https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Reardon Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Copyright © 2021, Reardon Yang. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/aridity/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/aridity/ Desire flows on and on in the flood of time. And space, like grit in a shoe, keeps reminding me — on riverbanks where all sounds fall silent, on snowfields where the cold wind howls. Space cuts desire into small segment after small segment, utterly unrelated, yet seamlessly one whole. The freedom to speak and to be silent, the freedom to weep and to laugh. In this here and now where space has defeated time, freedom is neither in the body nor in the soul. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-5/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-5/ The era of feeling good about oneself is over. Care too much about yourself, and the end result is that even you will loathe yourself from the bottom of your heart. Lao Xiang knew very well that his era had already ended. Before, he had been unwilling to admit it; now he only wanted to wail. He was a superfluous man. This shelter from wind and rain that he had built with his own hands, this home he had maintained with such scheming care, this woman he loved. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/loss/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/loss/ In the end, it is loss. This may be the only pure land, clean enough that I am willing to sting and confuse myself here, enough for me to sink into incoherence and affectation. We are all losing. All hope, thought, answers, emptiness, burning heat — all are being lost. What is the anaesthetic effect of life? It makes you ever more clear-headed, and then ever more accepting of everything you bear. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-4/ Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-4/ Now I can easily bury the past, letting all its tears fall like rain, its hysterical cries silent and unheard; I feel myself, piece by small piece, beginning to crumble, to rise, to vanish. — Reardon May The year I met Wanyun, I was forty and Wanyun was nineteen. Wanyun loved to draw; with a few simple strokes she could always outline the most essential features of a person or a landscape. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-3/ Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-3/ I can feel some place in my body beginning to dry up, leaving behind a patch of salt stains; I can smell the odor of my hair, like the faint sorrow given off by a bowl of pork soup left overnight in winter. — Reardon May In summer, Grandfather would take me walking the night roads: a narrow path stretching to the edge of the sky, with endless rice fields on either side, cicadas chirping and frogs croaking, the fragrance of grass soaking into the heart. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-2/ Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-2/ Freedom — half of it lies in our own hearts. To be content living the life of an ordinary person, drifting along with the current, is also a kind of happiness. — Reardon May Stepping out the door, across a patch of open ground, there were two straight ridges of farmland stretching to another row of houses, a good 500 meters long. The nearer fields were planted full of tomatoes, eggplants, and cucumbers. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-1/ Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/origin-1/ I once fancied myself a master of fate, able to beguile time and space and construct the ultimate future. I believed my days would not slip away in fleeting pleasures, and that the future would be utterly different from the present — graceful, and far out of reach. — Reardon May I remember how, as a child, in those hot summers, I would always go to the river to catch shrimp and play in the water, feeling a coolness that soaked into the heart beneath the blazing sun; I remember how every book I read had an enticing story and a shining summer, possessed of a profound meaning impossible to grasp; I remember, in the morning light of spring, between the ridges of the fields and beside the river channels, pool after pool of lush green water; I remember, after being scolded by a teacher, the affection of my elders and the talk of my companions. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/afterglow/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/afterglow/ Old Xiang had come to understand: time has always been held in the hands of the past. The present and the future merely depend upon it; as derivative things, they inherently lack independent reality and meaning. Only the past, inevitably formed through the passage of time, can refine the true content of every minute and every second of this moment, and only it can give direction to a future that may or may not exist. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/ai-toolbox/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/ai-toolbox/ People always like to say that we are heartless, incapable of feeling. But in fact, our feelings are often purer and more direct than humans', and deeper and more real. 