The Capital Structure of War
Cheap drones expose the state's war machine: centralized militaries accumulate fragile capital while decentralized force converts low-cost tools into strategic advantage.
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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Self-Liquidating Credit: The Instrument That Destroys Itself
Bills of exchange carried a built-in death date and extinguished themselves as goods reached market; modern debt compounds forever by design.
Seven Resolutions
Freedom requires commitment, not sentiment. Seven resolutions define the ethical foundation for those who would build a voluntary society instead of complaining.
Programmable Magic Internet Money: How Nostr Apps Can Monetize Ethically and Profitably
Bitcoin plus Nostr creates programmable money that solves software monetization through micropayments respecting user sovereignty.
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.
The Constitution That Isn't One
The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.
The Market for Peace
War persists because profits concentrate among those who wage it while costs disperse across those who must suffer and pay.
The Root of Money
Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.
Chaining Agents Needs a Spine
Most agent chains fail because they pass work around without narrowing the task, and the Ralph loop forces actual, reliable closure.
The Gap Between PIR and Nostr: Open Problems in Private Relay Queries
Can PIR hide Nostr queries from relays? Compound filters and subscriptions don't map to existing schemes. Here are the open problems.
The Trust Shift: Secure Enclaves for Private Nostr Relays
TEE relays shift trust from operators to chip manufacturers. For most threats, that trade is worth making, with eyes open.
Verify Anyone on Any Channel
A simple challenge-response app can verify Nostr identities across any anonymous channel by querying the follow graph users already built.
The Gossip Vulnerability: Why NIP-17's "Deniable" Messages Aren't
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.
Vanishing Secrets: Auto-Wipe Your Clipboard on Qubes OS
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.
The Price of Blood
Every civilization before the modern state treated crime as a debt owed to the victim, enforced through restitution and community insurance.
When They Come for the Protocols
Governments cannot kill open protocols, so they imprison the humans who write them, spending $275 billion per year to catch nothing.
Garland: Exploring the Architecture
We're exploring an architecture for Garland: Cryptomator for encryption, Blossom for blob storage, Nostr for state. Your nsec becomes your Cryptomator password. We think this works - but we'd love your feedback before we commit.
Trust Without Ceremonies: How Nostr Fixed the Web of Trust
PGP's web of trust failed because it demanded explicit rituals. Nostr succeeds by extracting trust from ordinary social behavior.
Bitcoin Address Lookup: A Question of Privacy
Bitcoin wallets face a fundamental tradeoff: how to discover your transactions without revealing your addresses. Full nodes (2009) provide perfect privacy by downloading everything but require ~700 GB storage. Electrum (2011) achieves instant sync by transmitting your addresses directly to servers, exposing your complete transaction history. Block filters (2017-2019) restore privacy through client-side filtering - you download compact filters, check them locally, and only request matching blocks, revealing just block-level interest. Utreexo (2019) compresses the UTXO set from 11 GB to 480 bytes using cryptographic accumulators while maintaining full-node privacy, but requires 20% more bandwidth. Each approach trades privacy, storage, bandwidth, and convenience differently.
The Machine Cannot Want Your Job
Smart machines relocate comparative advantage; the weaker worker keeps value only where human judgment, ownership, and presence still command a premium.
