querying Btc’s value proposition. Jesus Fucking Christie. Whats wrong with all the Trumpofascist morons on this list? You miss out?

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Bitcoin is a disaster
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

After a one-two combination like APster 1996-2006 and Wikileaks 2006 - 2010, I guess Btc looks a little weak and weedy. Especially with such a chickenshit pussy eunuch like " Satoshi' as lead c-punk. Meh! However, Btc has bootstrapped incredible value and created the sure and certain market for a ubiquitous electronic P2P cash system that is not only more cypherpunk but even approaches the cyberspatial realization of anarchism. That is its power and that will be its everlasting glory. Just remember cryptoanarchy is a system larger than any crypto-currency and its still not really been trialled in its entirety. Some of you may remember this from 2001. Cypherpunks Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Two out of three ain't bad - I suspect the coming cryptocoins will be based on something more like Avalanch and be uncapped but doled out in line with global GDP as some sort of UBI. Financial information wants to be free! Quantum computers and stronger AI will help us design next-gen e-cash with far better UX and security and scale and sustainability. I have some Btc but I'm never selling and I can't wait for it to go extinct. Viva la revolution.

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Bloomberg as MAD magazine
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Remember their what-me-worry, tiny spy-chip scare story? Here's another doozy. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Zq3jgISWs1QJ:https://… Life spies on you though nano-technology, then your crypto-currency fails then you die. No wonder the Mercatus morons sound so depressed lately.

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Exploits: TCP Stacks Jacked with Ripple20 Amnesia33
by grarpamp 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

https://www.jsof-tech.com/ripple20/ https://www.forescout.com/research-labs/amnesia33/ And OpenSSL announces its customary quarterly hack.

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DECRYPT - becoming human
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Passion of youth no panacea - that was fine in the sixties for a while but this is now - that was then. Polling quickly reveals ' chosen peoples' with feet-of-clay. Blacks, women and yes, the youth, all carry significant reactionary demographics. Just like the general population. There is not even any hope for traditional anarchism since its descent into neo-Marxism and philosophical masturbating. But I remain optimistic. Time and time again the anarchist way of organizing proves itself superior. Its impossible any intelligent AI will ever miss this and act accordingly. So this is why I keep 'retreating forward' and calling on reinforcements from the future. The *Cypherpunk 2027* is another exercise in that. Six years at full warp and we could bring the singularity forward, institute global cryptoanarchy and anticipate intelligent machines passing any test. Tomorrow belongs to us.

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Tippi Degre - animals and children - Soul Cookies - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

It's been a long haul people. Sometimes one needs to take a few days off. Peace, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tippy+elephants https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chito%20crocodile https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kangaroo+friend

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Crypto-AG story in WaPo
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

How they did intelligence coups before Blacknet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-cr… Worth a look for the headline.

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Still raining - still dreaming
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/new-york-significantly-accelerates-th… The NY District Attorney has brought on forensic accounting specialists to pin down Donald Trump’s criminal decision to use campaign money to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels

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Behind the curve. The mathematics of deaths.
by Peter Fairbrother 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Please recirculate freely. Behind the curve. The mathematics of deaths. The present United Kingdom strategy on COVID-19 was to initially try to contain the virus with a weak containment policy, and when that failed to move to the "delay phase" we are in now to try to slow its spread. This delay would place a lower maximum load on healthcare, spread heathcare requirements over time, and thereby allow more per-patient care. An underlying assumption and consequential end result of that policy is that practically everybody in the UK will inevitably eventually catch the virus. And the Red Death will hold illimitable dominion over all. The strategy made sense if, as was believed when it was made, there would be no way of eventually stopping the epidemic by containment, something I myself believed. However, that does not seem to be the case: the disease is not quite as infectious as at first thought, as recent evidence shows that the Chinese have managed to slow it almost to a stop using strong confinement. If they succeed in containing the disease, as seems very likely, then most Chinese people will never catch the virus - whereas if the present UK policy is continued then at some point a majority of people in the UK will catch the disease, and a million people will die unnecessarily [1]. So what new policy should be adopted? Well we have the Chinese example to follow. Strong containment is working for the Chinese, it should work for us. All people entering the UK should be quarantined. The UK has a "moat" in the seas surrounding it, and should take advantage of that. Schools and universities should close. Large public gatherings should be banned. People should be encouraged to wear masks, not discouraged - even a tiny difference in transmission rate can be the straw which will make the difference between the epidemic dying out or growing: that is how the chain reaction of an epidemic works. If each infected person infects more than one other person on average then the epidemic spreads, if on average each infected person infects less than one then the epidemic dies out. We should be taking extreme measures to get that figure of new infections per case down to less than 1. Testing should be stepped up by at least an order of magnitude. Medical staff should have the power to require testing, and if positive then quarantine should be enforced if necessary. But most of all, we have to stop thinking that a million people will die and there is nothing we can do to prevent it. Diligent and intense containment can work if we are willing to pay the price now, the Chinese example is proof of that. Any delay in implementing strong containment will cost lives. Failing to implement strong confinement will result in a million unnecessary deaths over the next few months. [1] "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Joe Stalin. The UK age demographic contains more older people than the Chinese, and older people are far more likely to die of COVID-19 than younger people; so the UK fatality rate would be more than the Chinese rate, which works out to a bit over a million deaths if we assume 3/4 of the population get the virus. A delay to provide better health care might reduce the death toll to about a million. Strong confinement now could reduce it to a few thousand. Peter Fairbrother

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[spam] unsubscribing
by Karl 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

goodbye until i obsessively come back! i'm having trouble finding willpower not to post to this list in ways i'd rather not. i figure it's fine to message since i am spamming the list all the time anyway.

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