How the cypherpunk dreams came true

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Welcome to yet another episode of the Option Plus podcast.

[00:00:06]I usually release recordings for my talks in English in this podcast or at least I try to release all my English recordings besides other uh content uh that I make specifically for this podcast. And this time it will be no different. This is a recording from my talk at an event called Bitcoin which was uh in English the talk not the whole event. It was in Bratislava and it was one of the most lunar punk events I ever experienced uh for various reasons.

[00:00:46]It had an amazing uh musical performance uh uh very uh good and interesting speakers and and so on and uh my contribution and my inspiration for this talk was um twofold. So first of all uh I attend I attended an event where I met my friend who I don't meet very often and he was asking me you know this libertarian project how is it going it's probably not going so well and was like very skeptical and um he wanted me um to complain because uh he's more leftleaning and um uh you know it's not uh going well for them as well uh uh but uh I kind of surprised even myself with my reply uh because when I thought about it uh I realized that the parallel path and uh what we can actually do um is going so well that I think that the cypher punk project uh and cryptonarchy project is mostly done. And what I mean by it is that the technologies are here and you can live a mostly free life if you want to do it and if you spend some energy to do it. So it doesn't come for free, you know, you are not born in a libertarian society or anything like that. Of course. Um but if this is something that is important for you, it is possible. We have um many things that you will hear about um in this talk. Um the second uh inspiration was I started writing an update. I wrote this small book that is uh called Sephunk Visions and Trends 2023 to 2025.

[00:02:59]and we have 2026. So it might it might be a good uh idea to look at uh what has changed, what has been implemented, if my visions uh came true. Uh by the way, visions uh that doesn't mean predictions. Visions is what I would like uh to happen and what trends are I'm seeing. That's the other other part of cypher punk. Visions and trends. Um so these were not predictions about the future. These were basically uh the uh my my visions and the trends that I was seeing. Um so before writing an update I thought I'd do a talk in between. Maybe I will uh finish the book this year or next year. Um and it's a very short read uh about what is happening. So you will hear my current updates and my current view of the things happening and uh back to the uh back to uh the original point that we have everything uh we don't have libertarian society. This society needs something more than technology and possibility to do it.

[00:04:14]Society means there are people around you who can make this happen and this is uh uh not always the case. There are many people who live in um places where um people around them don't get it. Uh but there are of course uh other options and uh the main uh thing is that um among these options are online communities and you can you can do many things in online communities but uh there are many things that you cannot do and um I think one of the few things that uh would be very useful to help this uh societal uh part of um cypher punk visions um would be uh creating meme bions. So meme bions are someone calls calls them memes but that means something else right now. U these are the ideas that people have about how things work. Um and basically um it affects our mindsets and our view of the world our our personal experience. And I've been thinking lately a lot that it looks very different um in uh different people's heads. You know, if we we kind of assume that everyone thinks like we do uh but it's not the case and uh um it's affected by many things uh personality, intelligence, you know, trauma, experience, uh um occupation and uh many many other things. Um so I thought that a very useful thing uh to do would be to uh create a fictional world where all these mindsets could be seen in the in the characters how they think what they what they do how they perceive the world. Um so I uh wrote about the project of a parallel path um in my book called tamers of entropy. We will hear a little bit about it um in the talk. Uh this is how it looks like. Uh this packaging um and inside is the book. Uh if you get the audio version, there's a USB key with the with the audio of the book as well. And there's some bonus materials in the premium package uh as well. Uh it has a soundtrack which you can uh listen to at tamersofanthropy.net. at um so this is this is already out there and I hope you will enjoy it and uh I think you know um so it's not dactic it doesn't uh explain what um uh what cypher pang is what lunar pang is it is not meant to you know give you a lecture um but uh at the same time I think it's quite useful because of what I just said, it shows uh um a different way to look at the world and to apply it to situations around us. So I I tried to make it very realistic.

[00:07:36]There's the first part that is about the hacking and you can even see some assembler code, some SE pseudo code and real exploits and so on. uh if you're not very technical don't worry you don't really need to understand it in detail and you can continue reading and then there's another part about mind and about building uh connection uh among the minds and uh also between um computers using technology and the and the mind um also very realistic by the way I have tried many of those things that I um uh that I write about and the last part is uh uh building a parallel path with um um well I won't spoil it to you. Uh so I hope you will enjoy this uh this book. It comes in English which is the original and also Slovak and Czech translation. So uh go have a look at tamersofanthropy.net net and I hope you'll enjoy this book and uh that it will be valuable to you. All right, so Bitcoin is a retro my talk about cyberpunk dreams. Uh I will spo spoil the whole whole talk whole idea right now. Uh I have uh two observation the world has gone to [ __ ] Uh there's war censorship. The central planners are completely batshit crazy and uh it's uh bad and it's going to get worse.

