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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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How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price?
by Georgi Guninski 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price? Define "major" as reported in popular media like national TV. My wild guess is major outbreaks systematically increase the share price by non-trivial amount no matter if the promised protection is real or not.

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Why Cryonics Makes Sense
by grarpamp 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html (Great blogs BTW) https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/knfcx/i_am_signed_up_for_cryonics_at… http://www.alcor.org/blog/hal-finney-becomes-alcors-128th-patient/ Cypherpunks will be needed in the future, even if only to break out of the Matrix. Avoid info death... Imagine a patient arriving in an ambulance to Hospital A, a typical modern hospital. The patient's heart stopped 15 minutes before the EMTs arrived and he is immediately pronounced dead at the hospital. What if, though, the doctors at Hospital A learned that Hospital B across the street had developed a radical new technology that could revive a patient anytime within 60 minutes after cardiac arrest with no long-term damage? What would the people at Hospital A do? Of course, they would rush the patient across the street to Hospital B to save him. If Hospital B did save the patient, then by definition the patient wouldn't actually have been dead in Hospital A, just pronounced dead because Hospital A viewed him as entirely and without exception doomed. What cryonicists suggest is that in many cases where today a patient is pronounced dead, they’re not dead but rather doomed, and that there is a Hospital B that can save the day—but instead of being in a different place, it's in a different time. It's in the future.

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Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
by Did You Know 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

> Marina Brown catskillmarina at gmail.com > Wed Dec 13 20:09:38 PST 2017 > > nazi > By "nazi" she means Europeans who vote against their own interests. > block [them] > By "block" she means "add to the gas list". "There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists." - Ennio Flaiano

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Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
by g2s 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

-------- Original message --------From: juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> Date: 12/7/17 5:08 PM (GMT-08:00) To: g2s <g2s(a)riseup.net> Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:58:22 -0800 g2s <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > The scumbag said we are still waiting for you to show that you able to calculate Blah blah... From that ars technical link However, we can make some educated guesses. For starters, we know the industry's revenue: Bitcoin miners currently generate 75 bitcoins per hour, which, at the current price of around $12,500 per bitcoin, translates to $937,500 per hour, or more than $8 billion per year. Moreover, the industry is highly competitive, and electricity is one of its biggest costs. So when the price of bitcoins rises, we can expect miners to spend more and more on electricity until electricity costs are roughly on par with revenues. This is the methodology the Digiconomist (link... use it scumbag.) website uses to estimate the Bitcoin network's energy consumption. It assumes that the industry will spend 60 percent of its revenue on electricity and then extrapolates from the current bitcoin price and prevailing electricity prices. It finds that the network is consuming energy at an annual rate of 32TWh. It also assumes that the network takes time to adjust to big price increases like we've seen in recent days. This means that, if Bitcoin stays above $12,000, we can expect this figure to rise further in the coming weeks." Rr

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