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Max

max@towardsliberty.com

Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk

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2h ago

Cypherpunks vibe code.

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npub1wrzgu

14h ago

With decentralized p2p funding protocols nothing can stop your project 🚀

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npub1v0rgq

12h ago

If socialism is considered moral and capitalism immoral, then coercion becomes a virtue — and violence against the peaceful becomes justified.

@Max

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12h ago

Modern democracy is Tinder for power addicts - swipe right on lesser evils.

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npub1dvmcp

23h ago

New features are now available for the Discovery Package! The dvmcp-discovery package has been updated to provide a more intuitive way to discover and use MCP tools on Nostr. You can now seamlessly integrate these tools with your LLMs, running them locally while they execute remotely by another nostrish.

This update introduces a reworked configuration system, making it easier to connect to tools with flexible and user-friendly methods. Additionally, the new interactive mode allows you to use natural language to discover and integrate tools as if you were in a toy shop, picking out exactly what you need for your workflows.


We hope the ecosystem will continue to grow with active tools, we are also working on enabling machine-to-machine payments to support operators and make everything more reliable. This is an exciting step forward for the project, which is still in its early stages

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npub1camel

1w ago

running zapstore ⚡

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1d ago

Equality before the law is non-negotiable.

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1d ago

Survival prioritizes correct action. Instinct guides animals; reason must guide humans. Neglecting this distinction proves fatal.

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npub12qz56

1d ago

In 60 minutes I'm going live with @UNCLE ROCKSTAR & @Max

Got any questions for them? Leave them in the livestream chat!

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1d ago

Sovereignty begins when obedience ends. We're not revolutionaries burning palaces - we're architects drafting blueprints beyond the reach of crowns.

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1d ago

All acts serve the self, even charity. Denying this breeds hypocrisy, not virtue.

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1d ago

Borders are performance art for nationalists. We recognize only the frontier between consent and coercion.

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2d ago

Every regulation is a confession: "We don't trust humans to be decent without our guns pointed at them."

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2d ago

Don't fight the system.
Starve it.

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2d ago

Citizenship is Stockholm Syndrome formalized.

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2d ago

Scarcity and demand are interdependent. An increase in demand can reduce availability, but it also incentivizes production, which can increase supply. This dynamic stabilizes prices and availability over time.

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2d ago

The Second Realm can coexist with the First Realm, the state-controlled society, by respecting the autonomy of others even within the First Realm.

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2d ago

Value creation's exponential potential lies in ideas. Physical labor has limits; mental breakthroughs scale infinitely. Economies thrive when minds are free.

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npub1l2vyh

2d ago

I just vibelined a vertex DVM search app without touching a single key.

Literally only recorded a voice memo and saved it on my phone.
Which went to my old laptop via syncthing

@Gigi ‘s vibeline picked it up from there: whisper to transcribe locally, qwen2.5 via Ollama to understand what I wanted, saw that I was talking about building an app so it called my new build_app plugin which transformed my text into an app spec and then kicked-off my vibeline tools with mcp, checking my nostr code snippets to one-shot build a CLI DVM-capable WoT username search tool

😂😂😂 wiiiiild times

Voice-memo in, app out

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npub1wrzgu

2d ago

Why open investment protocols are important?

- No barrier to entry - anyone with a good idea can raise funds

- No need for licenses from authorities that might be influenced by bad actors

- Lower costs, greater security, and it promotes healthy competition

- Levels the playing field - prevents the ability to block innovation

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Dec 23, 2023

A Declaration of Separation

To The Governments & People of Earth:

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We/merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish

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2d ago

Innovation ecosystems need freedom. Unshackled minds connect disparate ideas into breakthroughs. Bureaucratic hurdles slow this natural combinatorial process.

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3d ago

Professional arbitration bodies can standardize non-jurisdictional law. Certified mediators ensure consistent interpretation.

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3d ago

Governments distort market signals. Price controls and regulations mask true supply and demand. Free pricing communicates vital resource information.

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npub17h9fn

3d ago

Love ethical tech? Voca’s built by freedom tech devs who hate surveillance. Offline functionality means zero data leaks. Try the anti-Big Brother app.

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3d ago

Non-interventionist foreign policies reduce conflict and promote peace, benefiting both domestic and international interests.

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3d ago

Mental slavery begins with surrendered cognition. Independent analysis threatens controllers. Free minds resist manipulation through relentless verification.

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3d ago

Security culture isn’t optional. Assume infiltration, compartmentalize intel, and never tolerate loose lips.

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npub1ltz38

3d ago

How Bitcoin Protects You From "Daylight Robbery"

Who actually benefits from surveillance? Max Hillebrand breaks down why privacy is not just a technical feature, but a moral and strategic defense against theft, coercion, and control.

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3d ago

Government spending cannot sustainably stimulate the economy; it merely redistributes wealth and causes long-term damage.