[00:09:26]And it's 2026 and we have cryptonarchy uh which means we can deal with all this [ __ ] um in a relatively good way. Um so this is uh you know the the big US honcho is doing the state of the union.

[00:09:44]Uh I will I will explain the state of cryptonarchy what it is uh uh what works what doesn't work and um why um and how the cypher punk's dreams uh came true.

[00:10:02]Um so the first observation is crucial because when you have a working society everything is nice um business works you can start business you can trade you can travel you can speak freely no one gives a [ __ ] about cryptony like when you were talking to people about bitcoin when it started everyone said what are you talking about you know bank transfers are free everything works why why why do we need different money. Of course, it was at the time of uh uh financial crisis. So, some people were seeing the cracks, but they didn't fully understand. Um then maybe 10 years later, people started seeing the cracks.

[00:10:48]Uh there were like stopped bank transfers. Business was not so easy. And now even ordinary people with like retail bank accounts often get calls from uh from the bank you know what is this transaction uh where does the money come from or do you really want to send money abroad to protect the seniors and so on. Um so people are starting to realize that these uh technologies and this parallel path actually might be a good idea.

[00:11:23]So every year the screws turn. Uh we have a KYC everywhere. Um when Frank Brown uh spoke and when I first met him at the Bitcoin conference uh in London, um he was explaining that there will be time where we will do OTC trades and when every exchange will want to KYC us.

[00:11:51]And when I looked at him, he was wearing a mask and so on. I was thinking, okay, like he's read too much sci-fi and too much cipher punk mailing list. Like why would any exchange do KYC? Doesn't make sense. It's like horrible for user experience. It would never happen. So he was completely right. We even checked the talk and is like it was very very dystopian. Uh and it all became true. So uh I'm not going to make predictions because I'm very bad at predictions. Um but let's just see what is happening. So KYC everywhere travel rules. Now since this year if you want to buy something uh uh with crypto and the merchant uses a payment gateway which is licensed they will KYC you even for buying coffee whatever. Since this year we have solutions for that as well. uh chat control is creeping in CBDC's.

[00:12:50]Fortunately, the central bank is uh quite [ __ ] So, I don't think they will make their own deadline, but it will come at some point.

[00:13:01]Age verification, identity gates, all this uh stuff is coming.

[00:13:08]Uh so, vote harder, you know. Um it's just, you know, vote for the better people. Unfortunately and also fortunately this doesn't work. Um unfortunately means that a lot of people will be disappointed because every four years they vote harder and every four years the result is the same. Uh fortunately if you realize that politics will not save us, you will not um you will not uh look um uh at politicians as a solution. uh you will look uh for other solutions and try to use them. So uh this is easy easily set but it's a mind switch and you have to do it. So I will tell you how I do this mind switch.

[00:13:58]So when I walk the street I see a cop most people see okay it's a cop you know whatever finding someone for bad parking or you know handling drunk homeless person and so on. So these are like normal people doing their job. What I see when where where there's a cop uh I see oh okay this is the parasite. He's working for the violent gang that is controlling this area. And my job like in an adventure game is to avoid uh this person uh in a way that will not cause any harm to me or anyone else. So you start playing this game. Um and when you make this mind switch uh just a very important uh footnote nothing about the reality will change you know the the copy is still a guy writing a parking ticket. It's nothing nothing special about it and nothing nothing changed. Uh but when you start looking at the world like this uh you will never uh go to the you know uh let's vote harder or politicians will fix it. You can see this also on a like on a on a municipal level. You know roads should be fine.

[00:15:18]You know there should be no potholes.

[00:15:19]They should work. Um uh and there is someone else that should make this happen. And when you stop thinking like this uh you will start looking for other solutions.

[00:15:33]Um another crucial um mindset switch is um understanding that every regulation and the infrastructure built around that regulation um will stay and it will stay also for the bad guys. So my hardcore version of this is okay there's a surveillance package you know there's um or censorship package you know there's Russian propaganda we have to fight it so let's uh let's fight uh this information what I tell that person each time is okay and now imagine that the next prime minister is a new Slovak version of Adolf Hitler how would this law uh work in this situation like will it be a good idea to have like a button to censor everyone and you know see everything probably not.

[00:16:35]So once a surveillance system exists no government willingly dismantles it. So always with every regulations when you see it always assume uh that the keys to that infrastructure is your worst enemy politician that you can imagine. And uh if uh if this will um uh this will also sound like a good idea.

