If you only clicked on the post to tell me crypto sucks let me disappoint - crypto in this case stands for cryptography, as it is for a long time before shitcoins came into existence. Many of you might have read Paul Rosenberg’s amazing A lodging of wayfaring men. Some of you might even know that Max Hillebrand recently created an audiobook version of it. But there is a story that predates that book, a real story that probably served as an inspiration for A lodging of wayfaring men. That story is called The Untold Story of the Greatest Crypto Project Ever. If you are too cheap to buy it (you should support Paul, he is a legend!) there is a way to read it free as it was published as blog posts. ...

I’ve started a practice of keeping my research bookmarks in a public github repository couple years back. Initially it was just so I could easily point my friends somewhere when they started asking questions about the topics we were discussing. Some of them became quite popular, the others not so much (I forgot about one when writing this post). nostr.net I’ve written about awesome-nostr before, but to summarize - its a long list of everything nostr. It got big enough that its starting to warrant a redesign , but it still does the job. It started as a github repo that later got its domain - nostr.net. ...

In a world of explosive amount of content about AI and where NOT having an AI newsletter has become a rarity there are a few authors and sites I like to read for their more thoughtful and long form content: Recommended Resources The following sites are highlighted for substantive coverage: gwern.net - Features deep learning content alongside other topics ym2132.github.io - Focuses on extended posts about generative adversarial networks simonwillison.net - Combines Python and AI topics retrochronic.com - Explores intersections of AI and philosophy Video Content For visual learners, the author recommends the AI Explained YouTube channel as an additional resource. ...

I’ve started awesome-nostr repo in Jan 2022 as a personal bookmark project and helping the back then relatively tiny community of nostr enthusiasts collect all the interesting projects that existed in the #nostr universe. Over time it became the go-to page for people to point newbies in the space and a place where builders published their new creations. Initially I was the one adding the majority of the projects that I came up in the telegram group or randomly stumbling upon. Soon people started submitting their own projects and projects they found which was also great because I was busy building bolt.observer and didn’t have as much time to dedicate to nostr. But the list of projects kept growing and growing. ...

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. ...

This started as a twitter thread that is now a long form article. In August 2021 a group of us who semi-regularly got together for beers and bitcoin-related discussions had a brilliant idea - why not make this a public event? Back then there weren’t any bitcoin meetups in our town Ljubljana and we weren’t sure if there will be lots of interest for it, but then again we were meeting anyway so there was not much to lose. We brainstormed on the format and decided that we will each do a presentation on something we’re interested in - and this is how Bitcoin Ljubljana was born. ...