Max

13.0 Bitcoin Sorcery || Ruben Somsen
Wasabi Wallet

https://relay.towardsliberty.com/2cf23b47345a1757710afcbb3013a445766dbb294a3b71e7bc6e7d82921335ba.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra8y7JSoCtY

Nodesignal-Boosts - E221 - Boosts und Rückblick Q1/2025

... Max Hillebrand: https://nodesignal.space/2024/12/27/nodesignal-talk-e211-mobiltelefon-mag-metadaten1-mit-max-hillebrand/ ......

https://relay.towardsliberty.com/00150fd7d9200235c96a34ed37341d953352bf0596b31a31ae7df716a0c2301c.mp3

Nodesignal-Talk - E264 - Privacy 6 - DAS INTERNET mit Cerca

... Nodesignal-Talk - E211 - Mobiltelefon mag Metadaten(1) mit Max Hillebrand: https://nodesignal.space/E211/ Nodesignal-Talk ......

https://relay.towardsliberty.com/953c442cacd19ad87a4bff04f42e69b4edd951dbc0f5513135a74ecd3b913097.mp3

Remastered: Nodesignal-Talk - E25- Das bullische Argument für Bitcoin

... Max Hillebrand: https://anchor.fm/nodesignal/episodes/Nodesignal-Talk---E13---Handeln-und-Sein-mit-Max-Hillebrand-e1f7jhj ......

https://relay.towardsliberty.com/de11119aee0bae500559977dae9b868b083e5363d48d4269b352a5d073dad997.mp3

Nodesignal-Talk - E250 - Privacy 5 - Linux im Gym

... Max Hillebrand: https://nodesignal.space/2024/12/27/nodesignal-talk-e211-mobiltelefon-mag-metadaten1-mit-max-hillebrand/ ......

https://relay.towardsliberty.com/ac3f469464d0ab6a555c67da2cfc41282987c44247c9cecd20a75f197185cc83.mp3

My book got a shoutout on Kinsella's website. Nice.
Definitely check out his site and work, Amazing thinker!
https://stephankinsella.com/2026/05/max-hillebrand-the-praxeology-of-privacy/

The 'nothing to hide' line works by smuggling in a false definition. Privacy is control over disclosure, not concealment of guilt. Once that is fixed, secrecy and anonymity separate from privacy proper, and the surveillance argument loses its grip.

Observation is the first move of every targeted intervention. A key pair costs nearly nothing while a national surveillance program runs into billions. The asymmetry is the cypherpunk case.

@Gart webinar starting now about how content creators can defend against the 5$ wrench attack:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87988397996

Most important file of my book is now available:

The dark mode edition.

I value the eyes of my readers and don't want them to bleed, pitch black pdf is the way to go!

Also epub and summaries are now available.

Towardsliberty.com/pop

Testing @Formstr appointment booking tool, please book a time!
https://calendar.formstr.app/schedule/naddr1qvzqqqrukupzp6vv6yn2duvfj6w7g402r4dehmcla7qy984v45deq5mrggeahhkwqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqg7waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezuamfwfjkgmn9wshx5up0qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxyh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmdqyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdsq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3jxyhxxmmdqq0rzwpkvgcnwcfjvy6xzvejxuun2etpxp3kyetzv5ckgdtxxs6qppwmt2?viewKey=197d19fee17515c170b5dbf75e5d1e8dd6bb208e47414bcfe80f6938bf26de07

We're still short on funding for @FreedomTechSummit
If you wanna support a gathering of cypherpunks, zap this note or DM me for sponsorship details.

~250 videos and podcasts are migrated.
I've created a feed here:
https://towardsliberty.com/media
@MaxMigrating ~ 1000 videos and podcasts of mine over to nostr and blossom. Beautiful that it just works, no other platform can do that so smooth.

Here's the pdf of my book The Praxeology of Privacy:
https://relay.towardsliberty.com/460734c54e8b08b655cdbcb62561a50c6cbb5c7b5bbad1d949db2a0f1150204d.pdf

It's published in the public domain.
Print it, sell it, share it.

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...

Another non-nostr app released on @Zapstore!
@NutriApp
https://github.com/zwegen/nutri-releases

bunker test

"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" 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.

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.

Reading through the footnotes, and that takes like 3 hours alone...
That went kinda out of hand, but I can't miss the opportunity to shill a bunch of great books.
@MaxJust 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!

Casey Neistat checking out Bitcoin beech in El Salvador.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbMEsKLjX8

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!

Come and get the hottest cypherpunk talks before BTCPrague
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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...

Any seminar by Mark Passion is a much watch.
He just released this new one, check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iouo8LQKoLQ

@White Noise 2 person chats work very smooth now.
But groups are still flaky. We'll address that hopefully by the next release.

The schedule for @FreedomTechSummit is out!
Still subject to change, but already 60 amazing sessions here
https://program.freedomtechsummit.com/fts2026/schedule

New @White Noise is out!
Update for much more reliable experience.

We're getting close to the next @White Noise release, if you wanna test the master branch, you can get the apk here:
https://wn-when-apk.pages.dev/

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.