The content of this blog is exclusively to do with online privacy/security, cryptography and cryptocurrency: Understanding it, investing in it, mining it (in groups/crowds), developing/programming it, the social problems it aims to solve and the various ways to make more of it (or not, as various losses and failures happen). Let's get away from banksters, Capitalists and fiat, to an unbanked anarcho-syndicalist commune. || Banner image: Blogger's own.
31 Mar 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Today, I happened to log in to MetaMask (MM) to check my funds in various ERC20s. While I was doing that, a banner advertised the possibility of a MetaMask debit card coming soon. Spend crypto like cash with a MetaMask Card: Securely and instantly s...
21 Mar 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
It looks like it's been a busy week (even a busy fortnight) for the cryptosphere, what with Trump declaring US crypto dominance and the lawsuit against Ripple being dropped. Not only that, but the market continues to bleed as investors and traders wi...
24 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Today, I read Cryptonator's Meme Coins are the Cancer of Crypto post. Personally, I think that judgement's a little harsh, but I'm not going to go into that here. In that article, he mentions a number of meme coins, FartCoin among them. Now, being on...
10 Feb 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This post is intended to serve as a summary of Step 3 in the book titled Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps, by Daniel Drescher. Part 3: Recognizing the Potential of Peer-to-Peer Systems This step builds/elaborates on our com...
9 Feb 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This article is intended to serve as a summary of Step 2 in the book titled Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps, by Daniel Drescher. Step 2: Seeing the Big Picture So that you may see the big picture (and the role of blockchai...
8 Feb 2025 4 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
This document is intended to serve as a summary of the book titled Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps, by Daniel Drescher. Introduction The introduction answers the most important question that every author has to answer: Wh...
5 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Yesterday I wrote "What is Blockchain (And Why Should You Care)?". Today, I write part 2, based on what I've gleaned from the rather brief Blockchain for Beginners by the Blockchain Council. Why do I do this? Simple: So that you get the facts and per...
4 Feb 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Many people talk about Blockchains and blockchain technology, most likely as a buzzword for the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). How many people, I wonder, actually know what it is and understand it on more...
23 Nov 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Urgh. I hate PayPal. Long-time readers will tell you as much. Every time I try to withdraw money from it, I invariably do something wrong. Today, I was trying to withdraw money from my personal PayPal account to my bank account. What I did instead wa...
21 Nov 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother with crypto and faucets. It just doesn't seem worth the effort at present, since I can't buy anything with it and I can't exchange it without getting my name on a government watch list. (To be clear, I'm not look...