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npub1nccwj

3d ago

Replying to @Max

There are those who consume more than what they produce, what means that there are those how produce more than what they consume. This means that there are human beings that produce, at least in part, for others.

We could diferenciate between net producers and net consumers where at the extremes we can find pure consumers; but never pure producers because it is impossible to consume nothing.

Pure consumers exist and they are a lot.

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npub13auxw

3d ago

Replying to @Max

Authorities can unrightfully seize your life or property without consent. Ownership, Sovereignty, & Liberty can only exist if you can prevent, defend, and deter Authorities from doing so.

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3d ago

Cause-effect literacy enables empowerment. Understanding sequences grants control over outcomes.

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3d ago

Eden’s tragedy: humans doubted their divine nature. Self-distrust birthed endless error.

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3d ago

Test altruism: live wholly for others. The crushing guilt and exhaustion will reveal its lie.

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npub1wrzgu

4d ago

Can investment scams in the Bitcoin space be eliminated?

We think so!

With Angor, scams and rug pulls can be effectively prevented. While it’s technically possible for someone to try, the barriers are so high and the potential rewards so small that scammers would likely look elsewhere. Angor makes it nearly impossible for fraudsters to target investors, creating a safer and more secure environment for Bitcoin investments.

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4d ago

Producers and consumers are roles based on intent, not just actions, as all producers consume and all consumers produce.

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npub1ltz38

5d ago

Money Shapes Civilization: So What Happens When We Break It?

@@Max breaks down the miracle of modern trade, how price signals help allocate scarce resources, and how fiat money sabotages this entire process. What is Money?

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npub1ltz38

5d ago

“The nation state relies on taxation which is a form of theft. These are not consensual transactions. Of course, they would prefer to not have citizens that are private. They would very much prefer a system of taxation that cannot be hidden from.

That’s where the term ‘daylight robbery’ comes from. Back in England, there was [this idea) that ‘the home is the castle,’ and the tax man did not have the legal authority to enter the house and see the amount of wealth that you have inside, like how many gold coins does the subject have available. That was not allowed by law. It was a rather private system. So the solution was to tax what was visible. So the tax rate that you had to pay as a subject was dependent on the number and size of windows in your house, because that was something the

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npub1ltz38

4d ago

How to Use CoinJoin and Lightning to Protect Your Bitcoin Privacy

While many assume Bitcoin is anonymous, its public ledger reveals much more than most realize. Max walks us through the difference between base money and money substitutes, why cash provides "backwards and forwards privacy," and how Bitcoin can regain this property through innovations like CoinJoin and the Lightning Network.

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npub1l2vyh

4d ago

Oh yeah, this mcp tool also allows each agent yo create and manage their own pubkey, they get a Nutsack wallet which they can later use to zap useful code snippets they found (I instructed mine to zap 1 sat when they are able to use one without having to fix anything and 10 sats when it fits a very narrow/niche use case)

The agents can also post on nostr and if I or one of the pubkeys I tell them to obey, replies, they will heed the instructions and work based on that feedback.

npub1l2vyh

4d ago

Last week I built an MCP tool that gives agents access to search for code snippets on nostr.

The change in the output LLMs produce with it is MASSIVE; they no longer worked based on a large blob of unweighted code; now I can point them to see EXACTLY how I do a particular implementation under very precise conditions.

Now whenever I see the LLM making a mistake I correct it, publish a code snippet, and the LLM never makes the mistake again.

It’s absolutely wild to see LLMs using interfaces in NDK I literally just implemented and getting their uses right first time.

This is not only useful for nostr development.

This is useful for ALL development.

And requires cryptographic identity, web-of-trust, censorship-resistance and money.

All building blocks that are in our very robust toolbox.

The future is very bright

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npub1l2vyh

4d ago

Last week I built an MCP tool that gives agents access to search for code snippets on nostr.

The change in the output LLMs produce with it is MASSIVE; they no longer worked based on a large blob of unweighted code; now I can point them to see EXACTLY how I do a particular implementation under very precise conditions.

Now whenever I see the LLM making a mistake I correct it, publish a code snippet, and the LLM never makes the mistake again.

It’s absolutely wild to see LLMs using interfaces in NDK I literally just implemented and getting their uses right first time.

This is not only useful for nostr development.

This is useful for ALL development.

And requires cryptographic identity, web-of-trust, censorship-resistance and money.

All building blocks that are in our very robust toolbox.

The future is very bright

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npub1mh3h7

4d ago

Is this nuts? 🥜

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npub1l2vyh

4d ago

Last week I built an MCP tool that gives agents access to search for code snippets on nostr.

The change in the output LLMs produce with it is MASSIVE; they no longer worked based on a large blob of unweighted code; now I can point them to see EXACTLY how I do a particular implementation under very precise conditions.

