Cryptocurrency: Exploits, Austrian Libertarian, Privacy Coins Needed, Scaling Bloat, JPMorgan Flex, more...

[grarpamp]

https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-currencies-could-threaten-us-geopolitical-power-warns-jpmorgan
“There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential
of digital currency than the United States,” say analysts at JPMorgan
Chase & Co.
Two faced Banks, Banksters and Govts giving accounts to crypto exchanges,
while buying cryptos to their pockets, shilling CBDC's, FUD dissing on OG
distributed unstoppable cryptocurrencies.

search: YouTube censored and deleted livestreams of the blockchain
halving event parties.

Early attempt at periodic table of cryptos...
https://i.redd.it/cpp9nt6cjuz41.jpg
https://jes.al/crypto-table/


https://www.wired.com/story/harry-pottery-cryptocurrency-privacy-zcash-monero/
https://twitter.com/IvanBogatyy/status/1196441051814223880
https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/breaking-mimblewimble-privacy-model-84bcd67bfe52
$60/week of AWS spend, By running a rogue node tweaked to save all
intermediary transaction gossiping data. That's it! I was able to
uncover the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% Grin
transactions in real time.

Hardly any cryptocurrencies using TLS or interfacing well
with privacy/location/anonymous overlay networks either.
Consider also deploying satellite and GnuRadio integration.
Still no good distributed DEX's in operation with open APIs
for wide range of coins to plug into for cross-chain atomic swaps.

https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/
https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/paper.pdf
https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/pingreject.pdf
We describe remote side-channel attacks on the privacy guarantees of
anonymous cryptocurrencies.
Our attacks, which we validate on Zcash and Monero, enable a remote
attacker to identify the P2P node of the payee of any anonymous
transaction being sent into the network. This enables the adversary to
link all transactions sent to a user, to recover a user's IP address
from their anonymous payment address, and to link a user's diversified
addresses.
In addition, for Zcash, we show that an attacker can remotely crash
any Zcash node for which the attacker knows a payment address, and set
up a remote timing attack on an ECDH key exchange involving a victim's
private viewing key. In principle, this attack can fully recover the
victim's private viewing key, thereby completely breaking receiver
privacy.

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-welcome-to-video-takedown-bitcoin/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gofd6b/i_think_its_remarkable_that_weve_built_a/frh7ypx/
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1263218326282612736
'I think it’s remarkable that we’ve built a cryptocurrency where some
poor schmuck can’t spend their money without everyone on Twitter
knowing all the details and commenting about it.' -- Matthew Green

https://decrypt.co/29799/this-is-why-xrps-price-has-been-crushed-and-is-struggling-to-rise
Centralized wannabee cryptos are all inflating, premining, founder
taxing, censoring, patenting, and governing your values down to
zero... just like Fiat.

External privacy tech like JoinMarket, CashShuffle, CashFusion while
handy fun... and spies in SPV and similar upstream thin client node
protocols... all risky for cryptos lacking native privacy in protocol,
and scalability.

Evergrowing blockchains of UTXO transaction logs are unneeded bloat
and a standing privacy risk. ZEC, XMR, BTC, BCH, ETH, pick any
toplist... these are all old legacy first generation coins regarding
storage. They cannot survive the dead weight of their own tx chainlogs
growing and clogging their infrastructure, clients, and bandwidth...
and that tx block history carried will be repeatedly raped by mass and
targeted privacy exploits. Coinspace must move lots of designthink
toward researching tech based on agreeing consensus over the much
smaller (and negligible growth) database that is their respective UTXO
sets.

