Max
max@towardsliberty.com
Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
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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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Got any questions for them? Leave them in the livestream chat!
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Starve it.
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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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- 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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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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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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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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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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@@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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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high tech
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It's about building systems that can't be stopped.
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They write them into existence.
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It's like a machine gun of amazing products.
Nobody can withstand such an onslaught!
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Really looking forward to exploring alien cryptography.
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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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memento vivere
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No more Orbot.
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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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