Re: What kind of security matters

These key storage and recovery issues are a prime focus of SatochiLabs Trezor series. https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-faq/overview.html Warrant Canary creator On Feb 16, 2017 6:35 PM, "James A. Donald" wrote: > On 2/17/2017 11:37 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> On Fri,

Re: Building a new Tor that can resist next-generation state surveillance

If you must use tor its best to combine it with a good, multi-hop, VPN. I prefer i2p (there's now a fully C++ version for those who don't trust Java) and cjdns. On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:45:50AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > >

Re: Waffling On Full Disclosure: Lawrence Lessig, Steven Levy

wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:19:58 -0700 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government > > without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not > > hesitate a mome

Re: Recent Numbers Station Activity COLLAPSE (GnuRadio SDR)

If things escalate w/Russia & go "live" SKYKING may carry nuclear GO/NO GO codes or target orders. Hopefully giving you & others that know about this system a few extra hours or minutes for preparations. Also 16 new Russian Buzzer number stations have come back online after being silent for

Re: Waffling On Full Disclosure: Lawrence Lessig, Steven Levy

Welcome to Brinn's open society, bitches. Warrant Canary creator On Oct 24, 2016 9:53 AM, "Steve Kinney" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 10/24/2016 12:12 PM, grarpamp wrote: > >

Re: Bitcoin Unable To Provide Privacy, Attracts FED and IRS Heat, FinServices Cave Demands

http://bitcoin-brokers.org/, if its still operating, can be an important element in a thorough trade-craft of financial privacy. They act as brokers to enable non-AML/KYC purchase of bitcoin. Sellers escrow their bitcoin with the broker. Buyers deposit cash into seller's bank account at a branch

Re: What % of the so-called alt-right were just plain ol' libertarians before?

The U.S. founders were quite clear in prohibiting income-like distributive taxes. The saw the peril for what it was: a means to use to pit one group/clsss against another. Warrant Canary creator On Nov 21, 2016 8:38 AM, "jim bell" wrote: *From:* Razer

Re: FYI: 10 Surprising Upsides To Colonialism

Reminds me of the "What have the Roman's ever done for us?" skit in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DExWfh6sGyso Warrant Canary creator On Dec 5, 2016 8:15 PM, "Razer" wrote: > I think I've found the worst article of 2016... > > Illustrated:

Re: Are there crypto discussions on this forum

I'd consider volunteering once there are escrowed Bitcoin subscriptions, using BIOR7, so list miscreants have something to loose. Warrant Canary creator On Nov 30, 2016 2:57 AM, "Eugen Leitl" wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:45:47AM +0100, Tom wrote: > > > However, such

Re: Russia's "eye-watering" military toys

With advancing commercial tech, open hardware and software, the practicality of effective, open, smart weapon and dual-use becomes eminently more likely. Warrant Canary creator On Jul 7, 2017 7:40 PM, "Steve Kinney" wrote: On 07/07/2017 09:52 PM, juan wrote: >>> On

Re: HAHAHAHA! Bitcoin will totally change EVERYTHING!

Bitcoincash future difficulty forecast http://bch.xbt.it/ Johoe's Mempool Statistics https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/uahf/#24h On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Its not mainly a money thing (unless they directly buy off the miners). If

Re: HAHAHAHA! Bitcoin will totally change EVERYTHING!

and massively increased block times make BTC useless. Warrant Canary creator On Aug 8, 2017 10:40 AM, "Razer" <g...@riseup.net> wrote: On 08/08/2017 08:12 AM, Steven Schear wrote: I"m expecting a "flippening" between Bitcoin Core and the recently forked Bitcoin Cash foll

Re: HAHAHAHA! Bitcoin will totally change EVERYTHING!

Because under the circumstances I mentioned mining BCC becomes more profitable than BTC. Warrant Canary creator On Aug 8, 2017 2:37 PM, "juan" <juan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:36:50 -0500 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > &

Re: HAHAHAHA! Bitcoin will totally change EVERYTHING!

