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27/5/2022 Artist: stuz0r The notorious, white-belly, poisonous Psilocybe"You call that a blockchain? This is a blockchain" Crocodile GramoliContentsTeam The Tech Slithering through the undergrowth With that considered what will RBBC do? Risk I have looked at the tech but I have mainly focussed on the connections with which RBBC’s team are involved in as well as the wider frame work it sits within. “Slithering through the undergrowth” meanders through the network that RBBC is within, accompani...
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This is a tea. A special tea. 11.2023WELCOMETake a seat, let me roll out the TV. This is a documentary, where you read and imagine Psilocybe going through some crypto history. I am going to touch on ETH, Aptos, Solana, contracts, venture capital and most importantly 0L Network. 0L Network is a fork of Diem. Remember those days of Diem and Libra? It has been quietly in construction since those days and is, well, I will let you find out. Get cosy.Start here…Humans came out of the tree and it ha...
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Here is an utter degenerative, tangential history lesson that skims across a broad timeline, skipping over intricate events to suit a narrative. A few important consequences happened in the Mongolian conquest of nearly all of everything. Before the Mongolian expansion the power houses of the world were China, India, Middle-East, Eastern Europe then Western Europe. China being the most advanced and powerful, Western Europe being the least.
Mongolians hit Russia once for a laugh before returning again to give it a right good seeing to. This reshaped the power dynamics of the Russian city states where Moscow grew out of the Mongolian yoke and became the significant power centre in the region. Toppling the previously commercial and cultural hub of Kiev, which saw its merchant class gutted out leaving behind a few rich families and many serfs.
When the Mongolians strolled into Europe, they badly damaged the armies of Poland and Hungry. The Mongolians significantly reduced the population of the Middle-East, to the point Iran still has not recovered its population levels to that of the 1200s.
They did not fully take the land that is known as Turkey. In the north-west corner of Turkey was a powerful family known as the Ottomans, who remained unconquered. They rose up and eventually seized Constantinople. A significant political decision took place. The Ottomans did not supply the West the goods from the Silk Road. This caused economic incentive for the West to explore alternative trade routes.
The Chinese did explore too but then soon inverted, they decided to not reach out to the outer world. They thought they were elves from Lord of the Rings and superior to everything thus they just kept to themselves. This had long term consequences as everyone else was hustling. The Western European powers went from religious zealots in irrelevance and ended up being ultimately powerful, they held vast trade routes, empires and grew in confidence as they swung their weight around. They even subjugated India, which up until around 1700s boasted to have one quarter of the worlds GDP.
Britain dominated with its boats and cavalier attitude but they hit a snag in their plan of making lots of money. Long story short, China did not need Britain, nor the West, so Britain fed the Chinese populace opium provoking China into the Opium War. Britain’s victory in this war and its conditions meant China began to open up ports and economic zones to Western money.
Today, China has had a lot of western money flow into it. It has utilised its developing nation status to use the IMF as a bank account and a lot of selective Western capital has built up its infrastructure, particularly the digital. Tim Draper and Jim Breyer come to mind.
China has more genius people than Great Britain has people and pubs combined.
In turn the gigantic wealth and avaricious appetite of keeping a near 2bn people fed and occupied, the money in China has been eating up the world. Gorging on resources to help fuel its growth.
US is a dual deficit country, meaning it spends more than it receives in taxes and imports more than it exports. Quite staggering when you consider how much America produces; if every country consumed like the United States, we would need over four Mother Earths. And Russia and China do not like the fact the table tips towards the American gullet.
US need to inflate the money supply to bring down the debt. It is the good thing about printing $trillions of dollars in a year, if the currency is worthless, so too is the debt. Like blowing your brains out, you may be dead but at least you aren’t thinking about your problems anymore.
USA’s debt isn’t even a number anymore, it is loud, harrowing scream.
China the sellers, US the buyers. China buys bonds. No more. Lol.
China has 4x the population of the US. If China can get on level with US, it will be the dominant power.
China can seem intimidating but there seems a lot of issues for the Han ethno-state. Hong Kong protests. Milk Tea Alliance. Propaganda is failing. Lithuania is standing up to them. Peng Shuai situation is as insultingly corrupt as it is worrying for the livelihood of the tennis star. Its leadership wreaks of insecurity.
They are still crafty. China have had done deals with western professors and had plants in western universities to smuggle research back to them. They have been investing huge amounts into their infrastructure.
China is utilising their big tech to collect data on everyone. They are hacking companies in the west, building infrastructure with bugs around the world. It is all a bit devilish.
In the media, it seems clear where the divide is. The Western Liberalism is facing a threat to its dominance, Eurasianism of Russia is now showing its teeth, and with China is it attempting to usurp the Petrodollar. Will there be a war? We are already at war.
But when you follow the money, it is not so black and white. Agendas of the globalists, nationalists, separatists, terrorists, nihilists, empires and degenerates meet at the cross-road of the finance world.
In-Q-Tel helped finance the major cloud companies, one of which is Alibaba. Man, do we have to go on another tour.
