Programmable Magic Internet Money: How Nostr Apps Can Monetize Ethically and Profitably
Bitcoin plus Nostr creates programmable money that solves software monetization through micropayments respecting user sovereignty.
Max
max@towardsliberty.com
Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
Seven Resolutions
Freedom requires commitment, not sentiment. Seven resolutions define the ethical foundation for those who would build a voluntary society instead of complaining.
Self-Liquidating Credit: The Instrument That Destroys Itself
Bills of exchange carried a built-in death date and extinguished themselves as goods reached market; modern debt compounds forever by design.
The Capital Structure of War
Cheap drones expose the state's war machine: centralized militaries accumulate fragile capital while decentralized force converts low-cost tools into strategic advantage.
The Art of Waiting: Random Delays for Private Payments
Two scripts that randomize timing between Wasabi coinjoin rounds, making your payment patterns indistinguishable from organic human behavior.
The Merchant's Return: When Systems Fail, Producers Prosper
Being cast out of the system reveals its deepest secret: you were never its beneficiary, only its fuel. Freedom begins with this recognition.
The Credit Famine: How Modern Banking Starves Real Commerce
Modern banking systematically transformed from credit creator to deliberate gatekeeper, engineering $2.5 trillion trade finance gap while earning billions from derivatives.
The Candle's Work: Helping Loved Ones Escape the Most Dangerous Superstition
You cannot argue someone out of state worship. Plant questions, model freedom, preserve the relationship, and wait for the harvest.
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.
The Poverty Lever: Why Regimes Want You Just Above Starving
Maximum political control comes not from wealth redistribution but from calibrated poverty: desperate enough to depend, not desperate enough to revolt.
The Market's Money: Bills of Exchange and the Credit System Governments Killed
Bills of exchange were capitalism's self-regulating credit mechanism for seven centuries, until governments monopolized money creation and destroyed the entire system.
The Reasonably Paranoid's Guide to Qubes OS: Why Isolation Beats Every Patch
Qubes OS assumes all software has bugs and isolates every application in separate virtual machines, containing breaches instead of preventing them.
The Universal Principles of Liberty
A voluntary libertarian legal framework built on non-aggression, self-ownership, and property rights, with decentralized arbitration replacing state monopolies on law.
Builders, Not Talkers
Decades of libertarian theory and cypherpunk tools have produced almost nothing because ideas without builders are worthless. Act or leave us alone.
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.
Summary of: The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Economic Logic in Cypherpunk Implementation
A book explaining why Privacy = Economic necessity proven through Austrian logic. Three axioms (Action + Argumentation + Resistance) demonstrate that surveillance destroys market calculation like socialist planning, while cryptography restores conditions for voluntary coordination. Complete bridge between Austrian economics and cypherpunk technology.
The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 21: Building the Parallel Economy
The parallel economy grows through counter-economics. Cheap defense defeats expensive attack. When theft becomes unprofitable, the state withers. Build. Trade. Resist.
The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 20: Implementation Strategy
Start with honest assessment. Build progressively from basics to advanced. Find community. Privacy is not a destination but ongoing practice. Progress matters.
The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 19: Operational Security
Operational security prevents adversaries from gathering compromising information. Threat modeling guides defense. Human factors are the weakest link. Perfect OPSEC is impossible.
The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 18: Lessons from History
DigiCash, e-gold, and Silk Road failed through centralization and poor OPSEC. Bitcoin succeeded through decentralization, open source, and properly aligned economic incentives.