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What’s the common unit of measurement for labor? How do I translate an hour of my labor into and hour of your labor? Labor is indeed at the core of society but we don’t trade labor for labor. We trade labor for money. I can’t witness your labor easily to understand it’s value. Money is how society scales up.

Merely changing the base layer of society isn’t enough?

Sure.

Keep helping people how you see fit. Human action is how economies work.

Anyone trying to stop you from peaceful voluntarily interacting with other people.

Everyone won’t have Liberty. Life isn’t fair and no amount of force can change that. But making a difference for large swaths of people starts with changing our money. By making sure control of the money isn’t gate-kept by the few. Make money understandable and open to anyone instead of opaque and restricted. Most importantly, make sure money can’t be debased so hard working people can save the value they create for others without it being inflated away.

Why is housing so unaffordable? I think a lot of it has to do with the rent seekers at the top using lies and deception to manipulate money so basic needs become evermore unattainable by your average person.

Why do we see such wealth disparity? The ever widening gap of rich and poor is due to financial games where only the privileged and connected get access to dollars when wanting to buy hard goods. Those goods accrue to the top, forcing everyone else to pay rent if they want access to things. Who controls most real estate? Most medicine? It’s not the people, it’s the bankers and their politicians that bloviate about “making change” when the only change is the amount of value they leech from the rest of the world.

There is no right and left. There is the bankers and their politician puppets. And then there are the rest of us.

Left and right can get fucked. I want Liberty. Not oligarchy.

Got any actionable steps?

Btw, you’re free to leave if there are better places. No one keeps you in America. Lots of happy ex-pats elsewhere.

Repent is one thing. I’m making amends.

Full #Bitcoin node has synced on Independence Day. I am now officially financially sovereign and independent. 🎆🎉

Better than which places, exactly? Better than the places where student and medical debt aren't things? Better than places where mortality rate isn't increasing? Or places where old folks can retire? Places where families can afford a home? The American dream is available to fewer and fewer people every year, despite the vast amount of resources that we take from other countries at criminally low rates.

😂

Because historically slavery has always been looked down on. Today it’s just a different form of slavery. Debt slavery. Get a massive student loan then work your ass off to pay it off for most of your life. Still better quality of life and everyday freedom than lots of places in the world.

Navy Chief of 11yrs 4mo and 3days. 🤝

Repent for what?

Navy Chief of 11yrs 4mo and 3days. 🤝

Repent for what?

Can’t imagine it. Maybe it’s just me. 🤷‍♀️

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Eric Hughes

March 9, 1993

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Murica- Land of the free because of the brave. Be brave.

You’re a moron.