LOL.  Before I saw this, I had just replied with some Confirmed Maths!

Is that idiot spamming for some purported Bitcoin cracker?  If so, I should be reporting spam rather than replying.

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Edit:  He just replied again.  It really looks like spam.  Reporting to moderator—not replying further, unless the mod ignores my report.

Edit, edit:  Wow.  Tagging, too.  (My forum skills must be getting rusty, if I did not check his trust page first!)

This discussion is off-topic on the Vanitygen thread; but I feel a need to stick a spike in what is essentially idiot-FUD over Bitcoin’s security.  To be clear, you are full of shit.

• 2¹⁶⁰ search space of Hash160s
• 12000 trials per second
• 590000 Bitcoin addresses with ≥ 1 BTC (assuming that your information is correct; I can’t be bothered to investigate, when it cannot make any appreciable difference)
• 86400 seconds per day, 365.2425 days per year

Ignoring the question of how different script types are handled:  On average, what is the expected number of years for you to hit any one of the desired addresses?

^^^ This.

What is politically more convenient than a fake problem?  A real problem, which can be aggravated by cures worse than the disease.

Baloney.  Well, have fun trying, as I said.

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Good link (forum thread), but it needs the public key.  It will not work with a Bitcoin address.  Also, if you think that it will crack public keys in a reasonable time—as I said, have fun trying!

My categorical answer for American “election” talk:

Like betting on cockfights or football games:  The whole concept of this thread adequately sums the value of democracy.  It is entertainment.  It keeps the proles distracted, and dissipates their energies in a way that is harmless to the system.


On Votaries of the Vote

Long was I perplexed by the etiology of democracy.  In the past, I thought that people who vote must be categorically stupid.  But I observed that many otherwise intelligent people vote—just like many otherwise intelligent people believe in fairytales from the Bible.

My conclusion is that democracy is a religion.  It is a faith in the purported “wisdom of crowds”, in flat contradiction of all evidence that a crowd acts with lower intelligence than its stupidest member.  It is a quasi-mystical belief in the revealed truth of the ballot.  Democracy’s First Commandment is that thou shalt submit to the mass and obey people who are wrong, if they are more numerous than you are.

You, the fanatics of this thread, are not merely voters:  You are votaries.

As sacrifices to the false god of democracy, you lay upon its altar your lives, your fortunes, and your posterity.

I will not speak of honour, for you have none:  There is no honour in following the whims of the crowd.

Americans, specifically, also lay upon this false god’s altar the human sacrifice of people living in faraway lands, whom any of your candidates from either official faction of your ruling party will cheerfully bomb at the drop of a hat.  It is the American Way^®, an established tradition of the American world-police holy war to “make the world safe for democracy”.  For only one relatively recent and notorious example, look to Iraq:  After 13 years of tormenting that unhappy land with invasions, bombings, and economic strangulation that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children, you overthrew its government, created a power vacuum that invited in Al Qaeda, and rationalized it by broadcasting on your TV screens the images of Iraqis voting.  Ah, the heathens had been converted at last!

Salvation through American terrorist jihad:
A convert baptized in the Holy Ink of Democracy!

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Newsflash for Americans:  Trump ≈ Biden.

The much-ballyhooed “polarization” is only a ploy of media hype, to regenerate interest in an entertainment that had been faltering.  Voter turnout rates were plummeting, and that was not “apathy”:  It was wising-up!  More and more people were realizing that they are under one-party rule, and that the one party is a criminal gang hostile to the interests of the vast majority of Americans.  It is a worst-of-all-worlds system that combines the least-desirable features of a dictatorship with the corruption and inefficiency of mob rule:  Kakocracy built on ochlocracy.

The illusion was being lost—and with it, the consent of the governed upon which the power of all régimes must ultimately repose.  Vide the (other) Soviet Union:  Contrary to American pretensions, the Soviet system did not collapse because of anything that America did.  It collapsed because the majority of the people did not believe its lies.  Without at least the tacit consent of the governed, even the most brutal tyranny is long-term unstable, and is ultimately doomed unless propped up by external force (as the Soviets and the Americans did and do with their puppets).

The American system is the ne plus ultra of a slave state:  A slave state in which the slaves believe themselves to be free, per Goethe—the true “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, which the (other) Soviets were unable to achieve.  It would also unravel, if the American people stopped believing in its illusions.

