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k1rcher··on Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants
This is super interesting, thanks for sharing.

Cryptocurrencies and alt coins are a dime a dozen these days and it is incredibly difficult to filter through the noise.

k1rcher··on Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants
100% agree with you on all points.

As a valid replacement for currency, it is inherently flawed. As an investment? A very solid choice.

Many seem to have difficulties differentiating between the the two distinct concepts, myself included.

k1rcher··on Hacking Zines Archive
Nice! Have been scouring the public domain for solid resources for these since seeing the Phrack submission not long ago.

It appears to be missing my personal favorites, HTP. A good source I've found for their content can be found here: https://github.com/nachash/htp-zines

Boy how I miss those wild west days. (No doubt there exists far more "wilder" times, but this era was the one I was exposed to, which shaped me most :) )

k1rcher··on Phrack Magazine
This is incredible to read n many years later. I was a per-pubescent adolescent around the time of the publication of the "last great zines", and was only ever really exposed to a small subsection (HTP5, the MIT.edu and Linode incidents) through several mutual friends of mine who were, at the time, enthusiasts of and in the scene.

That era and community was without a doubt the foundation for who I am today as a young adult, and who I strive to be in all aspects of life. I have and no doubt will continue to consume all of this content I may have missed out on since then.

P.S. If I may call your attention to volume 0x0f, 0x45, part A of section 6 (Notes); wow. This, along with everything else, is enormously prophetic, profound, and intriguin:

"--[ 6 - Notes

A) In respect to social networks, while they are a valid community-building mechanism in nature, selfishness prevails in common usage, by means of the indulgent pleasure that fuels chronic "pluggedness", at times voyeur, at times exhibitionist and needy."

- http://phrack.org/issues/69/6.html

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