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HashThis··on DEF Con 28: Safe Mode
Attending DEF Con 28 virtually will be made easy for you. Soon you will be sent an .EXE in email. Just click to run it. Click Install when it opens.

Then you can easily attend DEF Con 28 remotely.

HashThis··on NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’
Good
HashThis··on Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
Zoom sells out citizens to China. US Congress would protect US citizens affected, except US Congress sells out to corporations (zoom).

US Congress -> Sells out -> Zoom -> Sells out -> China

HashThis··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
Please open source keybase
HashThis··on JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers
A percentage of Wall Street firms are crony capitalism based theft. What percent do you think that is?

Here is a case of the banking industry/WallStreet selling out the American citizens. Congress won't hold them accountable, because congress sells out American citizens.

HashThis··on We've Built Cities We Can't Afford
This is mostly SanFran and NYC. Other cities can build housing and apartments. Seattle has built tons of apartments. Costs are a bit high, but that is the fuel to kick growing the supply into overdrive.
HashThis··on Could the US Dollar Be Crypto's Killer App?
Back in the day of dial-up modems, people dreams of watching TV over the internet. Didn't work well with dial-up. As infrastructure spread, it happened (NetFlix).

Crypto going mainstream will happen. It will happen when debit cards to crypto accounts will pay merchants, and the merchants receive USD. AND when the rates are tiny.

HashThis··on As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting
What percent of YouTube's revenue goes to YouTubers?
HashThis··on Helicopter Money: Way Out of Crisis or Fallacy of Traditional Economics?
* If citizens approve money printing to citizens, then it helps them out.

* Money printing to the privilege class (investors), creates permanent theft to citizens going forward, for these two reasons: 1) Salaries don't go up with inflation for low income and middle class. Only Gold-color workers.

   2) That money going to privilege class has them bid up equities/stocks (and other) asset classes.  Workers with 401k get far smaller percent of the stock market.  Instead of 10% YoY return from the stock market for their retirement, they get a lower percentage.
2008 had US Dollars at $800b (monetary base). 5 years later, it was $3.6 trillion. That is 450% as many USDollars as before. That money printed $2.8 trillion went to the privilege class. Workers adding to their 401ks get robbed for the rest of their life, on lower growth.
HashThis··on Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
I great worry that China's intelligence service has the zoom traffic of American's routed to the Chinese zoom servers, so they can intercept.
HashThis··on Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights
These corporations be forced to raise capital by selling the shares they bought back.
HashThis··on Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights
The fraud is at a far deeper level. The founding father's social contract is based on laws-apply-equally-to-all-people (citizens vs BigCo). On a fundamental level, congress protects corporations financially in situations between BigCo-vs-citizen. Congress betrays people financially in cases of BigCo-vs-citizens. Congress sells out repeatedly to money interests. Congress on a fundamental violates laws-apply-equally-to-all-people. The fraud is at a deep level is when citizens loose hard cash by congress selling them out. I have plane tickets of flights that were cancelled. I'm going to lose $4,000 in real cash based on the flights my family ordered. $4,000 in real cash, because congress sells out citizens. When I lose $4k, that is fraud when the airline cancelled the flight.
HashThis··on Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights
We paid for that product. If they can't deliver the service, we are owed our money back. This would be fraud. Congress sells out the american people to corporations on these things. If revolution happens in the USA, it will be because congress and corporations pull this kind of corruption.
HashThis··on Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
Zoom has betrayed us all! Congress must require zoom to explain why they are sending encryption keys to China when all participants are USA citizens. Zoom is betraying USA citizens and their customers. We must pressure USA zoom execs to explain exactly why they are doing this.
HashThis··on Private Equity Wants in on the Bailout? Spare Me
The privileged class knows that congress sells us out. The privileged class are just again working to rob the masses to wealth transfer more to the privileged classes. Happens every year, some more visible than others. Hopefully this is one time congress won't sell us out.
HashThis··on A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
All of your emails and text messages have been saved on NSA server harddisks, without a warrent. You are asking the right questions.
HashThis··on A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
"German Stasi is on my CV, because I worked there. I was just following orders."
HashThis··on Governments are using charges of cybercrime to silence journalists
Future crimes: Aggravated tweeting. Seditious live stream.
HashThis··on A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
ex-NSA engineers. That has a negative brand to it. Especially and specifically when it comes to respect for data privacy.
HashThis··on What Is Bitcoin: Internet’s Native Money or Asset for Speculation?
The SEC sues people who launch tokens without KYC and AML these days. The SEC is having a hard time finding Satoshi.