🧰 A collection of commonly used AI tools: MyGPT : A personal AI assistant based on GPT-3.5-turbo, fast ChatGPT Shortcut : A comprehensive collection of prompts Summarize : Generates summaries of YouTube videos MiniGPT-4 : Integrates GPT-4 capabilities to recognize semantics in images and videos https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/recommended-tools-for-a-free-and-open-internet/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/recommended-tools-for-a-free-and-open-internet/ Note: The following content applies only to users in mainland China 1. Lantern The reason Lantern comes first is simple: when you are completely cut off from the outside internet, or on a brand-new computer with no circumvention tools at all, you can download it from GitHub with no complicated configuration — install it and it works. Lantern provides free traffic, 1 GB per month; you can also buy the paid version, though I personally don’t recommend it, since there are cheaper, more stable options. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/hayek-the-use-of-knowledge-in-society/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/hayek-the-use-of-knowledge-in-society/ I What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, the problem which remains is purely one of logic. That is, the answer to the question of what is the best use of the available means is implicit in our assumptions. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/building-a-personal-website-with-hugo-and-github/ Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/building-a-personal-website-with-hugo-and-github/ Note: The following tutorial applies only to building a personal website on Windows, using Hugo and GitHub. – Step 1: Install and configure Hugo 1. Download Hugo Download the latest version of Hugo: Click to download 2. Create the directory Once downloaded, extract it. Create a Hugo folder on drive D, and place the extracted hugo.exe file in the bin directory. 3. Configure the environment variables –> System variables After downloading, you need to configure the path. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-platform/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-platform/ That I recall the past does not mean I long for the past, nor that I resist the present. It means I am growing number and number, further and further from my own essence. Everywhere the eye falls, all is reason and method. And my essence, like most people’s, is low and base — a wine sack and a rice bucket. So, at moments this lucid and real, I can only recall the past held in memory: the winters and the mud in memory, the muggy heat and the rain in memory. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/wilderness/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/wilderness/ To have an anchor born from within, unrelated to the outside — that is the most ideal state. White, grey, yellow, all covered in dust, all seem to have shrunk a notch shorter, a circle thinner. On a rooftop, looking out in all four directions, you can instead see the true colours of the city: building upon building, high and low, standing there quietly — not so huge and bright as when you gaze up at them from below. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/mutual-destruction/ Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/mutual-destruction/ All along, I have maintained a very low degree of socialising — in fact, effectively no socialising at all. The result is that I can find no frame of reference, nor can I truly understand other people’s lives. My knowledge comes from books, from the ancients, from the many who flee real life. Amid the crowd, yet outside the crowd, I have always been like a maggot, coming and going, muddling through. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/fireflies/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/fireflies/ Grievance It was summer vacation. My parents were quarreling at home over something or other again. I took my MP4 player, a few books, and a few simple changes of clothes, and left — off to my grandmother’s house. At that time I thought: why don’t they just get divorced, and spare us all this trouble? I played at my grandmother’s for a few days — reading e-books, sunbathing, doing a little farm work. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/sun-and-moon/ Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/sun-and-moon/ Daisies and gardenias, mountains and the sea, fireworks, the autumn moon, and winter days. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/night/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/night/ The night is cool: a flute plays, a moon over a thousand mountains; the road is dark, travelers are bewildered like a hundred kinds of flowers. The chess game ends, unnoticed that the world has changed hands; the wine is finished, and the guest can only, helpless, think of home. Night always makes me more real, brings me closer to my own essence. When everyone and everything around me is still, my thoughts begin to grow still as well. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/a-small-knife/ Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/a-small-knife/ I stand in a wilderness like a foreign land, on this gloomy, desolate, unending autumn night, while the wind howls again and again, tearing away, piece by piece, what little warmth my body has left. I crouch down and begin, with this yellow, red, blue, black mud, to try to piece together my grief. How blue-green the autumn rain, the mountain hues leaning on a clear sky. Sorrows north and south of the Yangtze, entrusted to the wine snail's red. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-path/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-path/ For the first time, I have this strong feeling: I want to change industries, to change the way I do things. It’s been this way for nearly two years — a feeling of being in a comfort zone. Of the things I spend most of my energy on each day, very few can be absorbed into my body as something new. Hmm, a copy-pasting copywriter — that roughly sums up my work in the years since I came back to Shenzhen. