The Hanseatic merchants, Thurn und Taxis, Lysander Spooner, and the WWII escape lines all built private postal and shipping networks that outran the official mails of their day, and the techniques they perfected are sitting in the record waiting for the next generation of builders. Nostr marketplaces are ready to inherit them, and this post is the field guide for the translation work ahead. View article →

Every Bitcoin private key generated this decade can be written down on a steel plate that survives fire and flood, but Nostr keys still live mostly in password managers and iCloud screenshots. The math to bring the same physical-backup workflow to Nostr has been sitting in every Bitcoin library since 2013, hiding inside a step of BIP39 that the NIP-06 flow happens to skip past. Below is the case for a backwards-compatible 24-word encoding of any existing nsec, the cryptographic reason it cannot collide with a Bitcoin seed, and the NIP that needs writing. View quoted note →

You see gems like this, the first digital ID app on zapstore:

Zapstore

AusweisApp — Zapstore

Mit der Online-Ausweisfunktion des Personalausweises und des elektronischen Aufenthaltstitels können Sie sich im Internet ausweisen.

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My favorite Nostr feed algorithm is @Zapstore latest releases.

Just found @Open Markets Podcast and I'm sad I didnt know of them before, awesome Nostr pod!

Every Google Maps route reveals where you are and where you are going to a company that sells behavioral inferences. The road network is a finite dataset and route calculation is graph search, so the computation belongs on your device. OpenStreetMap supplies the data, freely and at community-built quality. Organic Maps does the routing offline on your phone, with zero account, zero tracker, and zero query leaving the device. View quoted note →

The new PDF viewer in @Amethyst is great. View quoted note →

Mein Buch Die Praxeology der Privatsphäre ist jetzt auf Deutsch übersetzt. Bitte durchlesen und Fehler oder schlechte Wortwahl korrigieren und an mich schicken. Es sollten ein paar Leute durchlesen bevor es in den Druck geht. https://relay.towardsliberty.com/a5687e7d47a1d9500f770b80fa399edc553e65f0a67769f6094af7b544b01aec.pdf

Best Nostr desktop client? #asknostr

The Praxeology of Privacy | bitcoin++ Vienna, economics edition