Juraj Bednar

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Option Plus Podcast

The podcast for increased optionality, liberty, cryptocurrencies and life hacking.

Talks

Talks and interviews about various topics.

Online courses

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.

Freedom Map

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Podcast episodes

Strategies for liberation here and now (with Max Hillebrand pt2) – Option Plus Podcast with Juraj Bednar

Pack your revolutionary banners and hide your “civic disobedience” weapons. And definitely don’t join a political party. Reformation and revolution are both obsolete and very slow ways towards more freedom. So what shall we do instead? With Max Hillebrand, we continue our last conversation about first principles of liberty and in this conversation, we talk […]

1. Strategies for liberation here and now (with Max Hillebrand pt2) 02:46:18
2. First principles of self-liberation strategies with Max Hillebrand 01:08:09
3. The rise of artificial intelligence 27:32
4. Option+ Manifesto: Being free here and now 14:44
5. Optionality and liberty 35:56

Blog, tutorials, etc.

Learn more about cryptocurrencies, AI, better life, etc. There’s also Slovak blog.

About me

Who am I and how can I help you. Also learn about my personal philosophy and how I am showing up in the world in OptionPlus manifesto.

Latest posts

• Privacy in payment networks – crypto vs traditional, FATF rules
  Non-crypto payment networks such as credit cards are tied to a name. Often a billing address is required, which is sometimes verified. Since payment card security is […]
• Prediction markets – crowdsourcing information for good decisions
  Last year, for several days, the world has been anxiously watching the election of the US President. In the US, of course, it has been the topic […]
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  Financing content creators and podcasting 2.0
  As a teenager, I founded one of the first, if not the first Czechoslovak web e-zine (today it would be something like a blog). It was called […]
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  How to build local payment systems on top of Bitcoin
  Finally, people are thinking about cloud societies, network states and parallel communities as a real alternative to current doctrine of democratic statism. There are many societal institutions […]
• First look at Phoenix Lightning wallet for iOS
  This video is part of my course Lightning network for private bitcoin payments among friends and for products and services Phoenix Wallet homepage
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  Unbacked Lightning channels proposal – how to scale, increase capital efficiency and interoperability of Lightning
  I believe in order to improve lightning network, we should allow for unbacked channels between nodes of the same owners (operators). It would enable a few very […]
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  Bitcoin censorship will most likely come, pt 2
  In my previous article, I explained why I think Bitcoin censorship is coming without majority of miners being forced to censor transactions. I am pleased with the […]
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  How could regulators successfully introduce Bitcoin censorship and other dystopias
  Note: A lot of people think this is purely about >50% attack. Not true, here’s how this unfolds with 10% of censoring hashrate. Bitcoin is often said […]
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  Interview with GPT-3 about freedom, optionality, TAZs and Bitcoin
  Tell me the baboon story from Robert Sapolsky. When Robert was studying baboons, there was an outbreak of a virus that affected the hippocampus region of the […]