Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

But how does it do that in practice? Well a deflationary savings technology opens up our time, our mind, our attention, to focus on other forms of capital, in this case humanistic. What difference would a balanced, present, and attentive father make to a family?

This last week is proof of that. Jake, you don’t need to run a successful business right now to be valuable… Actually, the real flex, is to focus inwards, on yourself, your wife, your children, and lean into the humanistic investment.

I don’t need to do anything for anybody. I am the master of my time.

This is the benefit of a deflationary savings technology, my friend Bitcoin. I no longer have to sell my time for money.

Energy allocation. Why am I doing what I am doing?

defining a real-world dystopia depends on whether a government is using coercion to protect its citizens or to control them.

A life well lived is a life lived with intention and purpose. It's not a life swayed by notification bells, not a life lost in a constant stream of meaningless ones and zeros.

Maybe the real question isn't whether technology is good or bad—it's whether we're using it, or it's using us.

Instant messaging is a liability for your attention. It fragments your day into useless shards, creates an expectation of constant availability, and makes the kind of deep, focused work that produces anything worthwhile nearly impossible.

These fantasies aren't about becoming a hermit. They're about regaining sovereignty over my own attention.

But every transaction has two sides, and we're only beginning to calculate what we've paid. The cost has been steep, measured in units of attention and presence—the very currencies that make life feel lived rather than merely endured.

Binance Founder Pardoned President Donald Trump pardoned Binance cofounder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao yesterday. The move clears a path for one of the world's richest men (valued at over $80B) to regain control of his company. Binance is the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, processing over one-third of all digital currency transactions. In November 2023, Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering charges after failing to prevent terrorist organizations—including al-Qaida and Hamas—from using his platform. As part of a $4.3B plea deal, Zhao stepped down as CEO and served four months in a California prison. Today, the billionaire lives in the United Arab Emirates, where he has retained a majority stake in Binance. The move comes two months after The Wall Street Journal reported Binance struck a deal to promote digital coins from World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency startup cofounded by Trump and his sons. 

a wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think i too have known autumn too long

a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night

Additionally, because the Convention fails to incorporate language sufficient to protect security researchers, whistleblowers, activists, and journalists from excessive criminalization, it could be used to crack down on protected activities that advance rights and keep everyone secure online.

**Manche Narrative brauchen extrem lange, um zu bröckeln.** Dazu scheint jenes vom genetisch bedingten [Autismus](https://transition-news.org/selbst-nyt-raumt-jetzt-ein-autismus-ist-bei-weitem-nicht-genetisch-bedingt) zu gehören. Verschiedene Quellen, darunter die *New York Times*, legen neuerdings die Vermutung nahe, dass genetische Mutationen nur für weniger als 30 Prozent der Fälle verantwortlich sind.

Essentially, the startup, called Doublespeed, is pitching an astroturfing AI-powered bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major social media platforms. 

De Bolle does herself no favors when she goes for the old and badly thought-through analogy of, “We need the key to the house when we know there is a criminal inside.” The problem with this is that once the keys to your house are out of your hands, anyone can duplicate and use them. It seems that entities like Europol (EU) don’t care much if their hunger to expand mass surveillance to encrypted personal messages also takes down not only people’s privacy but the security of their internet presence overall, including online transactions. “Anonymity is not a fundamental right,” declares De Bolle – but breaking the internet allegedly to make investigators’ lives easier apparently is a “fundamental right.”

This transforms the system from a zero-sum extraction game into a non-zero-sum cooperative framework, enabling digital sovereignty, aligned incentives, and genuine value accumulation. The outcome isn’t material abundance but human flourishing through restored agency—where technology serves users, not vice versa.

Credible Exit (Nostr): Cryptographic identity and decentralized relays let users retain data/social graphs when leaving platforms, forcing alignment with user interests. Value-for-Value (Bitcoin + Nostr): Micropayments (Zaps) replace attention parasitism with intentional value exchange, shifting incentives from addictive content to genuinely useful creations. This transforms the system from a zero-sum extraction game into a non-zero-sum cooperative framework, enabling digital sovereignty, aligned incentives, and genuine value accumulation.

The current internet operates as a Prisoner’s Dilemma: platforms defect by exploiting users (via surveillance capitalism and vendor lock-in), while users defect by surrendering agency for connectivity—resulting in mutual loss of freedom and value extraction.

The “electronic cash” envisioned by Satoshi is cash; it is not notes, scrip or bank credits. We have come to think of bank notes as cash, but they are actually contracts for debt. The note holder is owed something by the issuer. Cash is a commodity with certain properties that make it useful as money.

Bitcoin requires decentralization for survival. If there is only one team of experts maintaining the only implementation, the whole ecosystem is extremely weak. If that team ends up on one or two payrolls, or is perhaps co-opted by state actors, there are obvious implications.

Bitcoin, therefore, needs more than one body of main developers. I don’t have any issues with the Core guys, technically or philosophically. I truly think they are doing great work and for the right reasons. But that is a sword that can cut both ways.

