Cryptographic Anarchy: (Mis)Adventures in Crypto
Cryptographic Anarchy: (Mis)Adventures in Crypto

Cryptographic Anarchy: (Mis)Adventures in Crypto

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.


Minimising the Impact of Surveillance Capitalism on My Life, Since I can't Eliminate it (Yet)

1 Mar 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

I do not (or no longer) consent to the use of products and/or disservices that compromise/violate my privacy and/or security, especially/particularly by participating in Surveillance Capitalism (bulk-collecting, mining and selling users' personal dat...

Going Full Crypto is Still Very Much a Pipe Dream for Me (A Mini-Rant & RFC)

19 Feb 2023 3 minute read 7 comments Great White Snark

Crypto Pipe Dreams Once again, I am really struggling to bring in crypto for the content I post. I don't know if it's because I don't have a good idea of what my audience likes, fickle/minimal attention spans, a lack of consistency on my part, insuf...

A Note on Anarcho-Kink, Cryptographic Anarchy, Decentralisation and the Loci of Control

17 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

This  writing started off as a comment I left on a considerably interesting post/discussion of Cybernetic systems and their optimal organisation. I intended it to remain as such, but the thoughts expressed there lodged in my head and percolated so th...

How to Add a Custom ERC-20 Token, Such as SPOT, to Your Atomic Wallet

26 Jan 2023 2 minute read 7 comments Great White Snark

As many of you know, SPOT has been added as yet another tipping token on Publish0x. For many people, including myself, there was a period in which that was a frustratingly pointless decision, since we had nowhere to which to withdraw it, nor a means...

Just how private is your VPN, really?

12 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

VPNs aren't really something about which I know much (other than that they're not the same as onion networks and I should probably use one). However, in the course of enhancing my knowledge of cryptography, I found some potentially useful information...

What is 🌱Chia Coin/Network (XCH) 🌿 and Why Should I Care?

12 Jan 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

What is Chiacoin (XCH)? Chiacoin (XCH) is the cryptocurrency, while the Chia network is the blockchain on which it operates. It was created in May of 2021, by Bram Cohen. Cohen is the creator of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing system....

What if Cryptocurrency fails to achieve all we hope it will, turns out to be a dead end in the evolution of finance?

10 Jan 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark

I'm bullish on cryptocurrency and its potential, generally. I don't believe that it will fail. However, I also know that it has its flaws (if not in the algorithms and protocols themselves, then in adoption and environment). I also know that, in the...

All the ETH I Can Get (A Filk)

6 Jan 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

The below is a filk of More by The Sisters of Mercy (written by Andrew Eldrich and Jim Steinman). [Intro]Some people get byWith a little crypto farming.Some people get byWith a whole lot more.I don't knowWhy you gotta be so undemanding.One thing I kn...

The Future is Coming On

2 Jan 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark

I don't really make New Years resolutions, for the same reason I don't make promises: I simply don't keep them. I might as well make a resolution to get fat and watch more television, because it's not going to happen. However, there are some things I...

Out, Out, Damn SPOT!

30 Dec 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

To all the people whom I've inadvertently tipped SPOT, I must humbly apologise for this travesty. It was never my intention to do so. However, I unfortunately have no choice in the matter of what cryptocurrency this site decides to use for payments....