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Re: [Cryptography] Blockchain currencies: The Death of 1000 Cuts
by grarpamp 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz(a)pwpconsult.com> wrote: > [Note to moderators. I think the ship has sailed on the label used for these > currencies and this list may be the only holdout. I have avoided the > objectionable term in my writing, but am using it in the writing of others > that I quote so my quotes will be accurate.] The context should prevail over whim of moderator censorship... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pksx_IAHDE Call cryptocurrency 'crypto' if you want, the context further define things well enough. > The IRS decision to tax blockchain currency gains, along with the following > stories from SANS NewsBites Vol. 20 Num. 022 seem to indicate a policy of > killing them with the death of 1000 cuts. Ten year anniversary of 1000's of cuts and 100's of deaths... nine months away... still going... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hlN2nel5HI Those who fail to recognize, adopt, support, and take part in some of the philosophical, political, financial, technical, etc promises... will be left behind like the old horse and buggy. The people who either don't get it, or continually try [politically] dissing it down with moot arguments and FUD... a list supposedly aware of crypto, even as munitions for change, where Satoshi himself first posted such a thing as game changing as "Bitcoin" here... time to free your minds a bit [again]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQGQXy0RIIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-NwFOAS0ZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqgrCrzTJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dla42bY7k90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZYZoQQ6LJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaZPuTSi68 Cryptocurrency all over CNBC, its music videos on late night talk shows, some say crazy... others interpret it all as evidence of growing mass social acceptance and integration of the underlying elements of what they speak about. That's a powerful change, just getting started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw Cryptocurrency and blockchain are now raising up such a storm of controversy and proving unstoppable in their own takeover of the world, disruptive and forceful as they may or may not necessarily be, precisely because there are a lot of old horses long overdue for extinction. Bitcoin youtube results... 5.6M If anyone thinks cryptocurrencies, crypto, blockchain, and such things as applied... are going away... they're insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0YMSLZjfQ Some say the below are but two examples of non-free markets propped up by threat of physical force for the benefit of legacy institutions, powers, players, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg > --------------------------- > Ethereum Falls in Wake of SEC ICO Investigations > (March 18 & 19, 2018) > The value of Ethereum cryptocurrency fell below $500 USD over the weekend; > the cryptocurrency was trading at more than $1,400 USD in January. The drop > occurred after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made clear > that it intends to scrutinize initial coin offerings (ICOs). Other > cryptocurrencies have taken a hit over the past several months as well. > > Read more in: > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/ether-plunges-after-sec-says-doz… > http://slate.com/technology/2018/03/ethereum-prices-drop-explanation.html > --------------------------- > New York State Municipality Power Companies Can Charge Cryptocurrency Miners > Higher Rates > (March 16, 2018) > The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has ruled that power > companies in that state may charge cryptocurrency mining operations higher > rates than other customers. Cryptocurrency miners have been attracted to New > York because of the state's abundance of relatively inexpensive > hydroelectric power. A group of 36 New York state municipalities petitioned > the PSC to raise rated for these customers because the demands they place on > local power grids is causing rate increases for local residents. Unlike > other industries that may consume larger amounts of power, cryptocurrency > mining does not bring economic development to the municipalities in which it > operates. > > Read more in: > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/new-york-power-companies-can-now… > http://www.utilitydive.com/news/munis-to-charge-bitcoin-miners-higher-power… > http://www3.dps.ny.gov/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/52BF38680307E75E852582510… > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz | Can't fix stupid, but duct | Periwinkle > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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ICO model
by mark M 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

