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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
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Max 3 months ago
Got any book recommendations?
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Max 3 months ago
Do we really still not have a decent nostr search engine?
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Max 3 months ago
My previous post showed that merchant courts resolve trade disputes with greater speed and lower cost than any state monopoly. One objection always follows: violence, the cases that supposedly demand a public prosecutor and a prison. From medieval Iceland to the Somali pastoral lands, legal traditions separated by oceans and centuries answer the objection the same way. Criminal acts were debts owed to specific victims, enforced through victim restitution and community exclusion. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
Great rip about privacy, might turn Tucker into a cypherpunk... The Tucker Carlson Show: How to Stop the Government From Spying on You, Explained by a Digital Privacy Expert
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Max 3 months ago
Private dispute resolution keeps reappearing across centuries and civilizations because the economic logic that produces it is the same logic that produces every other market. State courts exhibit every pathology economists predict from monopoly: high cost and zero accountability to the people who use them. This post argues that merchant courts were the market default that states displaced, and that technology is now restoring them. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
KP019: A cryptographer's wet dream, with Max Hillebrand. Key Pair
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Max 3 months ago
@Zapstore is indexing about 1 new app per second currently.
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Every bill of exchange in pre-1914 London carried a death date. Ninety-one days after acceptance, the consumer's gold payment for the delivered goods extinguished the credit that had financed the entire chain from production to sale. Modern government debt carries no such mechanism. It rolls over perpetually, compounding interest on interest, until the arithmetic forces either default or debasement. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
Your code lives on GitHub and your binaries distribute through Google Play, with dependencies pulled from npm (also owned by Microsoft). Two corporations control the pipeline from source to installed application, and both have complied with government demands to remove software. The Nostr protocol now provides a coherent set of developer tools that replaces each link in this chain with infrastructure authenticated by a single keypair you own. This post maps the practical migration path. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
PGP's Web of Trust demanded ceremony. Keybase proved you could replace it with social proof, then died from centralization. Nostr's follow graph already contains the trust infrastructure that a challenge-response verification app can activate across any anonymous text channel. A suggestion for anyone looking for something worth building. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
Chat_160 - A Quiet Global Resistance with Max Hillebrand Guy Swann "It's a dangerous business to help people out of slavery. But so what? We have to do this. This is a moral obligation, an ethical ...
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