The state’s legitimacy hinges on mystification. It recasts its crimes, war, conscription, confiscation, as virtues like "national service" or "fiscal responsibility," using language to obscure the reality of aggression and exploitation.

If you are building freedom tech, then you are under active attack, you might not have noticed it yet, but you are.

Peace is not a byproduct of state diplomacy but a result of free-market interdependence. Trade, not treaties, reduces conflict, as economic cooperation benefits individuals far more than imperial competition.

If you have a suggested zap amount in your app, 10x it.

So when's the release of @Hummingbird ?

Would this work? Bitcoin social recovery: Add a Tapscript path with MuSig/FROST of friends npub. User only needs to rememver friends' npubs, they're not involved in the setup. If main key is lost, create recovery tx signed by npubs. Friends sign when notified, granting access.

Legal systems under the state are inherently biased. Judges and courts, funded by taxation and controlled by politicians, cannot impartially adjudicate when the state itself is the primary violator of rights.

@npub1t289...nkzs will come to the @Cypherpunk meetup. Will you?

Cypherpunk meetup

No More Inflation @Shooter

Land ownership is not a privilege but a right derived from labor.

The state’s growth is fueled by crises it either creates or exaggerates. Each emergency becomes an excuse to expand power.

The state’s economic interventions: tariffs, subsidies, regulations, are forms of plunder. They distort markets to benefit elites at the expense of consumers, masking exploitation as "industrial policy" or "security."

If conscription is slavery and war is mass murder, then supporting these while opposing private theft is hypocrisy. All aggression, regardless of actor, must be condemned.

BitVM 3 is published! And following the OG cypherpunk tradition of crazy short groundbreaking research, it's only three pages long. https://bitvm.org/bitvm3.pdf BitVM3 is a protocol for verifying SNARK proofs on Bitcoin that improves efficiency by moving most computation off-chain. It builds on earlier BitVM designs but reduces the data required for on-chain transactions by over 1000 times. The protocol uses garbled circuits based on RSA cryptography. During setup, the garbler generates wire labels for each circuit component using modular arithmetic. These labels are tied to secret exponents that allow the circuit to reveal a fraud proof only if an invalid SNARK claim is made. Adaptor elements adjust labels when a single output connects to multiple inputs, resolving conflicts from prior schemes that failed with complex circuits. Key improvements include smaller transaction sizes. Submitting a SNARK proof (assertTx) now requires ~56 kB instead of 2-4 MB. Disproving an invalid claim (disproveTx) takes just 200 bytes compared to 2-4 MB previously. This makes disputes vastly cheaper on-chain. The trade-off is a massive one-time off-chain data transfer of ~5 TB for a SNARK verifier circuit with 5 billion gates. This data encodes the garbled circuit and adaptors needed to handle fan-out connections. Setup takes about 1.8 days at 250 Mbps upload speed but is a single upfront cost. Verification works by checking the circuit structure in plaintext. The garbler proves they reblinded labels correctly using zero-knowledge methods, which involves ~2400 exponentiation operations. Reblinding allows the evaluator to compute adjusted labels non-interactively through exponent manipulation. BitVM3 demonstrates how Bitcoin can securely settle complex computations despite its limited scripting language. While it enables trust-minimized bridges for layer-2 systems like rollups, the protocol's main challenge is reducing the 5 TB off-chain data burden for broader adoption. Future work will focus on optimizing this requirement.

Peaceful societies emerge not from statecraft but from individual freedom. When people control their own labor and property, cooperation replaces coercion as the path to prosperity and security.

Nationalism conflates rulers with the ruled. By framing wars as struggles of the "people" rather than the state’s elite, governments manipulate loyalty to justify aggression, sacrifice, and exploitation.

Wars are not fought for "national survival" but for state aggrandizement.

Standing armies and conscription serve the state’s appetite for power, not the public’s interest in peace or self-defense.

There is an urgency of abolishing injustice.

The state’s "services" are monopolies enforced by violence. From law enforcement to currency, competition would drive efficiency and accountability, yet the state suppresses alternatives to maintain control.