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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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Full write-up and audits available here. On 26 August 2026 the Core Lightning maintainers told operators to turn off their node or run it with –offline. There was nothing to upgrade to…

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.

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 someone invites me to speak at a conference or quotes me, they often write that I’m an “ethical hacker.” I used to put that in my bio myself, so it keeps…

If AI eliminates vast swaths of employment, who actually pays for Universal Basic Income? A qualitative analysis through Austrian economics: four funding proposals, why each fails outside the US, and the deflationary…