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Re: on money /2 (resend)
by Ryan Carboni 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

so.... Bitcoin gift cards? Blah, all criminals know that gift cards and loadable debit cards are all the rage for laundering.

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Re: on money /2 (resend) EX.+
by brian carroll 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

(also need to clarify a structural issue which is variable...) If you are evaluating economic issues in systematic terms, as this relates to cryptocurrency et al, this evaluation is dependent on how it is observed and in what terms and parameters, beginning with the identity of the observer and the framework of the observation. Thus a person sees or observes a certain scenario in part based on their own conceptualization of what is going on and a threshold of what can be perceived in those specific parameters. And thus an issue of limits and boundary for what is perceptible, say with alternative currency, in relation with the existing economy and how this is considered, in popular terms of groups and mainstream discussions say, which then format or solidify these views, parameters, structures, "beliefs." So people can readily enter into abstractions like capitalism, capital, markets, public, private, profit, equality, inequality, exploitation, communal, etc; though these terms and frameworks are /variable/, depending on how they are being perceived, in what framework and consideration. The views could be only partially true, or of limited truth, versus assumed true in a binary black&white mindset, because it is an agreed upon shared belief or POV, as if this equates with accurate observation (relativism feigning empiricism while never addressing issue of errors or falsifiability of beliefs; "absolutism".) Thus observations of Bitcoin or crypto for that matter _begin in such a condition of observation, and communications and viewpoints operate within such an unchecked domain as /ideas/ that if agreed upon have the appearance or semblance of truth, though in a psychological realm of beliefs, which is not grounded truth in a material framework with everything figured out and errors removed, panoptically validated, error checked and corrected. Taking this structural issue of observation into consideration, which would be required for accurate empirical observations that remove falsity from views as a requirement for modeling of ideas, then leads to addressing warps and imbalances based upon these falsities that persist in common models, that function as if they are true or real, yet which can be ungrounded and faith-based viewpoints or beliefs that are not based on external verifiable truth, and even can be falsified as views/beliefs, though oftentimes observers precisely do not want to acknowledge their own fallibility in these binary viewpoints based on ideology or answered questions, in which too simple solutions then offer up the world as if an issue only of sharing opinions, where the more powerful the viewpoint the more true it is, in some sense. For instance, the poor and people on welfare do not want to work, from the logic* of private mankind. If evaluating the psychology of the observer in this standpoint, it is a self-beneficial approach in certain parameters, because if there the economic system is based on capitalism, it is precisely this gap or shortage that is structurally required in order for some to profit more than others due to this imbalance. In that for someone to win then someone has to lose, and the poor are the losers. Some may not want to work, though some may and have become trapped in structural poverty. And some may work and not get paid for what they do and others may volunteer, which could be the same or different things depending on view. Yet the extension of this belief or prejudice within these terms are that the poor are morally inferior and the rich morally superior in this system of value, as success and failure is pegged to monetary wealth. What this leads to is a type of cannibalistic moralism of the rich who seek to gain absolute profit from within this system, by taking away services to the poor and middle-class, such as health-care or jeopardize mere survival (with views that people should not even be allowed to live or be supported by the private state if monetarily unsuccessful, how fascist is that), and surveillance plays a large role in this, auditing and accounting for dollars that are *theirs*, the basis for further profiting, maximal economy of the poor to allow for the maximal excess and surplus of wealth for the upperclass and rich. In other words, millionaires, billionaires, and middle-class new royalty require homelessness, poverty, lack of survives, to sustain and grown the imbalance, the gap that separates one citizen from another, as divided population. So quality-of-life is viewed criminal if on Social Security and-or Disability or public welfare by the ruling class and they use surveillance and monitoring and actively punish people who try to move out of these scenarios, censoring actions and ruining work tools to disallow work, because the whole system is based on not having people work. That is the big lie involved. And these systems are set up so that you cannot work your way out of it, once on the inside, unless having wealth or connections to get out. There is massive top-down pressure to subjugate people within these systems, not least through taxes that have no data fields to report situations that exist, thus entrapping people for doing their taxes wrong or else requiring a politically-biased tax representative to mediate tax issues in exploitative terms. Also, bureaucracy shuts down, so that paperwork is lost needed to make a claim or phones are not answered, at the same time systems and functioning predictably go awry, and stop functioning correctly. It is dirty warfare at the level of bureaucracy against the citizenry on the inside of these systems, where political bias favors the rich, with state and federal systems supporting and serving this oppression and concentration of power of private wealth of mankind over the public and private citizen. In this way, money itself functions as the mediary of this condition, on behalf of warped private politics providing advantage to some over others, and this is normalized as the everyday situation, one person in competition with another for survival, while some have vastly more than is needed to survive while others are starving, and many cannot maintain even basic survival due to pressures for wealth to occur at the cost of health, food, etc. This is the classic win-lose situation, the proverbial zero-sum game seemingly, and yet it is by default perceived within an 18th century framework as defined and legally allowed by the US constitution, where 'common' relations are defined in *private* terms, of relations between private men, where 'the public' is the shared set of these men in their common interest. Some this logic of private man allows some group of private citizens (wo|men) to represent the public, and those 'not-them' are then /the competition/, other citizens, where profit is gained at their loss. This is the basic model for the economic, political, and social system in exploitative aristocratic if not despotic terms, the more it is refined over the last many _centuries. Thus mainly private men profit from the losses of other men, said to be equally citizens, as well as and especially women (pre-suffrage and beyond). At some point it would not be unimaginable that for others to profit, newborns should just be killed except for the offspring of the wealthy and whatever number of worker children are needed to support them. That is the ugly political ideology underneath these same everyday dynamics. This is not a human viewpoint. Nor can a human viewpoint be allowed within the US constitution- it is *banned* from being reasoned this way, due to authority over its interpretation, as institutionalized and operational within the privatized state, government, education, workplaces, communities. You will be censored for trying to say or speak or reason beyond the default 'shared views of man' as the supreme value and 'shared (private) interest.' If stubborn enough you will be medicated and your physiology changed if not destroyed by psychiatrists so you cannot continue to reason anymore, these tactics in cybernetic defense of the status quo, to keep the ideological machinery running as smoothly and friction-free as possible, for profit. This is the default, where things begin. Someone says- "i want to do [xyz]", and that occurs within this context, framework, realm of communication. These are the dynamics, pressures and forces at work, and the more they are adapted to, the easier it is to succeed _within the existing system. The easier it it to gain money, livelihood, status, ego reward via success not failure, etc. Which all-in-all tends towards mediocrity, at its peak. To a monocultural sameness of only a limited interest and focus, which then the entire population is supporting and serving through their participation. The monetary system of US dollars supports all of these dynamics as the basis for exchange. Entropic flows of power and wealth move from those who are being exploited to those exploiting, structural expropriation is the rule, it is a physical law and psychological framework of believed rightness which then maps to morals and power as if equated with truth, brute force engineering of reality, at the cost of others lives, and reality itself. And so the Internet is squarely situated within this condition, also mediating these dynamics, as if its nervous system and communications backbone that allows for the fluid exchange of this as ideology, where we are little neurons blip and bleep our views within this framework yet that a more massive and over-dominating informational model operates which is not part of this communication, and yet determines what is being said and how, in what acceptable terms. So the shared body (and mind or -capital-) of the state is at war with itself, because only part of it is allowed to live and this is at the expense of the other parts, the whole is divided and then uses the majority of its resources to support only a few of its citizens, while others suffer miserably and die miserable deaths or exist in poverty or struggle to meet basic needs, while a few have friction-free hedonist lifestyles, that maps down into their family tree at local levels as royal or aristocratic hierarchy grounds in the unshared community. Its their body, their mind, yet our bodies, our minds supporting their survival while they seek to eliminate ours for their selfish benefit. That is not against a person, that is the way the state is configured and has destroyed itself via biased and limiting parameters, and how money can serve some people moreso than others. The thing is, first, the idea of capital today is ideological. It is marxist bullshit repeated to allow these dynamics to continue and is not at a resolution to allow those conversations and analysis to accurately deal with this situation in the terms necessary. It views 'wealth' in primarily material terms and does have distinguish to the degree needed to coherently model what is occurring in the dimensions that exist. Consider the idea of capital in relation to architecture, for instance. The human body and the human mind (the duality of thought versus action, or material and 'immaterial' or information, or matter and information) as this relates to an architectural column and and a capital atop it (per the Classical Orders of Western architecture, Doric, Ionic, etc.) This is a conceptual model of the individual and the state, the column is the body and the capital is the mind, and when in a larger structure, the spanning of these columns (via entablature) such as in Greek temple architecture, then allows a larger shared condition to be supported by these individuals (a roof or ceiling, though also, in terms of the Parthenon, Pantheon and oculus of shared interiority). This same conceptualization is on the back of the dollar bill as pyramid, with the pyramid capstone representing an empirical 'eye' of shared identity. What ideological capitalism does with this, when only privatized, is take all the effort of the base supporting structure, all the bodies and minds, and using that in an exploitative way to support the eyesight and interests of only a few, who sit at the top of the pyramid that everyone else supports. Thus some men are at the top of humanity and other men and women and children support this condition, where they are seemingly superior for being 'placed' in such a situation, as if by divine providence and not absolute corruption. And likewise, their vision is limited to themselves and their own interests, which are based on exploitation of others (who are not viewed of the shared set). This is what money has become and effectively is. In contrast, capitalism that is recognized in terms of truth (versus material stuff), where the mind governs over the body and its primitive instincts and base animalistic interests then would have 'reason' be the safeguard to mediate this condition, where governance (democracy, otherwise) vote or tally other views of the group (as potential shared set) to configure these interactions. Yet again, if limited to private mankind and private interests where material profit are first, and external truth can be ignored as a constitutional *right*, then censoring of other human views and the common condition and interest can be ignored and managed away, to sustain the same pyramid scheme as if highest activity, while requiring suppression of others and falsification of beliefs, to enable these dynamics to continue. Which occurs in materialistic terms, where money functions as proof or the truth of this situation, as agreed to by a group of private citizens systematically benefiting from these exploitative terms. The state cannibalizes itself in order to continue its growth, where humans are ground up to enable supermen to have their fantasy lifestyles of the rich and famous reality shows. So money or legal tender or currency then snaps-to-fit (photoshop term, akin to lines of force influence) into this situation and serves it by default, and functions essentially as electrons -- or currency as /current/ -- which has a material dimension in terms of physical stuff or related-thingness yet also an informational dimension, data is entangled with how this money flows and is processed, literally represented by RFID tracking dots and threads though moreso, or prior to this and foundationally, 'the shared truth' that was once agreed upon when defining the standard, that never was upgraded/transformed beyond the original limiting intent of private men as the public (mankind), when since has humankind serving private citizens, to support their private state at public expense. In other words humanity has been disenfranchised by their own state, and its not being addressed or addressable (especially in surveillance crackdown of other thinking, and loss of reasoning within society beyond oppositional binary absolute views) then leads to civil collapse, the commons evaporates between people, and only some people matter within the shared state, retain value as citizens. Or they have more value, and others less. Which is not the original intent, idea or otherwise, which supposedly 'common rights' were supposed to protect, except they were defined in what today are obviously private terms; of man, not of humans. So the idea of currency, is that it allows a fair exchange between people. And for this to occur, a standard of trust needs to exist, truth that is shared between them, about what constitutes and legitimates this as a win-win exchange. In that one person just does not give another their money and get nothing in return, because it would need to balance over all, and be an equitable exchange or trade. (And yet more and more this subversion tactic is occurring via deterioration of production, selling of junk, etc). And thus when 'truth went missing' from exchange, due to one binary viewpoint over another, the common interest in the exchange vanished, and legal protection, where one group has more power and another is disenfranchised yet using the same money. Lawyers best represent the areas this involves and is mediated within, or police, yet gaps exist where nothing is or can be done, and instead a system of institutionalized exploitation and subversive leveraging occurs within and through money, as standardized/normalized which allows win-lose interactions, and the increase in the gap between the exchange becomes the basis for profit. (Paying for something and not receiving it, yet having no recourse, common in e-commerce as business model, 2nd-hand items, selling damaged/subverted goods as new, etc.) In a human monetary system, the same money would be helping everyone. The swindle would be against the group, devaluing the shared currency. People who systematically cheat or exploit others to profit would meet communal justice, whether by police or otherwise. The difference is that the basis for money would include /truth/ as its basis for shared value, a moral condition that is agreed upon for the exchange and transfer. The money itself is not the truth (which is the view today, the physical thing is material truth) and instead what is *represents* is this condition of shared truth, and the ability of one person to trust another and relate in a win-win scenario of combined interaction. In this way, when human beings interact in economic, social, and governing terms, the columns and capitals (minds/truth) spanned in the larger construction leads to a grounding of empirical truth where the collective insight of all people become that 'shared identity' of humanity at the top of the pyramid, that transcendent group condition where many function as one, and work together on behalf of one another and not divided, functioning against or in opposition to one another. So the value of money, often claimed to be defined as CAPITAL, if viewed in base materialistic terms, would be currency itself as a physical object or stuff, that people need to get hold of so as to attain their reality and function in the world as real beings who can actualize their ideas, dreams. As if /truth/ is the material stuff. The cars, the excess, the showcasing of accumulation, wealth, riches, in a superficial if not insecure way that defines the purpose of life and operates within these parameters and not beyond them. The private mind and mindset all powerful, with the illusion that in attaining such material wealth and power, in comparison to others, equates to godliness or god-status, though this is only virtual or a mirage. Its not actual or real power when dealt with in terms beyond or outside or even hidden inside this condition. The idea is that money is privatized by default of its past limiting interpretation to mankind or private citizenry as the shared communal set, which then is made legal as a form of interaction by the state, and propelled into the present unsustainable and hostile condition, set against life itself. In this limiting, materialism answers all questions ideologically, stuff equates with truth, with visible evidence to the limited biased observer where the senses indicate more success and more power equals greater truth, if not divine agency (in backwards terms, including morally, ethically, etc.) This is the opposite way money is supposed to function. The shared set if accurate would serve everyone, if designed and structured correctly and with adequate modeling of the common condition. In that human beings in their public capacity should be the basis for fair exchange and not the private individual, as this pertains to rights and responsibilities, including to others. This transforms issues of property, rights, freedom of speech, censorship, surveillance, tracking, education, law, everything. And what it involves is moving from a private logic* of mankind, to a public and private logic of humanity, where in its private capacity can deal with demographic difference or details (men, women, ethnicity, income, etc). It is this level of capacity that needs first to be secured to equitably address most any ongoing structural issues between or within people and the combined state. It is an issue of mathematics, not of agreed upon opinions about what limited views are possible to share in warped frameworks of private observers, and yet that is the default condition for discourse in this same condition, a realm of ungrounded communication and observation that is unshared and cannot be combined into a larger shared framework precisely because of these limits, related to binary evaluations and false-limits and views that need to be corrected, reconfigured, and then structurally related in accurate terms to get a group view that is coherent, in terms of humanity. This is what is required to establish equitable currency. In this way, truth itself is the guarantee for data in its capacity as shared value for exchange. And in this particular detail is the secret to the mystery of money, because this is its very essence, that then becomes the basis for the economy, to institute a system of fair exchange and trade backed by law, rules, and rights, where it is win-win by default and enforced within these terms. It is *truth* which is at the center of things and defines reality, not stuff as perceived by overly-simplistic evaluation of biased and limited interest. Instead it is about a comprehensive accounting for ideas and material conditions that then allows a concept like capital to operate beyond dogma and the instituted realms of ideology, and engage reality in its truth (where value originates) versus substitute this for the sign (of "capital" as this truth, and in this way replace it with a false-viewpoint that can be manipulated for political benefit to engineer conditions that support limited conceptualization.) In this regard it seems unlikely any new currency could function in terms other than benefiting private citizenry at the cost of the human public, without first revising the US Constitution and other frameworks that define money in these terms, whereby the legal system itself would need to be reframed and grounded to this empirical condition, required to serve it (truth, not money), as with police, educators, institutions, and others. That this standard of measure, where truth is the rule, is what is held in common between people, versus the allowance for lying if of private benefit, as today. It is very possible that a merging of capitalism and communal dynamics are structurally essential and necessary, (what would humanity be if not to distinguish the shared condition of being human, with the subset differences between men and women, for instance as this relates to public/private.) and thus perhaps also there could be currencies that co-exist in multiple ways that mediate different dynamics, where profit and no-profit coexist in the same model for when the wiring is optimal and equitable in those terms. Somewhat like analog and digital circuits, one or the other versus both, which coincidentally is the model of the human nervous system, and the state itself as global nervous system noosphere, though now with a stupid digital brain of a false-computational god seeking to oppress populations as if 'higher mind' when a base motivation of power, serving death & falsity. *logical reasoning.

