Fourth Decade Of My Quixotic Life. From 2008 Through 2018.
From what you have read so far about my life, you can readily conclude that everything is about boring and weird computer stuff. Anyways the technology sector is about to make a couple of radical changes to our way of living. It is about to get more exciting as mountains full of trail blazing ideas came about this during this special point in time. The financial meltdown due to banksters incompetence is the main focus of attention at the start of this fourth decade of my life. I cannot believe that they have incentivized incompetence by giving away taxpayer's money to slush fund leeches. They are too big too fail as their stupid saying goes. Lehman Brothers died around that time. AIG which is tied to the insurance company which I mentioned before is in big trouble. The Federal Reserve must have fixed their balance sheet to accomodate the incompetence of their comrades in the financial sector. The Fiat Money machine is obviously an elaborate Ponzi scheme dating back to 1913. The establishment of the corporation called Federal Reserve is a very controversial topic. Only a few people knew that it pays dividends to its shareholders and that is according to its own constitutions and by-laws. Only a few people can explain what this Jekyll Island creature truly is in the real world. Most of the zombies are turning a blind eye. The whole episode of the so called bailout started when all of the ATMs all across the United States Of America suddenly stopped spewing cash. The whole country went into hyperpanic mode as the obvious Ponzi scheme called **banking** was about to reveal its true colors. I told my father what they will do next and true enough in order to short circuit the much awaited revelation the Federal Reserve slashed its rates to raise property rates and taxes and they saved the banks because they are too big to fail so to speak. The bailout is a big surprise although a bail-in is harder to explain to the general public and so maybe that is the reason for this stupid decision to rescue the banksters from total humiliation.
Fiat money became fiat money in the year 1970 when the United States Dollar was decoupled from gold standard. It was decided to couple it to Petroleum. This created the Petrodollar monster that we see today. They said that this policy measure is going to be adapted in order to increase Petrodollar liquidity. A very clever idea since petroleum is in liquid form. The sad part is that Triffin's paradox correctly describe how this Petrodollar will undo itself sooner or later. Although Modern Monetary Theory will beg to disagree. The Bitcoin white paper started circulating around this time 2008 and the full implementation was seen by a few people a year later. The toilet paper or fugazi with serial numbers is about to end. Babylon has fallen so to speak.
Personally, I wanted to install the Bitcoin software as early as 2009. The problem is that my younger brother is fixated with the idea of defragmentation and optimization of our PC. He would anything and everything that he perceives as obstacles to his daily Microsoft Operating System routine. This is the reason why I was looking for ways to learn Linux OS by myself. The Windows crap is just full of scams such as Antivirus. MacOS does not have an antivirus program. Unix OS does not have an antivirus program. Linux OS does not have an antivirus program. But the operating system of choice in the Philippines is always begging for Anti-malware and Anti-virus scams. The fixation of Windows fan boys to the progress bar is insane. They think that when an antivirus program activates the progress it is as if their psychological needs are satisfied. The progress bar is not a guarantee that antivirus programs are really removing or detecting computer viruses. Anyways, I forgot about installing a Bitcoin node since my father became very ill and could not take care of himself anymore. I told myself that I will get back to this as soon as possible.
A familiar face came by our mini store and he happens to be my former classmate. He said that they manage to organize a get together for the survivors of the Caloocan City Science High School since we survive the process of passing through the eye of the needle. They asked me to personally meet them and have a nice little reunion. They told me to come to a bar and restaurant at Trinoma in Quezon City. So I came to the venue and we had a nice warm snacks and drinks. I was loving how the whole event was about reconnecting with former friends but then again the treacherous Hacker's club adviser came into the picture and started another silent pushing game of dominance. Whenever I would take a leak, He will be on a fake news dissemination mode. I have the option to just get out of this moronic situation or be violent and just smack that person in the face. This is when I finally decided to cut my ties with the whole group since they are just trying to flex and brag about the piss. If they trust that traitor with all their heart then I will not have anything to do with them. Besides, my father is life hanging by a thread.
The truth is that I am sick at that time. The initial diagnosis of the X-ray people at the diagnostic center is that they think that I have Sarcoma meaning I have cancer. If I took this news seriously I would have killed myself a long time ago for thinking that I really have cancer. What do you know, I am still alive and kicking 11 years after the gloomy news broke out. Which is why I became a critical thinker instead of being a sheep or an obedient fool. According to the specialist I have PTB also known as Tuberculosis. Incidentally this disease is more of a consistent killer than the Rona crap as this PTB or TB kills about 2 million people per year and not to mention the fact that the treatment for this could take from 6 months to two years. Actually what he saw were PTB scars and not cancer. My father meanwhile is again rushed to the hospital. He stayed for a week in one of those top notch hospital in Quezon City. The doctors told us that my father needed a pacemaker. The doctors also added that his pace maker is just for his daily problems regarding his weak heart and he still needs a defibrillator and medical oxygen among other things to keep him alive. My brother and I have decided that the pacemaker option is a waste of resource since there is no guarantee that his life would change drastically for the better after getting it. His daily prescription medicines is just shocking for only the affluent types could afford such a list. After three weaks of intensive caregiving which we personally provided at home, we were surprised that he could walk and do almost everything on his own again. He lead a normal life even though every once in a while he will make use of his hospital size medical oxygen. I was so envious of what my father was able to achieve while I am still struggling with Vertigo. My father is stronger than I am even though he is twice my age and has a heart and lung condition. For four months he was so strong he was so strong and all but his Hernia did not wait to press the repeat mode at a very bad time. Again he had to undergo a surgery. This time we knew that this the end of the line for my beloved father.