Thus stepped onstage Trump, a professional showman, to stir the pot just enough to get the enthusiasms flowing both for and against him.

Yes, Orange Bogey is manipulating the idiotic left just as much as he is manipulating the idiotic right:  Without Trump, would anybody be eager to vote for Biden?  Both sides are stupid enough to believe that Trump means what he says in his Presidential Tweets.

I think this means that his opponents must be marginally stupider:  The Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd needs for me to explain to them that Trump is a liar, and his fans are fools, and all of Trump’s grandstanding rhetoric is meaningless.  In substance, Trump is approximately equal to Biden—and vice versa.

(As a matter of form, I will admit that Trump is much more amusing—especially when he makes liberals cry.  But that is not an adequate reason to grant your moral endorsement to the scumbag, and to the system that he represents, by voting for him.)

Quote from: nullius on October 16, 2020, 02:00:01 PM

Dear Americans:

Please SHUT UP about your reality-TV “election” show—and don’t vote, unless/until you get a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states who will call on Congress to send up bills abolishing the Federal Reserve and its conjoined twin, the Marxist progressive income tax.

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Meanwhile, sheep are made mutton.

Dear Americans:

Please SHUT UP about your reality-TV “election” show—and don’t vote, unless/until you get a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states who will call on Congress to send up bills abolishing the Federal Reserve and its conjoined twin, the Marxist progressive income tax.

Your candidates fundamentally agree on all of the important issues, not only that one.  You are being whipped into a frenzy because this time, the candidates are four millimeters apart instead of three.  Your football-hooligan “our team” attitude blinds you to the plain fact that neither candidate will change any important long-term policy of the United States:  They differ very little in degree, and not at all in kind.

Meanwhile, please understand that the world does not revolve around America—much less your so-called “election”.  The noise of your obsessive rambling about a televised participatory circus is quite irritating.

Thank you.

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I created the above cartoon almost three weeks ago.  I held it, thinking that it should be accompanied by a cogent analysis of contemporary American politics—including my reasons for the Kerensky-Lenin metaphor, and for including Communist symbols with the logos of the banks.

Eh.  Not worth my time.  I will simply reserve a few posts at the top, just in case.

My principal motive is to tell Americans to SHUT UP about the meaningless show, for the persistent chatter is annoying to sane people.  I think that I have adequately addressed that point, at the threshold.

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Local rules:  Apologists for Communism are hereby banned, and may be censored at my discretion.  They are quite free to spew their Alinsky-style tactics elsewhere.

I otherwise expect for any discussion here to be low-quality—or rather, I would be pleasantly surprised if it were otherwise; this is, after all, the perpetual dumpster fire known as the “Politics & Society” forum.  I don’t care.  I am not here to debate.  I will probably just ignore any stupidity (or frankly: any discussion at all), except for posts by apologists for Communism, which I may delete.

If I were a campaign manager, I would run a self-moderated thread—with an upfront policy that my deletion of a post means probable permanent blacklisting of its author.  #justsaying

That is a burn address like 1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE, or 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 (all-zero Hash160).  It is constructed in such a way as to make it obvious that nobody has the private key.  Funds sent to such addresses are irretrievably lost.

Here is a valid Segwit burn address, with all-zero Hash160:  bc1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq9e75rs.  Funds sent to this address are irretrievably lost.

The 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr address was created specifically for Counterparty’s proof-of-burn protocol.


Stupid, in my opinion.  Nobody can ever spend that money.  It permanently spams the UTXO set for people who actually use Bitcoin.  But—well, now you know the purpose of that address.

No, Vanitygen cannot crack its private key.  You are welcome to try, with that or any other address.  Have fun. :-)

HTH.

You know how many men would love to be in that bear’s position.  Sadly.  Hey, Toxic, are you trying to encourage some dumping of cheap coins for you to snap up?

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The bear looks so happy, because he took highly leveraged shorts against Bitcoin.  100x on BitMEX!

After he was sold at a slave market to cover his margin calls, his new owners had plastic surgeons reconfigure his face to be perpetually cheerful.

Though anyway, he always was scientifically confirmed to be a grinning idiot.

Eh.  Definitely 1000% Jewish (oh, what, do I have a cultural tendency to hyperbolize?).