https://hackernoon.com/the-ico-model-f74ffb881eaa

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Intercept: NSA MONKEYROCKET: Cryptocurrency / AnonBrowser Service - Full Take Tracking Users, Trojan SW
by grarpamp 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/the-nsa-worked-to-track-down-bitcoin-us… https://www.reddit.com/search?sort=top&t=week&q=nsa+bitcoin https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&dateRange=pastWeek&query=nsa+bitc… https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=nsa+bitcoin OAKSTAR MONKEYROCKET aka THUNDERISLAND "agency working to unmask Bitcoin users about six months before Ulbricht was arrested, and that it had worked to monitor Liberty Reserve around the same time" "American spies were also working to crack Liberty Reserve" "analysts have .. tracked down senders / receivers of Bitcoin" the agency was interested in surveilling some competing cryptocurrencies, "Bitcoin is #1 priority," "using this “browsing product,” which “the NSA can then exploit.” "These programs involve ventures with US companies." Staff travel to "Virginia partner / these extremely patriotic business associates" highly cloaked. " Partner provided first/last name metadata... large influx of traffic... ftp process... causing disk space to fill up " Powers also used for traditional police work “other targeted users will include those... International / Organised Crime and Narcotics...Follow-The-Money" missions " cyber targets that utilize online e-currency services... There’s no elaboration on who is considered a “cyber target.” " " that the NSA would “launch an entire operation ... under false pretenses” just to track targets is “pernicious,” ... Such a practice could spread distrust of privacy software in general, particularly in areas like Iran where such tools are desperately needed by dissidents. This “feeds a narrative that the U.S. is untrustworthy,” " "Despite Bitcoin’s reputation for privacy... you should really lower your expectations of privacy on this network.” " financial privacy “is something that matters incredibly” to the Bitcoin community, and expects that “people who are privacy conscious will switch to privacy-oriented coins” after learning of the NSA’s work here. " " If the government’s criminal investigations secretly relied on NSA spying, that would be a serious concern. Individuals facing criminal prosecution have a right to know how the government came by its evidence, so that they can challenge whether the government’s methods were lawful. That is a basic principle of due process. The government should not be hiding the true sources for its evidence in court by inventing a different trail. " https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702/ " Civil liberties advocates have long suspected that the Justice Department is underreporting Section 702 cases in order to limit court challenges to the controversial law. Some theorize that the government conceals Section 702 use through a process known as “parallel construction,” in which evidence obtained from the warrantless surveillance authority is reobtained through traditional FISA authorization, and the government only discloses the latter authority in U.S. District Court. One defense lawyer referred to this practice in a court filing as “laundering” Section 702 evidence. " “ The government intercepts Americans’ emails and phone calls in vast quantities using this spying law and stores them in databases for years,” said Patrick Toomey, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “FBI agents around the country then go searching through that trove of data as a matter of course, including in domestic criminal investigations. " " If the FBI uses parallel construction to conceal intelligence community information, it would not be the only federal law enforcement agency doing so. In 2013, Reuters obtained documents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that showed how agents were trained to “recreate” investigative trails to conceal how intelligence intercepts helped to identify criminal targets. "

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Re: Adam Kokesh vs Larken Rose: Using Political Process To End Politics?
by g2s 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Anarchast. All White People. Tells ya sumpthin about libertarians who pose as anarchists. CrimethInc - What Anarchism Isn't: Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism https://crimethinc.com/podcast/18/transcript Rr, a proud member of the EX-Workers collective null

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Adam Kokesh vs Larken Rose: Using Political Process To End Politics?
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

Larken Rose vs Adam Kokesh great debate on Anarchast. Topics include: debating the usefulness of using the political system to further the cause of Anarchism, democracy is inherently bogus, is any degree of statism acceptable, Ron Paul is at least a voluntarist, declaring the federal government of no authority, a practical way out of statism, people waking up en-mass, does the president have the power to remove the post of president, the Libertarian takeover of the libertarian party, political authority is fake and illegitimate, principal vs pragmatism... Larken Rose: http://www.larkenrose.com/ Adam Kokesh: https://kokeshforpresident.com/ Anarchast: http://anarchast.com Related... https://www.youtube.com/user/AMP3083/videos

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Cryptocurrency: $400M Hotel, Doubling Time, CA
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcT4-ddkgqc https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/85ikyw/i_made_a_chart_show… https://imgur.com/ESii2Lj https://imgur.com/a/1leaI http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRender/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20180319/-1…

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Being Julian Assange: The Deep State vs The Truth - WikiLeaks
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/ https://steemit.com/life/@suzi3d/reading-guide-being-julian-assange https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeingJulianAssange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJNRCeuNR4 Big article covering lots of ground / history, getting distribution and traction. Support Julian Assange and WikiLeaks! Presented by... https://twitter.com/suzi3d https://suzi3d.com/ https://twitter.com/KimDotcom https://www.kim.com/ https://twitter.com/ElizabethleaVos https://disobedientmedia.com/ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=<insert_whatever_here> https://twitter.com/JulianAssange https://twitter.com/WikiLeaks https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/julian-assange-the-cia-director-is-…

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Govt News
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-… https://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-… https://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-… ECCHR’s legal intervention filed with the German Federal Public Prosecutor (Generalbundesanwalt – GBA) is aimed at securing an arrest warrant for CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel. Haspel was appointed to the post by President Donald Trump in February 2017. The information submitted to the GBA by ECCHR on 6 June 2017 documents Haspel’s role in the torture of detainees in 2002 at a secret CIA prison in Thailand. In the dossier, ECCHR argues that Haspel oversaw the daily torture of detainees at the black site in 2002 and failed to do anything to stop it. “Those who commit, order or allow torture should be brought before a court – this is especially true for senior officials from powerful nations,” said ECCHR’s General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck. “The prosecutor must, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, open investigations, secure evidence and seek an arrest warrant. If the deputy director travels to Germany or Europe, she must be arrested.” >From this shortlink turd in wrong thread, see above instead. https://t.co/jlLhBHSKqF

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US 2018 Election Hijacked: Sybil Candidacies Of The Mil / Intel / Shadow Gov
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html https://icwatch.wikileaks.org/ An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history. https://t.co/jlLhBHSKqF

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HN discussion: The Global Attack on Silicon Valley (and the ICO Solution)
by mark M 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

The Global Attack on Silicon Valley (and the ICO Solution) https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/85d19a/hn_discussion_the_g… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16610511

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