The mental gymnastics of someone who has playing with cryptocurrencies since 2014.
28 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments CryptoForAll
Earlier Posts:Bitcoin Must Be Made Legal Tender (Your Coins Aren't Safe Until It Is)If Bitcoin is Made Legal Tender: A Thought Experiment (Part 1) In my earlier post, If Bitcoin is Made Legal Tender: A Thought Experiment (Part 1), I made some predict...
22 Mar 2023 4 minute read 3 comments CryptoForAll
On my earlier post, Bitcoin Must Be Made Legal Tender (Your Coins Aren't Safe Until It Is), a kind reader asked this question in the comments: what the benefit would be for established governments like the US or UK to make BTC legal tender? I fired o...
19 Mar 2023 2 minute read 1 comment CryptoForAll
It took over two years. And, no, I didn't buy any, much as I was tempted to. For those who are unfamiliar with FreeBitcoin, it is a long-running faucet, with many extra features, such as interest paid on balances greater than 30,000 satoshis, and man...
6 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments CryptoForAll
"If you have nothing to hide, you don't need privacy." That what people say when you talk about using wanting privacy. Everyone's mind immediately thinks that only things and actions that are illegal, immoral, or unethical would want to be kept out o...
2 Mar 2023 3 minute read 3 comments CryptoForAll
"Your keys, your crypto." We have all seen this phrase. It is true, up to a point. That point is Bitcoin's lack of legal tender status (except in El Salvador, maybe a few more places by now). For background, money or currency is given legal tender st...
26 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments CryptoForAll
You may have seen the term Hierarchical Determinism in the description of a cryptocurrency wallet, or that a cryptocurrency wallet is a Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallet. You then skipped over that to see what coins and tokens were supported, wh...
23 Feb 2023 2 minute read 3 comments CryptoForAll
It's not mining. It's not staking. It doesn't slow down your computer (much). It's loaning your CPU to do video encoding. I am running the Theta Edge Node (download here) on an old laptop from 2011 running Windows 7. The CPU is an Intel Core I7-3540M...
14 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoForAll
I apologize for the clickbaitish headline. I will explain it shortly. But first, a confession: I am a Bitcoin HODLer. Whether through mining, staking, fauceting, trading, or using DeFi, I am stacking satoshis as fast as I can manage. Further, selling...
10 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments CryptoForAll
Previous articles:CBDCs are NOT CryptocurrenciesCBDCs: A Possible Future Roadmap (Be Very Afraid) In my earlier post, CBDCs: A Possible Future Roadmap (Be Very Afraid), I predicted a nightmare world where all money is trapped in a digital prison. Som...
9 Feb 2023 6 minute read 4 comments CryptoForAll
Previous article: CBDCs are NOT Cryptocurrencies The imposition (NOT adoption) of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will not happen overnight. After all, citizens in the Eurozone were given two months to redeem their national currency for euros....