I"m expecting a "flippening" between Bitcoin Core and the recently forked Bitcoin Cash followed by a crash in Core's value due to an exodus of miners. Warrant Canary creator On Aug 8, 2017 10:08 AM, "Razer" wrote: > Not. > > 'Not nothin', as they say in Peoria... > > > >

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

orgi Guninski wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:29:54AM -0500, Steven Schear wrote: > >> original) and Cash. When the fork happened those holding BTC (in their > own > >> wallets) were also able to claim an equal amount of BCC (for free). This > >> created a

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

And now some politics... *Here is why Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Is The Real Bitcoin* *It is the original bitcoin* It was hijacked from Gavin Andresen very surreptitiously by Adam Back (back in the day, Adam and I worked on hashcash and digital cash-related projects) with his Sidechain

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

A snapshot from a few minutes ago. Notice how pricing became a hockey stick when BCC approached 0.153 BTC. [image: Inline image 2] On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > They may be separate but they are not unrelated. There is only so much

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:30 PM, juan <juan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:29:54 -0500 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [Disclosure: I am a strong supporter of L1 (Blockchain scaling) > > occurring before any L2 (e.g.

Re: Russian banks, Moscow exchange, to spearhead crypto currencies/ DCs race

Unless its a permissionless blockchain its just hype. Warrant Canary creator On Aug 17, 2017 8:23 PM, "Zenaan Harkness" wrote: Well, well, well :) I remember when I was a youngish child hearing my significant elders using the phrase "how about those clever Japanese!" in

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

users to withdraw their Bitcoin to their own wallets of they wanted it, and you did not withdraw in before the fork then you are probably SoL. On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote: > On 08/18/2017 03:29 AM, Steven Schear wrote: > > > >

Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

[Disclosure: I am a strong supporter of L1 (Blockchain scaling) occurring before any L2 (e.g., Segwit, Blockstream, Lightening Network, etc.) is attempted. And even then all L2 must be thoroughly examined not only for technical flaws but for possible misuses that affects the value and utility of

Re: Do you have predictions about 2017?

I predict Bitcoin Core (what most people are calling Bitcoin since the recent fork) will crash and Bitcoin Cash, the new fork, will take over its mantle as Bitcoin. On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Niels Bohr allegedly said "Predictions are

Re: Do you have predictions about 2017?

I predict a coup, perhaps using a major false flag or the 25th Amendment, to unseat Trump before the end of the year. On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Niels Bohr allegedly said "Predictions are difficult, especially about > the future". > > Do you

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

s probably a good predictor of an approaching "flippening") https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/blocks On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote: > On 08/18/2017 03:55 AM, Steven Schear wrote: > > Right, as long as you either exported your Bitcoin to

Re: What is the value of the State?

The Scientific Method requires that experiments with controlled initial conditions be conducted. If a field of science is such , as in cosmology or climatology, that such experiments cannot be conducted then this is a "soft" science whose "truth" can never exceed opinion, which is politics.

Re: Angry Good Germans demand reinstatement of Gestapo chief

If these manipulated and quasi-radicalized Muslims were smarter they would plan a lethal surprise for their handlers as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suggested for the Soviet security people. Warrant Canary creator On May 11, 2017 9:10 AM, "Razer" wrote: > Angry "Good Germans" demand

Re: The Zen White Paper

Government regulation of cryptocurrencies (and Bitcoin in particular) will have a similar result to regulatory capture. A major missing element to thwart this is a well-conceived, widely adopted, and open technology that offers trust without government. I propose Open-Transactions. The other

Re: Snowden defends Comey

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/05/no_author/blaming-russia-rather-saudi-arabia-israel/ Warrant Canary creator On May 11, 2017 6:40 AM, "John Newman" wrote: > https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/862069019301601281 > > "This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on

Re: What is the value of the State?

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:32 AM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote: > > > > On May 13, 2017, at 7:12 PM, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 01:59:32PM -0400, John Newman wrote: > >> > >> >

Re: Fwd: [Webinar] Decrypting the WannaCry ransomware: Why is it happening and (how) is it going to end?

Any bets on whether ending cryptocurrency (esp. bitcoin) privacy & fungibility will be near the top of the discussions? Warrant Canary creator On May 17, 2017 11:48 AM, "Cecilia Tanaka" wrote: Forwarding with tenderness and lots of kisses from Brazil ! <3 Ceci #

Re: "All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years..."

Alternatively, bio-engineering will make practical the efficient creation of liquid fuels from sunlight, water and CO2. No carbon footprint. No massive upgrades to utility grids, recharge vs. refueling time tradeoffs or distribution changes. Warrant Canary creator On May 17, 2017 11:25 AM, "John

Re: Fwd: [Webinar] Decrypting the WannaCry ransomware: Why is it happening and (how) is it going to end?

a wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Any bets on whether ending cryptocurrency (esp. bitcoin) privacy & > >>>> fungibility will be near the top of the dis

Re: "All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years..."

