Introduction As this blog and my podcast, Opt Out, grow and reach a larger audience, having a way to gauge what topics are of interest to site visitors, what blog posts catch people’s attention, and what resources they find the most useful that I link to is becoming a more and more useful tool to enable me to improve the content I create over time. Traditionally, this is done via invasive tracking scripts and cookies that harvest your data, track you across sites, and attempt to link your visits to the site over time using your IP address or a long-lasting cookie. Thankfully, there are two unique new tools that allow for privacy-preserving, self-hosted statistics collection using a lightweight JavaScript script. ...

Introduction I recently got a new Pixel and had to go through the process of flashing it again, so I wanted to take the chance to make a companion/alternative guide to the official CalyxOS docs with some videos of the process to help guide you through it. Note that this guide assumes the following: You already have a supported device Ensure the Pixel you buy is not a Verizon phone: How to identify a Verizon phone You are running Linux (this guide is specifically done on Pop_OS! 21.10, but should be applicable to most distributions) If you have any further questions or get stuck following this guide, refer to the official documentation: ...

In this post I’ll attempt to walk through the most common FUD around Monero (both valid and invalid) and help to clarify many of these points.

This guide will aim to make it very simple and straightforward for you to start and run your own Monero node and p2pool instance for decentralized and fee-less mining of Monero.

Welcome to Opt Out, where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

This will be a simple guide to get you started with a few more advanced options/recommendations at the end, but hopefully will help to simplify the process for those of you wanting to get started mining Monero!

As a way to celebrate and show the growth that has happened for Monero across the past year on this, the 7th anniversary of the Monero project, I wanted to take a snapshot of statistics and social media posts to highlight this growth.

This post gives some projects and organizations that I personally love and that accept donations in Monero.

Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.

How and why I made the jump to CalyxOS for my mobile operating system.