Freedom

Somewhere a True Believer is building tools to free you. He is building with minimum resources, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing dear to him are his tools, and he made them from second hand parts. He doesn’t worry about what to build - he builds what he knows, what inspires him. His building ends when the enemy is gone. The True Believer doesn’t care how hard it is; he only knows that he wins or he dies. He doesn’t go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the cause.

Over time I’ve been slowly hoarding and studying a lot of old(er) crypto anarchy and cypherpunk materials over time, like the the untold story of the greatest crypto project ever that I’ve posted about before. I’ve been running my own backup of anarplex in case Eric Sirion’s ever goes offline. I also have copies of other materials like Taz0 and second realm series from liberty under attack podcast etc. I’ve decided that I want to expand on the works of cryptoanarchy.wiki and create (another) directory with everything I deed worthy of preserving and studying. Over time I plan to actually pack all the data into a torrent and make sure it is distributed around so the wisdom of those before us does not go to waste. ...

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. ...

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. ...