Month: November 2021

economics

The end of gold

Gold has been great insurance against crisis and collapse for five thousand years. Now it ends. The gold bugs are whistling in the dark. Currently there is about ten trillion in gold value held in private hands, about one trillion in crypto currency, primarily bitcoin. So gold still dominates crypto currency by capital value. But …

politics

Not the Babylon Bee

Somewhat after the last minute, they have proceeded with the real case against Kyle. A bunch of peaceful protestors peacefully protested by smashing cars and setting buildings on fire. The militia showed up toting guns, Kyle among them, to stop this. The peaceful protesters felt this was extremely provocative. Kyle saw a fire, and unwisely …

crypto

All FIPS compliant cryptographic libraries are backdoored and in the pocket of our enemies

As are many non FIPS compliant cryptographic libraries. We know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to make sure that cryptographic implementations have backdoors supplied for the NSA. A good way to make money is to construct a cryptographic library, and, if it gets to be …