Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System
The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery.
Max
max@towardsliberty.com
Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
The Price of Patience
Hoarding is not low time preference; only lending expresses it. Wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, not the reverse.
A Constitution for the Ungoverned
Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.
Disappear Into the Crowd: Wasabi's Hidden Payment Superpower
Three bash scripts to queue, cancel, and run Wasabi coinjoin payments from terminal - with smart denomination suggestions for maximum privacy.
Free Men Will Build the Roads
Nobody asks who will bake the bread because markets already do it excellently; the roads question reveals statist capture of imagination.
Inside Marmot: Six Specs That Make Private Group Messaging Work
Six protocol specs define how the Marmot Protocol delivers fully encrypted group messaging on Nostr without centralized servers or metadata leaks.
Curated Feeds: A Simpler Alternative to DVM Feeds
Replace DVM request/response overhead with simple replaceable events. Publishers maintain feed lists, clients just subscribe. No round trips, no privacy leakage
Breaking Free: Deprogramming State Dependence
Learned helplessness is the default response to prolonged state control; recovery requires demonstrating agency through deliberate action, not accumulating more theory.
The Moral Case for Debt Repudiation
Public debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge our wealth, bondholders knowingly invest in future theft, so repudiation restores justice.
Your Nostr Key Is Your Network Address
FIPS makes your Nostr npub a routable network address, unifying identity across social and infrastructure layers in a single self-sovereign keypair.
When Can We Meet? Cross-Server Busy Sync for Nextcloud
Nextcloud can't sync busy times across separate instances. This bash script uses CalDAV to share availability between multiple Nextcloud servers without exposing event details.
The Action That Accomplishes Nothing
Decentralization does not prevent the adversary from acting against you. It ensures that his action accomplishes nothing.
The Mobile Podcast Setup That Actually Works
Testing earbuds, wired mics, and USB-C wireless systems revealed the Yealink BH71 as the best mobile podcast solution for GrapheneOS.
The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
Proving You Belong Without Saying Who You Are
Zero-knowledge proofs let Nostr users prove they're trusted without revealing their identity, enabling anonymous rate-limiting and reputation-gated relay access.
Computing on Secrets
Services no longer need to see data to compute on it. Cryptographic and hardware primitives make that contract a deployed reality.
The Colossus Falls - How to End All War
Wars persist because each generation consents to fight them; a generation that refused would be history's last to die in trenches.
Your Phone Without Permission Slips: The GrapheneOS Nostr Stack
GrapheneOS plus Zapstore, Amber, Citrine, Amethyst, and White Noise creates the first phone free from corporate control over your digital life.
Garland: Your Keys, Your Files, No Trusted Third Party
Garland turns Blossom blob storage into a virtual drive on your device. Your Nostr key is your password. No accounts, no cloud lock-in.
The Predator's Pedestal
The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.
