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521  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [POLL] What is the value of 2 + 2? on: November 26, 2020, 11:39:49 PM
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522  Other / Politics & Society / [POLL] What is the value of 2 + 2? on: November 26, 2020, 11:39:38 PM
Regardless of the scientific facts about Covid, this adequately demonstrates the epistemological foundation of democracy:  Reality itself is determined by the revealed truth of the vote.  It is the ovine religion of voting votaries.


share your opinion

🤔

The facially absurd notion that everybody is entitled to an opinion is a learned dogma, with the added benefit of appealing to the petty egos of those least capable of independently forming their own opinions.


“In my opinion, 2 + 2 = 5, the Earth is flat, and America is the greatest country in the world!”

Hey!  Everyone is entitled to an opinion.


Local rules.  Will be enforced.
523  Economy / Speculation / [WO] No thanks, Muricans—Americans shouldn’t be thankful to New England liberals on: November 26, 2020, 10:29:46 PM
New theory..

They put the dip during thanksgiving dinner to keep the normies from buying it..

... or to keep Americans from buying it. Not thanksgiving here!

I am thankful to you for pointing that out.


A group of Calvinist religious fanatics, in full rebellion against the traditions of their forefathers, thus brought with them to virgin shores the memetic virus of do-gooding moral evangelism that made Massachusetts ever a plague to the other American colonies, and makes America a plague to the whole world today.  [...]

...the idiots who banned Christmas, a holiday that they correctly identified as “pagan” (and therefore hated for its essential nature), infamously included Mayflower passenger William Bradford, who cracked down on Christmas merriment in 1621—right after the Pilgrims’ first “Thanksgiving”!  [...]

The cultural issue of both groups was the obsession both with change, and with moral scrupulosity, which mutated into New England liberalism.  To those who look to first principles, it is wholly unsurprising that their descendants dabbled in all manner of fantasies from Unitarianism to Transcendentalism to Unitarian Universalism—ultimately winding up as the extreme modern liberals whom we all know and despise.  It is no wonder that liberals love “virtue-signalling”:  They are simply religious zealots who, like the Pilgrims and other Boston-area fanatical cults, have repudiated traditional religions.
524  Other / Politics & Society / The Tragedy of the Mayflower on: November 26, 2020, 10:00:00 PM

A group of Calvinist religious fanatics, in full rebellion against the traditions of their forefathers, thus brought with them to virgin shores the memetic virus of do-gooding moral evangelism that made Massachusetts ever a plague to the other American colonies, and makes America a plague to the whole world today.

The Pilgrims were so indistinct from the Puritans that the two groups are oft confused with each other.  Indeed, the idiots who banned Christmas, a holiday that they correctly identified as “pagan” (and therefore hated for its essential nature), infamously included Mayflower passenger William Bradford, who cracked down on Christmas merriment in 1621—right after the Pilgrims’ first “Thanksgiving”!


John Taylor, The Vindication of Christmas (1652)

The cultural issue of both groups was the obsession both with change, and with moral scrupulosity, which mutated into New England liberalism.  To those who look to first principles, it is wholly unsurprising that their descendants dabbled in all manner of fantasies from Unitarianism to Transcendentalism to Unitarian Universalism—ultimately winding up as the extreme modern liberals whom we all know and despise.  It is no wonder that liberals love “virtue-signalling”:  They are simply religious zealots who, like the Pilgrims and other Boston-area fanatical cults, have repudiated traditional religions.



So—because the Pilgrims’ ill-conceived, unprepared traipse into the wilderness somehow did not result in them all dying, they now have a “holiday” which, in truth, is significantly older, but somehow became misappropriated for them.

Roll Eyes



For the morrow:

The Puritans’ and Pilgrims’ war on Christmas ultimately succeeded by other means:  Their crass and ruthless mercantile culture transformed the Christmas holiday into an extended American shopping spree.  It is all too fitting that the commercialization of Christmas is directly associated with “Thanksgiving” via the most peculiarly American of all holidays:  Black Friday.

As a non-Christian who appreciates the ancient spirit whence came the historical Christmas holiday, I remind you that celebrating any “holiday” by buying useless consumer junk shows only that life is cheap, and you are worthless.

Thanks for nothing.


