Soapbox at Bitcoin 2026: Nostr Became Infrastructure
How Bitcoin Conference Week 2026 played out for Soapbox: five panels, NosVegas 2.0, V4V music payouts, and Nostr finally landing as infrastructure.
Welcome To Nostr. Jumpstart Your Nostr Feed: A Curated List
New to Nostr? It can be tricky to know where to begin. This carefully curated list offers a jumpstart to your feed, featuring a selection of highly active and engaging voices. Discover content spanning Bitcoin, privacy, insightful thoughts, art, memes, travel and much more - a solid foundation to explore the broader Nostr ecosystem. Think of this as a launchpad: Follow these accounts, then let your curiosity guide you to discovering even more through interactions and shared connections.
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The Engineering Choice Between Complicated and Complex
Bitcoin converts a complex monetary problem into a complicated protocol, absorbing irreducible uncertainty into deterministic rules any node operator can verify.
Where to Start with Rothbard: A Reading Guide to His Major Works
Murray Rothbard built the most internally consistent radical libertarian system of the 20th century. This guide shows where to enter it.
Nostr Boutique Update #2
I’m setting up Nostr.boutique as an experiment in agentic Nostr client development using Nsite’s, Ngit, and NWC. The flow uses two agents: one for turning issues and features into code plans, branches, builds, and deployments, and another for promotion, outreach, engagement monitoring, support, and feedback collection.
The Third Court: Insurance, Arbitration, and the Private Production of Justice
Insurance prices risk, arbitration resolves disputes, restitution makes victims whole, and cryptographic enforcement binds them all into one complete system.
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.
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.
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.
The vibes are strong with this one
Shaka reimplements PAI's personal AI architecture from scratch with different tradeoffs, and the fact that the same primitives survived the rewrite says something about the design.
The Cheapest Defense
Privacy blinds the adversary's OODA loop at observation. When defense costs pennies and attack costs millions, surveillance becomes unprofitable.
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.
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.
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 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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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.
The Art of Waiting: Random Delays for Private Payments
Two scripts that randomize timing between Wasabi coinjoin rounds, making your payment patterns indistinguishable from organic human behavior.
