Less Than Two Weeks Away ...

White nationalists still plan on coming to University of Florida

I've updated my Amazon Wish List to include some gear that would come in handy for self-preservation, video coverage of events, etc. Nothing I can't get by without if necessary, but it's stuff I'd like to have.

Live blogging/podcasting is probably just not going to be feasible, but I'll try to get as much worthwhile material up as soon as possible after the fact (assuming none of the various more dire possible outcomes, e.g. jail, hospital, morgue ...).

My guess is that unless the university either folds or gets ordered by a court to provide the requested rental venue, things will go down outdoors on Turlington Plaza. But that guess could be wrong. I'll be watching for more info as Der Tag approaches.

A Reminder and a Request

Reminder: KN@PPSTER's Big Freaking Book of Stuff is now available for Amazon Kindle. It's only $1.99, and it's made available by libertarian e-publishing pioneer J. Neil Schulman.

Request: Hey, how about posting a review of the book at Amazon? Positive, negative, your call, but it would be nice to see some opinions there. If you don't want to pop $1.99 for the Kindle version to read it for review purposes, there are other versions, including a free PDF (see here).

Moving from @Jaxx_io to @CoinomiWallet ...

... turned out to be pretty easy. Here's a quick tutorial for those considering it.

Why move? Well, a month after saying they were going to support Bitcoin Cash, Jaxx still isn't supporting Bitcoin Cash. If you had Bitcoin in your Jaxx wallet as of the "user-activated hard fork," you own the same amount of Bitcoin Cash. You just can't get to it, or spend it, or receive more of it, in Jaxx. That was understandable for a few days. Now it's just getting dumb. So ...



Coinomi does support Bitcoin Cash, and with a little work (not much work, and there are tutorials) you can get your balance out of Jaxx hell and into usable form.

Not that my travails are over.

If I had my druthers, I'd exchange my measly Bitcoin balance (about $20 worth at the moment) for Bitcoin Cash. But at the moment the miner and ShapeShift fees for doing that would run about $12, meaning I'd only actually get about $8 worth of Bitcoin Cash at the other end.

But I may go ahead and do that, because I expect Bitcoin proper to start falling, sharply and soon. At least one big dog has already announced it plans to renege on the New York Agreement, specifically the "2x" part of "Segwit2x." The 2x part is doubling the block size to make the network usable again.

I doubt that Bitwala will turn out to be the only lying turd in the Segwit2x pile of feces, and Bitcoin can only remain a speculation toy / high-redemption-cost bearer bond for so long before the market migrates away from it and toward a real cryptocurrency. I don't know if that real cryptocurrency will be Bitcoin Cash, Dash, ZCash or something else, but the Segwit2x people -- especially the ones who won't even keep their word on half of that deal -- are inflating a bubble that has to pop sooner or later.

Side Addendum: I've updated the sidebar addresses/QR codes to direct Bitcoin, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash donations to my Coinomi wallet. Hint, hint.