August 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Cryptocurrency: Lightning Not Talking About It's Own Real Problems
by grarpamp 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=problems+with+lightning+network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFjK-f9ts0 Imagine if Tor Project Incorporated was open and honest about its "limitations". "Tor Stinks -- NSA" "99% of all coins stink -- Internet" "Bitcoin - A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" https://whybitcoincash.com/ ... and at most 10 or so other coins.

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Google Program to Free Chips Boosts University Semiconductor Design
by jim bell 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/08/11/google-program-to-free-chips-boosts-univ… August 11, 2022 A Google-led program to design and manufacture chips for free is becoming popular among researchers and computer enthusiasts. The search giant’s open silicon program is providing the tools for anyone to design chips, which then get manufactured. Google foots the entire bill, from a chip’s conception to delivery of the final product in a user’s hand. Google’s Open MPW program includes an open-source design toolkit from a company called EFabless, which also manages the program. Enthusiasts and researchers have to submit their chip design, which then gets manufactured in the factories of SkyWater on the 130nm process. The submission deadline for the latest Open MPW program is September 12. Open MPW’s popularity can be measured by the number of projects using Efabless’ EDA tools. Chips from about 240 open-source silicon projects via Efabless’ tools will be manufactured in Skywater’s factories, Mike Wishart, CEO of Efabless. “The total projects posted on our site are like 570. That has gone extremely well. It’s diverse, from 25 countries,” Wishart said. Efabless had about 160 tapeouts in 2021, and had no tapeouts in 2020. Efabless provides a simple design EDA tool to make chips, which is mostly about dragging and dropping the core elements inside a chip. An open-source PDK (process design kit) prepares the chip for fabrication in factories. The Open MPW program added recent partners, including the U.S. Department of Defense, which last month poured $15 million into the project to get open-source chips made on SkyWater’s 90nm process. GlobalFoundries also joined the alliance and will also manufacture chips on the 180nm node. The manufacturing technology provided through the project is very old, but it is cost-effective. Intel, Apple and others make expensive chips on the more advanced processes such as 5nm, which uses cutting-edge technology and provides the fastest computing in devices. Open MPW is popular in academia and research, and for those experimenting or testing chips and need small batches, Wishart said. “Our incentive is to make it simple for more and more people and grow a community around those executing designs… [on] nodes that are more accessible to them and therefore lower costs,” Wishart said. Typically, chips can be expensive to manufacture, and factories are open to corporations. But Open MPW makes factories available to researchers and students. “There was an unmet need in academia, that was overwhelming and not appreciated because they didn’t know what they could get,” Wishart said. The open-source toolkits cover the full concept of chip development, from conceptualization to delivery of parts. Some universities may have deals with chip factories, but students at the undergraduate, master’s and PhD programs still have poor awareness of chip fabrication.

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Only Anarchism believes in abolition of the Police
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

Only Anarchism believes in abolition of the Police, and this is the most hotly-disputed argument of Anarchism. Yet the police force as we know it is a comparatively modern phenomenon, fiercely resisted when introduced for reasons which have since been proved up to the hilt, such as the ability of the Police to introduce or bolster up a dictatorship, known indeed as a police state. Most political reformers have some part of the unfree system they wish to abolish Republicans would abolish the monarchy, Secularists would abolish or disestablish the Church, Socialists would (or used to) wish to abolish the apparatus of exploitation; pacifists would abolish the Army. Anarchism is unique in wishing to abolish all.

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Paul Sztorc was on McCormack's discredited podcast this week
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

" . . . time will show Truthcoin outperforming their fork of my project." https://www.coingecko.com/learn/augur-conceptual-godfather-thinks-project-w… Truthcoin is not listed at CoinGecko today but Augur Rep is up slightly today https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/augur Amir Taaki , Peter McCormack and Elon Musk - oh my! https://twitter.com/Truthcoin Gramps-types-garbage - feh

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Narrative apocalypse now
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

TheBlueMatt ·Aug 8 3/ The "narrative wars" are coming, arguably are already here. With ETH (finally) moving to PoS, people who've only heard about how "PoS won't work" from Bitcoiners will have even less reason to care about what Bitcoiners have to say. <<< Reposts meh

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Making Cheap Talk expensive
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

Hivemind is a Peer-to-Peer Oracle Protocol which absorbs accurate data into a blockchain so that Bitcoin-users can speculate in on-chain Prediction Markets. Such markets can revolutionize the emergence and diffusion of knowledge in society, by “making Cheap Talk expensive”. https://bitcoinhivemind.com Reposts at own risk

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Peter McCormack is a statist idiot who hates anarchism
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

So its great to see this Big-Dog-fellator suffer at the hands of his dogshit brother >>> When the subject of Dr. Wright’s lawsuit against him comes up, McCormack often complains about the financial burden it has placed him under. In June 2021, he complained that the suit had caused him to get into a debt of £500,000 to his lawyers and that he’d had to sign his house over as a result: <<< https://coingeek.com/court-orders-peter-mccormack-to-provide-details-of-fin…

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Nils Melzer for Patriarchy & state terrorism
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

One of the women interviewed by Melzer later sharply criticised him and demanded his resignation. She said that by defining how a “proper rape-victim” would have to act, Melzer was engaging in victim blaming and that his report was partially “untrue and defamatory” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Melzer VERSO Books for state terrorism https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/slavo-zizek-presents…

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FBI investigating 'unprecedented' number of threats against bureau
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

And in related news . . . Director Hoover was Deep Arse Gray was Deep Throat Freeh was Deeply Corrupt Mueller was Deeply Stupid & Comey was Deeply Dumb Could it happen to a nicer bunch of Fucking Bungling Imbeciles? The American Gestapo? The death of the FBI is long overdue. Specialist forensics can be hived off and blockchained.

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Better if we don’t know their name.
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

I say it in here ( Death to all crypto notables ) and it comes out there . . . https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/12/an-alleged-tornado-cash-develope… We work through cut-outs - its not necessary - OR SAFE! - to know who our contacts are. " Need to Know " applies at all time - Section 26 Paragraph 18 - " Don't ask - don't tell " Only just remember - you have a license to killfile - not break code traffic regulations.

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