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Re: on money /2 (resend) EX.
by brian carroll 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

here is an example of how cryptocurrency could be approached in a different framework than simply the default 'replace global monetary standard' via new alternative electronic currency... which has a good/bad utopian aspect where realism ranges from the potential to the impossible, and if not differentiating these, could bring about its own destruction as a model if not streamlining and doing what it is best at or focusing on its innovative aspects versus trying to be everything to all people. In this way what if Bitcoin were applied in specific controlled contexts or closed ecosystems where its symbolic value as 'symbolic money' or rather -currency- (which could span data-to-money and vice versa) could function as or mediate electronic ~banknotes (sans bank, or state as bank minus the middlemen and middle-management layer) and function in parallel to the US dollar, outside the system instead of tied into it. Like an island ecosystem that is self-sustaining in its own terms and not directly connected to other existing systems beyond environmental influences, systemic ebbs & flows. Troy Benjegerdes <hozer(a)hozed.org> wrote: > Does this not describe the copyleft and copyfree software? Or maybe > it describes a world where farmers figure out they can make more > money by giving away all the food the world needs, and knowing > when to sell the rest for profit? What if the food supply and issue of government subsidization of farming, where money is pad *not to distribute* food, to maintain market conditions, were instead brought into a parallel system that is detached from the US dollar as the mediating currency, and that if farmers can indeed provide all the food necessary, if this were a closed system or a chain of interactions that could be mediated (within certain parameters, perhaps not all) where there are barter or other contracts, say between those connected in a functional ecosystem or food system ecology, (from chemical & product manufacturing to grocers and food-based manufacturers) where an alternative currency like Bitcoin mediated these exchanges in terms of contracts, based on volume and quality per exchange, which could remove entire volatile sectors from the existing speculative monetary system and stabilize these relations, to have a beet farmer trade 100% of their output, and have grocery stores receive this fresh produce at a much lower cost (if not at cost, feasibly) and then resell produce this way, perhaps more like organic coop approaches of bags of vegetables for a fixed price or as a subscription approach to produce, where it would be cashed out or mediated as dollars -- or even better, if the USG has the same symbolic currency, it could be loaded onto EBT or citizen electronic cards and exchanged for every citizen at the grocery store (via Bitcoin/other) for what has already been paid for by the government once already, the citizens then gaining access to food, instead of paying multiple times (akin to multiple taxation, though multiple payments as per the standard realm of public-private overlap and repurchasing scenarios). What if grocers had certain early-chain or direct-link inventories (fresh produce infrastructure moving from farms to stores) and that this was outside the existing money system and yet everything would be okay, remain balanced otherwise, because it is a closed loop, and does not require cashing out within that dynamic. In that an island of interconnections, exchanges, could be mediated in non-monetary though currency terms, and make fair equitable trades. Such that perhaps farmers could trade between themselves this way, or for government services or support via this same system. And stabilize or regulate markets or livelihoods versus using middlemen corporations to do this, in terms of US currency which then is the maximal exploitation of this same chained system, to global biased markets and dynamics, moving money and power away from people into concentrated groups for maximal leverage that functions against people in the system, as a form of subjugation. In other words, what if bitcoin were Farmcoin, etc. Or foodcoin. And what kind of systems could function like this, and how would *value* be determined if it is actually based on information and data, and not relegated to definition in an ever-fluctuating condition of volatile /price/, which is chaos compared to a stable ordering of interactions and fair exchange.

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Fwd: [secu-share] A GNU Internet, the missing videos
by grarpamp 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: carlo von lynX <lynX(a)time.to.get.psyced.org> Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:16 PM Subject: [secu-share] A GNU Internet, the missing videos To: secu-share(a)lists.tgbit.net Since 31c3 has been very interesting in terms of politics and hacking, but not as much concerning technologies that are supposed to lead us out of the broken Internet, here are the missing videos from the #youbroketheinternet sessions, exploring the options for a GNU Internet built from scratch. Routing panel feat. I2P, cjdns, secushare and others: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/workshops/30c3-WS-en-YBTI_Routing-Pan… Sybil-attack resistant mesh routing using GNUnet: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/workshops/30c3-WS-en-YBTI_Mesh-Bart_P… cjdns, Hyperboria and Project Meshnet: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/workshops/30c3-WS-en-YBTI_Mesh-Caleb_… Mesh networking panel feat. Freifunk, cjdns and GNUnet: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/workshops/30c3-WS-en-YBTI_Mesh_Routin… NaCl, a Networking and Cryptography library: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/workshops/30c3-WS-en-YBTI_OS-Bernstei… "We'll make ourselves a GNU one" - YBTI project presentation in German at Easterhegg 2014: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/eh2014/webm/eh14-5808-de-Well_make_ourselves… in English at ThinkTwice 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxjN-lfr_Y Enjoy, and keep your mind open for exciting new thinking. -- http://youbroketheinternet.org ircs://psyced.org/youbroketheinternet -- secu-share(a)lists.secushare.org https://lists.secushare.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/secu-share

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Comsec Dream
by John Young 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Comsec dream: secure means uniquely controllable by each person. Free of faith, scripture, authorities, investors, apologists, exploiters.

