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Cryptocurrencies – Hack your way to a better life
How bitcoin, decentralized payment networks, cryptocurrencies and a return to hard, non-inflationary currency will help us change our lives and the world
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Option Plus Podcast
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Firefox setup for better privacy
Online course to help you regain more privacy while browsing the web.
Lightning network for private bitcoin payments among friends and for products and services
Online course that helps you to start using lightning network for instant and cheap Bitcoin payments.
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Podcast episodes
Running for the digital hills – Option Plus Podcast with Juraj Bednar
- Running for the digital hills
- Tinkering, vibe coding and the long tail of open-source
- The Albycalypse is near – the present and future of Lightning payments in the value4value and Nostr ecosystems (ft. Josh / Bitpunk.fm)
- How to fix the Internet – Nostr, Reticulum and other ideas
- You are a Bitcoiner now, what’s next?
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Latest posts
- 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… Read more: OpenClaw the cypherpunk-ish way - 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… Read more: When craft isn’t enough – and AI handles the rest - 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… Read more: Bridging Bitchat and MeshCore: Resilient Communication When You Need It Most - 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… Read more: Using Claude Code through Venice.ai - Keeping WiFi AP out of bedroom? How not to blast RF to your head
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… Read more: Keeping WiFi AP out of bedroom? How not to blast RF to your head - The Internet and Computers Aren’t What They Used to Be: Why Your Apps Stopped Working (Hardware Attestation)
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… Read more: The Internet and Computers Aren’t What They Used to Be: Why Your Apps Stopped Working (Hardware Attestation)