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For those who do not know: Nikolai was a true builder and one of the last genuine cypherpunks in crypto. He focused on elegant, permissionless, corruption-resistant systems rather than hype, profit, or personal branding. As one tribute put it, he spent his life crafting tools to realize a vision of…
today is Nikolai Mushegian's (@delete_shitcoin) 33rd birthday. here's to a genius who dared to see things for what they are and call them by their true names—and, most importantly, when he saw something wrong, he built the tools to make it right. Nikolai was a builder in the…
The Stash #01: What Monero Hides, and What It Doesn't Level: Intermediate Reading time: \~10 min Last verified: 26 Oct 2026 Version covered: Monero v0.18.5.4 "Fluorine Fermi" (GitHub release ) Contents In short Scenario Stop 1: Exchange Stop 2: Swap Stop 3: Payment Deadly zone: network and OPSEC…
We all know the idea of separating money from the state. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas was the first time I saw someone try the harder cut IRL (non-fiction): separating law / lawmaking from the state. (The real first time I ran into the idea was in Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh…
First published July 5, 2018 Came across this essay on the internets, hope it educates you the reader as much as it educated me. I admit I used to believe in Bitcoin. I was one of its most naïve and vehement apologists to friends, family members, and complete strangers (online). This was all before…
Monero Research Lab meeting - October 21, 2026 The Monero Research Lab met on Wednesday, October 21, chaired by Rucknium. In updates, Rucknium is doing further analysis for his eclipse-attack fix (#11527); tevador is working on Share or Perish and relative time locks; vtnerd is adding tests to the…
For anyone who cannot open the original link, the full text is below. The Shadow Superpower Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world's fastest growing economy -- and its future. By Robert Neuwirth October 28, 2011, 9:16 PM With only a mobile phone and a promise of money from…
Excessively Foolish Cycles "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert, Dune Civilization collapsed because of a nail, but I no longer tell this story even to my…
I. The Delusion of “Adjective Capitalism” versus The Reality of Propertarianism, Praxeology, and the Parasitic Anatomy of State Interventionism In contemporary political and academic discourse, it has become fashionable to blame every socio-economic pathology caused by government intervention on…
The Depoliticization of Law John Hasnas Advocates of the privatization of law often assume that unless law springs from some act of agreement, some express or implicit social contract by which individuals consent to be bound, it is nothing more than force. In this Article, I argue that this is a…
Monero Tech Meeting Summary — #183 (Aug 31) & #184 (Sep 7, 2026) Overview The Monero Tech meetings are weekly Monday gatherings chaired by rbrunner7 in the #no-wallet-left-behind channel (bridged IRC-Libera/Matrix). The project is currently in a heavy preparation phase for the v0.19 release, while…
Stasher News FAQ To quickly browse through this FAQ page, click the chapters icon in the top-right corner. This will let you scroll through all chapters or search for a particular topic within this page. last updated: November 1, 2026 New Stashers Start Here What is Stasher News? Stasher News is a…