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"Crypto war" regarding Ukraine vs Russia

27 Aug 2024 10 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TL;DR During the early stages of the Ukraine conflict in 2014 and 2015, both Ukrainian military units and Russian-backed separatists began experimenting with cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, as a means to fund their operations and bypass tra...

What The Tech: Steam Engines

21 Aug 2024 6 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

  Steam engines were the first step towards independent transportation If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack When you’re looking at modern transportation it’s easy to forget how different things have become. Interna...

Trip to Bodružal

20 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments photoparadise

As part of our trip through eastern Slovakia, we came close to the Slovak-Polish border. Near them there is a picturesque village with a very interesting cultural monument. I am glad that in today's post I can write about my trip to the wooden church...

Wait, so many people were against the Eiffel Tower?

18 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

The Eiffel Tower, initially criticized as an eyesore, overcame fierce opposition and evolved into a beloved symbol of Paris, showcasing how innovative designs can ultimately define a country's identity. You can read more via the Pessimist Archive...

Here a DAO. There a DAO. Everywhere a DAO-DAO...

16 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

"World’s first fully anonymous DAO created to ‘defend freedom’" https://cointelegraph.com/news/worlds-first-fully-anonymous-dao-created-to-defend-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound Yeah right. I lived and tra...

THE 2nd SICILIAN WAR, 410 - 404 BC: Hannibal's Vengeance

14 Aug 2024 28 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked

While the Greek states fought off the Persian Empire in the early fifth century BC, defeating Darius and Xerxes's armies at Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and Mycale, the Greeks of Sicily simultaneously defeated a vast Carthaginian invasion force at the...

This is a journey further than it seems - a journey through history - Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów

13 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

To podróż dalsza niż się wydaje - podróż przez historię - Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny w Chorzowie You don't have to travel far to be far away, because there are places close to us that take us through the eyes of our imagination to distant places...

Playing chess for the war criminals - Bobby Fischer and Milosevic's Yugoslavia

8 Aug 2024 4 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

In 1992, the world-famous chess player Bobby Fischer controversially returned to competitive chess, playing a World Championship rematch against Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan and Belgrade, in the Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (today in Montenegro...

What The Tech?! Barcodes

4 Aug 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Barcodes play a much bigger role in the world than most realise. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack When dealing with technology, we’ll typically see something that is a complex device or system. Something that v...

Historical Hacks: The Ethereum DAO Hack

28 Jul 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

If you’ve been following for any length of time you probably realise there is a lot that is written about. Following cyber / infosec topics and movements in the crypto space is something that is usually pretty enjoyable for the average data nerd. In...