May 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Anarchism Rising as Govts Date with their Destiny to Fail
by grarpamp 01 May '22

01 May '22

"We've reached our breaking point" dozens of Baltimore businesses threaten to not pay taxes... 'We're Taking Back Our Street" - Sacramento Man Barricades Street To Stop Out-Of-Control Crime https://fox40.com/news/local-news/man-barricades-sacramento-street-to-stop-… People are fed up with the urban utopian socialist experiment in California. One business owner barricaded a public street in Sacramento to prevent a further spillover in crime from other areas. "The game is over. We're taking back our streets," business owner Rich Eaton told FOX40. He barricaded part of Railroad Drive to prevent the commercial area from additional car burglaries, rampant building theft, prostitution, and homeless encampments. "The city's dereliction of duty has just come to a boiling point and I'm really just begging for help," Eaton said, adding he has complained about the out-of-control crime to the mayor. So far, he's received no response. "I paid some homeless people some money so they would leave. I fed them; I took care of them and helped them and when Railroad Drive was cleared. I put up barriers," Eaton said. A person who didn't want to be identified and works for a company on the street told the local news: "It was like walking through a working meth lab to get to work." "There's days when they'll be parked three-wide on the street and we can barely get by. They've had our gates completely blocked. I've pulled up and had employees waiting to get in because they were afraid to get out of their gate and punch in the code. "Literally a week ago from this spot to there, all the way down and around the corner there were 57 motor homes and trailers parked," the employee said. Eaton said someone scaled his building last week and stole his surveillance cameras from the roof. "The prostitution, the stolen cars, people meeting on the street at 3 a.m.," Eaton said, it's just chaos he added. Sacramento responded to Eaton's barricade with an order to stop blocking the street. Business owners taking action as city governments seem unresponsive is a new emerging trend. Last year, dozens of Baltimore City businesses banded together. They collectively threatened the mayor with no tax payment because they were fed up and frustrated "with the outburst of violence."

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Cryptocurrency: Monero MaxiFanboiTrolls Issue Death Threats Against HavenoDEX Zcash, License Games
by grarpamp 01 May '22

