February 2023 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Crypto good in a crisis
by professor rat 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

Millions in Crypto Donations Pour Into Turkey Following Devastating Earthquakes https://decrypt.co/120770/turkey-syria-earthquake-relief-cryptocurrency-fun… Binance to support users in Turkey’s earthquake region with $100 airdrops in BNB tokens According to Binance CEO ‘CZ’, Binance is working on more efforts to help https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-to-support-users-in-turkey-s-earthqu… Reposts not token charities for poverty-stricken netizens

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Was Ellsberg opposed to the Vietnam War?
by professor rat 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

Or supporting the rise of red-fascism? I ask because he's recently been linked to a) Jeremy Corbyn whose candidate for Treasurer was a Marxist-Communist and b) John Young, whose a self-described Marxist-communist and c) Noam Chomsky, whose been a long-time apologist for left-fascism for decades. The link published here recently also involves Wikileaks which brings in at least two known Marxist-Communists - Tariq Ali and John Pilger. Its not red-baiting when they're admitted reds. I never suspected Daniel Ellsberg was a left-fascist for half a century - but when the facts change I change my mind. What else can you do?

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BREAKING: Ex-Coinbase Employee Cops To Novel Insider Trading Case
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

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There Are Very Strange Things Going On at Goldman Sachs
by Gunnar Larson 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 7, 2023 ~ David Solomon, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs’ online bank, Marcus, is offering an interest rate on its savings accounts that is 350 times the interest rate being offered by its competitors, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. That’s not normal. Not normal at all. (Above screen shots were taken this morning. Chase and Bank of America screen shots come from BankRate; Marcus screen shot comes from Marcus.) Marcus is the online banking platform offered by Goldman Sachs Bank USA – a federally-insured bank backstopped by the U.S. taxpayer. But what 99 percent of Americans don’t know about Goldman Sachs Bank USA is that it is the unit of Goldman Sachs that holds trillions of dollars in derivatives, including the kind of credit derivatives that blew up the U.S. economy in 2008 and would have taken down Goldman Sachs were it not for sneaky bailouts. According to the most recent report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Goldman Sachs Bank USA has $513.9 billion in assets and $50.97 trillion in derivatives as of September 30, 2022. Yes, you read that correctly. (See Table 24 of the OCC report.) The most dangerous of the derivatives, credit derivatives, tally up to $623.6 billion, which is $110 billion more than the bank has in assets. This might help to explain why Goldman Sachs is offering 350 times the going interest rate of its competitors to attract deposits and shore up its capital base. Other noteworthy things are happening at Goldman Sachs. On January 9, Reuters ran this headline: “Goldman Sachs readies biggest layoffs since the financial crisis,” noting that “over 3,000 employees will be let go….” Eight days after the ax fell on more than 3,000 workers’ jobs, Goldman announced that its quarterly profit had plunged by 66 percent versus the prior year and that it was taking a $972 million provision for credit losses in the quarter. That credit loss provision compared to $344 million taken a year earlier. Ten days later, the firm announced in a regulatory filing that its Chairman and CEO, David Solomon, would be getting a compensation package that was 29 percent less than the prior year – still an obscene $25 million for one year’s toils. Goldman is also being negatively portrayed in the business press. On Saturday, Bill Cohan reported at the Financial Times that “Goldman Sachs has lost its swagger. The market value of the venerable 154-year-old investment bank, at $121bn, is now $42bn less than its longtime arch-rival Morgan Stanley. It used to be that Goldman was the more valuable bank for many years.” (“Venerable” is an interesting choice of words for Cohan to use to describe Goldman Sachs. See our report: Goldman Sachs Says Its Dark Pools Are Under Investigation – Along with About Everything Else the Firm Does.) One day after Cohan’s article ran, Emily Flitter and Katherine Rosman reported at the New York Times that Goldman’s Solomon, who is pulling down a cool $25 mill at his day job, has a side hustle of DJ-ing at tiki bars and owns his own record label. (You can’t make this stuff up.) Goldman is also dealing with a big problem with its Apple credit card. On August 4 of last year, Goldman Sachs provided the following disclosure when it filed its quarterly report (10-Q) with the Securities and Exchange Commission: “The firm is cooperating with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in connection with an investigation of GS Bank USA’s credit card account management practices, including with respect to the application of refunds, crediting of nonconforming payments, billing error resolution, advertisements, and reporting to credit bureaus.” As it turns out, there are hundreds of complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by consumers using the Apple credit card that is provided by Goldman Sachs. The Apple credit card holders allege being put through a living hell by Goldman Sachs when fraudulent charges are made on their Apple credit card, along with a host of other problems. In typical Goldman Sachs style, it has managed to earn the hostility of everyday consumers, airline pilots, and even a police officer with its handling of credit card complaints. The Apple credit card via Goldman Sachs was launched three years ago in August of 2019. Goldman wrote at the time: “Goldman Sachs is the issuer of the card and is responsible for underwriting, customer service, the underlying platform and all matters related to regulatory compliance through Goldman Sachs Bank USA.” On January 13, Sridhar Natarajan at Bloomberg News reported how the Apple credit card was racking up losses at Goldman Sachs’ Platform Solutions division: “The division’s $1 billion pretax loss reported for 2021 was mostly tied to the Apple Card, people with knowledge of the numbers said. And about $2 billion [in losses] in 2022 mainly stems from the Apple card and installment-lending platform GreenSky, the people said.” Is it possible that Goldman Sachs needs a CEO with no side hustles?

