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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk nostr:naddr1qqgrvvpjx33kgvtrxgen2vfcvcurjqghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxz7n6v9kk7tnwv46z7q3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65wvem775
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Max 5 days ago
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 →
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Max 5 days ago
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 →
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Max 1 week ago
@YakiHonne the latest release breaks opening the file explorer for adding an image, the file manager crashes after opening.
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Max 1 week ago
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 →
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Max 1 week ago
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 →
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Max 1 week ago
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 →
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Max 1 week ago
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 →
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Max 1 week ago
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 →
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Max 1 week ago
The state claims to represent you, protect you, serve you. It does none of these things. It is simply the organization of predation, dressed in the language of public service. This post dissects the state: what it is not, what it is, how it survives, how it grows, and what it fears. View article →
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Max 1 week ago
Could Private Information Retrieval let Nostr clients query relays without revealing who they follow? In theory, yes. In practice, Nostr's filter syntax raises hard cryptographic questions that don't have answers yet. This post asks those questions. View article →