Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

At the same time they’re floating laws to outlaw VPNs in some states, they’re trying to scare you away from using a VPN. VPNs mask your home IP address as well as concealing you by being mixed with a lot…

Is ‘Shadow Banking’ the New 2008?

The key takeaway is the part where 50% of the investors getting wiped out or taking a haircut is pensions and insurance companies chasing higher returns with dodgy private credit. The bankers run their scams, and when it crashes, their…

Bitcoin Core Panicking Over New Project

This is notable for a couple people involved, Samson Mow and Jimmy Song. And the philosophy of a conservative client that preserves Bitcoin as money is also good. Hopefully we’ll see three major implementations with good market share which will…

Amazon ID Verification is Here

This is disturbing. I’m probably grandfathered having used the service forever, even having ordered books when that was the first real online merchandise they sold. Though, I won’t upload my ID or face scan/image to Persona under any circumstances, so…