Security Researcher

25+ yrs been fascinated with wireless communications security; specifically cellular network function and operations. 4 patents for tech in my specialization.

[Security Researcher @PurelySecurity]

@j00ny369T Storm drain runoff. Must have had heavy rains recently.

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Isn't it amazing what happens when millions of people across the country start to just get involved in the process the right way?

We have been playing set it and forget it when it comes to politics in this country for far too long.

Want things to change? Educate yourself and others and get involved.

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@DisrespectedThe Yeah, but the new Grand Theft Auto just came out.
I'm planning to binge watch that new Netflix Series.
I work for a living! I don't have time to pay attention to what is going on or what our elected officials are doing.
Doom scroll, doom scroll, doom scroll.
Sports!!! SPORTS!

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@SirFoxFur @AlexDuncanTX @Flock_Safety Not a big fan of the United States are you?

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If you don't follow this guy you really should.

Even if it's just for his sense of humor.

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@haxrcalled4chan Right.

You have read 1984 haven't you?

I have a first run issue I keep in bubblewrap from 1949 if you want a copy.

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Okay, fair enough. Bitcoin is different from CBDCs. I never said it wasn’t.

But that’s not the point I’m making.

The point is that the financial world has been moving toward digital currencies for a very long time. Long before bitcoin or crypto currencies came on the scene.

Read the first PDF I linked in my original comment. The President of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis was talking about the cashless society back in 1995.

So you have industry buzz inside the banking sector about moving away from cash, new players entering the payments space, and on system and off system payment models being discussed openly. And the central bankers think it's a great idea.

Then, a little over a decade later, Bitcoin appears with a fantasy origin story.

Some anonymous guy named Satoshi Nakamoto appears out of nowhere then disappears into the mist...

And somehow everyone is just supposed to accept that one of the most important financial technologies of the modern era organically emerged as a rebellious, counterculture alternative to the banking system.

Nobody really knows where the hell Bitcoin came from.

Nobody really knows who was behind it.

And for something people treat like sacred scripture, people are strangely comfortable not knowing the actual origin.

None of that is what anyone would honestly call due diligence, but hey... Cool story.

So right around the same time the global financial system is openly talking about moving people away from cash and toward electronic payments, Bitcoin shows up branded as the antibank, antistate, 'liberty tech' alternative.

Rebellion. Counterculture. Freedom money. "Stick it to the man money."

And because of that, people who would have rejected official digital currency on sight have helped to build a culture that has ultimately normalized it.

And now the official version is showing up.

And lets be real here... If central banks are building their own digital currency system, they are not going to allow competing digital currencies to operate at national scale... You're dreaming.

And before you start... If you say well 'yeah it was always intended to be an investment vehicle.'

Understand that you are moving the goal post.

Because that isn't how it was sold from its inception up until every major business suddenly stopped saying they were thinking about taking it as payment.

So at best...

A handful of coins survive as a regulated speculative asset.

At worst, they take them all out behind the shed and put an end to it.

Either way they're going to shake out the crypto market when the time comes.

If they leave anything standing will ultimately be up to the bankers and the governments that are subordinate to them.

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My apologies for my spiney reply... this topic and the religious loyalty people have to cryptos irritates me. Also have been writing a book which has a section on digital currencies. So I have the receipts for what I am about to say and include them at the end.

Ya see, because I remember back in the mid-1990s, bankers going on the news and telling everyone they were issuing debit cards in order to “break everyone out of the habit of using cash in preparation for a cashless society.”

That is the exact quote. Shocked the shit out of me when they said it. Never forgot it. They were referring to he then president of the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis and a paper he had written at the time titled: “The Cashless Society and the Federal Reserve.” If you'd like to read about it...

Here: https://t.co/rQupeSklAG

How did the fed feel about the idea? "In theory, we think it's great."

Meanwhile the population at the time goes nuts: “Mark of the Beast,” etc., etc., etc. Thanks to news reports about a company called digital angel corp and their solution to solving identity and payment problems in their own way.

A decade or so later, Bitcoin appears, with its fantasy origin story.

Nobody really knows where it came from. Nobody really knows who was behind it. Early adopters were the fringe subculture of the tech and “liberty” space. In the early culture around Bitcoin, it was sold to a lot of people as anonymous, private, and decentralized.

Except it isn’t fully any of those things. The blockchain stores every transaction and every wallet address involved. And you may be saying, 'well duh everyone knows that' but in order to get early adoption... that isn't how it was sold.

The reality is that the ledger is public, permanent, and completely traceable once the addresses are tied back to real people, exchanges, and devices. Add to that the whole system depends on internet infrastructure... The same government regulated and monitored infrastructure we all take for granted because we have unrestricted access... For now.

