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The Praxeology of Privacy | bitcoin++ Vienna, economics edition

How The State Makes Us Poorer | Max Hillebrand

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A post about an architectural error I helped make and the strategy I am now building around to avoid repeating it. The short version is that the parts of Wasabi we built protocol-first survived the regulatory pressure that killed our coordinator company, and the parts we ran as a single operator did not. The longer version is below, written for anyone building freedom technology who would prefer to learn the lesson from someone else's scar tissue. View quoted note →

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men - Full Audiobook - Paul Rosenberg Narrated by Max Hillebrand

The book opened with a challenge: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. The argument closes by joining three axioms with the working stack. The Action Axiom places privacy inside the structure of human action. The Argumentation Axiom shows that denying privacy requires the autonomy denial would erase. The Axiom of Resistance holds that designed systems can raise the cost of control sharply, and Bitcoin, Tor, and Signal at consumer scale support the claim. View article →

Encryption, Bitcoin, and Nostr solve transport, identity, and settlement. They do not establish reliability across time or adjudicate what happened when a deal fails. Those are institutional functions. Reputation under pseudonymity is the starting point. A persistent key with two years of public history has something to lose if its holder cheats. Most transactions need a narrow fact, and zero-knowledge credentials extend selective disclosure without handing over the underlying record. View article →

Perfect privacy is unachievable. Pursuing it produces paralysis or burnout, so the practical goal is continuous improvement from wherever you are now. The foundation tier addresses automated credential theft through password managers, hardware keys, encrypted messaging, and device encryption. The intermediate tier resists financial surveillance and platform aggregation. The advanced tier reaches Tor, Qubes, GrapheneOS, and per-identity hardware. View article →

Encryption protecting your messages is worthless if you post the same content publicly under your real name. Tor does not help if you log into personal accounts through it. Security is always relative to a specific adversary. The OODA framework gives the strategic guide: break the adversary cycle at observation, where prevention is cheapest. Compartmentalization enforces the principle, and once two identities are linked, the correlation cannot be undone. View article →

Centralized platforms own the identity layer. When two firms control the social graph for most U.S. internet users, a ban does not restrict speech, it deletes the audience a creator spent years building. Nostr inverts the arrangement. Identity is a keypair the user generates; relays store and forward signed events without holding authority over the account. Exit becomes possible without losing followers or history. Long-form articles, marketplaces, and encrypted messages ride the same format. View article →

Bitcoin's base layer is transparent. A surveillance industry has spent over a decade building tools to read it. Address reuse anchors clusters, the common-input-ownership heuristic extends them, and KYC touchpoints at exchanges map the result onto real people. Privacy on Bitcoin is an architectural achievement on that base. CoinJoin, PayJoin, and CoinSwap improve on-chain privacy. Lightning moves payments off-chain with unilateral exit. Ecash and Liquid trade custody for confidentiality. View article →