The TRUTH about Bank Privacy
Financial privacy has practically vanished over the last 50 years. Most people are in denial about it, and still believe...
Surveillance
Psychological Impact of Surveillance
The current state of privacy is bad. Surveillance today is pervasive, and the effects of this surveillance on the fabric...
From Wall Street to Main Street: Are Bitcoin ETFs Signaling a New Era in Crypto?
Bitcoin and the rest of crypto went through a brutal cycle in the last two years. Dubbed "crypto winter," the...
KYC, Bitcoin, and the failed hopes of AML policies: Preserving individual freedom
For the past decade, the abbreviations AML and KYC have become an inextricable part of our lives. To help law...
Stop Your Programs Reporting Your Activity with Little Snitch
Our computers constantly talk to servers across the internet without us realizing, sharing information about our activities. Most of us...
The Perils of Centralized Control
“It is in the nature of a system of government control of business to aim at the utmost centralization…In voting...
Most PRIVATE Photo Backups
Photos these days usually stay in digital form. Sometimes we back them up to the cloud for safekeeping: but who...
Ordinals vs Layer 2 Metaprotocols, Part 2: The Final Showdown?
Last May, I wrote an article for Bitcoin Magazine predicting that Layer 2 (L2) metaprotocol solutions would resolve the Ordinals...
Philippines to launch CBDC within 2 years to counter rising crypto use
The Philippines central bank, or Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, is preparing to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in...
Decentralized Storage
We put a lot of trust in cloud storage providers, presuming that they’ll keep our data safe. But what if...