After the operation, he was stronger than ever before but by June of 2010 he could not take care of himself yet again. I could only manage to get about 5 hours of sleep everyday while the rest of my 24 hour life will have been devoted to caregiving. A few days before Christmas my father died. I will be crying every couple of minutes like a baby. I was orphaned although I still have my mother whom helped me as I struggle to get 5 hours of rest for 6 months before my father died. The danger of handling a huge medical oxygen tank inside our home is always at the back of my mind. The amount of stress that me and my mother have gone through was so tremendous but in the end we still failed to save my father. Somehow I can safely say that I am glad that I didn't take short cuts in life and that I faced it head on several times in the past because if I did not I am sure that I will have succumbed to pressure after just a few days of taking care of my father. I didn't surrender because I make it a point to face reality early in life and it turned me into a well balanced and well adjusted person whom doesn't look for excuses. I will not play the victim card which is the primary strategem of the newer generations. I will not make use of hospices. I will not hire a caregiver. I will always wear my big boy pants wherever I go. I will be proud to say that I may be partly responsible for my father's death but I did everything in my power to show him that somebody will always be beside him forever and ever. I will gladly accept my fate in perdition if that is what I truly deserve. May he rest in peace.
My Bitcoin journey started with a couple of Bitcoin Faucets and a Hot Wallet. There are a couple of Bitcoin blockchain explorer back then which made me realize the importance of the old Bitcoin saying that if it is not your private key it is not your Bitcoin. Hot wallets were new back then since everyone of the few early adopters are using the Bitcoin native wallet for PC to store their Bitcoins. Liberty Reserve is one those few website service which actually converts Fiat Money to Bitcoin during this particular point in time. Mang Sweeney is one the few who are involve in exchanging Bitcoins to Philippine Peso. Maybe you can still see his Wikipedia page at present. Bitcoin Street is one of the most trustworthy Bitcoin Faucet during the first few years of the Bitcoin Network. The only way to really master the use of Bitcoin Network is by analyzing everything about it. One of the usual way to understand the immediate complexities of Bitcoin is by studying 256 bits. Since it based on Secured Hash Algorithm 256. You can try creating a Bitcoin address with 256 zeros. You can try creating a Bitcoin address with 256 ones. You can try creating a Bitcoin with 128 zeros and 128 ones. It is also stated that it using Base 58 so there is nothing out there who can stop you from using base 58 and then create a private key out of it just for fun. A lot of scammers out there are using this to make you think that the Bitcoin Network is insecure. But in this illustration of mine, I am making you think in terms of how everything is formed by the network, besides 2 to 256 power in the world of exponents is equal to the number of atoms in this universe or almost equal to that amount. Right now there are only 7 to 8 billion people in this world so the odds of creating an address which will collide with another is astronomically minute to say the least and besides it will only because we are manually creating address but if you are going to use the Bitcoin Core wallet software the odds of collision is zero. This mental and mathematical exercises of creating private keys which corresponds to a cold storage Bitcoin address is unhackable since the network is not aware that it exist. When you create an address or cold storage wallet sans the Bitcoin Core wallet software the result is a stealth but very redeemable address using the technique called the private key sweeping. This will make you believe that Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are better than banks. You will become your own bank. Using the hexadecimal numbers, base 58 numbers, 256 binary digits and others you can experiment and create zero collision private keys which are unhackable and without the need to present an ID for KYC. You can receive Bitcoins using this unpopular system and you will feel the the secure nature of Proof of Work system which Satoshi Nakamoto and the developers have installed in place.
Over the years of continuous use of the Bitcoin Network I have learned about the technology which surrounds it. It is important to learn by doing and not by reading. After eleven years of use, this is what I have learned.
1. It will become the most powerful cluster supercomputer in the world.
2. It needs a miner(auditor), node(relay), client, and exchange(including DEX) to thrive.
3. The second item are composed of dedicated volunteers and veterans from all around the world whom wanted the network to succeed even without any orchestrator or cult leader.