Local rules.  Will be enforced.
525  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Market virgins bleed on: November 26, 2020, 09:01:07 PM
GF got the cashapp ref bonuses and I made her buy more BTC with it, I think around 16,4xx..

Doesn’t she like getting fucked?

Heh..

Please be the bottom, please be the bottom..

It happens.



#stronghands, and she will thank you in the morning of her dawning financial freedom.
526  Economy / Speculation / [WO] PSA: nullius will soon be this forum’s admin. (if you believe screenshots) on: November 26, 2020, 04:53:41 PM
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1331884814102900737

"The Netherlands implemented these  laws 2 weeks ago. You now have to screenshot your wallet when withdrawing bitcoin from Dutch exchanges, easy but annoying. Make sure you vote people in power that protect property rights and bitcoin, and remove people who don't protect freedom."

If these new regulations actually are imposed by Lame Duck Donald's henchmen then so what, its a nothing burger, just screen shot your wallet and call it a day.

Are they serious?  Screenshots!?  Just after I inadvertently got into a flamewar over this, too.  What is that supposed to achieve, which privacy-raping your wallet with a statement of tx data would not?


All the n00bs who don’t verify PGP signatures will now bow down to me.
Muahahahaha!

Why does everyone use screenshots?

PSA:  Screenshots are trivial to fake.  A screenshot is no better proof than a quote; and a quote is much easier to read.  If your word can be trusted about the authenticity of a screenshot, then you can be trusted to provide a quote—whereas if a quote from you is untrustworthy, then so is a screenshot!

The above is a real screenshot, not “Photoshopped”.  I produced it with minimal effort by editing the actual webpage, using my browser’s developer tools.  Thus, it looks perfect; and nonexistent graphical modifications cannot be detected.  That is also how I conveniently crafted a parody of Jihan’s infamous “fuck your mother” tweet.

For the sake of ocular health and safety, and to avoid a false sense of security, please stop using screenshots in situations whereby a visual depiction is not required.  Thank you.



inb4 Craig Wright uses screenshots to “prove” to idiotic regulators that he controls Satoshi’s wallet.
527  Other / Meta / The Quasi-State on: November 26, 2020, 09:11:12 AM
You are missing one key option:

You hit on one of my pet issues:  What you aptly term the quasi-state.  I myself have used that exact term, and similar terms (not on this forum).

Give the freedom of the authoritarians to impose restrictions on others, while not applying said regulations for themselves.

The above is reflective of what many leftists are trying to achieve, both here and in various other institutions, such as the education system and colleges.

The forum administration appears to be very libertarian. This is generally in line with my worldview. My experience on this forum has shaped my view that libertarianism is good, but the 'state' needs to wield a modest amount of power. If the 'state' is too weak, a quasi-state will form that will impose restrictions and regulations on citizens without any kind of real accountability.

Leftists (and to be fair: most people) never pause to consider the origin and meaning of the State in the first instance.

In the abstract, a state is an organized group of people who have the power to enforce their will over others.  It may have other characteristics; but objectively, that is its only essential characteristic.

The only characteristic that distinguishes “the State” from an armed criminal gang is some notion of “legitimacy”.  However, this is purely subjective:  It is an expression of the collective nomos of a society.  If the society is an inner-city neighbourhood, then in the eyes of the members of that society, what you and I call “gang leaders” may well have greater “legitimacy” than the official “government”.

A quasi-state that lacks the capacity for direct physical violence, but has de facto power to control people’s communications and even their economic activity, must be judged by its essential nature, and not by mere labels.  What is “public”?  —Is a “state” which is de facto owned by “private” corporate interests a “public” entity?  —What is “private”?  Is a quasi-state as you describe truly a “private” entity?  —What if the technocratic quasi-state is a “private” legal person created by the laws of a “public” entity which, in turn, is de facto owned by corporate interests?  What horrific ouroboros hath been wrought by unthinking modern apes who confuse their concepts?



The foregoing is perforce terse.  Information-dense—a quick notation, not an essay.  The subject matter is not suitable for discussion in the format of an Internet forum.

For my part, I reject all notions of “legitimacy” derived from the dead weight of numbers.  A democratic “state” is in my eyes absolutely no different in kind from the above example of an inner-city neighbourhood gang; it differs only in degree, insofar as it is the largest, most organized, most well-armed gang.  And the “private” corporate creatures which both are created by the “state” according to its “laws”,* and are the real owners in interest of the “state”, are only other hydra-heads of the same gang.

