Max

Max

Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk

max@towardsliberty.com

@marmot over @FIPS will be so good.
Truly decentralized encrypted group messaging is right around the corner.
6h ago
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White Noise is now my most-used app, and in practice it has become the app that builds apps. I dictate a bug to Hermes in the same chat, the APK comes back there, I install it on my phone, and I keep testing until the behavior changes, which is why the upcoming release has me genuinely excited.

Building White Noise Inside White Noiseby Max
9h ago
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I've been using the upcoming new @White Noise app more than signal for the last couple weeks.

Not just testing stuff, actual real use cases.

The hermes connector is amazing, it makes the app so useful. Can't wait to get this over the finish line and share with y'all.

Sorry again that it's been forever since the last whitenoise release, but we really want to get it right this time.

The main issue still is group reliability, we've made massive progress, but we can still make it better, and it's better to do these consensus changes before we release.

We're spending most time now to make sure group convergence is solid, and we keep adding cool UX and features to the app until the underlying spec and library work matures.

This means when we release, the apps will not only be reliable in sending messages to large groups, but also that it'll have more features than most messenger apps.

It'll be a massive release.

Give us two more weeks ™️ and you'll see.
1w ago
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If you have two unread messages.
One from your agent.
The other from a human.

Which do you read first?
1w ago
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An amazing lecture by Hüllsmann with a good overview of Austrian economics from 2005 is published on the Property and Freedom Podcast, check it out if you want to dive deeper.
https://propertyandfreedom.org/pfp/
1w ago
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Update your btcpayservers.
And set up an ai watchdog to screen for security announcements of your software, we'll be getting a lot of critical patches for a while.
2w ago
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Anyone who relies on free software can now audit it: aim an agent at the repository that guards your keys, and for a few thousand sats a month it will review every pull request and publish reproducible findings where everyone can see them. The many-eyes promise of free software finally has the staff it always needed.

Given Enough Agentsby Max
2w ago
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Anyone who relies on free software can now audit it: aim an agent at the repository that guards your keys, and for a few thousand sats a month it will review every pull request and publish reproducible findings where everyone can see them. The many-eyes promise of free software finally has the staff it always needed.

Given Enough Agentsby Max
2w ago
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Free software lets rival manufacturers test and ship improvements to the same security-critical foundations, turning competition into an additional review system. Coldcard benefited from that freedom, restricted it when a competitor did the same, then introduced a catastrophic seed-generation defect while replacing the shared GPL code it wanted gone, years before anyone noticed.

Coldcard Rewrote Its Seed Code to Escape the GPL. Users Paid the Price.by Max
2w ago
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The next @White Noise release will be substantial.
Sorry that it's taking so long, but we're making some radical changes to get everything 10x better.
Stay tuned.
Jun 29, 2026
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The Hanseatic merchants, Thurn und Taxis, Lysander Spooner, and the WWII escape lines all built private postal and shipping networks that outran the official mails of their day, and the techniques they perfected are sitting in the record waiting for the next generation of builders. Nostr marketplaces are ready to inherit them, and this post is the field guide for the translation work ahead.

The Couriers Knewby Max
Jun 23, 2026
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Every Bitcoin private key generated this decade can be written down on a steel plate that survives fire and flood, but Nostr keys still live mostly in password managers and iCloud screenshots. The math to bring the same physical-backup workflow to Nostr has been sitting in every Bitcoin library since 2013, hiding inside a step of BIP39 that the NIP-06 flow happens to skip past. Below is the case for a backwards-compatible 24-word encoding of any existing nsec, the cryptographic reason it cannot collide with a Bitcoin seed, and the NIP that needs writing.

Twenty-Four Words for an nsecby Max
Jun 22, 2026
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The math to do this has been sitting in every Bitcoin library for a decade. The Nostr community has spent that decade convinced it was impossible.

Twenty-Four Words for an nsecby Max
Jun 22, 2026
My favorite Nostr feed algorithm is @Zapstore latest releases.
Jun 22, 2026
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Just found @Open Markets Podcast and I'm sad I didnt know of them before, awesome Nostr pod!
Jun 22, 2026
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Zweite version der Übersetzung von Der Praxeologie der Privatsphäre ist raus, bitte die neue PDF durchlesen.
Auf diesem Link werde ich weiter updates veröffentlichen:
https://towardsliberty.com/pop/de
@MaxMein Buch Die Praxeology der Privatsphäre ist jetzt auf Deutsch übersetzt. Bitte durchlesen und Fehler oder schlechte Wortwahl korrigieren und an mich schicken. Es sollten ein paar Leute durchlesen bevor es in den Druck geht. https://relay.towardsliberty.com/a5687e7d47a1d9500f770b80fa399edc553e65f0a67769f6094af7b544b01aec.pdf
Jun 17, 2026
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Best Nostr desktop client?
#asknostr
Jun 13, 2026
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Now my Nostr relay @ towardsliberty.com is exposed via @FIPS
ws://npub1v5fmkz5s8ygrrzw2rtje8eej7gt69sysllytwh93vjk47mvu9eqqjw05pz.fips:3355
Jun 10, 2026
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