The Bitcoin fairy strikes...

Quote:Due to its long history of seizures, the US government is one of the largest holders of bitcoin. According to court filings, the US government holds more than 2,05,000 BTC as of March 27. The numbers revealed that the US government is the largest holder of BTC.

Initially, the US government seized Bitcoin maintained by individual X, which is interconnected to the Silk Road marketplace. This left the US government with 69,369 BTC. It was also followed by the seizure of 50,000 bitcoins from James Zhong, who is again connected to the Silk Road.

Now, according to the details from the latest court documents, the US government is planning to sell 41,500 Bitcoin connected to Silk Road.

According to the details in the court documents, the government is planning to sell bitcoin in four different batches this year. The details revealed that the government had begun liquidating 51,351.89 bitcoins forfeited in the Ulbricht case.



The government sold 9,861 BTC for a total of $215 million on March 14, 2023. The government is planning to liquidate the rest of the 41,490.72 BTC in four different batches this calendar year. The value of 41,490.72 BTC at press time stands at $1.18 billion according to BTC’s current price of $28,448.

US Government to Sell 41,500 Bitcoin ($1.18 Billion) Connected to Silk Road

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Quote:It's April 1, and the Internet is a frazzled, hot mess of jokes, lies and hoaxes being witlessly shared by your friend's roommate's boyfriend. Be skeptical: Nothing newsworthy is real, unless someone took a selfie in front of it, and even then it might well be a green screen.

Time was, a good online April Fools' Day prank actually meant something, because such a stunt had never been done before. Let's go back: April 1, 1984. Reagan was running for re-election. The Cold War was still raging (just seven months earlier the Soviet Union shot down a Korean flight containing a U.S. congressman, escalating tensions). Konstantin Chernenko was serving a brief, unhappy stint as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And in Amsterdam, a 40-year-old computer wiz named Piet Beertema had an idea: He would trick Americans into believing that the Soviet Union was joining the Usenet network, the computer communications system in use in the early 1980s.

"It just occurred to me," Beertema says from outside Amsterdam. Now 71, he still chuckles loudly when asked about the idea. "I have no idea how or why, but it was just an idea. I'd read Orwell's story about 1984. That came in pretty handy."

In 1984, the Internet wasn't much. "Everything was completely new to us and to anyone participating in this," Beertema says of the early web. Back then, Usenet was a bulletin board–like precursor to the forums of the 1990s; the World Wide Web was still five years away from launch. If you were online at all, you were probably a huge nerd. But Beertema knew what he was doing. A longtime Center for Mathematics and Computer Science employee who would go on to play a key role in bringing the Netherlands online (he founded the Netherlands country code domain .nl in 1986), he logged onto several Usenet groups and posted a cheery message that looked to be from Konstantin Chernenko (or "K. Chernenko," as it was signed):

Quote:From chernenko@kremvax.UUCP Sun Apr 1 15:02:52 1984

Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 4/1/84 (SU840401); site kremvax.UUCP Path: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko From: chernenko@kremvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.general,eunet.general,net.politics,eunet.politics Subject: USSR on Usenet Message-ID: <0001@kremvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 15:02:52 GMT Article-I.D.: kremvax.0001 Posted: Sun Apr 1 15:02:52 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Apr-84 12:26:02 GMT Organization: MIIA, Moscow Lines: 41 <.....>

Well, today, 840401, this is at last the Socialist Union of Soviet Republics joining the Usenet network and saying hallo to everybody. One reason for us to join this network has been to have a means of having an open discussion forum with the American and European people and making clear to them our strong efforts towards attaining peaceful coexistence between the people of the Soviet Union and those of the United States and Europe. We have been informed that on this network many people have given strong anti-Russian opinions, but we believe they have been misguided by their leaders, especially the American administration, who is seeking for war and domination of the world. By well informing those people from our side we hope to have a possibility to make clear to them our intentions and ideas. Some of those in the Western world, who believe in the truth of what we say have made possible our entry on this network; to them we are very grateful. We hereby invite you to freely give your comments and opinions. Here are the data for our backbone site: Name: moskvax Organization: Moscow Institute for International Affairs Contact: K. Chernenko Phone: +7 095 840401 Postal-Address: Moscow, Soviet Union Electronic-Address: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko News: mcvax kremvax kgbvax Mail: mcvax kremvax kgbvax And now, let's open a flask of Vodka and have a drink on our entry on this network. So: NA ZDAROVJE!

