A little transparency

I've realised that doing this just for me, isn't enough motivation to keep doing it.
Been busy with offline stuff.
Added a donation page (only taking crypto).

When I first started this blog, it was with the purpose having a place to share write-ups from CTF's HackTheBox or other things I find interesting.
Just a place where I could store information, which others might stumble upon and like.

Wanting to do something just for me, as a learning resource for myself.
Means that all the responsibility for making the posts, write-ups or what-ever is on me and with a targeted audience that is… you guessed it: ME.

Idk about you(whoever reads this), but I'm not the best at sticking to working on projects that is only for me.
I need some kind of external pressure/motivation to keep doing it.
Which kinda goes against the reason I created this blog in the first place, but I really do enjoy writing posts and write-ups.
I just lack motivation, and I wanted to change this.

Other than not having motivation to just write posts and whatever, I have been busy with my offline life.

Exams are over(thank god), and after having a small vacation where I could forget about everything that wasn't important was nice.
In the beginning of the year I set myself a challenge of completing 1 HackTheBox machine each week of 2022, but life happened and never managed to find time each week to dedicate to doing that.

So that have been a bit of a bummer, but not something worth losing sleep over.

I order to address my lack of motivation, I figured why not accept money!
The best motivation for anything in our capitalistic world.

As i currently see it there are 2 options:

1. Serve ads and basically sell YOUR data to google or whatever other ad agency that I would end up using
   
2. Take donations
   

As you might be able to read between the lines in the above list, I'm not a fan of ads.¹
In fact I promise to never serve ads, or track what you're doing using some proprietary solution that might sell your data unbeknownst to both me and you.

I run no tracking on this site.

That is a good thing regarding privacy, but that also means I have no idea if people visit my site or anything like that.
Which kinda sucks to be honest, as we all like to numbers increase like some cookie clicker game.

I have thought about implementing some type of tracking just to get basic statistics like how many visitors I have, and maybe geographic information(IP based), but I want it to be done properly and with respect for you (will also make a post like this to inform you).

So I have decided to take donations, and again with respect to privacy, I only take crypto.

Only donate if it is within your budget!
There is no reason to go broke for some random dude on the internet.
Wallet addresses can be found HERE, or on the link on my homepage.

If you happen to use the brave browser I have added myself as a creator, so you can support me through that aswell. (THIS IS NOT AN AD FOR BRAVE, use whatever browser you feel comfortable in)

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