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…

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…

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…

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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…

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I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny enjoyed it. I even have the suspicion that he enjoyed almost nothing else. -- Edward Teller, eulogizing John von Neumann I listened to Ananyo Bhattacharya's…

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…

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…

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…