The Second Realm

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Cypherpynkd episodes

Episode 1: Loom for Geeks part 1 - Introduction - Patrick Chkoreff

Patrick Chkoreff creator and programmer of Loom, the amazing value transfer system. Topics covered include the loom Grid, encrypted account information, passphrases vs passwords. Usage tokens and more...

The simplest possible web-based mechanism for creating and transferring types of assets and amounts of them.

To own an asset means to be the only one who knows where it is (the information required to access it)

Loom involved a two-dimensional array of numbers like a spreadsheet where the rows are asset types and the columns are like "accounts" or "vaults", the content of the cells being the number of units of the asset type stored in the vaults.

The columns are hash keys (with assigned friendly names) some being personal accounts that people have created for themselves, others are assigned as shared context between issuers and recipients for payments. (the analogy is of picking a random drop zone for the asset so someone can give it to another person without meeting or coinciding in time).

All kind of content can be stored like this - the only protection is that the hash names are not know - this of course is no less secure than having a password to login, in fact passwords are far shorter than hash keys.

Episode 2: Liberty Villages - Non-State Communities

Interview with Clay Douglass the founder of Liberty Villages. The Liberty Villages Project. A proposal for distributed Voluntary Self Sustaining Non-State Communities. Covering Group Homesteading with armed security, communities, barter, schooling, medical care, community legal dispute resolution, affordable housing systems and solar power. They talk about many concepts to do with independence including memory-stick based transport layer (sneakernet) and connecting villages together into larger networks.

Episode 3: What is Hawala? - Jonathan Logan

Jonathan Logan a respected cryptoanarchist, working in BlackIT and author of the underground smash hit book: “The Second Realm – A Book on Strategy” answers our question: What is Hawala?

Covering: Introduction to the Hawala money transfer systems and networks, Hawala History, Culture, Trust, Community, Worldwide usage past and present and Alternate Honest Value Transfer Systems.

Counter-economics is the crossover between The Second Realm and Agorism.

Hawala as a means of transferring money is at least a thousand years old.

See also

• secondrealm.net
• Second Realm Strategy
• Agorism
• The First Realm