The Problem They Said Could Not Be Solved
The builders of the best encrypted messengers declared decentralized group encryption impossible. The Marmot protocol proved them wrong.
The Protocol Rothbard Would Have Built
Nostr implements Rothbard's anarcho-capitalist vision: cryptographic property rights, voluntary relay markets, and censorship-resistant communication without state-corporate gatekeepers.
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 Great Decentralization Swindle: How Every Protocol But One Betrays Its Promise
The decentralized social landscape is littered with protocols that centralize through the back door. Nostr alone eliminates trusted third parties entirely, making it the only protocol where your identity truly belongs to you.
A Constitution for the Ungoverned
Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.
The Price of Patience
Hoarding is not low time preference; only lending expresses it. Wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, not the reverse.
Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System
The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery.
The One Rule That Creates All Wealth
Prosperity has one prerequisite: do not steal. Secure property rights enable voluntary exchange, which accumulates capital fairly. The West is collapsing because governments have become systematic thieves.
The Consumption You Call Saving
Holding money does not defer gratification but consumes the opportunity cost of lending, making hoarding a present expense rather than proof of low time preference.
Credit Before Coin: How Markets Bootstrap Sound Money Economies
Bills of exchange don't just provide elasticity within existing monetary systems; they can bootstrap entire economies that lack base money.
Protocols for the Ungoverned
Functional legal orders emerge from voluntary adoption and competitive governance, not top-down decree; history proves that polycentric law outperforms territorial monopoly.
Your Phone Is Not Your Property (Until You Install GrapheneOS)
Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.
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 Case for Custodial Nostr: Why Teams Should Stop Fighting the Lost War
Organizations already delegate key custody internally. A server-side Nostr client with permission management would be faster, stabler, and more honest than relay-dependent remote signing hacks.
The Frequency of Dissent
Mesh networks turn every radio into a relay and every user into infrastructure, creating communication grids with no center to seize.
What Your Loved One Is Actually Trying to Tell You
They haven't joined a cult. They stumbled onto questions they couldn't stop asking, and they love you too much to keep them to themselves.
The Right to Walk Away: Angor and the Future of Bitcoin Crowdfunding
Angor gives investors what ICOs and crowdfunding never could: the cryptographic ability to recover their funds if projects fail to deliver.
The Cypher Wars: Choose Your Weapon Wisely
Use ChaCha20-Poly1305 everywhere without hardware AES. Use AES-256-GCM with AES-NI. Never reuse nonces. Prefer AEAD always.
The Problem-Solver's Fortune
Wealth flows to those who solve others' problems, starting with their own, because subjective value makes every voluntary exchange mutual gain.
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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.