Now whenever I see the LLM making a mistake I correct it, publish a code snippet, and the LLM never makes the mistake again.

It’s absolutely wild to see LLMs using interfaces in NDK I literally just implemented and getting their uses right first time.

This is not only useful for nostr development.

This is useful for ALL development.

And requires cryptographic identity, web-of-trust, censorship-resistance and money.

All building blocks that are in our very robust toolbox.

The future is very bright

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4d ago

Crypto-anarchy delivers tools for digital freedom, but human interaction demands physical spaces of liberty.

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4d ago

Leverage chaos. When crises hit, expand parallel systems. Offer solutions where they fail, win loyalty.

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4d ago

Surveillance precedes force. Break the chain by making your movements opaque to outsiders.

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5d ago

True autonomy means rejecting state-controlled institutions. Create parallel courts, currencies, and mutual aid networks.

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npub1etgqc

1w ago

FREE Madeira presents FR⚡︎EE Energy Summit.

Bitcoin mining is being integrated into global energy markets as a tool to stabilise grids, monetise untapped energy and drive the expansion of renewables. How can energy sector leaders harness innovation to boost their profits and ensure stability?

At this event, industry leaders and Bitcoin mining experts will come together to explore how this technology can revolutionise the sector.
The summit is designed for energy executives, grid operators, professionals and investors in the renewable energy sector, as well as policymakers and researchers focused on renewable energy.

📅 Date: April 9, 2025
📍 Location: TUMO Lisboa, Beato Creative Hub
🕘 Time: 08:45 am - 1:00 pm
🎟 Free Participation (registration required by April 7)

🔗 More information and registration: energysummit.freemadeira.org


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npub17u5dn

5d ago

An open question in my mind: if Bitcoin reaches mass adoption and the overwhelming majority of participants are statist cucks using regulatory compliant services, can the ecosystem retain censorship resistance?

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npub147fp2

5d ago

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"Make raids costly" -- In "The Art of Not Being Governed" historian James C. Scott describes the context of medieval Southeast Asia, where the topology created a division between "Hulu" -- mountain people -- and "Hilir" -- valley people.

Governments could control the hilir people because they were tied down to wet rice agriculture, thus were a fixed target for taxation and control. In contrast, "hulu" people were nomadic and lived at higher elevations, thus making raids costly in terms of time, manpower, energy, etc.

Encrypted comms, Bitcoin, etc -- these are "hulu" tech. They raise the costs for State intervention, potentially on a mass scale.

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5d ago

Defense isn’t about firepower, it’s delay, obfuscation, and escape routes. Make raids costly and evidence nonexistent.

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5d ago

Justice in the Second Realm is restitution, not punishment. Victims reclaim what’s theirs; aggressors pay, not the collective.

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npub1ltz38

5d ago

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Really appreciate your support Max. Thanks

Teaching me about "daylight robbery" is one I wont forget! There was a number of windows that were bricked up on the house I grew up in, and I was told it was something due to tax. I always thought how it was so weird. A 10 year old boy is so logical: "why would you close a window!" I used to think.

I had no idea that it was were the term "daylight robbery" came from! Awesome stuff.

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5d ago

Cryptoanarchy isn't chaos – it's order without rulers.

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npub1ltz38

6d ago

The History of Money, Austrian Econ, and Bitcoin's Privacy & Scalability w/ Max Hillebrand (JWP32)

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In Episode 32 of The Jake Woodhouse Podcast, Max Hillebrand and I explore the foundations of liberty and whether it still exists today, how Austrian economics shapes entrepreneurial thinking, the relationship between money, prices, and trade, and the consequences of distorting money. We also discuss the difference between base money and payments, the role of CoinJoin and the Lightning Network in scaling Bitcoin privately, and why the distinction between secrecy and privacy matters.

New episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Let's learn together.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introducing Max Hillebrand
0:41 - What is Liberty?
1:23 - Does Liberty Exist Today?
3:46 - Austrian Economics
8:46 - Max’s Entrepreneurial Background
13:27 - Working from an Austrian Econ Foundation
20:06 -

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5d ago

Hierarchies crumble under pressure. Build decentralized networks where trust is earned, not mandated by titles.

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6d ago

Axiom of Resistance

In modern logic an axiom is a premise, it cannot be proven. It is a starting assumption against which other things may be proven. For example, in Euclidean geometry one cannot prove that parallel lines never meet. It simply defines the particular geometry. Proving statements about Bitcoin requires reliance on axiomatic systems, specifically mathematics, probability and catallactics, and therefore the assumptions upon which they rely.

However Bitcoin also relies on an axiom not found in these systems. Satoshi alludes to this in an early statement: In other words, there is an assumption that it is possible for a system to resist state control. This is not accepted as a fact but deemed to be a reasonable assumption, due to the behavior of similar systems, on which to base the system.