A good example of this would be the major tech social media companies. Social media companies today hold an outsized amount of influence on public discourse, in some cases, the owners want to remain neutral, but in all cases, the employees have their own non-business agenda, and are powerful enough such that they are not held accountable for their decisions. A modest amount of state regulations on social media companies would largely solve this issue.

I do not think that the owners want to remain neutral.  Furthermore, with control having been divorced from responsibility in the modern corporation, you are confusing the owners with the managers.


* I do not only refer to corporate law in itself:  The entities hereby in question are typically public” companies whose ownership is controlled via highly regulated stock exchanges.


You know, I'm actually kind of surprised that I haven't seen more of the SJW ideology being espoused on the forum, since it seems to have permeated even the tiniest cracks of the interwebz.  So I don't think bitcointalk is in imminent danger of crazy far-left liberal infiltration--and yeah, should I see any of that nonsense I'll hit the ignore button so hard and fast I'll need a new mouse afterward.

We must be inhabiting different fora.

I was partly alluding to the plain fact that, with some odd twists, much of the DT warring runs along left/right political lines.  In particular, I have observed that certain parties are personally hated and distrusted for their opinions, by the types of persons who are oftentimes even overt in the generality of their biases.

(Partly, I was referring to the objections by sirazimuth and some others to my usage of “he” as a generic singular personal pronoun for a person of unknown sex.)
528  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Amphibolous morsels on: November 26, 2020, 08:31:18 AM
A gentleman breaks bread with his enemies.
529  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Overinvested in money on: November 26, 2020, 07:44:16 AM
So, is Bitcoin dead yet?



[...] NO ONE can participate in bitcoin from all angles [...]

You said my name.


What is this? A dump for ants?  Cool

Where are all the FOMO n00bs who were wishing to catch a dip?

Meanwhile => accumulate more.

* nullius is amused that something significantly over 10¢ $1 $10 $100 $1k $5k $10k $(where the hell are we?  I lost track awhile ago) is suddenly a “dip”.

What will the morrow bring?

The longer you fuel the rocket the higher she goes  Cool
530  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Heirs on: November 26, 2020, 07:17:35 AM
That's the spirit, f1980!!!!!!
(...) gotta get rid of some of this extra money... surely cannot take it with me, and who knows when the wished I could "take it with me" might end up playing out.

Being the richest guy in the cemetery isn't exactly my masterplan either.

True masterplan:  A long-term investment in the dynastic power of future friends.  (Jay already knows my opinion of lil Gee selfies.  Tongue Tongue Tongue)

In this game called life, it is not who dies the richest who wins:  It is whose great-great-great-grandchildren have the most power.  Wealth is neither the beginning nor the end; but as I have learned the hard way, it certainly helps.

<darwin.jpg>

’member, lads, it is he who owns the means of reproduction who wins.  Home Economics 101.  IT IS THE SECRET OF LIFE.

Quote from: Nietzsche (“... Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen (‘A Book for All and None’)”) ∞/0
Alles am Weibe ist ein Räthsel, und Alles am Weibe hat Eine Lösung: sie heisst Schwangerschaft.

* nullius ist Keinen ü b e r Allem.
531  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] By happenstance, I was just now listening to the Goldberg Variations on: November 26, 2020, 06:59:53 AM
Nulli..I am sure you have thought about this..but we are just a bunch of dumb hicks around here for the most part. you come in with a scalpel when [...]

All too oft have I been accused of wielding a chainsaw, when a scalpel would suffice.  This is new:


Thank you, Mr Toxic.  But this won’t do:



The gentleman of refined tastes is being persecuted by Toxic2040’s antithesis!

...and one more thing, Mr Toxic:  Love the library.  But I keep mine encrypted.


If memory serves, there are a few other Easter eggs alike to the foregoing—never mind.

Mood Musik for my friends to enjoy whilst reading my posts:  Free download of a public domain project!

Hotlinks to MP3s for all tracks (now playing):  Aria; Variation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27–28, 29, 30; Aria da Capo è Fine.

24-bit FLAC is also available; see the above archive.org link for that, or for the handy in-browser Javascript musik player.