In a land beyond satire, where the politicians and other agents of public life deliver daily farce, in a world of pithy division and shallow celebrity, the most noble thing to do is to delve into the absurd world of internet tokens and retire your parents with dog coins.
“The old world is dying and a new world is struggling to be born,” Gramsci nudged the sunglasses up his nose and goes on to say, “… and now is the time for monsters.” We are always in a state of flux so there is always time for monsters, Mr Gramsci. History seems to be full of angels and demons. The 95 Theses by Martin Luther was hammered to a church door by pesky preacher on October 31st 1517. It went on to form a schism in the Catholic Church and the Christian world.
491 years later, October 31st 2008, Satoshi released their Bitcoin Whitepaper after the global economic system also defaulted. The big short of it, the pressure for housing people required subprime mortgages to be given out to people who could not pay back. The ensuing selling and repackaging of poorly-rated loans to dress them up as loans of a superior ration led to a fraudulent system taking on more and more risk.
The defaults came in and big bailouts had to happen. If the big fish were not saved, the institutions and people – such as hospitals, universities, firms, citizens – were to sink with them.
There was a new layer to this game. You can take on system-breaking risk and lose but still win for the risk was actually transferred to the framework/fed/currency level and not the corporate.
You will be bailed out for the system cannot fail. This creates crony capitalism and those closer to the top will benefit most from it. That is the key, in finance, nationality does not matter, it is contacts and exposure to certain circles.
There are more than a few economists and economic observers who have pointed out that when empires and civilisations of the past greatly devalued their currency, they fell. What if our respectable authorities that we do not vote are well aware of this? That would make me conclude it is a controlled demolition for a new way, a new order. Just as an aging Putin has to remember there are only so many times he will go around the sun so it is now or never, just as Winnie the Pooh is endowed with more powers for life in China, just as Schwab unleashes his reset, Canada sells its gold reserves and USA has Biden as President.
And Britain doesn’t know what the fuck it is anymore.
The West is still strong but is vulnerable for its zombie system needs to burst or simply be pushed over at some point, the WEF do expect USA to lose its dominance over the next 50-100 years. However, the surveillance and ideas of the east and west have been mixing and breeding with one another for a long time. A lot of China’s tech is Western money.
Jim Breyer is a key bridge in Eastern and Western money.
The following information is taken from Kit Klarenberg’s “How Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft wage a domestic war on Terror and make billions”. Big Tech such as Google, Amazon, et al, earned vast amounts from the war on Terror by providing tech for the war machine. Since 2004, at least $44.5 billion has exchanged from the Department of Defence, Homeland Security, Justice and State to the big tech companies. Hundreds of individuals have rotated between high-level jobs at tech giants and departments. Jeff Bezos is on the board of the Pentagon. Steve Pandelides, security chief at Amazon Web Services, previously served at the NSA, CIA and FBI at the highest levels. Constellation (DAG) is an example of a project where Amazon and the American Air Force are working together.
Joseph D. Rozek played an integral role in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. He is now Microsoft’s Executive Director for Homeland Security and Counter terrorism.
Facebook complied with 89% of Washington’s requests. Its Threat Intelligence division, launched in 2015, is a veritable den of spies, counting numerous former CIA and NSA operatives among its staff.
Amazon reported an 800% spike in state requests for information recorded by its Echo, Fire and Ring devices, as well as searches through its website and app, last year. Amazon also hired at least 20 Bureau veterans between 2017 and 2020 alone, some of whom retain their top-secret security and clearances.
In 2013, the CIA invested hundreds of millions in a cloud computing system constructed by the division, to enhance information-sharing capabilities.
In August [2021?], the NSA awarded a contract worth $10 bn to AWS, under which all its signals intelligence and foreign surveillance data will be collated in a single, easily searchable repository.
NSA have bragged that subsequent to the tech giant Microsoft’s 2011 purchase of Skype, it collected three times the amount of video calls made through the platform than it did previously.
The internet itself grew out of ARPANET, a computer network bankrolled by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. The web was developed as a weapon.
Google’s origins stem from a US intelligence program in the 1990s under which academics were financed to create a system whereby vast quantities of data on private citizens could be monitored, collected, and stored, and individual users identified and tracked. Throughout the search engine’s development, company cofounder Sergey Brin met regularly with research and development representatives of defense contractors and the CIA.
CIA has a venture capital arm called In-Q-Tel. Where IQT’s money goes, so does private investors. It heavily invests in emerging tech companies. As Klarenberg states, it is important to bear this in mind when one reads about the latest start-up guru set to take the world by storm in the MSM. A hipster or geek they may sincerely be, but their product will almost inevitably have military and/or intelligence applications encoded within its very core.
BBN was formed by three MIT professors in 1948 and they implemented ARPANET. This company made the first router, packet switching and first network e-mail. In 2004, it was sold to a group of private investors. These included Jim Breyer’s Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners and In-Q-Tel. Anita Jones, of IQT, served on the board of BBN as well as a member of MIT, Gilman Louie, the head of IQT, sat on the board also. Breyer was a BBN board member and so to David Fialkow of General Catalyst Partners. Accel invested $40mm million then sold BBN in 2009 to Raytheon Technologies for $350mm.