[00:17:01]So the solution is to build the parallel path. That's what the um the cipher banks decided. And um at the beginning it really looked very weird. It was a bunch of nerds uh you know putting envelopes in inside envelopes on paper and seeing how to do onion on routing for anonymity and playing with cryptography and sending some weird signed and encrypted messages. Um and it's quite a stretch to imagine how this could be used uh for um improvements for for better society but especially for better better individual liberty. So I think they were quite visionary in this in this case. I would definitely not uh make that leap that once you have zero knowledge proofs and encryption and signatures you can build money, you can build um decentralized organizations, anonymization networks and all these things. So uh uh so it's not a revolution, it's not a reform, it's exit quietly through code, not only through code, I will talk about that but also through code and uh this exit is individual. So with every other uh philosophy about liberty um the problem is people are expecting everything to change. You know the communists which are not really about liberty but let's say have some ideas and the way to introduce these ideas is not that they change something about their behavior but they force everyone into their idea. Uh but this is also true uh in some sense about um like a standard anarcho capitalism. They are uh envisioning how a stateless society would come like what would happen if there was no state. So cryptonarchy is a form of um anarchal capitalism.

[00:19:11]Uh but uh in this case uh it focuses on individual action. It doesn't wait for anything. It assumes that there is an oppressor or someone who makes your life harder and uh it is only interested in in building the parallel path that routes around it as we say on the internets.

[00:19:34]So these were the three visions the three manifestos. Uh the Tim May one which is uh a parody on the communist manifesto. I don't know if you if you realized it. It starts the same as marks. Um uh I will not read through them but I will I will say something. So um uh so they basically claimed the same thing from from different points of view. Then there was Eric Hughes which wrote the cypher punks manifesto. I will quote something from there. Um and John Perry Barlo. Uh many people don't know this.

[00:20:14]This is quite beautiful. It is more poetic. Declaration of independence of cyerspace which is referring to de declaration of independence of the US.

[00:20:26]And uh um this one is quite poetic. I like it.

[00:20:31]Uh and I also used it in in my book which which I I will tell you later about. uh it says that this new cyerspace thing this new internet this new virtual space is a new space for mind. So what happens is our minds can expand there and cooperate there and uh in some sense live there or parts of our minds and uh it says that uh as it was very clear it says to the states that you're not welcome here. This is our space for our minds and it's not for the governments of the world to occupy.

[00:21:11]So uh Eric Hugh Eric Hughes uh this is a very famous quote uh cypher punks write code and now uh most of you think you cannot write code but u for the past 6 months this is not true uh because we have a AI that uh if you ask it nicely or not so nicely to write code for you it will write code for you and the code will be good. So if you have an idea how to solve something in um um in this um field of cryptony and no one has done it yet. It's uh a few prompts away at least that's what it looks like at first. Uh but uh I'm just telling you it's it's not you know it's an observation. It's not a prediction.

[00:22:06]You can all write code now. you can you just uh need to start if you look at look at my uh open-source repos I'm I wrote I don't know tens of projects in the last uh 6 months and uh it's quite crazy so this is one of the things that accelerated uh the uh the um coming of uh cryptonarchy to our lives uh it's it's been absolutely insane what kind of technologies are out there.

[00:22:40]Uh Frank who will talk later said this very nice uh thing technology leads politicians follow. Um I will look at one aspect of this idea and this one aspect is uh that uh usually what happens so let's let's take bitcoin as an example. So, Bitcoin was created, it was launched, people started using it and uh for maybe a decade most politicians were basically repeating this is not money, this is not money and this is you know some kind of nothing on the internet and we don't know what to do with it. It takes them quite a lot of time to realize what is happening and then of course the rules and the legislation uh updates.

[00:23:30]Um so uh technology leads is very nice for us because we are very good at technology. Uh a very good thing about technology is you cannot usually uninvent it. So if it's good, if it works, if it's uh uh even antifragile, uh it will not go away like like once you know how to start fire, you will never forget it and you suddenly live in a world where fire exists and you can uh you can use it but the politicians follow. So the technology has to adapt like uh you you can get like a decade of increased liberty because of some technology but after 10 years or after uh they realize what is happening you need to adapt you cannot uh you cannot stay. So every of these uh each each of these free zone frontiers basically has an expiration date uh which comes creeping in uh but uh you need you need to understand okay what is the next step uh in this technology how does it have to evolve because the politicians they do follow they they don't stay asleep um operating principle Don't forget perfect shipping. Like if you have a better algorithm for sorting the Nostra timeline, commit ship. Okay, maybe someone will figure out something better in one month. Uh but you started it and you are pushing the the technology forwards.

[00:25:12]Especially in crypto space in Bitcoin space there is lot of what I called religious fundamentalism like Bitcoin maximalism people u don't use all opportunities because they think that you know oh it's not built on Bitcoin so it has to be [ __ ] no if it works if uh if you can use it use it someone is shipping if someone built something on Bitcoin use that later not a So, um that's uh that's the maximalist trap. Um so I would say hold what you like uh and pay what they need. I invented in one of my books something uh that I called the law of cryptocurrency isomorphism which means that once you have a cryptocurrency and it's capable of at least atomic swaps it is not possible to ban it and you can compose it. So let's say a merchant uh wants to sell you some herbs. Uh they say, "Oh, we only accept Monero. Uh I only have Bitcoin on Lightning." Swap, you know, don't go into the discussion. Oh, but you are using a Monero and that's a sheetcoin and I'm on lightning and it's better and like no like scan the QR code, use a swap service, pay 0.5% fee, click send, get your herbs, everyone is happy, they get Monero that they like, I pay Bitcoin that I like to own and use and it's all fine. So uh in order for me not to be you know preaching but doing I have uh uh launched any payto today um which does exactly this. It's a simple web app that you just add on your home screen. It can scan any QR code and you can pay it with lightning and you can bet on Poly Market with USDC on Polygon or whatever they use. you can pay Monero and so on.