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Replacing email with XMPP...why not?
by Cypher 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

I've been reading a lot about the need to replace email and I'm not quite sure why we're not moving to an XMPP based model. It seems rather perfect for this kind of thing: 1. Federated 2. Users are already familiar with the addressing format 3. Easy to use, could easily integrate with existing email 4. Easily piped through Tor or i2p or whatever Security could be handled by using OTR the first time users happen to be on at the same time and exchanging PGP keys automagically with some kind of validation that the user can actually understand in place. I really don't see this as incredibly hard to build. Why are we not seriously looking at it? Sure, it doesn't address meta-data (it probably could though) but it's a step away from traditional email and towards something new. Thoughts? Cypher

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on money /2 (resend)
by brian carroll 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

(additional notes/thoughts on money & currency in relation to material bank notes and electronic exchange of money & data, as this further relates to profiling, tracking, surveillance, modeling, though also culture, development, latent technological possibilities) Here wanted to share a few more ideas related to the last post, if not because they may be of a different than standard interpretation and allow another viewpoint to consider in terms of what is/& not going on in these terms. perhaps necessary to distinguish also situationally: of the present situation, of a transitional condition of major changes and paradigm shifts, and then a future totally redeveloped context that may allow a more pure approach than relying on legacy systems of dysfunction as the basis for further development, extended onward. In the present day, it seems cryptocurrency is the placeholder or trial for a future or transitional model of electronic currency that the state (in its global context) could employ or deploy, wider than the existing electronic payment and cash systems whether via welfare support (in the US called EBT (electronic benefit transfer) for foodstamps and-or cash support) or bank debit cards and credit cards, which range from access to checking or savings accounts for card holders, to prepaid cards that store value or represent stored value that can be mediated via networked infrastructure as part of a payment system/structure. If considering alternative paper currencies that can legally exist (at least in the US within certain guidelines), it would not seemingly be too far off to imagine a 'bitcoin card' that could function as a parallel payment system carried in a wallet and used on or offline, if it were to be established in a widely distributed alternative currency model that exists offline, in a context of these other (if competing) systems. In that it could involve its own ecosystem of exchange, and yet likely would be required at some point to be brought into line with tax laws in some structural way, (unsure of existing status, how these issues remain suspended) though the larger point is that issues of security and privacy would be similar in nature to these other similar systems, in which a level of robustness and protection would be necessary for massive use of such an alternative, if it were to become normalized. (meaning: trusting good will of Satoshi Nakamoto would not be enough for this.) And maybe this is the informal versus formalization aspect involved, the difference between an experiment and a seemingly steady-state system that would provide a parallel monetary system or alt.currency. The difference here also being, in terms of state monetary resources and those of the federal banking system, as it relates to 'money' that is represented on these cards, then maps back to fiat currency and-or bank-notes, which is represented by symbolic 'monetary bits' that are numbers equated with a universally accessible exchangeable value (exchange rate if outside the system or converting USD currency, if paper or electronic currency, else inflationary/deflationary sliding-scale of value, locally, on the longer-term, month-to-month, year-to-year as things change, dynamics and relations mapped to price fluctuations.) In that, specifically, the dollar amount on these electronic cards of the formal system can be traded for paper currency or cash and when they exist as numbers representing money in an electronic system or as an electronic monetary value (or sign or representation) this is a coherent structural relationship between the numbers represented and this larger ubiquitous fielded monetary system and its currency, paper or electronic. The electronic money on the bank card is tied to existing paper currency (though apparently 'electronic money' of banks is not, and appears to be detached from the world and function as 'monetary information' as money, which appears to be the foundation for financialization, monetary engineering in which new monetary value can be created ex nihilo via various calculations and esoteric calculus, if not disembodied from the world in an abstract and separated realm, not just beyond the gold standard of the past, though also beyond the standard of 'trust' that is the basis for establishing money itself in terms of shared exchange, where something recognized the same can be made transferable. It that it seems to be "theoretical money" involved in some way, at least from a naive outside viewpoint - and here is where the 'bitcoin approach' seems quite similar to what is going on internally, within the state and within banks and financing sectors, it all rests upon issues of trust at the base of the system, and thus what if monetary exchanges and the currency becomes ungrounded via such calculative acrobatics, as with the nature of theoretical physics of a wrong cosmology, unchecked.) This is to imagine that perhaps the actual situation of formal systems of money today are very much like the intangibility of other start-up electronic currencies, it just so happens one of these is a de facto global standard and seemingly regulated at least externally at the level of citizenry and businesses. And yet simultaneously appears to be 'highly virtual' as money, where it exists increasingly as bits or virtual currency, where money is data or 'information', in that a simple display of numbers with a dollar sign ($10) in a certain context is a legal guarantee of such funds and allows them to be exchanged or transferred in an electronic context, as well as offline. Thus for instance, e-commerce as a surrounding environment, where online development occurs and is tied back into the offline world, where the virtual meets the artificial and nature realms outside of the infrastructure. In this way, the bank note with RFID is partly tied into this accounting system and its various dimensions and dynamics, and moreso the bank card and credit card, which then carry 'information' about money, or have access to this money, and can mediate exchanges in various scenarios (such as over the telephone, online, at a cash register POS machine, or an ATM). In this way, there is a grounding of what appears to be money, its representation as data, and its actualization as a shared system everyone operates within to varying degrees, as this becomes the great leveler in relation to other issues, how they connect, relate, function or malfunction or short-circuit or fail to exist or be modeled in these terms, which range from beneficial to malicious & cruel. The strange thing is, this money system has become so detached from its core issue of common trust, so ungrounded in terms of what is "represented" by the currency, which is an agreed upon connection between people of a shared state or condition to mediate events in these terms, that instead of this monetary system serving -everyone-, instead it has become onesided and an entropic like migration occurs via a structural imbalance that moves money from one sector of society into another, which then correlates with power based on this money, and the money has less value in certain contexts and more value in other areas (peoples, business sectors) given the way these dynamics can be mediated and subverted, against the other side of a supposedly shared exchange. In that bad faith can become the standard basis for exchange, which leads to unshared exchange, someone pays for something they do not receive, or that their work is not accurately mapped into the income level while for others it is exponentially inflated, and these dynamics are not agreed upon and instead are the work of politics and class differentiation and discrimination and otherwise. So there is not a level relation occurring in the basic dynamics of exchange, which is supposedly based on a shared assumption of value, that today is now 'virtualized.' For previous generations the shared value or recognizable common truth that is at the core of fair exchange then mapped to gold or other storable value that was not just of a rare and prized metal - it was also philosophical in meaning, in terms of ideas (and cosmology) as this relates to alchemy and core religious meaning. In that 'the sun' maps into this gold standard, as does 'the one' of a shared view and understanding. As this progressed to a more abstract less worldly form of guarantee, it seems to have relied upon the state itself as this basis for trust in a common view for exchange, that citizens had other citizens in their own best interest and would seek to swindle one another to gain money because their own trust would be impinged and force censure or other forms of reprisal for corrupted actions in these communal terms. Somehow even this 'shared state' or condition has evaporated, which seems to coincide with the rise of untethered theorization of society, which in its best aspects is like poetric philosophy, (insightful metaphysics), and at its worst a false ungrounded doctrine that is the basis for a deception and false perspective and worldview, the basis for establishing and sustaining a collective il/de-lusion. The basis for a collective beneficial exchange between people seems to have potentially begun or been established in a bounded aristocratic framework that served interests of a shared empirical set (powerful interconnected males/ else the public and private patriarchal 'son/sun' as a shared identity and basis for the collective reasoning and representation of values, goals, ideas, planning, direction) as this then literally mapped to valuable metals (gold as the basis for currency) and issues of wealth and prestige and in some sense, the height of this culture. What appears to have occurred since its material and tangible detachment is that money and currency appear to be more and more just about information and the dollar sign ($) as a guarantee of a certain institutionalized value, a symbolic mark that is essentially capable of representing an arbitrary custom-bank note value, to the decimal point, into a realm of pennies if not beneath this once limiting threshold due to its functioning in an abstract realm of numbers and calculations, primarily. So long as the state is cohesive, such a federal system and international order of shared currency seemingly could continue functioning as the common standard, as if there is some 'shared truth' underneath it all, a common viewpoint and value or *trust* that is held in common between people. And yet, if the state itself were to fracture internally, and citizen is held against citizen in a competing realm of survival of the fittest, the monetary system could be undermined, and the value represented by money and held underneath this global system could evaporate, if the exchanges became structurally unfair, yet guaranteed by this same money. For instance paying for an online good and then being sent a broken item and not being able to return it or have legal recourse for the swindle, ripoff, or predatory business practices as this is institutionalized and made normal in the day to day. This then transforms the realm of money, where banks and institutions and the state itself can represent such hostile forces functioning against populations, the citizenry, in a lopsided system of exchange, which then funnels value (and work, especially) out of certain sectors and into others, via entropic loss of value or devaluing and the artificaial or rigged increase of value in other areas as if a natural balancing and yet it is instead engineered this way, as a form of political and fictionalized subversion, again to support a certain limited group and their interests at the expense of the many. The same money in a poor person's hands and a rich person's are of different value. The poor person can pay exorbitant rates comparable to their income for items that have no impact on the rich person because they have vast surplus money and it has essentially no effect or impact on their livelihood. The poor person can be ripped off by exchange and has no representation or recourse, while the rich person can rip off people and be legally protected in doing so, because of having this "communal" money. And yet exist only to serve themselves (as the one, the sun, the symbolic son, when in a context of heavenly patriarchy whether secularized or not, god the empirical father, &c.) Thus identity and ego and religious-like belief in self worth and others lesser worth and moral inferiority can be mapped to these monetary dynamics, which then define relations and this is how people are also institutionally mediated, and 'representation' occurs within the state and government. Numbers and accounting for things the basis for communication about a fictitious, highly warped, onesided privileged censorial vantage of the status quo. The point being that 'truth' that should be at the center of this modeling of money is not there, and instead it is based on an ungrounded and unshared belief that is the basis for 'exchange' which has since collapsed and exists in a corrupted or fallen realm, this then directly connected to issues of the US Constitution that established these dynamics, in that they began and persist in a structural context of _private-man and private mankind, given all the power in society to that subset group that can act in its own self-interest without consideration of others, with legal backing and supported by state violence. In that "the enlightenment" viewpoint was limited, bounded to private man's beliefs and 'his truth' which should be easy to recognize today as subjective when universalized to everyone viewpoint which it cannot represent, if only in terms of varying demographics, though also, which makes mankind the basis for community, a private category that is then an enclave for 'the public' only insofar as it benefits the privileged in that specific class and categorization, whereby maximal advantages are provided to this 'reasoning' and viewpoint, and maximally represented structurally, including as the