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Hack your life to freedom (Lidija Zavoralova)
This is one of the rare occasions where I had an opportunity to interview someone on stage. Lidija is an amazing life hacker and her core value is freedom. Through stories, we…
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Parallel Polis: How to build a business completely on cryptocurrency
Strategies for dealing with volatility, financing and bear markets for a business that is run on cryptocurrencies. Slides Parallel Polis is a concept of a non-profit organization that decided to accept only…
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Even more privacy with DNS over TLS
In my previous post I described how to increase your privacy using DNScrypt and cloudflare’s DNS over TLS service. I was finally able to deploy this easily without hacking on Turris Omnia’s…
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Hacking the brain with open-source EEG and neurofeedback (Beyond Psychedelics 2018 talk)
What is neurofeedback? Why open-source? How can we use it? What happens if we create new senses? Recording from my Beyond Psychedelics 2018 talk. Slides are available here BTW: If you want…
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Attack on crypto attack has begun… and it is not what you think
The attacks on crypto by banks and states have begun – and they might not even be aware of it. It’s emergent behavior. Let’s see what happened.
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Patents in crypto – not a way to go
Cryptocurrencies are usually open-source and it’s by design. They would be less trustworthy if they were not. It is essential for the nodes to be open-source, for multiple implementations to be viable.…
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Who would run full nodes? Who would build the roads?: How to solve the scarcity issue of full nodes – a different look at the scaling debate
I am going to provide a different perspective on the scaling debate, specifically looking for solutions to problems that both sides of the debate present, not only weighting which side is more…
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More privacy with DNS over HTTPS
As Cloudflare announced their 1.1.1.1 DNS service yesterday, I decided to give it a try. There are two reasons for that: They promise not to log your requests and it seems that…
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Positive libertarianism: beyond hating the state (from HCPP17)
Most libertarians will go through several phases. Seeing the inefficiency or injustice of the state is one of them. I want to suggest that there is another phase: Taking your liberty into…
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Fun with Bitcoin lightning network
After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally got a lightning network node to work. Sort of. Here is the current status using the latest Lightning Desktop App.