Another example of where Accel and IQT spring up is Cloudera. If you follow the top investors, you will find they are drawn to – or draw in – the top developers. Cloudera was started by three engineers from Google, Facebook and Yahoo and the CEO of Oracle. Accel was a $5mm Series A round of funding in 2009. In 2012, IQT, along with Ignition Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and more, were a part of a $65mm Series E round of investing. At that time, they brought in a new CFO who had a background with IBM.
Cloudera created Hadoop is, straight from Wikipedia, “a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data using the MapReduce programming model.” Anyone could utilise it, Cloudera were the masters of it and had a list of clients including AOL, CBS, eBay, Expedia, J.P. Morgan Chase, Monsanto, Nokia, Research In Motion and the Walt Disney Company.
This is just like Red Hat for Linux, anyone can use it but often they hire Red Hat to help utilise it. Cloudera offer industrialised AI and hybrid cloud data. In 2012, Cloudera was valued at $700mm. On June 1st, 2021, Cloudera was acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR for $5.3bn all-cash deal.
Jim Breyer appears in all the significant positions of investment society. Breyer sits on boards for Dell, Blackstone, 21st Century Fox and Walmart as well as being elected the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and a key figure for VeChain. In 2005, Accel Partners and IDG Capital (Breyer’s Chinese-based investment firm) brought up Baidu and Tencent. He is key to China’s media and telecom sector. Breyer has a keen interest in AI, which Baidu is involved in.
IDG Capital was the first global investment firm to enter China in the 1990s. Investments to their bow are Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi, Meituan, Qihoo 360, WeChat.
The Chinese authorities utilise the data from these apps in order to implement their Social Credit System.
Breyer points out in an interview that Baidu, Tencent, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba and Google will control cloud platforms.
Breyer was on the board of Facebook, he was the second largest shareholder of Facebook. In-Q-Tel was formed in 1999 as CIA and DARPA were realising they were losing an edge in the advancement of technology.
DARPA in 2004 dropped a project called LifeLog. This project wanted to track everything you do, from what you buy, to what you say, know your habits, know your relationships and it wanted to seek patterns to exploit these. It was funded under the guise of The Terrorism Information Awareness data-mining initiative. The day DARPA dropped this project was the day Facebook was founded – February 4th 2004.
A generous donator Jeffrey Epstein advocated transhumanist research. He had close associates and sponsored Danny Hills, Marvin Minsky, and Eric Lander, as well as generously funded MIT AI Lab, where Matthew Strobe was associate director. Strobe had previously worked with DARPA, and his MIT team were working with the LifeLog project. Hills, Minsky, and Lander worked for DARPA contractor Thinking Machines.
What the goal of this is to feed AI with freshly minted data to humanise AI.
At the same time, IQT invested in Peter Theil’s Palantir – Theil invested in Facebook at the same time as Breyer.
There is not strong evidence of Zuckerberg starting Facebook was a part of a DARPA scheme and it is more likely not to be. Life is not as straightforward as that, there were other social projects at this point such as Friendster, but it is more likely correct to assume that Facebook survived the clearance process.
When Zuckerberg and Winklevoss were cooking their idea at Harvard in the early 2000s, Lawrence Summers was the President of Harvard.
Lawrence Summers is highly connected and influential. He is a part of the Digital Currency Group as a board advisor. DCG invest in Circle, Coinbase, Dapper Labs, Flare, FTX, Greyscale, VEEM, and much more. If you do not know, Larry Summers was the Chief Economist of the World Bank before becoming Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury.
Clinton and Summers were good friends of Epstein. Summers was Harvard President from 2001 to 2006. In 2003, Epstein provided $6.5mm in funding to Harvard for Evolution Dynamics. Epstein had his own personal access to the top academics and researchers at Harvard, he had key cards to enter buildings, Office 610 was Jeffrey’s personal office too.
“He likes Larry Summers a lot,” Epstein’s friend and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz says. “He speaks well of Larry, and I think he admires Larry’s economic thinking.” Dershowitz was the gentleman who assisted Epstein in securing an advantageous plea deal with Florida federal prosecutors related to the sexual abuse charges.
In 2016, Epstein gave $100,000 to Summers wife’s poetry reading foundation. It is also known Epstein has given $30mm in donations to Harvard, quite the generous socialite was Epstein. Summers also appears in Epstein’s Lolita Express flight logs. Epstein is credited as the founder of Evolution Dynamics at Harvard, which has developed critical models of how viruses and cancer cells evolve.
This is something Breyer stresses about AI, it can find links in DNA and help eliminate many cancers. It turns out one of the advancements of late is the potential to bring back the Woolly Mammoth. This is a part of Professor of Genetics George Church’s work on Biologically Inspired Engineering. Church works at MIT and is criticised for his connections with Epstein. He has started Colossal, which is a DNA editing and engineering focused, fighting cancer, bringing back extinct creatures and life as well as safeguarding life from extinction.
Who invests in this? Tim Draper, Winklevoss and Jim Breyer.
