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8 oz. of silver for 1 btc, shipped to your door, US only. Silver will be mix of rounds, coins, American Eagles and Canadian Maples. This offer is void if Bitcoin or silver prices move more than 5% since this post's timestamp. Escrow is doable as long as we agree to the agent and you pick up the costs. Reply by PM, PGP if possible. My PGP key.Thanks for looking! |
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Within the last 24 hours, I have learned of two major banks that are making it difficult for you to send international wires or draw out large amounts of cash. Both JPMorganChase and HSBC USA have instituted new policies which will make it difficult for you to withdraw your funds in certain ways. This is not good. There are apparently some workarounds relative to these policies, but just try setting up those workarounds when you want to move your money during some kind of panic. ...Bottom line: You are playing with fire if you keep any serious amount of money in a US bank. http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/it-is-time-move-your-money-out-of-us.html |
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China Invented Every Form of Money
China:
Invented every single major form of currency: metal coins, paper money, and fiat currency not backed by precious metals
Seized gold six centuries before Franklin Roosevelt, in order to prop up its fiat currency and prevent runaway inflation
Debt Forgiveness Is The Basis for Modern Civilization
Religions were founded on the concept of debt forgiveness.
For example, Matthew 6:12 says:
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Periodic times of debt forgiveness – or debt “jubilees” – were a basic part of the early Jewish and Christian religions, as well as Babylonian culture.
David Graeber, author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” told Democracy Now:
If you look at the history of world religions, of social movements what you find is for much of world history what is sacred is not debt, but the ability to make debt disappear to forgive it and that’s where concepts of redemption originally come from.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in 2009:
In the end, the only way out of all this global debt may prove to be a Biblical debt Jubilee.
Indeed, the first recorded word for “freedom” in any human language is the word for freedom from debt.
(Moreover, there is a long-standing legal principle that people should not have to repay their government’s debt to the extent that it is incurred to launch aggressive wars or to oppress the people … what is called “odious debt”).... 9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Money |
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http://www.protectedtext.com/ Enter any URL, e.g. protectedText.com/anything You find it - its yours! Encrypt all your notes, access anywhere. Simple. Fast. Free. No ads. Secure - don't trust us, check the code yourself. If someone wants your text, he'll need your password, but he'll have to find your site first. |
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We now know -- on balance of probabilities -- that the NSA conducted a 3 phased attack on the crypto world. First step was to insert a dodgy random number generator (RNG) into a NIST standard, called Dual_EC. Second step was to convince major suppliers to implement and set that RNG as the default. Third step is: Profit! which is to say, defeat your crypto. This step is effected by decrypting your traffic, knowing how the random numbers were fed into your protocol, and being able to predict them with some degree of crunchability. We have no information on that third step, but the information that has come out in the post-Snowden world is damning. We can conclude that this was a phased and deliberate approach. What then to do? As Jon Callas of Silent Circle puts it: The problem one faces with the BULLRUN documents gives a decision tree. The first question is whether you think they're credible. If you don't think BULLRUN is credible, then there's an easy conclusion -- stay the course. If you think it is credible, then the next decision is whether you think that the NIST standards are flawed, either intentionally or unintentionally; in short, was BULLRUN *successful*. If you think they're flawed, it's easy; you move away from them.
