1/10 #TechnocracySeries -Episode 5
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THE DNA OF TECHNOCRACY
technocracyinc.org 2/10 Stop buying the Tony Stark narrative.

What Musk is building isn't creative chaos; it's an inherited blueprint.
He isn't just assembling companies; he's laying the technical rails for a Global Technate.

The ideology isn't new. It’s almost 100 years old.

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Some have pointed out that I have omitted VPN technology in this post, but I have deliberately not included it because I said "where we are headed" , I believe that VPN will be useless, at least with current technology.

Let me explain.

https://x.com/liberlion17/status/1996194559361945616

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My argument is based on the growing power of governments to implement legal and technical blocking.

❌Legal Prohibition: Governments in high-censorship areas are already banning unauthorized VPNs (e.g., China, Russia)...

1/16 The silent refuge in the era of programmable money.

This will interest you whether you’re an investor or someone seeking a sovereign form of money.

This is not financial advice, but survival advice. 2/16 Can you see we’re living through the transition from tangible money to programmable money? A cashless society is on the path.

If you can see this, you agree with me that governments don’t just aim to regulate finance; they want to merge it with..

1/10 Did you know #Monero has a sidechain?

P2Pool is a sidechain to Monero, allowing miners to mine XMR in a more direct and decentralized manner. 2/10 In an era of centralized mining, P2Pool returns control to the miner: you run your own node, you decide what you’re mining, you cooperate in a peer-to-peer way rather than handing power to a giant pool.

1/14 Tuta (formerly Tutanota) vs ProtonMail — Pros, Cons & Jurisdictions

A summary of my analysis of these two email services.

Read carefully to the end. Then decide which one is best for you, or which one you can use in certain situations.

Don't trust, verify. DYOR. 2/14 Tuta leans ideological; Proton leans institutional.

Let's see.

Tuta and ProtonMail both promise a privacy-first email.

But privacy isn’t only about encryption — it’s also about who runs the company and where it lives.

Privacy lives in three layers: math, law, and trust.

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#privacy in #AI

The best LLMs are centralized and closed, so your privacy is at risk.

But you can't stop using your knife for fear of cutting yourself.

Handle with care. I have instructions for it. 2/6
Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI) is often described as open source, but this is not strictly accurate.

Meta released Llama which allows free use, but with restrictions, and is not under the Apache or MIT licenses.

Llama is centralized although it can be run locally.

1/7 Surveillance Capitalism: The Collapse of Internet Anonymity and the Rise of the Dark Web

Large technology companies, government contractors, are pushing for a future in which Internet anonymity will be a thing of the past. 2/7 They are incentivized by their own profits, contracts with the state, and control of network traffic.

In this emerging landscape, accessing the internet will require personal credentials, meaning every individual will be assigned a digital ID.

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The Crypto Cartel

While presented as a tool for decentralization, stablecoins are being used to centralize power within the cryptocurrency space.

A group of insiders, venture capital firms, and currency speculators, many linked to the PayPal mafia, are using stablecoins.. 2/5
..to influence market direction and gain significant control over the infrastructure and governance of cryptocurrencies.

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and a central figure in the "PayPal mafia," has played a pivotal role in shaping the cryptocurrency landscape..

1/7 Chainalysis Hijacked the DNS of some #Monero nodes to compromise them.

What happened?

Let me explain what I have researched. 2/7 It probably wouldn't make much financial sense for malicious actors to operate their dedicated nodes, given the resource requirements.

1/8 How Will #Monero Be Attacked?

First of all I want to tell you that this is not teaching the network attackers, the central regulators. They already know how to attack the network, they are just preparing. 2/8 This is a warning to the Monero community, users and developers, to be prepared in defense.

I have been saying for a long time that Monero, like other privacy networks, will be a niche market for those individuals seeking autonomy and personal freedom.

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Common mistakes when talking about Blockchain

(1) *Blockchain is just Bitcoin*

Blockchain is a distributed ledger, designed to operate in an open and extremely hostile environment. 2/10
Its value derives from the tamper-proof security of its records through cryptography and full network collaboration. It was born with Bitcoin as a pioneer, but today it has expanded its utility with other programmable networks.

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The Three Laws of Robotics, presented by the writer Isaac Asimov, are a set of rules introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround”:
—A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
—A robot must obey orders given it by.. 2/4
..human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
—A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Why did I mention Asimov’s Laws? ..

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#Bitcoin is traveling a path it was not designed for.
And this is thanks to the modifications introduced in the protocol to alleviate its poor scalability due to its block size.

Bitcoin’s quickly maturing ordinals scene has come a long way since January 2023. 2/5
First envisioned as a method to “inscribe” NFTs on bitcoin’s smallest denomination, the satoshi, the ordinals protocol has since become a gateway for creating all sorts of tokens including Stably USD.

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Value is subjective.

This simple revelation, formulated by Carl Menger (Von Mises’ teacher), revolutionized primitive economics and solved most of the problems that had plagued the science since Adam Smith. 2/4
If Marx had paid attention to Menger, communism would have been abandoned.

Subjective value leads to individualism.

The State with its coercive regulations acts on the economy, making predictions about the consequences of this or that measure implemented ..

1/4 #Monero has dynamic block sizing, which impacts greater network scalability.

Important points about Monero block size:

—Dynamic blocks does NOT mean perfectly elastic blocks. Monero does not just slam the entire mempool into the next block. 2/4 Fees have to be paid to exceed certain limits, and there are limits that cannot be exceeded no matter how much is paid. These limits adjust in response to recent blocks, hence 'dynamic.'

—Monero is very adaptive if we assume higher fees are paid.

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After 1 year of Monero Tail Emission practice, this monetary policy seems to be well designed and giving good non-inflationary results.

https://twitter.com/liberlion17/status/1657775287952613376

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A year ago, and two months after starting Tail Emission in Monero, I published a critical article, about the proposed modification of Bitcoin monetary policy towards Tail Emission. Clearly, for $XMR to be non-inflationary is the right design.

1/4 In terms of profitability, while BTC took 900 days to reach 37x in its first bull market cycle, #Monero took 1279 days to give a return of 95x. 2/4 This is not a financial advice, it is a utility tip, because it is important to understand that price follows value, and the utility of Monero will become evident over the next few years.

1/5 When superficial changes are implemented to address underlying problems, there are often poor results. 2/5 Bitcoin Core developers have always denied the possibility of increasing the block size directly, but have introduced patches like SegWit and Taproot to gain efficiency and security.
This allowed data to be added to the blockchain at low cost.

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You may have wondered, (I have), how on earth can I use an anonymity network when they will be heavily prosecuted?
It's very "romantic" Cypherpunk philosophy, but it's almost like living outside the traditional system.

Let's be practical. 2/8
The answer is that for certain uses it is very useful. Let's see.
Cardano is a blockchain that will surely succeed, because of its good design but also because it is regulator friendly, then institutional investments will be allowed.

1/6 Many are obsessed with "mass adoption."
It makes sense to think about adoption because #Cardano was designed as an operating system for global finance #RealFi.
We must define what is mass adoption. 2/6 I believe that first is its global distribution, meaning that there is interest in the different citizens of any country for the utility it provides, then the number of people comes second.
It may be a blockchain of use to many but not to all.

1/4 There are voices for and against KYC and #ContingentStaking
In favor are those who are not against regulators and encourage mass adoption regulated by governments.
In this case, for me, it will be banking 3.0.

Others advocate privacy. 2/4 Remember the strong discussion in the Bitcoin community regarding the size of the blocks, which led to the Bitcoin Cash fork in 2017.

Do you think it is impossible for a Cardano fork to happen?