basis for the shared exchange and trust and truth involved in money. Not like a private man's views of the world could be wrong or faulty, especially if they believe they are actually God. So it quickly moves into tyranny the moreso the issues are ungrounded and unchecked, as this correlates with 'trust me' in terms of exchange and money, where one citizen is then disadvantaged in an exchange that advantages another citizen, and thus flows of money migrate towards privileged groups who benefit and exploit and believe in these dynamics, if not as a reinforcement of a narrowed belief system, of their own superiority. This in terms of 'private man' as superman, as it relates to ego and action in the world, including over others, as if this is a moral victory of those fit over those deemed unfit. And the thing is, money today is completely mapped to that ideological assessment, that is the basis for the existing value of money today, as over centuries it has become detached from a human and equitable viewpoint and serves only some of the population at the expense of others, as this relates to work, to development, to reasoning, and how censorship and legal and political and police and other dynamics protect the worldview, enabling the house of cards to remain standing, where 'untruth' or falsity is at the center of the currency that is being exchanged, traded, and mediates 'human relations' in terms of private mankind, set against other men and in particular women and human beings in their public and private dimensions. What man needs to survive and conquer others in this system then maps to the id of surveillance, the police state regime, and accounting for other data in these same warped, onesided, and self-benefiting terms to those views. So imagine if the monetary system is believed by the hotshots to back their narcissistic and egotistic views and self-belief as if they are the gold standard for everything else that is occurring, the foundation and structure and manifest cosmic forces, as if pseudo-truth or ungrounded theoretical beliefs are unerring as binary ideological projections, and these "the observers" infallible in their superior viewpoints and awareness others unfit and lesser cannot understand, as this maps to their feelings and self-worth, except that if untrue and unreal this condition would be instead the centralization of everything in opposite terms, where instead of gold these people are lead, and economics and politics and society are being mediated in such frameworks instead, as if highest nature instead of lowest nature, and that it is a vast illusion and delusion and essentially institutionalization of madness that then is mediated in terms of power and brute force to conform other dissenting views, including keeping truth outside the false framework and effectively religious belief system, except that the gods enshrined are these men and those connected with their despotism. This is what is mediated by the US dollar as paper currency, believed to be gold in its symbolic value, when instead organizing everything in terms of these principles of lead. The more this value system is informationalized, made symbolic and calculable as data, the more power is accrued within this corrupt system, to further enforce such corruption. In this way, the creation of new money out of nothing, either as information or though the exploitation of information (as currency, and via its monetization) carries with it a power structure and social terms that rely upon expropriation of human worth and value, and of various other values and principles, including of females, women, and nature itself, if not beings in general and life, which then is subjugated and forced into these antihuman and anti-life and anti-nature hidden terms and conditions, beyond any checks and balances as this is legally backed by the corrupt bug-ridden US Constitution that allows for all of this. So it is all okay, then, because a bunch of rich patriarchs hundreds of years ago are held to be infallible as founding fathers.... except not. They themselves provisioned that this is a trap, and needs to be revised, upon future awareness and higher reasoning and truth yet 'reason itself' broke down via binary viewpoints and has since shut down other perspectives to a monologue of rightness based upon bureaucratized power run by centralized computer. In this way the god as state, except it is a non-living entity, dumb-AI, in service to a subset that has no qualms about enslaving and exploiting others for power, profit, and their pleasure. So everyone can suffer as long as it benefits them, and what does not benefit them must not be allowed to exist, else the entire system is delegitimated. The state thus made tyrannical. And not just locally, this occurring globally, institutionally, organizationally, via policies that are effectively operating beyond reason, and with illiterate populations unable to reason due to such devolutionary policies and frameworks and continuing and ongoing development, as antihuman culture. In this way the state is in service to private corporations of rich citizenry, where police, lawyers, and doctors mediate middle and lower class citizenry and the poor. The government itself in its representation is hollowed out and instead it is mediated in terms of monetary worth as a determiner of exchange and citizen value, proportionally, such that lawyers are the representatives of the citizenry with the state, not those elected for policy, and their decisions are on behalf of power, who has or will gain more money, in effect, as a basis for who is right or what truth supports the more powerful in a given scenario. It is just extremely ugly and ungodly, where shared governance of citizenry then becomes unshared and mediated by politics of policing, medicine, and legal rights, to onesided privileged benefit most often correlated to power as the shared and higher authority, and not of cosmic truth. So there is an enlightenment/anti-enlightenment situation involved, of a grounded perspective that can be shared by citizenry and an ungrounded (also increasingly virtual or reliant on this) belief of a subset that functions as and believes itself superior, the authority, the ruling class, though of course in hidden or cryptic terms. In this way, an invasion of the US by an incoming hostile population sent to conquer territory can replace the citizenry and operate within these self-beneficial conditions, while those on their own home territory can become disenfranchised and destitute via these polarized dynamics. If anything, it is most apparent in the luxurification and luxification of the middle-class lifestyle and easy money for certain groups of people (sans cultural insight and instead, new forms of factory labor though in terms of web skills, art galleries, etc) where 'new royalty' appear out of nowhere, and have upper-middle-class lifestyles sustained within such a bubble, of no financial issues whatsoever, able to eat out every meal with incomes at jobs that do not support such expenditures, with butler and concierge service via mobile Apps, the very industry most supporting this skewed worldview, and yet on the inside of this there is no higher understanding or truth that is the ancient connection with grounded royal hierarchy, of its spiritual dimension, and instead there is nothing there except base materialism at play. Again, lead instead of gold, as this then represents 'the masses' and self-beneficial collective decision-making of a particular self-interested private group or subset, siphoning away the commons for such unchecked excess, that also directly correlates with ego and immorality, and that anything goes via relativistic beliefs, and others are lesser beings to be exterminated. In this way, if you try to function as a human being within such an upside-down world in its ideological operation, lines of force exist to punish and force conformance and submission to the private collective diktat that is actually based in falsity and ungrounded information and unshared value at its center, mediated and represented and symbolized by money. A person may only function at one percent of their actual capacity, and may simply struggle to survive or adapt and remain sane or cognizant within such an antihuman condition, thus weathering the onslaught or downfall or fall the historic state itself, while imposters may be operating at 100% of their capacity as mimics or drones to perform symbolically in roles & routines, standing-in as 'representatives' or citizens though while against human citizenry, hostile to human being and principles of life, love, privacy, freedom, truth, democracy, etc. In this way, the fractional ability of human action then is combined and parts so divided in a non-empirical framework of the false perspective, of relativistic religious-like beliefs, then cannot combine into a whole viewpoint and thus the unshared view moves further towards zero the more that human citizens combined cannot relate in literate and complex terms, leading to hypothetical 0.000000000001 percent operational capacity of human agency in the world, versus 100% for the antihuman forces secured within fallen state bureaucracy, which then becomes the overseer and judge/jury/executioner based on evaluated fitness, though outside legal frameworks and inside these other realms of exchange and relation. Human efficiency, aptitude and agency per individual nearly negligible in the world today, whereas the entirety of humanity is serving these other interests to its own demise. In that everything is moving to that subset group, all advantages, all surplus, all rights, and it is also the view in charge of the surveillance apparatus, the overseer, or believed so. In this way 'the great eye' at the top of the pyramid, yet which may have issues of myopia, or perhaps even be blind to certain dimensions, if not testing and grounding vision to truth and instead correlating and focusing on an unreal, ungrounded view of cosmic relation. In that falsity may be what is aligned with, or bad ideas, or warped beliefs, false perspective. In this way the false economy, the faux society, lavender tattoos and fleur-de-lis piercings while such populations are shuttled to one location and other via personal Uber chauffeurs. In such a context then, "information" about people that is treated as if forests for pioneers to extract as a natural and free resource to make other things from, exploit to the fullest for self benefit regardless of connected ecology, to the point of practices of deforestation and ecological devastation. The business model apparently is: get or be given stuff for free, and then resell it at maximal cost and reap the rewards. Best practice is having the people exploited pay or volunteer for this expropriation of private value (of data, other) and then mine or otherwise subvert interactions to again maximally extract value whether in legal or illegal terms, as this relates to privacy, citizen rights, and issues of property that can be disregarded in such a hidden and advantageous, unregulated 'morally free market'; humans like nature exist to be exploited by others who are unlike, for their own advantage. This then closely aligned with issues of slavery and colonization, though in the form of subverted consumer electronics and apps as the new wave of antihuman colonization, and yet this is not made explicit due to protected interests, signed pieces of paper that armies of lawyers, the police, the state itself protect to allow for this 'commons' relation. So this is what money is in the middle of, these are the dynamics, and what it could or once represented was a common shared value that no longer exists between people, who are now in oppositional terms as citizens, of two separate and competing states, one functioning against its declared governing principles by exploiting legal loopholes as a basis for establishing power and overtaking the state as its tyrannical antithesis. The only piece of code able to address and engage this situation allowing for military takeover in a state of emergency, and a constitution convention to reboot the state in new and better terms, as agreed to by those convening in a new universal framework. This could be antihuman, and lead to the loss of the state itself, or human and the regaining of the state and its rewiring and redevelopment in terms of our humanity. Cryptography would probably be absolutely necessary to pursue such a path and yet it appears self-evident that crypto cannot be allowed to exist, that would enable such private communication that could threaten hidden and ruling conspiratorial interests. Thus all crypto must remain broken for the antihuman state to remain safe & secure. In this way, this is the immediate situation encountered with issues of currency as this spans from monetary systems to monetization of data and the centralization of auditing and accounting that functions as money, as currency, in terms of power that uses this to reinforce a certain biased or relativistic truth while censoring out others that may devalue ungrounded perspectives (on economics, other evidence, data, etc). So while trials of alternative currency may exist locally offline or even globally online, and systems of barter or various ecosystems of exchange/trade could be established, it remains within this overwhelming and oppressive default condition, which then is the prevailing force that determines what can and will happen, via its implementation and the potential for its subversion, how it can be maximally exploited in these same terms. Thus suggestions about what to do, say to establish a national cashless system, then occurs in a context of previously mentioned biased structures of taxation as well as other forms of leveraging and imbalances, that then would be further secured by the uncritical or uncareful rollout of such options or advances, making it all easier for the exploiters and all the more difficult and painful for the exploited, via unnecessarily increased suffering that by comparison can be exponential, in support of such tyranny. So near-term there is immense danger at doing anything without first recognizing the actual condition, parameters, dynamics, and stakes that exist in the questions and issues of development, particularly so highly connected technological systems that create massive centralized efficiencies that disenfranchise more local realities which are never accounted for or censored out or managed away via planned dysfunction. If this condition were addressed in straightforward terms, it may be possible to proceed in a way that protects people and prevents such dynamics from worsening, which can involve state and regional governance and federal and international changes in policy. And so what presently exists in the span of electronically-tagged bank notes, debit and credit cards, stored valued and prepaid cards, is already operating within this domain, as are other forms of electronic payment and barter, including 'rewards cards' and 'points' or electronic tallied