Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

A short guide on how to publish long-form articles on Nostr using nak.

Nel suo recente post su X (28 aprile 2026), Giovanni Santostasi ha condiviso le impressioni di un incontro con Michael Saylor. Si aspettava un dibattito tecnico approfondito sulla matematica che governa Bitcoin, ma il confronto si è rivelato deludente

Baltasar Gracián encarna la crisis barroca: sustituye el concepto por el ingenio, disuelve la verdad estable en perspectivas y convierte el conocimiento en artificio. Su pensamiento anticipa la fragmentación del sujeto, el desengaño y una vida regida por la apariencia, la prudencia y la estrategia.

Amazon's earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights.

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons - by Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns Read on Aeon

The good-vs-evil paradigm of most pop-culture storytelling is a relatively recent effort to promote social cohesion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

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

Angor gives investors what ICOs and crowdfunding never could: the cryptographic ability to recover their funds if projects fail to deliver.

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

Every civilization before the modern state treated crime as a debt owed to the victim, enforced through restitution and community insurance.

Replace DVM request/response overhead with simple replaceable events. Publishers maintain feed lists, clients just subscribe. No round trips, no privacy leakage

Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.

Developer KYC creates chokepoints that authoritarian governments ruthlessly exploit. Zapstore restores permissionless software distribution using cryptographic identity instead of government papers.

Two scripts that randomize timing between Wasabi coinjoin rounds, making your payment patterns indistinguishable from organic human behavior.

Insurance prices risk, arbitration resolves disputes, restitution makes victims whole, and cryptographic enforcement binds them all into one complete system.

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

Coinjoin entropy becomes computationally impossible to calculate exactly for large transactions, but lower-bound estimates provide rigorous cryptographic guarantees through information theory.

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

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.

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

Governments cannot kill open protocols, so they imprison the humans who write them, spending $275 billion per year to catch nothing.

Nostr relays see everything - who connects, what they fetch, how often they post. Zero-knowledge cryptography can fix all three problems: Semaphore-based authentication hides which whitelisted user is connecting, private information retrieval hides which notes you're fetching, and Privacy Pass enables rate limiting without identity linkage.

One command in your Qubes template installs `xsel` and creates an autostart service that wipes your clipboard 30 seconds after you copy anything. Works on Debian, Fedora, and Whonix minimal templates.

A simple challenge-response app can verify Nostr identities across any anonymous channel by querying the follow graph users already built.

Justice is a service that degrades under monopoly and improves under competition. Merchants proved this; now builders are proving it again.

Freedom tech projects build censorship-resistant tools on censorship-susceptible platforms. The Nostr stack offers a coherent migration path for sovereign development infrastructure.

Bitcoin plus Nostr creates programmable money that solves software monetization through micropayments respecting user sovereignty.

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

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

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.

Most agent chains fail because they pass work around without narrowing the task, and the Ralph loop forces actual, reliable closure.

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

Reticulum and FIPS both build permissionless encrypted meshes, but they differ radically in routing, crypto primitives, and their relationship to IP.

PIPEs v2 turns spend conditions into key-recovery conditions, letting Bitcoin enforce proof-gated authorization through ordinary Schnorr signatures and extraordinary off-chain cryptography.

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

Libertarian strategy gains more from building parallel institutions that coexist with state power than from reform or territorial exit.

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

NIP-17 promises deniable messaging with its three-layer design: an unsigned "rumor," a signed "seal," and an ephemeral "gift wrap." However, this setup has a hidden vulnerability. The signed seal allows recipients to prove that a message was sent by the claimed author, even without revealing the content. This creates a perfect scenario for gossip attacks, where the mere proof of communication can damage reputations. As we explore NIP-17, we find that the rumor, despite being unsigned, is not as ...

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

Bitcredit is the concrete protocol reconstructing bills of exchange on Bitcoin, closing the credit layer gap that prior posts have diagnosed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The parallel economy has sound money and encrypted communication but still lacks the credit layer needed to finance production across time.

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