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short essay Dystopia: Worm destroys half of the computers
by Georgi Guninski 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

I wanna be a paperback writer ;) Updates will be on http://j.ludost.net ====== Dystopia: Worm destroys half of the computers by Georgi Guninski, 2017-12-02 ver. 1.0 Allegedly Steven Hawking said: “I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” On a cold sunny winter day a worm destroyed half of the computers. It exploited few zero days in the BIOS remote management system which is OS agnostic. By design the worm was destructive. It flashed all firmware it could and did physical damage turning the device into unbootable “brick”. Wiped all data from device's storage too. If the worm could connect to the management port the device was essentially owned. Antivirus warez didn't help since they didn't have a change to note any “anomaly”. The implications on the real world were severe. Severely malfunctioning were shops, hospitals and a lot of other stuff. Older generation worms like ILOVEYOU, WannaCry looked like wanted security updates compared to the worm. Some service providers were so little screwed up, if they wanted to be up, they had to offer free services to all. Cynics joked this was the first real beta testing of communism. Crazy people claimed Pink Floyd predicted the mess around 1980 by singing “Waiting for the worms to come”.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS: MAKE CHRISTMAS YULETIDE AGAIN
by Yule 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

Wishing you anons a joyful Yule season. [pic related] --- -Yule.

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Re: [Cryptography] Cryptocurrency: CME Approved, Coin Paychecks, FED, OpenBazaar ZEC BCH
by grarpamp 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen(a)cannoy.org> wrote: > Welcome to 1928, when even paper boys bought stocks because the market could only go up.Until it diddn't. Shares are evaluated based on ability of company to return capital plus profit. There is always a point at which further upward valuation becomes unpalatable to a rational investor. Cryptocurrencies, certainly "Bitcoin", do not generally / currently pull in resources on the backside, thus are incapable of return in that fashion. Thus invalid comparison. > There are people on my local Nextdoor.com asking if they should > be investing in bitcoin. At $10K/coin. Should first minimally learn or be instructed what an eight decimal ledger vs "coin" is. Evaluating cryptocurrency is totally different than evaluating shares of IBM. > No, not unless they started 10+ years ago. Basic math on an upheld promise of cryptocurrency says there's plenty of % gain to be had over the future. Some will concur and stake a position, some won't. There was no 10+ years ago, and not relavant since you can't invest a coin into itself (lending it isn't that either). > It’s a tulip bubble All purchased tulips either died and returned to non reconstitutable molecules, or spawned upon the owners with various term success. Ledger ownership and existance of most cryptocurrencies continues indefinitely by design, and in the case of "Bitcoin" has both an agreed known and fixed final quantity and issuance curve. Thus invalid comparison. > and it is going to wreck a lot of people’s lives They are free to choose their allocations. Historically more likely to be wreckage among fiats. Stay agile. > and set back crypto-currencies in general. There is no such back in the box, nor will development be abandoned by all.

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Cryptocurrency: Baltic Honeybadger 2017, Death of Money
by grarpamp 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

https://bh2017.hodlhodl.com/ Andreas Antonopoulos - Privacy, Banks, Rights, Anonymity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4uysldnzio Huge intro speech! Schedule https://bh2017.hodlhodl.com/ Day 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHc81OL_hk4 Day 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLqm2FNOmbU Conference Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pW4CowQdpE Sponsor Hodl Hodl Bitcoin Exchange https://testnet.hodlhodl.com/ Death of Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzjCMNQZB2Y https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antonopoulos+london+real

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Re: Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution (Documentary)
by grarpamp 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

>> Hahaha! Imagine the mayhem if the US dollar lost 20% of its value >> overnight. Bitcoin's potential worthiness has been maneuvered by the same >> scumbags who ruined the financial markets with flash trading to be a >> Pyramid Scam only truly stupid people would believe in. Or scam artists like >> the libertard shits infesting this list. > >> Bitcoin loses over a fifth of its value in less than 24 hours >> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-bitcoin/bitcoin-loses-ove… >> >> Tim May was wrong. Btc is Pwnd. > > I'm not going to let you forget that as a consequence of my October 7, > 20177:00PM (Prague time) Prague speech, Bitcoin went from about $4300 to > $5800 in six days. Raising the value of all Bitcoin by $24 billion. > > And don't forget: Well before that, I TOLD the CP list to "Buy Bitcoin" Article was irrelavant and old the minute it was posted. Cryptocurrency doesn't give a fuck and will continue to rise. Traders in that vein are ready to buy such dips, and 20% is normal.