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Why do brain-dead Assmange deadenders hate our anarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

Jeremy Corbyn ran for office on a promise of thousands of more police. Daniel Ellsberg has praised the NYT after its appalling Michael Gordon crime-wave. Noam Chomsky has approved the military-industrial complex in the US. John Young is a totally discredited fascist exposed completely since appearing with Alex Jones. These depraved old loser males all clearly love corpse-media journalism and hate and despise anarchism. To Hell with them and any rotten cause they collectively light upon. And as for the Grarpamps idiot posting his criminal garbage here - GO FUCK YOURSELF.

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Fwd: Leonard Peltier Day of Solidarity
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

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[ot][ptsd]Fwd: Welcome, I'm glad you're here
by Karl Semich 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

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Fwd: Larson FOIL 5th Extension (letter (Richard Weber - General Counsel, NY-DFS)
by Gunnar Larson 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

February 2, 2023 VIA EMAIL Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org G(a)xny.io Dear Mr. Larson: This is in further response to your Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, received by the Division on September 13, 2022, in which you requested the following: Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement (Advisory Board) On May 18, 2022, xNY.io - Bank.org received a copy of a financial disclosure form for Mr. Richard Weber (General Counsel, NY-DFS) noting an advisory council role at the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. No address was provided: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCIh9CQiwxVILSv86B54kEcipV Rnx1YQ/view?usp=drivesdk We would like to receive any and all records NY-DFS and Human Rights hold for this appointment approval for a state associated representative. The Division intends to produce records responsive to your request to the extent such disclosure is consistent with the provisions of the Human Rights Law and FOIL. However, the Division needs additional time to respond to your request. Therefore, pursuant to Public Officers Law § 89(3)(a), the Division will provide any responsive documents on or before February 24, 2023. Very truly yours, Siaka Paasewe FOIL Office ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Garvin, Sheila Y (DHR) <Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov> Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 1:36 PM Subject: Larson FOIL 5th Extension (letter (Richard Weber - General Counsel, NY-DFS) To: G(a)xny.io <G(a)xny.io> Cc: Paasewe, Siaka (DHR) <Siaka.Paasewe(a)dhr.ny.gov> Dear Mr. Larson: Pursuant to your request, please see the attached. *Best,* *Sheila Garvin* *DHR Records Access Clerk* *Legal Management Records Unit* One Fordham Plaza, 4th Floor, Bronx, NY 10458 Tele: (718) 741-8423/ e-Fax: (718) 741-8256 *foil(a)dhr.ny.gov <foil(a)dhr.ny.gov>* *Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov <Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov>* *www.dhr.ny.gov <http://www.dhr.ny.gov/>* *This transmission and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, which is intended for use by the individual or entity to which the transmission is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, copying, or distribution of this transmission or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately at the above address and delete the transmission and its attachments**.*

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Impact of prediction markets on consensus
by professor rat 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Don't forget democratic procedures may act effectively as error-correcting mechanisms. And they can complement markets - as the best neo-liberal type places already do! BitcoinReviewHQ · Feb 4 Our guests @harry_sudock , @AaronvanW , and Adam Gibson join @nvk to explore the role of developers in game theory, the challenges of changing Bitcoin, the impact of prediction markets on consensus & much much more on episode 21: https://twitter.com/BitcoinReviewHQ/status/1621601415620886529?cxt=HHwWgoDU… Reposts not stale dogma masquerading as capital T truth.

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Cyberpunk fails as hard-sci-fi
by professor rat 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Tales from the crypt Real world cypherpunk revolution for anarchy is Cyberpunk's sole success story as far as I can see. In its Bladerunner incarnation it started stupid and unrealistic and became even more so with the sequel. The Matrix was cyberpunks last best shot - but it blew it with its own stupid and unrealistic aspects ( and sequels!) And also by then the author of ' The Cryptonomicon ' had been set straight on basic Snowcrash economics by the author of the ' The Cyphernomicon ". The only vaguely possible cyberpunk alternative to cryptoanarchy looks increasingly confined to the Middle East, Burma and parts of Africa. Areas we plan to mop up by CYPHERPUNK 2027. Cyberpunk had its best chance in the early noughties and squibbed it. That shit-souffle future won’t rise twice, I promise you. Cryptoanarchist Bladerunners hunt down discredited and boring cyberpunk genre-mongers and retire them ( beat ) permanently. Cryptoanarchy continues to rocket toward C-PUNK 2027 at full warp cos we’re young - they’re old and - such is life. The anarchist utopian future keeps happening. Cyberpunks get stiff in their crypt.

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