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GDPR – How Not to Protect User Privacy
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…
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How I save my time and attention with value4value podcasts
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…
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Rich people don’t (have to) pay taxes
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…
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How to start with Nostr using Primal
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…
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Situational awareness on A(S/G)I – a (somewhat) cypherpunk perspective
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,…
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Lightning network – the payment network of the Internet
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…
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Orange summer: slow down, turn on, tune in, drop out
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,…
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Halving numerology: Why not to expect a halving supply shock
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…
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Quick-hack: Signal on two numbers for separating groups and discussions
You’ve already read from me why it’s important to use encrypted messengers, which ones I use, or life hacks for asynchronous communication. At the same time, I am leading by example and…
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The road to Bitcoin adoption – part two: how do people get Bitcoin?
In the first part, we looked at Bitcoin’s success criteria. The path to adoption for me is – how do people that want to use Bitcoin for some reason get their hands…