Application for funds for proof of substance -- Re: Cryptocurrency: Anonymous to Invest $75M of Crypto to Develop Privacy Coins and Anon Tech
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Mon Nov 25 20:48:16 PST 2019
I was going to give this 7 days, but 6 is enough, and so calling this
bullshit as of now.
Not even a courtesy email response, either privately or publicly,
leads conclusion this was nothing but a fishing net bullshit carrot
to gather the good ideas of others, by someone who is lacking
creativity, and apparently also lacking good intention.
U bin identified, muffaluggerahs!
<snigger>
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 09:04:32PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 04:47:15PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> > https://www.unknown.fund/
> >
> > "
> > Unknown Fund - Press Release 11/13/2019
> >
> > We are going to invest and donate $75 million of bitcoin in startups
> > that help anonymity ideas. Preferred niches are personal data
> > protection, tools for online anonymity, cryptocurrencies, blockchain.
>
>
> Dear Anonymous Fund,
>
> prior to putting our best ideas in detail to you, I hereby apply as
> follows in order to establish proof of substance of the Anonymous
> Fund:
>
>
> I apply for $1 million, which is 1/75th of the published fund amount,
> which shall be used for:
>
>
> a) The purchase of 30 Librem 5 mobile phones for use by myself and a
> few of my cohorts in freedom.
>
> I shall use at least one of these phones as a test bed for
> software development.
>
> This will total around $21,000.
>
>
> b) The purchase of 30 Purism laptops, for use by myself and a few of
> my freedom loving cohorts.
>
> I shall personally use two of these laptops to upgrade my ageing
> laptop, for the development of libre freedom protecting
> software.
>
> This will total around $90,000.
>
>
> c) The balance of the $1 million, I shall donate to the Puri.sm
> enterprise to continue furthering their work creating the best
> freedom respecting hardware that they are capable of creating.
>
>
> See https://puri.sm/about/ for further details about Purism and their
> awesome vision of creating hardware which respects our freedom and is
> not a walled garden where we are locked in, but where we may easily
> modify and add and remove our own chosen software.
>
> I shall obtain from Purism a letter of gratitude for the donation,
> and ask that they publish this letter on their website, as proof that
> the donation has been made by way of receipt of funds from the
> Unknown Fund, via myself.
>
> Thank you,
> Zenaan Harkness
> Australia
>
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