8B humans * 512bit/8/2^40 ECC/PQC crypto = 0.5TiB of UTXO db state,
add generous 10x extra for consensus and distribution state ops,
cryptoprivacy overhead, etc... = max of say 5TiB, forever (grows per
human not per tx... 10M humans now = 6GiB, 100M = 60GiB,
1B = 600GiB ...). Global max fits on commodity flashdrive in 10 years.
Network and processing bandwidth remains only limit.


https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_last_24_hours_bitcoins_nakamoto/
Watching the mining pool charts... the large pools are slowly killing
off the smaller pools. BTC.com and AntPool are both Bitmain, Nakamoto
Coefficient (a measure of decentralization) has dropped to 2, they
control 62% of the hashrate.
https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day

Welcome to joint problem of ASICs... central sole source ASIC Corps presale
mining out with their own HW first, then dictating preferred bulk sales channels
and destinations... and lack of personal responsibility to your own
nominal values
held by running and adopting global commodity CPU/GPU mined ASIC-hard
coins, abandoning large pools for smaller pools. 

Re: [liberationtech] Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (song)

[grarpamp]

>> If you know who the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are,
>> you may get a laugh out of this silly song.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb7s9sXe-g

In re Horsemen, Apocalypse, and any silly therein...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/were-gonna-do-it-gods-way-baltimore-pastor-rips-cease-and-desist-letter

If your Parliaments "shall make no laws" regarding some things,
such as say the freedom of speech that is prerequisite to any state of
liberation, to assemble (and over distances for such speech via natural
evolution of technology extension), how is it they can somehow claim
to loft and assert themselves as "law over" any/every thing else, including
performing murder (which is often forbidden by what they afraid to make
much law over, and by the NAP, and by everything else, yet they execute
1's and more times/yr). Clearly this is plain situation of logical failure.
These bodies MP/"Reps" cannot possibly disclaim to have "authority" over
some things, without thereby priori self defaulting to fail in all such
attempted arguments as to "authority" over anythings else.

Note this failure, or rather their success in convincing you they have
any "authority"... is badly affecting strong end-to-end crypto assured free
speech tech, the dire situation of censorship over supposedly "open"
and "freedom" tech platforms such as YouTube Facebook Twitter
Reddit, cryptocurrency, forced decryption prison, lockdowns and
papersplease.org against travel association, etc.

Are you using tools of mind and tech to create, support, and further their and
your claimed authority, will, force over others who've done nothing to you...
or using them toward creating and living to a state of liberation, charity,
conversation, individual/community responsibility, and so on.



> https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_slippery_slope_to_despotism_paved_with_lockdowns_raids_and_forced_vaccinations
>
> Just one of hundreds thousands articles all well documenting all various
> ways of your submission to tyrants world round since decades,
> corona is the last free railstop on the line toward their world,
> and apparently hardly any are jumping off to liberation. That's beyond sad.
> Fear fear fear cowardice sheep do as told do not think we your leaders
> we know best you need us do not question keep voting yes obey follow.
> How you going to use tech to liberate with their game running your mind.
> Stop listening to politicians and TV, they are programming you.
> Liberate your mind.
> Liberate yourself.
> Liberate others.

Well, this is mildly interesting. (OSC phones)

[Douglas Lucas]

The US federal Office of Special Counsel -- where formal whistleblower
complaints go -- "is experiencing intermittent problems with our phone
lines and voicemail system" https://osc.gov/Pages/Contact.aspx (accessed
22 May '20) I just got someone there by phone ~2 hours ago, trying to
get the FOIA public liaison officer. Weird. Any other agencies saying
this? On quick check, NASA & FCC aren't.

KIRK: Do they tie in?
SPOCK: I don't know.
KIRK: Speculate.
SPOCK: I have already given Doctor McCoy sufficient cause for amusement.
I'd prefer to cogitate the possibilities for a time.
KIRK: A short time, Mister Spock. We have very little.

Could be something routine, or could be interference, or could be -- lol
-- their phone lines are tied up with so many whistleblower(?) calls.
One would hope. Though somebody might have just tripped over a cord.

Re: tor replacement - was Re: Box for simple Tor node.

[grarpamp]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/building-a-new-tor-that-withstands-next-generation-state-surveillance/

"Tor hasn't changed, it's the world that's changed." -- Tor Project
Five years later, tor still looks same as 20 years prior,
while world adversaries advanced 20 years and counting.