-- K. Chernenko, Moscow, USSR
...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko

The message was smartly crafted: blatantly propagandistic, but not outrageously so. Plus, it was sent from a fake Kremlin server (kremvax.UUCP). And the response came quick. "Slight panic, let's put it that way," Beertema remembers. "Lots of people immediately believed the whole story. They simply didn't look at the date. It was also because I had intentionally written it backwards."

The posting sparked fear "because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time," notes a summary in The Jargon File, an online guide to hacker slang. In fact, Beertema writes on his own site, the idea of "any form of network connectivity to any East Block [sic] country, let alone the USSR, was unthinkable and considered a direct threat to (US) national security." Here are some of the actual responses Beertema's Usenet posting received:

Quote:Wow!
Is this for real? Honest-to-god Russia? Gee. I never thought that I'd
see it. Does this imply that Unix is behind the Iron curtain?
Is this for real? Can we have confirmation from someone who is
recognized as being in a position to know?
get out of our network!!!

Two weeks later, in a follow-up post, Beertema revealed himself as the real source of the posting, but not before he claims it sparked some genuine concern at the Pentagon on "how to deal with it."

So: was "Kremvax" the first online April Fools' hoax? Depends how you define "online." When asked, Beertema points to "TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option," a joke document distributed on April 1, 1978 by the Internet RFC Editor. But that was probably sent over the old ARPAnet, Beertema says, before the modern Internet Protocol Suite was standardized in 1982. And these are technical distinctions. Either way, Beertema's Internet hoax was surely the first one with general, international reach.

In some ways, "Kremvax" seems like a precursor to the viral hoaxes of today's Internet. No, there wasn't such thing as a viral web in 1984. But there was an Internet (sort of!), and there were gullible, stupid people who spent time on it. The Chernenko note fits some of the modern hoax criteria. It originated in a foreign country. ("This is one of the most common ways phony news peddlers sell us horseshit," VICE noted in a 2014 guide on "How to Prevent Fake News from Spreading on Social Media" "because the mere mention of, say, China, or Russia, to a Western audience short-circuits our skepticism." Indeed.) It's from a dubious-seeming source. And it involves a world leader (remember the hoaxy story about Kim Jong Un feeding his uncle to dogs?).

Beertema doesn't see himself as a pioneer. "People use all media that they can that are available for pranks," he says. But, he adds, "the Internet has grown so much that it's hard to come up with a prank that reaches so many people like it did in those days."

Amusingly, his historic prank came truer than even he'd expected. In the early 1990s, as the Cold War neared its end, Russia actually did join Usenet. A programmer named Vadim Antonov connected the first Moscow-based site, demos.su, but users took it to be another joke.

So Antonov took a cue from Beertema. The site's new name? Kremvax.demos.su. Every good hoax turns true in the end.

It is normally stated with demographics that to maintain a population you must have 2.11 births per couple. Once the rate drops to 1.9 or slightly lower there will be no natural recovery and the population will continue to shrink unless there is immigration. Japan is in some serious population decline (last I saw was 1.4 to 1.6) as are many other countries. I think in the UK one out of 5 children born are Muslim as the Muslims are having 6 to 8 kids per family versus the traditional population which continues to shrink.

I hate to sound like a fair weather friend.....  I'm here to say hello again.  

Well Looks like the grand jury hates Trump bad enough to Indict him on flimsy charges,just so Joe can get the perp walk photographs. Still said it can take weeks to arrest him. This just solidified Trump getting elected I think.

Explanation: I was reading this thread at ATS ...

Artificial Intelligence Self Preservation 

By ... SecrettoSociety

posted on Mar, 29 2023 @ 03:40 PM

And I was dismayed at the replies they received ...'


They were all arguing IS it even possible?

Where as recent history has PROVEN that it is possible and has already occurred ...

