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.
23 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
Recently, I got it into my head that I want a custom/vanity Nano (XNO) address. After having no luck with NanoAddr (Firefox prevents the Web worker from running due to a security issue), I decided that this week I'll try nano-vanity (written in Rust)...
22 Aug 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
On the 27th of July, the most excellent Cryptogod brought us news of WorldCoin (the cryptocurrency project using biometric iris/retina scanners to determine humanity), in his post titled Vitalik Buterin Concerned over WorldCoin. In the course of the...
18 Aug 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Today, I opened my mail to disappointing news. Towards the top of the list of items in my inbox was an email from KuCoin, informing me that No KYC will mean no service, as of 31 August 2023: "Dear KuCoin Users, To fulfill the principle of "Know Your...
6 Aug 2023 5 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Image based on one from pymnts.com, via Graft Network (top part, showing the TradFi version); Blockchain and Crypto version is my own addition. Click to zoom (although the PDF version has better resolution). From looking at that image (which I'd call...
4 Aug 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Given the fact that I'm done with going through recruitment agencies to find work (out of fifty-one, only one can actually manage to see through the process of contacting me about a position to actually getting through an interview or two), I've take...
22 Jul 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
"This fake crypto-/money-earning/cloud-mining app is different from our other fake earning/mining apps. No, really, it is! See, that's because we've changed the name and colour scheme of it while keeping everything else the same! But don't be fooled...
21 Jul 2023 6 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark
Even if I stay out of chatrooms/groups for most of the day or go offline for over thirty hours, I can be guaranteed one thing: People will be just as stupid online on my return as they were on my departure. Three things are guaranteed in life: Death,...
18 Jul 2023 10 minute read 8 comments Great White Snark
If you're one of those paranoid folks like me (id est, you don't trust banksters or governments and don't want to submit personally-identifying details and documents for everything when you do something related to cryptocurrency and/or finances onlin...
16 Jul 2023 6 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
Maybe it's because I've been reading and quoting Hamlet recently (thanks to having been without electricity or Internet access for over thirty hours starting at 08:40 on Friday and needing something to do), but the following came to my attention duri...
12 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
To be honest, when I first heard of/saw mention of Threads, I was confused. That's because I immediately thought of multi-threading in programming, particularly Java. However, I quickly learned that it's supposedly "the next Twatter-killer that's goi...
