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Surfin' Bitcoin est de retour pour sa 4ème édition !

👉 Les 23, 24 & 25 août 2023 au Casino de Biarritz

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Le Paradigme Bitcoin 2023

Le canton de Neuchâtel (🇨🇭) accueille depuis quelques années un écosystème florissant autour de Bitcoin. Le 24 juin 2022, Le Paradigme Bitcoin a rassemblé plus de 200 participants. Suite à ce succès, la société coopérative B2Bitcoin a décidé de poursuivre son organisation en 2023. Grâce au soutien de l’État de Neuchâtel et de la Confédération, nous souhaitons le développer.

L’objectif est de toucher de nouveaux publics, de le prolonger sur tout un week-end et de l’enraciner à plusieurs endroits du canton. Nous posons les bases d’un nouveau rendez-vous international incontournable pour Bitcoin et sa culture. Il comprendra trois événements différents et complémentaires :

➢ Le Paradigme Bitcoin 2023 (deuxième édition), le vendredi 30 juin à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Il s’agit d’un événement payant s’adressant à un public professionnel et aux Bitcoineurs. Il s’agit du volet officiel.

➢ Le festival p2p du Jura, le week-end du 1er et 2 juillet aux Verrières. Il s’agit d’un événement gratuit festif, artistique et pédagogique qui s’adresse au grand public. Il sera interdit de filmer et d’enregistrer lors de cet événement.

➢ Privacy Reunion, le samedi 1er juillet à Neuchâtel. Il s’agit d’une journée orienté «recherche» avec des conférences techniques sur la cryptographie et son utilisation pour défendre sa vie privée en ligne.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

by John Perry Barlow

Davos, Switzerland

February 8, 1996

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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

A galloping inflation

⚠️ Crypto-Talk à La Chaux-de-Fonds ⚠️

Jeudi 9 mars 2023 à 18h à Coworking La Chaux-de-Fonds Gare, @massmux viendra présenter le protocole Nostr. Un protocole open source de plateforme sociales décentralisées résistant à la censure.

La conférence sera suivi du traditionnel beer2beer ! 🍻

Nous nous réjouissons de vous accueillir nombreux dans notre espace.

Félicitations 👏

Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek (1899-1992) was one of the world's leading free-market economists and social philosophers.

In this excerpt Hayek predicts Bitcoin when he imagines that state and money needs to be separated in order to prevent the disaster of monetary policy set by the central planners. He anticipates that it would require some sly, roundabout way to create money that "they can't stop".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIidtaUCzs

Documentary of the day 👀

Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism?

In this documentary, Zuboff takes the lid off Google and Facebook and reveals a merciless form of capitalism in which no natural resources, but the citizen itself, serves as a raw material. How can citizens regain control of their data?

It is 2000, and the dot.com crisis has caused deep wounds. How will startup Google survive the bursting of the internet bubble? Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin don't know anymore how to turn the tide. By chance, Google discovers that the "residual data" that people leave behind in their searches on the internet is very precious and tradable.

This residual data can be used to predict the behavior of the internet user. Internet advertisements can, therefore, be used in a very targeted and effective way. A completely new business model is born: "surveillance capitalism."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw

Salut !

Privacy is a fundamental human right, not a privilege reserved for the few.