Rainier Grant🏴‍☠️Cypherpunk Maximalist

The future of crypto payments should be to further cypherpunk and privacy, it should be fixing the Internet, not the current trajectory and state of affairs. We need to talk about the future of smart contracts and apps, dapps so forth with Bitcoin and Monero, atomic swaps and

i love how my main account is just nothing but lawyers counter sueing the DoJ over shitcoins, and my sock account is just a kalaidescope of firearm fanatic pages and 3d printers, these fed guys must really hate my ass, they really do suck

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Monero will never compromise on privacy. You can trade Monero on other exchanges, on DEXs, and with atomic swaps. Please self-custody your XMR.

Reject maximalism! A huge reason why Linux is so successful is because Linus is a pragmatist. He made it easy for the kernel to load proprietary closed source drivers and even used a closed source version control for the kernel because it was the best tool at the time.

To all you pseudo-liberal, woke, enlightened individuals who have been demonstrating in support of Hamas out of some misplaced sense of justice, I felt it was my obligation as an Arab speaker to share what Hamas supporters are saying about you in social media. They are laughing at you. They think you're a massive joke. They are amazed at how you believe that they and you are on the same side. They are astonished you don’t see this as the religious war that it is, and instead see it through a lens of oppression. They find it hilarious that you’ve placed them in the “progressive” square, when they are aiming for shari’a law. They share videos of your pro-Hamas rallies, and your tweets praising the murder of Jews as ‘heroic acts of resistance,' and they throw in laughing emojis. You are their useful idiot. Congrats. #HamasisISIS

Libertarian density is how libertarians win.

This War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately In an interesting speech about the way US imperial aggression provokes violence around the world, antiwar commentator Scott Horton made reference to an April 2022 article from Yahoo News that had previously escaped my attention. The article is titled “In closer ties to Ukraine, U.S. officials long saw promise and peril,” and it features named and unnamed veterans of the US intelligence cartel saying that long before the February 2022 invasion they were fully aware that the US had “provoked” Russia in Ukraine and created a powderkeg situation that would likely lead to war. “By last summer [meaning the summer of 2021], the baseline view of most U.S. intelligence community analysts was that Russia felt sufficiently provoked over Ukraine that some unknown trigger could set off an attack by Moscow,” a former CIA official told Yahoo News’ Zach Dorfman, who adds, “(The CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.)” Dorfman writes that initial support provided to Ukraine during the Obama administration had been “calibrated to avoid aggravating Moscow,” but that “partially spurred by Congress, as well as the Trump administration, which was more willing to be aggressive on weapon transfers to Kyiv, overt U.S. military support for Ukraine grew over time — and with it the risk of a deadly Russian response, some CIA officials believed at the time.” Policymakers “would always say, ‘If we do X thing, if we give the Ukrainians X system, how are the Russians going to react?’ And our answer would always be, ‘You can’t look at any one thing in isolation,’” the unnamed former CIA official told Yahoo News. “And we might look and say, ‘Well, it’s just a few hundred MANPADs [man-portable air-defense systems] or a few hundred Humvees,’ but it’s missing the point that the Russians are taking all of this stuff in the aggregate, and they’re drawing this picture of this ever-increasing relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine.” “I understand the moral argument,” says former CIA official Jeffrey Edmonds regarding the weapons transfers into Ukraine, “but I also understand the argument that, well, why would you want to give these things if it’s just going to increase the chances that Russia does something?” So while we members of the public were blindly speculating about whether or not Russia would attack Ukraine, the US intelligence cartel was fully aware that the US was taking actions ensuring that that would happen. That’s the environment the US security state knew it was operating under when it continued to taunt the idea of adding Ukraine and Georgia to NATO right up until the final moments before the invasion. This war wasn’t just provoked, it was knowingly provoked. Off ramp after off ramp was sped past by the US war machine at a hundred miles an hour on its beeline toward a horrific proxy war, because empire managers had calculated that such a war would serve US interests. And now we routinely see US officials like Mitch McConnell openly saying that this war serves US interests. They really couldn’t be more obvious about it if they tried. It’s been funny to watch the response of empire apologists to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s surprising refutation of a year and a half of empire propaganda by openly admitting that NATO expansion provoked the invasion of Ukraine and acknowledging that NATO powers rejected Moscow’s proposed compromises which could have averted the war. Basically the only argument they now have after this admission is to say that Russia should not have viewed NATO expansion as an existential threat. Their only remaining trick is to argue with reality; to basically say that yes it’s reality that NATO expansion provoked this war because Moscow saw it as a threat, but reality shouldn’t have been what reality was. They argue that Russia should have felt completely different feelings about a military threat on its border than nations like the United States would feel, since as we’ve discussed previously the last time there was a credible military threat near the US border the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended. That’s really all they’ve got: “Yes it’s true that all the people who’ve died and lost their homes in this war did so because we were amassing a hostile military alliance near Russia’s border, but in our defense the Russians should’ve thought different thoughts in their heads than the ones that we ourselves would think about a hostile military threat on our border.” If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. Which is why such unprecedented levels of propaganda and internet censorship have gone into preventing westerners from coming to such an understanding. Westerners were deceived into supporting yet another evil war, which once again is showing every sign of dragging on for the foreseeable future with no exit strategy in sight. The only difference between this war and all those other wars is that this one is laden with the risk of nuclear annihilation, a risk which the US empire has been treading less and less carefully around as the bloodshed continues. The more you think about it, the more horrifying it gets. These people are absolute monsters.

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No, no, no again, a thousand times: no! This suggestion would put US troops in country as active participants in the war. The authors may brush aside Vietnam War references, but this is precisely how it started under Harry Truman. 1/2 foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Hey, dumbass.

SO good -- the best follow the money reporting on who's behind the global attack on digital privacy yet. TLDR: it's law enforcement x AI companies posing as NGOs w a commercial interest in selling scammy mass scanning tech. Deeply cynical, deeply shady. balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who…

Jeez.

Incrementalism wouldn't suck so much if those gradual incremental improvements actually happened. Instead it actually goes the other way: things just get incrementally worse.

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@CaitlinLong_ @balajis Singapore is welcome to do what it pleases as long as it blocks all the geolocation contaminated crypto addresses tx's in the world, ultimately at the smart contract level, and the middleware, and front end, like Washington tells it to.

“ferociously anti-tech…stance of many nominal Westerners”—@balajis. Yep, especially among TPTB in Washington DC right now. The tech hub of the world has shifted to Singapore.

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eating soup tonight #cryptosoupgroup

good i just have to be the 95k 5'10" guy, (that the nurse in the doctors office doing the scale, raises her eyebrow when you tell her you're 5'10")

Y'all really shouldn't be cheering Hunter Biden being indicted for being in violation of an authoritarian government's gun laws.