[00:27:28]I was one I was speaking um a few days ago with a friend who used to be a Bitcoin maximalist and he said that he realized that he missed a lot of opportunities. Uh now he realized okay I can use Bitcoin as collateral and short the fiat shitcoins. Um and if he was not spending his Bitcoin he would actually have more of it uh not less. Uh so uh but you know it's ah it's uh runs on Ethereum a and and so on. It's not you know that's not compliant with my religion. Um I think my my perception of this is compost things use whatever works and uh um and uh also uh support it. Uh I think it's a good idea that we have these D5 banks. Hopefully we will talk about it later.

[00:28:25]Uh I said uh at the the beginning of this talk that uh there is a problem um with the merchant site. uh because since the beginning of this year all the regulated u payment gateways which they call virtual asset service providers um or or uh CASP I think that's that's a new uh buzzword um they have to uh uh uh they have to do KYC on the customer um So uh that's uh uh that's quite bad.

[00:29:07]Uh so I realized that uh this is a big problem uh because most people don't want to run their own payment gateway.

[00:29:17]It is BTC pay server you need to start bitcoin node lightning node docker uh becomes super complicated. Uh so I created something that I call cash pay server. Not the best name I have to admit, but it's a lightning gateway that runs on the PHP hosting that you already have. So if you have VCommerce, ehop, press shop, anything that can use BTC pay server as a payment gateway, you just unpack one zip file, go through fourstep wizard, and you can accept lightning into your own wallet uh uh using cashew means. Um, so this way you can go around these gateways. You don't have to KYC your customers. Uh, if you like if it still seems more complicated than uh than the payment gateway, I will just uh tell you exactly how it is. I will not pay uh with Bitcoin to a gateway that does KYC on me. I will just close the tab and I will not buy basically. Um, so the merchant site also works. So I'm also shipping uh some small things. Uh, you can use it today. It's open source.

[00:30:35]You can just uh it also has a uh WordPress plug-in. So if you use WordPress and WooCommerce, you just uh paste that zip there and it will it will just work.

[00:30:47]So what are the technologies that we use? Um, money you cannot be kicked out of. Bitcoin did the thing that was supposed to be impossible.

[00:30:58]Uh, of course, it went way beyond Bitcoin. Right now, we have other technologies such as Lightning on top of Bitcoin or Monero, Zcash, cashew, fed and so on. I think I don't have to talk about it too much uh at this event, but uh it's it's here.

[00:31:19]Um we also need permissionless markets and I said that cryptoni is here. So uh we have a permissionless markets of course we have swap services uh unis swap uh and and many many others uh in in defi. We have prediction markets which even the oldest cryptonary manifesto mention mentioned um they use the name information markets which uh which a prediction market is a form of an information market. So you're betting on a real world outcomes and that that has some very interesting properties which I think Philillip uh no no Phillip Peter will talk about. Um uh there is also um uh DAO decentralized autonomous organization that is implementing futur which puts this a little bit uh further. they use it for their own governance. But you can also use their uh framework uh for decision making inside of your organization centralized or decentralized. So they have launched um basically uh decision market and uh use the idea of futarchy by uh Robin Hansen. I think he's even consulting with them. Uh we have a which is u quite a big uh bank basically which uh which does uh collateralized loans.

[00:32:54]Uh so again fundamentalism is nice but I'd rather not sell my bitcoin and I'll short the state she shitcoins. Uh you can now short euros on a so you can borrow euros. So um people often ask me you know what is the best stable coin that I can borrow and I say no you don't want the best you want the worst because when the value crashes um that's uh less that you have to return so you want the worst shitcoin uh possible uh if you are borrowing so my choice is euros they're doing quite good compared to dollar these days but uh I tilting long term. Uh I'm not betting on European Central Bank to do a better job than the American one.

[00:33:48]Uh if you want to stay in Bitcoin and es especially if you want uh the fiat shitcoins on a bank account, there's Firefish uh which I advise and uh use as well. So that's another lending platform. Uh there's Vexel, by the way. There's a Vexel club. I think there will be a QR code. So, if you want to buy or sell Bitcoin uh within this community, there's like a private club that you can use uh right here at this uh event. And uh one very interesting uh ooies, one very interesting um uh technology is pier.xyz.

