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Cypherpunks and the Long Road to Bitcoin

Cypherpunks foresaw the failings of fiat money and centralized finance, experimenting with cryptography and digital cash to secure financial freedom. Their decades of innovation and debate paved the way for Bitcoin: a decentralized, mathematically scarce, trustless system that restores individual sovereignty and challenges traditional finance.

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Why Donating Bitcoin Actually Matters (And How the Tax Code Rewards It)

Donating to Bitcoin-focused charities isn't just philanthropic—it's strategic tax planning that lets you support open-source developers, human rights organizations, and financial freedom tools while potentially avoiding capital gains taxes on appreciated Bitcoin and receiving charitable deductions based on full market value. Whether you're donating a few thousand sats or multiple whole coins, your contribution directly funds the infrastructure, education, and sovereignty-enabling technology that makes Bitcoin's mission of financial freedom possible for people facing hyperinflation, censorship, and authoritarian control worldwide.

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What I Mean by Sovereign Technology

Sovereign technology isn’t about military doctrine, corporate IT, SaaS migrations, or certifications into proprietary ecosystems. It’s about digital freedom — open protocols like Bitcoin and Nostr that give people direct ownership of their identity, communication, and value. In a world increasingly tracked, surveilled, and monetized, sovereign tech restores resilience and trust, not as a branding exercise but as a foundation for living freely.

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The Philosophy of Liberty (And Why Bitcoin Matters)

You can't truly own your life if someone else can print money and steal your purchasing power, freeze your bank account for wrong-think, or force you to ask permission before transacting—which is why Bitcoin matters more than most people realize. This article breaks down how Bitcoin is the Philosophy of Liberty applied to money: self-ownership through private keys, property rights through a fixed supply, and voluntary exchange through a censorship-resistant network that treats everyone equally regardless of politics, nationality, or how fancy their building is.

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Why isn't Blossom more torrent-compatible? For censorship, of course.

How Blossom uses its own separate hash addresses to strike a balance between censorship resistance and practical control

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Proof of thought: How the atomic bomb and Bitcoin changed the world

The atomic bomb and Bitcoin are both technological thresholds that fundamentally reshaped human incentives—one concentrated power through fear and deterrence, while the other distributes power through mathematical scarcity and transparency. Just as nuclear weapons made global war too costly by changing geopolitical incentives, Bitcoin makes financial manipulation increasingly difficult by removing the ability to print money, tax through inflation, and control individuals' access to their wealth.

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Solzhenitsyn Would Have Loved Bitcoin

Inspired by a comment from @HODL, this article explores why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Soviet dissident, truth-teller, and moral philosopher — would have seen Bitcoin not as a mere technology, but as a stand against coercion, deception, and spiritual decay. Bitcoin reflects the same principles he lived and wrote by: personal responsibility, incorruptible memory, and resistance through truth. This is not about price — it's about proof of alignment.

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Principle of Participant Integrity in Engineered Parasovereign Orders

Engineered parasovereign protocols are designed to mechanically preserve the intentions and integrity of individual participants, ensuring that each act they instantiate is carried out exactly as authored, without reinterpretation or discretionary override.

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Bitcoin: Law Without Priests

Bitcoin is law without priests: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system where proof beats trust. Proof-of-Work converts energy into security, chaining blocks into an unforgeable history. Nodes (not rulers) enforce fixed rules—21M cap, halving, valid signatures—while miners compete for block rewards and fees. The result is permissionless, censorship-resistant, final settlement that makes money borderless, sovereign (via private keys), and independent of policy. Time becomes law; inflation games end.

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Money Is Unstealable Time

Money is condensed time. Fiat leaks that time through inflation, permission, and editable ledgers. Bitcoin replaces trust in middlemen with verifiable rules—proof-of-work, independent nodes, a fixed 21M issuance and halving—so history can’t be cheaply rewritten and property reduces to a private key. The result is portable sovereignty, credible neutrality, and final settlement across borders: the separation of money and state, with energy-backed truth as law.

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Toward a Sharper Definition of Sovereign Technology

Sovereign technology is more than digital freedom — it’s antifragile law. Building on my earlier definition, Bill sharpened the vision: keypairs as property boundaries, markets that collapse and rebuild without permission, and protocols that endure through execution, not metaphor. Sovereign tech is both the human freedom to live without coercion and the hard guarantees that make that freedom durable.