Phil Zimmermann's 1992 vision for decentralized trust collapsed under its own weight. Key signing parties, trust levels, keyring management: the people who most needed encrypted communication couldn't navigate the bureaucracy. Nostr inverts the model entirely. Every follow is an endorsement. Every mute is a warning. Every zap is an economic vote. Trust emerges from actions users already take, computed by tools like Vertex and npub.world into personalized reputation scores. The cypherpunk lesson: the best cryptographic systems are the ones users don't notice. View article →

Most resolutions dissolve by February. These are not those. They are not self-improvement projects or lifestyle optimizations. They are the ethical commitments that separate those who talk about freedom from those who live it. Seven principles, each actionable, together forming the foundation of a society built on consent rather than coercion. View article →

Money that can be surveilled and controlled is not sound money; it is a mechanism of intervention.

History remembers the revolutions that seized power. It forgets the quieter departures: the people who simply stopped showing up, stopped believing, stopped feeding the machine. The latter changed more. We are not marching on anything. We are walking away from everything that requires our compliance to exist, and building something that does not. View article →

In 1912, London financed sixty percent of world trade through bills of exchange: private commercial paper backed by goods in transit, settling in gold. No central bank required. Two years later, governments killed this system in a week. What we got instead is the inflation, instability, and central bank manipulation we now consider normal. The market had already solved the money problem. Governments unsolved it. View article →

@YakiHonne the latest release breaks opening the file explorer for adding an image, the file manager crashes after opening.

Everyone overcomplicates wealth. They chase credentials, connections, luck, or schemes. The mechanism is simpler: find problems, solve them, trade the solution. This works because value is subjective, your own frustrations are your greatest asset, and solving problems pays you twice: once in satisfaction, once in money. View article →

The cryptoanarchist vision is forty years old. The theory is complete. The tools exist. Yet we have almost nothing to show for it. The bottleneck was never ideas or technology. It was always people willing to build. This is a call to those ready to act, and an honest warning about what that requires. View article →

Nostr's outbox model promises censorship resistance, but only if you control your outbox. Haven collapses private relay, chat relay, inbox, and outbox into a single deployable package. This guide covers why VPS hosting beats home servers for security, then walks through the complete setup: provisioning, SSH hardening, systemd service configuration, and TLS termination. View article →

Forty thousand Americans die on government roads every year, and nobody holds anyone accountable. Yet when libertarians suggest private alternatives, the response is always the same: "But who will build the roads?" The question itself is more interesting than people realize. It reveals not the impossibility of markets, but the depth of the state's success in making people unable to imagine alternatives to its failures. View article →

Money Fest by @Too Bademanel To Fail is insanely good, deep lyrics, groovy beats, pleb rap at its finest. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdT6e-IKe6lGgz09c2QsMn2FnVpTuNFom

Private Information Retrieval can't solve Nostr's query privacy problem. The compound predicates, range queries, and federated trust model break it. But there's another approach: run the relay inside a secure enclave where even the operator can't see your queries. This post examines what TEEs actually offer, what they don't, and whether the trust trade is worth making. View article →