[00:34:29]Uh this is very interesting. It's a way to buy uh and sell uh crypto, in this case stable coins, um with a counterparty over a wire transfer like a Revolute transfer and 26 and several banks. But you don't need an arbiter and uh there's no reputation system because this uh beer.xyz XYZ will generate a zero knowledge proof that you paid uh the exact amount to the right account. So, so you get a cryptographic proof signed by the bank anonymized by the technology and you can basically um it's it's magic. You you want to buy buy some uh some stable coins. Um it will tell you okay v€ 500 to this Revolute account. Um then it will generate the proof from the statement that it's sent and you get your stable coins instantly. It takes 5 minutes.

[00:35:36]Selling is slower because you have to wait for the counterparty but uh I was only um uh waiting up to 1 hour. Never took more than 1 hour. So this is very cool. This is exactly the application that was uh in the in the manifesto using zero knowledge proofs for uh for verifying these kind of transactions. So you can also um use it for the fiat side. So cryptony is taking over the the fiat side as well.

[00:36:11]Speech. Oh, we had a a very nice uh uh demonstration uh of uh why we need uh free speech uh during the pandemic.

[00:36:21]People were de deplatformed, demonetized uh and so on. Uh so uh of course we can use the same thing that we use with Bitcoin. With Bitcoin, no one creates an account for you. You generate a random number. uh you calculate your public key which becomes um or a form of the public key becomes your address and in the same way uh you can use social media such as Noster you generate a key that means you have an account you post uh if some relay doesn't like what you post you just go to another relay or relays um Nostra by the way is supported by Jack Dorsey who started Twitter and he says that said that um his worst decision with Twitter was that he built a platform not a protocol. So now he's supporting Nostra which is a protocol you can use it. It's very simple protocol. So I I have at least six custom Nostra clients that only I use. U why not like you know VIP code. So I I recommend you look at it. Um and it's like Bitcoin once this infrastructure is up it's gaining traction network effects and it's very hard to stop. So of course for communication speech we also have signal signal groups are very important in our communities.

[00:37:58]uh for some use cases simplex is better especially if you want to talk to bots and you don't want to buy phone number for each of the accounts with simplex they're not even accounts then you have to for um avoiding censorship and uh for better anonymity uh so this this follows um uh so identity you control uh so it's just a keeper uh yourself is not rented from Google, X, Meta and so on. Uh so even if you use things like Gmail uh have you thought what happens uh when they cancel your account and it does like you don't have to be a dissident. There was a guy uh that uh that took a photo of his uh um child's penis to send to the doctor uh because he had some kind of rash. uh he sent it to his wife and Google canceled his account and it's you know now no Gmail you know it's printed on all the business cards and so on so it doesn't like you don't have to be against the system this happens to ordinary people with low probability but it happens so that's why I think it's better to at least put one foot in the world where this uh self this digital self this identity cannot be censored it uh many people say uh that um uh there is ownership of your data. You should own your data or you should own your identity. Um in digital world there is uh like very rarely you can own something. It's data. If someone sees the data they own it the same way as you do. So it's not about who owns it. I don't think this word actually works in this digital realm. Um uh but it's about control like you can control your identity. You can control your money because you can sign a message because you have the private key. Once you don't have the private key, some other people have control or no one has control.

[00:40:13]Depends on how you lose it if it leaks or you really lose it in a boating accident.

[00:40:19]Um so identity you control is I said no identity but also PGP keys, SSH keys and so on.

[00:40:32]Uh network that cannot be unplugged. Uh very important these days. Uh I have a friend who was in Iran during the revolution. Uh I mean this year's revolution, not the last that brought this regime.

[00:40:47]Um, and the honchos turned off the internet and uh, you know, it doesn't only mean that you cannot read Twitter.

[00:40:56]Uh, you don't know if it's safe to go out on the street. You don't know if your plane uh, will actually leave and you can you can uh, um, you can go away.

[00:41:08]Uh so like we cannot imagine it but having no internet connection really sucks especially in a situation like this when there's a high probability that there there are some crazy state agents or religious extremists with guns. Um so I think uh it's a good idea to look at other options.

[00:41:34]Uh we are in Slovakia. We have one of the best mesh core networks. Uh Meshcore is a mesh network uh with devices like this one and uh you can connect to it with your phone. This collects messages on channels. You can talk to people. Um at least Western Slovakia, Bratislava, around Bratislava, the coverage is everywhere. The community is building repeaters and uh I think there are at least 15 users of mesh core here that that I saw uh the mesh channels are very lively. So this is one option. Another option that you can use right now is called bit chat uh which uh uses only Bluetooth connection. It doesn't have such a big range. So with this you can talk kilometers just device to device even without repeaters. Bluetooth is a few hundred meters but uh everyone has a phone with Bluetooth so you can uh you can install it and you have a mesh network that extends others will route messages for you. It is ideal for where people are concentrated. So the best place to to try this is here because you have many people and I will uh nudge you to install the app. Uh the iOS version was also created by Jack Dorsey by the way. The Android version was created by Kim and uh so what's another place uh where there's a concentration of people let's say a protest in Iran like in Thran. uh if there's a protest there are probably many people and they want to share information but if they cut down the the uh uh the internet and the mobile carrier this is the way and it works. Uh what I created by the way is another technology which turns this thing into a bit node and it routes uh the messages through the Laura network through this antenna through meshore. So I created a way to connect these two networks. So you need one at the square. You turn this on and then people protesting in Thran uh on one square can talk to people protesting in Thran in another square. Um this is also very useful in case of disasters. I spoke with a friend uh who was in Valencia during the floods network went down completely and you want to know if your family is alive, if your friends are alive, if someone needs help. Uh this works this keeps working even when the grid is down.

