February 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

JOHN Young BFF links Wikileaks with CIA
by professor rat 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPguzR5d9hU Wikileaks The CIA's Propaganda Mouthpiece John Young was not fooled. In early January 2007 he decided that WikiLeaks was a CIA-backed fraud. “Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign. Same old shit - working for the enemy.

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Maybe There's a Use for Crypto After All: Helium Network may be useful...
by jim bell 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

https://news.yahoo.com/maybe-theres-crypto-155442266.html One of the most frequent questions asked by crypto skeptics is: What can you actually do with crypto, besides financial speculation and crimes? It’s a tough question to answer, in part because most of the successful (and legal) uses of cryptocurrency so far have been in finance or finance-adjacent fields. There are plenty of crypto exchanges, nonfungible-token trading platforms and video games that involve buying and selling crypto tokens. But so far, not many crypto projects have had what I’d call “normie utility” — solving problems that exist for people outside the crypto world, that aren’t primarily about buying or selling digital assets, and that would be impossible to solve with normal, noncrypto technology. Recently, though, I discovered one that does. It’s called Helium. And while it’s not the most attention-grabbing crypto project out there — no cartoon apes or copies of the Constitution are involved — trying it out has helped me understand how crypto can be quite useful in solving certain types of problems. On a basic level, Helium is a decentralized wireless network for “internet of things” devices, powered by cryptocurrency Recently, though, I discovered one that does. It’s called Helium. And while it’s not the most attention-grabbing crypto project out there — no cartoon apes or copies of the Constitution are involved — trying it out has helped me understand how crypto can be quite useful in solving certain types of problems. On a basic level, Helium is a decentralized wireless network for “internet of things” devices, powered by cryptocurrency. -The network is made up of devices called Helium hot spots, gadgets with antennas that can send small amounts of data over long distances using radio frequencies. These hot spots, which cost roughly $500 apiece and can reach 200 times farther than conventional Wi-Fi hot spots, share their owners’ bandwidth with nearby internet-connected devices — like parking meters, air-quality sensors or smart kitchen appliances. Anyone can use the Helium network, although most of its users so far are companies like Lime (which has used Helium to keep tabs on its connected scooters) and the Victor mousetrap company (which uses it for a new line of internet-connected traps). More than 500,000 Helium hot spots are in use around the world, with thousands being added to the network every day. (End of quote) Jim Bell' comment: This Helium network looks very interesting. I foresee a time when in which a self-selected person will be somewhere, ready to do something, at a moment's notice. But he will want to take credit, somewhat anonymously, so he will prove his entitlement to a large reward. So, he will want to transmit a packet of data, encrypted and/or possibly hashed. The data might include latitude and longitude, time, nearby WiFi spectrum information. Also may be included hashed video and audio information. He will want to transmit this information, and he may want to wait until there is a return confirmation that the encrypted information has been published on a specific website.

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bll gates - mass murderer
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

"In 2000, the Gates Foundation partnered with Merck to launch a $100 million pilot program in Botswana to showcase how mass AIDS treatment with vaccines, patented antivirals, and prevention could eliminate AIDS in Africa. The pilot’s disastrous failure instead became a parable for how Gates’s obsession with expensive pharmaceuticals is killing Africans. The rate of pregnancy-related maternal deaths nearly quadrupled, and child mortality rose dramatically". "In 2017, the Danish Government commissioned a study of health outcomes among African children who received WHO’s flagship DTP vaccine. They found that vaccinated girls had ten times the death rate compared to unvaccinated girls" I think it's important to notice that on this fine list we have a gates accomplice(of murder), the piece of shit gunnar larson.

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Cryptocurrency: Ricardo Salinas Pliego Talks Crypto
by grarpamp 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvnZvdgPdww Ricardo Salinas Talks Crypto https://open.spotify.com/show/02f4UyyKATG3Zc127KUHgP Ricardo Salinas Talks Crypto "The gold price has been manipulated quite easily by central banks around the world. Bitcoin comes in as a new asset that is harder to manipulate, it's a better asset as you can sell it easier and you can transport and store it basically for free." "It's not in the government's interest to make it easy for people to use bitcoin." "Everything we have in fiat is 100% seizable by the government." "If you're going to go to Digital Fiat, you're in the worst world possible!" "Fiat is a fraud ... became a piece of shit" "Inflation is an unfair tax." "Is crypto a tax haven..." "Crypto is unseizable ;)" "Central Banks are Holy Temple of the Bureaucrats, the High Priests live in and make money off it." "If you want Big Brother, to be in prison, go CBDCs" "Premines and Coinflation uncapped... all just shitcoins" "DeFi is huge threat to [traditional finance]" "Beware false sense of security" "We were the first ones to accept bitcoin in our stores." Billionaires and corporations getting woke as fuck, dropping crypto mind bombs out in public now ;)

