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.
9 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Seeing as I have a lot of time on my hands when not trying to hustle together enough fiat to pump into crypto and sustain me (and I stuffed around instead of taking my education seriously), I have decided that I should upskill by going back to basic...
2 Jul 2021 1 minute read 7 comments Great White Snark
I don't know for sure, but if pumping approximately twenty-eight million (28 000 000) USD into cryptocurrency isn't enough of a manipulation in a positive direction to put a lot of fuel into the shuttle and get it airborne, I'll be a monkey's uncle (...
2 Jul 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
This is going to be a very quick post, which is a reflection on the speed and simplicity of using Atomic Wallet (which uses Simplex for transactions). After weeks of fighting with Coinbase and Coindirect, the support staff there still haven't solved...
1 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Makin' the most of the ride before we get arrested,We're all wasted,And we're not going home tonight! Covered in black, we lack the social graces.Just like an animal, we crawl out of our cages.They can't tame us,So if you're one of us, get on the bu...
30 Jun 2021 2 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
Both of these companies haven't got a cooking clue when it comes to ID verification for KYC, have bungled it horrendously. I've spent weeks trying to go through the processes and jumping through hoops to verify myself with them. To add insult to inju...
30 Jun 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
I've just dropped DuckDuckGo like a hot potato, uninstalled the plugin, reported it to Mozilla (and recommended they look at promoting Presearch instead), filled out the "uninstallation survey", signed up with Presearch, added PRE to my Atom wallet,...
29 Jun 2021 11 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This is not an MRA post. I happen to like The Matrix and Alice in Wonderland for unrelated reasons. I wasn't even aware of what an MRA was at the time of writing. This piece was originally written as an email in April 2020. Following a webinar hosted...
29 Jun 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
TIL: DDG, which purports to "respect your privacy", is not actually a search engine; it's a meta search engine/search aggregator. It also doesn't do what it claims to. The app/"engine" sources material from Bing, Stack Exchange, AWS and other places...
29 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
The Grand old Duke of Snark,He had 10 000 men.He marched them upTo the top of the hillAnd he marched them down again. Right, well, I've finally got my money from the bank (and not a moment too soon, too; a day later and I would have filed a complaint...
28 Jun 2021 1 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark
It takes them three to ten working days to move fiat between themselves and they charge us for doing so. Yesterday, I claimed some free Arweave. It was in my wallet within hours. To boot, they have the audacity to claim, with confidence and certainty...