There is a lot of concentrated connections. LifeLog is scrapped the day Facebook is founded. Facebook is created by Harvard alumni whose President is a highly connected economist, and the first investor of Facebook is Jim Breyer, a man who has a history with CIA as well as the first Western investor in China, he is the early investor of WeChat and finances the construction of the Chinese tech sector. He always seems to be in the right place at the right time.
Jim Breyer has his boot on the neck of the entire worlds main source of messaging. That is not all. He is the Standard Oil of tech. And there are more people who have grand reaches over this world.
The truest form of truth of what is actually being conducted, said, planned, what has happened, we will not know. However, knowing more about what has happened, what is going on, what are the agendas, it can help aid conviction and understanding of the markets of Cryptocurrency and the future of the economic-social landscape.
Projects connected to these players are more likely to succeed.
You may have read or see headlines along the lines of Facebook haemorrhaging talent to projects but that is just a part of the moving of chairs, shifting projects around, a standard of practice at the elite level of the financial world to evade regulation whilst maintaining some control over projects.
Facebook was an incubator for the technology of blockchain and Web 3, with Meta taking on the extended reality part and the Diem project constructing and research the tech for the blockchain that 0L is forking.
Marc Andreessen is on the board of Facebook and has invested in Mysten Labs. Silvergate’s Chairman of the Board is Michael Lempres who was an executive at Andreessen Horowitz. He too worked for Coinbase as the chief legal and risk officer.
Aanchal Gupta used to work for Facebooks’s Novi, as the Chief Information Security Officer. Today, she is on the board of Silvergate as the Vice President of Azure Security.
Diem and Mysten Labs are sold to Silvergate. Digital Currency Group are a predominate investor of Silvergate.
A Cosmonaut, Zaki Manian, co-founded Sommelier Partners. This helps bring in partnerships to help boost the Sommelier network. Sommelier is a compressor, it is a defi blockchain protocol to co-process with EVM, which has received $23mm in funding after it partnered with Mysten labs. It focuses very much on LPs. September 2021 is when Sommelier landed a partnership with Mysten Labs. “The Mysten Labs team's expertise has the potential to allow Sommelier's blockchain to potentially process transactions as fast as 100,000 transactions per second. In addition, Sommelier may also soon have smart contracts capabilities available via the Move smart contract language.”
Shortly after that, Zaki discusses how 0L is a “very, very, very fast blockchain” then not long after that, Mysten Labs and 0L form a partnership.
Now, Mysten Labs agenda is push the Web 3 infrastructure and the 0L Network is carrying the torch on from Libra. The ambition of the two partnering is to grow developers in the Move ecosystem to 5 million by 2025.
There are currently 27 million software developers worldwide and 200,000 are Solidity developers.
David Marcus, who was leader of Facebook Financial and the Novi Wallet as well as a former Paypal CEO, said in his reply to a Brian Armstrong tweet simply “On it…” What is the it he is on? Creating a cross-boarder payment system that works in every country in the world powered by crypto currency.
The Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) consists of Binance, Paxos, Bitstamp, Circle, Erisx, Coinbase, Genesis, and Gemini. The SEN offers API and banking portals to allow money to be sent 24/7 via digital currency.
Where the Ethereum Cartel have gone on to release projects that have gone into billions of dollars’ worth in valuations, the connections ran deep. Also to remember is the success of the Paypal Mafia. There is another wave that are going to experience the same thing, those developers that were under Libra, which was under the wing of Facebook, which is under the wing of In-Q-Tel.
Developers and key members may go away to start fresh projects but in the small yet global world of finance, the apple cannot stray too far from the tree.
When Diem was Libra, it had Stuart Levey as CEO, he came from the US Treasury Department, and there was Chief Legal Steve Bunnell who came from US Department of Homeland Security. James Emmett was the Managing Director and he came from HSBC, one of, if not thee, most corrupt banks in the world. Saumya Bhasvar was a legal counsellor for Libra and she was the US Comptroller of the Currency. Christian Catalini, the founder of MIT Cryptoeconomics Labs, was the co-founder of Diem.
Catalini interestingly says Diem is private and will not use private date but he also said it is to be phased out when central banks launch their CBDCs.
Reed Hoffman and Jack Dorsey’s Diem rival, Celo, has had rounds of investment that boast $20mm and $60mm.
It is worth paying attention to the names of these talented developers who are active in the forefront of blockchain advancement. Sam Blackshear has Mysten, which has attracted $36mm in investment. There is Mo Shaikh’s Aptos attracting $200mm in investment.
Within Aptos there are names to note such as Alden Hu, Sherry Xiao, Neil Harounian, Jake Skinner, Josh Lind, Greg Nazario, Dahlia Malkhi, David Wolinsky. They have continued to develop Facebooks HotStuff derivative, which was the consensus algorithm to Zuck’s blockchain. Sub-second finality is the standard for this blockchain. Aptos can achieve over 130k transactions per second. I think it is easy to see why this has received mammoth amount of investment from the biggest names in Crypto-economics.
