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For those who do not know: Nikolai was a true builder and one of the last genuine cypherpunks in crypto. He focused on elegant, permissionless, corruption-resistant systems rather than hype, profit, or personal branding. As one tribute put it, he spent his life crafting tools to realize a vision of…
today is Nikolai Mushegian's (@delete_shitcoin) 33rd birthday. here's to a genius who dared to see things for what they are and call them by their true names—and, most importantly, when he saw something wrong, he built the tools to make it right. Nikolai was a builder in the…
just read this on hn and it's fucked up. sick reminder of what government surveillance agencies can be capable of .
Film by Michael Oswald (2018) that shows: How The City of London transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power How The City of London funnels wealth from across the globe and hides it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands How The City of London leverages…
I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny enjoyed it. I even have the suspicion that he enjoyed almost nothing else. -- Edward Teller, eulogizing John von Neumann I listened to Ananyo Bhattacharya's…
Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably…
Ruling groups maintain power via force, but long-run ideological support from the majority is essential: “Once a State has been established, the problem of the ruling group or ‘caste’ is how to maintain their rule. While force is their modus operandi, their basic and long-run problem is…
This documentary outlines the true ruling power of the United Kingdom and Global Finance. The City of London is a region within London that: Lobbies for global finance and is itself a private corporation Is the bridge between the government and the shadow government Has a "Remembrancer" – A special…
The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution The Shirky principle is the adage that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”. More broadly, it can also be characterized as the adage that “every entity tends to…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJUbYFCRPc REPLACING EUROPE is a full investigative documentary on the illegal immigration route from West Africa to the United Kingdom, and the governments, NGOs and smugglers who profit from it. The documentary has been commented in full by ZeroHedge…
Down and Out in Paris and London is a memoir (sometimes called a semi-autobiographical or “documentary” account) based on Orwell’s real experiences in the late 1920s. He worked as a plongeur (dishwasher) in Paris hotel kitchens and later lived as a tramp in London lodging houses and casual wards.…
An agorist classic. A great fictional book illustrating a rich agora forming while the government outside collapses in a Randian fashion. A must read for any agorist, anarchist, hardcore crypto people, or general dissidents. @AilliA Have you read this one yet?
Filippo Valsorda (Go cryptography maintainer and age author) just updated the Cryptographic Right Answers for the post-quantum era. Basically: stop inventing your own protocols, hug the hybrids before the harvest-now-decrypt-later crowd cashes in, and that symmetric crypto is still mostly fine. A…
This book aims to document the Monero protocol. Currently, work is being done to document Monero's consensus rules. This being completed as a part of Cuprate , the Rust Monero node. @rafael_xmr recommended this. more recent than Mastering Monero and Zero to Monero .
Zero to Monero: Second Edition is not the friendly tour Mastering Monero is. It is more technical, but basic algebra is enough to follow it through Ed25519, stealth addresses, ring signatures, RingCT, and range proofs. It stops at April 2020. MLSAG is still the signature in the text; CLSAG replaced…
Mastering Monero is still the book you hand someone who wants the map, not the changelog. SerHack and the Monero community wrote it so anyone can actually understand why stealth addresses, ring signatures and RingCT exist, and why a public ledger is a surveillance tool with extra steps. That part…
