The latest Twitter challenger takes decentralization a step further Notes and Other Stuff, a.k.a Nostr is the latest decentralized microblogging protocol to take aim at centralized social media platforms. It’s like a decentralized Twitter. Contrast with Mastodon, where the decentralization is achieved via a federation of nodes (but each node is effectively centrally controlled), Nostr […]
Of Interest
PayPal, Bank Seizures and the Necessity for Trustless Money
When I first heard about Paypal’s plan to deduct $2,500 from account for each instance where “in Paypal’s sole discretion”, the account holder had transmitted “misinformation”, I all but took a strip out of the person who sent it to me because I couldn’t believe it was real. It was a thread from a Telegram […]
Beware of Ethereum Merge Related Phishing Emails
The long awaiting Ethereum Merge occurred in the early hours of Sept 15th. It didn’t take long for the scammers to start sending out fake emails urging the recipients to upgrade their client/account/whatever in order to be able to stay current under the new system.
Our New Terms of Service Make it EASY-er to screw you
It seems like every tech company in existence has updated their terms of service over the last year, and we realized that we haven’t done that yet. Even worse, when we reviewed our own Plain English Terms of Service it became readily apparent that they were too transparent and understandable. That makes it difficult to […]
We’re using Bitcoin to assert our right to free speech, assembly and travel
It’s time to reclaim our rights from out-of-touch politicians All human rights come down to one: Choice. — Robert Breedlove Update Feb 11, 2022 12:20pm A State of Emergency has been declared in Ontario and the situation is evolving quickly. The announcement also included an imminent end to the provincial vaccine passports. So far we […]
The Great Google Rug Pull…
Free services always come with a day of reckoning… It was the late great FOSS pioneer Atul Chitnis, one of the first 100 clients here at easyDNS, who acquainted me with the idiom: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Nowhere could that be more true than with a company whose entire business […]
