On chain zaps discussion: not gonna use it, not to send, not to receive. Now back to interesting freedom tech.

I've heard that there are still people out there who don't know about Homegrown Hits.

If you know one normie, you know them all

At least it would be honest

New York’s FY 2027 budget law mandates surveillance software in every 3D printer sold in the state. The software must scan each print job in real time and block any that could produce firearm components. Pilot tests flagged 17% of innocent designs such as brackets and bottle openers. The law also makes it a Class E felony to possess or share a 3D-printable file capable of producing a firearm component. If it rhymes with printing press control, it's right. But this time, don't call it censorship, it's called progress and you voted for it. Coming to 3D printer near you soon.

Very cool. Although no Slovak.

This newsletter is cool, it's a bridge between cypherpunk world and the old world, so we can live fully.

Cypherpunk communities and services – who you meet on the parallel path Most cypherpunk resources focus on technology and skip the social layer. Big mistake. Technology alone rarely suffices. Communities and service providers are what make it actually usable. A few problems: Communities "don't count", service providers are evil ("they take fees! it should be free!"). And religious dogmatism.

Juraj Bednar

Cypherpunk communities and services – who you meet on the parallel path

Most cypherpunk resources focus on technology and skip the social layer. Communities, service providers, and the people running the parallel path a...

Cypherpunkové komunity a služby - koho stretnete na paralelnej ceste Väčšina cypherpunk zdrojov sa sústredí na technológiu a preskakuje sociálnu vrstvu. Veľká chyba. Technológia sama o sebe väčšinou nestačí. Komunity a poskytovatelia služieb sú to, čo ju robí použiteľnou. Pár problémov: komunity „sa nerátajú", poskytovatelia služieb sú zlí („berú si poplatky! malo by to byť zadarmo!"). A náboženský dogmatizmus. V knihe Krotitelia Entropie sú hlavnými postavami práve poskytovatelia - dokonca "VCs". Potrebujeme ich v realite a myslím, že je fajn začať tým, že na nich zmeníme pohľad, cez super román to môže byť dobrý spôsob.

Juraj Bednar

Cypherpunkové komunity a služby - koho stretnete na paralelnej ceste

Väčšina cypherpunk zdrojov sa sústredí na technológiu a preskakuje sociálnu vrstvu. Veľká chyba. Technológia sama o sebe väčšinou nest...

For most of human history, the bread problem was solved by money. You hand the baker coins, the baker hands you bread, neither of you needs to know the other's name. Reputation only became necessary once we introduced asynchrony and reversibility: credit, chargebacks, pay-later. The seller has to bet on who you are instead of what you paid, and that bet is what accounts, KYC, fraud scoring, and social graphs are pricing. Identity theatre is unpriced credit risk in a uniform. Cashu and Routstr collapse that detour. Bearer ecash for an LLM call is structurally identical to coins for bread. Settled on the spot, no counterparty bet, no recourse needed because there's nothing to recover. We didn't invent anything. We walked back to where we started after a few centuries of building ledgers, banks, and identity systems to patch the holes in deferred payment. Money → identity theatre → money. The cypherpunk point here is boring: finality is cheaper than verification.

If cypherpunks had a space ship to fuck off to the stars, it would have a "Starfucker" grafitti on it and look like this. Who joins us on the Starfucker? Don't trust, verify that it won't kill us all. It even has "Never die" on it! Much better than trust me bro.

Can I have this in my living room someday please? I'll invite friends

It seems super funny how corpos are trying to push stablecoin agentic payments with complicated schemes. Writing payments for every api call into blockchain, even the corporate one, is super expensive. So they make super complicated facilitators which would make it possible. It's basically prepayment to a third party. We have @Cashu. Just include the token in request headers and get change if needed. No back and forth required. The API can claim the payment immediately on the mint. Even if you consider the threat model the same (mint=facilitator), the protocol is much more elegant. And even getting Cashu tokens can be done over lightning, so lower exposure and still no on chain fees or waiting. I think the problem is that people are scared of sats as the unit. Originally I thought it's custody risk (and I mean mainly regulatory risk), but facilitators are custodians. I think it's just cultural. And Coinbase / Circle pushing their product. Economic implications: Each usdc held on Base or elsewhere is financing American government. And each Base transaction helps the pnl of Coinbase. Each sat held and used helps the parallel way. I made my choice. Better tech, better privacy and no financing of monopolies on violence. That's why my agent has a Cashu wallet. And I'd gladly finance good mints with some fees.

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