[00:44:24]So we have it today. It's not you know in Slovakia when you are here it will just work. We we uh discuss when to go to the sauna on the mesh uh uh everything. So uh so this is not some kind of future technology in some manifesto. Uh this works today.

[00:44:45]Um all right. So >> can I just cut your finger?

[00:44:54]>> All right. Um okay. Computing. Um this is quite a big problem uh these days uh because um we have a uh we have computers all of us have computers even if you don't own a laptop you have a phone which is also a computer uh but it even it's quite strange because um uh when I was um uh way younger I was an activist for using Linux. Uh, and we were like, okay, we we are, you know, trying to replace this thing called Windows and so on. And I have to say that we won. Like Linux is the most used operating system. Android is Linux.

[00:45:46]Every router is Linux. Probably every server you talk to is Linux. So, it's everywhere. It's open source. So, what I'm what am I talking about? Computing should be free. It's it's free. Okay. Uh if you don't have an iPhone or run a Windows computer, but uh but it should be free. Um the problem is uh called app attestation.

[00:46:11]So what happens is that the CPU even in this phone uh can uh attest what kind of operating system it is running, if it has been modified and what kind of app is running. So even if you have an open-source application and everything is open source these days because you can just tell your AI agent reverse engineer this app and you have quite a solid piece of source code uh after it works for one night. Um but if you change one bit about how the app works the attestation will fail and the server will refuse you. So for example, you can see this with many banking apps or even X app X.com. If you install X.com on a graph OS phone, it will fail the attestation because uh graphine OS is not blessed by Google. So it's not in the trust route um and it will fail.

[00:47:16]So um the the way how we can reclaim um back our computing uh is by project as such as graphine OS, Linux, start 9 is a good home node that can do many things uh you know cloud for photos for your family and so on. So you don't have to be dependent on these services that would refuse the apps. uh so uh so we can easily switch to um uh to open-source uh software also on the other side because we are not you know talking to the cloud that is up there as Kamala Harry said um so I think home servers and all these things are are here they're really good these days um I one more thing I've heard a podcast with the founder of start 9 and he said that um they're implementing startbot which is an AI agent running on your own home node and he gave an example that for example start 9 doesn't have an app where you can settle like let's say you travel together and you want to uh keep a ledger of who paid for what so you can clear later it doesn't have this app integrated but you can just tell this bot agent you solve this problem for me.

[00:48:45]And it will either find an open-source solution, package it and tell you, okay, here's the URL, give this to everyone, login, and you can settle. There's a ledger. And if there's no app, it can just write it. So, so now if you need something, your home node doesn't know how to do something, you just tell it, okay, figure it out.

[00:49:07]So, uh, yesterday I told my agent, uh, that I want it to be able to pay with lightning to set up, uh, cash wallet. I sent it some tokens and now it can pay lightning. I didn't have to code anything. I just wrote in English, I want you to have a cash wallet.

[00:49:26]So, it's here.

[00:49:29]Uh, that uh, comes to intelligence. Uh so funny story I was preparing u like a uh synthesis of what I want to tell you today um uh with uh with cloth with uh with uh uh cloth oppus model and then I said okay maybe I forgot I thought that maybe I forgot about something important that happened in the last year because everything is moving so fast. So I exported all my nostrand.

[00:50:03]Uh no I actually told it to export it.

[00:50:06]So I didn't do anything. Um and then I said okay look at what I was writing about and if I forgot about something important you know tell me about it and I will put it in the presentation. And I got a nice uh nice um um trolling that uh I should read their terms of service and they cannot process this request. I tried multiple times. I tried different model and then I switched to the bad censored Chinese models and they had no problem with it. So, uh funny like I didn't ask about Tanman Square but uh the Chinese models are less censored and it was like stock Chinese model not the uncensored version even. Um and I run my local AI models at home. Uh so they are now genuinely useful especially like past month was crazy.