Quite likely self-driving cars will be a red herring to massively chip away at personal liberties. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-01/it-wont-be-jetsons On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:09 PM, oshwm wrote: > On 17 May 2017 21:50:36 BST, juan wrote: >

Re: "All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years..."

If you want to see what many large cities will look like once driverless cars become available to the upper 10% consider how traffic is often jammed in Mumbai around popular entertainment and shopping areas as massive numbers of cars of the wealthy continuously circle, driven by low-paid

Re: Scanning through walls using WiFi drones.

If you home walls and attic are insulated with, common, aluminized fiberglass batting you're probably already protected. Warrant Canary creator On Jun 21, 2017 1:10 PM, "juan" wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:00:19 + (UTC) jim bell wrote: >

Re: [Cryptography] 1984! US Senate Doesn't Launch Forfeiture and Crypto / Cash / Assets / Prepaid War

A recent and brief introduction to the subject of money especially as it relates to cryptocurrencies: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2259328-bitcoin-is-money-3/ Steve On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:40 AM, grarpamp wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:46 AM, John Levine

Re: "All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years..."

Warrant Canary creator On May 18, 2017 8:06 AM, "Razer" wrote: On 05/18/2017 12:27 AM, grarpamp wrote: > Can't abandon current average lifespan of most recently sold > gasoline vehicle, so definitely not 8 years, more like 25. In the US, after 10 years you can no longer get

Re: "All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years..."

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Razer <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > On 05/18/2017 08:56 AM, Steven Schear wrote: > > With the maturation of additive manufacture (for more structural > > plastics and metals using laser sintering and electron beam melting) >

UK/EU terrorism: a simple fix

The reason citizens are exposed to these dangers is that the people who decide to go to war, remove heads of state, etc. are not exposed to the same dangers. Citizens should insist, even at the risk of insurrection, that politicians and their immrdiate families cannot have any special security,

Re: Torrenting The Darknets

Warrant Canary creator On May 20, 2017 9:34 PM, "grarpamp" wrote: Rewards seem nice, yet not everyone who wants to play can pay, or the math overhead is crushing, or it becomes centralized. Definitely worth trying, especially if it fits some usage model. Another form is to

Re: Torrenting The Darknets

Warrant Canary creator On May 20, 2017 10:46 PM, "Steve Kinney" wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:32 AM, grarpamp wrote: > Rewards seem nice, yet not everyone who wants to play > can pay, or the math overhead is crushing, or it becomes > centralized. Definitely worth trying,

Re: Torrenting The Darknets

One of the great weaknesses of torrents (and filesharing systems in general ) is the lack of mechanisms to promote persistence. That's why a group of us (including Bram Cohen, BitTorrent and Bryce Wilcox-O'Hearn (Zooko), Tahoe-LAFS, MNET, ZCash) created Mojo Nation. Unfortunately, Mojo failed to

Re: Manchester explosion

That and the 'ol carbide cannons. Warrant Canary creator On May 22, 2017 4:35 PM, "jim bell" wrote: > I am reminded of some experiments I did around 40-45 years ago, filling > relatively small (1 foot diameter) balloons with stoichiometric >

Re: What is the value of the State?

One of the best answers to this oft asked question can be found in Frank Chudorov's, The Rise and Fall of Society. Free .pdf and .epub unavailable at Mises.org https://mises.org/files/rise-and-fall-society Steve Warrant Canary creator On May 2, 2017 5:40 PM, "jim bell"

Re: What is the value of the State?

>From that reply I will assume you have nit read the book. Warrant Canary creator On May 8, 2017 4:12 PM, "juan" <juan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2017 15:59:11 -0700 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Mises.o

Re: What is the value of the State?

