Censorship by Proxy
Centralized systems are easy to control, while decentralized systems are not. Take into consideration a recent development with the gaming distributor Steam removing thousands of games containing NSFW (but legal) material after being pressured by credit card companies Visa and Mastercard to do so or risk losing ability to have customers’ payments processed through them. Visa and Mastercard were applying this pressure in turn in response to special interests group Collective Shout asking them ...
Censorship by Proxy
Centralized systems are easy to control, while decentralized systems are not. Take into consideration a recent development with the gaming distributor Steam removing thousands of games containing NSFW (but legal) material after being pressured by credit card companies Visa and Mastercard to do so or risk losing ability to have customers’ payments processed through them. Visa and Mastercard were applying this pressure in turn in response to special interests group Collective Shout asking them ...
Why Does Crypto Matter?
Finances throughout the world are moving away from cash. All paths into the future lean increasingly digital. But there are two branches along which things could develop which on the surface look similar but are fundamentally different. When I was a kid, I often used physical money, bills and coins. I used to sort them by denominations, using them as a basis for understanding simple concepts of math. Then my parents got me a passbook savings account, in which I now could have money stored in ...
Why Does Crypto Matter?
Finances throughout the world are moving away from cash. All paths into the future lean increasingly digital. But there are two branches along which things could develop which on the surface look similar but are fundamentally different. When I was a kid, I often used physical money, bills and coins. I used to sort them by denominations, using them as a basis for understanding simple concepts of math. Then my parents got me a passbook savings account, in which I now could have money stored in ...
How I Profit in the Crypto Markets
There are two ways in which I make money off of crypto. They aren't the only two ways available, but they're the two most familiar to me which I'll discuss here in a way I hope would be helpful to newcomers to the space getting started. Those two ways are trading and staking.HOW TO TRADE CRYPTOThere are many trading platforms which support crypto trading, the basic idea of which is to trade similar to trading stocks: buy at lower prices and sell at higher prices. I personally u...
How I Profit in the Crypto Markets
There are two ways in which I make money off of crypto. They aren't the only two ways available, but they're the two most familiar to me which I'll discuss here in a way I hope would be helpful to newcomers to the space getting started. Those two ways are trading and staking.HOW TO TRADE CRYPTOThere are many trading platforms which support crypto trading, the basic idea of which is to trade similar to trading stocks: buy at lower prices and sell at higher prices. I personally u...
My Crypto Journey So Far
My interest in tech really started with video games, filling plenty of hours in my childhood playing games on various Nintendo systems. It then branched into computers, beginning with an IBM clone that took floppy disks, had a bulky CRT monitor, and on which I played more games like Digdug and Centipede. Using Windows followed, then dial-up internet through AOL, then a DSL connection through Verizon, and I’d play Java applet based games like RuneScape in its early days and various Flash based...
My Crypto Journey So Far
My interest in tech really started with video games, filling plenty of hours in my childhood playing games on various Nintendo systems. It then branched into computers, beginning with an IBM clone that took floppy disks, had a bulky CRT monitor, and on which I played more games like Digdug and Centipede. Using Windows followed, then dial-up internet through AOL, then a DSL connection through Verizon, and I’d play Java applet based games like RuneScape in its early days and various Flash based...
