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.
2 Sep 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
After a series of decisions by the Banano developers, with which I don't agree (as listed below), I have decided that it is time for me to leave the Banano Republic. As soon as I have enough BAN in my wallet to meet the minimum for conversion, I will...
1 Sep 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
One Year price chart for BTC, as of 2022/08/27 (Screenshot from CMC) All-Time price chart for BTC, copyright CMC On the 27th of August 2022, I looked at the one year and all-time price charts for Bitcoin and saw that it had taken a nose dive. I decid...
30 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
In my last post, I wrote about Audius and mentioned that I'd be creating an account there. I've now done that. If you feel inclined to join, here's my invitation link. One thing that I wrote is that $AUDIO is an ERC20. That is actually incorrect. It'...
28 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
A while ago, SoundCloud changed the content of its TOU/ToS. I was not happy with them, so deleted my content and account from their platform. About a year ago, I signed up with Band Camp. However, that's not ideal for two reasons:1. Although a lot of...
27 Aug 2022 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
Today, I read a post on Noise.cash (which, sadly, does not cite a source), claiming that only 4.2% of the world's population owns crypto. Frankly, I find that figure disturbingly low. I hope it's not true. If it is, then it indicates three things to...
27 Aug 2022 3 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
For various reasons (some of which I'm unaware, no doubt, not following events too closely), 2022 has been a bad year for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and many other cryptocurrencies. The fall really began in November of 2021 and has pretty much con...
24 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Digibyte (DGB) is loosely based on Bitcoin's (BTC) code. It also uses proof of Work (POW) and is thus mineable. However, unlike Bitcoin, it is lightning fast (seconds) and fees are minimal or non-existent. The aim/intention of the project is securing...
23 Aug 2022 3 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
There's a misconception that because cryptocurrency transactions are cryptographically secure, they're also anonymous/private. (Cryptography is used for anonymity in other instances, so that must follow here too, right?) While that may be true for so...
19 Aug 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
"The Zcash value proposition is in private transactions. However, private transactions are not the default and many users simply do not know how to initially create shielded (private) transactions, aka a “t” => “z”. — How to Shield Your ZEC; Coin.FY...
19 Aug 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Today (2022/08/19), I received a mail from Gemini (through which my Brave wallet is verified, despite Brave having removed support for African countries). In it, there is a link to a post on Gemini's blog, which announces that the company's Website n...
