U.S. National Debt Tops $37 Trillion

A nice report on the incredible house of cards that is the United States of America. My favorite ones to look at is the federal debt per taxpayer, $323,053, and the debt per citizen, $108,508 (there could be more for…

Syncthing 2.0 Launches With Major Database Overhaul

When I was migrating away from Google services, I looked at doing a cloud like storage system like NextCloud. But I stumbled upon Syncthing which actually works better for my needs, which I also combined with Zim for shared notes.…

Developer Arrested Over Tornado Cash Research

Is this a further attack on developers hoping to intimidate people to self-censor themselves and not contribute any research or development to privacy measures for cryptocurrencies? This is more of an attack on privacy than money laundering and criminal activity,…

Know-Your-Customer: Crypto’s Quiet Kill-Switch

A good article, but in a previous post I gave a simplistic example with one of my Bitcoin transactions where I used an exchange to convert Bitcoin into Monero anonymously, all to point out that this blockchain analysis isn’t as…