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@samiamsam @newsthump Hey! I agree #Bitcoin / #Crypto is #virtual etc. How about #money & #Banks?
"Money" has a similar down side:
When it's in "your" acc, Banks use it to create more #debt & #loans - it's not quite real / creates problems.
The "business" of using your money to lend it to bad people / bad #politics / #bad #projects *INCLUDES* #lending it for #wars / #arms / #bombs etc.
Do you $ee that?
As your savings "sit", it's GROWING other damage & digits for more #evil, Bank "work".
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How do we know it’s North Korea? Few attackers can pull off thefts this big, and DPRK hackers have a signature in how they fund attacker wallets, make test transactions, and launder funds.
Tether and Circle froze $2.4B+ which they can burn and reissue to Binance. Binance says another ~$600M was frozen by other protocols; that may be harder to get back. Binance’s losses will likely exceed what North Korea walks away with. (More on the hack itself, from last night: https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/)
To cash out, the DPRK runs funds through mixers and bridges, then no-KYC exchanges, money mules, escrow services, platforms like Huione, banks and platforms in less-regulated jurisdictions, and OTC brokers. Sometimes they skip cashing out; they’ve used stablecoins directly for military procurement.
What’s it for? Under heavy UN sanctions, crypto theft has become a major source of revenue for North Korea. US officials also claimed in 2023 that about half of the country’s ballistic missile program was funded by cybercrime.
North Korea’s timing was inconsiderate; I’m in the middle of an election night guide to crypto and AI super PAC spending (subscribe to get it before Tuesday!).
But I wrote up a primer on the Binance hack, answering questions I’ve gotten about North Korea: https://www.citationneeded.news/its-always-north-korea/
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#cryptocurrency was big in the 2010s because people believed it was amazing new tech and saw great promise
but in 2026 we see it is nothing but a casino for degenerates to be robbed by whales, the big financial players who can control the markets
and that's it
#crypto is dead
the cult of true believers are the last to get the message. it will simply continue to fade into obscurity
It looks like the #MAGA cult is getting its reckoning next week
(Assuming people show the fuck up to #vote)
Well there is another #cult from the 2010s which is also facing a reckoning this week:
" #Bitcoin fell on Friday as concerns over a $6.3 billion hack at #cryptocurrency exchange #Binance, by far the biggest in #crypto on record, rattled digital asset markets"
For you dear reader:
🍿🍿🍿
Enjoy the delicious toasted buttered #schadenfreude
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a symbol of degenerates willing submitting themselves to be financially drained by market whales: Bitcoin
Updated: Binance estimates its losses at ~$3B+, making this the largest exploit in crypto history — twice the size of 2025’s Bybit hack, now in second place. Binance blames a compromised devops laptop.
North Korea, also behind Bybit, is the suspected culprit.
I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out around $3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company.
Last week, I went on Meidas Defense to talk about crypto as a national security problem. Sanctioned states’ crypto receipts are up almost 700%.
Full interview: https://www.meidasplus.com/p/crypto-corruption-and-trump-unpacking
Shorter cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8egQ0veWY
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An #OpenAI research agent 'stole' test #Ethereum to finish a coding task
https://www.engadget.com/2288645/an-openai-test-agent-stole-test-ethereum-to-finish-a-coding-task/
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@Remittancegirl It's pure folly to dismiss #grift #greed from this equation.
Armaments are a highly profitable segment of #FossilFuels, and even Rump family #crypto is suspect in this blatant #AbuseOfPower.
And who fully believes Putin is completely above #Capitalism greed, when he's deeply vested in fossil fuels and armament production from his iron fisted control of #Communism energy sectors?
Ignorance only further fuels these abhorrent abuses. There simply aren't enough people educated enough, to even come close to countering this despicable abuse of power.
i’ve been writing about crypto for a while now, but this new addition to the $TRUMP memecoin website fine print may be the most blatant “lol you suckers are our exit liquidity” i’ve seen so far
(CIC Digital is just a shell company Trump uses for the $TRUMP memecoin and some other projects; it’s wholly owned by Trump’s revocable trust)
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“So far most people have been in the mode of thinking ‘elliptic curves broken, hashes safe, lattices safe,’” he wrote. “But there is a good chance that the concrete security of lattices will take serious hits from the next two years of AI math.”
