Chapter 1: The Nature of Privacy
Privacy is control over disclosure. Observation cost decides if any targeted intervention runs, and cypherpunk tools raise it.
Welcome To Nostr. Jumpstart Your Nostr Feed: A Curated List
New to Nostr? It can be tricky to know where to begin. This carefully curated list offers a jumpstart to your feed, featuring a selection of highly active and engaging voices. Discover content spanning Bitcoin, privacy, insightful thoughts, art, memes, travel and much more - a solid foundation to explore the broader Nostr ecosystem. Think of this as a launchpad: Follow these accounts, then let your curiosity guide you to discovering even more through interactions and shared connections.
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The Praxeology of Privacy: Endorsements, Foreword, Preface
Third edition, joining Austrian economics and cypherpunk engineering on what privacy is, why it survives, and how to defend it.
BTC Map April 2026 Update
2.5k net new merchants, South Africa leading activity, saved places, custom activity feeds, and Nostr auth progress.
Meet Maple, the Personal Intelligence Platform
Maple is AI for real life. Introducing the Personal Intelligence Platform. Built on a foundation of privacy, Maple enables people to tap into the full potential of AI by creating a space where you share details that you hesitate putting into other AI apps. That subtle difference makes Maple the AI for your real life. You can be you. The platform consists of multiple apps built on the same encrypted foundation. Maple Agent has long-term memory, Maple Research is your secure workspace, and Maple Proxy is the encrypted API.
Soapbox at Bitcoin 2026: Nostr Became Infrastructure
How Bitcoin Conference Week 2026 played out for Soapbox: five panels, NosVegas 2.0, V4V music payouts, and Nostr finally landing as infrastructure.
The Engineering Choice Between Complicated and Complex
Bitcoin converts a complex monetary problem into a complicated protocol, absorbing irreducible uncertainty into deterministic rules any node operator can verify.
Where to Start with Rothbard: A Reading Guide to His Major Works
Murray Rothbard built the most internally consistent radical libertarian system of the 20th century. This guide shows where to enter it.
Nostr Boutique Update #2
I’m setting up Nostr.boutique as an experiment in agentic Nostr client development using Nsite’s, Ngit, and NWC. The flow uses two agents: one for turning issues and features into code plans, branches, builds, and deployments, and another for promotion, outreach, engagement monitoring, support, and feedback collection.
The Key Inside the Ciphertext: A Full Introduction to PIPEs v2
PIPEs v2 turns spend conditions into key-recovery conditions, letting Bitcoin enforce proof-gated authorization through ordinary Schnorr signatures and extraordinary off-chain cryptography.
The vibes are strong with this one
Shaka reimplements PAI's personal AI architecture from scratch with different tradeoffs, and the fact that the same primitives survived the rewrite says something about the design.
The Cheapest Defense
Privacy blinds the adversary's OODA loop at observation. When defense costs pennies and attack costs millions, surveillance becomes unprofitable.
Build for the Mole
Infiltration is inevitable; detection is unreliable. The real defense against state informants is building organizations where their presence cannot accomplish its purpose.
The Problem-Solver's Fortune
Wealth flows to those who solve others' problems, starting with their own, because subjective value makes every voluntary exchange mutual gain.
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The Missing Credit Layer
The parallel economy has sound money and encrypted communication but still lacks the credit layer needed to finance production across time.
Two Roads to a Network Without Permission: Reticulum and FIPS
Reticulum and FIPS both build permissionless encrypted meshes, but they differ radically in routing, crypto primitives, and their relationship to IP.
The Algebra of Trust
Anonymous commerce requires solving the trust problem, and the solution may be to treat trust itself as a quantifiable, tradeable commodity.
Securing the Second Realm
Security in autonomous zones means making attack uneconomical through deterrence, distributed defense, and eternal vigilance against any protector becoming predator.
Every Crowd Hides You Differently
From Bitcoin CoinJoin to zero-knowledge proofs, every serious approach to financial privacy bets on a different crowd to disappear into.
A Vibe Coding Setup in Your Pocket
GrapheneOS now runs a hardware-isolated Debian VM on your phone, and OpenCode provides open-source AI coding against any provider you choose.
When Math Catches Your Typos
Bech32's BCH code detects up to 4 typos with 100% certainty, locates up to 2 error positions, but deliberately refuses to auto-correct to prevent catastrophic mistakes.
