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 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
In the world of crypto, it's not uncommon to see the phrase "to the moon", usually expressed in a sort of hopeful, wistful tone of zealous enthusiasm. What I wonder, though, is at what point can a cryptocurrency be considered to have reached the moon...
29 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
F@@k Google and please stop recommending people use it as their preferred search engine. Presearch is better, since it pays you for using it, respects your privacy (doesn't store the results of that for which you search or sell that data to advertise...
28 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Be careful how much credence you give to so-called celebrities and famous people, especially if you've never met them and vetted them in person. No matter what you've read and what you think you know about them, they're still strangers. "In the summ...
27 Dec 2021 5 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Claim: Bitcoin is only for Bitheads!Refutation: Um, no, that's RedCoin with which you're confusing it. Seriously, though, crypto is not only for software and Web developers and the technically inclined/savvy. Anybody who bothers to learn about it (in...
21 Dec 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
For me personally, the answer to those questions is "no, not at all". My CPUs (a tenth/eleventh generation i5 and a sixteen-year-old i7) simply aren't powerful enough to produce decent hashrates, even when working together. (I'm getting an average of...
11 Dec 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Over the course of the last week or so, I have been in conversation, via DM/PM, with a writer friend who's given me some useful suggestions regarding what I should read in order to make a positive change that will help me with my dire financial situa...
7 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
"We found out(Yes, we did)That Grandma plays the numbers!— Wynonie Harris Today, I had a look at a couple of things concerning my crypto earnings for my writing on both Publish0x and on read.cash. It's pretty clear, based on what I've seen, that re...
6 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Having had a quick look at the yearly graphs (on CMC) for many of the cryptocurrencies in which I'm interested (regardless of whether I'm holding any), it looks like the bears are out in force. I predict that the dip is going to continue and this wee...
3 Dec 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Recently, I have been a little disheartened to see that Presearch hit a bit of a slump, since using the search engine is one of the ways that I generate my very modest crypto income. However, today/tonight I noticed that instead of receiving 0.1 PRE...
1 Dec 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
There are currently two major things in my life that I need to get resolved: Get a job and earn some money Invest in crypto (including investing time to learn more about it, particularly from a development angle) Despite it seeming (to me, at least...