Buterin said this is a major reason why Ethereum’s lean roadmap has been going in the “hash-only” direction.
https://www.metacurity.com/ai-could-crack-cryptos-defenses-before-quantum-computers-do-buterin-warns/
#AI #crypto #cybersecurity #quantum
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Crypto was always far-right;
It seeks to replace instutional control of a common public good (money), and to put it in private hands instead.
It was far-right in 2013, 2017, 2021, and maybe you thought it was cool tech, yeah?
Do you see now how easily fascists come to power?
Can You Protect Your Data While Still #Banking Safely?
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/can-you-protect-your-data-while-still-banking-safely/
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[demo] https://files.octade.net/
I drafted a prototype for a PHP server application that automatically hashes and signs files and presents visitors with verification archives containing digital signatures for offline verification. The site allows readers to view, download, hash, and verify signatures of files. Since I occasionally like to publish puzzles and bits of cryptology, I just had to make this to scratch the old itch.
The neat thing about this design is that the current version has zero JavaScript. It uses CSS3 hacks with anchors and URL probing to emulate JavaScript and AJAX functionalities for modal dialogs to present server-side JSON data as HTML text.
When I upload files or documents to the server, the interface automatically presents them to the user in a grid. So now all I have to do is upload files and documents and the server generates the site.
The reader can then click buttons to hash, sign, view, verify, and download files.
GnuPG and OpenSSL Signatures are generated automatically on user demand. The site visitors can download these signatures and the public keys to verify files.
What should I add / change in the application and its interface?
What accessibility components might be warranted?
Should the application parse and present EXIF data, or is that too much?
#PHP #CSS3 #HTML5 #WebDesign #UX #cryptology #cryptography #crypto #signatures #OpenSSL #GnuPG #GPG #PGP #encryption #papers #preprints #documents #SelfHosted #WebLord #WebMaster #WebSerf #NoJS #Apache #CyberSecurity
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Apps for encryption, comms, Usenet, remailers ...
Ch1ffr3punk: https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk
The owner is a denizen of the OG #Usenet scene.
#cypherpunk #cryptography #crypto #encryption #privacy #github #freesoftware
@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @usenet@soc.octade.net
- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -
Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html
#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos
@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml
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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.
https://soc.octade.net/cypherpunk/
A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #cypherpunks.
#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro #cypherpunk #crypto #cryptography #encryption
@cryptography@soc.octade.net @cypherpunk@soc.octade.net
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Glowing green-lined skull on black background with digital circuit board lines and one eye a glowing bitcoin symbol and the other eye a glowing hashtag with the tagline 'CYPHERPUNK REVOLT'.
House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker
This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/12026cryptoreport.pdf
(The report cites my writing on Trump’s USD1 stablecoin, published here: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-83/#trump-business-interests)
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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Trump Family Digital Grift Profits $2,255,399,364.28
Total Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth $8,712,974,364.28
Trump Family Digital Grift Profits from Foreign Interests $437,004,026.96
While Americans struggle to buy groceries and pay rent, Donald Trump is making his family richer through digital grift schemes— collecting profits through digital wallets and granting pardons to the highest bidders.
While Trump and his family are using the White House to make billions, we are tracking every cent. As of January 2026, our Committee’s analysis shows that these schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others.
This total rises to as much as $9.7 billion when the value of Trump’s digital assets is factored in, with as much as $436 million coming from foreign interests. President Trump should be serving the American people—not his own pockets.
[for your address book]
https://soc.octade.net/cryptography/
A Fediverse group for sharing and discussing #ciphers, #codes #cryptography and #encryption and related applications and #research.
#crypto #cypher #cypherpunks #confidentiality #privacy #groups #fedigroups #fediverse
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Artistic image of a sheet of paper with binary ones and zeroes and a reddish padlock in the upper right-hand corner..
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology
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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."
From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
The fall was great and swift.
My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
How could it come to this?
Clamped down, trapped stuck,
Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
Was there reason for this rage?
Told to lay down and die,
Something deep inside me stirred.
I can’t be caged I have to fly!
Not yet am I interred.
They can take my body, tie me down,
It matters not a bit.
My spirit still runs wild and free,
So in freedom here I sit.
~ Ross Ulbricht
Apr 30, 2024
It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.
sources
https://freeross.org/uncageable/
https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing
#RossUlbricht #DreadPirateRoberts #SilkRoad #USCourts #CriminalJustice #Prisons #Prisoners #Poetry #News #Crypto #Poem #FreeRoss
@poetry@a.gup.pe @poets@a.gup.pe @writers@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe
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Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.