This is tricky. Way back when I was a more gullible man, like two weeks ago, I really believed in this Australian cryptocurrency project called Loki. It's a privacy-focused initative, with really interesting projects like a "truly secure" encrypted messaging app called Session. The crypto relies on a protocol they call LLARP, and the Lokinet network was promoted by none other than our own Jim Watkins (cough, cough), which for about three days allowed intermittent access to the board when we were under heavy attack.

In general terms, I really believed in crypto as a means to avoid tyrranical governments which might try to paralyze the people with financial controls. But now, I'm not as sure that the cryptocurrency project doesn't help the Cabal far more than it helps the ordinary person. Certainly in America one seems to be safer with Trump and the US dollar. In places like China, maybe crypto still has an important role to play. Or maybe it's all a LARP. Whatever the case, I don't believe the race to secure one's own individual financial success is really going to save mankind anyhow.

Which brings me back to Loki. The reason I started to think about it again is the CEO - a very bright young developer - wrote an article for [Medium] selling the safety and indeed the necessity of the Australian government's COVID19 surveillance app, which collects data from users along with the data of the phones in a certain radius. This user data is then stored in the Amazon cloud where the government can determine a person's location and the identity of the person's associates, all under the auspices of protecting us from coronavirus.

That a privacy-focused cryptocurrency developer would be touting the value of this frigthening anti-prvacy technology speaks volumes about his real agenda. And so, although I was once very excited about the Loki project and even tried to talk it up here on the board, I'm getting out of it. I'm selling all of it. I just don't trust them anymore, and I don't care who knows it.

Of course, maybe the project will still be redeemed. The ideas behind it still might be good. Maybe it has a bright future. But I'm reminded that Loki is the name of the god of deception. And calling your protocol a "LLARP" may be a bit more honest than I initially appreciated.

Anyhow, chasing money seems like satan's game to me, and I really don't want it to be the focus of my attention anymore.

Game over.