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.
14 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
On Thursday (2024/09/12), I received an email notification that Gemini has posted its annual "State of Crypto" report. Here are the highlights: Infographic copyright 2024/09 Gemini (Click to zoom in.) In current crypto ownership, Turkey (Türkiye) l...
8 Sep 2024 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
There's no shortage of people offering to show you "how to get rich quick". They're on every platform, spanning many media. They existed before the Internet or television and infomercials did, even before the "Classified Ads" sections in newspapers....
27 Aug 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Obligatory Disclaimer: I'm not a cryptographer by any means, so I'm not as clued-up on cryptography as I could/should be. My understanding could be mistaken and my explanations erroneous. Please DYOR if anything seems unclear or incorrect. TL;DR: Sig...
22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Oof! Today, I have spent 350 banana republic bucks on a new phone charger, which I didn't anticipate. The old ones I have don't fit the slot properly and no longer work. I'm tired of struggling to get them working and dealing with a phone battery alm...
29 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
TIL;DR: There's a phishing attempt/airdrop scam (to claim your hard-earned PRE reward tokens) doing the rounds by email. This morning was possibly the first time I logged into Presearch since the twelve days I was without Internet connection (due to...
16 Jun 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Seeing as Twitter has now become X and I can't log in (due to some conflict with JavaScript usage or a CORS issue causing a conflict with Firefox or one of the addons/plugins I'm using), I've decided to abandon Twitter (which now redirects to x.com)....
29 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I've been absent for the last week or two, thanks to ongoing computer trouble with Windows 10 (as usual). I finally managed to get my newer laptop disinfected and installed Manjaro (which is based on Arch). After only three days, I decided I don't li...
25 Oct 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
For a couple of days, I fel really terrible about having to say goodbye to looking to crypto to supplement my income and scrape by with a little extra. I was just really scattered and couldn't concentrate, would have left my head somewhere and been u...
13 Oct 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
The last few days to a week have been a bit 50/50, TBH. On the one hand, I'm a bit glum about coming regulations in ZAF that are going to make it even more difficult for me to remain in the cryptosphere unless I just HODL my crypto until I can move t...
11 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Today, I opened the Luno app on my phone because I wanted to exchange some DAI and USDC on Polygon (MATIC) for BCH. (Udemy are having a sale that ends in less than twenty-four hours at time of writing and I don't want to miss it, but don't have enoug...
