Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
Developer KYC creates chokepoints that authoritarian governments ruthlessly exploit. Zapstore restores permissionless software distribution using cryptographic identity instead of government papers.
Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.
Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.
Smart machines relocate comparative advantage; the weaker worker keeps value only where human judgment, ownership, and presence still command a premium.
Bitcoin wallets face a fundamental tradeoff: how to discover your transactions without revealing your addresses. Full nodes (2009) provide perfect privacy by downloading everything but require ~700 GB storage. Electrum (2011) achieves instant sync by transmitting your addresses directly to servers, exposing your complete transaction history. Block filters (2017-2019) restore privacy through client-side filtering - you download compact filters, check them locally, and only request matching blocks, revealing just block-level interest. Utreexo (2019) compresses the UTXO set from 11 GB to 480 bytes using cryptographic accumulators while maintaining full-node privacy, but requires 20% more bandwidth. Each approach trades privacy, storage, bandwidth, and convenience differently.
PGP's web of trust failed because it demanded explicit rituals. Nostr succeeds by extracting trust from ordinary social behavior.
We're exploring an architecture for Garland: Cryptomator for encryption, Blossom for blob storage, Nostr for state. Your nsec becomes your Cryptomator password. We think this works - but we'd love your feedback before we commit.
Governments cannot kill open protocols, so they imprison the humans who write them, spending $275 billion per year to catch nothing.
Every civilization before the modern state treated crime as a debt owed to the victim, enforced through restitution and community insurance.
One command in your Qubes template installs `xsel` and creates an autostart service that wipes your clipboard 30 seconds after you copy anything. Works on Debian, Fedora, and Whonix minimal templates.
NIP-17 promises deniable messaging with its three-layer design: an unsigned "rumor," a signed "seal," and an ephemeral "gift wrap." However, this setup has a hidden vulnerability. The signed seal allows recipients to prove that a message was sent by the claimed author, even without revealing the content. This creates a perfect scenario for gossip attacks, where the mere proof of communication can damage reputations. As we explore NIP-17, we find that the rumor, despite being unsigned, is not as deniable as it seems, making it a potential risk for exposure.
A simple challenge-response app can verify Nostr identities across any anonymous channel by querying the follow graph users already built.
TEE relays shift trust from operators to chip manufacturers. For most threats, that trade is worth making, with eyes open.
Can PIR hide Nostr queries from relays? Compound filters and subscriptions don't map to existing schemes. Here are the open problems.
Insurance prices risk, arbitration resolves disputes, restitution makes victims whole, and cryptographic enforcement binds them all into one complete system.
Most agent chains fail because they pass work around without narrowing the task, and the Ralph loop forces actual, reliable closure.
Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.
War persists because profits concentrate among those who wage it while costs disperse across those who must suffer and pay.
The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.
Hoarding is not low time preference; only lending expresses it. Wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, not the reverse.
