The Last Leak: How MIP-05 Closes the Push Notification Surveillance Hole
Push notifications let governments track your messaging habits. MIP-05 encrypts device tokens with ephemeral keys, ensuring notification servers learn absolutely nothing.
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.
Sign What You Cannot See: A Field Guide to Blind Signatures
Four decades of blind signatures show that one algebraic trick, letting someone sign what they cannot see, protects ecash and CoinJoin.
The Cheapest Defense
Privacy blinds the adversary's OODA loop at observation. When defense costs pennies and attack costs millions, surveillance becomes unprofitable.
The Instrument Returns: An Introduction to Bitcredit
Bitcredit is the concrete protocol reconstructing bills of exchange on Bitcoin, closing the credit layer gap that prior posts have diagnosed.
Sifting Through the Archive: Private Set Membership for Blossom
Binary Fuse filters let Blossom clients privately check which files exist on a server - download a compact filter once, query locally with zero server load, and use delta lists for real-time accuracy.
The Hard Part of Multi-Device Messaging
MIP-06 proposes the protocol basis for White Noise multi-device group membership, letting each device securely join as its own MLS leaf.
Private Relay Connections: Zero-Knowledge Solutions for Nostr
Nostr relays see everything - who connects, what they fetch, how often they post. Zero-knowledge cryptography can fix all three problems: Semaphore-based authentication hides which whitelisted user is connecting, private information retrieval hides which notes you're fetching, and Privacy Pass enables rate limiting without identity linkage.
The Key Inside the Ciphertext: A Full Introduction to PIPEs v2
PIPEs v2 turns spend conditions into key-recovery conditions, letting Bitcoin enforce proof-gated authorization through ordinary Schnorr signatures and extraordinary off-chain cryptography.
Two Roads to a Network Without Permission: Reticulum and FIPS
Reticulum and FIPS both build permissionless encrypted meshes, but they differ radically in routing, crypto primitives, and their relationship to IP.
The Algebra of Trust
Anonymous commerce requires solving the trust problem, and the solution may be to treat trust itself as a quantifiable, tradeable commodity.
Builders, Not Talkers
Decades of libertarian theory and cypherpunk tools have produced almost nothing because ideas without builders are worthless. Act or leave us alone.
Securing the Second Realm
Security in autonomous zones means making attack uneconomical through deterrence, distributed defense, and eternal vigilance against any protector becoming predator.
The Universal Principles of Liberty
A voluntary libertarian legal framework built on non-aggression, self-ownership, and property rights, with decentralized arbitration replacing state monopolies on law.
The Reasonably Paranoid's Guide to Qubes OS: Why Isolation Beats Every Patch
Qubes OS assumes all software has bugs and isolates every application in separate virtual machines, containing breaches instead of preventing them.
The Market's Money: Bills of Exchange and the Credit System Governments Killed
Bills of exchange were capitalism's self-regulating credit mechanism for seven centuries, until governments monopolized money creation and destroyed the entire system.
The Poverty Lever: Why Regimes Want You Just Above Starving
Maximum political control comes not from wealth redistribution but from calibrated poverty: desperate enough to depend, not desperate enough to revolt.
Owned by No One: Solving Nostr's Key Rotation Problem
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.
The Candle's Work: Helping Loved Ones Escape the Most Dangerous Superstition
You cannot argue someone out of state worship. Plant questions, model freedom, preserve the relationship, and wait for the harvest.
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.
