Being interested in geopolitics, theology, and social psychology, I often read extensively about these topics. Perhaps too much? Clearly, the situation looks quite bleak right now, it may always have been. Yet I used to think of it as "this too shall pass" or "tough times never last", though both…

Friends keep telling me I need to raid my parents' basement looking for our old pokemon cards we played with as kids. I can't believe they'd be worth anything as they were actively played with, probably chewed on, by many small children. doubt there'd be a single 10 in there.

We all love freedom, yet we don’t always want it for others — and we rarely stop to think about that. We probably should. Three years ago, SourceHut — a platform dedicated to free software hosting — issued a bold statement: software related to crypto and blockchains was no longer welcome there. The…

First published July 5, 2018 Came across this essay on the internets, hope it educates you the reader as much as it educated me. I admit I used to believe in Bitcoin. I was one of its most naïve and vehement apologists to friends, family members, and complete strangers (online). This was all before…

Gobsmacked to discover the fattest, smelliest, & dirtiest neighbor I ever had worked in a soap factory. I had many questions about that lady, but over the years I began to wonder,,,what the hell had she learned about soap?

The discourse surrounding "free speech", as framed by right-wing libertarians (such as anarcho-capitalists), leaves me discouraged. Looking around, I don't see First World states engaging in mass censorship of free speech. We certainly face serious, high-stakes issues regarding information share —…

As a Stasher dev, I knew Stasher News is something I wanted, but I have no idea if others wanted it or the idea it would even work with Monero. Monero has a lot of technical hurdles, and some of them don't lead to very nice user experiences. But people still use Monero nonetheless, because the…

Let's have a flame war about outgoing view keys. (Just kidding, lets keep it candid and civil)