Host Ernest Hancock interviews guests Sterlin Lujan (Communications Ambassador, Bitcoin.com) on bitcoin/bitcoin cash, recent forking, future of crypto, Anarchapulco, etc...). Also, Mike Wasdin comes on later in the show to promote the Freedom Summit happening this weekend in Phoenix, AZ
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Sterlin Lujan
Sterlin Lujan is an activist, crypto connoisseur, and professional speaker. He works with Bitcoin.com as their communications ambassador. He also goes by the moniker Psychologic-Anarchist. Sterlin is known for creating the philosophy of relational anarchism and for promoting nonviolent communication. Sterlin is a cypherpunk scholar, and he takes great interest in leveraging cryptography and technology to free the world. Sterlin has spoken at dozens of prestigious events around the world, including the Blockshow conference in Germany, Crypto Finance in Switzerland, Steemfest in Portugual, CoinBR in Brazil, and acted as a liaison for the crypto community at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mongolia. He has even debated Peter Schiff on the merits of cryptocurrency at Liberty Con in Washington D.C.
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Sterlin's most recent articles on Bitcoin.Com:
The Cypherpunk Dream: Protecting Data and Dismantling the Dossier Society - Jan 25, 2019
AI specialist Dr. Rand Hindi conducted a presentation on cypherpunk history and data privacy in St. Moritz, Switzerland, at the Crypto Finance conference. At the beginning of the talk, he asked the audience to unlock their smartphones and pass them to their neighbors. The audience responded with a gasp. Someone in the crowd even vocalized their disdain for the idea. Naturally, people feel guarded when it comes to protecting their digital content and private data. This is why the cypherpunks believed protecting personal info was of paramount importance.
The Cypherpunks, Data Privacy, and the Dossier Society
Protecting data is not only about preventing hackers and thieves from gaining access to personal credentials. According to the cypherpunks, it is also about denying governments access to large troves of information and surveilling the population. In this sense, data privacy represents the sine qua non of personal sovereignty in cyberspace.
The cypherpunk creator of digital cash David Chaum once lamented that internet technologies would create a dossier society. This dossier society means government would catalog information on each individual, and they would possess piecemeal documentation regarding people's identity and history. They would also track every person and keep tabs on their comings and goings. In its final incarnation, the dossier society would equate to a horror show worse than the dystopia depicted in George Orwell's 1984.
In a way, this has already transpired. The U.S. government in partnership with large companies like Google and AT&T constantly collects "metadata." This metadata allows governments to piece together a picture of an individual, allowing the state to gain more accessibility to their private affairs. It's essentially a Gestalt panopticon of digital control wound tightly around the neck of each person.
Curtailing the Dossier Society With Encrypted Protocols
In order to fight back, cypherpunks and white hat hackers have been developing and deploying encryption schemes to protect sensitive digital materials. One example is Phil Zimmermann's PGP or Pretty Good Privacy. Zimmerman created PGP in 1991 as a method to protect emails through public-private key encryption and symmetric-key cryptography.
This method allows people to secure their communication channels with cryptographic privacy. It keeps snoops and government agents from reading the contents of email information. Governments can still determine the header info on emails to collect metadata, but it at least provides a degree of privacy for any sensitive material contained inside the digital package. Its major flaw is it's not easy to use, and it requires users to share a private key database.
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Following the Crypto-Anarchist Dream: 3 Reasons to Reject KYC and AML Dec 23, 2018
Last year, crypto KYC and AML requirements came bursting onto the scene with thunderous applause and approbation. Many traders felt like the ICO sector was rife with scammers and con artists. In this sense, they believed there would be redemption through government. The scammers and hucksters would go to prison for defrauding investors and all would be well. After all, many people believed government regulations were necessary to curb people's appetite for ethereum-based shitcoins. "All financial markets need regulations!" was their lodestone.