The hard decision is the one that comes next -- I can state it dramatically as "Do you stand with the NSA or not?" which is an obnoxious way to put it, as there are few of us who would say, "Yes, I stand with the NSA." You can phrase less dramatically it as standing with NIST, or even less dramatically as standing with "the standard." You can even state it as whether you believe BULLRUN was successful, or lots of other ways. Where do we stand? We need to answer a bunch of questions in order to get to a conclusion.... Article continued... |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-07/amazon-wins-ruling-for-600-million-cia-cloud-contract.htmlAmazon Wins Ruling for $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract By Edvard Pettersson - 2013-10-08T04:01:01Z Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) defeated International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)’s effort to reopen bidding for a $600 million Central Intelligence Agency cloud computing contract. Judge Thomas Wheeler of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington granted Amazon’s request for judgment on the administrative record following a hearing yesterday, according to a minute order posted on the court’s electronic docket. A written opinion will follow, according to the order. Amazon sued in July after the Government Accountability Office, the agency that makes recommendations on challenges to contracts, sided with IBM and agreed that the CIA had failed to properly evaluate prices and had waived a contract requirement only for Seattle-based Amazon. “We are disappointed with the ruling from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, reversing the GAO’s recommendation to reopen the competition and correct flaws in the bidding process,” Armonk, New York-based IBM said in an e-mailed statement. The company plans to appeal this decision,’’ according to the statement. “This court decision seems especially inappropriate in light of the current times, since IBM’s bid was superior in many ways, including being substantially more cost-effective,” the company said. Both the complaint and Amazon’s request for a ruling in its favor were filed under seal, as was the requests by the Justice Department and IBM for a ruling in their favor. Mary Osako, an Amazon spokeswoman, and representatives of the Justice Department didn’t immediately return calls after regular business hours yesterday seeking comment on the ruling. The case is Amazon Web Services Inc. v. U.S., 13-cv-00506, U.S. Court of Federal Claims (Washington).
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The blockchain continues to inspire: Trsst: a secure and distributed blog platform for the open web http://www.trsst.com/paper/Trsst is a system of social communications that supports the open web, protects freedom of speech, affords proof of authorship, protects privacy and anonymity, and allows content creators to be compensated for their work. ...A blogchain is a chain of entries linked together such that each digitally-signed entry contains the digital signature of the entry that directly precedes it. In this way, the integrity of the chain can be validated, and any missing or modified entries can be identified. Entries created on an account are added to the blogchain for that account. |
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Supreme Court, 1928: Instrumentalities like the national banks or the federal reserve banks, in which there are private interests, are not departments of the government. They are private corporations in which the government has an interest. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. 1928 http://openjurist.org/275/us/415 |
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At the end of the 19th century, people already knew what people are now re-discovering. The Monetary Revolution: An Advance In The Philosophy And Science Of Money. Adapted To A Republican Form Of Government And Sovereignty In The People Andrew J. Osborne C.H. Kerr & Company, 1898 THE MONEY POWER In establishing the national banking law Congress created a national money power in this country which is a branch of the great money power of the world. The men who are the projectors of this power are men of the most profound judgment, broad intellect, subtle management and are highly educated. Therefore they are capable of doing great good for society, if their intellectual powers were used for the general good, but when avarice, greed and selfishness are their leading traits of character and the means used to carry out their designs are coercion, intimidation, starvation, and when, as a last resort, the Winchester rifle is called into service to subdue the people and to fully establish the money power, we inquire what, then, is the money power? The money power is the power that established nearly 4,000 national banks and controls their policies, which controls the organization and the actions of over 100 trusts, controls and regulates the policies of all the railroad and transportation lines, dominates gas and water privileges and street-railway franchises, dominates manufacturing and mining, fixes wages and earnings of labor, and in elections puts up money to buy lying newspapers and dishonest politicians, and to bring corrupt men to vote for its candidates, and to hire forgers and thieves to falsify returns, steal ballots and otherwise debauch the ballotbox, and which, after the election, buys United States senators and members of Congress to frame such measures as the sugar schedule in the tariff bill and other schemes which will legalize the robbery of the public. The money power is the power that gives birth to the Mark Hanna-John Sherman class of statesmen, bought the election of McKinley and now owns a majority in both branches of Congress and a part of the federal judiciary. It is the power that controls the elections to secure the election of United States senators of its own kind and sometimes governors of states. It is the power that has controlled the Harrison and Cleveland administrations and made Charles Foster surrender the option of the government to the creditors, and then made J. G. Carlisle eat his own words inside of a week after he proposed to exercise the government option to pay in either gold or silver. It is the power that owns John Sherman and which worked through him the demonetization of silver, and by that act stole billions of dollars from the debtor class and taxpayers of the country. It is the power that rules Europe and America and dictates peace or war for its own financial advantages. It is the power that has dwarfed the American statesman into a poll-parrot, putting the words that he must say into his mouth and he says them; but it is hoped that there will yet be found a few noble exceptions to the rule. The money power is the fountain head of villainy, despotism and crime, a cesspool of iniquity, the climax of all combinations to destroy the equality of human rights. The money power is here, is here to destroy civil liberty and government by the people. It is plain that it is already, in control, its despotic powers are felt in every department of government and social life.
