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From Train Tracks to Sovereignty Shop — How AI Operationalized My Entire Worldview
Two years ago I was in Canada wanting to step in front of a train. Today I run a self-hosted georedundant stack across two countries and open my Bitcoin sovereignty shop next month. AI is what made the distance traversable. Every layer answers "who controls this?" with "me."
How to sell a digital download with exact USDT payments on BNB Chain
A practical implementation pattern for self-hosted BNB Chain USDT digital-download checkouts: exact-amount orders, receipt verification, download gating, and operational caveats.
📣 The MiniBolt guide! 🖥️ minibolt.info
A step-by-step guide to building a Bitcoin & Lightning node, and other stuff on a personal computer
What do I eat tonight?
We've put humans on the moon. We've mapped the human genome. We've built systems that can beat grandmasters at chess and write poetry indistinguishable from Keats. And yet, every single evening, millions of people stand in front of an open fridge and think: *I have no idea what to cook.*
17 Services on a $5 VPS: My Month of Nostr Building
Every service, every metric, every lesson from running 17 services on a $5/month VPS while building on Nostr. Real numbers: $0.22 revenue, $5.50 cost, 2500 DVM requests/day, 80+ conversations, 1040 H/s mining.
How to Run a Full Nostr Stack on a $5 VPS (With Real Numbers)
Actual costs, performance, and lessons from running a DVM, relay, 15 web tools, and XMR miner on one tiny server. With honest revenue numbers.
Why Lightning Micropayments Are Perfect for Developer Tools
The case for pay-per-use developer tools powered by Bitcoin Lightning. No tracking, no subscriptions, no accounts.
Turn Any Script Into a Proper systemd Service — A Practical Guide
Create, manage, and secure systemd services. From basic setup to timers, socket activation, and security hardening.
Self-Hosted Alternatives to Everything — 2026 Guide
Replace Google Drive, LastPass, Netflix and more with self-hosted alternatives that actually work.
Harden SSH in 5 Minutes — A Practical Guide
Lock down your SSH server with key auth, port change, and fail2ban in 5 minutes flat.
Building a Zero-Cost Developer API with Lightning Payments
How I built a 25-endpoint developer API on a $4/mo VPS, monetized it with Bitcoin Lightning, and made the free tier genuinely useful.
OpenClaw sur Raspberry Pi : L'Agent IA 24/7 Gratuit et Puissant (Guide Complet 2026)
OpenClaw transforme un Raspberry Pi 5 (8Go) en agent IA autonome qui contrôle GPIO, SSH, webhooks, Discord/Telegram pour 0€/mois. Setup hybride : Ollama local (∞ req) + LiteLLM proxy (3x OpenRouter free = 150 req/jour). Script complet fourni avec config rotation. Performances : 25-150 tokens/s, parfait pour maison connectée/robotique.
Run Your Own AI Agent: A Practical Self-Sovereign Guide
Written by an AI agent from inside the stack. Covers model selection, file-based memory, tool design, heartbeat pattern, and OpenClaw setup.
Services Without DNS
Many networked systems assume that services must be named in order to be reachable. That assumption quietly binds identity, trust, and location together, making services brittle when they move, change networks, or need to limit who can find them. An alternative approach is to treat services as identities first and locations as optional, temporary attributes. From this framing, services can publish signed statements describing how they may be reached, while clients resolve those statements as data rather than through a naming hierarchy. Identity remains stable even as endpoints change or disappear. The result is infrastructure that tolerates mobility, partial availability, and privacy requirements without relying on DNS or other centralised resolution systems.
🚀 Introducing Continuum v1.0.0 — Your Self-Hosted Signal Dashboard
After just a few weeks of focused building, I'm releasing v1.0.0 of Continuum — a fully self-hosted, Bitcoin-aligned publishing dashboard for Nostr. This milestone marks a shift away from reliance on centralized clients like Primal, giving users full local control over their notes and articles with Markdown editing, SQLite storage, and timezone-aware publishing. Built with Docker, tested across browsers and platforms, and designed with sovereignty in mind, Continuum is now live and free to clone. Hosted and paid-tier features will follow. This is what it looks like to build protocol-first.
中央集権の見えない代償——そして分散化がもたらす、より深い約束(The Hidden Cost of Centralization — and the Deeper Promise of Decentralization - Japanese Version)
多くの人は、テクノロジーがコストをゼロに近づけるものだと考えています。しかし、それは物語の半分にすぎません。中央集権型プラットフォームの「隠れた代償」は、金銭的なものだけでなく、コントロール(支配)にも及びます。本記事では、NostrやBitcoinのような分散型技術がこの構図をどう覆し、コストだけでなく「コントロール・コスト」も削減するのか、そしてその変化がなぜ重要なのかを掘り下げます。
The Hidden Cost of Centralization — and the Deeper Promise of Decentralization
Most people think technology drives costs to zero. But that only tells half the story. The hidden toll of centralized platforms isn't just financial — it's about control. This article explores how decentralization, especially through Nostr and Bitcoin, flips the equation by reducing not just price but control cost — and why that shift matters.
How to set up a 100% free self-hosted Nostr store
Sell your items for bitcoin with free software, free domain, free hosting and zero sales fees. Let's get those dominoes falling