Listen to the blog as audio here I’ve already written about the need for encrypted communications and encrypted communicators. However, my focus has been on communication between people – whether written, voice, video or in groups. However, for me, communication between a computer and a human – specifically me – is also an interesting topic. […]
Listen to the blog as audio here. Today I read this: “You can simply walk away from the modern systems of slavery.Why don’t you?” – Max Hillebrand Of course Max wrote it on Nostr. But that’s another story. I read through the comments and some people were saying things like: “Yes, but I have a […]
Today, I have read a tweet praising positive impact of GDPR on security and privacy. As a founder of several security companies (being on the “receiving” end of this regulation – clients must use their services to pass GDPR checklists), I have a different experience. This is the reality of GDPR: Where Did It Go […]
Audio version: I switched to podcasting 2.0, which allows you to send micropayments to a content creator over the Lightning Network, a long time ago. In my Slovak language podcast, at the end of the recent episodes I also discuss the “boosts” of previous episodes from value4value apps such as Fountain.fm. The flow of bitcoins (“sats”) in this […]
The core of this text is a thought experiment, not science – and it’s perfectly OK if you disagree with it. I found this thought experiment to be an interesting take on an eternally debated topic. Inequality First, a few basics: the income scissors are probably melting, but what is certain is that the distribution […]
We are all waiting on Nostr social network for you. If you don’t know how to get on, I’ve prepared a video tutorial. First, install the Primal app. Then follow this video tutorial: And finally, you can start following me: npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9
After reading (well, listening to) Leopold Aschenbrenner’s set of essays (more of a book) called SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead, I decided to: First of all. Leopold Aschenbrenner is an industry insider, who used to work for OpenAI on AI alignment problems, in a team lead by now famous Ilya Sutskever. He understands what is […]
This text is a part of my new book The Orange Flash of Freedom: Understanding and using the Bitcoin Lightning network Although most bitcoin users look primarily at price and earnings, bitcoin has delivered much more than “just” digital gold. Even though altcoiners often criticize Bitcoin for being “slow” because blocks are created every 10 […]
TLDR: Bitcoin prolongs time preferences. Fiat mine (job) is short time preference. Bitcoin class of 2018+ have experienced Bitcoin, and what it leads to – peer to peer instead of hierarchy, decentralization, becoming ourselves. Now it’s time to take away the mental fog of fiat mine, step out and take one summer to think about […]
The price of Bitcoin is rising and the internet is soaked in FOMO memes: “ETF funds alone already need more than 10x of Bitcoin mined each day and in 2 months it is halving and they will need 20 times the daily mined amount” => FOMO!!!! Buy NOW!!!!!!! Let’s break this down and see what’s […]