The Lonely Places
The Lonely Places

The Lonely Places

Fixing thoughts and evanescences like butterflies beneath glass


Farewell, Freetrx.cc

5 Oct 2024 1 minute read 2 comments TabbyTabby

If something sounds too good to be true, it often is. Such was the case with the now-shuttered TRON mining site, freetrx.cc. It's been more than two weeks and the site still isn't back up, with no posts on social media or any other communication. Lo...

Technical Writer Enters the Chat (Coinbase and Help Systems)

14 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby

Mea culpa. As it turns out, Coinbase does have a way to dispose of your dust. You can sell it to CB by going under Sell. There, you can also send it to someone else, though I'm concerned that fees would apply. How could I have missed this? Let's exp...

The Other Side of Life

9 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby

"Baby, baby, baby, let's investigateThe other side of life tonight.The lovers and the fightersAnd the risks they takeAre on the other side of life tonight..." -- "The Other Side of Life" by The Moody Blues If the internet is a mirror maze, then the...

The Problem of Dust

28 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby

I've been thinking about what to do with dust recently. Some exchanges offer a clean up service, yet many of them also have minuses that make their exchanges unappealing overall. The CEX I use, Coinbase, doesn't have this service at all. This reply...

Vampiric Systems

19 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby

  The crypto space is dominated by selfish projects that share one goal: transferring monies from the gullible to the deceptive -- vampiric systems. I am not attacking the nature of crypto itself, just its awkward, gangly, drunken inbetween phase. T...

Five Questions -- Zero Answers

17 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby

I'm back, and angsty as always. Here's a set of questions derived from my recent experiences in the cryptoverse. Maybe you've asked them too. 1. Do captcha services hate everybody? I don't know about everyone else, but I can never guess if that last...

Participation on Publish0x

28 Dec 2021 2 minute read 9 comments TabbyTabby

Someone once noted that participation on Publish0x tends to drop off after a little while. This happens for two reasons -- one lies in the lack of engagement for users who have mastered their writing schedule, and the other lies in the nature of cryp...

Another Perspective: Writing on Publish0X

24 Oct 2021 2 minute read 6 comments TabbyTabby

It seems that many people are trying to figure out how to make the best of writing opportunities on PublishOx. Here's what works for me: 1-2 articles a week that hit six characteristics. I don't make oodles of dosh on them, but I've been satisfied wi...

Bitcoin ETF: When the SEC Blinked

19 Oct 2021 3 minute read 1 comment TabbyTabby

The BITO Bitcoin ETF went live today. What does that mean? First, let's take hold of a very old idea -- separating the proximate good and the long-term good. The two are not the same and the first does not always lead to the last. (That was certainly...

A Future People Want to Live In

15 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments TabbyTabby

One of the things that SF usually doesn't do well is make the future look like a place people actually want to live in. From Promethus to the Matrix to insert the blank, the future generally sucks. However, the unbridled optimism of the hypebois and...