How do we sponsor & maintain critical infrastructure (rsa, tor, floss hardware, ...)

[Adéla Eastmund]

> Few want to do 1, 3, or 4, because when done right,
> there's no profit or control over other people for them
> to have, and that's how it should be.

That's what cypherpunks are her for tho.
Nobody makes any money from, say, OpenPGP and that's why the
infrastructure is in the state it currently is (non-maintained).
And that's how it should be: real citizens writing good and helpful
software for other citizens.


I'm new to the club.
How would one, as a 'cypherpunk' develop cool and helpful technology without
	a) living below poverty line
and
	b) being conveniently killed by a US sponsored electrical fire
and
	c) secretly being on US military payroll like many other
	   self-proclaimed 'defenders of privacy'.

Maybe throw me a URI of some sorts. This seems to be the piece of the
picture which I am currently lacking.

	Adéla, 🇩🇪


On 2019-12-01 00.40 UTC+1 grarpamp wrote:
>> Is there a location at which these proposals have been published?
> 
> They are not currently publishing the applications by default
> because they currently view that as harming potential startups.
> 
> Though you can send them project press releases for publishing to:
> 
> chris_unknown_fund at protonmail.com
> 
> There are probably no third party locations because most
> proposals are likely to be from typical "startup" space
> that is usually trying to secretly extract money from each
> other and the market, than giving good things to the world.
> 
> 
>> Has anyone proposed what we propose doing, building
>> an anonymization network... done-right?
> 
> Unknown. But if you're serious about doing anything with
> them you need to get at least some kind of hello application
> in now because they have a lot of apps in the pipeline,
> and they say applications are closed. So it'll have to be
> something good to bypass the rest.
> 
> 
> As to some recently mentioned ones...
> 
> 1) A new general purpose secure *PA resistant internet overlay
> transport network built from good current and new research,
> including use of pluggable RF module tech. Many apps
> can ride. And it should be designed to be a factor stronger
> than tor, i2p, and all the rest are today.
> 
> 2) An OpenAudited OpenFab building OpenHW (including
> CPU, GPU, ASIC, RF, Phones), to run all the OpenSW on.
> 
> 3) There should be an application for strictly a cryptocurrency...
> distributed, privacy in protocol by default, cpu transaction mined,
> no 100GB's of blockchain history only a UTXO state db, and strictly
> serving only the "currency / money / cash" function, fast lightweight
> hard, no premine, no support for tokens, contracts, data, or any other
> bloatware at all, just a plain old fashioned single purpose cash. Maybe
> multisig and timelock for safer holding, but that's it, the less the better
> will yield recognition as purely money and reach primary goal of
> cryptocurrency adoption faster therein. It must be capable of running
> over anonymous overlay networks.
> 
> 4) And an application for a genuine fully distributed
> cross-chain DEX (CCDEX) is a remaining tech that is
> desperately needed to help complete the cryptocurrency
> function space. It must be capable of running over
> anonymous overlay networks.
> 
> 
> Few want to do 1, 3, or 4, because when done right,
> there's no profit or control over other people for them
> to have, and that's how it should be. Though 2 can
> profit once it gets running, it would be better if it spent
> its profit to seed independant redundant copies of itself
> and or other needed projects.
> 
> 
> So far most of the online chatter seems to be about
> getting yet more pointless shitcoins off the ground than
> working on fundamental underlying tech the fund, or at
> least some of us, would like to see.
> 
> I'd even help review some of the apps but I'm not in that loop.
> 
> 
> https://www.unknown.fund/
> https://twitter.com/fund_unknown
> anon_fund at protonmail.com
> chris_unknown_fund at protonmail.com
>