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.
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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.
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
I’ve recently had conversations with several people about non-ionizing radiation (such as WiFi, mobile networks, and similar technologies). I was amused to discover that people have completely distorted ideas—off by several orders of magnitude—about what emits radiation and how. That’s why I decided to build a simulation. The common thinking goes like this: “I don’t […]
I was prompted to write this article when the X (Twitter) app stopped working on my phone. The culprit? New technologies that are fundamentally restricting what users can do with their own devices. A Brief History Lesson The internet was born as an open platform, built on protocols that anyone could implement. TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, […]
You have figured it all out. Laid out all the arguments. You called out the frauds and freaks, the CIA or Mossad agents, the shitcoiners, the criminals. You put all your emotions in. There should be a moment before you press that Send button to broadcast it to the world, but you probably won’t, this […]