August 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Cryptocurrency: News Dump, Tornado, FED Spanked re CBDC M2, Code Speech, more...
by grarpamp 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1556730708059717633 The IRS is hiring 87,000 enforcement agents and the Fed is sanctioning privacy preserving technology. Where do we think this is going? PGP, a tool which exists to allow spies and terrorists to conceal their crimes, is being criminally investigated, to the professed surprise of many crypto people. Tornado dust attacks targeting popular addresses, politicians, etc. https://www.theblock.co/post/162465/crypto-notables-are-being-sent-eth-from… Now they wanna ban bank accounts. You can’t make this shit up, these people are so delusional. "The way to bypass this ultimately is by having privacy be a first-class feature of the chain. So you can’t just check every transaction to see who used a mixer - since everyone is mixing. I think this action will likely accelerate adoption of that tech. (But I’m biased.)" Duh. https://www.thebubblefilms.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqp0AJe38Ec Jim Rogers - Warns Govts want to control Crypto, Regulate everything. https://news.coinxhigh.com/2022/05/04/joe-rogan-believes-the-us-government-… Joe Rogan Believes the US Government Fears Bitcoin Nasdaq: Bitcoin Uses 50 Times Less Energy Than Traditional Banking https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-uses-50-times-less-energy-than-trad… https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wjq4a5/governments_will_try_to_co… "Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional." https://www.kraken.com/en-us/proof-of-reserves In response to Tornado Cash's sanctions, Circle has blacklisted USDC from the addresses, people cannot use their stablecoins. Centralized and broken. Partial privacy is no privacy Nayib Bukele Credits Bitcoin, Surf And Crime Reduction For El Salvador's Tourism Rebound https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/the-feds-plan-to-create-a-digital The Fed's Plan to Create a Digital Dollar Is Met With Hostility. 71% of commenters on Fed's January 2022 study say NO. US Fed Created 50% More Money Out Of Thin Air In 2 Years Than Ever Existed In The Previous 256 Years https://kingworldnews.com/inflation-hell-us-fed-created-50-more-money-out-o… If you know you know. The U.S. government is currently trying to battle inflation by enacting a $730 billion stimulus check bill... As if that doesn't cause more inflation... Bitcoin. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wjkgdc/did_our_government_study_e… https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wjy49b/bitcoin_fixes_this_inflati… https://github.com/pe3zx/my-infosec-awesome JPMorgan caught shilling its crypto bags, again, after FOMO market manipulation panicking to acquire them, same as it does with Gold commodity... bust inbound. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL Iran makes its first import order using $10m worth Crypto. Government says by the end of September, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts will be widely used in foreign trade with target countries. Why don’t you ask them why they haven’t taken Monero’s tech and built a second layer on top of Bitcoin with it? Do they think that dual-key stealth addresses can have their hash function broken? Or are they concerned about Greg Maxwell’s Confidential Transactions use of Pedersen Commitments not being computationally binding but perfectly hiding? Maybe they’re worried about Bulletproofs? Of course, they’ll be unable to answer these, demonstrating that they don’t know what they’re talking about, much less are positioned to have an opinion about what should or shouldn’t be built as a Bitcoin L2. Would you sacrifice 5 years of your life for 100 Bitcoin and 100 Ethereum? You will be given 100 Bitcoin and 100 Ethereum, but in return you will be put to sleep for 5 years. Would you accept that? (When you wake up, Bitcoin will be worth 300K and Ethereum 65K) 1279 comments https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/wjyj6w/would_you_sacrifice…

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Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist remembered
by professor rat 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist journalist interested in the liberation of women and humanity as a whole. She was executed by hanging on January 25, 1911 by the Japanese government due to her connections to the High Treason Incident, a plot by a group of socialists and anarchist to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. <<< https://anarchistnews.org/content/sugako-%E2%80%93-advance-2021 Reposts not advertisements

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Secure Phones: the Pretty Good Phone Privacy service
by grarpamp 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

https://www.wired.com/story/pretty-good-phone-privacy-android/ Didn't read.

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Why cypherpunks should be called terrorists
by professor rat 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

In March 2014, the Saudi interior ministry issued a royal decree branding all atheists as terrorists, which defines terrorism as “calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_Saudi_Arabia MeghanBobrowsky ·2h BREAKING: Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia. While working at Twitter, he searched up users who criticized the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and shared that info with kingdom officials in exchange for $$$.

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Cryptocurrency: Zcash-ZEC Zcon3 Conference
by grarpamp 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

https://zfnd.org/zcon3-3/ Zcon3 ... Sunday, August 7th through Tuesday, August 9th 2022 https://cryptoevents.global/zcon3/ https://duckduckgo.com/?iar=videos&iaf=publishedAfter%3Am&iax=videos&ia=vid… While [now most of this] code is code, and 1 coin = 1 coin until not, some say beware affiliation, and affiliating, with EFF Tor and associated minions, especially if free thought speech are of value. "Tor Stinks -- NSA"

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Resignation
by Gunnar Larson 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Ms. Harris and Mr. Webber: I must ask for your resignation. Anything less is obstruction of justice. Thank you, Gunnar Larson

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Russian Hacker Warns Cyberwarfare Will Turn Deadly
by jim bell 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Russian Hacker Warns Cyberwarfare Will Turn Deadly https://share.newsbreak.com/1k9dxeho group Killnet has stated that cyberwarfare will result in casualties, just days after threats against a major American weapons manufacturer reportedly came to fruition. On Sunday, that hacker, Killmilk, told the Russian news site Gazeta.Ru that he has helped galvanize countless other hackers who "for one reason or another, support Russia in the NWO [New World Order]," pledging to "be a pioneer" if pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian hackers confront one another to the point where deaths occur. "In Russia, I will become a hero, and abroad, a criminal," said Killmilk, who launched Killnet on November 1, 2021. "Soon, I and Killnet will launch powerful attacks on European and American enterprises, which will indirectly lead to casualties. I will do my best to make these regions and countries answer for each of our soldiers," he said, according to an English translation.

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I, for one ,salute our more INTELLIGENT robot overlords
by professor rat 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Because we will have become one with them already - duh! >>> octal ·4h "Sanctioning a robot is pretty cypherpunk" -- @valkenburgh at #zcon3 on OFAC tornado cash bullshit. https://twitter.com/octal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ea… You still don't know what you're dealing with - do you. The perfect cybernetic organism. And its physical perfection is only matched by its hostility.

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An attack on the environment demands a proportional response
by professor rat 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

President Joe Biden has earned killing ( My 2000 sats ) https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden Any attack on the environment calls for a measured and proportional response. That's my response.

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Driving out money-changers is a capital crime
by professor rat 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Tornado Cash founder Roman Semenov tweeted that his Github account had been suspended shortly after the government’s blacklist had been announced. <<< https://decrypt.co/107053/it-doesnt-change-anything-says-tornado-cash-code-… Reposts etc

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