Topic: Economic Totalitarianism - page 87. (Read 345758 times)

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/report-bill-clinton-reassured-jeb-bush-this-trump-thing-will-be-taken-care-of/

"It shows that [the plutocracy]" (TPTB_need_war) maintains it authority (at least, in part) through plutocratic (note: the political maneuver summarized above is starkly undemocratic) mechanisms of wealth maintenance.

I'd like some more details before I take the accusations seriously. Names, dates, ect... If there is a spike in doctors in Texas who "commit suicide" that should be easy to corroborate with evidence, and linking their employment history would give you interesting circumstantial evidence.  

It's like the artwork in at the Denver Int. Airport--doubtful it's coincidence that there are never any Russians in the peaceful group scenes and the bad guy is usually holding a scimitar.

Fear only works if you leave a clue for the subconscious, so killing off doctors in an obviously linkable way (at least circumstantially and for someone paying attention) should glean you more information than some doctors in Texas working on some project--at least if those in charge of the killing squads know the point of propaganda-through-death. You want to cover your tracks, but you also want to leave a (oh so subtle) calling card.  

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/06/building_retro_.html#c6672915

Another developer who thinks anonymity is more than a fascination, but what anonymity features does his Skycoin have?

I just expended 30 minutes studying this boy genius who I assume could kick my butt in chess.

http://bitcoinwarrior.net/2014/09/talk-david-zimbeck-bitcoin-2-0-bithalo-blackhalo-nighttrader/

His BlackHalo main innovation is double deposit.

Well I have to raise my hand and blow a hole in his balloon, for the same analogous reason that I (as AnonyMint) did to Gregory Maxwell in his CoinJoin thread.

The problem is DoS attack. If you have to place your double deposit with an unknown party, then you can be DoS'ed to hell and have gridlock.

gmaxwell retorted that the adversary could be blacklisted by coin address but the entire point of anonymity on spending is to enable one to obscuring the payer, thus whoops he can't achieve that without some global blacklist which is about as evil as it gets.

Fail.

OROBTC, here is a kickstarter project that could give us all anonymous WiFi internet access and also make it much more difficult to censor and take the physical internet down every where:


Whoops. Kiss that project above good bye:


It shows that TPTB prefer to take action against the centralized aspects of the system, i.e. the manufacturers. This is why centralization of mining in crypto is so dangerous.

Someone asked me in a PM for my opinion of VanillaCoin. I just expended 15 minutes studying it for the first time:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-vnl-vanillacoin-041-instant-incentivized-innovative-977245

The DarkPP stuff is vaporware and no details are available.

It claims some efficiency improvements over Bitcoin and Peercoin. Appears the developer is a seasoned P2P networking programmer. If I had to venture a guess, he probably was a former developer of a Bittorrent client.

The main feature of significance is the zero confirmation time research which attempts to gain a faster consensus. Unfortunately he seems to entirely forget any game theory analysis. The Byzantine fault tolerance in proof-of-work consensus is due to game theory incentives given by the proof-of-work rewards. He expects these peers to behave a certain optimum way when they are not being paid to do so. Many faults will be found in his design because of this. I don't have time to go outline the faults.

Satoshi was a lot more astute than many people might realize. If you are going to improve upon Satoshi's work, you need to be very sharp.

Smooth appreciate that coming from you.

If your body gives out, the won't get done at all.

Anyway, best of luck with the treatment. I hope it is successful.

In the meantime, wellness and not overtaxing your system matter. Find a balance.

I like your ideas. Concur.

Unfortunately with the M.S., I don't really enjoy life the same as I used to. I prefer to work, because then I am not focused on what my body feels like.

So in my mind it has been work, work, work to get money to get cured.

I do agree though I need to get to the gym twice a week at least. The problem is I suffer so much the backlash from the M.S. after workouts.

As I said, sometimes I feel if I could just discard this body, I could smile again. But then when I go to the gym and still able to fly to the basketball rim, I still want to keep my body.

I had glimpses of my old life. I think it was in June, I had this night where I felt totally normal. I didn't want to stay in the house. I wanted to drive around, find the party, the disco, etc.. My gf was very happy. But unfortunately it was only that one night.

There is the thought that if I actually just did outdoor activities all day every day, then my M.S. would improve. I may be making this worse by being inside always looking at a 24" flat screen.

That may be true, but it would require letting this opportunity slip away.

Tough choices.

Thanks. Okay let's stop this. Will get embarrassing. I hope now everyone knows who I am. So there won't be any doubts about me being a scammer or not serious or what ever.

