Bitcoin Just Fired The Miners (Hard Fork)

The Bitcoin hard fork went live a couple days early and mining blocks with the hash, originally stated for Sep. 1st. My hard fork node is still downloading the blockchain (less than 100k blocks to go) and Luke Dashjr hadn’t…

Let’s Talk About the Coldcard Exploit…

This is a good video on why I was always fond of Trezor while all the Bitcoin influencers were going on about Coldcard devices. Consequently, I bought a Coldcard Q to play with, but having seen the profane Rodolfo Novak…

Privacy Search Proxy SearXNG

Update: My public instance is getting blocked by a bunch of search engines, many using Captchas, and this has been reported and supposedly fixed for the next Docker rollout. Consequently, my backup SearXNG on a home network Docker Pi system…