4. Nobody can blackmail the founder not even the the banking cartel since nobody knew who to blackmail.
5. Nobody owns the network.
6. Anyone and everyone whom wanted to fork or copy the source for their own benefit is free to do so.
7. Nobody can declare a stoppage, holiday or holidays when it comes to running the network.
8. It has not stopped serving its loyal users since 2009 and it has been doing that for 24 hours a day everyday for 11 years with 100% uptime.
9. It doesn't have any employees unlike the labor dependent Central and Commercial banks.
10. In case of a world power outage, Bitcoin network can be revived by reanimating the block chain database.
11. In case of Internet outage it can be revived by creating mesh networks and by reanimating the block chain database.
12. In case of an Electromagnetic Pulse Attack it can be revived by reanimating the latest block chain database.
13. It does discriminate as to who can use the service and it does not ask for any form of Identification.
14. The fastest way to transfer funds is by sweeping private keys as it circumvents the 10 minute per block generation limitation.
15. After the last Bitcoin is mined the miners fee will be the source of future rewards and network integrity.
16. It is divisible for you can start with 1 Satoshi which 100 millionth of a Bitcoin.
17. The Bitcoin haters who are burning Bitcoins to addresses with no redeemable private keys are just increasing the extrinsic value of the Bitcoin and it is good thing that they have not seen or realized how 42Coins work.
18. If you want a free version of Bitcoin which is primarily used for programming and educating the masses then the Bitcoin Test Network is a 24 hour service for you.
19. Confiscation of machines related to Bitcoin Network will not stop the network from servicing the unbanked. Blocking the IP addresses related to Bitcoin network will result in the shortage of IPv4 addresses which will be operable and that will create an unusual spike in lost of customers of Online Shops and other Online Businesses.
The above items are veritable discoveries. It is provable and cannot be debunked just by editing a Wiki page.
Somehow I got involved in crypto currency mining or auditing operations as I was really committed to digging deeper in order to learn more about the network. If you will look closely at my earlier posts, you will see that I am really devoted to learning more about the inner workings of the crypto currencies by actually getting my hands dirty so to speak. I was so excited during that time whenever I am using a couple of old smartphones to mine crypto currencies. It is a very inefficient of doing it but the experience of connecting to mining pools and the algorithm plus the routine to make it work day after day is the best teacher. This made me realize that Bitcoin is not a scam since everything in the white paper was or almost everything in the white paper was realized and implemented as soon as possible. My eagerness to finally learn Linux also pushed me to learn everything about Bitcoin and the never ending forks of Bitcoin.
My mother during the early part of 2018 was asking for a little financial assistance. I suddenly had this eureka moment. I suddenly remembered the Bitcoins in my 20 cold storage wallets. They are cold storage wallets from the year 2013 which is before the launch or maybe during the launch of Ethereum Network. I manage to retrieve the corresponding private keys of those 20 cold storage wallets. Unfortunately we were not aware that the December 2017 event was the golden cross moment of Bitcoin. If I did my daily due diligence, I would have converted my Bitcoins for the highest possible price in its history. I was too late but then again this goes to show that Bitcoin is not a scam. This thing accidentally turned itself into a slush fund which was later received by my mother for her housekeeping. Move over Bitcoin haters my mother is now a Bitcoin convert. My Bitcoin stash from long ago came to our rescue.
I was also somewhat in involved in the Open Source Community in the middle of the year 2016 when I discovered Free Code Camp. This along with the blockchain blogging taught me a a lot about the ever changing landscape of coding and blogging. Blockchain blogging reinforced my devotion to the philosophy that you shouldn't buy Bitcoin with Fiat Fugazi because there are innovative and creative ways of earning it. The marriage of my newly acquired knowledge of Linux OS plus the algorithmic philosophy of Free Code Camp is really a match and marriage made in heaven. It will allow you to decouple from the the Microsoft Windows philosophy of close sourcing.
My love for Linux OS started a couple of years ago when I accidentally discovered UNIX OS. I discovered a lot of tutorials with the help of dozens of pirated optical media installers. It was indeed a huge struggle to escape from the Microsoft Windows propaganda and finally having the guts to embrace the innovations of Free Software Foundation which a NIX based system. The NIX based or shall I say the Open Source Community is infinitely better than the old system that enslaved and boxed me for decades. The Linux frame of thought and mind allowed to formulate an algorithm which later allowed me to convert smartphones into a Linux PC. Nobody can teach you on how to do that in a school setting. This smartphone PC is a very strange idea to some but the energy efficiency is what gives it the much needed push to the mainstream consciousness.
Yearly, I will be stating that my journey in the Blockchain blogging is like a Roller Coaster ride. This year it is still a roller coaster ride as there were confrontations with some influential people who are in this network as well. This is classified by some of the active members as a Social Blogging Space but I beg to disagree. The disagreements blockchain blogging platforms are the fuel of most blockchain network and it is not good to be doing a licking thing every single day that passes us by. We are seeking the truth therefore it is but natural to be debating every single cerebral or sensical issues out there.
