Private dispute resolution keeps reappearing across centuries and civilizations because the economic logic that produces it is the same logic that produces every other market. State courts exhibit every pathology economists predict from monopoly: high cost and zero accountability to the people who use them. This post argues that merchant courts were the market default that states displaced, and that technology is now restoring them.

is indexing about 1 new app per second currently.

Every bill of exchange in pre-1914 London carried a death date. Ninety-one days after acceptance, the consumer's gold payment for the delivered goods extinguished the credit that had financed the entire chain from production to sale. Modern government debt carries no such mechanism. It rolls over perpetually, compounding interest on interest, until the arithmetic forces either default or debasement.

Thanks man, I appreciate it, glad you enjoyed the conversation.

Your code lives on GitHub and your binaries distribute through Google Play, with dependencies pulled from npm (also owned by Microsoft). Two corporations control the pipeline from source to installed application, and both have complied with government demands to remove software. The Nostr protocol now provides a coherent set of developer tools that replaces each link in this chain with infrastructure authenticated by a single keypair you own. This post maps the practical migration path.

Yes, the battery drain is because of the local notification system, next release will have big improvements for that.

Big plans... This will be epic!

Yeah. With the next edition after some feedback

Glad you enjoyed it, always good to chat with guy

Wen release for android?

is a full fledged marmot client, nice!

PGP's Web of Trust demanded ceremony. Keybase proved you could replace it with social proof, then died from centralization. Nostr's follow graph already contains the trust infrastructure that a challenge-response verification app can activate across any anonymous text channel. A suggestion for anyone looking for something worth building.

Wen blossom server in

Studying with him must have been a pleasure!

Yes, many. The NSA embedded a cryptographic trapdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator and pushed it into Juniper Networks' VPN firmware; in 2012, Chinese intelligence swapped the secret constants and turned the same backdoor against its creators. In 2004, unknown actors exploited the lawful intercept capabilities built into Ericsson switches at Vodafone Greece to wiretap the Prime Minister and dozens of senior officials during the Athens Olympics. In 2024, China's Salt Typhoon group compromised the CALEA wiretap infrastructure that US law has mandated in every American telecom since 1994, intercepting calls between presidential candidates and accessing metadata on over a million users through the exact systems AT&T and Verizon built for the FBI.

Software vendors have locked users into a consumption model for decades, distributing pre-compiled binaries that cannot be modified, forcing acceptance of unwanted features, privacy invasions, and inefficiencies. This artificial scarcity ends when artificial intelligence makes source-based installation accessible to everyone. The convergence of AI coding assistants with source-based package managers like Gentoo's Portage and BSD ports creates a new model where users shape software to their exact needs through natural language, while AI agents handle the complexity of compilation, optimization, and patch maintenance.

Your points aren't related to time preference at all? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

My recent article on how holding Bitcoin is not a sign of low time preference ruffled some feathers. wrote a fantastic article voicing the common critique. I still think that this critique falls short. So here is a response that hopefully helps clarify some misconceptions. I'm curious about the next round of feedback, so let me know what you think!

Yes they're great, and were an inspiration for using existing beautiful artwork as a backdrop, it makes so much sense.

Bitcoin Butlers makes it easy to show up and do great work. The platform handles the structure so consultants can focus on actually helping people, and clients get to pick from real specialists instead of rolling the dice. Simple, professional, long overdue.

Glad you like it

Amazing!

Well said. What are some sources to study in this regard?

I guess stacking sats fits exactly what you're looking for. Knowledge of how to use freedom tech is another.