But I am not much a fan of television, anyway.


This just reminded me of something that may or may not be relevant; anyway, I myself am in the mood to shitpost just because the Internet disgusts me today every day.

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Sie sind entartet!

It is most bewildering that “redpilled” Hitler-pic memesters use semiotics from a Wachowski brothers “sisters” story starring a Eurasian mutt, a black, and an ostensible female who would be completely androgynous if her breasts and buttocks were not so ample, with a plot about the salvation of Zion.




Once upon a time, I descended into the land of #redpilled #goyimknow to explain to them how foolish they look, using an image of a black man offering drugs as their allegory for discovering Adolf Hitler.  Just call me helpful.

Translation: *cringe*


For my troubles, I was treated to a bouquet of racial slurs that do not even apply to me; and of course, I was accorded the standard title of JIDF Shill, replete with Le Happy Merchant illustrations to dox my IRL visage.

Maybe I should have simply brought popcorn.  This extinction event is going to be spectacular!

Robots, faster!  PLEASE!

The skittish reactions are rather ironic, whereas my principal point was that Abbie Richards placed George Soros off-limits for discussion by labelling any such concerns as per se “antisemitic”.  (And by the way, that cartoon that I reposted did not even depict any of the famous Jewish American money-men.)

I wasn’t the one who brought up Soros being Jewish.  This nonsensical grab-bag was:



It is one issue on which all semblance of rationality immediately ceases.  On one side, it is categorically forbidden either to mention a Jewish person, or to mention that such a person is Jewish—even if Jewishness is mentioned only in the context of discussing an accusation that any concerns whatsoever about George Soros are “antisemitic” (!).  The whole scenario is Kafkaesque—oh, dear, Kafka was Jewish; did I just accidentally make an antisemitic remark by mentioning him!?  On the other side, once Jewishness gets mentioned, the interwebs tell me that it is necessary to produce elaborate proofs that Rockefeller had secret Jewish heritage (though I have never seen Morgan or Carnegie accused of being Jewish, so I suppose that I am allowed to mention them?).  Schlemiel bumps into Schlimazel...  In my whole life thus far, I have not met even so many as a dozen people who can discuss such matters objectively.

Anyway, my other point was that Soros (a JEW!!!) basically does the same as Carnegie (NOT a JEW!!!).  Carnegie bankrolled organizations with feel-good names that nobody could disagree with, such as “international peace”.  Soros says that he wants an “open society”.  They are all subversive as hell.  DYOR—at this juncture, I am not inclined to discuss it further.

George Soros does not exist.  Mentioning him is like mentioning the Rothschilds, who also never existed and never had any influence whatsoever on international politics (despite it having been commonplace in the Nineteenth Century for Jewish people to boast that it was not Wellington, but Rothschild who had defeated Napoleon).

Because George Soros does not exist, or at least is unmentionable in polite company, it is unmentionable he finances not only “US politicians”, but also a vast international network of crypto-Communist front groups that have nothing to do with Satanism or paedo-pizza.  More like open borders, organized subversion of existing societies, etc., but that’s just crazy talk.

Other nonexistent persons include the Warburgs, Schiff, Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller...  And none of this is new.


h/t V8s.  Oh, I was right that Carnegie is in here; he is, of course, the one labelled “Andy”.  Dig into the Carnegie foundations (plural) if you want to investigate a very deep, deeply Red labyrinth.  Soros is a n00b.



Liberalism is a disease of the brain.  One of its symptoms is an inability to comprehend the idea that men who have more money than many national governments could ever use that money to advance long-term agendas that they may find inexpedient to explain to the public.


“Deep State” is a term that exists because every generation of children rediscovers the world, and invents new slang to describe what their grandparents could have told them (if their grandparents were not idiots).

An unaccountable entrenched bureaucracy integrated with the military-industrial complex that cuts backroom deals with corporate power brokers, and effectually steers the overt and covert policies of a “democratic” government, is neither a brilliant new discovery, nor a “conspiracy theory”.  It is how modern government works, throughout the West.  Unless anyone wants to suggest that, say, the NSA gives a hoot about whether Trump or Biden is “elected”?

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Yes, only crazy people are worried about George Soros—but “we have questions” about those UFOs, and it is “harmless” to believe in alien abductions.