The marketplace of ideas, which was supposed to be Nostr's dream, has become a stock exchange where ghost followers are traded. The "Zap," that financial gesture of appreciation meant to be the beating heart of a value-based economy, risks ending up in the digital pockets of bots programmed to seem interesting. What value does consensus have if it is manufactured?

At its core, the LOI structurally prioritizes vague notions of “state interest” over the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. It legalizes secrecy, unchecked surveillance, and the impunity of intelligence agencies.

When money breaks, people reduce themselves to their lowest common denominator in an attempt to survive. And in a world occupied by humans with decaying structure, the lowest common denominator is sexual desire.

Nothing makes this more clear than the fact that Bloomberg, a supposed legitimate media organization, decided to host he CEO of OnlyFans, Kelly Blair, for a fireside chat to boast about the profitability of the highly controversial platform since 2016. According to Blair, OnlyFans paid out "creators" more than $25B since 2016. She stated this with a sense of pride that would lead many to think that they should believe that OnlyFans is doing something virtuous.

Nothing makes this more clear than the fact that Bloomberg, a supposed legitimate media organization, decided to host he CEO of OnlyFans, Kelly Blair, for a fireside chat to boast about the profitability of the highly controversial platform since 2016. According to Blair, OnlyFans paid out "creators" more than $25B since 2016. She stated this with a sense of pride that would lead many to think that they should believe that OnlyFans is doing something virtuous.

We've discussed the nature of the high velocity trash economy in this rag many times throughout the years, but it feels like every day it stoops to a new low. I fear that peak clown world is nowhere in sight.

Much of society finds itself in a sunken place. A circle of Hell that many societies have found themselves in the past. The money is broken and the negative externalities emanating from the rotten core of our global economy have produced a degenerate high velocity trash economy.

Something that's been bothering many of us at SovEng has been the requirement to build an entire cashu wallet into any app that want to spend some ecash. We came up with the idea of Wally, a native tray item wallet with 'cashu wallet connect'. All local.

I believe we can achieve large-scale secure HTTPS connections with no central authority involved. ### FIPS An idea me and some peers have been working on for the last 6 months is FIPS, routing of network traffic using nostr pubkeys instead of IP addresses.

### Community building In the last months we've noticed that our efforts of putting TollGate out there are starting to bear fruits. At Zitadelle we met the first people that had 'heard about' TollGate somewhere, and by the time we reached BTC++ it seemed that everyone had at least heard about the project once.

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memoro, memorare, memoravi, memoratus remember; be mindful of; mention/recount/relate, remind/speak of

they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold

Money not only facilitates and scales trade, it is also used to express individual preferences and valuations.

Polish researcher Borys Musielak (@michuk) used ChatGPT-4o to generate a fake passport in just five minutes. The document is realistic enough to bypass automated Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, the expert states. “You can now generate fake passports with GPT-4o. It took me 5 minutes to create a replica of my own passport that most automated KYC systems would likely accept without blinking.” Musielak wrote on X. “The implications are obvious –any verification flow relying on images as “proof” is now officially obsolete. The same applies to selfies. Static or video , it doesn’t matter. GenAI can fake them too. Photo-based KYC is done. Game over.”

Imagine creating multiple "skins" or user interfaces for the same set of server tools. You could build a sleek, minimalist UI for power users and a more guided, friendly experience for beginners, all without touching the backend.

More Nick Szabo and more Mircea Popescu and fewer shitcoiners is what we need.

Research shows that many users, when given complete control over their digital credentials, feel overwhelmed by the responsibility and worry about permanent loss of access if they make mistakes. The concept of autonomy allows for graduated levels of user control while maintaining safety nets provided by trusted institutions.

“validity” is something we calculate from the signatures on the person’s key, while “trust” is something we must assign to each key ourselves

"It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does. And so, a quiet suspicion starts to circulate: where have the senior AWS engineers who've been to this dance before gone? And the answer increasingly is that they've left the building — taking decades of hard-won institutional knowledge about how AWS's systems work at scale right along with them.

Instead of offering banking as a custodial service, holding customer wealth on trust, and then offering separate wealth management and investment services that share profits in real industry, they operate as fractional reserve banks—they take in customer deposits whilst simultaneously lending far more than they take in, thus creating new money in the process. This creation is an act of alchemy; the money created by the loan they make never previously existed and, indeed, one might reasonably conclude that fraud occurs every time a bank lends money. This excess of money on money is the very definition of the Islamically proscribed sin of _riba_, or usury.

I don't have enough time to build every awesome Nostr idea myself (even with AI), and my hope is that some other talented developer will read this and get inspired

identical with Brahman

In **Advaita Vedanta**, consciousness (*Atman*) is not seen as a byproduct of the brain or an emergent property of matter. Instead, it is understood as the **ultimate, irreducible reality** — identical with *Brahman*, the absolute ground of existence.

Why can't I see who I'm encrypting this text to? Am I decrypting a direct message or my NIP-60 Cashu wallet?