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The Price of Blood
Every civilization before the modern state treated crime as a debt owed to the victim, enforced through restitution and community insurance.
The Merchant Court Returns
Justice is a service that degrades under monopoly and improves under competition. Merchants proved this; now builders are proving it again.
Self-Liquidating Credit: The Instrument That Destroys Itself
Bills of exchange carried a built-in death date and extinguished themselves as goods reached market; modern debt compounds forever by design.
Your Software Runs on Enemy Infrastructure
Freedom tech projects build censorship-resistant tools on censorship-susceptible platforms. The Nostr stack offers a coherent migration path for sovereign development infrastructure.
Verify Anyone on Any Channel
A simple challenge-response app can verify Nostr identities across any anonymous channel by querying the follow graph users already built.
When They Come for the Protocols
Governments cannot kill open protocols, so they imprison the humans who write them, spending $275 billion per year to catch nothing.
The Mobile Podcast Setup That Actually Works
Testing earbuds, wired mics, and USB-C wireless systems revealed the Yealink BH71 as the best mobile podcast solution for GrapheneOS.
Programmable Magic Internet Money: How Nostr Apps Can Monetize Ethically and Profitably
Bitcoin plus Nostr creates programmable money that solves software monetization through micropayments respecting user sovereignty.
The Engine of Prosperity: How Four Sources Drive All Economic Progress
Four sources of economic progress form an interdependent system that emerges spontaneously from voluntary exchange when property rights remain completely intact.
The Credit Famine: How Modern Banking Starves Real Commerce
Modern banking systematically transformed from credit creator to deliberate gatekeeper, engineering $2.5 trillion trade finance gap while earning billions from derivatives.
The Mathematics That Bridges Bitcoin: From BitVM to Argo
Cryptographic enforcement succeeds where trust fails, and nowhere does this principle matter more than in Bitcoin's quest for trustless bridges.
The Non-Computational Nature of Agency
Vervaeke proves agency emerges from non-algorithmic relevance realization, explaining why Bitcoin and Nostr preserve human autonomy while algorithmic systems destroy it.
The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
The Anatomy of Aggression
Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.
The Merchant's Return: When Systems Fail, Producers Prosper
Being cast out of the system reveals its deepest secret: you were never its beneficiary, only its fuel. Freedom begins with this recognition.
Another round of patience
Time preference reveals through lending at interest rates. Hoarding refuses all rates, demanding present possession. Expected gains are speculation, not deferral.
Temporary Autonomous Zones: The Economics of Exit
When defense costs less than attack and property emerges through daily practice, autonomous zones become economically sustainable refuges.
The Root of Money
Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.
A Constitution for the Ungoverned
Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.
Build for the Mole
Infiltration is inevitable; detection is unreliable. The real defense against state informants is building organizations where their presence cannot accomplish its purpose.