July 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Cryptocurrency: BTC Maxi's Begin to Admit BCH Was Right re Blocksize, Lightning, Cash, Adoption
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Js1tBoTOI P2P Cash Onboarding In a recent Twitter Space with Udiverse, Eric Wall looks back at the bitcoin blocksize war and asks, "Were we the bad guys?" https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1532723681293737984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjaUks5id0?t=3758 If you don't have a usable private p2p cash, all you have is a pile of the same old useless serialized datamined gold bricks fraught with lightning problems, adoption time lost, and an unaccomplished mission. "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" That definition applies to the ones that succeed as such, and in 20 years that might not be any of today's coins. Thus hidden exchanges, swaps, DEX, etc are much in need to enable users adoption via cross-layer1 coin agility. In the races that matter, only less than 1% of cryptos are doing anything that matters, let alone anything that will win, either the short or long game. That is precious time wasted. 99.9% of coins are not doing cash, they're doing unusable insecure censorable centralized profiteering premined taxed datamined permissioned gatekept middlemanned governed unscalable policied compute smart... bloatware. https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/BCH-vs-BTC/what-if-btc-raises-block-size https://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/ https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-June/008412.ht… https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/v9ddb3/in_a_recent_twitter_space_with…

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[ot][spam][crazy] MCBoss spinoffs3
by Undiscussed Past Horrific Abuse, One Victim Of Many 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Not sure where the old 3 thread was. ---- MCBoss was happily jaunting down the street, riding a unicycle, while leashed to a grumpy intern. Intern: "Juggle some bowling pins, MCBoss!" Boss pulled some bowling pins out of his belt and began juggling them. His unicycle swayed back and forth as he juggled. They passed a little old lady walking her lapdog. MCBoss lifted his hat at the old lady, shifting the bowling pins to the other hand as he did so, still juggling and swaying. Intern: "Good morning, ma'am!" Little Old Lady: "Good morning! And where are you fine young fellows off to?" MCBoss smiled at the little old lady while juggling. Intern: "I was taking my mind control boss on a walk to the park!" Boss grinned at the little old lady. Boss: "I control all the global militaries! Is the park nice this time of year?"

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Cryptocurrency: Who Changed The Narrative? From Fuck GovBankCorp to Bow And Kiss Their Ass
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

BCH: "We've been sounding the alarm bells for a while, no?..." The narrative went from "Fuck the Banks" to "Banks welcome to crypto" https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/tn90ge/the_narrative_went_… " I mean, I get it. Mass adoption. The Hyperbitcoinization theory. Metcalfe's law and what not. Besides, who doesn't like a bit of green on their portfolio. However, don't forget that banks are not here for you. They aren't here as a benevolent force of good. They just want to front run their own creative destruction. Remember what early Bitcoiners had to face to reach this stage of adoption, they had to fight off constant criticisms from all sides, especially the banks and their stooges. By all means celebrate the adoption, but also remember the roots of this entire revolution. Rant over. Peace out. " " > Just keep Bitcoin focused on the most important objective, > the separation of money and state. Unfortunately the introduction of banking and other systems that require funds-routing middlemen opens the door to state interference. That is why the primary use-case has to be cash. Only cash transactions directly from sender to recipient are purely voluntary and sovereign, with no middlemen who will be required to report or prevent the transaction, and who have an incentive to fractionally reserve. "

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USB Drive Keeps Your Secrets… As Long As Your Fingers Are Wet? | Hackaday
by jim bell 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

