LARP imitates art.
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Their hero Putin pulls off the look better.
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Back in the 70s, who would have actually thought WWIII would be a war on reality? 
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Enter the cryptobros, who decided to exploit this situation to juice the value of BTC but instead show the true face of the cryptocurrency: convoluted and infested with criminals and incompetents and so lacking in privacy that the truckers who accept it have to make videos incriminating themselves.
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From the link:
“Once the volunteers place the instructions and the seed words into the envelope and seal it should be numbered and squiggly random lines should be drawn on the envelope to help with later identification,” the Google Doc states. “Finally a photo of the envelope should be taken and posted to social media before distribution. The purpose of this is to allow recipients to complain on social media with reasonable evidence if they do not receive the funds.”
Volunteers need to remain in a room until the process is complete, with no more than one person leaving at a time to use the washroom, and with food being delivered. Of course, any devices used in the process must be destroyed, such as the printer for the paper seed phrases.
“The printer is the single best device to steal because it holds a copy of all of the seed words,” the document states. “The volunteers should work together to destroy the printer." A list of equipment needed for the project includes large pliers, leather gloves, cutting shears (“the most expensive available”), a screwdriver, and trashbags, to accomplish this purpose.
Thoughts:
- Shouldn’t there be NFTs of the envelopes with the squiggly random lines?
- Can you destroy a printer by driving a truck over it?
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This is my favourite part:
In the chat, Weatherman compared giving Bitcoin to protesters to giving them “a loaded gun,” in the sense that things could go wrong if handled improperly.
“So that’s like 50 percent of the Bitcoin gets lost and the other 50 percent is [for] the truckers. That’s totally fine, that’s acceptable. I think I said 80 percent in the doc, but… if we have some volunteer that runs off with, you know hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then it’s a Tucker Carlson story. That’s what we’re really trying to avoid,” he said.
They’re basically going in with the expectation that 20-50% of the funds will be stolen by the volunteers and bungled away by the Flu Trux Klansmen. That’s before taking into account the usual middlemen wetting their beaks.
Update: looks like cryptocurrency isn’t the magic workaround the Libertarian techbros were claiming it was, because exchanges are the only way for the fascist truckers to convert it into money they can actually use to pay fines, bail, and lawyers.
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So the 'truckers" got used for a money laundering scheme. Funny!
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The elephant in every cryptocurrency room. Unless the entire world is on your pet crypto, then it’s a useless number in an app until it goes through an exchange. The exchanges are… really insecure, uninsured, privacy-weak… banks. They succeeded in reinventing a parallel financial system from the 18th century, but worse.
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They’re definitely over complicating the process of destroying a bit of office equipment.
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truly the “cash” of the future /s
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It’s hilarious that this opaque (to me) super-sophisticated currency of the future ultimately depends on the analog distribution system of writing seed phrases on pieces of paper and sealing them in paper envelopes with random squiggly lines. It’s a system that medieval clerks or Mesopotamian tax collectors would have no trouble understanding.
The evil machines of the sorcerers must be destroyed, but that collection of tools seems excessive to open up a printer and find the circuit board with the memory on it. A couple of screwdrivers should do the job. The remainder is metal and plastic with no magical properties. I wonder if the authors of this protocol have ever taken a machine apart or worked with their hands.
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Has no one linked to the clean version?
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how far we have come
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Marshall McLuhan actually. And to bring it full-circle, a Canadian. “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”,
Culture is Our Business, 1970
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