Food and cash shortages spread as Kazakhstan throttles internet

- Many Kazakhs do their daily shopping with debit cards. These were often rendered useless by the outage because payment terminals depend on internet connections. By the end of the week, long lines were forming at ATM machines in Almaty, Nur-Sultan and Aktau as residents sought cash to procure staples.

- Nurserik Zholbarys, a resident of Nur-Sultan, told Eurasianet that he stood over 30 minutes in a line to withdraw 10,000 tenge ($23) from a SberBank ATM machine in Nur-Sultan’s fashionable Esyl district. This is the daily limit imposed on those who can find a working ATM: The National Bank suspended commercial bank services on January 6; some fear they will not be available again until the state of emergency is lifted.

https://eurasianet.org/food-and-cash-shortages-spread-as-kazakhstan-throttles-internet
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In many ways, BTC transactions can even be written in napkins. But for the internet in specific: there are satellite services and an organized community can set up a mesh network easily. Part of what we have done in México and Argentina is partner with people with means to serve as support nodes for our solutions and the people.

With internet cut of how U use BTC?

What is a BOLT?

- The BOLT acronym stands for: Basis of Lightning Technology. A BOLT is a set of rules that define the Lightning specification that is most used today and referred to as the Lightning Network. Most Lightning implementations follow the standards set by the BOLTs.

- Because the development of the Lightning network is distributed, there are multiple companies working on their independent implementations. Each one has to be compatible with others for the Lightning network to function as one network.

https://simplelightning.com/what-is-a-bolt-what-is-a-blip.html
archive: https://archive.ph/TgRIa

disco_coop@social.coop - This brilliant essay by Brendan Miller & Ziri Rideaux on the Future of Work brings our attention to the fact that the growing popular mistrust in centralised power indicates that the time for decentralised, non-hierarchical self-governance has come. 🔮 👇

https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Decentralised_Futures_Essays_FA.pdf​

CipherTrace Uses Honeypots

- CipherTrace, a surveillance company owned by Mastercard, uses “honeypots” to gather information about Bitcoin addresses, according to promotional material sent to a government official

https://darknetlive.com/post/ciphertrace-uses-honeypots-to-investigate-crypto-wallets/
archive: https://archive.ph/L0Lxc

wikileaks@social.jesuislibre.net

- Newly-formed @AssangeDAO has now raised over US$11.8 million (3918 ETH) to free Julian Assange #NFT @muratpak #AssangeDAO​

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Aloha mates,

10 interesting essays:

"Decentralised Futures: How digital technologies will change the shape of organisations to come".

(...) the public image of blockchain and related decentralised technology remains tainted by the large number of fraudulent sales of cryptocurrencies and other digital tokens (also known at ICOs). Similarly, many policymakers are still focused on the negative aspects, such as the risk of money laundering. 

One of the purposes of this collection, therefore, is to highlight some of the potential positive impacts of decentralisation – including greater resilience, increased transparency and democracy, reduced transaction costs and vastly more new opportunities for value creation (...)