#bitcoin design engineer @hosekiapp / @hrf grantee working on @cashubtc.
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May 5
the fbi director and acting attorney general were invited to give a talk on code as speech. the developers who wrote the code are in prison.
#freesamourai
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An Empire that hasn't realised that it's already dead
Watching this in 2026 feels like if Austria-Hungary had internet
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one of my favorite things about america: it was born out of rejecting everything monarchy represents. kings inherit. founders build.
today, this “kings” country is a protectorate of the republic founders built just 250 years ago. watch them larp in their open air museum.
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the gov just restricted fable 5 under export control law. we've been here before. in the 90s strong encryption was classified as a munition and placed under arms export controls. the cypherpunks fought and won.
read the cypherpunk library. cypherpunklibrary.com
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start here: Why I Wrote PGP by Philip Zimmermann
cypherpunklibrary.com/book/w…
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Jun 13
Jun 13
As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.
Here’s what this means for you:
Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.
On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.
We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.
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end to end encryption is an asymmetric power for the people. math to protect you. there's nothing they can do about it.
never comply. there is always a way.
Jun 11
So @Signal will exit the UK before weakening end-to-end encryption.
A strong no-logs VPN layered with their built-in censorship circumvention and TLS proxy support keeps access operational.
Android sideloading works cleanly.
@GrapheneOS will help
Serious operators self-host the proxy. This infrastructure has sustained Signal in far more hostile censorship environments. The protocol does not break.
Private comms continue.
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Erik retweeted
Jun 7
weekend project: cypherpunkbooks.com
one shelf for books, manifestos, essays, etc... built it for myself to keep everything I want to read and everything i love in one place.
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Erik retweeted
Jun 12
This is so great and required reading for anyone who wants to find some hope in these trying times.
Cypherpunks are the pragmatists we don’t deserve, builders of the free new world who often ask for no credit but wish to see their ideas flourish for humanity.
Jun 7
weekend project: cypherpunkbooks.com
one shelf for books, manifestos, essays, etc... built it for myself to keep everything I want to read and everything i love in one place.
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Jun 12
great commentary by joe sacco on the power of privacy that cash gives the user.
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Jun 12
related reading: ‘your secret right to cash’ by @valkenburgh
cypherpunklibrary.com/book/y…
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Jun 10
Finally got my hands of them.
A whole carton of Kim Jong Un’s go-to cigarettes (allegedly).
North Korea’s domestically produced 7.27 cigs named after the victory day of the liberation war against the US, July 27, 1953.
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Jun 10
much respect to the @secondhq team for the deluge of excellent shipping recently.
SECOND IS NOW ON MAINNET.
Bark, our implementation of the Ark protocol, is available for anyone to start making bitcoin payments.
Included in the launch are our mainnet Ark server, the Bark SDK, and multiple wallets to try from day one.
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Erik retweeted
Jun 10
[PREVIEW] Proof of Reserves for @CashuBTC powered by Bark and Nostr
Verify the minimum balance of an ecash mint cryptographically using a cosignature between the Bark client and the Ark server.
Works out of the box on mainnet. More details coming soon.
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Try Numo today at the Freedom Tech Summit in Prague.
@eriklocalhost is on-site to help.
Jun 10
Join us today at 4 PM for Numo user testing at the Freedom Tech Summit in the Bitcoin Design room.
Stop by and say hi 👋 @eriklocalhost will be there too.
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Jun 10
Join us today at 4 PM for Numo user testing at the Freedom Tech Summit in the Bitcoin Design room.
Stop by and say hi 👋 @eriklocalhost will be there too.
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Erik retweeted
Jun 9
don't tread on me.
come and take it.
Beslut: Permanenta uppehållstillstånd tas bort riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och…
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Erik retweeted
Jun 9
In 1949, Claude Shannon wrote a paper that turned cryptography from a craft into a science.
He proved that a message could be encrypted so well that intercepting it tells you nothing, no matter how much computing power you bring.
Whoever held your data was no longer the thing protecting it.
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