01 May '22

News of unnecessary controversies... It's always been known that Monero is somewhat infested with Maxi / Fanboi / Troll -ism, much like Bitcoin and others, all part and parcel in any competitive environment really, so long as recognized as such. Aspire to be grownups instead, for the benefit of crypto adoption. However these threats in the news are completely inexcusable and must be publicly denounced and rejected by the entire crypto community. In further response, HavenoDEX and or some new DEX's should be funded researched developed and deployed independently away from any particular coin's influence, re Monero in relation here but applies to any coin, up to and including forking if necessary. Zcash needs to be be added back into to HavenoDEX. Zcash needs to free up any of its licensing issues. DEX technologies, mixes, darknet exchanges, etc need to be coin agnostic and must be allowed to freely and independently develop and flourish as such for the betterment, adoption, advancement, and free exchange of the entire crypto space, including the much needed push now towards privacy-enabled coins and technologies. Non-free licenses are an abhorrence, an insult to the ethos of, and an unnecessary restriction upon the free adoption of crypto worldwide. Fiat is effictively not free, licensed, and enforced by horrible threats... no one wants that, so don't be a Fiat, be free instead. Free ideas, free markets, and freedom of cryptocurrency. Regardless of whatever coins and coinspace think of any competing coins, these types of threats are dispicable and must not be tolerated. And you can also bet that a lot of the noise in coinspace is manufactured FUD and incitement coming from agents of the legacy GovBank space working to kill cryptocurrency and cryptoprivacy as a whole. Recognize their trolling and don't fall for it. https://haveno.exchange/2022/04/29/haveno-zcash.html https://haveno.exchange/faq/#what-currencies-will-be-listed https://twitter.com/HavenoDEX/status/1518121318096461825 https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/uaqx9u/haveno_funded_by_the_monero… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ueztya/haveno_removing_zcash_is_go… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ub63s1/let_this_haveno_zcash_listi… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/uei3zs/new_haveno_statement_regard… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/uaxpqq/another_take_on_the_haveno_… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/u9afub/i_lost_trust_in_the_haveno_… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/uek80n/havenos_statement_a… https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1519384914080149504 https://localmonero.co/the-monero-standard/weekly/10 https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/issues/248 https://t.me/HavenoDEX https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/svcwrv/the_improved_structure_of_h… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/tsufk2/ccs_haveno_dex_now_availabl… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/tg6y5i/ccs_proposal_haveno_ui_fund… Other DEX mentioned... https://github.com/blocknetdx https://github.com/bisq-network DEX are needed that can handle many coins, not just coins that ride on one particular coin platform. Coins should be designed so they can easily plug into the coming coin and coin-platform agnostic DEX world. Statement about the recent concerns about Haveno listing Zcash Haveno Core Team | 29 Apr 2022 Recently, we announced our intention to list Zcash among the first assets available to trade with Monero on Haveno. This sparked some valid criticism, but also baseless accusations, like claims of the Haveno Core Team receiving money in exchange for the listing. This reached a level not expected with serious threats made against the Haveno Core Team. The Haveno Core Team does not request or accept listing fees. We reject these claims entirely. Why did we decide to list Zcash? Zcash is already supported by Bisq, so supporting it on Haveno is quick and trivial. Zcash does provide strong privacy when used with fully shielded transactions, and as a privacy focused platform, we want to incentivize the use of privacy technologies, the correct way. That’s why we decided to list Zcash, but shielded (private) addresses only (See the open issue). We also see value in giving the possibility to Zcash users to trade with Monero users privately and in a decentralized way. With that said, we believe Monero is the best tool to facilitate private trade, which is why it’s the base pair of every traded asset. What now? We decided to not include Zcash in the list of the currencies that will be supported at launch. We don’t consider it a priority and we think we have already consumed enough resources on this issue. As FOSS developers, we are also concerned by Zooko’s recent statements about the licensing of their technology. That said, work proceeds as usual and development can be followed on Github: github.com/haveno-dex/. https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ueztya/haveno_removing_zcash_is_go… The threats came from a Monero community member that has along history of harassment of Monero contributors. He is known for creating fake accounts, used to spam Monero and Haveno chatrooms. He is also currently banned from most Monero channels. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to post a screenshot of the threats publicly. https://twitter.com/jswihart/status/1519175104701235200 https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ud8xzj/zcash_employee_josh_swihart… and not a word from the mods, while antisemitic comments have been up for 11 hours: https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ud8xzj/zcash_employee_josh_swihart… Coin specific, but dead on regarding all coins and coinspace... https://old.reddit.com/r/PirateChain/comments/uf5h7m/stupidity_opportunity_… Oh, the stupidity runs deep... ...The crypto community has two viable privacy assets with volume and exchange support that would put them out of startup risk territory. And all they do is fight with each other, working against their best interests. Haveno devs listened to the vocal morons, and cut a major artery that would feed XMR blood. Bad news for XMR holders (and they celebrate). ...oh the stupidity runs deep... The privacy space is begging for a startup to take the lead over XMR and ZEC...who will it be? If ARRR wants to be that asset, they can't be as stupid. ARRR team please don't be stupid. Give the free market as may atomic swap and DEX pipes to ARRR as possible. And if you're really strategic, please streamline CEX->DEX arbitrage right in the wallet. ARRR lives or dies on the arteries that feed it. XMR just cut a major artery. Don't make the same mistake.

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Cryptome Hushmail
by professor rat 01 May '22

01 May '22

A million dollars worth of cryptome was reportedly paid to John Young, sorry, Alex Jones, this week. " . . . .The secrecy involved here raises the question of whether someone in Trump world could have sent this money to Jones in an effort to keep him from cutting a deal with the DOJ. It’s certainly something that the DOJ will want to take a look at. At least one former prosecutor thinks such a donation could meet the legal definition of witness tampering or obstruction of justice on the part of the donor. . . . "

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Edward Snowden ZCASH
by jim bell 01 May '22

