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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
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Max 4 months ago
The usual covenant debate on Bitcoin starts with Script and soft forks. PIPEs v2 starts somewhere stranger: it asks whether a spend condition can be enforced by making the signing key itself unavailable until a proof exists. That move shifts the burden away from on-chain verification and into witness encryption, committee setup, a huge off-chain artifact, and the engineering needed to bind them together. The result is one of the most interesting proposals in current Bitcoin research because it enlarges the design space without asking Bitcoin consensus to change. View article →
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Max 4 months ago
Three architectural families have broken an assumption that was treated as a law of cloud architecture for two decades: that the machine running a computation must see the data the computation runs on. Homomorphic encryption operates on ciphertexts, secure multi-party computation distributes the work across non-colluding participants, and trusted execution environments isolate the work inside a hardware enclave opaque to the machine's owner. The privacy architecture of the next decade will be built on their compositions. View article →
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Max 4 months ago
Working on making marmot transport layer agnostic.
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Max 5 months ago
Nodesignal-Buchclub - E276 - Cryptoeconomics #5 - Die Welt braucht Bitcoin - nicht als Reservewährun Nodesignal - Deine Bitcoin-Frequenz Buchclub diskutiert Reserveprinzip und Seigniorage aus Cryptoeconomics: Staaten, die Bitcoin als Staatsreserve horten (wie Saylor, BlackRock oder nationale Schatzkammern), gefährden durch Zentralisierung die kryptodynamischen Dezentralisierungsprinzipien. Kernthese: Bitcoin muss als zensurresistentes Peer-to-Peer-'Dark Money' fungieren, nicht als Reservewährung. Self-Custody, Layer-2-Protokolle (L
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Max 5 months ago
Cloak & Dagger with Thane Riddle [4/4/26 FULL w/ guest Max Hillebrand][P.A.Z.NIA RADIO NETWORK] PAZNIA Radio Network Thane Riddle interviews cypherpunk Max Hillebrand on White Noise/Marmet—decentralized encrypted group messaging via Nostr using MLS protocol with multi-device support and post-quantum key rotation—plus Monero's FCMP++ upgrade, proxy merchant strategies for KYC-evasion, and Zap Store's Nostr-based app distribution via web-of-trust signatures.
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Max 5 months ago
Cloak & Dagger with Thane Riddle [4/4/26 FULL w/ guest Max Hillebrand][P.A.Z.NIA RADIO NETWORK] PAZNIA Radio Network Catch the full show of Cloak & Dagger with Thane Riddle for April 4, 2026, featuring guest Max Hillebrand. To catch every episode ...
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Max 5 months ago
Bitcoin settles payments without counterparty permission, and Nostr coordinates action without censorship. Together they enable spot transactions and real-time coordination across the parallel economy. What they cannot do is create credit, and without credit, the parallel economy cannot finance production across time. View article →
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