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.
13 Mar 2023 2 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
Watching the Faithful Fiat Muppets getting their knickers in a knot over SVB and Signature collapsing is possibly one of the funniest things I've seen in the last twenty-four hours (even though I've watched a lot of Justin Hawkins critiquing things o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