When I think of Gramsci and his comment on monster happening when world’s change hands, I just see the world as a monster and a new monster bursts out from its chest and then another after that. Never ending. A deluge of eternity. Forever.
I feel for you dear reader. I probably have ADD. Just what is it I am trying to say?
I out stretch my arms to point at all that is around us, the mundanity and madness, and I say the person to blame for all of this is Chinggis Khan. If the Mongols weren’t lazy and conquered all of Turkey, there would be no Bitcoin.
Partial to a bit of Psilocybe? 1/4/2022
Here is an utter degenerative, tangential history lesson that skims across a broad timeline, skipping over intricate events to suit a narrative. A few important consequences happened in the Mongolian conquest of nearly all of everything. Before the Mongolian expansion the power houses of the world were China, India, Middle-East, Eastern Europe then Western Europe. China being the most advanced and powerful, Western Europe being the least.
Mongolians hit Russia once for a laugh before returning again to give it a right good seeing to. This reshaped the power dynamics of the Russian city states where Moscow grew out of the Mongolian yoke and became the significant power centre in the region. Toppling the previously commercial and cultural hub of Kiev, which saw its merchant class gutted out leaving behind a few rich families and many serfs.
When the Mongolians strolled into Europe, they badly damaged the armies of Poland and Hungry. The Mongolians significantly reduced the population of the Middle-East, to the point Iran still has not recovered its population levels to that of the 1200s.
They did not fully take the land that is known as Turkey. In the north-west corner of Turkey was a powerful family known as the Ottomans, who remained unconquered. They rose up and eventually seized Constantinople. A significant political decision took place. The Ottomans did not supply the West the goods from the Silk Road. This caused economic incentive for the West to explore alternative trade routes.
The Chinese did explore too but then soon inverted, they decided to not reach out to the outer world. They thought they were elves from Lord of the Rings and superior to everything thus they just kept to themselves. This had long term consequences as everyone else was hustling. The Western European powers went from religious zealots in irrelevance and ended up being ultimately powerful, they held vast trade routes, empires and grew in confidence as they swung their weight around. They even subjugated India, which up until around 1700s boasted to have one quarter of the worlds GDP.
Britain dominated with its boats and cavalier attitude but they hit a snag in their plan of making lots of money. Long story short, China did not need Britain, nor the West, so Britain fed the Chinese populace opium provoking China into the Opium War. Britain’s victory in this war and its conditions meant China began to open up ports and economic zones to Western money.
Today, China has had a lot of western money flow into it. It has utilised its developing nation status to use the IMF as a bank account and a lot of selective Western capital has built up its infrastructure, particularly the digital. Tim Draper and Jim Breyer come to mind.
China has more genius people than Great Britain has people and pubs combined.
In turn the gigantic wealth and avaricious appetite of keeping a near 2bn people fed and occupied, the money in China has been eating up the world. Gorging on resources to help fuel its growth.
US is a dual deficit country, meaning it spends more than it receives in taxes and imports more than it exports. Quite staggering when you consider how much America produces; if every country consumed like the United States, we would need over four Mother Earths. And Russia and China do not like the fact the table tips towards the American gullet.
US need to inflate the money supply to bring down the debt. It is the good thing about printing $trillions of dollars in a year, if the currency is worthless, so too is the debt. Like blowing your brains out, you may be dead but at least you aren’t thinking about your problems anymore.
USA’s debt isn’t even a number anymore, it is loud, harrowing scream.
China the sellers, US the buyers. China buys bonds. No more. Lol.
China has 4x the population of the US. If China can get on level with US, it will be the dominant power.
China can seem intimidating but there seems a lot of issues for the Han ethno-state. Hong Kong protests. Milk Tea Alliance. Propaganda is failing. Lithuania is standing up to them. Peng Shuai situation is as insultingly corrupt as it is worrying for the livelihood of the tennis star. Its leadership wreaks of insecurity.
They are still crafty. China have had done deals with western professors and had plants in western universities to smuggle research back to them. They have been investing huge amounts into their infrastructure.
China is utilising their big tech to collect data on everyone. They are hacking companies in the west, building infrastructure with bugs around the world. It is all a bit devilish.
In the media, it seems clear where the divide is. The Western Liberalism is facing a threat to its dominance, Eurasianism of Russia is now showing its teeth, and with China is it attempting to usurp the Petrodollar. Will there be a war? We are already at war.
But when you follow the money, it is not so black and white. Agendas of the globalists, nationalists, separatists, terrorists, nihilists, empires and degenerates meet at the cross-road of the finance world.
In-Q-Tel helped finance the major cloud companies, one of which is Alibaba. Man, do we have to go on another tour.
In a land beyond satire, where the politicians and other agents of public life deliver daily farce, in a world of pithy division and shallow celebrity, the most noble thing to do is to delve into the absurd world of internet tokens and retire your parents with dog coins.
“The old world is dying and a new world is struggling to be born,” Gramsci nudged the sunglasses up his nose and goes on to say, “… and now is the time for monsters.” We are always in a state of flux so there is always time for monsters, Mr Gramsci. History seems to be full of angels and demons. The 95 Theses by Martin Luther was hammered to a church door by pesky preacher on October 31st 1517. It went on to form a schism in the Catholic Church and the Christian world.