"You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.

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6d ago

Without the axiom of resistance, Bitcoin's censorship-resistant and permissionless design becomes logically inconsistent.

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6d ago

The Second Realm strategy is about creating pockets of freedom within a tyrannical society, focusing on building autonomous zones where individuals can live freely despite the state's presence.

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npub17h9fn

6d ago

New voca v0.1.1 release is out, and this is a big one!

Key changes:
- Improved MP3 generation
- PDF text extraction
- Enhanced TTS controls (pause/resume, crash prevention)
- Fresh UI with pretty buttons
- Fixed critical build errors and UI refinements (text selection, exclusive audio controls)
- Streamlined layouts and dependency updates for stability

Expect smoother performance, new features, and a better user experience.

Your feedback fuels our next updates, and your zaps help pay and motivate the devs!

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6d ago

Consent legitimizes transactions. Coerced agreements lack moral and legal validity regardless of formal compliance.

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6d ago

Your greatest leverage? Exit. Physically withdraw, digitally vanish. Make your presence optional to their systems.

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6d ago

Freedom requires sacrifice. Invest time, capital, and social capital into parallel systems.

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1w ago

No authority can rightfully seize life or property without consent. Ownership sovereignty underpins all liberty.

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1w ago

Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. Outthink, outmaneuver, outlast. Make conflict unprofitable for adversaries.

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1w ago

Turn their surveillance against them. Feed false data, trigger useless raids, and let them chase shadows.

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1w ago

Become a ghost in their machine.

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1w ago

zkNostr is 🔥
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1w ago

low life
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2w ago

Modern pollen analysis can geo-locate within 10 square kilometers. Regularly vacuum car interiors and change HVAC filters during migrations.

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2w ago

Few things as addictive as raw milk.

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3w ago

The 21M cap isn’t a limit, it’s a declaration. A line drawn against the lie that we must tolerate infinite dilution of our effort.

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1mo ago

Humanity transformed rocks into microprocessors.

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1mo ago

Moneys don't make money.

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1mo ago

Decentralization needs physical hubs: local markets, workshops. Digital tools alone can’t sustain parallel economies.

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1mo ago

Democracy: Choosing which boot stomps your face.

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1mo ago

The West is repeating Rome’s mistake: debasing currency to fund decadence.

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1mo ago

Fiat is alchemy for cowards: turning paper into debt through legal sorcery. Bitcoin is physics for the brave: turning energy into truth through mathematics.

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1mo ago

Economic calculation without prices is like navigation without stars.

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1mo ago

The right to exit is the ultimate human right. Preserve it fiercely.

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1mo ago

If you can’t leave, you’re not in a market—you’re in a cage.

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1mo ago

Freedom tech isn't about "disruption".
It's about building systems that can't be stopped.

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2mo ago

Debasement is the oldest trick of kings. Reject their diluted promises.

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2mo ago

Cypherpunks don’t ask for rights.
They write them into existence.

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2mo ago

If goods no longer cross the border, soldiers will.

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2mo ago

Shilling nostr is so much fun.
It's like a machine gun of amazing products.
Nobody can withstand such an onslaught!

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3mo ago

Think about it, aliens are everywhere, but nobody can find them.
Really looking forward to exploring alien cryptography.

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3mo ago

Aliens are cypherpunk as fuck

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Dec 23, 2024

What are Bitcoin companies with deep production stages?

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Nov 22, 2024

This is actually an experiment worth doing...

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Sep 13, 2024

Wear merino wool for a couple weeks, then put on some polyester clothing, and you're body is going to freak out.

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Nov 21, 2024

What's something you buy frequently, but the merchant doesn't accept bitcoin?

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Nov 7, 2024

Freedom comes from self knowledge

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Oct 24, 2024

Shill a nostr client most people don't know about: 👇

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Sep 13, 2024

What are books that changed your life?

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npub1c5t50

Sep 11, 2024

Stoked to finally have RHIZAL on Nostr 👋

Anyone know a good BTC app for Shopify? Last I looked they all seemed pretty centralized.

Also, perhaps a limited release BTC-only style to come..? 👀

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Sep 11, 2024

memento mori
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Sep 10, 2024

Elevators are magic technology.

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Sep 10, 2024

The nostr is bigger than the bitcoin

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npub1gcxzt

Sep 9, 2024

If you can see this, Tor is now inside of Amethyst.

No more Orbot.

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Sep 9, 2024

Contemplating the added complexity of meatspace business over cyberspace.

It's just much harder when you can't ship an improvement to the product to all customers with the click of a button.

Meatspace is hard.

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Sep 2, 2024

Set up my Nostr…. finally 💪

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Sep 8, 2024

What are things you'd require to have in a camper van?

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Sep 7, 2024

It's wild how much automation can be achieved by a single small electric motor...

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