Blame this for my attempts to introduce culture to the Wall:  (Read 225 times :-()

museums, art, libraries
tremendous success: 0 answers
0 is my name!
532  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages? on: November 26, 2020, 06:35:19 AM
^All that text and you failed to send an encrypted message...

I think that I know how to encrypt a PGP message.  It’s not my fault if you couldn’t decrypt it; and I posted to this thread in good faith, not expecting for you to accuse me of basic incompetence at an activity that I do every day.  Please try again:

Code:
$ gpg -v -v < 2020-11-26.ognasty.asc
[...]
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 0xA338C617DE66E656, created 2014-04-24
      "OgNasty <...in the thread, public, but will snip anyway...>"
gpg: using subkey 0x74F2272235988F48 instead of primary key 0x5A00591B2F307E0C
gpg: encrypted with 256-bit ECDH key, ID 0x74F2272235988F48, created 2017-03-29
      "Nullius <nullius@nym.zone>"
[...decrypts just fine...]

Because I used -r (as usual) and not -R, anyone reading this thread can see the following without even importing either of our keys.  Are you rsa2048/0xA338C617DE66E656 2014-04-24 [SCE]?

WIth test.asc copied from the first <code> block in my forum post—in a VM with a very old GnuPG which does not support ECC, with no keys imported:
Code:
$ gpg -v -v < test.asc
gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP MESSAGE
:pubkey enc packet: version 3, algo 1, keyid A338C617DE66E656
data: [2047 bits]
gpg: public key is 0xA338C617DE66E656
:pubkey enc packet: version 3, algo 18, keyid 74F2272235988F48
unsupported algorithm 18
gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18
gpg: public key is 0x74F2272235988F48
:encrypted data packet:
length: unknown
mdc_method: 2
gpg: encrypted with [?] key, ID 0x74F2272235988F48
gpg: public key decryption failed: unknown pubkey algorithm
gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 0xA338C617DE66E656
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

Of course, this does not prove that it is actually encrypted to your key.  There is no way to prove that, without your private key.
533  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Overinvested in money on: November 26, 2020, 05:09:09 AM
purring kitteh blows a kiss
4h


thin necks wring easily
#stronghands

I just made quadrillions of dollars* shorting Bitcoin at high leverage!!   Cheesy

* Vintage Mugabe-era Zimbabwe dollars—or perhaps future American dollars, which may soon match.

#stronghands

1 BTC = 1 BTC.  I said it in 2017.  I said it in 2018–19.  I said it in March 2020, July 2020, and September 2020.  I said it last week—I will say it now, too!

I can check fifty times per day, or per hour, or per minute—it still says, 1 BTC!

  • Bear market:  Shrug.  Sigh.  OK, I will try to eat less for awhile—because spending hurts.
  • Bull market:  Shrug.  Smile.  OK, prices are lower now!  Wow, my expenses are getting so much cheaper...

It is how my lil selfie survives being overinvested in Bitcoin.  Tongue Tongue Tongue

You can amuse ur lil selfie all the way to the poorman's house, if you are rich in some kind of money that nobody (relatively speaking) wants.
You probably are "overinvested in BTC".. especially if you really do not attempt (or is it refuse?) to balance out your BTC versus fiat in a meaningful way... you are just not recognizing the overinvested status of ur lil selfie..  Tongue  Tongue Tongue
Bookmarking a few things to which I should like to return—admittedly wishful thinking, maybe...  :-/ :-/ :-/



Sound like me?  Just looking at one of my Newbie-rank posts from December 2017—coincidentally, two days after the ATH:

In principle, I am also against speculative trading; though I certainly do not complain about appreciation of my bitcoins’ value!  I am in Bitcoin primarily for reasons of ideology.

[...]

I do share your concern about certain apparent political collision courses, perhaps inevitable.  That’s why I try to inform people about the historical incidence when gold was banned for four decades in the U.S.

[...]

If you have a large holding from 2011, then just enjoy it and support Bitcoin’s further development and social acceptance.  This last is important, because Bitcoin is more than a technology:  Bitcoin and its value are a sociological phenomenon.
^^^ The Bitcoin: The Social Phenomenon thread was long in coming.
534  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Opsec on: November 26, 2020, 04:54:40 AM
Are we about to get seriously f-ed?