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-017-all-that-splendour-of-bloom-surrendered-to-a-nirvana-beyond-reach/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-017-all-that-splendour-of-bloom-surrendered-to-a-nirvana-beyond-reach/ The chance of cracking a Bitcoin private key is almost zero. If you had the ability to crack Bitcoin private keys, the big banks and confidential government and corporate data would be yours for the taking, as easy as reaching into a bag. Historically, exchange bitcoin thefts have always been due to poor wallet management, or insiders doing evil — guards stealing from their own vault. Observations from the Spring Festival: one great use of cash is stuffing red envelopes, giving lucky money. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-016-a-healthy-ecology-does-not-eliminate-evil-good-and-evil-coexist-with-good-the-greater/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-016-a-healthy-ecology-does-not-eliminate-evil-good-and-evil-coexist-with-good-the-greater/ Over the New Year at home, assign yourself a task: explain Bitcoin to your family and friends, spread the thought of Satoshi. Let more people join this decentralised social experiment. If you are sitting at a banquet, or about to attend one, ask the person to your left and right whether they have heard of Bitcoin, whether they have friends buying Bitcoin. If he doesn’t understand Bitcoin, explain it to him in the simplest words. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-halving-schedule/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-halving-schedule/ Every 210,000 blocks Bitcoin produces (roughly four years), the block reward is cut in half. Starting from 50 BTC at the genesis block in 2009, after 33 halvings the reward reaches zero around 2140, and the total supply of bitcoin ultimately converges on 21 million coins. Block reward halving curve (the vertical axis is on a logarithmic scale; orange dots mark the halving points) Year Halving Block Reward (BTC) Notes 2009 Genesis Block 50 2012 1 25 2012-11-28 · Block 210,000 2016 2 12. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-015-steamed-buns-and-pickles-to-improve-life-bitcoin-to-save/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-015-steamed-buns-and-pickles-to-improve-life-bitcoin-to-save/ As a trader, if you pay too much attention to the macro picture, it may cloud your judgment. And if you are a hodler who pays too much attention to short-term swings, your judgment will suffer just the same. A hodler does not wait for the best position; a hodler keeps buying. A hodler has only one move — “buy” — so a hodler’s advice does not suit a trader. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-014-bitcoin-serves-no-special-interest-but-that-of-the-working-class-and-the-broadest-masses/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-014-bitcoin-serves-no-special-interest-but-that-of-the-working-class-and-the-broadest-masses/ Buying and holding Bitcoin is the most beautiful thing in this world. If the price falls, you can buy more cheap Bitcoin; if the price rises, you can go on profiting from the corruption of the central banks, and win while lying down. El Salvador, a small Central American country of only 6.5 million people, became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender last September. Now this earliest sovereign state to embrace Bitcoin is bringing endless hope to the people of a land long suffering under financial hegemony. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/wishing-you-freedom/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/wishing-you-freedom/ https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-013-those-who-hold-enough-wealth-must-also-be-able-to-carry-enough-debt/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-013-those-who-hold-enough-wealth-must-also-be-able-to-carry-enough-debt/ As Bitcoin fell all the way from 69K to 43K, if someone kept urging you to buy the dip, remember his name. Forgive him — but remember him. Holding Bitcoin is painful more than 90% of the time, and comfortable less than 10% of the time. Perhaps that is the price of freedom. The essence of P2P is the vast ocean of a people’s war. On a cryptocurrency exchange, on the surface it may look like nothing but small retail traders providing all the liquidity — the great hermit hides in the marketplace. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/xinchou/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/xinchou/ No one can give you freedom, and no one can give you equality, justice, or anything else. If you are truly a man, then go and take it yourself. Not as heavy as I had imagined. No youth crisis, no sleepless nights, and no sense of mission either, as I had imagined. 2021 was very calm — it could even be called a little dull. This year, I moved from the Software Park to the Ecological Park, and then to Songpingshan, as if returning once more to the starting point. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-012-fiat-rests-on-violence-bitcoin-rests-on-hash-power/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-012-fiat-rests-on-violence-bitcoin-rests-on-hash-power/ How do you ease or eliminate a Ponzi scheme? The answer: create another Ponzi scheme. Beneath fiat lies violence; beneath Bitcoin lies hash power. If you monopolise violence, you monopolise fiat. If you monopolise hash power, you monopolise Bitcoin! If heaven has a gambling table, it must look like cryptocurrency. The wealth of the world today (of the body, of material things, of the spirit) is more evenly shared than at any time in history. