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Economic progress springs from four sources: division of labor multiplies productivity through specialization, capital accumulation transforms present resources into future productivity, technological progress generates non-rivalrous ideas that overcome physical limits, and entrepreneurial function coordinates everything through creative destruction. State intervention systematically corrupts each source by destroying the property rights and price signals they require. Cryptographic technology now enables these sources to operate beyond political interference.

Small businesses face 41-57% rejection rates for basic trade finance while the same banks hold $192 trillion in derivatives positions. Basel III treats a letter of credit backing real goods as riskier than abstract financial instruments that produce nothing. The system works exactly as designed: extracting value from those who create it, denying credit to those who need it most.

Nice, a ride sharing app powered by nostr just hit @Zapstore by @VariableFate

https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqgkxmmd9eexjer9wd68ytnjd9jx2uszyqxr7zlpn7lc78z64tz2059k8k3g4g3uy67xq97fezga958weed7uqcyqqq8uzc254xpx

I've had my mind blown each time I read the papers regarding BitVM. It's just insane how much we can build on Bitcoin without changing consensus. Massively bullish.

For fifteen years, Bitcoin has faced a fundamental limitation: most attempts to extend its functionality required trusting custodians without unilateral exit. Exchanges hold your keys. Wrapped bitcoin protocols control the underlying assets. Early sidechains trapped funds behind federation signatures. Each custodial solution creates honeypots that attract both hackers and regulators, with users having no recourse when trust fails. Lightning improved this with unilateral exit mechanisms, yet remained limited to payment channels between specific parties. The search for trustless bridges with arbitrary computation became Bitcoin's holy grail, pursued by brilliant minds yet always remaining just out of reach.

I wasn't happy with @Npub.pro loading speed and limited customization, so I vibed my own Nostr website.

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John Vervaeke's cognitive science reveals that true agency cannot be computed, only lived through caring organisms that realize relevance. This explains why Bitcoin's thermodynamic proof-of-work and Nostr's self-sovereign identity preserve human agency while algorithmic platforms capture and destroy it. The technologies that matter are those that protect the non-computational processes from which freedom emerges, transcending raw computational speed.

Can I just say how cool it is that on my shit posting app I get notified which parts of my book people really like.
Nostr is just awesome.

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Software vendors have locked users into a consumption model for decades, distributing pre-compiled binaries that cannot be modified, forcing acceptance of unwanted features, privacy invasions, and inefficiencies. This artificial scarcity ends when artificial intelligence makes source-based installation accessible to everyone. The convergence of AI coding assistants with source-based package managers like Gentoo's Portage and BSD ports creates a new model where users shape software to their exact needs through natural language, while AI agents handle the complexity of compilation, optimization, and patch maintenance.

Murray Rothbard demonstrated that every government intervention reduces to exactly three forms: commanding your isolated action, compelling exchange with the state, or overriding your voluntary exchanges with others. His framework strips away the complexity of interventionist policy to reveal the hegemonic aggression beneath. Understanding this typology is essential for anyone who wishes to see through the state's infinite variety of justifications to its limited repertoire of coercion.

The productive class has always lived in two worlds. There is the official economy of permissions and taxes, where value flows upward to those who produce nothing, and there is the real economy of voluntary exchange, where those who create value find each other despite every obstacle. When the official system spits you out, it does you the inadvertent favor of revealing which economy actually sustains human flourishing.

My recent article on how holding Bitcoin is not a sign of low time preference ruffled some feathers. @Engineer wrote a fantastic article voicing the common critique.



I still think that this critique falls short. So here is a response that hopefully helps clarify some misconceptions. I'm curious about the next round of feedback, so let me know what you think!

My recent article on how holding Bitcoin is not a sign of low time preference ruffled some feathers. @Engineer wrote a fantastic article voicing the common critique.



I still think that this critique falls short. So here is a response that hopefully helps clarify some misconceptions. I'm curious about the next round of feedback, so let me know what you think!

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The promise of exit has always haunted those who would rule over others. From the German forest tribes who frustrated Roman legions to the digital nomads who slip between jurisdictions, humans have sought spaces where voluntary cooperation replaces coercive hierarchy.
These temporary autonomous zones arise from a simple economic calculation: when the costs of control exceed the benefits of extraction, freedom becomes possible. The state retreats because of the cold logic of diminishing returns, and in that retreat, human creativity flourishes.

