Jim, if you want any success, John appears right when he suggested you link your system with targetting pedophiles - Joe Blogs in the public tends to be motivated in protecting his young daughters, nieces etc, and although I think your idea is a flawed idea, you might get public traction at the moment with all the hoohah around Epstein and the Clintons.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 06:50:39PM +0000, jim bell wrote: > This Fund, and perhaps implied offer, seems to have arrived at just the > right time. I have proposed that an alternative to TOR be constructed, and > that is certainly not an idea that is new with my proposal. Anybody who is > uncomfortable with TOR should want to see real competition. > I have found, by obtaining a quotation, that the hardware costs are probably > going to be $80 per node, and it would be good if 1000 nodes could be > achieved, at least initially. People could host these nodes at their > businesses and homes where they are already paying for Internet service. > I think we should appply for some of these funds. Potentially, they could > subsidize the hardware, say $80,000. They could also subsidize a portion of > the internet service costs: I suggest the subsidy be set to approximately > difference between the cost of 40 Mbit/second service, maybe $40 per month, > and 1 gigabit/second service, which for Centurylink I believe to be > $65/month. (and there appears to currently be no monthly data-limit for 1 > Gig service.) > This would powerfully motivate people to offer to host a node, because they > would be getting the 1 gigabit service upgrade essentially for free. This > might also provide funds for development of the software, which is a task in > itself. A subsidy of $25/month is about $300/year, and multiplied by 1000 > nodes amounts to $300,000, or a total of about $380,000 for the first year. > Can anybody imagine a more worthy, concrete proposal to accomplish what this > 'Unknown Fund' proposes to accomplish? And its yearly cost represents less > than 1/2 of a percent of the proposed fund. > Jim Bell > > > On Thursday, November 14, 2019, 01:48:41 PM PST, grarpamp > <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.unknown.fund/ > > " > Unknown Fund - Press Release 11/13/2019 > > We are going to invest and donate $75 million of bitcoin in startups > that help anonymity ideas. Preferred niches are personal data > protection, tools for online anonymity, cryptocurrencies, blockchain. > > > Unknown Fund is Going to Invest and Donate $75 Million for the > Development of Ideas of Anonymity > > The anonymous organisation Unknown Fund has announced that it intends > to invest and donate $75 million in bitcoin to startups which directly > or indirectly support the idea of anonymity. Preference will be given > to the following niches: protection of personal data, tools for > anonymity, cryptocurrency and blockchain. > > The organizers of the fund are ordinary, anonymous people from > different countries who met on the 4chan English-language imageboard. > In a brief to our news agency Anonymous said: > > “We are you, we are your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, > friends and colleagues. Our ranks consist of representatives of many > countries and nationalities, united by a virtual comradely spirit and > the belief that we are fighting for the good of many, and not for the > benefit of some. Anonymous is the voice of those who believe in truth, > freedom and the right to self-expression.” > > The Unknown Fund sees the protection of personal data as one of the > main challenges for modern man. The use of data has already become a > powerful tool for manipulating people. The effectiveness of this tool > is both amazing and frightening. > > Using as examples the ultra-targeted advertising used in Brexit > campaigns and in the last presidential elections in the United States, > one can see how easy it is to manipulate public opinion with enough > personal data. However, the manipulation of people occurs not only in > big politics, but also in our daily lives. A perfect example is the > level of addiction that the general population has to social networks > - addiction orchestrated and achieved by corporations. > > Anonymous added: > > “Now the main goal of large corporations is to collect as much > information as possible about the personal lives of people, and then > use it for their enrichment. And they do a great job of it by making > ordinary people get poorer. We are ready to fight for change and > protect people." > > The Unknown Fund also sees incredible opportunities to protect the > rights and freedoms of people that technology such as blockchain and > cryptocurrencies give us. This is a chance for humanity to create a > new environment, a new and honest monetary system, and to make the > world a better place. > > Unknown Fund suggests investment in commercial startups and donations > to nonprofit organizations. Investing is just the beginning. Anonymous > have developed a number of strategies and methods that will be > announced later. > > Anonymous ended the brief with the words: > > “If you believe in freedom of speech and the media, and most > importantly, in a free and accessible Internet, then you are also > Anonymous. Our opponents should not doubt our determination or > conviction. We will continue to fight as much as necessary to achieve > our goal.” > > "