Those pushing the anthropomorphic climate change agenda never, AFAIK, ever admit that this view is ONLY consensus (based on data and models) but not independently verifiable via the Scientific Method, the gold standard for science. Warrant Canary creator On May 8, 2017 5:22 PM, "\0xDynamite"

Re: Torrenting The Darknets

What I meant, if you are holding and sharing an entire file of some really sensitive content and depend on networking technologies known or assumed to have flaws which can expose your IP address you have relinquished ability to deny it. Whereas is this content has been published, using something

Re: Torrenting The Darknets

These trackers need to adopt distributed hosting tech, like IPFS or NetZero, so there are no single points of pressure/failure and the operator IP and identity have a reasonable chance of staying private from technical snooping. Warrant Canary creator On May 21, 2017 4:09 PM, "grarpamp"

Re: Why I can't sleep soundly with blockchain, being the cypherpunk

I am not at all surprised that CPunks did not kick off the revolution many of us desired. One reason was that, despite Tim C May's mantra that, "cypherpunks write code", not many of us were capable or did. Many who hung out on the list and were technically competent weren't true believers and/or

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

Why not switch to much more open CPUs (e.g. POWER8/9) which are already comparable to much of Intel's higher end server chips. Warrant Canary creator On Oct 8, 2017 9:24 AM, "grarpamp" wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:14 AM, George Violaris >

Re: Carbon fiber bombs

Certainly a major point to having the option or being off-the-grid. Warrant Canary creator On Oct 9, 2017 10:08 AM, "grarpamp" wrote: > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 7:03 AM, John Young wrote: > > Carbon fiber bombs from 1999 used by NATO to attack Yugoslavia

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Lee Clagett <fo...@leeclagett.com> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:18:40 -0500 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > And now some politics... > > > > *Here is why Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Is The Real Bitco

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

Looks like the alt-media are starting to use the "F"-word in regards to Bitcoin Core vs. Bitcoin Cash http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-19/bitcoin-cash-explodes-record-highs-over-900-heres-why On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

2017 at 1:08 PM, juan <juan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:38:27 -0600 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >The Flippening, BTC to BCH > > so what's your 'libertarian' take on bitmain and their ASICs > and pate

Re: [WAR] [RWN] Netanyahu quickly distances Israel away from DailyStormer comments

AFAIK, many Jews served in WW II (my dad did) and Korea. However, beginning with Vietnam I am pretty sure these numbers plummeted. I think this was largely related to many (including myself) getting informed about the real reasons for the war and finding ways to opt out. With the end of

Re: Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies

On the one hand Satochi pitched Bitcoin as a cash-like system. What can happen with cash under careless handling and storage? OTOH, Bitcoin's crypto nature lends itself to novel solutions such as multisig pools that can be used to prevent this type of fraud and theft. See Stash Pool explanation at

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

<fo...@leeclagett.com> wrote: > Sorry for reviving this old thread. Just noticed I replied directly to > Steven instead of the list, there might be something in here people > find interesting ... replies inline. > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:26:43 -0700 > Steven Schear <schear.s

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

The Bitcoin Core mining can remain profitable using up to at least 24 TWh annually. That said, as the periodic halvings reduce awards the fees, which are already to high to make it useful for commerce, may soon make it problematic for investment. Bitcoin Cash is up to 8 times more energy

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

will, probably after the next price crash of Core, enable it to close the miner profitably gap. On Dec 7, 2017 4:42 PM, "juan" <juan@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 16:12:41 -0800 Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bitcoin Cash is up to 8 times more ene

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

In #meetoo fashion the flippening is going to happen this week when drudge news shows a bitcoin core developer get accused of grabbing an interns breast, and everyone dumps BTC. On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 4:45 PM, juan <juan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 16:12:41 -0800 > S

Re: From sand to silicon chips, openly

les." If, OTOH, there were ways to manufacture arbitrarily complex chips on the desktop for reasonable costs and in reasonable time, and so eliminate the commercial issues, this conundrum could vanish. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Subverting backdoored encryption

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/subverting_back.html

Re: Quantum radar?

Even if not, well designed (UWB) passive/multiphasic will. On Sat, May 12, 2018, 1:32 AM jim bell wrote: > Quantum Radars Could Unstealth the F-22, F-35 and J-20 (Or >

Re: Immutable Recording

Freenet might be an option. There's a built-in option for versioning so changes or additions/extension to the original upload can be searched while still remaining in control of the original uploader. As for being immutable just program a client to query the content on a regular basis and it

Re: Speaking of Ashkenazis...

