/biz/ - Business & Finance

> someone made a new internets money using hash functions
> collisions for some hash functions like MD5 have already been found, the others are just a matter of time
> cryptographic code needs fast modern processors
> modern processors are full of backdoors like Intel Me
> modern processors are full of bugs (c.f. Christopher Domas white papers & videos)
> modern processors are designed by insane people who think that speculative execution is cool and surely won't cause any problems XD
> cryptographic code also needs modern OS and compiler + libraries
> modern OS and compiler are also designed by insane people and full of bugs and backdoors
I've been trying for a long time to isolate myself from all this techno-hell. I can't go all the way to an 8-bit computer like my first one, because I need to access the Internet and the web is so much shit that it now needs a supercomputer with GHz CPU and GB RAM to run the fucking bloated monstrosity they call a web browser.
But I can at least fully decouple myself from the even more horrendous financial system with gold and silver! So that's something at least.