7. Max Hillebrand The Bitcoin Gauntlet

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7. Max Hillebrand

Podcast Episode · The Bitcoin Gauntlet · May 22, 2025 · 1h 45m

7. Max Hillebrand The Bitcoin Gauntlet

Which new nostriches are worth a follow?

We need more work for bitcoiners.

You have it in your power to make or break Bitcoin. Be aware of that responsibility.

Pseudonymity, anonymity, and opaqueness are essential tools for protecting individual freedom.

Geo-caching offers solutions for physical trades, allowing goods to travel without parties meeting, and bonded escrows make fraud uneconomical.

Everything you sign can and will be used against you.

The state's opposition to the Second Realm is rooted in its desire to maintain control and suppress individual liberty, we must be prepared to counter this.

The state's power is rooted in cultural norms, values, and symbols that reward pro-state behavior, we need to create alternative cultures and systems.

What's a podcast that needs a purple pill?

Every time I encounter a signup screen demanding an email, phone number, username, or password, I’m reminded of how much friction still exists in onboarding experiences. Cumbersome requirements lead users to abandon apps or services before they even begin. This is where Nostr shines: by quietly generating a secure keypair in the background, it eliminates barriers entirely. Users gain instant, effortless access to the service’s value, no clicks, no delays, just seamless utility from the first interaction.

Imagine your nostr posts are encrypted to only the people you follow.

Do we need more NIP maintainers? After more BIP maintainers were added, things cleaned up rather fast.

What's a NIP for reviews / reputation?

I still wonder why Tether doesn't issue ecash...

Satoshi wasn't an alien, he was human, and that makes me proud to be one too.

Introducing oniux: A small command-line utility providing Tor network isolation for third-party applications using Linux namespaces. Built on Arti, and onionmasq, oniux drop-ships any Linux program into its own network namespace to route it through Tor and strips away the potential for data leaks. If your work, activism, or research demands rock-solid traffic isolation, oniux delivers it.

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the T...

Things Bitcoiners tought me: Eat meat. Touch grass. Wear wool. Enjoy sun. Wear barefoots.

Still looking for a project that wouldn't be improved by the nostr...