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KGB Kremlin's missile threat to world peace
by professor rat 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

KGB Moscow’s missiles threat to Europe and world-peace https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/us-offers-putin-an-o…

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Another Batshit-Crazy dies of COVID-19!
by professor rat 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Cleavon_MD · 12h Biologist Franco Trinca, one of the coordinators of the “United for free choice” movement made up of various anti-vax associations died from Covid at a hospital in Città di Castello #Italy on Feb 4, 2022. #SoulsLostToCovid https://corriere.it/cronache/22_febbraio_05/franco-trinca-morto-covid-biolo…

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Bill Gates - Put up or Shut up
by professor rat 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Bill Gates has been a long-time cypherpunk target here ( as anyone remotely familiar with the archives would know ) Near a quarter century! So whining about him here is obviously pathetically weak-minded and worthless when an APster deadpool can be contributed to. Jesus Fucking Christ . . . https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates This is cryptoanarchy 101.

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NYCCoin on the Week
by Gunnar Larson 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

NYCCOIN PRICE CHART $0.0047 $-0.01 (-37.80%)

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Buttface Buterin doesn't know cryptoanarchy from a hole in the ground
by professor rat 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

And so as Fresh, Billionaire Prince Mark Z rots down so Fresh, Billionaire Prince Vitalik lurches up. What kind of FREAKIN’ moron ever quotes Murray Rothbard, 4-Chan and Peter Palantir Thiel approvingly!? Ohai Vitalik . . . https://mises.org/library/are-libertarians-anarchists

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Cryptocurrency: Your Life Under CBDCs and GovCorp Coins
by grarpamp 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