491 years later, October 31st 2008, Satoshi released their Bitcoin Whitepaper after the global economic system also defaulted. The big short of it, the pressure for housing people required subprime mortgages to be given out to people who could not pay back. The ensuing selling and repackaging of poorly-rated loans to dress them up as loans of a superior ration led to a fraudulent system taking on more and more risk.
The defaults came in and big bailouts had to happen. If the big fish were not saved, the institutions and people – such as hospitals, universities, firms, citizens – were to sink with them.
There was a new layer to this game. You can take on system-breaking risk and lose but still win for the risk was actually transferred to the framework/fed/currency level and not the corporate.
You will be bailed out for the system cannot fail. This creates crony capitalism and those closer to the top will benefit most from it. That is the key, in finance, nationality does not matter, it is contacts and exposure to certain circles.
There are more than a few economists and economic observers who have pointed out that when empires and civilisations of the past greatly devalued their currency, they fell. What if our respectable authorities that we do not vote are well aware of this? That would make me conclude it is a controlled demolition for a new way, a new order. Just as an aging Putin has to remember there are only so many times he will go around the sun so it is now or never, just as Winnie the Pooh is endowed with more powers for life in China, just as Schwab unleashes his reset, Canada sells its gold reserves and USA has Biden as President.
And Britain doesn’t know what the fuck it is anymore.
The West is still strong but is vulnerable for its zombie system needs to burst or simply be pushed over at some point, the WEF do expect USA to lose its dominance over the next 50-100 years. However, the surveillance and ideas of the east and west have been mixing and breeding with one another for a long time. A lot of China’s tech is Western money.
Jim Breyer is a key bridge in Eastern and Western money.
The following information is taken from Kit Klarenberg’s “How Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft wage a domestic war on Terror and make billions”. Big Tech such as Google, Amazon, et al, earned vast amounts from the war on Terror by providing tech for the war machine. Since 2004, at least $44.5 billion has exchanged from the Department of Defence, Homeland Security, Justice and State to the big tech companies. Hundreds of individuals have rotated between high-level jobs at tech giants and departments. Jeff Bezos is on the board of the Pentagon. Steve Pandelides, security chief at Amazon Web Services, previously served at the NSA, CIA and FBI at the highest levels. Constellation (DAG) is an example of a project where Amazon and the American Air Force are working together.
Joseph D. Rozek played an integral role in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. He is now Microsoft’s Executive Director for Homeland Security and Counter terrorism.
Facebook complied with 89% of Washington’s requests. Its Threat Intelligence division, launched in 2015, is a veritable den of spies, counting numerous former CIA and NSA operatives among its staff.
Amazon reported an 800% spike in state requests for information recorded by its Echo, Fire and Ring devices, as well as searches through its website and app, last year. Amazon also hired at least 20 Bureau veterans between 2017 and 2020 alone, some of whom retain their top-secret security and clearances.
In 2013, the CIA invested hundreds of millions in a cloud computing system constructed by the division, to enhance information-sharing capabilities.
In August [2021?], the NSA awarded a contract worth $10 bn to AWS, under which all its signals intelligence and foreign surveillance data will be collated in a single, easily searchable repository.
NSA have bragged that subsequent to the tech giant Microsoft’s 2011 purchase of Skype, it collected three times the amount of video calls made through the platform than it did previously.
The internet itself grew out of ARPANET, a computer network bankrolled by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. The web was developed as a weapon.
Google’s origins stem from a US intelligence program in the 1990s under which academics were financed to create a system whereby vast quantities of data on private citizens could be monitored, collected, and stored, and individual users identified and tracked. Throughout the search engine’s development, company cofounder Sergey Brin met regularly with research and development representatives of defense contractors and the CIA.
CIA has a venture capital arm called In-Q-Tel. Where IQT’s money goes, so does private investors. It heavily invests in emerging tech companies. As Klarenberg states, it is important to bear this in mind when one reads about the latest start-up guru set to take the world by storm in the MSM. A hipster or geek they may sincerely be, but their product will almost inevitably have military and/or intelligence applications encoded within its very core.
BBN was formed by three MIT professors in 1948 and they implemented ARPANET. This company made the first router, packet switching and first network e-mail. In 2004, it was sold to a group of private investors. These included Jim Breyer’s Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners and In-Q-Tel. Anita Jones, of IQT, served on the board of BBN as well as a member of MIT, Gilman Louie, the head of IQT, sat on the board also. Breyer was a BBN board member and so to David Fialkow of General Catalyst Partners. Accel invested $40mm million then sold BBN in 2009 to Raytheon Technologies for $350mm.
Another example of where Accel and IQT spring up is Cloudera. If you follow the top investors, you will find they are drawn to – or draw in – the top developers. Cloudera was started by three engineers from Google, Facebook and Yahoo and the CEO of Oracle. Accel was a $5mm Series A round of funding in 2009. In 2012, IQT, along with Ignition Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and more, were a part of a $65mm Series E round of investing. At that time, they brought in a new CFO who had a background with IBM.
