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authornathan <nathan@disroot.org>2025-07-30 02:11:09 -0600
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+ <title>The current state of crypto</title>
+ <link>https://shittyweb.org/blog#current-state-of-crypto</link>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:19:56 GMT</pubDate>
+ <description>
+<![CDATA[
+<article>
+ <h3>Why crypto sucks</h3>
+ <p>
+ There are two types of crypto users: the peep who wants more privacy and
+ the libertarian. The libertarian makes life harder and worse for the peep
+ who wants more privacy. Libertarians are the ones who over all control the
+ status quo of crypto. Now you have a very good understanding of the issues
+ with crypto the blog post can just end here. You want more details dont
+ you? Ok you greedy bastard who cant use a search engine...
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>Mining</h3>
+ <p>
+ I dont think anyone ever have or ever will create a more fancy way to waste
+ computing power. These mother fuckers buy a bunch of gpus just
+ to overclock them and leave them running at full power until they melt. I
+ once heard a story about the gold miners in old times along the lines of
+ everyone wanted to make money mining gold so they bought all the gear and
+ started looking for gold. Most never found much but reguardless people kept
+ buying gear to go gold mining and because of this the people selling the
+ gear were getting rich while all the miners were just getting poorer. The
+ same happened with crypto mining. Nvidia made a hell ton off selling
+ hardware to mine coins barely anyone uses for anything practical. Sure
+ there are people who do make money mining but those are people who have the
+ money to spend an insane amount on a mining rig in some datacenter in a
+ third world country while they sip their wine in a first world country.
+ It isnt like nvidia is trying to hide it either. Just read
+ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/26/cryptocurrencies-add-nothing-useful-to-society-nvidia-chatbots-processing-crypto-mining" target="_blank">
+ this article
+ </a>
+ and get a good laugh in.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>Trading and investing</h3>
+ <p>
+ This is the main thing most people seem to think crypto is for: trading it
+ without ever using it to buy and sell anything besides other
+ cryptocurrencies. It only manages to make crypto more unstable and less
+ usable as a currency. For years it was the libertarian dream to completely
+ cut out real resources and real production of goods and services. A
+ simulated economy that somehow manages to bring real money into their fat
+ wallets is what they wanted, one that just like capitalism outside
+ cyberspace starts out in a state where even your average joes are making
+ money but as shittification takes hold all the money only makes it into
+ wallets that are already fat. To most this seems like a mistake but the
+ libertarians designed it that way and wouldnt want it any other way.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>Crytpo brokers</h3>
+ <p>
+ This is what made me to decide to write this blog in the first place. I was
+ using coinbase to get some bitcoin so I can hop on p2p networks to get some
+ monero. Normally this works fine but coinbase randomly went "fuck you!" and
+ started throwing error messages at me when sending bitcoin. Tried to
+ withdraw same deal. Used their resources to find out why this was happening
+ but their piece of shit chatbot wouldnt do much. When I asked for a real
+ person it "upgraded" me to a slightly better chatbot. Decided to look into
+ it and found out most of the big <i>"trustworthy"</i> brokers will lock up
+ during times trades will not be in their favor. They often do this simply
+ by bricking their site when a trade they dont like happens. These types of
+ brokers often use KYC to decrease privacy. p2p networks can solve this
+ though you often have to already have some crypto to use them.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>Monero, the only decent crypto</h3>
+ <p>
+ Unlike all other cryptos monero is kind of usable for actually buying and
+ selling things. Its a bit more stable and faster. Its designed to fuck over
+ gpu mining and force people to mine on cpu instead to prevent the mining
+ madness of most crypto. If you want a private currency monero is the only
+ half decent option. Its still not perfect but in a world where FUCKING
+ TERRIBLE is the norm half decent is a blessing.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>To sum things up</h3>
+ <p>
+ Like most things in this world crypto was fucked by libertarians. Though if
+ they werent fucked crypto as we know it is still just a reaction to the
+ nightmare we call national currencies and banking. This is why we cant have
+ nice things ):
+ </p>
+</article>
+]]>
+ </description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
<title>Things I say</title>
<link>https://shittyweb.org/blog#things-i-say</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:27:02 GMT</pubDate>
@@ -73,8 +165,8 @@
information reguardless if its a truth or lie!</b> Telling anyone that it
doesnt matter if something is true or not is like telling a christian you
dont believe in god. In school we have the concept of fact checking and
- trust worthy information pushed down are throats. We tell kids Satan is
- real only to later tell them Satan isnt real when we could instead be
+ trust worthy information pushed down are throats. We tell kids Santa is
+ real only to later tell them Santa isnt real when we could instead be
leaving his state of existance undefined. People always lose their shit
when I talk about aliens or things like that "Do you actually believe that
shit???". I try to explain to them things in my brain arent tagged as fact