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  If you don't do this, you get enslaved by some power grabby upstart

Exactly - and even just the emergent THREAT of its use is enough! Works better than top-down NUDGE!  Power grabby list colons - like Juan Peron and Granpa - don't seem so prolific once a dead-pool is opened up on them. " Between the teeming flood plains of pacifism and the spectacular high peaks of terror lies the variegated terrain of the THREAT " Old proverb Anyone seriously interested in these hot-button issues might comb through the list ' registry ' - its archives. And the CYPHERNOMICON. TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992 Cypherpunks collapse governments. Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003