perks that span dollar value currency to other forms, which feasibly could be mediated by a single device or card system in the future. In this way, the up-and-coming Apple Watch could be the device most likely to mediate the depth and breadth of this situation, from taxation (hidden and overt) to payments (debit and credit to rewards cards to bitcoin exchange) and yet this concentration is also potentially a weak-spot for the individual and a maximal pressure point for those targeted in these dimensions, allowing more coherent control within a single device that could be used for exploitation, subversion, illegal monitoring, and on and so on. There would need to be a transitional scenario to address these concerns within a sufficient legal framework that protects citizens and establishes a new set of rules, for such integrated systems to operate in more bounded terms of expropriation of data and details that can be used against and disenfranchise human populations. Central to this would be a new infrastructure that allows for the conceptual rewiring of existing Internet of Things (IoT) ideology into a protected framework that serves and does not exploit common human interests for others to profit from this tyranny. The situation with money and currency is core to this. A new standard is needed to reestablish currency within a context and framework of truth, so rules of fair exchange are known and enforceable, establishing the shared social,economic,governing structure. It is likely the only way to accomplish this is through electronic currency, whereby the dynamics of the paper system are let go of, or released, and mediated in other terms more beneficial to economic principles than producing physical placeholders for value that devalue the monetary system itself. A penny more expensive to produce than its own value, (googled: "It costs the federal government 2.4 cents to make a penny and 11.2 cents to make a nickel."). This is obviously backward and counterproductive yet insanely the normalized ungrounded situation, the default everyday nonsense scenario. To get to a new monetary system or at least electronic currency, there is no way this can be achieved without first addressing the relation between currency and taxation, which is one issue in a context of paper currency, and another in a context of data as both currency and representative of money itself (i.e. guaranteed dollar sign amount). The big view involves necessary to comprehend dynamics that today the tax system and money both are frictional and function against economy, and this directly connects with data likewise that is limited by these forces in moving around or circulating in terms of its value, which can be monetized though also or more fundamentally, its relation to truth that can be accessible and achieved through reasoning, if made available/allowed. To free up data in a context of public and private infrastructure will require addressing issues of its taxation to enable public subsidy of the IoT infrastructure within a public framework and dimensions, this comparable to the need for the US as a nation when established to develop a federal national parks system [ref.ecddr], state parks, and greenways (such as the beautiful Twin Cities, or Central Park in NYC by Frederick Law Olmsted), including areas for recreation, fishing, baseball, picnics, dances, concerts, iceskating and skiing, trails for hiking, nature preserves, etc. This reflected shared public values of the citizenry to participate and interact and stay connected with nature as the basis for values, which has since eroded and been commercialized, turned into simulacrum, as if everywhere is now a sector of an unacknowledged private Disney themepark. A private corporation cannot represent or establish this shared public realm without distorting it to its narrowed business interests, involving a different motivating agenda. Instead, to create that public realm of data exchange would require public subsidization to allow for its development and sustenance, to enable exchange and interconnection in a wider realm of human interests and values, such as knowledge, cultural development, learning and education, policy and government planning and citizen representation and public-private collaboration mediated in the public sphere, not behind closed doors, in this way an agora for debate and discussion and commons, for culture to exist within. The insular, proprietarized introverted self-focused internet then could be extroverted and brought out of its shell and more fully integrate with peoples lives in a balanced way, including with issues of security and privacy (cryptography related, if of integrity) and yet to accomplish this 'data' itself would need to be addressed in the same way that paper currency and taxation likewise need to be, in that the granularity or the existing 'decimal' level resolution is completely insufficient to mediate issues of fair exchange and fair tax and shared value in these existing warped structural dynamics and a new higher resolution, micro- or fractional-value is needed in a data context that allows microtransactions and microdata (IoT) to exist instead of the default issues of audiovisual bandwidth for telecommuncations and big-pipe infrastructure layouts that functionally extort money to provide access, where scarcity is establishing maximal profit at the price of maximal friction for 'ideas' and 'reasoning' in the form of data that is either locked away or untransmissable due to red tape, barriers, ownership laws that turn something public into a private confined property that is valued by limited access yet is unjust in nature, and so on. Everything backwards, cannibalistic, to profit by not allowing things to happen, by hoarding, preventing, instead of freeing, interacting, building, it is erosion of interaction, knowledge, reasoning, ideas, etc. It is the Dark Ages 2.0 when in an information society of maximal communication shared truth has gone missing, empirical logical reasoning, instead relativism is ubiquitous, clueless to its own isolated individuated egoistic narcissistic condition. There is no knowledge within computing systems, within networking, beyond that of a highly biased tyrannical STEM framework that is the ruling technocratic ideology, that outside of its own parameters is completely ignorance and instead seeks to engineer culture while representing it in a quantified worldview, as if that simple. In this way the issue of theology and religion without truth or morality at the center, and instead an ideological version of onesided pseudo-truth believed universal and the just and legitimate framework to legislate collective reality in scientific terms. In this way experimentation on human populations occurs, illegal spying to gather data for social engineering, and so to, denial of public services, for such a goal and ideal of the utopic state of an ungrounded subset that is beyond external regulation, existing on the inside of the hidden state, turning dials and pulling levers of control. If these dynamics could be dealt with, some vastly improved margin of safety and realignment for the common human good and its welfare, then microtax and this microdata could relate to microfinancing, and various currency systems could co- exist in a shared framework. Such that the entrepreneurial imperative of the citizen could be realized in a sufficient framework necessary to realize its potential, such that telework and other visions could become standardized and resolved in terms of the previous domains of bureaucracy, which instead of limiting interactions can be made to allow easy and secured and guaranteed fair exchange, such that any interaction in terms of money could be automatically micro-taxed, whereby the previous issues of paperwork and auditing are not held as a Damocles sword over an individual's life, for trying to do something, and instead could be infrastructural and made as friction-free as possible. At the same time, data itself, its movement or transfer within certain parameters (such as IoT device-to-device or work output) could involve a basic structural microtax, subpenny, a tiny fractional amount that is tallied in the background that is extremely nominal per person, perhaps nearly nonexistent in terms of small coinage per interaction or day, though adds up in the background as a support for sustaining infrastructure, and thus provides the basis for subsidizing free public transaction spaces for interaction of devices and people outside a corporate controlled and defined framework. In this way, if the taxes are automatically dedicated and defined in highly sane terms which are essentially mediated entirely in a realm of electronics and numbers and nothing to do with paper currency or production of money, beyond an interface device (say currency card as meta-note) then lots of things could be possible that would allow short-term interactions in business and legal frameworks that then remove the threat of prosecution due to error or misreading or incapacity to deal with the bureaucracy that is purposefully unable to be mediated except by means of a professional middle-man which can exploit these dynamics politically, such that especially for the poor, no actions can be taken without retaliation and further repression for trying to operate at a higher level than the ruling class will allow, as this is enforced by IRS audits and monitoring, even of the poor, at the dollar level, this protecting power of millionaires and billionaires of great excess and surplus. (When is the last time you have had the power cut to your apartment complex in retaliation for having a coffee and banana bread at a cafe as a birthday gift? This indicating the entrenched level of corruption involved, its operational peak in wielding the power grid, telecommunications and surveillance to oppress.) What the future could hold, in this situation could be transformed, would be a realm that moves from a basic electronic currency that is guaranteed in truth, via a new constitutional and thus legal framework, is the unification of services including public and private, within a shared system of interaction and access. The grocery rewards points and airline miles of credit card today could be the approach to systems of barter or tiered access and achievement. For instance, the issue of Boy Scout merit badges translating a series of skills and aptitudes into an electronic structure instead, when then could be compiled per individual as to what events are tallied in such a system, as personal circuity, cartography of the self, whereby like degree programs at University, self-learning could occur via attending a particular class at one location or institution, and then another at another time or space, as these compile into a self-learning framework that can become an education and lead to employment or vocation or other approaches. In this sense, money as data, though also the gamification potential of learning and incentivizing certain learning and skill building, training, taking risks, etc. As this then can inform and develop a culture that is coherent, serving its needs and larger goals. Such as conservation programs for natural environments & wildlife, or volunteering as requirement for other perks that could be mediated privately and-or publicly, by businesses, governments, even within families as incentive. Thus in some sense like a running curriculum vitae, though across all areas. In this way, a non-monetary system that is about data as currency could also be established, in particular government support of institutions that then could change data dynamics likewise. For instance government funding for a museum could enable a perk akin to those for corporate workers, that a family or person would have a token to visit the museum twice a year for free, based on this public subsidy and also its benefit to shared culture and literacy. And perhaps even barter could occur between people, if someone wanted to see the orchestra. This would level the field for those without money to still participate in the culture versus banning people based on not having enough money to be included or to participate or be represented within culture. Likewise, if a digital picture frame the size of a large painting were commonplace, say an electronic ink version, then this same museum may allow the loan via copyright of a single image of an artistic work from their museum archive to be displayed via fair use in homes and dwellings, as part of this extension and interconnection of shared value. It costs nothing, except it mediates issues of property and copyright differently, in human public and private terms and not just onesided selfish private terms. In such a context, perhaps a person carries an avatar or some intelligent agent or their pseudonyms and a level of anonymity along with them in these systems, or that they can microfinance and allocate support to certain indiegogo/kickstarter like personal initiative at the level of penny stocks, though multiplied to millions of participants with small fluctuating amounts though secured through temporary or limited contracts, in this way microloans or investments that may socially benefit though not return money back to the person and instead develop culture or others capacity or programs, some moreso than others, including via the ability of the citizen to direct a proportion of their taxes into these variable programs, thus to have their interests served or represented by the distribution of their tax revenue. Thus scholarships may be funded decentrally or a public garden or an experiment, though perhaps within a higher realm of expectation than today, non-trivial and instead of creating and supporting junk, that an auditing of the ideas is involved such that it is of value to invest in, and reflects the principles of a given person or people to support. And thus foolishness or wastefulness may not predominate as the ground-up cultural development, funding pension funds for lazy digerati. So too, the literal realm of games, whereby perhaps a global videogame system is established and mediated in these same dynamics, as well as within education whereby a 'dream center' would allow each citizen to develop their skills within a grant-framework, honing their self-understanding through step by step development and then creating a structure to place them optimally within society for maximal contributive effect, via these same means, mechanisms, and structural dynamics. So for instance, like an urban treasure hunt today or gps waypoints in a wilderness obstacle course, so too education or learning or skill development or life itself, for instance going to location A (which may be a business) and mediating it within a certain set of parameters (say for a game or educational skills) and having this data tallied into the data currency framework, opening doors literal or figurative, whereby the labyrinth can be exited if finding and following the string of education. -- anything less is tiddlywinks -- ×¿‡Žâ“ §ß¤Ω∑∕÷ ©%¥2

