Going through the steps of computing Base58Check encoding in Python. Getting the hash and base58 encoding syntax correct.

People sometimes talk about freedom requiring morality and even religion. The famous quote along these lines is from John Adams, who wrote that the US constitution was made for “a moral and religious people,” going on to say that it’s unfit for any other…

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Even if you’re not exactly sure what bourgeois means, you’ve almost certainly noticed that it refers to something bad or embarrassing. But before I explain its actual meaning, I want to turn the tables on it: I will maintain that bourgeois is good. For most…

Again declassified documents have been released (one set from Senator Grassley and another, again, from Ms. Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence) detailing the course of a slow coup at the highest levels of the US government, including the intelligence…

Humanity is informed as never before; nothing in the historical record compares. This, unfortunately, is not a particularly good thing. The provision of information, if it is to bless mankind, must have quality control built into it… it must have a feedback…

Everything “normal” in the Western system trains you to be a placeholder: You are expected to attend the schools to which you’re assigned and complete the necessary programs. By doing that, you can attain a nice slot in the big machine. Then you’ll function…

Civilization is produced by us, not by dominance hierarchies with publicity operations.  Rulership survives on human vulnerabilities. Civilization survives on human virtues. No matter how much publicity equates rulership with civilization, they are fundamentally…

I’ve advised people to get and stay out of debt for a long time, but even so, I didn’t fully understand the affects of debt until the Covid time. As the mayhem spread, I struggled to understand the level of compliance with what would have been, at any other…

While most people missed it, there was a thriving gold economy in the early 2000s. It was centered around e-gold (a system for trading digital gold) and it involved billions of dollars per year in transactions. It was also a magnificent adventure. Below you’ll…