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From: nathan <nathan@disroot.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:11:09 -0600
Subject: More blogging

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+    <li><a href="#current-state-of-crypto">The current state of crypto</a></li>
     <li><a href="#things-i-say">Things I say</a></li>
     <li><a href="#in-defence-of-bad-spelling">In defence of bad spelling</a></li>
     <li><a href="#fuck-you-rfk">Fuck you RFK</a></li>
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 <hr />
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+  <div class="article-header">
+    <h2 id="current-state-of-crypto">The current state of crypto</h2>--- Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:19:56 GMT
+  </div>
+
+  <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>
+
+</div>
+<br />
+<hr />
 <div class="container">
   <div class="article-header">
     <h2 id="things-i-say">Things I say</h2>--- Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:27:02 GMT
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     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
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