Here is where SEC has grandfathered in ETH and BTC specifically: > The SEC has declared that Ethereum and its digital coin ether, are not securities today, during the Yahoo Finance summit. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/bitcoin-and-ethereum-are-not...

HashThis··on What Is Bitcoin: Internet’s Native Money or Asset for Speculation?
The US Dollar money supply increased 500% in 5 years ($800b in 2008 to $3.6 Trillion in 2013) [Monetary base]. That is a lot of "money printing" (including digitally expanding the money supply).

There will come a time when the fact that Bitcoin won't EVER "print money" or expand the money supply is a HUGE value.

You say the currency supply "fluctuates". In the future, with 500% increases in US Dollar, the US Dollar can greatly drop in value. Over time, the fact that people know bitcoin can't expand the money supply is VERY VERY powerful.

HashThis··on What Is Bitcoin: Internet’s Native Money or Asset for Speculation?
When people launch tokens (new cryptocurrencies) today, they need to be KYC and AML compatible. KYC and AML add so much friction, it destroys usage. It blocks it from working on some parts of the planet. (Small third world countries don't all of the FinCen-like organizations that exist across the US and Europe)
HashThis··on What Is Bitcoin: Internet’s Native Money or Asset for Speculation?
I had a big insight on bitcoin:

* "Sound money" groups have one set of wishes of what will happen to the US Dollar

* Some parts of the population want money printing to pay for services.

* WallStreet likes money printing US Dollars to bail them out.

* Everyone has an agenda for US Dollars.

Here is what happens to bitcoin:

* Bitcoin (and Ethereum) were given a historic strategic value by the US Gov because they get grand fathered in that they are not required to have KYC & AML. Future crypto tokens will, and they will be held back.

* Bitcoin is where citizens can turn to, when money printing doesn't match their agenda. What is amazing, is that they don't need to get approval from the full citizen base. This is great for citizens that are hurt by money printing.

Right now, it is for speculation for investors. But the investors are investing towards more usage as a currency in the future.

HashThis··on Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO
Of course they will invest in them. They will make profits. Or they will steal from all citizens if they will lose big.

In Ben Bernanke's book, it showed how the Fed used citizen's money to buy all mortgages that collapsed (that AIG insuranced) for FULL PRICE. This means their fraudulant peak. He paid 100% of the full price. That way the entire supply chain of mortgage holders (MBSs, CDOs, Synthetic CDOs) would never lose a penny.

HashThis··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
I know companies that won't hire Google employees because of this reputation.
HashThis··on Too Much Crypto [pdf]
Not long ago, we trusted RC4 and DES. We didn't laugh back in the 1980s and 1990s. But those would be crazy to use now.

We can cringe 20 years out about ECC, RSA and AES.

HashThis··on Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
When your company wants your side project, you should be polite. Say "no thank you"
HashThis··on Corporate debt nears a record $10T, and borrowing binge poses new risks
When the fed bails out the corporate bond market, then that is when it becomes unacceptable. This happened recently. The Fed/Treasury had to do that during the 2008 crisis also.

Just never bail them out, and let them deal with their problems.

HashThis··on Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
People don't buy $200 billion worth of drugs. To get that much, the nation state and oligarchs need to be rigging the economy and stealing with massive crony capitalism.
HashThis··on The Real Class War
The US has healthy capitalism, and a separate theft by crony capitalism. GDP growth is stolen away from workers to investors. Crony capitalism has completely spread across the pharma industry, medical, banking, and so much more.

US congress men and women sell out on the key areas where crony capitalists need their laws changed.

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