March 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

[spam][wrong] bad jokes
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

I went to buy a chair from Microsoft. I was excited that they had a chair for sale. It was a cushion on a pair of legs, but inbetween the cushion and the legs of the chair was something labeled "seat" that appeared to be a conglomerate of ridiculously overengineered crap held up by other ridiculous overengineered crap as deep as the eye could see, powered by a datacenter on the moon. I think there was an x86 assembly interpreter written in visual basic in there somewhere, holding up the seat cushion. Still, I was happy to have a chair. Then I needed a pencil, so I went to Apple. I was excited that they had a pencil for sale. It was a graphite rod with thick yellow paint around it, but between the yellow paint and the graphite rod was something labeled "wood and erasor" that appeared to be a conglomerate of ridiculously overengineered crap held up by other ridiculous overengineered crap as deep as the eye could see, powered by a datacenter on the moon. I think there was an entire purpose-built operating system in there, somewhere, that seemed to be used just to make the edges of the wood and eraser rounder. Still, I was happy to have a pencil. Then I needed a paperclip, so I went to the open source and free software community. I was excited that the open source and free software community had a paperclip. They didn't even charge money for it, they just asked me to press some special buttons on a keyboard until it built itself. It was a wire of steel with a bend at one and and a bend at the other, and between the two bends was something labeled "middle of steel wire" that appeared to be a conglomerate of ridiculously overengineered crap held up by other ridiculously overengineered crap as deep as the eye could see, powered by a small handful of nerds who seemed impossible to get in contact with but were able to bend reality to your will if you did. I think there was an entire purpose-built scripting language in there, that ended up only being used to call out to shell functions to make sure that the paperclip was bent at just the angle I configured it to be. Still, I was happy to have a paperclip. Then I needed a coffee mug coaster, so I went to Goo ...

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Yet more bad-faith and bullshit at Camp Assmange
by professor rat 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

the DAO, despite being a little pocket of protest, was not a democracy. Assange’s family was given veto power over proposals, and certain voices always carried more weight. There was a founding collective that was in a privileged position, despite calling themselves “cypherpunks” and anarchists. . . " https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03/08/assangedao-raised-56m-and-quickl…

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Tether-coins are cobwebs for the rich - heavy chains for the poor
by professor rat 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Or is that the laws? I get them mixed up. Peek behind the hood of the leading stablecoins—cryptocurrencies pegged to the price of another asset, most commonly the U.S. dollar—and things don’t look so stable at all. Take Tether: an opaque governance structure, a New York Attorney General lawsuit and undisclosed commercial paper holdings might give investors pause. Decentralized stablecoins try to avoid these governance issues by maintaining their pegs through algorithms instead of through vast reserves of cash and debt. . . ." https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-terra-algorithmic-stablecoin-protocol-…

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Joe Biden’s vision of US cryptospace
by professor rat 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Joe Biden’s vision of US cryptospace - a mechanical turkey You may quickly see how a gobbling electronic-dollar would always win guided, as it were, by a wizened dwarf called ’ In God we trust " theology that must always and everywhere be obfuscated.

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TV-GLOTZER (WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE) SONGTEXT
by Stefan Claas 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

https://vk.com/0x53746566616e TV-GLOTZER (WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE) SONGTEXT Einen recht schönen guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren Ich begrüße Sie recht herzlich zu unserem heutigen Fernsehprogramm Und wünsche Ihnen einen recht guten Empfang Allein! Die Welt hat mich vergessen Ich hänge rum! Hab's bei allen verschissen Ich sitz' zu Hause, keine Lust zu gar nichts Ich fühl' mich alt! Im Sumpf wie meine Omi: Ich schalt' die Glotze an Die Daltons, Waltons, everyone Ich glotz' von Ost nach West, zwei, fünf, vier Ich kann mich gar nicht entscheiden Ist alles so schön bunt hier! Ich glotz' TV (Sie glotzt TV) Ich glotz' TV (Sie glotzt TV) Wau! Ich bin so tot! War das nun schon mein Leben? Meine schöne Phantasie, meine Schaltstellen sind hinüber Regards Stefan -- claas.su

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'Crypto Is Helping' Ukraine
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

'Crypto Is Helping' Ukraine Amid Russia's Invasion, Says Deputy Minister Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alex Bornyakov today said that crypto has been "essential" in aiding the Ukrainian army. https://decrypt.co/94712/crypto-helping-ukraine-russia-invasion-deputy-mini… Pledge and you shall receive https://stiffs.com/celebrity/vladimirputin

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Ukraine the tactical-pivot - Moldova the strategic-pivot - Turkey the prize
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine rolls on, Turkey is caught between major powers – but could be crucial to ending the fighting https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/russia-invasion-ukraine-turkey-caugh… Reposts are not necessarily endorsements ( Unless you're Batshit-Crazy )

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From Non-NATO Ukraine to cryptoanarchist friendly space in central Asia
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised NATO and says he is no longer pressing for his country to join the military alliance. This clears the way for a crypto-anarchist line-of-march as by far the least-worst of limited options left for this brutalized polity. Ukrainians may then look back to the best of the Makhnovista experience and forward to APster assassination of all their state and religious enemies. E-estonia has only made a net-revolution half-way - someone has to go all the way first. Oh, and welcome to the Global Crypto-Anarchist Revolution!

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Crypto-cosmology as homomorphic netspace
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

The split-key-cosmology approach is similar to homomorphic crypto where you may process some information without full decryption. A promising line of attack involves close attention to energy inputs in the early universe. Calculating its Hamiltonian could help us establish whether cosmic inflation borrowed energy from ’ the bulk ’ ( primal vacuum ) This should be a fairly straight-forward application of Einstein’s famous equation. At least in theory.

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Deutsche Bank Has Lost 38 Percent of Its Market Value in a Month; That’s a Big Problem for Wall Street and the Fed
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/03/deutsche-bank-has-lost-38-percent-of… Deutsche Bank (symbol DB on the above chart) closed at $16.50 on the New York Stock Exchange on February 10 of this year. It closed at $10.23 yesterday – a decline of 38 percent in a month’s time. That’s a big problem because Deutsche Bank is heavily interconnected to Wall Street banks via derivatives. According to Deutsche Bank’s most recent annual report, as of December 31, 2020, it held $35.4 *trillion* in notional derivatives. (Notional means face amount. See the table on page 147 of the 2020 Deutsche Bank Annual Report here <https://investor-relations.db.com/files/documents/annual-reports/Annual_Rep…> .)

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