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.
- Note that Patrick is the developer and creator of the software, but does not own the loom.cc site
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.
Episode 4: Loom for Dummies - Patrick Chkoreff
A very basic introduction to Loom. Simple, easy to understand and very informative. Topics covered include: The difference between Loom and Paypal/e-gold/GoldMoney/Pecunix type systems we are all familiar with. Very easy to understand explanations on how loom making and receiving of payments work. What are usage tokens and invitations. Loom locations, contacts accounts and assets.
“Loom for Dummies” will be followed up with Part 2 on How to get a loom account, transfer money in, or get loom assets”. Part 3 will cover a very basic intro on how to issue your own assets.
Episode 5: Bitcoin mania part 1 - mids
This episode special guest is mids, cypherpunk, digital currency fanboy, software engineer, privacy & anonymity software creator and project contributor, eurotrash turned turned AnCap by hanging out in the wrong online chat channels. Yes, its ‘mids’, lowercase ‘M’, cause this guy is L33t.
mids gives us the lowdown on this Bitcoin Mania that is exciting and confusing everyone. mids tells us the Cypherpunk Cryptocurrency invasion has begun.
Issues discussed include: What is Bitcoin? Why is Bitcoin Money? Can a tyrant in government seize the worlds Bitcoins? P2P Software/Network that makes up Bitcoin. Open Source Software. Bitcoin Mining. Past and Current USD value of Bitcoin. OTC Exchangers. Business opportunities in parts of the world for on the ground Over the Counter exchangers. The massive amount of developers creating systems for Bitcoin. The fast growing number of merchants accepting it. And... lots more. Enjoy and look forward to more episodes on Bitcoin and other topics with mids.
Episode 6 - Regional Looms - PorcLoom - Alex Wied
Loom.cc is not the only Loom system out there in the wild. PorcLoom.net is alive and kicking its way into the New Hampshire Free State Project stomping grounds.
Alex tells us why he recoded the Loom system in Ruby, setup his own Loom server, how it is geared toward a regional market, his plans for it, and many of the business models and market usage that can be operated on top of this Economic Dialtone System in the Loomiverse.
- Porc is short for porcupine - the mascot of the Free State Project (it's cute, but don't tread on it!)
- Bitcoin is a type of currency, [Porc]Loom is a piece of accounting software
- PorcLoom.net Website
- PorcLoom.net Ruby Open Source Code - completely rewritten code-base from loom.cc with some differences such as 256bit hashes
- Agora.io Presentation on YouTube: Anonymous Asset Exchange
- Liberty Radio Network Stream
- FreeTalkLive
- The Free State Project
