Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

We call the first "attention economy," and the second "subscription hell."

The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. [...] Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically [...]. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible. —Satoshi Nakamoto

a natural byproduct of trying to use conventional currencies for electronic payments

the smallest payment that was possible was limited by the smallest unit of money

Make no mistake: the core principles of Bitcoin self-custody, censorship-resistance and privacy are under attack. But the Bitcoin community possesses a unique advantage that will ultimately allow us to prevail: not only do we have skin in the game, we have soul in the game.

We are on the cusp of a fundamental civilizational change. The global debt-fueled fiat ponzi is imploding right before our eyes.

Bitcoin is at the center of a spiritual war between forces of corruption and forces of liberation. There is a higher power that calls us to become the resistance.

We do it because we as sovereign individuals cannot live in isolation and we all benefit from the success of our communities. We do it because we want our kids to grow up in a world that is free from the evils of Fiat currency. May our children never suffer the corruption of participating in a socialist economic system that steals their time and their wealth by the simple fact of interacting with fiat currency.

We do it because we love Bitcoin. We believe in the ideology of Bitcoin, its underlying cypherpunk and free market principles.

I'm also heavily involved in a community circular economy project in Costa Rica called Bitcoin Jungle. We spend countless hours to educate locals, set merchants up with Bitcoin point of sales, and build the infrastructure necessary for Bitcoin to thrive as a medium of exchange in even the most rural areas. All of this we do for free, and in fact it we pay for it out of pocket!

engineering sovereignty

If we wanted to take the easy path, we wouldn't have spent years building open-source software that lets any business run their own self-hosted Bitcoin wallet API infrastructure connected directly to their own Bitcoin, Lightning and Liquid network nodes. We would have just done a deal with Coinbase or another third party to take care of the Bitcoin engineering on our behalf.

Doing Bitcoin the right way is hard.

Citrine is a nostr relay for android. It allows any nostr client that supports Android to send and receive events from this application.

ws://localhost:4869 (Citrine)

ws://localhost:4869 (Citrine)

Remember, relays can see what your Nostr client is requesting and downloading at all times. They can track what you see and see what you like.

**Tagging and searching will not work if there is nothing here.**. This option requires NIP-50 compliance from each relay. Hit the Default button to use all available options on existence today: - nostr.wine - relay.nostr.band - relay.noswhere.com

If you don't know where your posts are, you might as well just stay in the centralized Twitter. You either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you. Amethyst offers several lists of relays for our users.

#einundzwanzig

**NIP-61 NutZap informational event** (`kind:10019`) – this tag tells other people how to send ecash to you. It contains the mints you use, the relays you’ll read NutZaps from, and the pubkey they should P2PK lock your ecash to.

Bitcoin just works.

There will be balance. 'Online' and 'Offline' will be two ends of a spectrum, not a binary.

If we follow nature, failures will be local and not kill or disturb the whole organism. There will be balance.

## Growing the new web We should be growing this new version of the web, no fertilizer, let it find it's own flows, take what you need but don't try to control it or work against it. Find the natural patterns and links to how we've lived for a thousand years and build your tools around it.

## Growing the new web We should be growing this new version of the web, no fertilizer, let it find it's own flows, take what you need but don't try to control it or work against it. Find the natural patterns and links to how we've lived for a thousand years and build your tools around it.

### Homegrown software I believe software in the future will be grown, not written. LLM's and the tools we connect to it will not go away and we're seeing early signs of how future software development will look.

it's like pointing at the end of the forest. Which tree is in the forest and which one is not?

It is social, organic, it's how we've operated as humans for millennia. It's incredibly fascinating that we've been able to recreate this Web of Trust in the digital world. It's the filter that protects us from overwhelm of inputs and if needed, from each-other.

## Working with nature  Instead of working against nature we should see it's patterns and adapt to it. Don't build a pumping system if you can divert the river and let part of it flow your way.