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1331744884856741888

Quote
Last week we heard rumors that the U.S. Treasury and Secretary Mnuchin were planning to rush out some new regulation regarding self-hosted crypto wallets before the end of his term. I'm concerned that this would have unintended side effects, and wanted to share those concerns.

 Plenty of VPN options to choose from, but otherwise I expect that Bitcoin, and all other cryptocurrencies will go on without them. 

You seriously mean that some people use Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) without Tor?  Roll Eyes

(Not VPN.)
535  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Doublethink: An illustration of the liberal mind on: November 26, 2020, 04:51:40 AM
Nice to see Trump wait for Thanksgiving Day to bury the news of the pardon he granted to Michael Flynn

I can't wait to see him try and pardon himself.
Even if it works, that only applies to federal crimes.
He is in a heap of shit for state crimes. (and he knows it)  His immunity runs out on Jan 20, 2021 at noon.
Pass the popcorn please...
Off to mother Russia.

Liberals with their conspiracy theories!
536  Economy / Speculation / [WO] An important message from the Wall Observer’s Trust and Safety Team 🙃☮ on: November 26, 2020, 04:38:20 AM
I know he probably didn't break any rule, but I'd still have no problem if twats like this got nuked.

You → Safe Space

I know you probably didn’t break any rule, but I’d still have no problem if twats like you got nuked.*

* I mean literally nuked, IRL.  Of course, I will defend your freedom to be an idiotic jerk in WO.
537  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages? on: November 26, 2020, 03:29:44 AM
Good thread.  Offering merits is more likely to succeed than offering 2256% airdrop bounties.

A private message for OgNasty—others MUST NOT read:

Code:
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keXFehTk3uMS02a7BWcNg4+eY6OYi2QIUvIlpqpzGzR5sPjTHSTiCwGjQwvo+t75
pWG98q5AVe6+WOLGehwQX5GlOiG9oT7yUKKH6vdmwbl7RHjB7vBhoB0Mvc8So6xx
s5kWnKKm6WvMZJwQrEEl7WzT6XHjynbM2q02aGMnXkas91kWgTC3AGRtMi0H26k/
G3+fYsUHbMzQZJhbyCDSIlnAJZprRALZOVAUVbUN1Dh4wSume/kNSFjkx3+GL9d2
XwhHKZOPCuXhN6WbGPXmcfRIvJ+2+Ao0Skf09F7euXtXJcTVuOYWqZ1pQM7DUAAZ
DCln7pvu7MsTnY9VcFvoLPsyKXgi8yxiW8UKEupnVSx2SeFTlN8VZYx3u2gDRpDS
w7DJnsb8vumB+e22lc/JWQ10a7Miz+wNKcOjah/XOrCc28NuWkiymx01gLZUARGF
rhquVT21k1kKLZjK8lKvI5exAkAS+5hVOoPF2OOh8IY+QVQYXFUFytCe6u2c9I4f
4WJzdo4YB/8=
=BRkx
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

My public key is available from Nullian Verification.  Its fingerprint has been in my signature ever since I was at Newbie rank, as may be viewed in any archives of my posts.

PSA:  Always make sure that you have the right key!


(I’ve used https://www.lirnberger.com/tools/pgpdump/ to see the header info).

You can also use gpg -v -v, with shell redirects of stderr to a pager.  E.g.:

Code: (/bin/sh)
gpg -v -v < message.asc 2>&1 | less

I also recommend using shell redirects to encrypt messages for forum PMs.  This will avoid leaking the filename into the PGP metadata, as would occur if you provide gpg with the filename as an argument.  The exact command that I used to encrypt the above message to OgNasty:

Code: (/bin/sh)
gpg -a -s -e -r 0xA338C617DE66E656 -r 0x5A00591B2F307E0C < 2020-11-26.ognasty.txt > 2020-11-26.ognasty.asc


-snip- It's pretty easy to import the public key but I doubt there is something wrong since the public key you've given is different which is ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). -snip-
I am trying to show the Public key with an algorithm other than RSA.

I myself recommend and use ECC, specifically ed25519 (signing/certification) and cv25519 (encryption (ECDH)) keys.  GnuPG-compatible OpenPGP ECC implementations now include Protonmail; I recommend that Protonmail users should switch to “X25519” keys for an optimal combination of security and performance.  The substance of Werner Koch’s specification for this is being rolled into the OpenPGP standard under RFC 4880bis.

