Hello all.
I could write all night long on the subject I know best, that would be me, but very little of it would be of interest to anyone. So, I’ll just give you a snapshot of my background.
I first started using computers while in the US Navy in the mid-1960’s. It was all analog back then. After my enlistment, I worked for a company that had a nifty Univac 1004. That speed demon had a whopping 961 characters (6 bits) of core memory. After a couple of years the company purchased an IBM 360 and soon after that I was named Systems Manager. This was the big time!
I moved from systems to sales and sales management until my retirement some thirty years later. During my time in sales, I lost whatever skilz I had accumulated in systems. While enjoying retirement, I got back into computer work again. I did some web hosting, built quite a few web sites, and learned some of the new coding regimes; notably python, php, and java.
Retirement sucks.
Lately I have been working on some cyber security projects. While researching the subject of my latest project (XKeyscore), I came across a very small notice concerning bitcoins. That notice jogged my memory of an article I read where the EFF had reinstated their acceptance of BTC as donations.
Now, I have read the occasional blurb about bitcoins from time to time during the last couple of years, but passed it off as a fad. The big-names in blogging and economics circles seemed to pan the concept generally, and sometimes got downright nasty in the insuations they cast on bitcoin miners and the concept of alt money.
I respect the work that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) does, so I decided to check bitcoins out a little. That little has led to a lot and here I am. Looking forward to asking a lot of questions and getting to know all of you.
This would be a good time to quit, but I think it is important to mention that if you don’t value your privacy, no one will. Go here and see what you can do to stay off of the radar of the snoops:
https://prism-break.org//Frank
