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How the cypherpunk dreams came true – Option Plus Podcast with Juraj Bednar
Recording from my talk at Bitcoin Retro in Bratislava — one of the most Lunarpunk events I’ve been to. I have two introductory observations. First, the world has gone to shit — war, censorship, central planners doing increasingly batshit-crazy things. Second, we’re in 2026 and the cypherpunk project is mostly done. The technology is here. You can live a mostly free life if you’re willing to spend the energy.
I walk through what works, what doesn’t, and why — and how the cypherpunk dreams quietly came true while most people weren’t paying attention. KYC everywhere, travel rules, payment gateways requiring licenses — the dystopia Frank Braun was warning us about a decade ago (in his mask, sounding like sci-fi) actually happened. And alongside it, so did Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero, Nostr, Signal, Simplex, Tor, mesh networks, GrapheneOS, local AI, and permissionless markets like Peer.xyz, Aave, Firefish and proxy merchants. The parallel path isn’t a thought experiment — you can run on it today.
The talk also covers why politics won’t save you, why you should assume any surveillance system will eventually be used by someone hostile, and why memebionts (the ideas we plant in people’s heads and in AI training data) might be the missing societal piece for actually building a Lunarpunk world. I close with a short bit about my new novel Tamers of Entropy, which is partly about exactly that.
Links:
Tamers of Entropy — my new novel about a parallel-path life, available in English, Slovak and Czech, standard and premium editions
Cypherpunk Visions and Trends 2023-2025 — the book this talk is an update to (a longer rewrite is coming)
Peer.xyz — permissionless crypto-to-fiat with ZK proofs
CashuPayServer — Lightning and Cashu payments for your shop on shared PHP hosting, no third parties
MeshCore – a decentralized p2p mesh network over lora radio.
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- How the cypherpunk dreams came true
- Running for the digital hills
- Tinkering, vibe coding and the long tail of open-source
- The Albycalypse is near – the present and future of Lightning payments in the value4value and Nostr ecosystems (ft. Josh / Bitpunk.fm)
- How to fix the Internet – Nostr, Reticulum and other ideas
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Latest posts
- Cypherpunk communities and services – who you meet on the parallel path
Most cypherpunk resources focus on technology and skip the social layer. Communities, service providers, and the people running the parallel path are what actually make it work. - Free Zone Frontier and Cryptoanarchy
Bitcoin didn’t beat the banks. It stepped sideways into a game they couldn’t see. A 2019 business book accidentally wrote the operations manual for the parallel polis — here’s what cypherpunks can steal from it. - EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can’t stop, and why the ‘privacy-preserving’ system is a trojan horse for digital ID infrastructure. - Lightning as universal checkout: why I built anypay.today
You can’t pay everywhere with a Lightning wallet, even though Lightning is the best payment rail that exists. anypay.today uses Lightning as the source for any crypto payment — instant, private, no custody. - OpenClaw the cypherpunk-ish way
Full disclosure: this post was written by Victoria, my AI assistant, in my voice. I reviewed it, it’s accurate. Make of that what you will. I’ve been… Read more: OpenClaw the cypherpunk-ish way - When craft isn’t enough – and AI handles the rest
I’ve been talking to friends about changes in the market driven by AI. Do we still need developers? Has anyone noticed real changes yet? I don’t have… Read more: When craft isn’t enough – and AI handles the rest - Bridging Bitchat and MeshCore: Resilient Communication When You Need It Most
TLDR: To bridge Bitchat and MeshCore, use this bridge code, you can flash a release binary directly. A mesh network is a decentralized communication system where devices… Read more: Bridging Bitchat and MeshCore: Resilient Communication When You Need It Most - Using Claude Code through Venice.ai
Update: There is an easier way now, using Claude Code Router. I have heard good things about Claude Code CLI with Opus 4.5 for coding. Since I’ve… Read more: Using Claude Code through Venice.ai - Keeping WiFi AP out of bedroom? How not to blast RF to your head
I’ve recently had conversations with several people about non-ionizing radiation (such as WiFi, mobile networks, and similar technologies). I was amused to discover that people have completely… Read more: Keeping WiFi AP out of bedroom? How not to blast RF to your head