The Intersect of Crypto Musings & Consumer Impacts
The Intersect of Crypto Musings & Consumer Impacts

The Intersect of Crypto Musings & Consumer Impacts

A blog focused on ongoing government regulation for crypto or consumer issues with crypto with wide range of topics from pitfalls to avoid to opportunities to grab.


Why I'm Going to Keep my 22-Year-Old Truck

28 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

Cars have a come a long way in the last two decades or so. Where before they have had may one computer for managing sensors and providing readings to help determine diagnostics and optimum running, today a typical vehicle has dozens of computers and...

Reaching a Personal Limit

26 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

The hard thing about getting older is that you end up acknowledging the things you can't do anymore far too frequently. Just like the brain and body change as you move from youth to adulthood prime, so they both change as you move into older adulthoo...

Talking About Deli Food

25 Sep 2024 2 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti

AI, otherwise technically referred to as artificial intelligence, has become ubiquitous and as much of a reach-for tool as the dictionary was before computers. That said, anyone with regular application of the tool is finding it to still be lacking i...

Today's AI Isn't What We Imagined in the Jetsons

20 Sep 2024 3 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

Like most things with new technology, the reality of how new tools come about and how they work usually doesn't match what we imagined it would be. For many years the idea of artificial intelligence was played with in books and then Hollywood with a...

The Shadow IT Workers

20 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

Sorry, the name might seem a bit more adventurous than the reality. In small and medium organizations, everyone has a pretty good idea who provides the IT tech support, but in large organizations the field these days tend to be getting fairly muddy....

There are Asian Food Products, and Then There is Japanese Food

19 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

I've never been to Japan, and have no point of reference in terms of how the country actually is aside from what I see on TV or on YouTube videos, but we do definitely get an impression of its food product side whenever my wife and I go to the local...

College Move-in Day (AI Doesn't Handle This Part Yet)

19 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

Some 36 years ago I went through the rite of passage moving into college and spending my first hours getting organized and oriented on where I was going to be living for the next 4 years. While I was like most students, excited about getting away fro...

Do We Really Care What Trump Thinks of Crypto?

17 Sep 2024 2 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

There isn't a day that goes by where there's not a story about Donald Trump's attempted forays into the digital value world with another pea-brained venture launching a token, NFT or worse, specially spray-painted gold sneakers. If it wasn't so laugh...

Why Agnostic Web Tools Fight Monopolies

17 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

If you haven't noticed, much of what's available on the Internet today involves working through some kind of company or service that you have to subscribe to and have membership with. If you don't, then you don't get to access their services. The maj...

XRP on Robinhood, Maybe

17 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

If you're looking for Ripple (XRP) to be present on Robinhood so you can throw a few dollars at it, you might be waiting a bit longer. While our Euro-friends got to enjoy an early entry without much fanfare but lots of activity, no such luck is avail...