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I assume this was a glitch: I got this message three hours or so ago, it's since disappeared. Just putting this here for awareness of mods and admins. |
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Citibank will no longer process any transfers to Mt Gox due to association with Liberty Reserve http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1h0fmb/citibank_will_no_longer_process_any_transfers_to/submitted 15 hours ago by Aidonia I just had an interesting call from my New Zealand bank, Kiwibank. They were calling to let me know that the international wire template I had setup for transferring $NZ to Mt Gox Japan will be cancelled. Citbank processes all of Kiwbank's international wire transfers, and it was under their instruction that all transfers to Mt Gox be ceased. The reason given was due to Mt Gox's association with Liberty Reserve, who are undergoing investigations surrounding drug trafficking finances. This was as much info as the woman calling could give me. I'm not sure whether Citibank processes the other NZ bank's wire transfers also, but certainly my preferred funding method is no more  |
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24 June 2013 https://www.bitinnovate.com/closed/Dear Customers, After an in-depth review of the Bitcoin industry in Australia, including our own business, the market, our competitors and the legal landscape, we have decided to temporarily close our doors whilst we work on new and improved offerings. When we re-launch, we will provide our customers with greatly streamlined, faster and more convenient services. Our vision is to provide services that are better than anything anyone has been able to offer so far, making Bitcoin as easy to use any currency. Our future business offerings will be different to what they are now, and our aim is to ensure it is much better. We believe that for Bitcoin to fulfil its potential, it needs to be a widely recognised as an established complementary form of trade to traditional currencies. This means working within and alongside existing businesses and organisations, with commercial enterprises as well as government and policy makers, to build an industry that is viable, robust and secure for the long term. We believe in Bitcoin and the revolution it brings. We also understand that it cannot be one of opposition or only functioning outside of existing paradigms. In order for Bitcoin and Crypto-currencies to stay around for long haul and truly be the revolution that so many hope for, we and others in the industry need to work hard to show how it will greatly benefit all commerce, for consumers, individuals as well as for existing business and governing bodies. We’re not going anywhere. We’re here, there will be updates and you’ll still be able to contact us as usual. Our services will be back, better than ever. Viva La Bitcoin. The Bit Innovate Team |
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https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ipsjjip/20/3/20_686/_pdfMeta-envy-free Cake-cutting and Pie-cutting Protocols by Yoshifumi Manabe and Tatsuaki Okamoto Journal of Information Processing Vol. 20 (2012) No. 3 pp. 686-693 This paper discusses cake-cutting protocols when the cake is a heterogeneous good, represented by an interval on the real line. We propose a new desirable property, the meta-envy-freeness of cake-cutting, which has not been formally considered before. Meta-envy-free means there is no envy on role assignments, that is, no party wants to exchange his/her role in the protocol with the one of any other party. If there is an envy on role assignments, the protocol cannot be actually executed because there is no settlement on which party plays which role in the protocol. A similar definition, envy-freeness, is widely discussed. Envy-free means that no player wants to exchange his/her part of the cake with that of any other player's. Though envy-freeness was considered to be one of the most important desirable properties, envy-freeness does not prevent envy about role assignment in the protocols. We define meta-envy-freeness to formalize this kind of envy. We propose that simultaneously achieving meta-envy-free and envy-free is desirable in cake-cutting. We show that current envy-free cake-cutting protocols do not satisfy meta-envy-freeness. Formerly proposed properties such as strong envy-free, exact, and equitable do not directly consider this type of envy and these properties are very difficult to realize. This paper then shows cake-cutting protocols for two and three party cases that simultaneously achieves envy-free and meta-envy-free. Last, we show meta-envy-free pie-cutting protocols. |
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http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htmThe entire paper is interesting but look at the references: 11. Tatsuaki Okamoto, An Efficient Divisible Electronic Cash Scheme, Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '95, Springer-Verlag, pp. 438-451. 12. Tatsuaki Okamoto and Kazuo Ohta, Universal Electronic Cash, Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '91, Springer-Verlag, pp. 324-337.
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Criminals in government and banking prefer controlling people via their own funny money, iow. |
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