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when not outdoors, writing about topics that interest me


Zero-Day Threats: Water Hydra's Tactics and Trend Micro's Defense

19 Feb 2024 2 minute read 2 comments AX17

As I'm exploring the topics of software development and the latest technical news regularly, I decided to look deeper at the previous week’s news regarding a vulnerability exploit. More specifically is about CVE-2024-21412 - a zero-day vulnerability...

Monday Weekly tech Dose (ep. 1: A Patchy Server)

12 Feb 2024 2 minute read 2 comments AX17

Week starts are difficult so will try to ad a little fun touch to my writing routines. I will look into the fun side of the things for specific IT related topics and of course also blockchain. The subjects are random and are tools that I am either us...

Would a Professional Trade Digital Assets? Depends who you ask

11 Feb 2024 2 minute read 2 comments AX17

JPMorgan survey results are in: 78% of Institutional Traders have no plans to trade crypto or digital assets. I was intrigued by the title and I believe in checking things for ourselves, so I conducted a little research to be able to make my own opin...

Tectum SoftNote: How it Works to Avoid Counterfeiting while Ensuring Digital Payment Security

24 Dec 2023 5 minute read 3 comments AX17

The one-year challenge to read a white paper/week started to pay off, as I am getting better at understanding the terms, vocabulary and general working of blockchain projects. It helped my writing as well. When I discovered a chance to read Tectum's...

Old and New: How People Analysed Data in Ancient times to Today's AI

22 Dec 2023 2 minute read 1 comment AX17

Looking at the emergence of new technologies today, most of which are like complete foreign languages to the users (myself included) or simply running in the background, as electricity does. We all use them but have no idea how they exist and run. Ho...

Possible Quick Fix when: ETH not Received on Binance from Publish0x (Self-Service Recovery How to)

19 Dec 2023 2 minute read 2 comments AX17

When withdrawing ETH from Publish0x many things can go wrong but in general, it should be possible to fix them, if all details are entered correctly. In the following scenario, I describe what to do when ETH is not coming to Binance, despite doing al...

To Tip, or not to Tip,

15 Dec 2023 2 minute read 3 comments AX17

A few thoughts on the Etiquette of Gratitude in Bars, Coffee Shops, and Restaurants The question of whether to tip or not has always sparked discussions and raised eyebrows ofetn. Tipping, a practice adopted by many cultures, is an unspoken social et...

Now and Then: Ancient Trade Practices

12 Dec 2023 4 minute read 3 comments AX17

The sophisticated trading and exchange platforms that exist today could not be in place without the ancient trading practices. On today’s episode I explore the exchange practices from older times, with a short glimpse at a few historical aspects of t...

Now and Then: Old and New Money Devaluing Methods | #retroFridays

1 Dec 2023 3 minute read 4 comments AX17

For today's #retroFridays series, I will explore some methods used to devaluate money in the past and in modern times. Now and then, various methods have been used throughout history to devalue coins. Why coin devaluation was and is being used? The p...

Shift from Attention Economy to Digital Currency - Transition to Web3

27 Nov 2023 5 minute read 2 comments AX17

I find fascinating the idea of a new type of social media where people are motivated financially to interact, post, comment and bring quality content. The incentivization integration in societal systems is not new - it was done long time before: lik...