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austrian-economics

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Die Arbeitswerttheorie: Warum Marx' Fundament nicht trägt

Marx' gesamtes System steht auf einer Annahme: Wert entstehe durch Arbeit. Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Mises und Hoppe zeigen, warum diese Annahme nicht trägt.

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The Couriers Knew

Centuries before encrypted email existed, merchants and dissidents moved letters and packages through private courier networks that outran every imperial monopoly.

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Twenty-Four Words for an nsec

Every Nostr private key ever generated can be losslessly encoded as twenty-four words, recovered byte-for-byte forever, stamped onto Bitcoin steel plates.

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The Cost of Borrowed Maps

Google Maps charges you in surveillance on every trip. OpenStreetMap and Organic Maps let your phone route locally, third parties excluded.

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The Signal Problem

Prices carry both real economic information and monetary noise in the same number — businesses can't tell them apart, so strategy built on price signals is navigation in fog.

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The Engineered Solution

Bitcoin isn't a financial product — it's an engineered, protocol-level satisfaction of the four properties Austrian economics had derived as requirements for sound money: fixed supply, rule-governed issuance, centralization resistance, and permissionlessness.

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A School of Economics Predicted All of This

Austrian Business Cycle Theory described, in 1912, the exact mechanism of credit-driven boom and bust we're living through now — and the "sound money" properties it specifies turned out to be achievable not by a commodity, but by a protocol.

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Protocol First, Library Second, Application Third

The zkSNACKs coordinator died because we ran the only one; Wasabi the client survived because that layer was protocol-shaped, not operator-shaped.

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The Unsellable Identity

Nostr accounts cannot be sold because sellers cannot prove they forgot the private key, which collapses the market for reputation handoffs.

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Sleep in a Net

Mexican matrimonial hammocks beat beds for comfort and free the whole room when unhooked. Sleep diagonally, flat back, anywhere on earth.

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Where Do You Want to Wake Up Tomorrow

Forty thousand forest parking spots across Europe, auto-discovered from open map data, scored for silence, isolation, and trees. Free download below.

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The Praxeology of Privacy: Endorsements, Foreword, Preface

Third edition, joining Austrian economics and cypherpunk engineering on what privacy is, why it survives, and how to defend it.

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Where to Start with Rothbard: A Reading Guide to His Major Works

Murray Rothbard built the most internally consistent radical libertarian system of the 20th century. This guide shows where to enter it.

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The Engineering Choice Between Complicated and Complex

Bitcoin converts a complex monetary problem into a complicated protocol, absorbing irreducible uncertainty into deterministic rules any node operator can verify.

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Where to Start with Rothbard: A Reading Guide to His Major Works

Murray Rothbard built the most internally consistent radical libertarian system of the 20th century. This guide shows where to enter it.

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Your Nostr Key Is Your Network Address

FIPS makes your Nostr npub a routable network address, unifying identity across social and infrastructure layers in a single self-sovereign keypair.

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Inside Marmot: Six Specs That Make Private Group Messaging Work

Six protocol specs define how the Marmot Protocol delivers fully encrypted group messaging on Nostr without centralized servers or metadata leaks.

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Own Your Outbox: Running Haven as Your Personal Nostr Relay

Your relay, your rules. Haven bundles four relay functions into one binary, easily deployable on a cheap VPS in an afternoon.

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Strategic Intelligence for Freedom-Builders: Paul Rosenberg's Quarterly Newsletter

Rosenberg predicted Bitcoin in fiction seven years early. His quarterly newsletter delivers strategic intelligence for freedom-builders, not commentary for readers.

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The Predator's Pedestal

The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.

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The Quiet Departure

The loudest revolutions fail; the quiet ones succeed. We do not protest or petition. We build alternatives and simply leave.

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The One Rule That Creates All Wealth

Prosperity has one prerequisite: do not steal. Secure property rights enable voluntary exchange, which accumulates capital fairly. The West is collapsing because governments have become systematic thieves.

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The Last Leak: How MIP-05 Closes the Push Notification Surveillance Hole

Push notifications let governments track your messaging habits. MIP-05 encrypts device tokens with ephemeral keys, ensuring notification servers learn absolutely nothing.

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When Can We Meet? Cross-Server Busy Sync for Nextcloud

Nextcloud can't sync busy times across separate instances. This bash script uses CalDAV to share availability between multiple Nextcloud servers without exposing event details.

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Trust Without Ceremonies: How Nostr Fixed the Web of Trust

PGP's web of trust failed because it demanded explicit rituals. Nostr succeeds by extracting trust from ordinary social behavior.

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A Constitution for the Ungoverned

Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.

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The Market's Money: Bills of Exchange and the Credit System Governments Killed

Bills of exchange were capitalism's self-regulating credit mechanism for seven centuries, until governments monopolized money creation and destroyed the entire system.

