November 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Qatar’s World Cup Is a $300 Billion Splurge to Rebrand Its Global Reputation
by Gunnar Larson 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Qatar’s World Cup Is a $300 Billion Splurge to Rebrand Its Global Reputation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-17/qatar-world-cup-2022-sho…

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[ot][log] email parts
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

i wonder if this email exchange is spoofed or hacked i get a lot of weird emails, but this one seems so weird that it's easier to consider. i replied to ilsa (second attachment), but usually when I reply to short messages like that I don't get a reply, or if I do often the reply ignores most of what I said. maybe i can start publishing the raw emails for funny exchanges like that. many of our experiences demonstrated compromise of official infrastructure (as far as i know this is likely many years ongoing now), so it's reasonable to imagine signed + spoofed messages. this person seems great but i don't know why they would reply to my crazy fourier matrix thread

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Cryptocurrency: Fraud SBF Is Free, While A Real Crypto Dev Rots In Jail
by grarpamp 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Free Pertsev, Ulbricht, and Assange... After $10+ billion fraud SBF is free while Tornado cash developer is in jail for developing open source sofware " A Tornado cash developer is still in jail without formal Charges. SBF committed $10b fraud and is playing video games in the Bahamas. Which he is losing BTW Code is free sepeech, but it's said that money speaks so much. SBF and his connections are making him a free man. He lost billions but right now he is playing LOL (not a joke). We saw big support for the TC dev when he was arrested but atm there's not much talk about his situation due to market conditions and a billion dollar scammer is running around the bahamas. As a community we need to raise our voice to this kind of injustice if not we won't end up better than TradFi "

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Musk Claims No Role in Setting His $55 Billion Pay Deal at Tesla
by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Musk Claims No Role in Setting His $55 Billion Pay Deal at Tesla https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-16/musk-claims-no-role-in-s…

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Crypto Lender BlockFi Plans Bankruptcy Filing Within Days in FTX Fallout
by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Crypto Lender BlockFi Plans Bankruptcy Filing Within Days in FTX Fallout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-16/blockfi-said-to-plan-imm…

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by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

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Cryptocurrency: Hal Finney, Crypto Based Economies... Will Keep Growing
by grarpamp 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Economies based entirely upon crypto are growing rapidly, Agorist, Voluntaryism, Libertarian, AnCap, Charitable, Communal, Social, Personal and Financial Sovereignty, Privacy, Entire communities and even Nations now... Humanity adopting Freedom via Crypto... https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/btc-circular-economies/ This was forseen and intended by the cypherpunks, from back then, through today, and will continue to be onward... From: Hal <74076.1041(a)CompuServe.COM> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 17:37:40 PST To: CYPHERPUNKS <CYPHERPUNKS(a)TOAD.COM> Subject: Why remailers... Tim mentioned that not many people on the list have expressed interest in the remailers, and it occurs to me that maybe people don't all share the vision of why this crypto technology is important. I'm trying to recall how I learned about the possibilities of this technology. I recall reading "True Names" a few years ago. Vinge had his netters exchanging mail anonymously. The hero downloaded a big batch of messages from a BBS and tried decrypting all of them to see which were for him. Okay, I thought, that would be a way of disguising which messages you were _receiving_. Then Vinge said something like "and using more elaborate techniques, the sender of a message could be hidden as well." Hold on, I thought. That will never work. If they tap your line, they're going to know exactly what messages you're sending. Too bad. Vinge had a clever idea going, but it's flawed. I only learned about Chaum's crypto stuff last year. Somebody on the Extropians list mentioned PGP, and I'd always had a casual interest in crypto, so I downloaded it and played with it some. I thought it was great and really got into it in a big way. This got me interested in crypto in general, so I started doing some library research. When I found Chaum's stuff, it just blew me away. The first article I found, I think, was his CACM paper which is an overview of many of the things that are possible. I started trying to track down other papers by Chaum. Here were all the technologies needed to make Vinge's world work, technologies which Vinge apparently knew about long before I did. It seemed so obvious to me. Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. Unlike the world of today, where people are more or less at the mercy of credit agencies, large corporations, and governments, Chaum's approach balances power between individuals and organizations. Both kinds of groups are protected against fraud and mistreatment by the other. Naturally, in today's society, with power allocated so disproportionately, such ideas are a threat to large organizations. Balancing power would mean a net loss of power for them. So no institution is going to pick up and champion Chaum's ideas. It's going to have to be a grass-roots activity, one in which individuals first learn of how much power they can have, and then demand it. Where do the remailers fit in? They represent the "ground floor" of this house of ideas - the ability to exchange messages privately, without revealing our true identities. In this way we can engage in transactions, show credentials, and make deals, without government or corporate databases tracking our every move as they can today. Only by securing the ability to communicate privately and anonymously can we take the next steps towards a world in which we each have true ownership and control over information about our lives. Chaum's ACM paper is titled, provocatively, "Security Without Identification - Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete." The work we are doing here, broadly speaking, is dedicated to this goal of making Big Brother obsolete. It's important work. If things work out well, we may be able to look back and see that it was the most important work we have ever done. Hal Finney 74076.1041(a)compuserve.com

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FTX Was Creating Money Out of Thin Air Like the Fed; and Trading Its Own “Stock” Like the Wall Street Mega Banks in their Dark Pools
by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

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Live: Elon Musk Testifies on $55 Billion Tesla Pay Package (TSLA) - Bloomberg
by Gunnar Larson 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Live: Elon Musk Testifies on $55 Billion Tesla Pay Package (TSLA) - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2022-11-14/elon-musk-testifies-in-…

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Ubiquitous quantum encrypted internet will solve " True Names "
by professor rat 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

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