https://hackaday.com/2022/07/30/usb-drive-keeps-your-secrets-as-long-as-you… Walker] has a very interesting new project: a completely different take on a self-destructing USB drive. Instead of relying on encryption or other “visible” security features, this device looks and works like an utterly normal USB drive. The only difference is this: if an unauthorized person plugs it in, there’s no data. What separates authorized access from unauthorized? Wet fingers. It sounds weird, but let’s walk through the thinking behind the concept. First, encryption is of course the technologically sound and correct solution to data security. But in some environments, the mere presence of encryption technology can be considered incriminating. In such environments, it is better for the drive to appear completely normal. Toggling the chip enable (CE) pin will hide the drive’s contents. The second part is the access control; the “wet fingers” part. [Walker] plans to have hidden electrodes surreptitiously measure the resistance of a user’s finger when it’s being plugged in. He says a dry finger should be around 1.5 MΩ, but wet fingers are more like 500 kΩ. But why detect a wet finger as part of access control? Well, what’s something no normal person would do right before plugging in a USB drive? Lick their finger. And what’s something a microcontroller should be able to detect easily without a lot of extra parts? A freshly-licked finger. Of course, detecting wet skin is only half the equation. You still need to implement a USB Mass Storage device, and that’s where things get particularly interesting. Even if you aren’t into the covert aspect of this device, the research [Walker] has done into USB storage controllers and flash chips, combined with the KiCad footprints he’s already put together means this open source project will be a great example for anyone looking to roll their own USB flash drives. Regular readers may recall that [Walker] was previously working on a very impressive Linux “wall wart” intended for penetration testers, but the chip shortage has put that ambitious project on hold for the time being. As this build looks to utilize less exotic components, hopefully it can avoid a similar fate.

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How a Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail
by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

How a Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-26/sextortion-victim-turns-…

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I think you will find this job interesting.
by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Check out this job at Kiva: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2982437232 Kiva.org is looking for a CTO ...

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Defaming Pastor Craig is like wrestling with a pig
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. So 1996 Craig Wright lies about having to pay for cancer treatment and Julian Assange calls out his amateurism. So? >>> It is way more believable that Craig Wright is just a scammer who’s been lying all these years, than him suddenly going from a fucked up fascist to an open minded Satoshi Nakamoto who understands game theory and human behavior enough to have invented Bitcoin, and back to the fucked up self who claims to “not understand people” because he’s “autistic”. <<< https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/wc6w08/csw_30_years_ago_i_protect_the… Sensing a pattern here. How can the same thing happen to very similar au Proffs twice? Peter McCormick is not autistic asfaik but he is definitely a statist fool who deserves to lose everything he has - especially his life.

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Proff Wright 1 Proff Assange 0
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Whatever his aperture political views are his legal outlook appears sound https://coingeek.com/copa-delays-craig-wright-bitcoin-white-paper-trial-unt… Reposts not endorsements No au-based cypherpunk professors were harmed by this posting

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Re: PLEASE LET ME SLEEP OUTDOORS
by Victim of Undiscussed Horrifically Abusive Brainwashing 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Thanks for your reply. It's nice to hear from you and I am really sorry for disrupting your list and you. I saw that you support hackerspaces which is pretty cool. I'm still trying to figure out how to get on the hackerspaces.org mailing list, the times I tried I didn't get a reply from the listserv. Apologies for capitals I am in a very strange state of mind !! Do you understand this?: I USUALLY SLEEP OUTDOORS. MANY OVERWINTERED WITH ME DURING OCCUPY. Summary: I have lots of gear already, have engaged this situation ad nauseum, and love the ice and wind. I'm in a pretty limited dissociation atm but I expect to be able to get back out there! Your inspiring words help a ton !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it's not your responsibility. If I don't go I may get hospitalized or ostractised for my email name which for now gives me impetus to keep trying. Note to self: You can sleep outdoors, Karl. In Northern Arctic Canada, everybody does this the whole winter while hunting nomadically. Some of them are computer programmers! The temperature right now is up near freezing so you'll be more than safe. I'm outdoors right now, come join me! On 12/28/21, wrote: > You can sleep outdoors. Be prepared, however, for varying weather > conditions. You can find many items that you need at REI or other > technical outfitters. > > Best of luck. > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:36 AM Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I do not know what to do. I am not able to kill myself with any >> reasonable likelihood. >> >> I have spent my whole life focused around living outdoors with an idea of >> making everything right in a caring way. >> >> I need to be able to sleep outdoors to be Karl Semich. >> >> I need to be able to spend many days outdoors without going indoors, to >> sleep outdoors, with my current psychology. >> >> PLEASE LET ME SLEEP OUTDOORS. PLEASE LET ME WORK OUTDOORS. >> >> Thank you for any aid. >

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Twilight of the Big-Dog-gods
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

BayAlphaArt ·17h Replying to @iamDCinvestor Bitcoin became exactly what it tried to defeat: an inefficient financial system only held up by the power of prior investments, too big to fail. It’s technologically outdated, and I hope it will be replaced by more efficient coins. <<< Reposts etc

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