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The Candle's Work: Helping Loved Ones Escape the Most Dangerous Superstition

You cannot argue someone out of state worship. Plant questions, model freedom, preserve the relationship, and wait for the harvest.

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Breaking Free: Deprogramming State Dependence

Learned helplessness is the default response to prolonged state control; recovery requires demonstrating agency through deliberate action, not accumulating more theory.

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The Gap Between PIR and Nostr: Open Problems in Private Relay Queries

Can PIR hide Nostr queries from relays? Compound filters and subscriptions don't map to existing schemes. Here are the open problems.

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The Trust Shift: Secure Enclaves for Private Nostr Relays

TEE relays shift trust from operators to chip manufacturers. For most threats, that trade is worth making, with eyes open.

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Proving You Belong Without Saying Who You Are

Zero-knowledge proofs let Nostr users prove they're trusted without revealing their identity, enabling anonymous rate-limiting and reputation-gated relay access.

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Free Men Will Build the Roads

Nobody asks who will bake the bread because markets already do it excellently; the roads question reveals statist capture of imagination.

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Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System

The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery.

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The Price of Patience

Hoarding is not low time preference; only lending expresses it. Wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, not the reverse.

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The Action That Accomplishes Nothing

Decentralization does not prevent the adversary from acting against you. It ensures that his action accomplishes nothing.

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The Constitution That Isn't One

The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.

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The Moral Case for Debt Repudiation

Public debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge our wealth, bondholders knowingly invest in future theft, so repudiation restores justice.

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The Algebra of Trust

Anonymous commerce requires solving the trust problem, and the solution may be to treat trust itself as a quantifiable, tradeable commodity.

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The Non-Computational Nature of Agency

Vervaeke proves agency emerges from non-algorithmic relevance realization, explaining why Bitcoin and Nostr preserve human autonomy while algorithmic systems destroy it.

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A Vibe Coding Setup in Your Pocket

GrapheneOS now runs a hardware-isolated Debian VM on your phone, and OpenCode provides open-source AI coding against any provider you choose.

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The Root of Money

Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.

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Securing the Second Realm

Security in autonomous zones means making attack uneconomical through deterrence, distributed defense, and eternal vigilance against any protector becoming predator.

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The Engine of Prosperity: How Four Sources Drive All Economic Progress

Four sources of economic progress form an interdependent system that emerges spontaneously from voluntary exchange when property rights remain completely intact.

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Bitcoin Address Lookup: A Question of Privacy

Bitcoin wallets face a fundamental tradeoff: how to discover your transactions without revealing your addresses. Full nodes (2009) provide perfect privacy by downloading everything but require ~700 GB storage. Electrum (2011) achieves instant sync by transmitting your addresses directly to servers, exposing your complete transaction history. Block filters (2017-2019) restore privacy through client-side filtering - you download compact filters, check them locally, and only request matching blocks, revealing just block-level interest. Utreexo (2019) compresses the UTXO set from 11 GB to 480 bytes using cryptographic accumulators while maintaining full-node privacy, but requires 20% more bandwidth. Each approach trades privacy, storage, bandwidth, and convenience differently.

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The Universal Principles of Liberty

A voluntary libertarian legal framework built on non-aggression, self-ownership, and property rights, with decentralized arbitration replacing state monopolies on law.

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Garland: Your Keys, Your Files, No Trusted Third Party

Garland turns Blossom blob storage into a virtual drive on your device. Your Nostr key is your password. No accounts, no cloud lock-in.

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Sifting Through the Archive: Private Set Membership for Blossom

Binary Fuse filters let Blossom clients privately check which files exist on a server - download a compact filter once, query locally with zero server load, and use delta lists for real-time accuracy.

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Disappear Into the Crowd: Wasabi's Hidden Payment Superpower

Three bash scripts to queue, cancel, and run Wasabi coinjoin payments from terminal - with smart denomination suggestions for maximum privacy.

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Your Phone Without Permission Slips: The GrapheneOS Nostr Stack

GrapheneOS plus Zapstore, Amber, Citrine, Amethyst, and White Noise creates the first phone free from corporate control over your digital life.

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Know Your Enemy, Name Your Defenses

Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.

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The Colossus Falls - How to End All War

Wars persist because each generation consents to fight them; a generation that refused would be history's last to die in trenches.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 20: Implementation Strategy

Start with honest assessment. Build progressively from basics to advanced. Find community. Privacy is not a destination but ongoing practice. Progress matters.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 17: Decentralized Social Infrastructure

Nostr solves identity capture through cryptographic keys users control. Relays compete, moderation is market-driven, and the protocol extends beyond social posts.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 2: Two Traditions, One Conclusion

Austrian economics and cypherpunk practice converge independently on privacy's importance. Theory explains why; code demonstrates how. This book synthesizes both traditions.

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