Nostr's greatest strength - that you own your identity through cryptographic keys - becomes its greatest weakness when keys are lost or stolen. This post introduces two simple, social solutions that let users mark compromised keys and rotate to new ones through community verification, without complex cryptography or pre-planning.
You cannot argue someone out of state worship. Plant questions, model freedom, preserve the relationship, and wait for the harvest.
Modern banking systematically transformed from credit creator to deliberate gatekeeper, engineering $2.5 trillion trade finance gap while earning billions from derivatives.
Being cast out of the system reveals its deepest secret: you were never its beneficiary, only its fuel. Freedom begins with this recognition.
Two scripts that randomize timing between Wasabi coinjoin rounds, making your payment patterns indistinguishable from organic human behavior.
Cheap drones expose the state's war machine: centralized militaries accumulate fragile capital while decentralized force converts low-cost tools into strategic advantage.
Bills of exchange carried a built-in death date and extinguished themselves as goods reached market; modern debt compounds forever by design.
Freedom requires commitment, not sentiment. Seven resolutions define the ethical foundation for those who would build a voluntary society instead of complaining.
Bitcoin plus Nostr creates programmable money that solves software monetization through micropayments respecting user sovereignty.
Hoarding is not low time preference; only lending expresses it. Wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, not the reverse.
The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.
War persists because profits concentrate among those who wage it while costs disperse across those who must suffer and pay.
Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.
Most agent chains fail because they pass work around without narrowing the task, and the Ralph loop forces actual, reliable closure.
Insurance prices risk, arbitration resolves disputes, restitution makes victims whole, and cryptographic enforcement binds them all into one complete system.
Can PIR hide Nostr queries from relays? Compound filters and subscriptions don't map to existing schemes. Here are the open problems.
TEE relays shift trust from operators to chip manufacturers. For most threats, that trade is worth making, with eyes open.
A simple challenge-response app can verify Nostr identities across any anonymous channel by querying the follow graph users already built.
NIP-17 promises deniable messaging with its three-layer design: an unsigned "rumor," a signed "seal," and an ephemeral "gift wrap." However, this setup has a hidden vulnerability. The signed seal allows recipients to prove that a message was sent by the claimed author, even without revealing the content. This creates a perfect scenario for gossip attacks, where the mere proof of communication can damage reputations. As we explore NIP-17, we find that the rumor, despite being unsigned, is not as deniable as it seems, making it a potential risk for exposure.
One command in your Qubes template installs `xsel` and creates an autostart service that wipes your clipboard 30 seconds after you copy anything. Works on Debian, Fedora, and Whonix minimal templates.