It is also telling that Miss Richards categorically labels concerns about George Soros as “antisemitic”.  Especially funny to me—for the first time that I ever heard complaints about Soros, many years ago, it was from some ultra-right-wing Zionist Israeli dude who probably would have been moderately fond of the Kushners.  I disagreed with him about many things—such as his opinion that Germans, Palestinians, and other awful creatures should be exterminated like cockroaches; but he hit the nail on the head with his thundering anti-Soros tirades, at a time long before the Internet collectively noticed that Soros existed.

What is this “we” of which you speak?  As for myself, I am at the point of “Abbie Richards is a virtue-signalling dupe (probably, and at best).”

Bottom, “things that actually happened”:  Mostly things that the U.S. government officially admitted.  Mostly things deemed baneful by the Left, for one reason or another.  So—if the U.S. government said so, and said so very loudly in the Congressional Record, then you have permission to say that it “actually happened”.

Top two tiers:  A few unpleasant realities that Miss Richards dislikes hearing about, mixed with a ton of arrant nonsense for the purpose of guilt by association.  I am surprised that I do not see the Federal Reserve^* up there.

Ridiculous, and oh so telling:  Miss Richards places “UFOs”, “Roswell”, and “Area 51” in the acceptable “we have questions” tier, and “alien abductions” in the “mostly harmless” tier, whilst consigning a few things that are actually well-evidenced to the “dangerous” or “get help” tiers.  Whoops!  What a way for Miss Richards to rationalize her own superstitions.

Although I am uninterested in arguing any of that, I must amuse myself:


Not quite, but it is an undisputed historical fact that Nazis put Americans on the moon!

Of course, that is not a “conspiracy” as such.  Just a bit of history that most people nowadays would prefer to forget.

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* I do caution researchers of the Federal Reserve to beware that one of the well-known authors on the subject privately admitted that he just made stuff up, whenever that seemed strategically advantageous to him.  Of course, what he actually achieved was to poison the well for everybody else.  I don’t say this to be politically correct; my source on that was himself quite extremely “incorrect”, but was pedantic about facts.  Caveat lector.

FTFY:

Why not both?

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That hearkens back to my own first public statement on Covid.  Guess what, 100.0% of humans die—and as you yourself noted, people are going to get Covid anyway.

Obsessive fear of Death destroys life, especially if it parlays a not-very-scary Plague into very-scary Famine.  And/or War.

Hmmm, it looks like a Bible-quoting evangelical got #triggered.


What you say is difficult to parse, but I think that you are confusing PCR with antibody reactivity.

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifies DNA or (in this case) RNA, so a PCR test checks for the presence of specific genetic material.

How could PCR give a false positive based on “flu you had 10 years ago”?  Maybe an antibody test could, if flu and Covid have cross-immunity; but you are talking about PCR, which identifies a specific virus present in the body right now.


How could PCR be used at all, with a virus that “has never been specifically identified”?  What PCR does is specifically to identify (or rather, to amplify small amounts of things so they can be identified). /logic

Whereas that thing you allege to be unidentified has been sequenced in multiple distinct strains.  You can play with genomic sequence data on AWS, or download genomic datasets.  Never identified?



(Edit:  inb4 anyone accuses me of being on USG payroll because I linked to something dot-gov.)


If asymptomatic spread of Covid occurs, that would be a sign of it being a peculiarly non-scary plague.

“ZOMG!  You may never even know that you have it when you pass it to your elderly parents/grandparents, and accidentally kill them.”

OK, so isolate old people and sick people.  Everybody else can basically keep functioning.  No lockdowns, no panic.  No need to reduce ourselves to starving animals in cages.

That is not exactly the Black Death.

As I have been saying for the past seven months (boldface in the original; self-quoted by me multiple times in WO):


The real problem is simpletons with absolutely binary thinking:  Either Covid must be treated as the new Black Death, or Covid does not exist.  How about some nuance and rationality?

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WTF, is Mercola shadowbanning Tor?  I get this from multiple exits, and again after waiting awhile:


Nice shopping basket.

WTF?  Is Mercola blocking Archive.org (which is the usual cause of these messages), or is Archive.org censoring Covid discussion (a disturbing pattern nowadays)?  The passive voice gives no hint.