Max

Max

Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk

max@towardsliberty.com

Made some improvements to towardsliberty.com.
All pictures get pulled from local blossom server and search is fuzzy now.
15h ago
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What's the most complete list of nostr apps?
19h ago
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After several posts analyzing what bills of exchange did, how governments killed them in 1914, what the parallel economy lacks without them, and what the engineering template for reconstruction looks like, it is time to name the project building it. Bitcredit runs electronic bills of exchange on Bitcoin, with a Chaumian ecash mint layer, a guarantee asset, and Nostr transport. This post maps the architecture. The series that follows will work through each component in detail.

The Instrument Returns: An Introduction to Bitcreditby Max
21h ago
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Anyone interested in a serious review of v3 of my book The Praxeology of Privacy before it goes to print?
2d ago
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Massive improvement, try it out!
The best way to anonymously ship your vibed apps.
@DanConwayDevhttps://gitworkshop.dev rewrite shipped. Is there a better time to try git nostr? protocols > platforms
2d ago
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Remember, when you move utxos on a forked chain you link common coin ownership on the parent chain.
Don't fuck up your privacy for picking up pennies in front of the train.
2d ago
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Can someone please make riverside obsolete?

Nostr login, MOQ audio/video calls, local recording and streamed to a blossom server for each participant.
3d ago
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Two projects aim at the same goal of unstoppable networks for human beings, and they arrive at radically different solutions. Reticulum strips addressing and ports from the protocol entirely and optimizes for radio links so slow that five bits per second counts as usable bandwidth, then builds its own parallel universe of applications on top. @FIPS takes the opposite bet, keeping IPv6 semantics alive through a TUN adapter so that unmodified SSH and curl can cross a mesh of Nostr identities. This post walks both stacks from the wire up, then shows where their design choices force different tradeoffs.
Two Roads to a Network Without Permission: Reticulum and FIPSby Max
4d ago
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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.
The Key Inside the Ciphertext: A Full Introduction to PIPEs v2by Max
6d ago
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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.
Computing on Secretsby Max
1w ago
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Working on making marmot transport layer agnostic.
1w ago
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There is now an official internet standard that makes it possible for Tor onion services to get verified security certificates the same way any website does, automatically, for free. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9799/
3w ago
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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.
The Missing Credit Layerby Max
3w ago
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Next marmot client joins the burrow!
Test out nymchat.app
@Lux#Nostr I'm excited to announce an update to the #Nymchat end-to-end encrypted group chats! All new group chats now use Marmot Protocol for MLS encrypted group chats. Forward secrecy, post-compromise security, and zero metadata. If for some reason a recipient can't use MLS, it falls back to our original NIP-17 group chat iteration, which is still e2ee. https://nymchat.app
3w ago
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This turned into a long one...
A comparative analysis of financial privacy across ten systems: Bitcoin's transparent baseline, WabiSabi CoinJoin, Lightning Network, Spark, Ark, shielded client-side validation, Monero RingCT, Monero's upcoming FCMP++, Zcash's Sapling and Orchard pools, and DarkFi's anonymous-everything architecture.
Each system stakes its design on a different anonymity set, trust model, and architectural layer. The result is a spectrum from adequate plausible deniability to full untraceability, and your threat model determines which point on that spectrum you need.
Every Crowd Hides You Differentlyby Max
3w ago
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Want to install an app but it's not on @Zapstore?
Just paste the GitHub repo link in the zapstore search bar, hit enter, and wait a couple minutes, it will be automagically indexed in the background!
3w ago
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Multi-device support in an encrypted messenger is an authorization problem. It is not a sync problem, not a UX problem, not a storage problem. The question that must be answered before anything else can proceed is simple: how does a second device prove it belongs to the same person, in a way that every group member can independently verify, without any central authority vouching for the claim? Marmot PR #44 introduces MIP-06 to answer exactly this question for White Noise.
The Hard Part of Multi-Device Messagingby Max
4w ago
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Dev/Hack/Day + Cypherpunk Meetup =
@FreedomTechSummit

If you're coming to @BTC Prague, don't miss it.

Get your early bird tickets at
freedomtechsummit.com
Mar 27, 2026
When you install @V E C T O R, make sure you use a different npub than in @White Noise, multi client support with the same npub is not yet speced out.
@YuurinBeehttps://image.nostr.build/ac23423d3198ffbdad01014a49918e7baa74179be5199be2ef5899e032d67650.png GM, Nostr! On behalf of I wanted to give a special thanks to for such professionalism and efficiency for listing Vector. It honestly is one of the nicest UXs for an app store I've seen and really sets the bar for the Nostr ecosystem. Hats off to everyone involved. I went to search for some design...
Mar 25, 2026
Next attempt to get White Noise to finally work well for everyone. Now it finally works for my npub, so shoot me a message if you want to try!
White Noise v2026.3.23by White Noise
Mar 25, 2026
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