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.
6 Oct 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
This post is brought to you courtesy of the financial crash/crisis of 2008 (a motivator for the development of Bitcoin and later cryptocurrencies) and a discussion thereon, on CVn. The whole financial crisis was insane. Even looking back on it from...
6 Oct 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
That's the gist of the question somebody asked me in a chat group, then was surprised by the length of my answer (which is expanded upon below): Frankly, as questions on morality go, that's a difficult one to answer definitively. (I even started read...
5 Oct 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark
As you already know, Publish0x has a banner announcing "In a few weeks, Publish0x is switching to [the] Optimism Network". Well, I don't know about you, but my definition of "a few weeks" (three to four of them) is clearly different from those of the...
26 Sep 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
It's that time of month again, where money has to flow into my bank account and out again, to pay my bills (including food and rent). The bad news is that I converted my Cosmos (ATOM) and Ontology Gas (ONG) to fiat so that that can happen. (Thank goo...
13 Sep 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
This morning, I downloaded the Phantom Wallet browser extension, imported the address/account I use with SolFLare (which probably wasn't a good idea in retrospect, but there's so little SOL in it that I won't lose sleep if it disappears) and, with mu...
12 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
One upon a time in the recent past, I participated in an airdrop event for Morpher, in the hope of getting between ten and a hundred Morpher (MPH), exchanged it for something else and then promptly forgot about it. Today, I got an email from Morpher...
12 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
For some reason or other that I can't remember, I ended up with ~17.99 Ripple (XRP) sitting in one of my multi-crypto wallets. Perhaps a friend sent it to me; I don't recall. Not being a fan of Ripple Labs (the project has made statements about havin...
8 Sep 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Greetings, people of the P0x! I have been away for a while, mainly because I spent a weekend binge watching Lucifer (I find it seriously addictive), then feeling terrible about myself for not doing anything constructive. I also found a new Nano (XNO)...
29 Aug 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing, end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we e...
26 Aug 2023 1 minute read 9 comments Great White Snark
Since Pub0x will soon be switching to Optimism (in a few weeks, apparently), I've been tempted to write a "What is Optimism and why Should You Care?" post, maybe earn enough Ampleforth (AMPL) and SPOT to withdraw them before that happens. However, I'...