01 May '22

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/edward-snowden-says-mystery-man-200312597.ht… "Back in 2016, six people played a key role in the creation of a cryptocurrency called Zcash. One of the six participants, who operated online under the pseudonym John Dobbertin, remained unknown—until now. "Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency consultant and notable whistleblower, revealed himself to be Dobbertin in a leaked video from Zcash Media, a group making educational videos about Zcash. “I saw [Zcash] being worked on by a number of trusted academic cryptographers and I thought it was a very interesting project,” Snowden said in the video, which was first reported by Forbes. "Zcash is known as a privacy coin, because it uses zero-knowledge proofs, or cryptography that hides details—including addresses, amounts and other data—of cryptocurrency transactions. Zero-knowledge proofs allow Zcash transactions to be validated on its blockchain while keeping most aspects of the transaction invisible to the public. "This is different from Bitcoin, for example, where addresses, amounts, and other details of transactions are openly documented on its blockchain. “Bitcoin quite famously is an open ledger,” said Snowden in the video. He was charged with espionage by the U.S. in 2013 and granted asylum in Russia. “The problem with that is you can't have truly free trade unless you have private trade. And you can't have a free society without free trade.”

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Dollarization: The Case of Ecuador
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '22

01 May '22

Think we should get xUS going here and abroad. Who needs USDP anyhow? I heard xUS is fresh and clean.

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Jim Bell's criminal garbage
by professor rat 01 May '22

01 May '22

If it wasn't obvious before it should be quite plain by now - Jim Bell is no fit helper for our cause. It seems uncontroversial to say that most anti-social-criminals are political conservatives. And Jim has recently spent over a decade in close quarters with them. This need not be a negative - Malatesta had to wait 10 years to be tried over his lifetime. And he is a widely respected anarchist to this day. It only becomes a negative when he gets out and starts associating himself with the like of Jeff Berwick, Julian Assange and Elon Musk. Fouler anti-social-criminals it would be hard to find - they represent murderers, rapists and thieves. There have been arguments made for including criminals in revolutionary activities. I always try to remain open to new ideas from the fringe. But there must be a test of some kind. Is the present situation so bad it warrants such extremely risky measures? I would argue that the last time this situation applied was 2002. Then - since 2010 - I've argued regularly that no earthly power, or combination of them, could stop the global anarchist revolution. And since then all Govts, Religions and Corporates have gotten weaker and crypto-anarchy much stronger. TL/DR we don' need no steenkin' criminal badges! The strong do what they will - the weak suffer what they must. Fuck Jim Bell and all who sail in him.

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You could fit the data from 25 million 1TB SSDs on this 5cm diamond wafer | PC Gamer
by jim bell 01 May '22

01 May '22

https://www.pcgamer.com/you-could-fit-the-data-from-25-million-1tb-ssds-on-… Researchers in Japan say they've concocted a new method of creating wafers out of diamonds able to store mammoth amounts of data on them. We're talking 25 exabytes of storage, which is a 25,000 petabytes. Or 25,000,000 terabytes. Or 25 billion gigabytes. It's a dizzying amount of data, that's for sure

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Why does Elon Musk hate our crypto-anarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 01 May '22

01 May '22

No one wanting to further the revolution buys into that " Btc is anti-ecological " bs. If you do some very simple sums, Btc saves a fortune wasted on present Bankster infrastructure. But Elon Musk has said Btc is environmentally harmful. Then there's Doge replacing the Dollar. Fine. As fine as ' Free Speech "! But Elon Musk has said he wants to authenticate millions of humans and the obey all relevant laws coming from any tinpot dictatorship. Few things could be more directly antithetical to the aims of this list going back as far as " True Names " Its plain by this stage no c-punk can associate with Elon Musk without opposing cryptoanarchism and fighting with genuine cypherpunks. Its political-economy - not quantum-gravity. In order not to be accused of Machiavellianism all activists support for this creepy criminal should be expressed publicly in tactical terms with a large consumer warning attached.Yes? Every OG here would know all this already - but it seems we have a few Blow-Ins - and maybe the odd " Rim-Man-Twinkle "

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Why Trump hates wind turbines
by professor rat 01 May '22

01 May '22

So Donald Dumbfuck's fear and loathing of windmills resembles Nazi-Punk hate for Jews. Figures. Dumbfuck ideas cling together. Thanks G for busting down the WaPo firewall btw. This list could be a great place to do that semi-regularly - as when the noise-level from resident trolls drops now and then,

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Hackers have found a sneaky new way to infect Windows devices
by jim bell 01 May '22

01 May '22

Hackers have found a sneaky new way to infect Windows devices https://share.newsbreak.com/zcw7hhgk

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