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.
1 Jun 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
The other day, in the course of looking at Arbitrum (and other L2 solutions), I stumbled across Wandomains, which works on Wanchain. Interested in potentially having my own Web3 domain name, I went to have a look at what it's all about. What is Wanch...
30 May 2023 5 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
For a while, I've read about various projects being "layer 2 (L2) solutions", the implication being that that's a good thing. However, I've not known what that actually means (or why they are so great, what aspects/properties they have that makes the...
17 May 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Greetings, people of the P0x! I hope you are having a good week. I certainly am, following the sale of my entire discography on Band Camp a few nights ago. That event got me thinking about something I've been meaning to look into and get resolved for...
8 May 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
This post is the result of a rather lengthy response to Patch's post on the White House's post regarding the DAME law (and a reference to the Danelaw/Danegeld of Medieval England). Those who pay the Danegeld never get rid of the Dane. Joe Biden might...
6 May 2023 1 minute read 9 comments Great White Snark
Personally, I don't give a Flying Scotsman about the British monarchy (or any monarchs, really, come to that). My political leaning is Anarcho-Syndicalistic (and my closest blood relation was Scottish, not English), after all, so what do you expect?...
3 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Bored apes, Cryptopunks, Donald Trump and other loads of crap sell for hundreds, thousands or millions of dollars. However, my NFTs on OpenSea (primarily digital art and music) and articles on Mirror are going unsold despite my best efforts to make m...
2 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Me, at 09:00 this morning: Right, time to get some work done.Computer: Freezes and doesn't respond until I restart it. You see, folks, it's infected with the virus that is known as MS Windows 10. It needs a Linuxilin injection. There are no two ways...
1 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Greetings, people of the P0x! May the force be strong with you this month. It certainly doesn't seem to have been with me last month (or the ones before, for a few years, to be honest). Anywho, it's time again for one of my rants, which I do a lot .....
21 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
A certain famous American toy company makes the Barbie and Ken dolls. One of its rivals makes Bratz. What the two have in common is that the official clothing and accessories are very wholesome and family-friendly. However, I have known people whom h...
20 Apr 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Today, I joined Mirror and published my first post. (It's a repost of my writing on why I'm choosing Solana, not Ethereum, for blockchain development. At the time of writing this, it's just $0.05 short of $1.00 in tips, which is good going for me. If...