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Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution (Documentary)
by Yule 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

> g2s g2s at riseup.net > Fri Dec 1 11:02:14 PST 2017 > > capitalism is bad > muh "" > REAL Capitalism has never been tried REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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Nikola Tesla: Futurist
by John 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

If you are not familiar with Tesla's theories in his later years, he explored fantastic topics like free energy, anti-gravity, invisibility, and time travel. After Nikola Tesla's death, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. The National Defense Research Committee called in an MIT professor and well known electrical engineer to make sense of Tesla's notes in order to analyze if anything in them could be weaponized. That MIT professor was John G. Trump. John Trump claimed that there was nothing of any real substance in Tesla's notes - but this was a lie. He knew that if the National Defense Research Committee realized what the notes contained, such as blue prints for a time machine, it could mean the end of the world. Although John Trump believed Tesla's time machine was plausible, it was not possible to create using the technology existing at the time. John Trump later died in 1985 but not before entrusting Tesla's notes and their implications to the protection of his beloved nephew, Donald J. Trump. Around this same time period, Donald Trump was known to use pseudonyms such as John Miller and John Barron, in partial homage to his uncle. However, there was another pseudonym he was to be known for, John Titor. Trump, as John Titor, traveled to the future under the assumed identity of a soldier, where he discovered that America, and the entire world, had become a nuclear dystopia caused by radical Islamic terror. John Titor began posting messages on several internet forums in 2000 and 2001, writing of events that happened in the timeline he had witnessed. He wrote of terrible events that would occur between 2000 and 2012. He could not name the cause at the time or the timeline may become unavoidable, see 'Death Ship' episode from 'The Twilight Zone' television series. Trump traveled through time, amassing a fortune and making subtle changes, attempting to delay the future he saw for as long as he could - but that future is now coming. Trump knew that the only way he could have enough influence to prevent this future in it's entirety would be to become President of the United States of America.

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Re: Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution (Documentary)
by g2s 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Hahaha! Imagine the mayhem if the US dollar lost 20% of its value overnight. Bitcoin's potential worthiness has been maneuvered by the same scumbags who ruined the financial markets with flash trading to be a Pyramid Scam only truly stupid people would believe in. Or scam artists like the libertard shits infesting this list. Bitcoin loses over a fifth of its value in less than 24 hours https://t.co/OI1FkO9HgV Tim May was wrong. Btc is Pwnd. Rr null

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@Bitfinexed, Too Big To Fail, Lightning, Canada, Shitcoin Music
by grarpamp 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7gre9u/bitfinex_releases_statement_on… https://twitter.com/bitfinexed http://www.ofnumbers.com/2017/11/13/bitcoin-is-now-just-a-ticker-symbol-and… https://twitter.com/ofnumbers https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7gqvvw/excellent_video_exposing_the_a… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7go4bo/the_truth_about_the_bitcoin_li… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V365_59-Lc https://i.redd.it/r66iob89s7101.jpg Oh Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNGFZDO8mM https://imgur.com/BhNjIL5 Monetary Revolution https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bitcoin+monetary+revolution https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cryptocurrency+revolution Bitcoin Podcast - Bitcoin Cash Fund https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episode-169/ Do you want to trade some shitcoins... :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfntBEI3Aw

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Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution (Documentary)
by grarpamp 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPfzQQB3oU infohash:8A27FE7F05FBFBF76501E7E60AB56CDCD54035ED How Bitcoin is changing the world as we know it. Exploring the revolutionary Bitcoin digital currency. It doesn't need banks or to be printed. It can be transferred in a second to anywhere in the world. With global financial instability in the headlines daily, more and more people are taking their money away from the banks. Is Bitcoin the only way forward? Magic Money paints a future where control of our money is taken away from global institutions and given back to us. With “money at the core of our existence”, comes an examination into a product easier to use and more revolutionary than email. A product hailed by Bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver as the "the most revolutionary technology you’ll see in your lifetime." From the birth of its unidentified creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, to bitcoin's unprecedented potential today to transcend any restriction through a unique push system, a fascinating tale of bold creativity emerges. As VP’s of some of the world’s largest financial industries, entrepreneurs, and monetary scientists attempt to deconstruct the nature of bit coin, to what extent will members of the public change their financial agenda to a bank-less system that appears so lucrative on the surface? Will people trust such an entity that is not tangible in any form? And how can a something so simple have a nation asking, "I still don’t understand bitcoin"? Magic Money presents a financial game changer comprised of a public ledger unlike any other monetary system. With enormous growth in nations like Iran and China, where money can be restricted in transferring, Magic Money’s monetary scientist Trace Mayer indicates that "Bitcoin is definitely the largest innovation in monetary science since Isaac Newtons Gold Standard."

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