We live in a curious age. Never before have so many people enjoyed such material abundance while simultaneously proclaiming their contempt for the very mechanism that makes this abundance possible. They drive automobiles purchased with money to universities funded by money where they learn from professors paid with money that money is the source of all human suffering. The contradiction is so glaring that it blinds them to its implications.

The cypherpunks wrote code, but code alone cannot adjudicate disputes between parties with different values. The missing infrastructure is legal, and the principles that compose it are older than any nation-state.

Google Project Zero just dropped a full 0-click exploit chain for Pixel 9 targeting CVE-2025-54957 in Dolby's audio decoder. Android's AI transcription features auto-decode incoming audio, so attackers just need to send you a malicious RCS message.

#GrapheneOS users aren't immune to the initial bug since it's in Dolby's proprietary blob with its own internal allocator, but hardened_malloc and improved mediacodec sandboxing make privilege escalation significantly harder. Patch to January 2026 security level now!



@Final any thoughts on this?

The historical record proves that competent intelligence services will infiltrate any movement they consider threatening. But decades of documented cases reveal that detection-focused security culture consistently fails while breeding the very paranoia the state wants to create.
The cypherpunk solution applies here too: design systems where the adversary's presence cannot achieve its goals.

Living outside the state means living outside its protection racket. How do communities of individualists defend themselves without recreating the very structures they escaped?
The answer lies in deterrence over firepower, distributed capability over centralized protection, and vigilance toward those who claim to guard you as much as toward external threats.

Agent context files and skills designed for security audits of your software.

GrapheneOS now supports hardware-virtualized Linux environments on Pixel devices. Combined with OpenCode, you can run a complete vibe coding setup from your phone, with no vendor lock-in on either the operating system or the AI tooling. Here is how to set it up.

The libertarian movement has spent decades oscillating between political reform and territorial escape, both of which have failed to deliver meaningful sovereignty.
A third path exists: build parallel institutions that coexist with the state through systematic separation. Bitcoin, Nostr, and physical meetups have begun realizing this vision, offering practical sovereignty without waiting for seasteads or electoral victories.

I love it when there are comments that actually make me think and go deeper into logic.

@Engineer"the hoarder isn't actually deferring consumption: they're consuming the money's services (liquidity, optionality, removal of uneasiness) in the present moment." Are you trying to say that Mises is wrong, or that your definition of hoarding is somehow different than Mises' "plain saving"? Assuming the latter, I think it would help clarify things if you could explain that difference in relation...

Bitcoin's cultural mythos celebrates the HODLer as a paragon of deferred gratification, a being of superior moral fiber who resists immediate consumption in favor of future reward. "Have fun staying poor," they tell the uninitiated, certain that mere possession of an appreciating asset proves they have mastered the ancient virtue of patience. They invoke the concept of time preference, borrowed from Austrian economics, to frame their inactivity as civilizational achievement.
The framing contains a fundamental error that reverses the meaning of the very concept it deploys.

Government debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge not their own resources but ours, and creditors who buy Treasury bonds are investing in future theft. With the national debt at thirty-eight trillion dollars and climbing by seventy thousand dollars every second, nobody knows what to do. The proposals on offer range from implausible to fantastical.
There is another option with a long history and principled foundation: repudiation.

The cypherpunks solved encryption decades ago, yet private digital commerce remains marginal. The missing piece is not better cryptography but better institutions for managing trust between pseudonymous parties.
This essay explores how trust can be treated algebraically: quantified, distributed, pooled, and traded like any other commodity. The result is a framework for building the institutional layer that Bitcoin and Nostr still need.

I'm a simple man.
You upload a new video of Rothbard speaking.
I watch it.

A consortium of libertarian legal scholars has published the Universal Principles of Liberty, a systematic codification of libertarian jurisprudence designed not as a constitution but as a voluntary framework for decentralized justice. Drafted by Stephan Kinsella with Alessandro Fusillo, David Dürr, and Patrick Tinsley, the document establishes property rights, competitive arbitration, and customary legal evolution as foundations for societies without coercive monopoly.
For builders of parallel institutions, this provides what has long been missing: serious legal architecture for the experiments already underway.

If my writings don't put you to sleep, Avi's soothing voice and the gentle background music will do the trick!
@Avi BurraStop fighting the system. Start leaving it. This week's is different. No sermon. No guests. Just signal. I’m did a scored reading of four essential essays by covering the full arc of the sovereign exit: 1. Builders, Not Talkers 2. The Quiet Departure 3. What Your Loved One Is Trying to Tell You 4. The Candle's Work It is a guide on how to build the exit – and how to handle the friction with...