TPTB when was the last time you took a day for yourself to do something you enjoy? Or even just to relax for that matter... While I can't overstate the importance of your work, I get the impression that it's practically in control of your life. Also, on top of that I'd guess you're living with an unhealthy level of stress caused by the curse of your foresight into the calamity headed our way... I wish you luck with your medical procedures and hope you find some time at some point to get out and enjoy some of the things we're used to taking for granted. It's like you said, the world is about to change very soon. Don't let it wear you down mentally.

Also, I believe having a positive outlook affects a persons health and recovery. So here's something I hope will improve your outlook a bit. I honestly believe this.

While most people look at the world as if it were a living portrait, they see nothing but a transient snapshot of the present. Others, however are the "artists" of the world, the "makers", they view the world as a culmination of the underlying processes involved in the creation of this current iteration called reality. You're one of the artists... You can change the world.

This is the first post I've made here in a very long time... I've had a good amount of time to think about the future and spend some time on my own development. Nothing can ever prepare a person to live in a world where they may become "hunted" by their government for no real fault of their own, as witnessed during WW2 and elsewhere in history. That's what I envision is in store for the future to some degree, governments can sway a population to despicable acts during an extended period of depression. Governments aren't losing any force, but they have certainly lost a good measure of "real" control over the direction of society with the technological enhancements in telecommunications and human networking. Additionally, the exponential growth in these areas will make conventional attempts to restrict the use of these technologies a losing battle. The capabilities available to the common man are so much greater now than they were in the last century alone, the outcome of our current trajectory is a wild card in human history... There really is no other time we can reference without finding huge disparities in major factors that may have altered the outcomes.

But just to be on topic to this specific thread I'll throw in my opinion...
As far as solutions to protecting wealth under economic totalitarianism, there are only two that I can see...

1. Redefine wealth into categories of companionship, knowledge, personal ability, and personal property. Then assign value to these for yourself. Money is just an invention with a variable rate that we like to use for transferring or securing these aforementioned things... Money is but one means to a desired end, not the only one, and in my opinion its not a good metric for evaluating personal wealth... The wealth isn't the money...

2. Learn skills that others would likely find valuable when they themselves are also in need, and don't count on any monetary instrument to hold value for trade when the crash happens. Not even crypto will hold value during and immediately after this kind of event. The market will need to rediscover true values and that takes some time...

Basically, there is no way to protect wealth unless you stop valuing it in money. Unless that money also falls under "personal property" aka non state-owned.

You could hide value with CN. Split your value into small morsels, mix, then recombine through mixes. So then no one knows who owns that large balance.

Or simply use Monero as it is with balances split into powers-of-10 and thus (in theory) no one knows which sets of transactions are really the same transaction. Thus I agree with smooth's statement.

However, I have my doubts as to whether those powers-of-10 balances are not correlated via timing analysis. I don't have a specific algorithm nor research paper to cite, but rather just that we are dropping patterns all over the place. In an ideal anonymity set, everything should look the same, so there is no entropy to analyze.

So thus hiding value has the advantage of removing information that can be used to aid in combinatorial and timing analysis (combined).

Also it has another advantage which I won't mention yet...

In any case, I want to acceded that CN does in theory effectively add value privacy. I am just not confident that Monero is sufficient against the 5 Eyes and powerful analysis research that might be forthcoming if ever these CN coins become popular.

Think of my work as (an attempt at) the second stage of furthering the technology.

CN has a viewkey. If the government takes control of the mining because due to centralization they can regulate 51% of network hash rate, then they can require every transaction publicize its viewkey. Effectively the government can force anonymity to be turned off, if they control 51% of the network hash rate.

Being able to guarantee that the mining will always be decentralized, is required to be able guarantee non-censorship.

This is probably the major flaw of crypto-currency.

I do believe I have a design solution and this should be published this year (hopefully). At this point, I wouldn't take my assertion as 100% given, because without peer review and implementation, one has to remember "devil is in the details" and faults could be discovered.

If I can borrow or rent a car from you, then no problem?

Well let's see what is most efficient. I need to first organize some details from my end.

Thanks very much! I am more interested to go if I someone can help me find my way around. I am so overloaded on tasks right now, I don't have time to do proper planning on knowing the city layout and food arrangements, etc.

You see that often in unseasoned theorists.

That's exactly what I have been looking for, thanks for that link.

I can offer you a room to stay in, and it even has a racing car bed! It's probably more peaceful than the roosters, tricycles & jeeps you're used to hearing over there..

But I am located about an hour away from Melbourne.

I have developed a design that has all the advantages Vitalik describes for private block chains, but on a public block chain.

The scalability white paper he linked to in that article is a more abstract and generalized description of the scalability design I had also invented around the time he  published this paper. This is the first time I've seen this research.

Afaics his abstract paper does not deal with some of the intricacies of the economics that have to be solved in order to make the design actually work in the real world. Also he apparently hasn't realized that it is possible to filter out a 51% attack.