The Unsellable Identity
Nostr accounts cannot be sold because sellers cannot prove they forgot the private key, which collapses the market for reputation handoffs.
Anonymous Communication Networks
Content encryption hides what was said. The transport layer leaks who is communicating with whom, enough for targeting decisions.
Computing on Secrets
Homomorphic encryption, MPC, and trusted enclaves each run a computation on inputs the executing party is not permitted to see.
The Private Money Hypocrisy
The Wall Street Journal warns you about the dangers of “private money” called stablecoins, while defending a dollar system that is nothing but a pyramid of bank-created IOUs backed by debt and the state’s monopoly on violence. The truth is that private, apolitical money isn’t the risk, but it’s the only escape from a collapsing fiat empire The real divide is no longer between regulated and unregulated money, but between systems that require trust in power and systems that remove it entirely.
Project Alexandria
On the project to build the world's largest, digital library.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Zero-knowledge proofs separate what is verified from what is revealed, ending the forced choice between participation and privacy.
Why the Way of the Warrior
You're in deep and no one's coming to save you.
Cryptographic Foundations
Cryptography shifts trust from institutions to mathematics, and that shift carries every privacy primitive the book later builds.
The Crypto Wars
Crypto controls failed against builders, held against defaults, and locked in the two-tier privacy equilibrium thirty years later.
In the name of Jesus (A Poem)
A few days ago, I couldn't sleep. As it often happens for me, I ended up writing...
The Analytics Stack
Commercial firms assemble surveillance no agency could lawfully build, and the state buys the output as a service.
Corporate Surveillance and Data Extraction
Corporate data extraction inverts the market: the advertiser is the customer, and the user supplies the raw material.
Financial Surveillance and the State
Financial surveillance is triangular intervention. The state forces banks to watch customers, and CBDCs strip the buffer entirely.
Careful, Icarus
Tying identity to onchain activity is problematic in more ways than one.
Money and Privacy
Money emerges by market process. Sound money carries privacy alongside its three classical functions; fiat lacks all four.
Privacy as Capital
Privacy tools are capital that compounds across uses; institutional promises last only as long as state goodwill does.
The Economic Value of Privacy
Privacy aids exchange by guarding deliberation and negotiation from observation that chills marginal trades and distorts the rest.
Sleep in a Net
Mexican matrimonial hammocks beat beds for comfort and free the whole room when unhooked. Sleep diagonally, flat back, anywhere on earth.
Information, Scarcity, and Property
Property rights apply to scarce things. Information is non-scarce, so privacy stands on self-ownership, owned media, and contract.