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.
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...
28 Sep 2024 3 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark
I've done a bit of a dig into Tangled and Millix and found a few alarming things: KYC in the Extreme Unless I provide a whole lot of personally identifying information (such as my real name, tax number, copies of my ID document and photos of me holdi...
28 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This week, the news is brought to you by Gemini's weekly market update. Nasdaq's Request to List and Trade Options on Bitcoin ETF Approved by SEC The SEC has given the green light to a change in the rules, one that permits listing and trading options...
27 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
I'm having a little trouble with both Atomic Wallet and Exodus. Specifically, I'm having trouble with the Nano (XNO) address/component of these multi-account wallets. In the case of Atomic, I get the error message shown below: Nano sending operation...
24 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Did you know that you can potentially "mine" one of 97 coins and tokens with UnMineable.com, using your computer's CPU or GPU (or both)? Today, while looking for Solana (SOL) faucets, I came across UnMineable, a site which I first encountered back wh...
21 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
As some of my readers may already know, I've switched from using Noise.app (which is so quiet that it might as well be dead) to Tangled (see my referrer link in the "Resources" section). So far, it's going pretty well, I feel. I've already earned abo...
16 Sep 2024 4 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
As my long-term readers will know, I've been searching for a Web3 platform/Website to host my music as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), due to not being completely satisfied with SoundCloud and Band Camp. Why music NFTs as opposed to traditional hosting?...
15 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Long-term readers will know that I have released a number of albums on Band Camp, but haven't any traction there. (A whopping total of two people have bought any of my music from it.) I gave Audius a try, but haven't been able to earn any Audius Toke...
