Yannes

GeoEngineer degenerated to Crypto trader, Cryptoanarchy-Believer, Gamer.

Freedom is dangerous, deal with it.

#Bitcoin

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

Amen.

https://t.co/UbN5LYkL78

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Cypherpunks build global protocols.
We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and running code.

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

In the 1990s, cypherpunks built remailers.

You could send a message through them and the person receiving it never learned who you were.

Anonymous mail, working, years before anyone called it privacy tech.

Then the spam came.
Anonymous systems are easy to flood, and there is no return address to block.

Adam Back's answer, in 1997, was Hashcash.
Before your message went through, your computer had to solve a small puzzle. Trivial for one honest email. Expensive for a million.

He announced it to around two thousand people on the Cypherpunks mailing list. Years later the same mechanism showed up in the Bitcoin whitepaper, and proof of work (PoW) became famous as the thing that mints coins.

That was never its first job.
PoW was built to keep anonymous communication alive.

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@Bitbello 😂

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@cguida6 οοΟοο cancel culture is back .

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@iceman58678761 @AdonisGeorgiadi yup. έρχεται σχετική καταιγίδα. Δες τι γίνεται στην αγγλία ή και στις ΗΠΑ, αλλά και τις δηλωμένες προθέσεις των πεφωτισμένων Ευρωπαίων ηγετών μας.

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@hodlonaut Core was wrong to act the way they did, bip110 is still stupid.

[Sminston With 👁 @sminston_with]

Don't forget to zoom out.

The classic "Bitcoin eats everything"

[ODELL @ODELLXYZ]

we still need to free samourai

https://t.co/w7DmfrNQ9x

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@hodlonaut I'm not employed since 2017. All in Bitcoin since then. Been fighting the market for 9 years now. I genuinely believe that either Bitcoin succeeds, or we end up to totalitarian chaos.

And i still think BIP 110 is retarted.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

I started using social media at age 12, talking to technically minded adults about programming and computers.

...and I was using social media at age 15, to talk to Adam Back and Hal Finny while trying to invent Bitcoin. The UK, Australia, and Canada all want to ban that.

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@EmmanouilT @NikoEfst @KKyriazis1 τρως και εσύ; Ακόμα μόνοι τους τα τρώνε...

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@AdonisGeorgiadi Δεν είναι δυνατόν να καταδικάζεται πολιτικός για ένα παράνομο email. Ο νόμος πρέπει να ισχύει μόνο για τους πληβείους; Αυτό λέτε; ή πρέπει να καταργηθεί η προστασία των προσωπικών δεδομένων;

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@ViliardosV Δεν μπορεί σε μια ελεύθερη οικονομία να "μην χάνουν οι τράπεζες". Που είναι ο ανταγωνισμός; Γιατί είμαστε όλοι όσοι δραστηριοποιούμαστε στην Ελλάδα υποχρεωμένοι να συνεργαζόμαστε με αυτές τις τράπεζες; Κάποιοι θέλουμε ανοικτή οικονομία.. Αφήστε μας να επιχειρούμε χωρίς αυτούς.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

KYC
Kontrol Your Citizens

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@oikonomikon 100%

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@APompliano apples and oranges

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Remember this: in order for someone to strip your rights/privacy they must have a suitable moral justification. The latest moral justification is child protection. The reason this works is because child protection is obviously important and necessary. Only a monster wouldn’t want children protected. So under this guise, this moral shield, they can strip freedoms from you, and push towards their actual objective which is complete and total surveillance and control over global dialogue and communication. The ability to dehuman, censor, and utterly eliminate anyone who dissents. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Your voice silenced and snuffed to the wind. Total mastery of the game board.

[Wicked @w_s_bitcoin]

This is a pretty big self own. Just look at how little spam BIP-110 would actually prevent, leading those spammers to just use one of the many other ways not blocked. The "spam is making running nodes more expensive and BIP-110 will fix it" argument is fake as fuck.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.

Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.

This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.

And they can do so in secret.

The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.

[Yannes @Luv4Crypto]

@w_s_bitcoin 🤣

[grubles @notgrubles]

You may not be paying attention but there is a mini-Cambrian explosion of Bitcoin payments tech occurring.