<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:04:08 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@eriksank/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What is the effect of democracy on women?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a democracy, women will increasingly say that they do not need men. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. This is actually quite true, because they can usually get the government to give]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@eriksank/what-is-the-effect-of-democracy-on-women</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@eriksank/what-is-the-effect-of-democracy-on-women</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:21:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trading in cryptocurrencies and the requirements of religious law]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have had a long conversation yesterday with someone about trading in cryptocurrencies and the requirements of religious law. The person is generally a keeper of religious law, but he was still inadvertently]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/trading-in-cryptocurrencies-and-the-requirements-of-religious-law</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/trading-in-cryptocurrencies-and-the-requirements-of-religious-law</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:33:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My negative answer to the Papacy, because he is only making the problem worse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economy - the Pope warned - cannot attempt only to increase profits by reducing the work force and thereby adding to the ranks of the excluded. It must follow the path marked out by business leaders,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/christianity/@eriksank/my-negative-answer-to-the-papacy-because-he-is-only-making-the-problem-worse</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/christianity/@eriksank/my-negative-answer-to-the-papacy-because-he-is-only-making-the-problem-worse</guid><category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:28:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The schools are indeed sending the kids straight to the unemployment queue but that is not even the worst problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Technology has primarily, and still displaces, assembly-line workers and paper pushers. Anybody repeating the same operation all over again, especially within the same workday, will eventually find himself]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@eriksank/the-schools-are-indeed-sending-the-kids-straight-to-the-unemployment-queue-but-that-is-not-even-the-worst-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@eriksank/the-schools-are-indeed-sending-the-kids-straight-to-the-unemployment-queue-but-that-is-not-even-the-worst-problem</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:11:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to provide liquidity on the bitcoin lightning network for incoming payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you intend to spend 1 BTC from a lightning payment channel, you can just fund it with 1 BTC. The counter-party would have to fund his own outgoing channel with his counter-party, but that is another]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/how-to-provide-liquidity-on-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-incoming-payments</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/how-to-provide-liquidity-on-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-incoming-payments</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 06:57:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DDOS attack on github mostly documentation bug or result of botched cloud migrations]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, the number one reason why the DDOS attack on github.com was possible, is because of a documentation bug. The Memcached documentation discourages restricting Memcached to listening to authorized]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@eriksank/ddos-attack-on-github-mostly-documentation-and-or-migration-bugs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@eriksank/ddos-attack-on-github-mostly-documentation-and-or-migration-bugs</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:32:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Statists are breaking ranks. Presale of Venezuela Petro (PTR) cryptocoin started on 20 Feb 2018!]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the Venezuelan Petro whitepaper, the Petro (PTR) will be freely tradable. It will allow Venezuela to bypass financial censorship on their US dollar transactions in New York. Venezuela will]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@eriksank/the-statists-are-breaking-ranks-presale-of-petro-ptr-cryptocoin-started-on-20-feb-2018</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@eriksank/the-statists-are-breaking-ranks-presale-of-petro-ptr-cryptocoin-started-on-20-feb-2018</guid><category><![CDATA[cryptocurrency]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:58:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[December bitcoin price spike caused by airdrops?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Concerning the spike in bitcoin price in December 2017, if you have a look at the schedule of airdrops that took place: 2017/NOV: [2] BTC, BCD 2017/DEC: [14] LBTC, SBTC, B2X, BCX, BTX, BTW, BTF, BTN, FBTC,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/december-bitcoin-price-spike-caused-by-airdrops</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/december-bitcoin-price-spike-caused-by-airdrops</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:57:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are at the moment approximately five useful smart contract types]]></title><description><![CDATA[In practical use payment: Send money from one address to another multisignature escrow: Send money to an address from which typically just 2 of 3 signatories can send it on (n of m). This contract type]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/there-are-at-the-moment-approximately-five-useful-smart-contract-types</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/there-are-at-the-moment-approximately-five-useful-smart-contract-types</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:10:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Webdesigners doing ethereum smart-contract apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ethereum is the idea that webdesigners with moderate javascript ability will be able to create new types of smart contracts -- of which only 5 or so exist by now -- between breakfast and lunch, and