Cloudera created Hadoop is, straight from Wikipedia, “a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data using the MapReduce programming model.” Anyone could utilise it, Cloudera were the masters of it and had a list of clients including AOL, CBS, eBay, Expedia, J.P. Morgan Chase, Monsanto, Nokia, Research In Motion and the Walt Disney Company.
This is just like Red Hat for Linux, anyone can use it but often they hire Red Hat to help utilise it. Cloudera offer industrialised AI and hybrid cloud data. In 2012, Cloudera was valued at $700mm. On June 1st, 2021, Cloudera was acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR for $5.3bn all-cash deal.
Jim Breyer appears in all the significant positions of investment society. Breyer sits on boards for Dell, Blackstone, 21st Century Fox and Walmart as well as being elected the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and a key figure for VeChain. In 2005, Accel Partners and IDG Capital (Breyer’s Chinese-based investment firm) brought up Baidu and Tencent. He is key to China’s media and telecom sector. Breyer has a keen interest in AI, which Baidu is involved in.
IDG Capital was the first global investment firm to enter China in the 1990s. Investments to their bow are Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi, Meituan, Qihoo 360, WeChat.
The Chinese authorities utilise the data from these apps in order to implement their Social Credit System.
Breyer points out in an interview that Baidu, Tencent, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba and Google will control cloud platforms.
Breyer was on the board of Facebook, he was the second largest shareholder of Facebook. In-Q-Tel was formed in 1999 as CIA and DARPA were realising they were losing an edge in the advancement of technology.
DARPA in 2004 dropped a project called LifeLog. This project wanted to track everything you do, from what you buy, to what you say, know your habits, know your relationships and it wanted to seek patterns to exploit these. It was funded under the guise of The Terrorism Information Awareness data-mining initiative. The day DARPA dropped this project was the day Facebook was founded – February 4th 2004.
A generous donator Jeffrey Epstein advocated transhumanist research. He had close associates and sponsored Danny Hills, Marvin Minsky, and Eric Lander, as well as generously funded MIT AI Lab, where Matthew Strobe was associate director. Strobe had previously worked with DARPA, and his MIT team were working with the LifeLog project. Hills, Minsky, and Lander worked for DARPA contractor Thinking Machines.
What the goal of this is to feed AI with freshly minted data to humanise AI.
At the same time, IQT invested in Peter Theil’s Palantir – Theil invested in Facebook at the same time as Breyer.
There is not strong evidence of Zuckerberg starting Facebook was a part of a DARPA scheme and it is more likely not to be. Life is not as straightforward as that, there were other social projects at this point such as Friendster, but it is more likely correct to assume that Facebook survived the clearance process.
When Zuckerberg and Winklevoss were cooking their idea at Harvard in the early 2000s, Lawrence Summers was the President of Harvard.
Lawrence Summers is highly connected and influential. He is a part of the Digital Currency Group as a board advisor. DCG invest in Circle, Coinbase, Dapper Labs, Flare, FTX, Greyscale, VEEM, and much more. If you do not know, Larry Summers was the Chief Economist of the World Bank before becoming Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury.
Clinton and Summers were good friends of Epstein. Summers was Harvard President from 2001 to 2006. In 2003, Epstein provided $6.5mm in funding to Harvard for Evolution Dynamics. Epstein had his own personal access to the top academics and researchers at Harvard, he had key cards to enter buildings, Office 610 was Jeffrey’s personal office too.
“He likes Larry Summers a lot,” Epstein’s friend and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz says. “He speaks well of Larry, and I think he admires Larry’s economic thinking.” Dershowitz was the gentleman who assisted Epstein in securing an advantageous plea deal with Florida federal prosecutors related to the sexual abuse charges.
In 2016, Epstein gave $100,000 to Summers wife’s poetry reading foundation. It is also known Epstein has given $30mm in donations to Harvard, quite the generous socialite was Epstein. Summers also appears in Epstein’s Lolita Express flight logs. Epstein is credited as the founder of Evolution Dynamics at Harvard, which has developed critical models of how viruses and cancer cells evolve.
This is something Breyer stresses about AI, it can find links in DNA and help eliminate many cancers. It turns out one of the advancements of late is the potential to bring back the Woolly Mammoth. This is a part of Professor of Genetics George Church’s work on Biologically Inspired Engineering. Church works at MIT and is criticised for his connections with Epstein. He has started Colossal, which is a DNA editing and engineering focused, fighting cancer, bringing back extinct creatures and life as well as safeguarding life from extinction.
Who invests in this? Tim Draper, Winklevoss and Jim Breyer.
There is a lot of concentrated connections. LifeLog is scrapped the day Facebook is founded. Facebook is created by Harvard alumni whose President is a highly connected economist, and the first investor of Facebook is Jim Breyer, a man who has a history with CIA as well as the first Western investor in China, he is the early investor of WeChat and finances the construction of the Chinese tech sector. He always seems to be in the right place at the right time.