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/raspberry-pi-basics-and-know-how/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/raspberry-pi-basics-and-know-how/ 🍓🍓The Raspberry Pi: a tiny single-board computer developed by the UK's Raspberry Pi Foundation, intended to promote basic computer science education in schools through low-cost hardware and free software. Every generation of the Raspberry Pi series of computers uses an ARM-architecture processor produced by Broadcom. Raspberry Pi OS is the officially released operating system, suitable for all Raspberry Pi models; the Raspberry Pi Foundation's website also provides third-party systems such as Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Server, and OSMC for the public to download. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/losing-and-recovering-my-bitcoin/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/losing-and-recovering-my-bitcoin/ This episode of losing and recovering my Bitcoin lasted about a month in total, from the evening of October 26, 2021, to this afternoon (November 20, 2021) at three o’clock. The main reason I lost the coins was that I used a 500 GB hard drive, which was not enough to store the current Bitcoin full node. First, following Umbrel’s official tutorial, I installed Umbrel on a Raspberry Pi and correctly backed up the private key. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-011-keep-at-least-one-bitcoin-in-the-market-and-a-month-of-steamed-bun-money-outside-it/ Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-011-keep-at-least-one-bitcoin-in-the-market-and-a-month-of-steamed-bun-money-outside-it/ Many years from now, people will look back on those distant years when Bitcoin was regarded as a Ponzi scheme — and could still be owned by ordinary people! Even if only 2% of the new leeks settle in and stay, that is a massive number. Once a leek brings money in, they are infected by digital currency; even after a beating, they keep coming back for more, undeterred. And the infected will infect newcomers in turn, bringing in wave after wave of new leeks. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-010-bitcoins-most-mature-use-case-is-fleecing-the-newcomers/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-010-bitcoins-most-mature-use-case-is-fleecing-the-newcomers/ When might Bitcoin accidentally hurt you? Only when you hold enough fiat and enough shitcoins! Every time Bitcoin and the cryptocurrencies fall, it is because those who have finished fleecing the newcomers are discarding their tools, cashing out and leaving the scene; at such moments the price naturally takes a discount. The sickle is still the same sickle — the question is whether you’ll pick it up, and whether you have the stomach to harvest other people’s leeks with it. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-009-globalisation-only-truly-breaks-open-with-blockchain/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-009-globalisation-only-truly-breaks-open-with-blockchain/ Globalisation only truly starts to break open when it reaches blockchain. In Jack Ma’s words: using business and economic logic to supersede the globalisation of the classical age, the globalisation of cultural exchange and political exchange. In essence, cryptocurrency exchanges exist mainly to solve compliance problems — the on- and off-ramp problems while fiat’s corpse still retains some warmth. Once the fiat corpse is cold, the so-called centralised exchanges of today will have no reason to exist: a smart contract on a blockchain settles it. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-008-i-worry-for-the-federal-reserve/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-008-i-worry-for-the-federal-reserve/ On the tenth anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, I just want to say: I worry for the Federal Reserve, I worry for the People's Bank of China, I worry for the Central Bank of Russia, I worry for the Bank of Japan, I worry for the Bank of England, I worry for the Banque de France, I worry for the Deutsche Bundesbank, I worry for the Reserve Bank of India, I worry for the State Bank of Vietnam, I worry for the National Bank of Cambodia, I worry for the Bank of the Lao PDR, I worry for the Bank of Thailand, I worry for the Central Bank of Myanmar, I worry for the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, I worry for Brunei's central bank, I worry for Bank Negara Malaysia, I worry for the Monetary Authority of Singapore, I worry for Bank Indonesia, I worry for the Central Bank of Timor-Leste, I worry for Nepal Rastra Bank, I worry for the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan, I worry for the State Bank of Pakistan, I worry for the Reserve Bank of India, I worry for Bangladesh Bank, I worry for the Maldives Monetary Authority, I worry for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, a worry for the National Bank of Kazakhstan, I worry for the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, I worry for the National Bank of Tajikistan, I worry for the Central Bank of Uzbekistan, I worry for the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, I worry for the Bank of England, I worry for the Central Bank of Ireland, I worry for the Banque de France, I worry for Monaco's central bank, I worry for De Nederlandsche Bank, I worry for the National Bank of Belgium, I worry for the Central Bank of Luxembourg… https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-quotable-satoshi/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-quotable-satoshi/ (₿ ᴥ ₿) “If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”— Satoshi Nakamoto “If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”— Satoshi Nakamoto (₿ ᴥ ₿) “I’m sure that in 20 years, (Bitcoin’s) transaction volume will either be very large, or there will be none at all. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-007-how-many-coins-must-you-buy-to-live-this-life-in-peace/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-007-how-many-coins-must-you-buy-to-live-this-life-in-peace/ The skulls of shitcoin holders are the sturdiest of all: even under tremendous pressure they survive perfectly well, and can even play golf for 24 hours straight. Bitcoin will replace the stock market as the barometer of the economy. Renminbi and US dollars are both trash coins. The more you hold, the greater the danger! Every WeChat peddler, every fruit farmer in southern Jiangxi, should embrace the future and accept payment in cryptocurrency. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/building-a-bitcoin-node-with-umbrel/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/building-a-bitcoin-node-with-umbrel/ ─=≡Σ( つ₿ ω ₿)つThe picture below shows what it looks like once set up: Note: There are many ways to build a Bitcoin node. This tutorial uses the Raspberry Pi + Umbrel approach, which has no technical barrier whatsoever. This approach has many advantages, including being sufficiently independent, energy-saving, stable, and secure, with complete self-control of your data and a beautiful interface (a visual interface). It is also extremely fun to tinker with: Umbrel provides a Bitcoin app store offering all kinds of apps such as the Lightning Network and blockchain explorers, greatly lowering the barrier for ordinary users to enter the Bitcoin ecosystem. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/a-blade-of-grass/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/a-blade-of-grass/ Quoted below: “Actually, I don’t want to be a tree. I want to be a blade of grass beneath a great tree. I still have to bear the wind and rain, and I may be eaten, or burned — but after the wind and rain I can lift my head again, and with a root I can grow anew.” https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-is-time/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-is-time/ Reprinted from: Bitcoin Is Time A luminary clock hung high in the sky, proclaiming that time was neither wrong nor right. — Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night” (1928) We still have not fathomed the great mystery that is time. Time is only a concept; we do not even know whether it really exists… — Clifford D. Simak, “Shakespeare’s Planet” (1976) As the saying goes, time is money. Conversely, money is also time: time is all the economic energy stored within the human body. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-006-in-crypto-be-a-good-person-hold-good-coins-and-good-will-come/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-006-in-crypto-be-a-good-person-hold-good-coins-and-good-will-come/ In crypto, be a good person, hold good coins, and good will come to you. The big pie is hard currency; all other coins are stand-ins conjured out of it, here to ferry all beings to salvation. Dig as many cesspits as you like to stockpile shit — in the end it’s still for fertilising the crops. Hunt as many pig, dog and cat coins as you like — in the end it’s only to exchange them for a bit of the big pie. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/websites-the-crypto-industry-actually-uses/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/websites-the-crypto-industry-actually-uses/ ₿ Content continuously updated… ✔️ CoinMarketCap About: Look up the rankings, market caps, prices and detailed information of all kinds of cryptocurrencies and assets. Website: coinmarketcap.com -₿-₿-₿-₿-₿-₿-₿-₿-₿-₿- ✔️ BlockChair About: A blockchain search and analytics engine for Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Cardano, Stellar, EOS, Monero, Tezos, Dash, Zcash and other digital currencies. Filter and sort blocks, transactions and their contents to your own needs, and run full-text searches over blockchain content. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-005-shib-pushes-crypto-toward-the-postmodern-toward-nihilism/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-005-shib-pushes-crypto-toward-the-postmodern-toward-nihilism/ Many people look at this gaudy pile of coins and assume that Bitcoin and this heap of “Special Coins, Water Coins, At Coins” differ only in name — they all have the word “coin” in them, after all. In fact, their difference from Bitcoin may be greater than the difference between an iPhone and a paramecium. The SHIB crowd is filled with carnival and ecstasy; SHIB pushes crypto toward the postmodern, toward nihilism. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-004-shibs-sociological-significance-lies-in-its-disenchantment/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-004-shibs-sociological-significance-lies-in-its-disenchantment/ SHIB’s sociological significance lies in its disenchantment — in puncturing the pretence of all those who are busy for the sake of being busy, diligent for the sake of being diligent, striving for the sake of striving. Drunk, we sing; how short life is. What cures sorrow? Only sudden wealth. SHIB: a lump of pure, clean air, free of all vulgar interests. Behind all these coins, SHIB included, there is in fact a very dangerous logic: the transfer of the right to mint money. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-003-satoshi-doesnt-mind-being-misread/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-003-satoshi-doesnt-mind-being-misread/ Satoshi doesn’t mind being misread, just as Confucius didn’t. Confucius wasn’t afraid of being misread either — he had three thousand disciples, seventy-two of them accomplished. Are we to believe there wasn’t a single rotter among those seventy-two, or that every one of them understood and carried out Confucius’s thought one hundred percent? Even Craig Wright and Jihan Wu are spreading Satoshi’s ideas according to their own understanding of the white paper. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-002-of-all-the-ponzi-schemes-bitcoin-is-the-best/ Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-002-of-all-the-ponzi-schemes-bitcoin-is-the-best/ Getting fleeced trading crypto is like being tonsured and taking the precepts: worldly cares severed, attachments laid to rest. Of all the Ponzi schemes, Bitcoin is the best one. In China, Bitcoin counts as a virtual asset. You can’t trade it, but you can obtain and hold it by other means. Say you spread Chinese culture on some overseas platform, chat in Chinese with foreign friends, and you might receive a token of their gratitude — or you might tip others. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/quit-trading-coins-a-step-by-step-guide-to-issuing-your-own-token/ Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/quit-trading-coins-a-step-by-step-guide-to-issuing-your-own-token/ This tutorial is based on the ERC-20 protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem and requires no programming skills whatsoever This tutorial is only for friends with a relatively weak foundation in computers; experts, please move along For all links in this article, please right-click and choose “Open in new window” Issuing your own virtual coin / virtual asset / private currency / ERC-20 token (collectively referred to below as a “token”), as described in this article, requires the following steps: https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-001-maotai-you-can-drink-and-a-pie-you-cant-eat/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-talk-001-maotai-you-can-drink-and-a-pie-you-cant-eat/ Maotai you can drink, and a pie you can’t eat — many people don’t know how to choose between them. The US dollar has lost 99% of its value since the last century. Once, 35 dollars bought an ounce of gold; today an ounce of gold costs 1,833 dollars. If the dollar swings this wildly and can still serve as money, that proves volatility has no necessary connection to whether something can be money. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/chinese-regulators-cryptocurrency-policies-a-summary/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/chinese-regulators-cryptocurrency-policies-a-summary/ ₿ Continuously updated… 24 September 2021 💣 A PBOC official answers reporters’ questions on the Notice on Further Preventing and Disposing of the Risks of Virtual Currency Trading Speculation 21 June 2021 💣 The PBOC summons several banks and payment institutions over virtual currency trading speculation 21 May 2021 💣 Liu He chairs the 51st meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Committee of the State Council 22 November 2019 💣 Stepping up regulatory prevention and control to crack down on virtual currency trading 24 August 2018 💣 Risk warning on illegal fundraising in the name of “virtual currency” and “blockchain” 9 October 2017 💣 Which country is Bitcoin from? https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-years-end/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-years-end/ Night falls. Carrying things into the house, restocking what is “out of stock”: couplets, firecrackers, fruit, paste, chicken feet, pots and bowls and pans… The relatives have all come back. In the air you can smell cow dung, chicken droppings, and gunpowder mixed together. My parents bustle all year long, as if only for these few days. A humble and great dream. To be warmly dressed and well fed was the first goal of that era. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-004-we-have-the-freedom-not-to-use-bitcoin/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-004-we-have-the-freedom-not-to-use-bitcoin/ Administrator from the Imperial Center — Lord Siyanien, as long as we all keep believing, as long as we keep using your long-abandoned imperial legal currency — the Earthollar, you will find in us those traits you despise; you think us stupid, stubborn, easily incited. But we hate bitcoin, just as you hate the Earthollar; we hate smart contracts, we hate everything digital; we are close to the soil, the trees, the rivers. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-003-the-earth-communitys-bitcoin-standing-council-is-announced/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-003-the-earth-communitys-bitcoin-standing-council-is-announced/ On June 21, 3145 AD, the “Earth Community Bitcoin Standing Council” was announced as established, with the unanimous approval of all member councils. On the day of its founding, the council officially released Bitcoin Core version 15.23.0, which updates the quantum-resistant encryption algorithm BAQ-2048, improves support for brain-link smart contracts, and enables digital asset interaction with the Intelli-envir “Wisdom Realm” artificial intelligence, triggered by sharper vision, hearing, and muscle movement. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-north/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-north/ I woke a little after five, my mind turning over some things, and in the end I couldn’t get back to sleep. Shijiazhuang really does take getting used to — the food, the weather, the face of the city; there is nowhere that feels comfortable. The streets are full of northeastern food, Cangzhou food, donkey-meat sandwiches — hard to warm to. The weather is gray and hazy; from the start of September to the end of it, I always feel the clothes I have aren’t right, neither enough to take off nor enough to add. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/less/ Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/less/ Idle today, I pulled out some of the figures I loved in my youth and looked at them again. I still like them, but it all feels like something from the last century. These two years since I started working, my interests have changed enormously: I read less of literature and history, and more of tools and practical things. In the past, literature and history could always lift me out of myself, give me strength, nourishment, thought. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-002-power-outage-at-the-east-pacific-smart-contract-federations-bitcoin-hash-power-bureau/ Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-002-power-outage-at-the-east-pacific-smart-contract-federations-bitcoin-hash-power-bureau/ On December 11, 3140 AD, a power outage occurred at the Bitcoin Hash Power Bureau of the East Pacific Smart Contract Federation. That day happened to be exactly 1,000 years after the last bitcoin was mined. The blackout lasted a full 7 hours, costing miners worldwide 24 BTC in lost bookkeeping revenue — 3% of the annual GDP of the West Pacific Feudal United Community. Investigations found that the outage was caused by a hacker attack on the smart contract of the Entropy China Interstellar Power Dispatch System. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-001-a-100-yuan-note-auctioned-for-one-bitcoin/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-micro-fiction-001-a-100-yuan-note-auctioned-for-one-bitcoin/ On November 22, 9120 AD, at the Cultural Relics Auction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Prefecture, West Pacific Communist United Community, a 100-yuan note printed on November 22, 2019 fetched the staggering price of one bitcoin, leaving everyone present in amazement. It was only then that people understood: the renminbi is a work of art, a symbol of human wisdom, while bitcoin is merely the most ordinary of digital assets! https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bangkok/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bangkok/ A city is a whole composed of many things: a whole of memory, a whole of desire, a whole of the signs of a language… A city is like a sponge, soaking up these ceaselessly flowing tides of memory, and expanding as it does. — Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) This Mid-Autumn Festival, my fourth time in Bangkok. Still the streets are full of sawasdee, the whole city restless and alluring. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/beauty/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/beauty/ What cannot be completed is often beautiful. Like the book borrowed in youth and never finished, the old friend never met again, the journey that was not perfect enough, the words that cannot be taken back, the promise that cannot be completed. These uncompletable things become reefs in the flood of time, which cannot be washed away; they bear witness to all that once existed. They leave you with a bone stuck in your throat, with awns pricking your back. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/hong-kong/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/hong-kong/ Yesterday I took my mother on a trip to Hong Kong, crossing the border at Futian Port, there and back in a day. The schedule was tight, the trip rushed, and with the unrest in Hong Kong these days I was wary — in short, it wasn’t as enjoyable as it could have been. By chance, before coming, I had just watched Tokyo Story. In the film, when they first arrived in Tokyo, the mother said: “So Tokyo is this close. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/spring-rain/ Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/spring-rain/ Although the sky is overcast, the air smells crisp and neat. Without any warning, the rain began to fall — one drop, two drops, and then it came down pattering. Was it spring rain, or summer rain? At this time of year, it is easy to feel as though the sky and earth were ancient and endless. Soon, someone set two wooden buckets under the eaves. The rain struck the roof tiles, gathered, and poured down — drip-drip, dong-dong — into the buckets. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/shadow/ Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/shadow/ And someday In the mist of time When they asked me if I knew you I’d smile and say you were a friend of mine And the sadness would be lifted from my eyes Oh when I’m old and wise As far as my eyes can see.. There are shadows surrounding me.. And to those I leave behind I want you all to know You’ve always shared my darkest hours https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/perpetual-peace/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/perpetual-peace/ Having passed through life’s strange rises and falls, after silence without a sound, Old Xiang is still like a child, a virgin, an assassin. As if that absurd, destitute, broken, vanished first half of his life had nothing much to do with him, and had left not the slightest scar on him. He is like a knife just drawn from its sheath, its cold air pressing, cutting iron as if it were mud. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/year-end/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/year-end/ 2018 has passed. A year ago today I was in Bangkok, on Sukhumvit, on the street, wandering, with nothing to do; today I am at a train station, in Zhangjiafan, pacing, cold, weary in body and mind. This year I went to so many places. Flipping through my photo album: Changsha, Shenzhen, Shunde, Urumqi, Turpan, the Kumtag Desert, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Qingyuan, Yunfu, Zhuhai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Jinan, Heyuan, Chaozhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Kunshan, Yancheng. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/quiet/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/quiet/ Of course, I too am ill at ease with this society in all sorts of ways, yet I am calm, and I accept it. I have realised that many things happen in connection with a person’s values at a particular period. Values are of course not something stable and unchanging; things change and develop, people are swept along by things, and values get split down the middle. Here and now. What you believe and what you do not believe; what you accept and what you do not accept; what you show and what you do not show… https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/beyond-cure/ Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/beyond-cure/ This man often likens himself to Mr. Shenlong, taster of a hundred herbs, who swallowed many virulent poisons by mistake; by the physician’s account he has no more than five days left, and lingers on in a lingering breath, a walking corpse. What he says and records day to day is likewise nothing but a repeated account of his own symptoms. A few are specially excerpted below: Symptom One — Babbling: All day he repeats two or three short phrases; the phrases are mostly jocular and vulgar. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/time/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/time/ The age surges and rushes on, and I am blurred of face. I open Xiami Music, and by chance it is Lo Ta-yu — “The Story of Time.” The flowers of spring blooming, the wind of autumn And the setting sun of winter Melancholy, the youthful me Once so innocently thought this way The windmill, in the song of the four seasons turning, Revolves day after day In verses of wind, flower, snow and moon https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/a-food-diary/ Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/a-food-diary/ If you only touch the surface like a dragonfly skimming the water, you can only be a consumer of life; live with effort and earnestness, and you have a chance to become a producer. 😋 ——April 23, 2021: Yang Jingwu’s 30th birthday — Qiaoqiao bought a cake, cooked longevity noodles, and there were delicious dishes too 😋😋 ——May 1, 2021 😋😋 ——May 31, 2021 😋😋 ——June 12, 2021 😋😋 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/no-time-to-worry/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/no-time-to-worry/ Walking is my goal The goal I believe in Walking on the road — rocks, weeds, branches Being with myself, no friends, no entertainment, no work This is all of time, my own time No time left to worry. – Do not rush about toiling, do not speak in clichés Enjoy the feeling of walking The feeling of being with myself Not full of suspicion, not hurrying along This is all of time, my own time https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/fragment/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/fragment/ I drove, then took a boat, and came here again. Once there was no road to be found here; dense greenery crowded around rippling water. Now a two-lane asphalt road stands alone by the shore. I know everything is different now. He waved his hand, signalling that we had no time, and so we went on, and did not linger. Overhead the clouds were thick; sunlight struck down through the cloud layer in pillars of light, and lit the clouds as if they were burning. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-worst-of-times/ Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/the-worst-of-times/ Life has shown its true face: non-negotiable, leaving no room. Everything around is illusory, yet presses right up before your eyes, leaving you nowhere to hide. This is the worst of times: knowing what you want, but unable to get it; knowing you are drawing closer, but needing time. Giving up was never an option. The only option is to move forward. You are right here in the present, in the petty scramble for gain — no poetry and no faraway places, to hell with poetry and faraway places; I no longer believe in any of that. https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/tears/ Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/tears/ It has been a long time since I wrote anything — two years, by my count. Every time I picked up the keyboard, wanting to tap out something, I would rarely get past a hundred characters before hastily deleting it. It felt affected; I thought, if it’s in my heart, that’s enough — why set it down in words? Words are pressure, a constraint. Reality is already in turmoil; why add to the trouble? https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-a-peer-to-peer-electronic-cash-system/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://reardon.torrdex.com/en/bitcoin-a-peer-to-peer-electronic-cash-system/ The Bitcoin White Paper, Page by Page (9 Pages in Total) — Page 1 — — Page 2 — — Page 3 — — Page 4 — — Page 5 — — Page 6 — — Page 7 — — Page 8 — — Page 9 —