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by brian carroll 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

(additional notes/thoughts on money & currency in relation to material bank notes and electronic exchange of money & data, as this further relates to profiling, tracking, surveillance, modeling, though also culture, development, latent technological possibilities) Here wanted to share a few more ideas related to the last post, if not because they may be of a different than standard interpretation and allow another viewpoint to consider in terms of what is/& not going on in these terms. perhaps necessary to distinguish also situationally: of the present situation, of a transitional condition of major changes and paradigm shifts, and then a future totally redeveloped context that may allow a more pure approach than relying on legacy systems of dysfunction as the basis for further development, extended onward. In the present day, it seems cryptocurrency is the placeholder or trial for a future or transitional model of electronic currency that the state (in its global context) could employ or deploy, wider than the existing electronic payment and cash systems whether via welfare support (in the US called EBT (electronic benefit transfer) for foodstamps and-or cash support) or bank debit cards and credit cards, which range from access to checking or savings accounts for card holders, to prepaid cards that store value or represent stored value that can be mediated via networked infrastructure as part of a payment system/structure. If considering alternative paper currencies that can legally exist (at least in the US within certain guidelines), it would not seemingly be too far off to imagine a 'bitcoin card' that could function as a parallel payment system carried in a wallet and used on or offline, if it were to be established in a widely distributed alternative currency model that exists offline, in a context of these other (if competing) systems. In that it could involve its own ecosystem of exchange, and yet likely would be required at some point to be brought into line with tax laws in some structural way, (unsure of existing status, how these issues remain suspended) though the larger point is that issues of security and privacy would be similar in nature to these other similar systems, in which a level of robustness and protection would be necessary for massive use of such an alternative, if it were to become normalized. (meaning: trusting good will of Satoshi would not be enough for this.) And maybe this is the informal versus formalization aspect involved, the difference between an experiment and a seemingly steady-state system that would provide a parallel monetary system or alt.currency. The difference here also being, in terms of state monetary resources and those of the federal banking system, as it relates to 'money' that is represented on these cards, then maps back to fiat currency and- or bank-notes, which is represented by symbolic 'monetary bits' that are numbers equated with a universally accessible exchangeable value (exchange rate if outside the system or converting USD currency, if paper or electronic currency, else inflationary/deflationary sliding-scale of value, locally, on the longer-term, month-to-month, year-to-year as things change, dynamics and relations mapped to price fluctuations.) In that, specifically, the dollar amount on these electronic cards of the formal system can be traded for paper currency or cash and when they exist as numbers representing money in an electronic system or as an electronic monetary value (or sign or representation) this is a coherent structural relationship between the numbers represented and this larger ubiquitous fielded monetary system and its currency, paper or electronic. The electronic money on the bank card is tied to existing paper currency (though apparently 'electronic money' of banks is not, and appears to be detached from the world and function as 'monetary information' as money, which appears to be the foundation for financialization, monetary engineering in which new monetary value can be created ex nihilo via various calculations and esoteric calculus, if not disembodied from the world in an abstract and separated realm, not just beyond the gold standard of the past, though also beyond the standard of 'trust' that is the basis for establishing money itself in terms of shared exchange, where something recognized the same can be made transferable. It that it seems to be "theoretical money" involved in some way, at least from a naive outside viewpoint - and here is where the 'bitcoin approach' seems quite similar to what is going on internally, within the state and within banks and financing sectors, it all rests upon issues of trust at the base of the system, and thus what if monetary exchanges and the currency becomes ungrounded via such calculative acrobatics, as with the nature of theoretical physics of a wrong cosmology, unchecked.) This is to imagine that perhaps the actual situation of formal systems of money today are very much like the intangibility of other start-up electronic currencies, it just so happens one of these is a de facto global standard and seemingly regulated at least externally at the level of citizenry and businesses. And yet simultaneously appears to be 'highly virtual' as money, where it exists increasingly as bits or virtual currency, where money is data or 'information', in that a simple display of numbers with a dollar sign ($10) in a certain context is a legal guarantee of such funds and allows them to be exchanged or transfered in an electronic context, as well as offline. Thus for instance, e-commerce as a surrounding environment, where online development occurs and is tied back into the offline world, where the virtual meets the artificial and nature realms outside of the infrastructure. In this way, the bank note with RFID is partly tied into this accounting system and its various dimensions and dynamics, and moreso the bank card and credit card, which then carry 'information' about money, or have access to this money, and can mediate exchanges in various scenarios (such as over the telephone, online, at a cash register POS machine, or an ATM). In this way, there is a grounding of what appears to be money, its representation as data, and its actualization as a shared system everyone operates within to varying degrees, as this becomes the great leveler in relation to other issues, how they connect, relate, function or malfunction or short-circuit or fail to exist or be modeled in these terms, which range from beneficial to malicious & cruel. The strange thing is, this money system has become so detached from its core issue of common trust, so ungrounded in terms of what is "represented" by the currency, which is an agreed upon connection between people of a shared state or condition to mediate events in these terms, that instead of this monetary system serving -everyone-, instead it has become onesided and an entropic like migration occurs via a structural imbalance that moves money from one sector of society into another, which then correlates with power based on this money, and the money has less value in certain contexts and more value in other areas (peoples, business sectors) given the way these dynamics can be mediated and subverted, against the other side of a supposedly shared exchange. In that bad faith can become the standard basis for exchange, which leads to unshared exchange, someone pays for something they do not receive, or that their work is not acurately mapped into the income level while for others it is exponentially inflated, and these dynamics are not agreed upon and instead are the work of politics and class differentiation and discrimination and otherwise. So there is not a level relation occurring in the basic dynamics of exchange, which is supposedly based on a shared assumption of value, that today is now 'virtualized.' For previous generations the shared value or recognizable common truth that is at the core of fair exchange then mapped to gold or other storable value that was not just of a rare and prized metal - it was also philosophical in meaning, in terms of ideas (and cosmology) as this relates to alchemy and core religious meaning. In that 'the sun' maps into this gold standard, as does 'the one' of a shared view and understanding. As this progressed to a more abstract less worldly form of guarantee, it seems to have relied upon the state itself as this basis for trust in a common view for exchange, that citizens had other citizens in their own best interest and would seek to swindle one another to gain money because their own trust would be impinged and force censure or other forms of reprisal for corrupted actions in these communal terms. Somehow even this 'shared state' or condition has evaporated, which seems to coincide with the rise of untethered theorization of society, which in its best aspects is like poetric philosophy, and in its worst, a false ungrounded doctrine that is the basis for a deception and false perspective and worldview, the basis for establishing and sustaining a collective il/de-lusion. The basis for a collective beneficial exchange between people seems to have potentially begun or been established in a bounded aristocratic framework that served interests of a shared empirical set (powerful interconnected males/ else the public and private patriarchal 'son/sun' as a shared identity and basis for the collective reasoning and representation of values,goals,ideas,planning,direction) as this then literally mapped to valuable metals (gold as the basis for currency) and issues of wealth and prestige and in some sense, the height of this culture. What appears to have occurred since its material and tangible detachment is that money and currency appear to be more and more just about information and the dollar sign ($) as a guarantee of a certain institutionalized value, a symbolic mark that is essentially capable of representing an arbitrary custom-bank note value, to the decimal point, into a realm of pennies if not beneath this once limiting threshold due to its functioning in an abstract realm of numbers and calculations, primarily. So long as the state is cohesive, such a federal system and international order of shared currency seemingly could continue functioning as the common standard, as if there is some 'shared truth' underneath it all, a common viewpoint and value or *trust* that is held in common between people. And yet, if the state itself were to fracture internally, and citizen is held against citizen in a competing realm of survival of the fittest, the monetary system could be undermined, and the value represented by money and held underneath this global system could evaporate, if the exchanges became structurally unfair, yet guaranteed by this same money. For instance paying for an online good and then being sent a broken item and not being able to return it or have legal recourse for the swindle, ripoff, or predatory business practices as this is institutionalized and made normal in the day to day. This then transforms the realm of money, where banks and institutions and the state itself can represent such hostile forces functioning against populations, the citizenry, in a lopsided system of exchange, which then funnels value (and work, especially) out of certain sectors and into others, via entropic loss of value or devaluing and the artificaial or rigged increase of value in other areas as if a natural balancing and yet it is instead engineered this way, as a form of political and fictionalized subversion, again to support a certain limited group and their interests at the cost of the many. The same money in a poor person's hands and a rich person's are of different value. The poor person can pay exorbitant rates comparable to their income for items that have no impact on the rich person because they have vast surplus money and it has essentially no effect or impact on their livelihood. The poor person can be ripped off by exchange and has no representation or recourse, while the rich person can rip off people and be legally protected in doing so, because of having this "communal" money. And yet exist only to serve themselves (as the one, the sun, the symbolic son, when in a context of heavenly patriarchy whether secularized or not, god the empirical father, &c.) Thus identity and ego and religious-like belief in self worth and others lesser worth and moral inferiority can be mapped to these monetary dynamics, which then define relations and this is how people are also institutionally mediated, and 'representation' occurs within the state and government. Numbers and accounting for things the basis for communication about a fictitious, highly warped, onesided privileged censorial vantage of the status quo. The point being that 'truth' that should be at the center of this modeling of money is not there, and instead it is based on an ungrounded and unshared belief that is the basis for 'exchange' which has since collapsed and exists in a corrupted or fallen realm, this then directly connected to issues of the US Constitution that established these dynamics, in that they began and persist in a structural context of _private-man and private mankind, given all the power in society to that subset group that can act in its own self-interest without consideration of others, with legal backing and supported by state violence. In that "the enlightenment" viewpoint was limited, bounded to private man's beliefs and 'his truth' which should be easy to recognize today as subjective when universalized to everyone viewpoint which it cannot represent, if only in terms of varying demographics, though also, which makes mankind the basis for community, a private category that is then an enclave for 'the public' only insofar as it benefits the privileged in that specific class and categorization, whereby maximal advantages are provided to this 'reasoning' and viewpoint, and maximally represented structurally, including as the basis for the shared exchange and trust and truth involved in money. Not like a private man's views of the world could be wrong or faulty, especially if they believe they are actually God. So it quickly moves into tyranny the moreso the issues are ungrounded and unchecked, as this correlates with 'trust me' in terms of exchange and money, where one citizen is then disadvantaged in an exchange that advantages another citizen, and thus flows of money migrate towards privileged groups who benefit and exploit and believe in these dynamics, if not as a reinforcement of a narrowed belief system, of their own superiority. This in terms of 'private man' as superman, as it relates to ego and action in the world, including over others, as if this is a moral victory of those fit over those deemed unfit. And the thing is, money today is completely mapped to that ideological assessment, that is the basis for the existing value of money today, as over centuries it has become detached from