Jim Breyer has his boot on the neck of the entire worlds main source of messaging. That is not all. He is the Standard Oil of tech. And there are more people who have grand reaches over this world.
The truest form of truth of what is actually being conducted, said, planned, what has happened, we will not know. However, knowing more about what has happened, what is going on, what are the agendas, it can help aid conviction and understanding of the markets of Cryptocurrency and the future of the economic-social landscape.
Projects connected to these players are more likely to succeed.
You may have read or see headlines along the lines of Facebook haemorrhaging talent to projects but that is just a part of the moving of chairs, shifting projects around, a standard of practice at the elite level of the financial world to evade regulation whilst maintaining some control over projects.
Facebook was an incubator for the technology of blockchain and Web 3, with Meta taking on the extended reality part and the Diem project constructing and research the tech for the blockchain that 0L is forking.
Marc Andreessen is on the board of Facebook and has invested in Mysten Labs. Silvergate’s Chairman of the Board is Michael Lempres who was an executive at Andreessen Horowitz. He too worked for Coinbase as the chief legal and risk officer.
Aanchal Gupta used to work for Facebooks’s Novi, as the Chief Information Security Officer. Today, she is on the board of Silvergate as the Vice President of Azure Security.
Diem and Mysten Labs are sold to Silvergate. Digital Currency Group are a predominate investor of Silvergate.
A Cosmonaut, Zaki Manian, co-founded Sommelier Partners. This helps bring in partnerships to help boost the Sommelier network. Sommelier is a compressor, it is a defi blockchain protocol to co-process with EVM, which has received $23mm in funding after it partnered with Mysten labs. It focuses very much on LPs. September 2021 is when Sommelier landed a partnership with Mysten Labs. “The Mysten Labs team's expertise has the potential to allow Sommelier's blockchain to potentially process transactions as fast as 100,000 transactions per second. In addition, Sommelier may also soon have smart contracts capabilities available via the Move smart contract language.”
Shortly after that, Zaki discusses how 0L is a “very, very, very fast blockchain” then not long after that, Mysten Labs and 0L form a partnership.
Now, Mysten Labs agenda is push the Web 3 infrastructure and the 0L Network is carrying the torch on from Libra. The ambition of the two partnering is to grow developers in the Move ecosystem to 5 million by 2025.
There are currently 27 million software developers worldwide and 200,000 are Solidity developers.
David Marcus, who was leader of Facebook Financial and the Novi Wallet as well as a former Paypal CEO, said in his reply to a Brian Armstrong tweet simply “On it…” What is the it he is on? Creating a cross-boarder payment system that works in every country in the world powered by crypto currency.
The Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) consists of Binance, Paxos, Bitstamp, Circle, Erisx, Coinbase, Genesis, and Gemini. The SEN offers API and banking portals to allow money to be sent 24/7 via digital currency.
Where the Ethereum Cartel have gone on to release projects that have gone into billions of dollars’ worth in valuations, the connections ran deep. Also to remember is the success of the Paypal Mafia. There is another wave that are going to experience the same thing, those developers that were under Libra, which was under the wing of Facebook, which is under the wing of In-Q-Tel.
Developers and key members may go away to start fresh projects but in the small yet global world of finance, the apple cannot stray too far from the tree.
When Diem was Libra, it had Stuart Levey as CEO, he came from the US Treasury Department, and there was Chief Legal Steve Bunnell who came from US Department of Homeland Security. James Emmett was the Managing Director and he came from HSBC, one of, if not thee, most corrupt banks in the world. Saumya Bhasvar was a legal counsellor for Libra and she was the US Comptroller of the Currency. Christian Catalini, the founder of MIT Cryptoeconomics Labs, was the co-founder of Diem.
Catalini interestingly says Diem is private and will not use private date but he also said it is to be phased out when central banks launch their CBDCs.
Reed Hoffman and Jack Dorsey’s Diem rival, Celo, has had rounds of investment that boast $20mm and $60mm.
It is worth paying attention to the names of these talented developers who are active in the forefront of blockchain advancement. Sam Blackshear has Mysten, which has attracted $36mm in investment. There is Mo Shaikh’s Aptos attracting $200mm in investment.
Within Aptos there are names to note such as Alden Hu, Sherry Xiao, Neil Harounian, Jake Skinner, Josh Lind, Greg Nazario, Dahlia Malkhi, David Wolinsky. They have continued to develop Facebooks HotStuff derivative, which was the consensus algorithm to Zuck’s blockchain. Sub-second finality is the standard for this blockchain. Aptos can achieve over 130k transactions per second. I think it is easy to see why this has received mammoth amount of investment from the biggest names in Crypto-economics.
When I think of Gramsci and his comment on monster happening when world’s change hands, I just see the world as a monster and a new monster bursts out from its chest and then another after that. Never ending. A deluge of eternity. Forever.
I feel for you dear reader. I probably have ADD. Just what is it I am trying to say?
I out stretch my arms to point at all that is around us, the mundanity and madness, and I say the person to blame for all of this is Chinggis Khan. If the Mongols weren’t lazy and conquered all of Turkey, there would be no Bitcoin.
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