Before I was kicked out of some discord server I had a sing off with someone who maintains an upvote bot. The other guy was devoted to singing a Halsey song while I sang I believe a Carpenter's song. It is somewhat a wonderful experience since everybody is thinking that you cannot have that kind of musical sing off with Discord. It was an a Capella night for both of us and an unforgettable one at that. Today people are using Zoom and other similar service but the Discord sing off which we did out of the blue is a testament to the fact that we love the spur of the moment creativity from the so called shareholders of this network.
The smart contract programming space is relatively at its infancy stages but it is slowly gaining traction amongst the early adopters and coders. You know very well for my philosophy is to learn by doing. So instead of just reading and watching videos about it I have decided to get my hands dirty and I decided to create and deploy my own smart contract in an Ethereum test network. In the Philippines people are intimidated by this technology so only a handful of people has enough of a practical knowledge about this thing called smart contracts. Most of the University professors are just reciting Wikipedia content in their lecture halls and no practical teaching is ever being discussed when it comes to Decentralized games and applications or even a simple Solidity Ethereum smart contract is being deployed on a local test network in their computer labs. The only way is the practical way so if this is the way higher level institutions are teaching future programmers it is imperative that they need more training before entering the world of block chain.
Of course losing your precious privacy is a cause of concern during this as some of the concerned bunch are scrambling to find ways to evade the nasty tentacles of surveillance systems in the world stage. Encryption among other things is still an option as well as the use of the dark net or dark web to regain our claim to privacy for all time. We are always yearning for censorship resistant platforms to voice our opinions and concerns and we want to communicate without the spying eyes of some electronic mail server employee or entity. Before they were able to take it down I was one of those who were able to use Tor Mail. I also discovered library materials which were not available in public libraries but are still available in the darknet. The Invisible Internet Project has some strong eepsites as well. They have eepsite applications which are surveillance resistant and quantum computer decryption resistant as well. When the TOR network started there are dozens of privacy applications that alllowed the chosen few who can it to choose from but as the crackdown continues a few would come up to keep the flame. Now Monero is the crypto currency of choice in the dark net market place. You can buy automatic weapons with Monero. If you want foreign or second passport there is a service for a price of Monero. If you want Rona Vaccine certificate you can purchase it for some privacy oriented Monero. Well most of the wares that you can acquire are mostly scams but there are legitimate ones as well.
Bitshares network I believe started out as Protoshares. The most amazing thing about is it achieved a self sustaining ecosystem even though most exchanges delisted it for having this gut feel that Bitshares is going to become the most successful Decentralized exchange and Margin Trading platform. They invented the easiest way of creating Smart Assets. The test network smart asset meanwhile is a very good practical education tool in terms of learning the value of liquidity and managing money supply. One of the most perfect example of a successful real world smart asset is Whaleshares. By observing their ability to manage the supply of their asset will allow you to clearly see how fiat money or fugazi system works. I am not implying that Whaleshares is a fugazi, just to be clear. Going back to the original crypto currency which is Bitcoin, this just goes to show how wonderful Bitcoin is in terms of its inherent feature of limiting the unit supply of only 21 million.
To become a good hacker you must master the art of information gathering. After successfully converting my smartphone into a Kali Linux machine as I have mentioned on numerous occasions, my confidence level increased exponentially. There are a couple of things that we cannot learn in a cyber university or a fancy university or even on You Tube but there are things that you will stumble upon and it will be the best accidental discovery of all. I was able to use a simple network mapping application to discover subdomain servers that are weak because of their common firewall settings. It should be obvious even to the most novice penetration tester that all servers connected to router are vulnerable primarily because they cannot block all traffic as it will render their server useless. Blocking all IP address will turn your server into a useless air gapped local machine. Remember that some guy from the Philippines could spot the IP settings of all the supposedly secure servers in the world. Although I can always blame Shodan search engine to divert the attention of the people on top.
Self-Evaluation and Self-Assessment
The devil is in the details is how the old saying goes. The days when I use to take things for granted is long gone. I am beginning to really see how the money machine works from the the inner workings of several crypto currencies and block chain networks. After being teased by the idea of creating a smart contract, I was able to successfully create and deploy a functional one in the Ethereum Test Network. Hacking is now slowly becoming a part of my life. I am not discounting and disregarding no tech hacking as well. The Steem blockchain totally change my life and I am glad that it is a self-sustaining ecosystem like its cousin Bitshares. I never thought that my Bitcoin stash can be a veritable life saver as I continue to recollect some of the happy thoughts about HODLING the rest of what is left of it in my possesion for a very long time. The Bitcoin King in the making is somewhere in this blockchain pretty much looking like Gollum. My precious.
