Orlov: A poor Prognosis for Anglo Colonialism

You know the drill. By request, the infamous "Five Stages of Collapse" author Dmitri Orlov's latest writing, complete with all inaccuracies and errors. If you like his writing, please buy his books and support him at boosty.to. Anglo colonialism has gone through several iterations, each of which involved a different sort of piracy. In its...

Dmitri Orlov: The Unbelievable Stupidity of Evil

Reposted by request from https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/3d5c81f9-58c6-4f83-bb6d-aca002d21801 please support the author if you like his work! --- Recently the various talking heads in Washington and elsewhere in the West have come out of their stupor to announce that the Ukrainian effort to defeat Russia on the field of battle has failed. From the perspective of a Russian,...

Dmitri Orlov: Israeli Public Relations Fail

This post is by Dmitri Orlov. If you like him, go buy his books and support his boosty.to page or if not complain about him in the comments. Reposted here by request and for public interest certainly not because of any agreement with opinions herein. -------------------------------- Observing the events in Palestine/Israel for almost two months...

More-on Curves and Smart Curves

This is just me saving some links here; not intended for public consumption. https://soatok.blog/2022/05/19/guidance-for-choosing-an-elliptic-curve-signature-algorithm-in-2022/ https://www.getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html https://cr.yp.to/hecdh.html https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/113116/how-is-the-generator-point-g-chosen-in-the-secp256k1-curve-used-in-bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/satoshis-genius-unexpected-ways-in-which-bitcoin-dodged-some-cryptographic-bullet-1382996984 Lolk! So yeah, where is my Lamport Signature coin already? I guess by now it would be built with: https://sphincs.cr.yp.to/ Why does the EC music always sound the same around here? Same DJ, B. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01993-z How did...

Top Five Fiat Inaccuracies

A little more than nine years ago, we published here a list of the top five errors made about bitcoin. That post received some attention and so we tried again later. You might ask, what are the most common errors we make in our discussions of fiat currency? Thanks for asking! Without further ado: 1......

Payments of the Future

Johnny was about seven years old the first time he handled a transaction entirely on his own. Money wasn't entirely new to him of course. He had a wallet, knew about things having costs at shops, and he even knew some history. He'd heard something about the age of repurposing, even something about the great...

Maybe we should vote?

So the backstory here is that I received a handwritten letter from a "James", delivered with the US post office, who advised me to vote. The author didn't tell me who or what to vote for, just that they felt strongly that I should try to make my voice heard by voting. Maybe we should...