a human and equitable viewpoint and serves only some of the population at the expense of others, as this relates to work, to development, to reasoning, and how censorship and legal and political and police and other dynamics protect the worldview, enabling the house of cards to remain standing, where 'untruth' or falsity is at the center of the currency that is being exchanged, traded, and mediates 'human relations' in terms of private mankind, set against other men and in particular women and human beings in their public and private dimensions. What man needs to survive and conquer others in this system then maps to the id of surveillance, the police state regime, and accounting for other data in these same warped, onesided, and self-benefiting terms to those views. So imagine if the monetary system is believed by the hotshots to back their narcissistic and egotistic views and self-belief as if they are the gold standard for everything else that is occurring, the foundation and structure and manifest cosmic forces, as if pseudo-truth or ungrounded theoretical beliefs are unerring as binary ideological projections, and these "the observers" infallible in their superior viewpoints and awareness others unfit and lesser cannot understand, as this maps to their feelings and self-worth, except that if untrue and unreal this condition would be instead the centralization of everything in opposite terms, where instead of gold these people are lead, and economics and politics and society are being mediated in such frameworks instead, as if highest nature instead of lowest nature, and that it is a vast illusion and delusion and essentially institutionalization of madness that then is mediated in terms of power and brute force to conform other dissenting views, including keeping truth outside the false framework and effectively religious belief system, except that the gods enshrined are these men and those connected with their despotism. This is what is mediated by the US dollar as paper currency, believed to be gold in its symbolic value, when instead organizing everything in terms of these principles of lead. The more this value system is informationalized, made symbolic and calculable as data, the more power is accrued within this corrupt system, to further enforce such corruption. In this way, the creation of new money out of nothing, either as information or though the exploitation of information (as currency, and via its monetization) carries with it a power structure and social terms that rely upon expropriation of human worth and value, and of various other values and principles, including of females, women, and nature itself, if not beings in general and life, which then is subjugated and forced into these antihuman and antilife and antinature hidden terms and conditions, beyond any checks and balances as this is legally backed by the corrupt bug-ridden US Constitution that allows for all of this. So it is all okay, then, because a bunch of rich patriarchs hundreds of years ago are held to be infallible as founding fathers.... except not. They themselves provisioned that this is a trap, and needs to be revised, upon future awareness and higher reasoning and truth yet 'reason itself' broke down via binary viewpoints and has since shut down other perspectives to a monologue of rightness based upon bureaucratized power run by centralized computer. In this way the god as state, except it is a non-living entity, dumb-AI, in service to a subset that has no qualms about enslaving and exploiting others for power, profit, and their pleasure. So everyone can suffer as long as it benefits them, and what does not benefit them must not be allowed to exist, else the entire system is delegitimated. The state thus made tyrannical. And not just locally, this occurring globally, institutionally, organizationally, via policies that are effectively operating beyond reason, and with illiterate populations unable to reason due to such devolutionary policies and frameworks and continuing and ongoing development, as antihuman culture. In this way the state is in service to private corporations of rich citizenry, where police, lawyers, and doctors mediate middle and lower class citizenry and the poor. The government itself in its representation is hollowed out and instead it is mediated in terms of monetary worth as a determiner of exchange and citizen value, proportionally, such that lawyers are the representatives of the citizenry with the state, not those elected for policy, and their decisions are on behalf of power, who has or will gain more money, in effect, as a basis for who is right or what truth supports the more powerful in a given scenario. It is just extremely ugly and ungodly, where shared governance of citizenry then becomes unshared and mediated by politics of policing, medicine, and legal rights, to onesided privileged benefit most often correlated to power as the shared and higher authority, and not of cosmic truth. So there is an enlightenment/anti-enlightenment situation involved, of a grounded perspective that can be shared by citizenry and an ungrounded (also increasingly virtual or reliant on this) belief of a subset that functions as and believes itself superior, the authority, the ruling class, though of course in hidden or cryptic terms. In this way, an invasion of the US by an incoming hostile population sent to conquer territory can replace the citizenry and operate within these self-beneficial conditions, while those on their own home territory can become disenfranchised and destitute via these polarized dynamics. If anything, it is most apparent in the luxurification of the middle-class lifestyle and easy money for certain groups of people (sans cultural insight and instead, new forms of factory labor though in terms of web skills, art galleries, etc) where 'new royalty' appear out of nowhere, and have upper-middle-class lifestyles sustained within such a bubble, of no financial issues whatsoever, able to eat out every meal with incomes at jobs that do not support such expenditures, with butler and coceirge service via mobile Apps, the very industry most supporting this skewed worldview, and yet on the inside of this there is no higher understanding or truth that is the ancient connection with grounded royal hierarchy, of its spiritual dimension, and instead there is nothing there except base materialism at play. Again, lead instead of gold, as this then represents 'the masses' and self-beneficial collective decision-making of a particular self-interested private group or subset, siphoning away the commons for such unchecked excess, that also directly correlates with ego and immorality, and that anything goes via relativistic beliefs, and others are lesser beings to be exterminated. In this way, if you try to function as a human being within such an upside-down world in its ideological operation, lines of force exist to punish and force conformance and submission to the private collective diktat that is actually based in falsity and ungrounded information and unshared value at its center, mediated and represented and symbolized by money. A person may only function at one percent of their actual capacity, and may simply struggle to survive or adapt and remain sane or cognizant within such an antihuman condition, thus weathering the onslaught or downfall or fall the historic state itself, while imposters may be operating at 100% of their capacity as mimics or drones to perform symbolically in roles & routines, standing-in as 'representatives' or citizens though while against human citizenry, hostile to human being and principles of life, love, privacy, freedom, truth, democracy, etc. In this way, the fractional ability of human action then is combined and parts so divided in a non-empirical framework of the false perspective, of relativistic religious-like beliefs, then cannot combine into a whole viewpoint and thus the unshared view moves further towards zero the more that human citizens combined cannot relate in literate and complex terms, leading to hypothetical 0.000000000001 percent operational capacity of human agency in the world, versus 100% for the antihuman forces secured within fallen state bureaucracy, which then becomes the overseer and judge/jury/executioner based on evaluated fitness, though outside legal frameworks and inside these other realms of exchange and relation. Human efficiency, aptitude and agency per individual nearly negligible in the world today, whereas the entirety of humanity is serving these other interests to its own demise. In that everything is moving to that subset group, all advantages, all surplus, all rights, and it is also the view in charge of the surveillance apparatus, the overseer, or believed so. In this way 'the great eye' at the top of the pyramid, yet which may have issues of myopia, or perhaps even be blind to certain dimensions, if not testing and grounding vision to truth and instead correlating and focusing on an unreal, ungrounded view of cosmic relation. In that falsity may be what is aligned with, or bad ideas, or warped beliefs, false perspective. In this way the false economy, the faux society, lavender tatoos and fleur-di-lille piercings while such populations are shuttled to one location and other via personal Uber chauffeurs. In such a context then, "information" about people that is treated as if forests for pioneers to extract as a natural and free resource to make other things from, exploit to the fullest for self benefit regardless of connected ecology, to the point of practices of deforestation and ecological devastation. The business model apparently is: get or be given stuff for free, and then resell it at maximal cost and reap the rewards. Best practice is having the people exploited pay or volunteer for this expropriation of private value (of data, other) and then mine or otherwise subvert interactions to again maximally extract value whether in legal or illegal terms, as this relates to privacy, citizen rights, and issues of property that can be disregarded in such a hidden and advantageous, unregulated 'morally free market'; humans like nature exist to be exploited by others who are unlike, for their own advantage. This then closely aligned with issues of slavery and colonization, though in the form of subverted consumer electronics and apps as the new wave of antihuman colonization, and yet this is not made explicit due to protected interests, signed pieces of paper that armies of lawyers, the police, the state itself protect to allow for this 'commons' relation. So this is what money is in the middle of, these are the dynamics, and what it could or once represented was a common shared value that no longer exists between people, who are now in oppositional terms as citizens, of two separate and competing states, one functioning against its declared governing principles by exploiting legal loopholes as a basis for establishing power and overtaking the state as its tyrannical antithesis. The only piece of code able to address and engage this situation allowing for military takeover in a state of emergency, and a constitution convention to reboot the state in new and better terms, as agreed to by those convening in a new universal framework. This could be antihuman, and lead to the loss of the state itself, or human and the regaining of the state and its rewiring and redevelopment in terms of our humanity. Cryptography would probably be absolutely necessary to pursue such a path and yet it appears self-evident that crypto cannot be allowed to exist, that would enable such private communication that could threaten hidden and ruling conspiratorial interests. Thus all crypto must remain broken for the antihuman state to remain safe & secure. In this way, this is the immediate situation encountered with issues of currency as this spans from monetary systems to monetization of data and the centralization of auditing and accounting that functions as money, as currency, in terms of power that uses this to reinforce a certain biased or relativistic truth while censoring out others that may devalue ungrounded perspectives (on economics, other evidence, data, etc). So while trials of alternative currency may exist locally offline or even globally online, and systems of barter or various ecosystems of exchange/trade could be established, it remains within this overwhelming and oppressive default condition, which then is the prevailing force that determines what can and will happen, via its implementation and the potential for its subversion, how it can be maximally exploited in these same terms. Thus suggestions about what to do, say to establish a national cashless system, then occurs in a context of previously mentioned biased structures of taxation as well as other forms of leveraging and imbalances, that then would be further secured by the uncritical or uncareful rollout of such options or advances, making it all easier for the exploiters and all the more difficult and painful for the exploited, via unnecessarily increased suffering that by comparison can be exponential, in support of such tyranny. So near-term there is immense danger at doing anything without first recognizing the actual condition, parameters, dynamics, and stakes that exist in the questions and issues of development, particularly so highly connected technological systems that create massive centralized efficiencies that disenfranchise more local realities which are never accounted for or censored out or managed away via planned dysfunction. If this condition were addressed in straightforward terms, it may be possible to proceed in a way that protects people and prevents such dynamics from worsening, which can involve state and regional governance and federal and international changes in policy. And so what presently exists in the span of electronically-tagged bank notes, debit and credit cards, stored valued and prepaid cards, is already operating within this domain, as are other forms of electronic payment and bartar, including 'rewards cards' and 'points' or electronic tallied perks that span dollar value currency to other forms, which feasibly could be mediated by a single device or card system in the future. In this way, the up-and-coming Apple Watch could be the device most likely to mediate the depth and breadth of this situation, from taxation (hidden and overt) to payments (debit and credit to rewards cards to bitcoin exchange) and yet this concentration is also potentially a weak-spot for the individual and a maximal pressure point for those targeted in these dimensions, allowing more coherent control within a single device that could be used for exploitation, subversion, illegal monitoring, and on and so on. There would need to be a transitional scenario to address these concerns within a sufficient legal framework that protects citizens and establishes a new set of rules, for such integrated systems to operate in more bounded terms of expropriation of data and details that can be used against and disenfranchise human