Can't wait for the emergence of effective A.I. based list moderation without any opportunity for ad hominem rebuttals. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 7:45 PM Mirimir wrote: > On 06/10/2018 03:16 PM, Steven Schear wrote: > > Little if anything at all but this "off topic&quo

$1.1 Bln in Crypto Has Been Stolen This Year

The magnitude of such thefts could only happen because so many hodlers are lazy and keep their crypto booty in custodial exchangers instead of in their own wallets (especially hardware). https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-1-1-bln-in-crypto-has-been-stolen-this-year

Your devices are not safe. If your devices are not safe, no amount of crypto matters:

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2433

Re: Speaking of Ashkenazis...

Little if anything at all but this "off topic" chatter had been, unfortunately the bane of the list almost from the genesis post. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 7:13 PM Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 06/10/2018 02:54 PM, Darius the Great wrote: > >> juan juan@spookmail.com > >> Sat Jun 9 16:02:55 PDT

Re: $1.1 Bln in Crypto Has Been Stolen This Year

Good point. Would love to see a fair comparison. On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 4:01 AM Georgi Guninski wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 07:22:51PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote: > > > https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-1-1-bln-in-crypto-has-been-stolen-this-year > > How does this c

Re: Cryptocurrency: Rise of Bitcoin Cash BCH

In 2013, a paper I contributed to offered a solution to the ever growing blockchain delema: a finite epoch. The solution is similar the one Chaum used on Digicash. It would fix, temporally, the blockchain to include only transactions for the past 2 years, for example, thus creating a blockchain

Re: BBC News: The $300 system in the fight against illegal images

I'm sure the tech he cobbled together has lots of other uses. For example, astronomers might use it to search images for anomalies or interesting objects. On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 7:55 PM jim bell wrote: > I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: > > The $300 system in the fight

Re: Cryptocurrency: Rise of Bitcoin Cash BCH

uan wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 06:49:04 -0700 > Steven Schear wrote: > > > In 2013, a paper I contributed to offered a solution to the ever growing > > blockchain delema: a finite epoch. The solution is similar the one Chaum > > used on Digicash. It would fix, temporal

Re: Cryptocurrency: Rise of Bitcoin Cash BCH

I guess for you the article is a TL;DR. There was NOT a suggestion of simple confiscation. All one had to do, to prevent "reclamation", is to periodically move assets on the blockchain. On Jul 2, 2018 5:19 PM, "juan" wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 22:37:15 + (UTC) jim bell wrote: > > > On

Re: Chicago Deploying Police State Drones, NSA

Spark gap transmitters are probably difficult/impossible to operate at 2.4/5.7 GHz and even if you could are probably too broadband to have sufficient power/Hz, unless the transmitters have KWs of output power, to jam WiFi-type signals. (It would probably also jam lots of other services in nearby

Re: Makers: Open Simple LIDAR

Without having open hardware designs and trusted fabs about the best you can do is use as many discrete components as possible and FPGAs (whose designs greatly minimize places to hide backdoors). Definitely avoid SoCs. These guys appear to be using some of the best ideas: https://puri.sm/ On

Goodbye BlueDrive and fuel injection. Hello carborators and Kettering ignition.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-28/pentagons-ray-gun-can-stall-cars-trucks-radiation-blast

Assange may soon be leaving the embassy

https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/04/future-uncertain-for-assange-in-wake-of-us-ecuador-military-deal/

The Army of the 12 Monkeys

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-27/bill-gates-warns-millions-could-die-if-us-doesnt-prepare-next-pandemic

Re: Fwd: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

The ability for clients to create individualized miner blocklists could help diminish cartels and centralization The escheat could help prevent future "submarining" of coins thought lost or abandoned (and their economic impact) and re-cycle those coins. On Dec 30, 2017 4:01 PM, &quo

Re: Fwd: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

I'm still hoping a new cryptocoin/fork implements a client-determined miner selection capability similar to what we suggested in that 2013 paper I've mentioned here. Heartening, Garzik & Company's decision their upcoming Bitcoin United fork appears to implement some form of our suggested block

Re: 2018 Clusterfuck Forecast

PM, <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > On 1/8/2018 8:48 AM, Steven Schear wrote: > >> In the medium-sized to long-term I've written off all crypto that serve >> no useful function except, perhaps, as "digital gold" for asset safety. >> Comparing BTC to nation

Re: 2018 Clusterfuck Forecast

In the medium-sized to long-term I've written off all crypto that serve no useful function except, perhaps, as "digital gold" for asset safety. Comparing BTC to national monies, how many would use a currency whose fee "friction" made it impractical to use except as a replacement for Wire