Letting Go of the Crypto-Anarchist Dream
The emergence of more government into the cryptocurrency space reflected a sentiment antithetical to the crypto-anarchist dream. This is the dream of being financially independent and removed from the state apparatus. Bitcoin emerged on the heels of the 2007 and 2008 financial collapse as a way to stop onerous regulations and crush the banking elite under the weight of financial sovereignty. And yet many players in the cryptocurrency ecosystem seem to have forgotten the purpose of Bitcoin's evolution.
As a reminder, there are three powerful reasons why the cryptocurrency industry as a whole should reject KYC and AML regulations and the governments that issue them. These are the same reasons why the industry should not uphold the broken, parasitical system that has caused the suffering of millions.
Regulations Are Threats of Violence
Right out of the gate, a regulation is a de facto threat of violence. When a government issues any kind of regulation, they are effectively saying, "Do what we want or we will put you in jail or kill you." A lot of people try to avoid or dance around this truth. They say regulations protect consumers, investors and businesses
However, these threats of violence do not protect anyone. KYC and AML regulations are the most obvious examples. When government forces people to comply with "know your customer" regulations, they force people to provide personal, sensitive information. They are likewise coercing financial institutions into demanding this information from their customers. It creates a predatory, unnatural environment.
In a free market, companies would not issue these threats or they would simply lose business. It's economically insane. Government is thus an artificial player in the market that also harms people via its regulatory requirements. Governments create misaligned incentives. In this regard, regulations are a miasma pervading the financial life of humankind. What is worse is these coercive regulations also have serious collateral consequences.
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Crypto Schisms and Fork Psychology Dec 17, 2018:
Forking within the crypto ecosystem is often a controversial subject. Many crypto-enthusiasts loathe it, taking particular exception to the so-called "contentious hard fork." They believe hard-forking damages a cryptocurrency, and say it should be avoided at all costs. They also believe forking is detrimental to the market and represents a financial burden. However, this view is limited and narrow-minded.
Forking for Good, Forking for Bad
Contentious hard-forking is how the community manages its systemic health, prevents bad actors from gumming up the infrastructure, and aligns the protocol in accordance with group principles. Forking is thus more than a way to upgrade a protocol. In reality, forking is a way to maintain self-care in governance without resorting to violence. It is about group dynamics and cooperating to discover peaceful solutions. It is as much psychological as technological.
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's creator, agrees. In a cogent article called "Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion," he said:
"Proponents of hard forks are often derided as trying to effect a "hostile take over" of a network, and "force" users to go along with them. Additionally, the risk of chain splits is often used to bill hard forks as "unsafe". It is my personal viewpoint that these criticisms are wrong, and furthermore in many cases completely backwards."
Definition of a Cryptocurrency Fork
A cryptocurrency hard fork equates to a network chain split. It means stakeholders decide to divide a preexisting cryptocurrency into two competing chains. Both chains share the same transactional history, but become two unique coins that follow different paths.
In essence, these splits are how decentralized communities resolve disputes and come to terms with technological and philosophical differences. This is different from a soft fork, which is a coercive protocol change that is backwards compatible, but forces users to comply with its rule set.
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Mike Wasdin
2019 Freedom Summit - February 8th-9th, 2019 Phoenix, AZ - Beus Center for Law & Society
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Attorney Marc J. Victor is excited for this year's Freedom Summit. You will not want to miss this event or this year's speaker lineup. Our Keynote Speaker this year is the one and only Richard Boddie. Richard Boddie is the self-described first black libertarian. Our other speakers include T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. who is the author of The China Study, Jennifer Grossman of the Atlas Society, Second Amendment activist Maj Toure will be returning to this year's Freedom Summit as well. CPA Robert F Hockensmith will let everyone know about tax tips that will save you money. Marc Victor will let everyone know, why they should be a libertarian. DeeDee Garcia Blase will talk about, The need for Legal Immigration Reform. Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation will talk about, The Battle of Church and State. Dr. Zuhdi Jasser will discuss, Freedom's only hope against the World's Islamist Establishment. In addition, there will be a panel discussion by Attorney Marc J. Victor, Attorney Robert J. McWhirter, and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on, How to Improve the Justice System. We will close the Freedom Summit with a debate between Dan Barker and Eric Lounsbery on, The Case For and Against God. This year's Freedom Summit Master of Ceremonies will be the one and only Ernie Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix.
