GrapheneOS now supports hardware-virtualized Linux environments on Pixel devices. Combined with OpenCode, you can run a complete vibe coding setup from your phone, with no vendor lock-in on either the operating system or the AI tooling. Here is how to set it up. View article →

The libertarian movement has spent decades oscillating between political reform and territorial escape, both of which have failed to deliver meaningful sovereignty. A third path exists: build parallel institutions that coexist with the state through systematic separation. Bitcoin, Nostr, and physical meetups have begun realizing this vision, offering practical sovereignty without waiting for seasteads or electoral victories. View article →

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Bitcoin's cultural mythos celebrates the HODLer as a paragon of deferred gratification, a being of superior moral fiber who resists immediate consumption in favor of future reward. "Have fun staying poor," they tell the uninitiated, certain that mere possession of an appreciating asset proves they have mastered the ancient virtue of patience. They invoke the concept of time preference, borrowed from Austrian economics, to frame their inactivity as civilizational achievement. The framing contains a fundamental error that reverses the meaning of the very concept it deploys. View article →

Government debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge not their own resources but ours, and creditors who buy Treasury bonds are investing in future theft. With the national debt at thirty-eight trillion dollars and climbing by seventy thousand dollars every second, nobody knows what to do. The proposals on offer range from implausible to fantastical. There is another option with a long history and principled foundation: repudiation. View article →

The cypherpunks solved encryption decades ago, yet private digital commerce remains marginal. The missing piece is not better cryptography but better institutions for managing trust between pseudonymous parties. This essay explores how trust can be treated algebraically: quantified, distributed, pooled, and traded like any other commodity. The result is a framework for building the institutional layer that Bitcoin and Nostr still need. View article →

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