Re: 2018 Clusterfuck Forecast

, "juan" <juan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 18:32:19 -0800 > Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The way payment channels can be reasonably used enables fractional > > reserve abuses. > > > Are you sur

Re: 2018 Clusterfuck Forecast

Also, it's been shown, by the Tether USD caper, that most cryptocoin users could care less if there is no proven backing for the fiat they use at exchanges. On Jan 7, 2018 7:27 PM, "Steven Schear" <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, it's a rather open secret that LN channe

Re: Hawaii missile false positive

Fat finger ---> Fat Ass On Jan 14, 2018 1:26 AM, "Georgi Guninski" wrote: > This is how nuclear wars inadvertently start: > > http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37259684/ballistic- > missile-threat-alert-sent-to-hawaii-phones-was-a-mistake > > A false ballistic missile

Peek-a-Boo

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-29/fitness-tracking-app-accidentally- reveals-secret-us-military-bases-cia-black-sites An interactive online fitness tracking map published in November of 2017 which compiles a running history of the location and routes of 27 million fitness-device users has

FBI Warns Republican Memo Could Undermine Faith In Massive, Unaccountable Government Secret Agencies

https://politics.theonion.com/fbi-warns-republican-memo-could-undermine-faith-in-mass-1822639681

It's all shits and giggles until the condom comes off

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/nsa-deletes-honesty-and-openness-core-values

Re: "democracy" vs Monarchy - the Russian conversation

or https://mises.org/library/rise-and-fall-society On Feb 25, 2018 5:35 PM, "Steven Schear" <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems humanity, historically, has always sought to replace > freedom/anarchy with a series of increasingly specialized social functions >

Re: "democracy" vs Monarchy - the Russian conversation

It seems humanity, historically, has always sought to replace freedom/anarchy with a series of increasingly specialized social functions to provide services few if any wished to perform themselves. Over time these specialists become governments and then The State. Eventually corruption,

Re: Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?

Clearly they are not, yet. The problems are somewhat multi-dimensional and the way forward isn't assured. If some counters wanted to scale a "Bitcoin-like" chain to handle, on-chain, the average transaction volume of PayPal (about 120/sec.), quite a coup, it would require (by my reckoning) a block

Re: Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?

some time and maturing of exchanges before this can happen. On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Georgi Guninski <gunin...@guninski.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:04:23PM -0800, Steven Schear wrote: > > Clearly they are not, yet. The problems are somewhat multi-dimensional >

Re: This new Ethereum-based “assassination market” platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches MIT Technology Review Article

"Augur’s creators claim they don’t have control over what its users choose to do with the protocol—or the ability to shut it down. This creates a problem that is “endemic” to blockchain technology, says Wright, who recently co-wrote a book on the subject: “If you do not have a very concrete

Re: This new Ethereum-based “assassination market” platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches MIT Technology Review Article

Freenet seems to work when you predominantly or solely use private/dark peers. On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 4:28 PM Mirimir wrote: > On 08/02/2018 04:14 PM, Steven Schear wrote: > > "Augur’s creators claim they don’t have control over what its users > choose > > to do with the

Re: This new Ethereum-based “assassination market” platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches MIT Technology Review Article

Can't see them scaring the developers into submission as its OS and any attempt to change the code and architecture to thwart its intent will simply cause a fork. On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 3:55 PM jim bell wrote: > >

Re: This new Ethereum-based “assassination market” platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches MIT Technology Review Article

I've been waiting for Loopix, or a similar, anonymity overlay to go into widespread testing but it's seems to be stillborn. On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 4:38 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > > On 08/02/2018 04:14 PM, Steven Sch

Re: Next on the Blockchain: Crowdfunding Death

But despite an abundance of profitable opportunities, we don’t see a lot of high-profile assassinations. The truth is, there simply isn’t some massive pent-up hasn't for murder, languishing for want of a group buy." Apparently, Elaine hasn't been following the alt-left. On Fri, Aug 3, 2018,

Re: Augur’s Joey Krug Comments On Assassination Markets

"These assassination markets raise ethical questions for Augur's creators and force us to confront a hideous side of society that seems to lurk in the seemingly pseudonymous depths of the internet." Should the functioning existence of these markets raise different ethical questions from when

How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse

Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

NSA Watchdog: Surveillance Giant Still Isn’t Securing Its Networks

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nsa-watchdog-surveillance-giant-still-isnt-securing-its-networks

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