Then Bitcoin and an entire series of altcoins explode in value. Serious buzz builds. People around the world take notice. Multiple generations are suddenly convinced that something they do not understand, do not know the true origins of, and do not know the real purpose of has incredible value.

“Real investors” completely ignore the basic principles of due diligence.

Why?

Greed?

The whole thing goes so far that major companies start floating or accepting crypto for everything from fast food to automobiles.

Then comparatively speaking... Almost total silence.

Meanwhile, global institutions and central banks have been advancing the infrastructure for a digital financial system: digital ID, interoperable payments, secure data exchange, and programmable digital currencies.

The World Bank calls this “digital public infrastructure.”

Publicly the stated purpose is service delivery, financial inclusion, payment efficiency, and interoperability. When put into practice the result is a system that connects your identity, payments, government benefits, the data collected about you and a personal compliance framework.

Meaning do as you're told or you're cutoff from society.

Or as the British government said:

Digital ID is the infrastructure which will be used to control access to jobs, banking, housing, childcare, welfare, tax records, driving licenses, mortgages, and public services if you prove your eligibility.

All of it is being driven by the global financial institutions. When nations turn to the global central bankers for assistance, policy conditions are part of the deal.

That is not theory. That is how "conditionality" works.

And digital modernization is now sitting right there in the development agenda, they call it "digital public infrastructure." The data center buildout that is happening at the same time, is being built to support this system. The same data centers being rushed in by governments around the world all at the same time.

Because the new system needs compute, storage, identity rails, payment rails, and network capacity.

And if you think I am kidding or making it up, cool.

The EU is mandating digital identity wallets by the end of 2026.

The UK is moving toward a national digital ID as decreed by the King of England. Or as he put it “My Ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID that will modernize how citizens interact with public services."

The U.S. is 40 Trillion in debt, with over 100T in outstanding obligations. And we just enacted real ID, which is the centralization of driver license and biometric data into a database managed by a private company. (just about the only difference between ours and the rest of the worlds is that ours is managed by a “private company,” not the federal government.)

So the same financial class that openly talked about moving people away from cash now has multiple generations psychologically trained to believe in digital money with every fiber of their being.

Just in time for the old system to be brought out behind the shed.

Cool.

Here are my sources.

What do you have?

Start with Satoshi Nakamoto.

Sources / Institutional References

World Bank - Digital Public Infrastructure and Services
https://t.co/SY5fCjo6v5

World Bank - Global Digital Public Infrastructure Program
https://t.co/nv0mUSGirn

BIS - Innovation Hub work on central bank digital currencies
https://t.co/42ZGI13PW0

IMF - Central Bank Digital Currency Virtual Handbook
https://t.co/SMSeSiGUdA

IMF - Conditionality
https://t.co/r2oOROapQo

Here is the UK's digital ID explainer.
https://t.co/xk0MbfFHni

Here is the EU's digital ID explainer.
https://t.co/PcRL0dfMsu

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@zafusnafu @BitcoinSapiens Don't let greed make you dumber than you already are.

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@zafusnafu @BitcoinSapiens oh believe me kiddo... I know I have blasphemed your special thing.

I get it.

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@AntiWokeMemes Launch On Warning

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Everyone here is talking about his AK's. What Marc started on. What he was the absolute best of the best on, hands down, no questions asked... The 1911.

That was what he was known for long before the AK's.

He was a good friend. Was sad to hear about this when I got the call Monday morning.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

It's insane that the government can just bypass warrant requirements by purchasing access to everything you do. The Surveillance Accountability Act fixes this. https://t.co/aHNiBqVVHh

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https://t.co/d04bWZuSH1

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250 years ago, the Founders declared independence from a tyrannical king.
In 2026, it's time to declare digital independence, from the surveillance state that would hand tyrants every tool they need.

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When you have a five gallon bucket of deprimed, resized centerfire brass waiting to be processed every second counts...

Switching tools, positions, operations can blow your case prep time out to near 1 minute a case. Don't just shoot from the hip and tell me no, try it yourself.

Grab a stopwatch. From the time you pick up that brass until it's done and ready to go into the press.

So like I was saying...

When every second counts, there is no better spend on equipment for centerfire rifle case preparation than the Giraud Power Case Trimmer.

https://t.co/2V4bTac0X6

I have used one for 20 years.

@TerminalAscent

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If you think I was cheering for the republicans... I'm not sure I can help you. Picking which arm of government I want to hold me at this point - doesn't exactly thrill me.

The fact that most people don't understand that we have two arms of a system, not two separate parties...

Like I said, starting to believe this place is cooked.