It is in this simplicity that I see natural patterns emerge. For example, I don't think it's a coincidence that Nostr works in streams, it's a natural pattern that is most efficient and occurs in nature all the fucking time.

Inventions that fundamentally changed our world have always had one commonality: They were dead simple.

It also supports the reverse process, allowing you to monitor a public key and automatically back up all associated blobs to your local machine. Other powerful features include periodic health checks to ensure your online blobs remain accessible, enabling you to re-upload them if they disappear.

It watches a local directory, indexes any files you drop into it, and uses Blossom integration to let you access or share them from anywhere. Essentially, you can request your server to upload a file from your local filesystem to a Blossom server, making it available to be downloaded from anywhere. It also supports the reverse process, allowing you to monitor a public key and automatically back up all associated blobs to your local machine.

Beacon is a liberating and audacious idea: infiltrate walled gardens like WhatsApp with Lightning payments and other freedom technologies. Born from the realization that in many parts of the world, WhatsApp *is* the internet, Beacon uses CVM as the unstoppable glue to connect its different components and users from closed ecosystems to open networks. It's a pragmatic tool for guiding people toward free information, free networks, and freedom money.

This is especially appealing for node runners or anyone with a spare device and an internet connection. We are actively working to make this even more accessible, with plans for "one-click" CVM server installations on platforms like Umbrel and Start9, truly democratizing the ability to run one's own corner of the internet.

When a user provides their own convenience, they sacrifice nothing. Convenience is transformed into sovereignty.

This unlocks the concept of "rolling services"—infrastructure that can move geographically without any disruption in accessibility. It makes deploying services not only trivial but also unstoppable. Security and privacy are enhanced by default; since a service never needs to reveal its IP address, only the relay it connects through can see its IP, but all communication is end-to-end encrypted, rendering the relay blind to what's happening.

The complex dance of configuring networks, firewalls, and NAT traversal becomes obsolete. You can deploy a service from your laptop in a coffee shop, and it is instantly accessible to the world, securely and privately. The service is identified by *who* it is (its pubkey), not *where* it is.

Suddenly, the need for API keys vanishes, replaced by cryptographic identity. The complex dance of configuring networks, firewalls, and NAT traversal becomes obsolete. You can deploy a service from your laptop in a coffee shop, and it is instantly accessible to the world, securely and privately.

Suddenly, the need for API keys vanishes, replaced by cryptographic identity. The complex dance of configuring networks, firewalls, and NAT traversal becomes obsolete.

At the heart of our exploration was a fundamental realization: CVM enables a powerful paradigm shift by allowing services to be addressed by a public key rather than a permissioned, location-dependent IP address. This seemingly simple change has profound implications.

The promise of a truly decentralized internet has long been a guiding star for builders, developers, and advocates of digital freedom. Yet, the practical challenges of deploying services that are both censorship-resistant and easy to manage have often felt insurmountable.

pennies do not exist online. Never have, never will.

We shouldn't be surprised by the polarization and outrage maximization that we observe online; it's a natural outcome of the incentive to maximize engagement.

Human action is shaped by the subtle and not-so-subtle structures of the systems we are embedded in.

14 Jahren nach Deutschland gekommen und lebt heute in der Schweiz. Er ist Comedian, hat aber auch Cybersecurity und Geschichte studiert. Eine wilde Mischung, die ihm einen einzigartigen Erfahrungsschatz beschert hat.

Wir haben heute das freieste Geld der Welt – Bitcoin. Aber gleichzeitig schaffen wir es kaum noch, frei miteinander zu reden.

Falls du noch am Zögern bist, weil du das Gefühl hast, zu wenig über Bitcoin zu wissen, um eine Konferenz zu besuchen: Das ist Quatsch! (Finde ich.) Es gibt keine bessere Gelegenheit, um Neues zu lernen und sich mit tollen Leuten zu vernetzen als eine Bitcoin-Konferenz.

Aus der Familie wurde ich diese Woche gefragt, wieso der Bitcoin-Preis wieder steigt. „Es ist Oktober“, war meine Antwort.