fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Exploring and debunking conspiracies and the lesser known truths in the world of politics.
Bitcoin Revolution
Kuo knew he shouldn't have joined the group on the dark web that he did. He was bored one night though and so started perusing the online communities looking for something that caught his interest. He happened on a chat about banks. He lived in China. Communist and oppressive. They watched everything that everyone did. The government had complete control over every part of the Chinese person's life. Their money, financial security, food, prosperity, thoughts. The news was full of propaganda and no one had the freedom to do anything. Everything that wasn't approved of by the state was done in secrecy. So Kuo knew he could get into deep shit. A hole he could never dig himself out of. Perhaps it was the excitement of getting caught is what led him back to the online group over and over again. There they would have open discussions about politics, how things would be so different without the heavy boot of the state. There were other members from different countries of course. Some from the United States, Canada, Mozambique, France, Poland. Many different nationalities but with all the same like minded thoughts. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. He had started to talk to 3 other people regularly. All he knew about their identities were their screen names. LagunaSnizzard289, Yolomarken156, Frakenbrake856. The four of them would have their own chat sessions. Lately they would talk about how it would be great to have a way to make money that no one could trace. They started to punt ideas around. All their backgrounds were in coding and networks. Kuo was the one who came up with the idea of "mining". LagunaSnizzard289 came up with the idea of peer-to-peer networking. Yolomarken156 came up with block-chains. Kuo was the one who started to play around with the code.
By Patricia Krzystek4 years ago in The Swamp
FACELESS
“Totalitarians will hate it,” he said. “Traditionalists will probably hate it too.” “Of course, I don’t doubt that authoritarians will attack, and sooner or later, attempt to destroy what I’ve worked so hard to create. Bitcoin is an opportunity to build a new world—not one that is ruled by force, by autocrats and militarized police. But I know that people who are stuck in the past will fear it.”
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR4 years ago in The Swamp
Throw a Rock, It Flies in an Arc
“When Karl Marx began to truly study capitalism, he realized one thing that many others, even over the hundreds of years since, have failed to see. When people act within capitalism, it is only as personifications of economic categories. Do you think that is true?”
By Tristan Meager4 years ago in The Swamp
The Uber of a Lifetime
It was one o'clock in the morning, and John considered logging offline. At this point, it would just be drunk assholes wandering out of bars and potentially throwing up in his car. Before he could, the calls started coming, and now it was three in the morning, and he was on his way back to the bar for another sloshed individual.
By Caleb Geiger4 years ago in The Swamp
COLORBLIND
Loss is a painful thing; one that can spur a man to a variety of terrible actions if only to effect even the slightest bit of change. When a man always loses and everything foreseeable shows he can only lose, that man’s perspective on what is or isn’t moral begins to change. He becomes hopeless, detached, and potent. Desperation is dangerous.
By Nathaniel Warren4 years ago in The Swamp
Stay Alive. Top Story - February 2021.
Slender fingers of amber light poke through the window display, politely illuminating the shop interior. He looks up from his paperwork. Moving shadows from the street randomly interrupt the sun’s rays. On days like this, as his focus shifts from desktop to window, he easily imagines himself a lone figure at the centre of a zoetrope; the world beyond the plate glass flashing past: slowly coagulating into one coherent image.
By Lann Niziblian4 years ago in The Swamp
Fudge Pt 4
What happened next happened as fast as the Flash with a bad case of diarrhoea. One second I was tentative but dry; now I am wet and wishing I was anywhere else but here. And so it began, the First Mate had called the order for the contestants to be dropped into the pool. Now the only the thing he had to worry about was the sharks swimming furiously below him and the rest of the group.
By Alan Walker4 years ago in The Swamp