Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

They promised you cleaner air and cozy cafés but what they’re building is a digital gulag. Beneath the glossy language of “sustainability” and “smart cities,” the 15-Minute City hides the final piece of a total control grid: a world where your movement, money, and identity are algorithmically policed. This essay rips apart the utopian veneer to reveal the dystopia underneath, where convenience becomes confinement, climate policy becomes population management, and the digital prison arrives not ...

The greatest covert operation in financial history was deployed in silence: operators converted wasted energy into immutable monetary armor, slipped a permissionless ledger beneath the world’s currencies, and watched empires burn from the inside as their keepers panicked. We move like shadows—seed relays, harden nodes, stack sats, funnel zaps, turn every bailout and regulation into recruitment until the old order is ash and the protocol stands sovereign.

Our pets' heads are falling off!

Thoughts on the automatic splitting of sat flows.

This is a test. please ignore

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​My aim is to reframe Nostr users not as social media adopters, but as active operators in a strategic insurgency against centralized control. By applying military special operations framework to decentralized protocols, it demonstrates that Nostr users are conducting real resistance operations, not just discussing them.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology.

My dad killed himself today. He hanged himself in the morning.

Der Bitcoin-Service aus Kanada

During the recent SovEng 5 cohort, we embarked on a period of intense experimentation with ContextVM (CVM), a technology that we believe provides a powerful new foundation for sovereign infrastructure. This article shares the insights, breakthroughs, and a Cambrian explosion of projects that emerged, painting a picture of a more liberated digital future.

Brief test

# The Compression Member

It's the money, stupid.

Nostr should have a marketplace of third party service providers that calculate personalized trust metrics for consumption by nostr clients. This will enable the development of more sophisticated trust metrics, promote consistency of the user experience across nostr, and free up client resources to focus on their core missions.

Das Paradox der Genies

Time has flown by during the summer holidays. August gave me a welcome break from the digital world, and there were moments when I felt truly unplugged. I’m sure I missed a lot of Nostr updates, but that doesn’t worry me, signal-worthy ideas still find their way to the top. Now that it’s October and I’m wrapping up this article. I guess September was that busy I forget to finish up this article.

A sort of Nostr-based web manifesto

# Tensegrity: A Background Essay

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TollGate v0.2.0 is now live! This release features a completely rebuilt captive portal for a smoother user experience, with an improved mobile interface and enhanced payment flow for Cashu. Learn about the new features, download the firmware, and join our first community call on October 21st

Using nostr as a base layer to create, consume, and monetize long-form content.

Speculative attack, accelerate.

What does this say about us?

I lifted this off of eatwell.com for testing purposes but it sounded good too. Credit to Liz Mervosh #chickensoup

The People of the Oath

The Infinite Subway Paradox

MLS + Nostr = Marmot 🦫

Why only cash is king and private monetary transactions are the main show.

This article proposes a foundation to guide safer internet tools for children within the Nostr ecosystem. By developing relays, clients, and bunkers independently yet coherently, it creates layered protections with broader benefits for all users.

Heart Words #15

Applesauce v4.0: SQLite, Wallet Connect, negentropy

What does it truly mean to abide in Jesus and why does it matter

From moral imagination to spontaneous order, Bitcoin makes visible what Steiner dreamed and Hayek defended.

an autumn favorite.