In case you were wondering what life under a CBDC will look like... https://bombthrower.com/articles/gofundme-just-proved-bitcoins-use-case/ https://bombthrower.com/articles/nation-states-are-more-fragile-now-than-ev… https://bombthrower.com/articles/wait-why-is-the-fed-buying-my-biggest-comp… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YJgj57Css https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-m… https://bombthrower.com/articles/get-used-to-living-under-subsidiarity-afte… https://bombthrower.com/articles/the-metaverse-is-a-scam/ https://archive.fo/A0Exy https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Peoples.Ledger.DRAFT_.pdf https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sdp2021-11.pdf By now, everybody is probably aware of the Canadian #FreedomConvoy and how GoFundMe, at the behest of the Mayor of Ottawa and Justin Trudeau, summarily closed their fundraiser, which had exceeded $10 million. They also announced that they would literally redistribute funds to other “approved charities”. Those those approved charities would presumably be those mentioned by name by the likes of Trudeau (like the avowedly Marxist BLM, who have fundraising issues of their own owing to lack of financial transparency). This kind of incident is a microcosm of exactly why the world needs Bitcoin, decentralized crypto-currencies and communications protocols. Because we now live in a world run by collectivist technocrats. They sincerely think that what they believe should be rules and what you or I believe should be thought crimes. On its own this would be merely annoying, having to perpetually deal with shrill, sanctimonious hysterics, perpetually shrieking in your face about things they want you to think and how they want you to live. But it’s a problem when these people congregate around the choke-points of a centralized, bureaucratic technocracy and impose their personal neuroses onto the rest of society. Not only as policy, but as official canon on what is truth itself. The final straw is when dissent is criminalized and plunder legitimized. When all actions against those dissenters are fair game, while any civil (and constitutionally protected) resistance is by definition reprobate, then we have arrived in dystopia. At the very least: authoritarianism. Reality will always intrude… The Fourth Turning people observe that the generational cycles oscillate between individuality and collectivism. By extension, right now we’re in a phase of peak collectivism. They’re not wrong, but I think that misses the overall progress of humanity. On a scale of individual autonomy and empowerment, the long term trajectory is always “up and to the right”. Anybody reading Rothbard or Hayek knows that the construct of The State is more accurately a racket whereby small cadres of self-anointed elites appoint themselves the overlords of the masses. Rigging society so that the vast bulk of wealth accrues to themselves and any attempts by the rabble to defend their own interests increasingly fall outside the scope of what is permissible. Slavery, let’s call it for what it is, became more subtle over the centuries. Physical slavery, the treatment of other people as property is now universally abhorred and those who undertake it regarded as criminals (except for everybody who fraternized with Jeff Epstein). In the industrial era slavery had evolved into economic slavery. Debt is what kept the underclass in line and the entire monetary system was designed to perpetuate it. The thin scab of elites that formed The Establishment were by and large Cantillionaires for whom the rules were specifically constructed to benefit at the expense of wider society. Via Wait, why is The Fed buying my largest competitors’ bonds? In the information era, the elites need a different type of slavery. It needed to be digitized. But their problem is that the inexorable push toward wider autonomy and freedom for all humanity threw them a curveball called “decentralization”. As described so presciently in the Holy Bible of Crypto, with digital communications technology and encryption, the fundamental architecture of power changed, irrevocably. Even though globalist elites convene at places like Davos to reimagine everybody else’s future, they are still thinking in terms of linear extrapolations the past. While they promise transhumanist utopias in a largely made-up metaverse to industrial era debt serfs, the actual action in human affairs is happening out here in The Real World. Cryptographically Secured Hard Money Changes Everything Elitist shills like Paul Krugman, et al, fail to successfully marginalize crypto using the same tired tropes (climate hysteria, criminals, right-wing, etc), thankfully to no real avail. When all else fails they finally adjust their blinders and fall back to “there’s no use case”, that Bitcoin “manages both to seem futuristic and to appeal to old-style goldbug fears that the government will inflate away your savings … So crypto has become a large asset class even though nobody can clearly explain what legitimate purpose it’s for.” Really? GoFundMe just showed us two elite-class aspirations in one fell swoop: Confiscation and redistribution. Needless to say Bitcoin fixes this. Today it is GoFundMe. In the future, when central banks roll out Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), it’ll be all economic activity that falls within the purview of national and Supra-national government and bureaucracy. When those days arrive, everybody who will be reliant on government economic entitlements will be enduring a type of neo-Fuedalism: veritably digital slavery. Those MMT-ers who are promising you a cost-free UBI maybe not even realize themselves what the trade-offs will be that will come with it (aside from skyrocketing debt levels and hyper-inflation). Those will be the social credit hooks which will invariably be built into the CBDCs (or maybe it’s not a trade-off but a feature). Biden’s failed nominee for Comptroller of the Currency authored a white paper called “The People’s Ledger” which called “[for] a comprehensive reform of the structure and systemic function of the Fed’s balance sheet as the basis for redesigning the core architecture of modern finance. In essence, it offers a blueprint for democratizing both access to money and control over financial flows in the nation’s economy.” Sounds benign, but what it really did was outline a blueprint for the complete takeover of the private banking system and would bake-in protocols for a compulsory investments and arbitrary deposits and withdrawals Omarova’s run at the position is finished. Don’t think for a second the sentiment behind her People’s Ledger is. But since we’re talking about Canada’s #FreedomConvoy, we can look at how the Bank of Canada’s white paper on CBDCs expresses enthusiasm around the same capabilities of “Smart contracts and the benefits of programmability”: Although still early in their development, smart contracts could enable entirely new digital economy applications with many potential benefits. To start, smart contracts could enable programmable money by adding certain attributes to it. For example, money could be programmed to gain or lose value over time, or it could be programmed to be used in transactions for only specific goods or services. Furthermore, smart contracts can enable programmable payments—automated payments that are executed after certain conditions are met. These can range from simple push payments to more complex ones. For instance, smart contracts could enable automatic routing of tax payments to authorities at the point of sale, pay-as-you-go insurance or payments that can support IoT applications. Sounds generic and non-biased enough. However take a look around. Those “certain attributes” and “certain conditions” may well end up being things like what Justin Trudeau, or whomever replaces zim thinks about your activities (or “unacceptable opinions”). Donating to #FreedomConvoy? Listening to Joe Rogan Experience? Those aren’t approved activities. That’ll cost you some demerits. You may not even know it’s happening, just that the GovCoin that hits your phone every month is not as much those other, more compliant, people. Or when you go to spend it, the prices adjust to different levels. That’s if your GovCoin app even allows you to complete the purchase, after evaluating it against a scorecard devised by woke ideologues who think you’re fringe. As for #GoFraudMe The company initially put the onus on those who donated to request a refund, and would thereafter redistribute the convoy’s money to other approved charities. Given the pushback (it’s basically theft), they have since announced they would refund all donations. Personally, I will never donate via GFM again, not out of some cancel-culture based spite, but because they are demonstrably unreliable and willing to change the game on-the-fly (something that can’t happen in crypto). >From now on whenever anybody asks to raise money via GFM just tell them you’ve love to help, but given their past actions you have no assurances that your donation would actually go to its stated purpose. Instead of going toward helping some child with her cancer treatment it may simply be confiscated and sent to Greta Thunberg instead. Offer to mail them a cheque directly or even better: send them some Bitcoin or other crypto.

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