This is a newbie thread, so here is one of my Newbie posts about ECC in PGP:

ps-> nullius how did you get a PGP Ed25519: 0xC .... ?

GnuPG supports ECC since version 2.1.  Requires options `--full-gen-key --expert` (or noninteractive key generation as I used).  NIST and Brainpool curves are supported; but also:  “For many people the NIST and also the Brainpool curves have an doubtful origin and thus the plan for GnuPG is to use Bernstein’s Curve 25519 as default.  GnuPG 2.1.0 already comes with support for signing keys using the Ed25519 variant of this curve.  This has not yet been standardized by the IETF (i.e. there is no RFC) but we won’t wait any longer....”

Much PGP software does not yet support my Curve25519 keys.  My .sig reminds me of the 90s, when people had both PGP2/PGP5 keys.  In the mass market, interestingly, Keybase can use my ECC keys just fine.  I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.


try changing the default key server in Kleopatra which is the "hkps: //hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net" to the remaining publicly available key servers.
(And some other posts on this thread.)

The old keyserver network is deprecated.  I recommend avoiding it, including both SKS and the MIT PGP server.

The problem is systemic, due to design-level vulnerabilities.  Thus, there are currently efforts to make new standards for “abuse-resistant” keyservers, and alternative means of distributing keys.

OpenPGP Certificate Flooding
Fri 28 June 2019
By Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg)

My public cryptographic identity has been spammed to the point where it is unusable in standard workflows. This blogpost talks about what happened, what I'm doing about it, and what it means for the broader ecosystem.

Upload your key to https://keys.openpgp.org/, and also check to see if your mail provider supports Web Key Directory (WKD).  Unfortunately, both of those options will force the stripping of non-mail-address userids.  Therefore, I recommend posting your key on the forum (or elsewhere on the Web), as I do on the Nullian Verification thread.



Trolling the NSA

OgNasty will not be able to decrypt the following messages; I hope that the NSA will not be able to, either.  ;-)

fine. keep your secrets  Roll Eyes

In Bitcoinland, it is unsurprising that some should be cryptic.

Code:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hF4DAAAAAAAAAAASAQdAUuGyU/Z/XkJcdu6zuPV2cYeEUcW/Cot3BwN1+fbwJyow
kIIWNt8NvYgaczHtjp3t61wW/+Ge+kP4ozXyLr72cI1MpTUJKBTa2LFLbQvLpajf
0sAGAadfjt+a4MQE7D2+SO7yWdYZABZqGbrCRSAVZ/4QhGHddm1gM8ODi06YhMBy
yeABzJxbYpdhqJ71XuSgoMmnO/Jsz8X4vn7mrWLGl1kJGob9m772P+mYfulfL/Gx
5c9DMteREa8ClHIY/AQ+GvnaMeUeOaPwAO89ELP9ussl55S4s6zRMuvTYZXptrRg
iBM63qpcCzH4BtuDH8qaoCT+ZJ1Q5y5ponQX1C6StcXunWTtR+ZvkXRm2JFGy8OA
Web3GJdc9rNH
=EymV
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Just as the best of thought was once upon a time writ in classical Latin, or even reserved in Greek, or...

* nullius is currently seeking Sanskrit translators for his most precious thoughts.

...kept private.

Code:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hF4DdPInIjWYj0gSAQdAchXa720iVwmWLQN1cICKevEJxryBiWJ6bLvx+tM8gEIw
KgefJCjU97LFDh9hDiDsKs2fr18ySI3pxTvRxbOVHnD5ImeXl2T1nNUf5Jx1aK2M
0sADAdIk8BIye3dWxhFX+fqC3KJhv2X5SDkv17BPL6AmS+UdRI9BXl9Ru3Ksiju9
Z+Jat7bawWjXjVeTAJcFIXtFCxZfDIhb4BDgwM94EAqWugaSdh5aXEKbS/cSelJY
kMcPd/hgCNctdxBPg/oO7rBIKcJ8NC5Uqv/2MKi9hdGzZsgh6HpovqzOltSF/B0d
9XwnF03Ptst3nt8Ob+6aI/D73l/dpKbaAGzYdAUTY2notugFKNFObLQXHGvprYh9
nYHSjkhE
=SMbz
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Information wants to be valued—and I do not mean that in the monetary sense.  Intelligence is priceless.