that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@eriksank/webdesigners-doing-ethereum-smart-contract-apps</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@eriksank/webdesigners-doing-ethereum-smart-contract-apps</guid><category><![CDATA[cryptocurrency]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:14:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every breakthrough in technology invalidates entire textbooks]]></title><description><![CDATA[If a machine can do it, then spending a lot of time on learning how to do it, is not particularly fruitful. Therefore, every breakthrough in technology invalidates entire textbooks. The machine can do]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@eriksank/every-breakthrough-in-technology-invalidates-entire-textbooks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@eriksank/every-breakthrough-in-technology-invalidates-entire-textbooks</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:31:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[For heaven's sake, what is there so good about lawlessness?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a rich cultural background, but it has no law. Therefore, you can dress like a total slut because we all know that Jesus still loves you. How are we supposed to manage without a law? I]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/christianity/@eriksank/for-heaven-s-sake-what-is-there-so-good-about-lawlessness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/christianity/@eriksank/for-heaven-s-sake-what-is-there-so-good-about-lawlessness</guid><category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:16:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress in technology and non-progress in education are causing the largest unemployment wave in history]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, the child is busy memorizing what it is reading in order to sit a test tomorrow where it will write answers from memory. Oh my God, a photocopy machine can do that too. At that point, Erik's 7th rule]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/funny/@eriksank/progress-in-technology-and-non-progress-in-education-are-causing-the-largest-unemployment-wave-in-history</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/funny/@eriksank/progress-in-technology-and-non-progress-in-education-are-causing-the-largest-unemployment-wave-in-history</guid><category><![CDATA[funny]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lightning network works almost the same as the banking system]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine you have person who says: "I will be a bitcoin bank. Deposit your coins with me, and I will make sure to transfer your payments to other banks who service other users." You probably recognize]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/the-lightning-network-works-almost-the-same-as-the-banking-system</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/the-lightning-network-works-almost-the-same-as-the-banking-system</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:07:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venezuela is going crypto!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Venezuela's trade buffers for their oil trade are controlled by New York, where the fiat banksters first extract usurious interest and loan installments for real and imaginary debt before leaving peanuts]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/venezuela-is-going-crypto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/venezuela-is-going-crypto</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:28:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christian/Islamic religious views]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was born into Catholicism. There is no papal decree excommunicating me there. "Extra ecclesiam nulla salus", meaning, there is not much fun to be had in criticizing anything else but the papacy.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/christianity/@eriksank/my-christian-islamic-religious-views</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/christianity/@eriksank/my-christian-islamic-religious-views</guid><category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:54:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ongoing cryptocurrency wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cryptorevolutionary vanguard! The bitcoin political hardcore!]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/the-ongoing-cryptocurrency-wars</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/the-ongoing-cryptocurrency-wars</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:14:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eEGcTrjjtRBA78LvT7Rx8G8rNzVLcSv7ZkA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning these detestable individuals, the lapsi]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are so many people in Western Europe, North America, and elsewhere who are "lapsi": sacrificati: who save fiat money in savings accounts thurificati: who take out interest-carrying loans]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/concerning-these-detestable-individuals-the-lapsi</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/concerning-these-detestable-individuals-the-lapsi</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2018 07:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The complexity of bitcoin is not a hopeless problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you use the electricity grid, you take a plug and shove it into the outlet and expect everything to work. If we ever showed to the masses the complexity behind the outlet, i.e. how electricity production]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/the-complexity-of-bitcoin-is-not-a-hopeless-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@eriksank/the-complexity-of-bitcoin-is-not-a-hopeless-problem</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2018 06:30:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my 8th day of fasting and I have never felt as good as today]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am directly at war with myself now. Every other war is obviously, indirectly also a war against myself, but now it is truly a concentrated assault on the enemy. The idea was to do it for 14 days but]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/health/@eriksank/this-is-my-8th-day-of-fasting-and-i-have-never-felt-as-good-as-today</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/health/@eriksank/this-is-my-8th-day-of-fasting-and-i-have-never-felt-as-good-as-today</guid><category><![CDATA[health]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eriksank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 07:22:51 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>