Hollistic Rabbit Hole 🐇🌀🛸[OG]

[Original] Listing some cool and/or controversial accounts on nostr. trying to put people in here with different viewpoints and vibes to keep it as hollistic as possible for debates, arguments, reasons, discussions, controversies and contradictions. open to suggestions as well.

Curated by Lysergic4cid

by Max Dec 21, 2025 · Edited

The One Rule That Creates All Wealth

Prosperity has one prerequisite: do not steal. Secure property rights enable voluntary exchange, which accumulates capital fairly. The West is collapsing because governments have become systematic thieves.

by Max Jan 13, 2026 · Edited

The Consumption You Call Saving

Holding money does not defer gratification but consumes the opportunity cost of lending, making hoarding a present expense rather than proof of low time preference.

by Max Jan 4, 2026 · Edited

Credit Before Coin: How Markets Bootstrap Sound Money Economies

Bills of exchange don't just provide elasticity within existing monetary systems; they can bootstrap entire economies that lack base money.

by Max Jan 7, 2026 · Edited

Protocols for the Ungoverned

Functional legal orders emerge from voluntary adoption and competitive governance, not top-down decree; history proves that polycentric law outperforms territorial monopoly.

by Max Dec 17, 2025 · Edited

Your Phone Is Not Your Property (Until You Install GrapheneOS)

Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.

by Max Jan 25, 2026 · Edited

The Mathematics That Bridges Bitcoin: From BitVM to Argo

Cryptographic enforcement succeeds where trust fails, and nowhere does this principle matter more than in Bitcoin's quest for trustless bridges.

by Max Dec 16, 2025 · Edited

The Case for Custodial Nostr: Why Teams Should Stop Fighting the Lost War

Organizations already delegate key custody internally. A server-side Nostr client with permission management would be faster, stabler, and more honest than relay-dependent remote signing hacks.

by Max Mar 1, 2026 · Edited

The Frequency of Dissent

Mesh networks turn every radio into a relay and every user into infrastructure, creating communication grids with no center to seize.

by Max Jan 19, 2026 · Edited

Another round of patience

Time preference reveals through lending at interest rates. Hoarding refuses all rates, demanding present possession. Expected gains are speculation, not deferral.

by Max Dec 20, 2025 · Edited

The Last Leak: How MIP-05 Closes the Push Notification Surveillance Hole

Push notifications let governments track your messaging habits. MIP-05 encrypts device tokens with ephemeral keys, ensuring notification servers learn absolutely nothing.

by Max Mar 4, 2026 · Edited

Sign What You Cannot See: A Field Guide to Blind Signatures

Four decades of blind signatures show that one algebraic trick, letting someone sign what they cannot see, protects ecash and CoinJoin.

by Max Apr 27, 2026 · Edited

The Instrument Returns: An Introduction to Bitcredit

Bitcredit is the concrete protocol reconstructing bills of exchange on Bitcoin, closing the credit layer gap that prior posts have diagnosed.

by Max Nov 20, 2025 · Edited

Owned by No One: Solving Nostr's Key Rotation Problem

Nostr's greatest strength - that you own your identity through cryptographic keys - becomes its greatest weakness when keys are lost or stolen. This post introduces two simple, social solutions that let users mark compromised keys and rotate to new ones through community verification, without complex cryptography or pre-planning.