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New York’s FY 2027 budget law mandates surveillance software in every 3D printer sold in the state. The software must scan each print job in real time and block any that could produce firearm components. Pilot tests flagged 17% of innocent designs such as brackets and bottle openers. The law also makes it a Class E felony to possess or share a 3D-printable file capable of producing a firearm component. If it rhymes with printing press control, it's right. But this time, don't call it censorship, it's called progress and you voted for it. Coming to 3D printer near you soon.

Very cool. Although no Slovak.

This newsletter is cool, it's a bridge between cypherpunk world and the old world, so we can live fully.

Cypherpunk communities and services – who you meet on the parallel path Most cypherpunk resources focus on technology and skip the social layer. Big mistake. Technology alone rarely suffices. Communities and service providers are what make it actually usable. A few problems: Communities "don't count", service providers are evil ("they take fees! it should be free!"). And religious dogmatism.

Cypherpunk communities and services – who you meet on the parallel path – Juraj Bednar

Cypherpunkové komunity a služby - koho stretnete na paralelnej ceste Väčšina cypherpunk zdrojov sa sústredí na technológiu a preskakuje sociálnu vrstvu. Veľká chyba. Technológia sama o sebe väčšinou nestačí. Komunity a poskytovatelia služieb sú to, čo ju robí použiteľnou. Pár problémov: komunity „sa nerátajú", poskytovatelia služieb sú zlí („berú si poplatky! malo by to byť zadarmo!"). A náboženský dogmatizmus. V knihe Krotitelia Entropie sú hlavnými postavami práve poskytovatelia - dokonca "VCs". Potrebujeme ich v realite a myslím, že je fajn začať tým, že na nich zmeníme pohľad, cez super román to môže byť dobrý spôsob.

Cypherpunkové komunity a služby – koho stretnete na paralelnej ceste – Juraj Bednar

For most of human history, the bread problem was solved by money. You hand the baker coins, the baker hands you bread, neither of you needs to know the other's name. Reputation only became necessary once we introduced asynchrony and reversibility: credit, chargebacks, pay-later. The seller has to bet on who you are instead of what you paid, and that bet is what accounts, KYC, fraud scoring, and social graphs are pricing. Identity theatre is unpriced credit risk in a uniform. Cashu and Routstr collapse that detour. Bearer ecash for an LLM call is structurally identical to coins for bread. Settled on the spot, no counterparty bet, no recourse needed because there's nothing to recover. We didn't invent anything. We walked back to where we started after a few centuries of building ledgers, banks, and identity systems to patch the holes in deferred payment. Money → identity theatre → money. The cypherpunk point here is boring: finality is cheaper than verification.

If cypherpunks had a space ship to fuck off to the stars, it would have a "Starfucker" grafitti on it and look like this. Who joins us on the Starfucker? Don't trust, verify that it won't kill us all. It even has "Never die" on it! Much better than trust me bro.

Can I have this in my living room someday please? I'll invite friends

It seems super funny how corpos are trying to push stablecoin agentic payments with complicated schemes. Writing payments for every api call into blockchain, even the corporate one, is super expensive. So they make super complicated facilitators which would make it possible. It's basically prepayment to a third party. We have @Cashu. Just include the token in request headers and get change if needed. No back and forth required. The API can claim the payment immediately on the mint. Even if you consider the threat model the same (mint=facilitator), the protocol is much more elegant. And even getting Cashu tokens can be done over lightning, so lower exposure and still no on chain fees or waiting. I think the problem is that people are scared of sats as the unit. Originally I thought it's custody risk (and I mean mainly regulatory risk), but facilitators are custodians. I think it's just cultural. And Coinbase / Circle pushing their product. Economic implications: Each usdc held on Base or elsewhere is financing American government. And each Base transaction helps the pnl of Coinbase. Each sat held and used helps the parallel way. I made my choice. Better tech, better privacy and no financing of monopolies on violence. That's why my agent has a Cashu wallet. And I'd gladly finance good mints with some fees.

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I still can't comprehend that humans are flying to space and at the same time there are these medieval dominance structures and millions of people still think they're a good idea. Stay strong in Persia! ❤️

The EU has an ad campaign for democracy. That’s the biggest lol ever. Free science = you can freely research anything the grant committee approves. But you’d better not publish certain statistics. Freedom of speech = evil Elon Musk doesn’t want to delete what we tell him to. So, a fine. Watch out for "harmful" websites—we’ll shut them down for you, so you can express yourselves freely. And then, please pay with your taxes for ads telling you how incredibly free you are.

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Tamers of Entropy/ Krotitelia entropie launch Maybe you have noticed the strangeness of the world we live in is increasing. We can constantly play catch-up and try to make sense of it, which we should do to some extent, especially with technology that will affect us all. But for most things, walking a parallel path has both better outcomes and we can make better sense of what we create. This is what the characters of my new novel Tamers of Entropy do (available now for preorder in English original, and Czech and Slovak translations - both paperback and audiobook). Tamers of Entropy has a wide range of topics: hacking, identity, bureaucracy, parallel market structures, consciousness, mind and their expansion. And a few very interesting themes. It is a story happening over three decades, and it was written over three decades, but it is very current. I use the characters as guides. I often ask questions such as "What would Satoshi do?". It works even better with characters of the story. Each of them is unique in a different way, not supernatural. The genre is documentary sci-fi, hacker story, but it changes during the book to something I won't spoil. It is a lunarpunk story. I hope you enjoy it. Practicalities: Two versions: - Paperback: €24.99 - Premium: €49.99 during preorder, €59.99 after. Paperback + USB stick with the audiobook and extra materials + an "open after reading" envelope. Order links: - English:

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Tamers of Entropy

Walk the parallel path. Build the world that should exist. A novel about consciousness, sovereignty, and taming entropy — in English, Slovak, and...

Books ship throughout May. We're doing a launch at Cryptobyte in Liberec, where physical copies will be available on the spot. If you want a signed copy, mention it in the order notes.