Crypto & Blockchains

if you're on this page it means you're wondering why there's blockchain looking things on our site, why we sell NFTs, etc, well, here's our explainer

to start with: we're not a "crypto bro" and don't buy into a lot of the echo-chamber-y types online. buying into that is a surefire way to fall for a rugpull or some other scam shit. most coins are shit, look at market caps and transaction rates, as well as how many wallets are in there with at least a little crypto, if those are all high, it's probably used rather a lot. the reason you look at those is if only one person has the majority of the market cap, that may be a scam. if transaction rates are low, it may not be used as much and might have a hard time holding value, due to lack of conversions to other coins and fiat. if the market cap is low, well then it just, doesn't have a huge presence and value.

do your own research above all else

if not crypto bro, why crypto? well excellent question. blockchain tech is cool, it's anti-censorship, pro privacy with the right coins and features, and also decentralised, so thus, harder to truly "crash", and since there's no central authority, corruption is nigh impossible.

the reason we use it is because of a number of reasons: lack of faith in the US government, as a protest against the debanking of NSFW creators, encouraging future first currencies and integrating technology into the average person's life in a way that's conducive to one's personal needs (in our case that's anonymous banking, and transactions across the world with next to 0 delay, and we're fine taking the transaction fee hit), encouraging a more global and borderless lifestyle due to crypto being accepted all over the world due to being accepted everywhere, something that's more necessary for people who are internet natives like ourself, since the internet is borderless, the internet doesn't care about the lines on the map, crypto doesn't either.

as for the environmental concerns, we believe that as computers get better, and more efficient, and humanity invests in energy production that has less waste (nuclear, wind, water, and solar) that proof of work will get better. proof of stake can be good too, and most energy efficient/green coins use proof of stake as a means to remove the energy costs, or at least reduce them. with the rise of quantum computing in recent and coming years, it's our hope that computations will become vastly easier, thus rapidly increasing hashrates to increase blockchain security, and making the blockchain more efficient, and have less impact on the environment. for now there's definitive concerns, but those are FAR outweighed by corporations and their datacenters in small rural towns, and greenhouse emissions from their factories. another way to offset heat is putting these computers in sealed containers or undersea structures deep in the ocean, ideally relatively near thermal vents as their heat is relatively localised and directional, so you could still effectively use the ambient water temp to cool, and since they're near natural phenomenon, it'll impact the environment less.

all in all, crypto isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than the current banking institutions.