Being Primary

Being primary means creating from your own will, sparked by your own ideas. It is rarer than it looks — and the systems around us actively select against it.

Against the Human Slop

AI slop is annoying. But the real problem isn’t that machines are writing it. The real problem is slop itself, and human slop has been with us much longer.

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 running OpenClaw for a while now, and the setup has gradually evolved from “let’s try this” into something I’m genuinely happy with. It’s not perfect, nothing ever is, […]

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 radical answers. As with other shifts, I think it won’t move in a single line — some areas will be hit fast, some slow, some maybe not at […]

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 relay messages for each other. Unlike traditional networks that depend on central infrastructure like cell towers or internet servers, mesh networks work peer-to-peer. If one path is blocked, […]

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 also heard about usage limits and I’ve noticed that Venice.ai now supports commercial models (including Opus 4.7) with pay-per-credit, I decided to give it a try. You can […]