Max

Max

Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk

max@towardsliberty.com

And my book is available in print now on amazon.
If you get it there, please leave a review.
Soon it'll be available for bitcoin as well.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1L1H1GM
@Max"The Praxeology of Privacy" goes out today, the third edition. A new chapter publishes every day at 1600 UTC for the next month. Print edition arrives in a couple of days. Today: endorsements from Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf, Erik Voskuil, and Stephan Kinsella, Paul Rosenberg's foreword, and the preface. The book joins Austrian economics and the cypherpunk tradition on a single claim. State...
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bunker test
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"The Praxeology of Privacy" goes out today, the third edition. A new chapter publishes every day at 1600 UTC for the next month. Print edition arrives in a couple of days.

Today: endorsements from Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf, Erik Voskuil, and Stephan Kinsella, Paul Rosenberg's foreword, and the preface.

The book joins Austrian economics and the cypherpunk tradition on a single claim. State predation depends on state observation. When observation gets cheaper, predation gets cheaper; when observation gets more expensive, predation recedes. The engineering that raises the cost of observation is what this book is about.

The Praxeology of Privacy: Endorsements, Foreword, Prefaceby Max
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"The Praxeology of Privacy" goes out today, the third edition. A new chapter publishes every day at 1600 UTC for the next month. Print edition arrives in a couple of days.

Today: endorsements from Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf, Erik Voskuil, and Stephan Kinsella, Paul Rosenberg's foreword, and the preface.

The book joins Austrian economics and the cypherpunk tradition on a single claim. State predation depends on state observation. When observation gets cheaper, predation gets cheaper; when observation gets more expensive, predation recedes. The engineering that raises the cost of observation is what this book is about.

The Praxeology of Privacy: Endorsements, Foreword, Prefaceby Max
17h ago
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Migrating ~ 1000 videos and podcasts of mine over to nostr and blossom.
Beautiful that it just works, no other platform can do that so smooth.
18h ago
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Just finished recording the audio book of the third edition of The Praxeology of Privacy.
Will send it to print soon, and start publishing those chapter to Nostr as well.
This edition got a lot more detail and better explanations.
Thanks to all those that helped review!
1d ago
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I got to read and review an early version of the book, and I highly recommend it!
Talks not only about how you can defend your own bitcoin, but also what must be done to defend the broader Bitcoin network.
@Luke de WolfI've been a bit absent from Nostr for the last little while, but that's about to change. For the past few months, I started focusing on a new project, and I'm finally ready to announce what I've been up to. I've written a book. Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid. 6 months ago, I realized how I could apply my cybersecurity background to Bitcoin, with a...
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@White Noise 2 person chats work very smooth now.
But groups are still flaky. We'll address that hopefully by the next release.
4d ago
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New @White Noise is out!
Update for much more reliable experience.
5d ago
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A new post on a distinction usually dismissed as semantic nitpicking that turns out to explain why Bitcoin works. Complicated systems are intricate yet knowable. Complex systems are emergent and resist top-down control. The interesting question is which kind of problem each layer of a monetary system should be, and Bitcoin's answer reshapes how we should think about protocol design.

The Engineering Choice Between Complicated and Complexby Max
6d ago
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Murray Rothbard produced more rigorous, integrated work across more domains than any other libertarian thinker of the 20th century. His books span monetary theory, political philosophy, revisionist history, and economic thought, and they hold together because they all flow from the same foundational axioms. This guide maps a reading order through his major works, from the accessible entry points through to the advanced systematic treatises, with a summary of each book's argument and what it adds to the whole.

Where to Start with Rothbard: A Reading Guide to His Major Worksby Max
1w ago
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Started to record the audio book of The Praxeology of Privacy, it's a great opportunity for a final edit before it goes to print!
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Made some improvements to towardsliberty.com.
All pictures get pulled from local blossom server and search is fuzzy now.
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What's the most complete list of nostr apps?
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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
2w 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?
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