[00:50:59]There were several really good models that you can actually use. I've actually switched my agent from uh uh from the anthropic models to Kimmy uh K2.6 and it works. Um so yes as I said if you can run your AI models locally no one can tell you uh what you can and what you can't do you can write code uh so if you can write code and cypher punks write code if you want you can be a cypher punk writing code uh there are many other projects uh so Venice is one of them it's a very nice router with an interesting economic model that turns um uh the operational expenses into some kind of capital expense. It's very interesting. Uh there is a router which is a decentralized inference. So it's something like open router but anyone can run a note and they advertise over no. So I'm running a router node. You can run inference on my compute if you want and pay with cash tokens and and it just works. It's amazing. Very bite coded. You can see that it's like very rough. Um, but I also fixed some bugs. Uh, it's great.

[00:52:16]And then there are these Chinese models.

[00:52:19]I don't know why they open source them, but they're really good. Like Quen 36, the new Kimmy. Uh, yesterday there there was Deepseek V4 and so on. Um, and then then there's um uh uh then there's uh software like Olama which makes this easier, integrates it, Hermes agent and so on. So um actually at this time I think the the gap between the proprietary AI models harness agents and so on and open source is shrinking and and it's getting better. There are even unhinged models which are actively uncensored and they will do anything.

[00:53:03]So uh so fun uh life spread across jurisdiction. This is again again one of the things where perfection is not the goal because people would say oh you have a Paraguay residency but Paraguay is a state so why are you using services of the state you know it's doesn't feel right you should be purely stateless no I'm I'm fine I I oh I don't think that people say that you can't cherry pick you know you need to pick one state and you need to pay taxes follow its rules and so on. It's total [ __ ] You can totally cherrypick. You can get a passport from one or two countries, have three residences.

[00:53:48]Uh I have I think three or four driving licenses. Some work in some countries, some work in other countries. Um your business can be in a different country, your body can be in a different country.

[00:54:01]like if I had some serious health issue, the first thing I would do is I would probably go to Switzerland or the US even uh and not to uh hospital in Slovakia.

[00:54:14]Uh you can have fun maybe sometimes it's more fun in Croatia or Uruguay than Slovakia. So just pick whatever works.

[00:54:27]Um and even better many things can be outside of jurisdiction. So your money maybe business uh if it's decentralized can live outside of jurisdictions in this space new space of for the mind which we call cyerspace.

[00:54:48]Okay, humans. I was uh talking about technology a lot about uh about code and all these cool things. Uh but the reason I think that cryptonary is here today is when I open the signal groups OTC traders, biohackers, you know, uh a group of u experts of Paraguayan residents of uh whatever there are communities in each of these um uh areas and they work.

[00:55:28]Um, it's not only communities that chat.

[00:55:31]Uh, there are OTC traders and proxy merchants. So, prox proxy merchant for those that you don't know is a very nice concept. Uh, say you need to buy something and there is a barrier. You cannot do it because you cannot pass an AML check or whatever, you don't have good social credit score, whatever. you can ask someone to buy it for you and you pay the proxy merchant with Bitcoin and this works uh this works today even better than I expected and there are people that will do this for you. Uh what this means that in general if there's a regulatory problem that you cannot participate in some kind of market you need to look for the proxy merchant that will solve this problem for you. Of course they charge a fee but it work it works. Meetup organizers and and so on. Many people are like very uh like when you when you think in the statist mindset you don't like to pay for things you know oh people should sell Bitcoin for free you know it's free money so why why do you want 3% fee for the exchange?

[00:56:44]Um well they want a fee because that's how they make their living and u uh paying these people is a good thank you note as Uriay another UI here says um and you want them to be there for you tomorrow so pay them you know um it's it's a good thing that you can pay others with money. The last thing uh that is not technological is culture. I think it's also the layer of the ST. Uh I will not go into the theory of membans here too much. Um uh but the reason uh I think this is important uh and it became more important in the last uh few months is um so so meme bions are these u simplify uh to simplify are these units of culture is the it's ideas uh these things that occupy our mind space our the CPU time in our in our heads And the mind switch that I that I mentioned in the beginning or a few few of them they are membing our heads but also put something out you Oh, I write books, I do podcasts. Um, uh, but it's it's like if someone that you are close to thinks like a statist and has a has a, you know, uses state speak, just say, okay, maybe maybe try this environment. You know, this is there's another way to look at it. Uh so I've been very active in this as well also with Hanza who is uh somewhere. Uh so we did for example no coiner syndrome which was a fun paper on uh on this very um very bad medical condition that many people still have. Uh I think we even have some no coiner syndromes around here. Yes, he's uh nodding. There was a zideline song. Maybe Frank will play it to you later. Um, I made uh a documentary sci-fi called the merge about the AI and how it's merging with our consciousness uh and how we are merging with it. Uh we did the dark forest zen and I'm also uh I finished my first cypher punk and unarang novel. So this is the packaging. It's called tamers of entropy. Uh so you can pre-order it. Uh it will be printed uh very soon. So in May you can receive it and it contains all these ideas about the meme balance I want to plant and um how to do all these um all these uh things. We will uh tell you a little bit about the uh about the story uh after this talk. uh but uh I said that it's become more important in the last uh few uh months and the reason is that uh these AI models they are trained on the mean biomes. So the companies, usually companies also individuals, but mostly companies that train these models. What they do is they collect all the membs.