populations. Central to this would be a new infrastructure that allows for the conceptual rewiring of existing Internet of Things (IoT) ideology into a protected framework that serves and does not exploit common human interests for others to profit from this tyranny. The situation with money and currency is core to this. A new standard is needed to reestablish currency within a context and framework of truth, so rules of fair exchange are known and enforceable, establishing the shared social,economic,governing structure. It is likely the only way to accomplish this is through electronic currency, whereby the dynamics of the paper system are let go of, or released, and mediated in other terms more beneficial to economic principles than producing physical placeholders for value that devalue the monetary system itself. A penny more expensive to produce than its own value, (googled: "It costs the federal government 2.4 cents to make a penny and 11.2 cents to make a nickel."). This is obviously backward and counterproductive yet insanely the normalized ungrounded situation, the default everyday nonsense scenario. To get to a new monetary system or at least electronic currency, there is no way this can be achieved without first addressing the relation between currency and taxation, which is one issue in a context of paper currency, and another in a context of data as both currency and representative of money itself (i.e. guaranteed dollar sign amount). The big view involves necessary to comprehend dynamics that today the tax system and money both are frictional and function against economy, and this directly connects with data likewise that is limited by these forces in moving around or circulating in terms of its value, which can be monetized though also or more fundamentally, its relation to truth that can be accessible and achieved through reasoning, if made available/allowed. To free up data in a context of public and private infrastructure will require addressing issues of its taxation to enable public subsidy of the IoT infrastructure within a public framework and dimensions, this comparable to the need for the US as a nation when established to develop a federal national parks system, state parks, and greenways (such as the beautiful Twin Cities, or Central Park in NYC by Frederick Law Olmsted), including areas for recreation, fishing, baseball, picnics, dances, concerts, iceskating and skiing, trails for hiking, nature preserves, etc. This reflected shared public values of the citizenry to participate and interact and stay connected with nature as the basis for values, which has since eroded and been commercialized, turned into simulacrum, as if everywhere is now a sector of an unacknowledged private Disney themepark. A private corporation cannot represent or establish this shared public realm without distorting it to its narrowed business interests, involving a different motivating agenda. Instead, to create that public realm of data exchange would require public subsidization to allow for its development and sustenance, to enable exchange and interconnection in a wider realm of human interests and values, such as knowledge, cultural development, learning and education, policy and government planning and citizen representation and public-private collaboration mediated in the public sphere, not behind closed doors, in this way an agora for debate and discussion and commons, for culture to exist within. The insular, proprietarized introverted self-focused internet then could be extroverted and brought out of its shell and more fully integrate with peoples lives in a balanced way, including with issues of security and privacy (cryptography related, if of integrity) and yet to accomplish this 'data' itself would need to be addressed in the same way that paper currency and taxation likewise need to be, in that the granulatiry or the existing 'decimal' level resolution is completely insufficient to mediate issues of fair exchange and fair tax and shared value in these existing warped structural dynamics and a new higher resolution, micro- or fractional-value is needed in a data context that allows microtransactions and microdata (IoT) to exist instead of the default issues of audiovisual bandwidth for telecommuncations and big-pipe infrastructure layouts that functionally extort money to provide access, where scarcity is establishing maximal profit at the price of maximal friction for 'ideas' and 'reasoning' in the form of data that is either locked away or untransmissable due to red tape, barriers, ownership laws that turn something public into a private confined property that is valued by limited access yet is unjust in nature, and so on. Everything backwards, cannibalistic, to profit by not allowing things to happen, by hoarding, preventing, instead of freeing, interacting, building, it is erosion of interaction, knowledge, reasoning, ideas, etc. It is the Dark Ages 2.0 when in an information society of maximal communication shared truth has gone missing, empirical logical reasoning, instead relativism is ubiquitous, clueless to its own isolated individuated egoistic narcissistic condition. There is no knowledge within computing systems, within networking, beyond that of a highly biased tyrannical STEM framework that is the ruling technocratic ideology, that outside of its own parameters is completely ignorance and instead seeks to engineer culture while representing it in a quantified worldview, as if that simple. In this way the issue of theology and religion without truth or morality at the center, and instead an ideological version of onesided pseudo-truth believed universal and the just and legitimate framework to legislate collective reality in scientific terms. In this way experimentation on human populations occurs, illegal spying to gather data for social engineering, and so to, denial of public services, for such a goal and ideal of the utopic state of an ungrounded subset that is beyond external regulation, existing on the inside of the hidden state, turning dials and pulling levers of control. If these dynamics could be dealt with, some vastly improved margin of safety and realignment for the common human good and its welfare, then microtax and this microdata could relate to microfinancing, and various currency systems could co- exist in a shared framework. Such that the entrepreneurial imperative of the citizen could be realized in a sufficient framework necessary to realize its potential, such that telework and other visions could become standardized and resolved in terms of the previous domains of bureaucracy, which instead of limiting interactions can be made to allow easy and secured and guaranteed fair exchange, such that any interaction in terms of money could be automatically micro-taxed, whereby the previous issues of paperwork and auditing are not held as a damocles sword over an individual's life, for trying to do something, and instead could be infrastructural and made as friction-free as possible. At the same time, data itself, its movement or transfer within certain parameters (such as IoT device-to-device or work output) could involve a basic structural microtax, subpenny, a tiny fractional amount that is tallied in the background that is extremely nominal per person, perhaps nearly nonexistent in terms of small coinage per interaction or day, though adds up in the background as a support for sustaining infrastructure, and thus provides the basis for subsidizing free public transaction spaces for interaction of devices and people outside a corporate-controlled and defined framework. In this way, if the taxes are automatically dedicated and defined in highly sane terms which are essentially mediated entirely in a realm of electronics and numbers and nothing to do with paper currency or production of money, beyond an interface device (say currency card as meta-note) then lots of things could be possible that would allow short-term interactions in business and legal frameworks that then remove the threat of prosecution due to error or misreading or incapacity to deal with the bureauracy that is purposefully unable to be mediated except by means of a professional middle-man which can exploit these dynamics politically, such that especially for the poor, no actions can be taken without retaliation and further repression for trying to operate at a higher level than the ruling class will allow, as this is enforced by IRS audits and monitoring, even of the poor, at the dollar level, this protecting power of millionaires and billionaires of great excess and surplus. (When is the last time you have had the power cut to your apartment complex in retaliation for having a coffee and banana bread at a cafe as a birthday gift? This indicating the entrenched level of corruption involved, its operational peak in wielding the power grid, telecommunications and surveillance to oppress.) What the future could hold, in this situation could be transformed, would be a realm that moves from a basic electronic currency that is guaranteed in truth, via a new constitutional and thus legal framework, is the unification of services including public and private, within a shared system of interaction and access. The grocery rewards points and airline miles of credit card today could be the approach to systems of barter or tiered access and achievement. For instance, the issue of Boy Scout merit badges translating a series of skills and aptitudes into an electronic structure instead, when then could be compiled per individual as to what events are tallied in such a system, as personal circuity, cartography of the self, whereby like degree programs at University, self-learning could occur via attending a particular class at one location or institution, and then another at another time or space, as these compile into a self-learning framework that can become an education and lead to employment or vocation or other approaches. In this sense, money as data, though also the gamification potential of learning and incentivizing certain learning and skill building, training, taking risks, etc. As this then can inform and develop a culture that is coherent, serving its needs and larger goals. Such as conservation programs for natural environments & wildlife, or volunteering as requirement for other perks that could be mediated privately and-or publicly, by businesses, governments, even within families as incentive. Thus in some sense like a running curriculum vitae, though across all areas. In this way, a non-monetary system that is about data as currency could also be established, in particular government support of institutions that then could change data dynamics likewise. For instance government funding for a museum could enable a perk akin to those for corporate workers, that a family or person would have a token to visit the museum twice a year for free, based on this public subsidy and also its benefit to shared culture and literacy. And perhaps even bartar could occur between people, if someone wanted to see the orchestra. This would level the field for those without money to still participate in the culture versus banning people based on not having enough money to be included or to participate or be represented within culture. Likewise, if a digital picture frame the size of a large painting were commonplace, say an electronic ink version, then this same museum may allow the loan via copyright of a single image of a artistic work from their museum archive to be displayed via fair use in homes and dwellings, as part of this extension and interconnection of shared value. It costs nothing, except it mediates issues of property and copyright differently, in human public and private terms and not just onesided selfish private terms. In such a context, perhaps a person carries an avatar or some intelligent agent or their pseudonyms and a level of anonymity along with them in these systems, or that they can microfinance and allocate support to certain indiegogo/kickstarter like personal initiative at the level of penny stocks, though multiplied to millions of participants with small fluctuating amounts though secured through temporary or limited contracts, in this way microloans or investments that may socially benefit though not return money back to the person and instead develop culture or others capacity or programs, some moreso than others, including via the ability of the citizen to direct a proportion of their taxes into these variable programs, thus to have their interests served or represented by the distribution of their tax revenue. Thus scholarships may be funded decentrally or a public garden or an experiment, though perhaps within a higher realm of expectation than today, non-trivial and in- stead of creating and supporting junk, that an auditing of the ideas is involved such that it is of value to invest in, and reflects the principles of a given person or people to support. And thus foolishness or wastefulness may not predominate as the ground-up cultural development, funding pension funds for lazy digerati. So too, the literal realm of games, whereby perhaps a global videogame system is established and mediated in these same dynamics, as well as within education whereby a 'dream center' would allow each citizen to develop their skills within a grant-framework, honing their self-understanding through step by step development and then creating a structure to place them optimally within society for maximal contributive effect, via these same means, mechanisms, and structural dynamics. So for instance, like an urban treasure hunt today or gps waypoints in a wilderness obstacle course, so too education or learning or skill development or life itself, for instance going to location A (which may be a business) and mediating it within a certain set of parameters (say for a game or educational skills) and having this data tallied into the data currency framework, opening doors literal or figurative, whereby the labyrinth can be exited if finding and following the string of education. §Ãœ ˝ç∆∑√∞ ¶•©¥º«

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DHS fingered Mt. Gox's Mark Karpales as original Silk Road founder
by Seth 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hat tip to UnSYSTEM mailing list http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-mark-karpales-fbi/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2sjuvu/defense_in_silk_road_trial_…

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bitcoin tinfoil-hattery
by Troy Benjegerdes 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Theory of the day: 1) Naked short bitcoin (not sure how, but I'm sure some bankster did) 2) http://blog.cex.io/news/cex-io-temporarily-suspends-cloud-mining-services/ 3) use profits from shorting to hire cex.io 'idled' capacity 4) double-spend on competing exchanges (or against competing investors funds) 5) buy an island or three, or a politician or 5 Plausibility on a scale of 1-5 .. I say 4, what say you all?

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