Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

Not your keys, not your coins. This guide walks you step-by-step through setting up the BitBox02 on Linux, Android, and iOS – including critical notes on udev rules, proper backups, and the dangers of the optional passphrase.

W is being sold as Europe’s principled alternative to X, but in reality it is a case study in how centralized power, regulatory hubris, and elite technocratic anxiety collide with market reality. Announced at Davos and framed in the sanctimonious language of “fighting disinformation,” W is not a social network built for users, it is a state-adjacent communications platform designed to make speech legible, governable, and controllable. By mandating ID and photo verification, ignoring network effe...

Indexing is power. When centralized systems blur indexes and restrict synthesis, they don’t delete knowledge—they make it unusable. That’s how agency is quietly pulled back and cognition becomes tiered. Decentralized systems like Nostr and Bitcoin matter because they preserve memory, keep synthesis accessible, and let builders route around enforced amnesia.

Why we're putting books on Nostr, and not where they already are.

Open podcasting needs interoperable payments - and Bitcoin and Nostr provide the payment and metadata layers to make this possible

The v0.1.0 Alexandria app, Gutenberg edition, has been released by the Gitcitadel project team, and is in production on https://alexandria.gitcitadel.com.

We built a censorship-resistant platform for activists in 48 hours. Within hours, Venezuelan activists were using it to organize against authoritarianism.

Millions of Bitcoin are lost because private keys die with their owners. This guide explains how to use Liana Wallet and Miniscript to create an on-chain inheritance plan that relies on math and timelocks, rather than lawyers or trusted third parties.

We, the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Bitchat adopts Rust Arti for Tor. Listr returns AI-powered. Zeus fixes NWC. Primal adds wallet backup. NIP-11/66 enable relay trust scoring.

This NIP defines a protocol for CouchDB-like document synchronization over Nostr, enabling multi-master replication with conflict detection and resolution.

When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.

The worst examples are when bots can get through the "ban" just by paying a monthly fee.

The BitcoinWalk is a global, grassroots movement where Bitcoiners meet weekly for walks to learn and discuss Bitcoin in an open, judgment-free environment. Combining education, community, and physical activity, it fosters deep conversations on money, tech, and self-custody—making Bitcoin accessible, one step at a time.

My two sats on AI and vibe-coding.

The Matrix wasn’t a movie, it was a prophecy, and the Wachowskis smuggled 2,000 years of forbidden Gnostic and Christian theology past Hollywood to give you the manual for a reality that feeds on your ignorance. The red pill was never about politics, it’s about the moment you realize that love and knowledge together can break any system, no matter how total it seems. This is the theological blueprint for why everything feels fake, why decentralization matters, and why awakening without compassio...

Being cast out of the system reveals its deepest secret: you were never its beneficiary, only its fuel. Freedom begins with this recognition.

The 59th dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter 😍

In diesem Essay beleuchten wir die fundamentale Spannung zwischen Moral und Anreizen in Wirtschaft, Politik, Alltag und Technologie. Menschen handeln oft nicht nach ethischen Prinzipien, sondern nach dem, was ihnen kurzfristigen oder langfristigen Nutzen bringt. Wir analysieren, wie Anreize Fehlverhalten begünstigen, wie Systeme wie Bitcoin moralisches Handeln durch ökonomische Mechanismen fördern und welche Strategien helfen können, Anreize und Moral zu vereinen. Das begleitende Blog-Bild visua...

A tangier alternative to a traditional creamy potato salad. Best served warm. A perfect side for a winter supper.

Much of the church’s life now takes place in digital spaces it does not govern. The structures of those spaces shape how authority, identity, and witness are formed, often in ways the church does not choose. Nostr offers a different model. It allows communication without surrendering identity or visibility to a single corporate system. Churches do not need to host infrastructure to participate, but doing so allows them to create digital spaces ordered toward their own pastoral life and public pr...

When defense costs less than attack and property emerges through daily practice, autonomous zones become economically sustainable refuges.

We are taking this question to the streets in different countries. Support our crowdfunding and help us ask it to hundreds and thousands of people.

Egg in a hole

This roasted cabbage recipe features the perfect crispy, charred edges and tender interiors, bringing out the sweetness in the cabbage.

When journalist Scott Ritter woke up to a $0.00 bank balance after 26 years with Citizens Bank; no charges, no crime, no explanation, his response revealed everything wrong with how we think about financial freedom. Instead of recognizing the brutal truth that fiat banking is permission-based control, he begged the very system that destroyed him for mercy: letters to Congressmen, appeals to the FBI, pleas to bank executives. The system isn't broken, it's working exactly as designed to transform...

Infiltration is inevitable; detection is unreliable. The real defense against state informants is building organizations where their presence cannot accomplish its purpose.

Lighting should be warm.

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

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

Why voting is the worst way to determine who will govern, excepting all of the other ways.

Holding money does not defer gratification but consumes the opportunity cost of lending, making hoarding a present expense rather than proof of low time preference.

This essay traces a quiet continuity from mineral to machine to money. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner, ancient philosophy, and modern computation, it explores how form emerges from formlessness through lawful constraint, and how Bitcoin, built on silicon, reintroduces structure, consequence, and meaning into a world long ruled by abstraction.