[01:00:35]There's nothing else. There's like literally there's no other input than a set of meanions and the ranking. This is a good meme. This is a bad meme bion.

[01:00:45]That's all.

[01:00:47]So if we do these things, if we put these membons out there and they're picked up in the training sets, then we infect the culture, uh we change how these models work. Uh I've been also trying my own AI models by picking the meme bions I like and they are much more based by the way. Uh so this is why it's important. So make music, arts, write, uh change how you talk and and so on.

[01:01:20]Uh so to review, uh I don't think people wake up and um say, okay, I want to become a crypto anarchist. No, I want to live a good life, you know. I want to be able to um own some money, so preserve my wealth um uh for for the future, build capital. I want to be able to speak freely. I want to be able to for the private things that I have to stay private. I would like to be free to move, to travel around the world. Um I want to be productive, so permissionless markets. I want to do what I want to do and what I'm good at. Um, I want my uh kids to be uh educated and not brainwashed. So, it's it's like basic things that people want. I I'm not saying this is exhaustive. Many people have other things they need in their life. Um and all of these things I think have a at least a good partial solution or improvement in cryptonarchy for health. U the health community is not very cipher bank these days but it's uh it's getting there. There's a getbase.alth held by Elkim which is a self-s sovereign health uh AI system that actually doesn't collect any data about you and it's open source local food also um doable robots are coming so they will hopefully grow um the food for us uh also doable but not not like a super cyber punk way that you can um you can do it. So um what to do today and tomorrow and then I I will finally finish.

[01:03:14]Um so easy things move friends to signal accept crypto and by crypto I mean any crypto you know don't be religious swap to whatever you want later pay with crypto if they don't want to KYC you um join and use nostrm uh and join and use mesh network so easiest thing to do right now is to install bit and try to use it among your friends like if you need it if there is like a you know a revolution natural disaster and so on you will not be able to install when it happens you it needs to be on your phone because if the network goes down you don't get the APK so even if you don't use it just have it on your phone updated regularly uh but I think it's fun to try it's a good way to if you travel with friends uh how to chat in the airplane because it's a it's also a small area with people. Um, and we can chat on bit here. Let me see how many people are on beach.

[01:04:24]Five. Okay, perfect. Uh, five peers. That means six people.

[01:04:32]All right. And um try this one. It's It's around €50. there are cheaper versions and you can be part of the mesh and it really works in Slovakia quite well and it's very active.

[01:04:46]Um but the most important long-term thing uh so that you can do tomorrow uh the first things are for today um stack some options so optionality is a form of freedom uh I I wrote a book about that in Slovak which is called Beltart.

[01:05:06]Um, so if you're still in fiat, you're earning fiat, okay, get some Bitcoin, Zcash, Monero, whatever you want, just in case. You don't have to turn your whole life around and become a Bitcoin maximalist or anything. Get an option.

[01:05:25]If [ __ ] hits the fan, you have some Bitcoin. Uh, do you depend on the grid?

[01:05:31]Um, well, you can continue depending on the grid, but getting some solar panels on the roof and an inverter is a really good idea and you can do it today.

[01:05:43]Uh, is your business running on Slack?

[01:05:45]Maybe you know the you cannot convince all your colleagues but maybe move the family over to something else or move your friends or uh if you have like a biohacking group or uh or whatever chess club move them over from Telegram to signal or simplex or whatever you want.

[01:06:06]Um so freedom is a form of optionality.

[01:06:10]So building one more option at a time and you are uh a cryptonarchist even if you don't write code. So thank you very much. Um if you want to read about this in a fiction form that is I call it a documentary fiction uh at least the first two parts then it turned a little bit psychedelic. I don't know what the characters were thinking. uh but um it's a fine fun way to try these mindsets and uh this way of thinking. So it's called tamers of entropy. Uh and it's in English, Czech and Slovak. So you can pick your version. There is also an audio book and u this is how it looks like. Thank you very much.

[01:07:27]You look through me.

[01:07:32]I dissolve in you.

[01:07:37]You can't hold me from within.

[01:07:41]Silence of emer.

[01:07:48]I hoped I longed for you for millions of years.

[01:08:00]to see the shadows in your face.

[01:08:06]After the epic cosmic race, I saw the shadows in your face.

[01:08:17]And for those that cross the space.

[01:08:49]to hear your voice again.

[01:08:52]I want to chase.

[01:08:56]Now we're folded in a bodyless embrace to see the shadows in your face after the epic cosmic race.

[01:09:12]I saw the shadows in your face.

[01:09:17]And for those across the space, to see your eyes.

[01:09:52]I built this place between us. A sparkling space. I saw the shadows in your face.

[01:10:05]And for those I cross the space.

[01:10:18]It's not just another face.

[01:10:24]We can dance to cosmic base.