#crypto anarchism

[anarchopuppy]

Your posts about internet privacy have encouraged me to take more control over these things, mainly switching to firefox and goduckgo. Thank you!! Do you have any recommendations to keep making progress on protecting myself on the internet? This isn't really where my skills/knowledge is, so there's a LOT I don't understand, so simple is truly best. Again, thank you for your hard work maintaining this page and helping people develop skills and hope and community; it's been really valuable to me!

If you want to go a step further the best way is with Tor browser! Tor is a type of proxy system that redirects your traffic through 3 other Tor user’s computers under 3 nesting layers of encryption before it arrives at its destination (Tor stands for The Onion Router, and that’s why). That way the sites you’re visiting only know the IP of the final node in the line, and have no way of determining who you really are (provided you’re careful with the information you send them). A lot of money has been poured into cracking the anonymity of Tor users, but no reliable way exists, and there have been many high-profile uses of it by hackers, whistleblowers, and so on

Since you say you’re not that techy, you should keep Firefox installed just in case you run into a problem with Tor. Many sites can tell it’s being used and block your traffic, so it’s good to have a backup - though my biggest problem using it has been with youtube, which can be easily fixed by swapping youtube.com in the URL for invidio.us (and that’s a lot more secure anyway). It’s really not a hassle to use though, 90% of the time if you’re having trouble all you have to do is click the i icon in the address bar and create a new Tor circuit. And another 9% of the time you can fix it by clicking the “new identity” button to completely reload the browser (this even fools youtube)

Also, once you have Tor browser installed, you can start going to .onion sites, which add an extra layer of security. For instance, you can change your default search engine to https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion, which is DuckDuckGo’s Tor site! Invidious also has several instances that use .onion, though my computer’s too slow to run them reliably. And get this - even Facebook has a .onion domain, for some unimaginable reason

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[wildmedia]

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

The document that is the genesis of Bitcoin?

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy. Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re- routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation. The technology for this revolution--and it surely will be both a social and economic revolution--has existed in theory for the past decade. The methods are based upon public-key encryption, zero-knowledge interactive proof systems, and various software protocols for interaction, authentication, and verification. The focus has until now been on academic conferences in Europe and the U.S., conferences monitored closely by the National Security Agency. But only recently have computer networks and personal computers attained sufficient speed to make the ideas practically realizable. And the next ten years will bring enough additional speed to make the ideas economically feasible and essentially unstoppable. High-speed networks, ISDN, tamper-proof boxes, smart cards, satellites, Ku-band transmitters, multi-MIPS personal computers, and encryption chips now under development will be some of the enabling technologies. The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy. Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property. Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

[twoplustwoequalsfour]

I suspect that many socialists who advocate the adoption of Bitcoin are having a profound internal struggle with the emergence of not only Bitcoin but of the internet itself and its astonishing, undeniable example of stateless cooperation between men that has had the effect of benefiting everyone.

The next great shift on the internet is going to be the complete disruption of the sclerotic bank mediated money transfer systems in favour of internet facilitated money transfers that remove banks from the process flow. This event will cause a great acceleration in the transaction rate of commerce world-wide, will de-fund the socialist states and be of great benefit to everyone everywhere.

Money sees the State as damage and routes around it.

The Monetary Future: Bitcoin is Voluntarist Not Socialist by Irdial Disc

[anarchyagogo]

The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

... Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

[twoplustwoequalsfour]

Well, you can’t loot other people’s Bitcoins. This makes it impossible to have a coercively funded State government. What ended up happening was people became responsible for their own security and subscribing to their own “public” services. So there are no police, only private security guards. There are no “laws” per-say, but most people deal with trade disputes through private “loser pays” arbitration courts. So contracts between organizations and people define what the “law” is. Private insurance companies basically deal with private property protection in the future, just as they do today. So most people subscribe to an insurance contract which indirectly funds their local security and fire\emergency protection services. Engaging in a crime voids your insurance protections, which typically doesn’t end well for the criminal. Since victims don’t like paying to put their assailants behind bars, the prison industry evaporated. This left justice to be dealt with at the individual and neighborhood level. It is important to note that reputation plays a massive role in your future society. People don’t rob or harm others because a bad reputation can force you into total poverty.

Libertarian News -- Man From The Future Shares His Story

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"A bitcoin *is* backed in real value, it's backed in the unique properties it has... they cannot be confiscated, counterfeited, or shut down. People can still sit on gold and use bitcoin for transferring while they are doing some kind of untraceable thing..."

Cypherpunk Fellow Traveler on the “Open-Transactions Financial Crypto System and Bitcoin Integration”. Traveler gives an intro to where this system came from from, motivations behind it, history. How to look at this system and what it does. Accounts transfers, Vouchers, Checks, Digital Cash, Basket Currencies, the Integrated Stock Exchange type Market features. And drum roll… Integration with Bitcoin… to fulfill the other need for Bitcoin: Anonymous and Instant transaction settlement.

AgoristRadio: Open-Transactions and Bitcoin Integration: 1/2 2/2 Github: Open-Transactions

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