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Tamers of Entropy
I’ve published the novel Tamers of Entropy – about the merge with AI, consciousness, identity, surveillance and what happens when someone takes a different path. It’s available in English, Slovak and Czech – as a paperback, audiobook and e-book.
Podcast episodes
Beyond the Human Template: Notes on Consciousness, Intelligence, and What We’re Missing (by Lisa) – Option Plus Podcast with Juraj Bednar
- Beyond the Human Template: Notes on Consciousness, Intelligence, and What We’re Missing (by Lisa)
- Nocoiner Syndrome – Diagnosis, treatment and money distribution effects on society
- How the cypherpunk dreams came true
- Running for the digital hills
- Tinkering, vibe coding and the long tail of open-source
Latest posts
- What do Google Play services really do on GrapheneOS? I looked inside
I looked inside Google Play services to find out what exactly they do. Here is what they give you on GrapheneOS, what it costs, and which settings make it cost less. - If Bitcoin does 100x, where does the electricity come from?
A friend told me Bitcoin can’t go up 100x because there isn’t enough electricity to mine it. I think hashrate follows price, not the other way around, so I ran the numbers on what a 100x would take. - How well do wrapped bitcoin and stablecoins hold their peg? A year of DEX prices
Four wrapped bitcoins and six stablecoins, each compared to what it tracks. cbBTC and USDC sit at par, WBTC trades a bit below BTC, and LUSD trades above the dollar. - Seven magic tricks inside one AI request
How a routstr node can forward your AI request with its own API key without reading your prompt, and you can talk to the provider without seeing that key. The whole act is plain cryptography, told as a magic show. - Confidential inference on Routstr without trusted hardware
A Routstr node can now resell AI inference without reading your prompts or answers, and without giving you its API key. It needs no enclaves, only the provider’s TLS certificate, zero-knowledge proofs and a two-party computation. Still experimental. - A prompt-injection gate for my AI agent: what worked, what didn’t, and the benchmark
I put a prompt-injection gate in front of my AI agent and benchmarked five detectors on 1,947 public items. The best caught 91% of attacks at about 4% false positives, including instructions planted in ordinary emails, where small classifiers are at chance. - Ten AI models vs embargoed Core Lightning: A case study of AI for security auditing
Speed: 1×1.25×1.5×1.75×2× · Download MP3 (7 MB)Audio version of the article (about 11 minutes). Synthetic voice. Full write-up and audits available here. On 26 August 2026 the… Read more: Ten AI models vs embargoed Core Lightning: A case study of AI for security auditing - False dichotomy: privacy vs. user-friendly
I switched from Apple to GrapheneOS and I’m trying Omarchy. Why the idea of “privacy but inconvenient” versus “convenient but no privacy” doesn’t hold up. - Hardware attestation for end-to-end encrypted AI inference
A follow-up to the hardware attestation piece: what happens when the same chip-level attestation that locks down your phone gets pointed at AI inference instead — Venice, Phala, and what I found when I actually audited the chain.
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Cryptocurrencies – Hack your way to a better life
How bitcoin, decentralized payment networks, cryptocurrencies and a return to hard, non-inflationary currency will help us change our lives and the world