Max

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.

If you have two unread messages.
One from your agent.
The other from a human.

Which do you read first?

Fantastic lecture by Hans Hermann Hoppe from 2005 on why not to shitcoin.

Property and Freedom Podcast: PFP347
Lecture 4: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005)
https://propertyandfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/media/pfp/2026/pfp347-hoppe-hulsmann-austrian-economics-lectures-2005-lecture-4.m4a

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/

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.

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.

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.

Finally my book The Praxeology of Privacy is available for bitcoin at @Bitcoin Infinity Media shop.
https://bitcoininfinitystore.com/product/praxeology-of-privacy/

If you're using Orbot, try out the new Tor VPN app, its based on the new arti rust tor implementation, much faster and more modern.
Still in beta, so beware.
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqfx7un89e6x7unswfhk5etrwsh8vurwqyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtn6v9c8xar0wfjjuer9wcpzq7xwd748yfjrsu5yuerm56fcn9tntmyv04w95etn0e23xrczvvraqvzqqqr7pvtn8q3h

Marmot community call in 5 minutes, join us, lots to show and tell.
@White NoiseCommunity call in less than half an hour: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

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.

Recording the @Nostr Compass podcast, if you want to join and talk about any of the mentioned project, here's the link, we go in an hour at 16 UTC.
https://riverside.com/studio/ipfs-studio?t=80327b608d616377f954

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.

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.

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.

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.

You see gems like this, the first digital ID app on zapstore:
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqdxxmmd9enk7an9wfhxj6m4wvhxzatnwajkjumpwpcryqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh85ctswd6x7un99ejx2aszypuvuma2wgny8pegfej8hf5n3x2hxhkgcl2utfjhxlj4zv8sycc86qcyqqq8uzc78wmqr
@MaxMy favorite Nostr feed algorithm is latest releases.

My favorite Nostr feed algorithm is @Zapstore latest releases.

Just found @Open Markets Podcast and I'm sad I didnt know of them before, awesome Nostr pod!

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

I'm a simple man.
I see a @Paul Rosenberg interview,
I watch it.

Watchman Privacy: 223 - Paul Rosenberg: The Use of Knowledge
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/watchmanprivacy/223_Paul_Rosenberg_The_Use_of_Knowledge.mp3

The new PDF viewer in @Amethyst is great.
@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

Mein 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

Best Nostr desktop client?
#asknostr

Finally we have Paul Rosenberg on Nostr!
He is an absolute legend, Cypherpunk since the 1990s, author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, and The Breaking Dawn, and an inspiration to countless cypherpunks, give him a follow!

@Paul RosenbergHello friend, just getting started and thrilled to be here! Am writing now at Substack (The Findings) and have my newsletter issues and books here: veraverba.com #introductions

Now my Nostr relay @ towardsliberty.com is exposed via @FIPS
ws://npub1v5fmkz5s8ygrrzw2rtje8eej7gt69sysllytwh93vjk47mvu9eqqjw05pz.fips:3355

Marmot community call starting now, come hang out.

@White NoiseAre you interested in private messaging apps, or do you want to build your own? Join us today at 16:00 UTC to hear from the co-founders of White Noise ( & ) and learn more about the protocol on which it is built. Ask us anything --> http://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

Rogers book is great, check it out
@Roger 9000Thank you for sharing !!! Loved recording this with you 🧡 I’ll have copies of my book 📕 ‘The Beautiful Balance of Bitcoin’ Available next week ! Come check out the book corner with and many others !!! https://blossom.primal.net/be739e94d91aa16b694e423d13b12ce9ccfd14977f2e868f9d98c7689a9b8b88.jpg

It will be legendary (again)
Join us
@FreedomTechSummitFreedom tech builders tend to flock together. The people shipping tools that protect your money, identity & speech do it because it matters - not because anyone gave them permission. 7 of them are backing Freedom Tech Summit. Grateful for every one. 🧵👇 ====== SatoshiLabs The team behind Trezor - the world's first hardware wallet and the OGs of self-custody. 15+ years of open-source...

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.