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.
17 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
As some of you may know, I get the Gemini weekly newsletter. Yesterday, I received one that started with this post's title. Here's what the blog post on Gemini's site had to report: CLARITY Act stalls over stablecoin yield debate, other unresolved i...
29 Sep 2025 1 minute read 8 comments Great White Snark
Am I the only one who has noticed that Pub0x seems to be quiet these last few months? I used to follow so many prolific writers that I'd run out of tip points before I'd had the chance to read all the interesting posts. Now, I have to go to the home...
18 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This morning, I got a newsletter email from Gemini, stating this: "After a delay on Wednesday, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed the stablecoin-focused [Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins] (GENIUS) Act an...
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...