2019 Speaker List
Arizona Freedom Summit – Where the Great Minds of Liberty Come Together. The Attorneys For Freedom Law Firm and The ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law will be hosting the 2019 Arizona Freedom Summit. Please join us for a great weekend of liberty-minded discussions with fellow libertarian and voluntarists.
Arizona Freedom Summit
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2019 Arizona Freedom Summit - February 8th and 9th
The Freedom Summit is an annual seminar dedicated to promoting and advancing human freedom. To that end, the Freedom Summit offers speakers who have demonstrated their effectiveness in presenting the intellectual case for freedom. The next Freedom Summit will be held on February 8th and 9th, 2019 at The ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Freedom Summit offers a highly distinguished assortment of the best, brightest and most entertaining people in the freedom movement today. The Freedom Summit is an annual update on the current status of freedom in our world from several varied perspectives. Rather than seek to present either an optimistic or pessimistic outlook, the Freedom Summit strives to present an honest and straightforward assessment of the current status of our freedom.
Socialism and other coercive centralized planning schemes have failed to improve and indeed worsened, the human condition. As such, the Freedom Summit does not encourage or promote any particular centralized plan to achieve freedom. Rather, the Freedom Summit encourages individuals to promote freedom in non-coercive ways which are best suited to their individual talents.
The Freedom Summit is a forum for the vigorous and peaceful exchange of ideas about how humans ought to interact with each other. People recently introduced to the concepts of freedom as well as lifelong supporters of freedom are encouraged to attend. Additionally, those who support a coercive government are also welcome to attend; and examine their views in light of the ideas and arguments presented.
Past speakers have included: Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeffrey Tucker, Walter Block, George H. Smith, Louis James, L. Neil Smith, Sharon Harris, Jacob Hornberger, Don Boudreaux, Vin Suprynowicz, and many others. Also, please visit our speaker's page to see a list of this year's speakers. Past speakers are listed here.
Freedom Summit Schedule
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8TH
4 PM: REGISTRATION TABLE OPENS
4:30-6:00- DINNER
4:45-5:00- MIKE INTRODUCES MARC VICTOR
5:00-6:00- MARC J. VICTOR
6:05-7:00- MAJ TOURE
7:05-8:00- RICHARD BODDIE KEYNOTE
8:00-8:30- SOCIAL TIME
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9TH
7:30-9:00- BREAKFAST
8:00-9:00- DEEDEE BLASÉ
9:05-10:00- ROBERT HOCKENSMITH
10:00-10:15- BREAK
10:15-11:15- DR. RICK FISHER
11:20-12:15- ZUHDI JASSER
12:15-12:45- LUNCH
12:45-1:45- DAN BARKER
1:50-2:45- DR. COLLIN CAMPBELL
2:45-3:00- BREAK
3:00-4:00-PANEL DISCUSSION – HOW TO IMPROVE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM – MARC VICTOR, BILL MONTGOMERY, AND ROBERT MCWHIRTER
4:05-5:30- DEBATE- THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST GOD – DAN BARKER VS ERIC LOUNSBERY
5:30-6:30- SOCIAL HOUR AND MEET THE SPEAKERS
6:30 – FREEDOM SUMMIT CLOSES
EVENT LOCATION:
Friday – Saturday, February 8th and 9th | Beus Center for law and Society
111 E. Taylor St. Phoenix, AZ 85004
Arizona Freedom Summit Location will be at The ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law located at 111 East Taylor Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004. The next event will be held February 8th and 9th 2019. The event will open to the public at 4:00 PM and the event will begin at 4:30 PM when Attorney Marc J. Victor will give the opening announcements and a brief talk about the Freedom Summit during dinner.
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· U.S. Parking Systems Downtown Phoenix Parking Lot
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