Google engineer warns the firm's AI, 'LaMBDA', is sentient:

Quote:Google engineer warns the firm's AI is sentient: Suspended employee claims computer programme acts 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'

• Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
  
• Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient 
  
• After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
  
• Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online 
  
• He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality 
  

Quote:The concept was pioneered by Adrian Thompson at the University of Sussex, England, who in 1996 used an FPGA to evolve a tone discriminator that used fewer than 40 programmable logic gates, and had no clock signal. This is a remarkably small design for such a device, and relied on exploiting peculiarities of the hardware that engineers normally avoid. For example, one group of gates has no logical connection to the rest of the circuit, yet is crucial to its function.[/url]

Quote:Deep-learning architectures such as deep neural networks, deep belief networks, deep reinforcement learning, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks and transformers have been applied to fields including computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, bioinformatics, drug design, medical image analysis, climate science, material inspection and board game programs, where they have produced results comparable to and in some cases surpassing human expert performance.

Quote:The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely. It was a concept developed between 2003 and 2009 as part of the DARPA military projects for the United States military.

Quote:Elon Musk and hundreds of experts call for 'pause' in AI development. An open letter calls for a six-month suspension of research on artificial intelligence systems more powerful than GPT-4, the successor to the model on which ChatGPT is based.

This is an event I try to attend every year.

Wonderful kites and wonderful people.

It's like a mini vacation and good for the soul!

Whoops!

I don't for one second believe that big businesses, or any government, in any form, gives a damn about any life on this planet. I know that everything they do is strictly about the money.

I am a hypocrite, because practically everything that I have that was manufactured, has poisoned and contaminated people, land, water, and animals somewhere on this planet. I am a hypocrite because I spend money on those things that are bringing many harm, and I fight to stop those businesses from doing their business in my country. Knowing that it will stop nothing, because they will just take that destruction some place else.

What they are doing is wrong. Me supporting them by buying their products is wrong. I am aware and I try to avoid being duplicitous in this wrong. But I am still guilty and bear some responsibility.

How governments and businesses can claim that they are concerned about this planet and global warming, when they are poisoning almost everything we touch, shows just how much of a lie it all is.

Dedicated dating websites for "lateral thinkers," or "Querdenken" as the German conspiracy movement is known.

Quote:Are you fed up of being bombarded with pro-vaccine matches who boast about the number of jabs they have had in their bios?

If so, delete your current apps because there is a new dating site in town - and it is specifically hand-crafted for conspiracy theorists.

Well-known known German conspiracy theorist Michael Brundel, who goes by Captain Future at so-called 'Freedom Marches', launched SchwurbelTreff in his homeland last month.

Astonishingly, SchwurbelTreff - whose name is based on an offensive German term for conspiracy theorists as people who speak gibberish - gained 1,500 users in its first three weeks.

If you are bored of  constantly swiping left on people who believe in Covid-19, moon-landings or god-forbid the earth not being flat, this new site could be the answer.



To sign up, users must answer the usual stock questions such as their height and age, but then have to reveal which conspiracies they believe in, whether it be Coronavirus, QAnon, and the New World Order.

Users must also disclose what news sources they consume, the number of Covid-19 jabs they have had, and how they think the future of the world will unfold in the next 20 years.

It's in stark contrast to leading dating apps including Tinder, Match, Hinge, Bumble, who teamed up with the Government in 2021 to encourage their users to get COVID-19 vaccinations.

When heading to the website's homepage, users are greeted with a photo of Brundel wearing a tin-foil hat with electrical sparks connecting him to another woman who is staring at a laptop decorated with stickers including Free Julian Assange and the 9/11 attacks.

Speaking to Vice about why he set the site up, Brundel said: 'You wouldn't understand each other [when] you look at the world so differently.

'The different opinions on Corona have broken many old friendships and relationships, but often also created new ones.'



Captain Future also believes 'lateral thinkers will soon be mainstream' because 'no one wants to admit they were wrong'.

'The division will be over when the truth is mainstream and those responsible have been brought to justice,' he said.

The SchwurbelTreff founder continued to preach the myth that jabbed people posed a threat to the unvaccinated by 'shedding' the vaccine.

Nicholas Potter, a researcher at anti-extremism group Amadeu Antonio Foundation in Berlin, believes the growth of conspiracy theorists can 'alienate people from their social environments' and 'lead to a spiral of radicalisation.'

Mr Potter also admitted it wasn't the first attempt at a conspiracy theorist website, citing another in Switzerland which was launched specifically for anti-vaxxers during the pandemic.

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