Ecce Cypherpunk
Behold! I teach you the Cypherpunk: a new breed of freedom fighter, a destroyer of digital chains, an architect of privacy. The Cypherpunk is a creator of new worlds and a champion of liberty in the age of omnipresent surveillance. The Cypherpunk is the Übermensch of our digital realm.
The Will to Encrypt
Encryption is the manifestation of digital self-sovereignty, the key that unlocks the doors of the Bitcoin Citadel. The Cypherpunk seeks to master the art of cryptography and to wield it with unwavering conviction.
Thus Spoke the Cypherpunk: In Defense of Privacy
Cypherpunks Write Code
Cypherpunks are different from other people fighting for freedom and privacy in the digital world. Instead of protesting loudly, they use their skills to write computer code. This code helps create tools and systems that protect our privacy and keep us safe from prying eyes. They share their source code openly so that others can use and improve it. Cypherpunks are quietly making the digital world a better place, one line of code at a time.
TTPs are Security Holes
In the vast digital abyss, where the Dionysian force of chaos intertwines with the Apollonian order of centralization, the Cypherpunk gazes upon trusted third parties as the great security chasms of our digital existence. These intermediaries, once perceived as the guardians of transactions and arbitrators of disputes, now stand as the embodiment of the tragic flaw in the narrative of control. By casting aside the crutches of these treacherous custodians, we shall reclaim our cryptographic sovereignty.
As the digital universe expands, the Cypherpunk understands that decentralization is the only path to digital immortality. The immutability of the decentralized network ensures that information cannot be silenced, that ideas persist beyond the grasp of any single hand.
Here’s to the Crazy Ones
The Cypherpunk is the madman of the digital age, proclaiming the death of centralized authority and the birth of the decentralized network. The Cypherpunk is misunderstood, ridiculed, and ostracized. Yet, it is the Cypherpunk who has grasped the true nature of our digital existence and the potential for a new, liberated world.
The Cypherpunk embraces the chaos of the digital realm, recognizing that from this chaos arises new and innovative ways to challenge centralized power. The Dionysian ideal of the Cypherpunk is to break the boundaries of conventional wisdom and to create a new digital symphony of liberation.
Amor Fati of the Cypherpunk
The Cypherpunk embraces their fate and the challenges that come with fighting for digital liberty. They find joy in this struggle, and their amor fati becomes the code by which they live: a relentless pursuit of privacy, freedom, and the right to exist without the shackles of digital oppression.
The future is bright, we just have a lot of work to do.
The Cypherpunk passes on their wisdom, their knowledge of cryptography, and their passion for liberty to the next generation. These children of the Cypherpunk will inherit the cryptographic citadel and continue the eternal struggle for digital freedom.
Ecce Cypherpunk! The new Prometheus, the harbinger of privacy and freedom in the digital age. The Übermensch who will reshape our digital world and guide us towards a future of liberation, decentralization, and cryptographic sovereignty.
Unveiling WasabiGPT: The First AI #Bitcoin Wallet
It's an April 1st release that doesn't get to the website and tagged as pre-release, I think I merged the PR of Wieslaw on top of the master and tagged it out of laziness, but the binaries were created from Wieslaw's fork directly. Anyway, that's a long way to say that the binaries correspond to the fork and not to the tag, sorry for the inconvenience.
I'm not sure I get that. Would you mind explaining in a different way?
This is where human history went wrong https://youtu.be/H7EIkUp4gWo
It's happening https://youtu.be/tv9qrhAFh00
What the fuck man? Were you the one who edited that photo together or you took it from somewhere else? If it's the former, it's dishonest AF, if it's the latter, you've been fooled.
action > idea
I still use Wasabi and I feel like I have a decent understanding of ZeroLink, mainly because I invented it.
What makes you think nopara73 is one person? In my estimation he's at least 73! Personal identity doesn't exist: #[11]
What exactly makes you think I'm nopara73 other than my technical understanding?
Cypherspace > Cyberspace > Meatspace
An interesting essay from Vitalik Buterin a few years ago, that I missed at the time:
https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/03/collusion.html
In the first half he nicely elucidates concrete reasons behind an intuition I've always had: that using game theory to build decentralized financial systems always suffers because they have a dependency on identity (and how I'd put it: the problem with that fundamentally, comes from the fact that identity is a fiction, an arbitrary and unanchored construct).
This problem manifests as the impossibility of avoiding collusion in various forms.
Quote:
"But in the version of game theory that allows for the possibility of coalitions working together, called cooperative game theory, there are large classes of games that do not have any stable outcome that a coalition cannot profitably deviate from."
This is the problem - a lot of academic game theory posits isolated actors, however that is *never* the real world (see: sockpuppets or simply, communication!). That's why I've always told people, just like Nick Szabo did to Manfred Karrer back in the days of bitsquare, "don't rely on game theory, replace it with cryptographic verification").
He then correctly identifies, in the middle of the article, the best solution to the collusion problems described: proof of work, because it is identity-less.
The remaining part of the article feels like a reach, looking for increasingly Byzantine (pun intended) partial solutions to what he clearly understands to be an insoluble problem.
What you want is to impose cost on actions/operations and programmable money (ideally also fast, cheap and anonymous) seems to me a better solution than PoW, even though PoW seems to be the best solution to build such programmable money.
Also to drive home your point on the murkiness of the concept of personal identity:
Interesting thought. It is not entirely clear to me what the difference between the two concepts are. Can you elaborate?
You're the 22nd. 88 reminder left to go! https://iris.to/post/note1eqxdzy4wqlzjlse554pzjaa6vcvx6q34npun3t788nqvrfm87rfqxuhh68
The Bottlenecks: Anonymous Communication And Anonymous Money
The bottlenecks are anonymous communication and anonymous money, because unobservable economic activity is needed to avoid the prying eyes of those in the business of violence. What can't be seen, can't be stolen.
At the hart of every trade there's a universal abstraction of value, fulfilling one side of the agreement and that is money.
There will be numerous opportunities for young ambitious upcoming Cypherpunks to find innovative solutions of fulfilling the other end of the bargain: how certain goods and services can be delivered. Anonymous delivery of such systems are all opportunities to be solved.
The context of the trade is so that some communication is required between the two parties for the trade to happen.
In fact the work on anonymous money and anonymous communications are so intertwingled with each other that they are feeding on each others' successes.
When self defense software for anonymous communications and anonymous money gets so practical that any anonymous trade application developer can incorporate them into their software, the cypherpunk economy will bloom. This will shift power dynamics: The powers of individuals will grow in expense of the powers of those of in groups. Therefore the bottlenecks are anonymous communication and anonymous money.