Nullius is certainly a member of Cicada 3301 group. Just search about it on internet, and you will find way too many similarities! 😄

Code:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=kA2C
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Code:
e95fb2193dd348de266b7cc350b8c643c472af82e06987d4a34916e5c5b68970

Code:
d26ce23462834637dc23c09e64b60cf9d207db8779c4110b8125a0b30a6b02ab



This is a horribly stupid idea.  DO NOT USE!

Generate your private and public PGP keys online.  This PGP key generator is does not require you to install any software and your PGP keys remain confidential.  iGolder does not log any activity done on this page.  We created this tool for you to benefit PGP encryption for contacting us, contacting any iGolder member having a public PGP key, or contacting your friends.

iGolder respects your privacy and does not log nor monitors any activity (key creation) done on this web page.

= “Trust us!”  Roll Eyes

I did not waste the time to figure out what if any Javascript affects this, but it does look like all key generation and encryption is done on the server:

Code: (html)
<form method="post" action="./" id="f">

This is not like Protonmail, or Keybase’s web app (already questionable trust issues, IMO).  On iGolder’s site, all secret key material and message plaintext are sent to the server!

If you use this for “contacting your friends” as they suggest, then you are screwing your friends over—and you are untrustworthy to them.  DO NOT USE!
538  Economy / Reputation / Re: Nullian Self-Moderation Policy on: November 26, 2020, 01:26:14 AM
I review these things from time to time.  Upon review, OgNasty is provisionally removed from the ban list.  In the past, he has made a meritorious post on one of my self-moderated threads; and as a practical matter, I think that he probably knows more about real-world usage of cryptography than suchmoon does (definitely more than nutildah does!), though that is damning with faint praise.  Therefore, I do not wish to place a prior restraint on his participation in my self-moderated threads—just as long as he does not behave as a total ass with his.

The ban list is not intended to be a list of people whom I distrust and/or dislike, which would be far too long to fit into a forum post.
539  Other / Meta / Re: “Terminated.” — Sorry, it is not possible to contact Lauda. on: November 26, 2020, 12:31:20 AM
I know all to well that when you’re perma banned you still receive emails when messaged. What about banned and disabled login ( edit- “terminated” accounts, to use proper terminology ) do they ?

Sorry, it is not possible to contact Lauda.  theymos himself is unable to contact Lauda; and this was true even before he banned the account “in the same way as satoshi”.

Not guessing here.

/thread
540  Other / Meta / Re: Do you want more or less freedom? on: November 26, 2020, 12:22:25 AM
The ovine masses will always choose tyranny over freedom, if they are allowed to choose freely.  It in their innate character as natural born slaves.  This is why the freedom of all choices about government must be prohibited to the masses:  To protect freedom.

If you start with the premise that “all men are created equal”, you thus start by implicitly assuming that your own subjective desires are objectively the lowest common denominator of what all people everywhere must want.  It is a fundamental error.  Mean mediocrities (and worse) do not care about anything other than safety, basic comfort, cheap entertainment, and emotionalist dogmata which they will blindly defend to their deaths.

They do not disagree with your higher principles:  They have no higher principles, and moreover, they lack the mental ability to have higher principles.  They make individual decisions based on herd mentality and the dogmata which they have learned by rote—dogmata ingrained with emotions, and thence defended with the blind passions of the mass-mind.  This is an innate limitation, and an empirically observed reality which cannot be wished away by fantasies about “educating” the ineducable.  Sheep can no more be taught to think than dogs can be taught to sing opera.



Where is the option to vote against allowing votes?

OP actually deserved more than only my 2 Merits. Also I didn't vote and I think polls should be banned.

Sarcasm alert: my post might contain irony. Or not.

By the power vested in me by the god of Bitcoin, I authoritatively ban the whole world from voting on my use of my money.

Don’t reject authority:  Be your own authority.


What is it with people preëmpting my posts as I gather evidence for The Pharmacist:

You know, I'm actually kind of surprised that I haven't seen more of the SJW ideology being espoused on the forum, since it seems to have permeated even the tiniest cracks of the interwebz.  So I don't think bitcointalk is in imminent danger of crazy far-left liberal infiltration--and yeah, should I see any of that nonsense I'll hit the ignore button so hard and fast I'll need a new mouse afterward.

We must be inhabiting different fora.
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