After more than a year of preparation, the Liker Land e-bookstore will officially upgrade next week, transforming into the 3ook.com AI Companion. I've compiled a series of FAQs below to answer any questions you may have.Q: How do you pronounce 3ook.com?A: book-dot-com.Q: When exactly is "next week"?A: Monday, June 16, 2025, at 12:00 PM noon (Taiwan/Hong Kong Time).Q: So, what is the relationship between Liker Land and 3ook.com?A: Our company is Liker Land Inc. We are developing and operating ...

Last issue, several friends left comments laughing that I was using clickbait titles. I half-jokingly replied, “You guys taught me that writing peacefully in the body text is useless.” Indeed, I’ve always been a “content person,” but the comment responses have never been so enthusiastic. If one day I truly become a clickbaiter, it would be a collective karma forced out by apathy. If we can take one more step within our capabilities in our daily lives, although we won’t see immediate effects, ...

Stunning seven billion people! In just a year or two, Bitcoin's price could potentially drop below $1! This isn't alarmist talk. We're talking about BIP-177 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #177), currently under discussion in the community. It proposes renaming Bitcoin's smallest unit, which is one hundred millionth of a Bitcoin (0.00000001 BTC), from the current satoshi (or sat) to bitcoin. This new "bitcoin" would then be the standard unit for display, quoting, and communication. If the commu...

Everyone has heard that "bad money drives out good," but not many know its origin. Theoretically, the superior should prevail over the inferior. So how does bad money win? The story goes that ancient coins were minted from precious metals like gold and silver. However, their quality and purity varied. Everyone wanted to hold onto the better quality, higher purity coins and would spend the inferior ones first when making purchases. As a result, the circulation of bad money far exceeded that of...

Last week, I explained three advanced Signal techniques. By popular demand (well, a population of one), this time I’ll introduce another ten simple and easy-to-use secret tricks. Feel free to “self-test” and see how familiar you are with Signal, on a scale of 0-10.0. Disappearing messagesMessage self-destruction is a widely known feature of Signal. Users who don’t use it probably think the convenience of searching old messages is more important than privacy. To set a self-destruct timer for m...

In this age of ubiquitous social networking, I may look trendy with accounts on all the major apps, but deep down, I’m old-school: these days, I really only use Signal and Proton Mail. Let me take this chance to apologize to those who’ve messaged me on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms but never got a response; but if you’re reading this, you probably know that the only way to reach me is to email kin@ckxpress.com . Though more and more people have email addresses, fewer and fewer actu...

Last week, I wrote about how I set up ckxpress.com with WordPress, which I’ve used for 20 years. Today, let’s talk about the opposite: the blogging platform like.community is shutting down, with operations ending on May 14, 2025. First, some background. LikeCoin’s first flagship product was the LikeCoin button, which could be embedded in blogs like WordPress and Medium. Readers could “like” articles, and authors would receive LikeCoin from the Creator Fund and from “Civic Liker”, essentially ...

On April 21, 2005, I registered ckxpress.com and set up my personal website. It has now been 20 years, during which I’ve published 1,250 articles totaling 1.18 million words. Although the domain still has seven years until expiration, I just paid for an additional three years of registration fees to hold ckxpress.com for another 10 years. If it weren’t for the limit set by ICANN, I might have registered it for another 100 years.Blogging ResumeIf I were applying for a job as a blogger, my resu...

Dear friends, Spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere—how are you all doing? It’s been nearly four years since I started my own newsletter after the closure of Apple Daily. To mark this week’s 200th issue, I’d like to talk a bit about writing itself, as a kind of commemoration. Before I began writing, I naturally assumed I’d be talking about AI. But after rereading my 100th issue, “Why I Persist in Writing,” which I wrote not long after ChatGPT launched, I realized that my views on AI’s...

去年中我以綠皮書建議 LikeCoin 升級 v3，經過半年多醞釀與討論、四個月的開發，現已進入直路，邁向最終目標。 下面以條列及圖表，扼要說明 LikeCoin v3 升級的方方面面，從背景開始講起，說到最終升級完成所需的步驟，以便社群掌握總體情況。 一、升級背景 LikeCoin 推出初期（2018、19 年），以太坊手續費高、吞吐量低，因此 v2 改用自家公鏈；時至今日以太坊已經相當成熟，當年的弊病已經徹底解決，雖然用戶體驗尚有提升空間，但亦可望於帳戶抽象化（account abstraction）推出後進一步改善，逐漸邁向大規模應用，因此 LikeCoin 決定升級 v3 遷回以太坊。