A launch of a new book, written by cryptoanarchist and biohacker Juraj Bednár.
The meaning of words is distorted. “Inflation”, “unhosted wallets”, “virtual assets”. And also Bitcoin - represented by account balances in centralized custodians. What are the different forms of Bitcoin, what are it’s features and what will be it’s last shot?
The talk will be brief overview of cognitive threats we are facing these days.
Methods for detection and measurement will be disclosed. With help of ML it is possible not only detect the manipulation but also monitor the perpetrator and produce the antidote!
Comparison of the features and tradeoffs of modern Bitcoin and Lightning wallets. Full nodes vs light clients vs custodial solutions.
The sanctions of Tornado Cash has implications for base layer neutrality & open source developers which threatens the utility of crypto. I propose introducing a concept of sovereignty to crypto networks and outline and an approach in competing with the State.
Bitcoin has been in the hands of institutions for far too long. Mobile app Vexl aims to introduce the simplest way how to buy and sell bitcoin as it was intended - peer-to-peer and without KYC.
This year European Union finally approved a set of legislation headed by the most famous MiCA (Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets). It will provide a complex regulatory framework for crypto assets for the first time since the invention of Bitcoin. Its aim is crystal-clear: Make the crypto industry a heavily regulated financial sector.
Fedimint is a new way to onboard communities to Bitcoin. The protocol provides cheap, fast and private-by-default transactions and is interoperable with Lightning. The workshop will show you how to setup a Fedimint community bank on Bitcoin with your friends.
At a time when governments are slowly escalating the war on financial privacy tools, Monero shines as a weapon to fight back against tyranny and preserve our rights and autonomy as individuals -- even in intensely adversarial environments.
The talk with address seven specific universals that shape every civilisation.
We live in a world where our data is monetized, privacy is an afterthought, and many feel rudderless in the chaos. How do we rebuild a broken world?
In 2020, four of the world’s largest publishers sued the nonprofit library, the Internet Archive, to try to stop its digital book lending program. Publishers want to license–not sell–ebooks. Is this lawsuit the last shot at libraries actually owning & lending digital books? Is th
What, to us, is “winning”? And how do we attain it? We must have a clear and coherent vision of victory, and an effective path to it. Strategy, philosophy and passion must rise together. Make no small plans.
A Lunarpunk manifesto followed by the announcement of two revolutionary DarkFi products.
Defining a new paradigm in anonymous ecosystems with free software and anonymous engineering.
Free Cites are autonomous areas of nation states that are adopting novel policies to support human freedom.
Bring your laptop and lets install our p2p chat, tasks, wiki and zk compiler. Usage intro.
What would happen to your coins if you were to die in the next three hours? Would they be lost forever? Would your relatives be able to recover them?
Descriptors, timelocks, taproot. 0% custodians.
You can decentralise yourself with renewable energy sources, but you need still allowance from them. And many renewables are anyhow visible. But how to use their narratives for more freedom in physical world. How not to even give them a chance to fire the last shot.
We establish the foundations of Composite Artificial Intelligence through symbolic reasoning and machine learning, and show how it can be applied for building intelligent automation systems solving practical real-world problems.
We like to show the release of the WebUI for RaspiBlitz v1.8.0 and discuss the future of the Bitcoin & Lightning full node project.
A panel with Human right defenders and their personal experience with the loss of privacy and bitcoin
Empower yourself and learn how to protect your personal data in a connected world. One of the most important skills to master, unlock your inner ninja and enhance your security and knowledge, YOU can control your own data and freedom.
Can bitcoin have a place in society regardless of where politicians and businessmen in suits want to lead it? Run your node and ignore everyone else or go out and preach the dharma of Satoshi to everyone?
A peek into the overlap between blockchain analysis companies, private spyware firms, and government intelligence agencies.
A discussion about adversarial capabilities and modest Free Software proposals to assist in protecting individuals
Putting the “flag theory” into practice is the goal of all permanent travelers to free themselves as much as possible from one system and to have the most pleasant, cheapest, and most importantly, free life without bureaucrats and meaningless obligations.
Technology itself is a tool, rather than being imbibed with some moral or ethical agency, but certain technologies at certain times swing the balance toward individual liberty rather than collective oppression.
Recently democratic governments have been pushing back against end-to-end encryption, motivated by law enforcement considerations. But this undermines national security interests, especially in the current geopolitical context.
Required knowledge of abstract algebra: groups, rings, fields, homomorphisms. We will discuss the basics of abstract algebra, and derive the elliptic curve group law using divisor class groups.
Even though there is no state where democracy would be completely efficient, the fact is that it is the current political system. We can improve it by implementing blockchain "features" within the system and thereby make the whole system better and faster.
Nym offers two core technologies for network and application level metadata privacy. This talk will cover the current state of using the network with different applications such as chat apps and wallets, the architecture of these technologies, and how developers can build on Nym.
The idea of individual sovereignty lies at the core of the foundation of cryptoanarchy. Last years had revealed that sovereignty can’t be purely digital. So while the ideas of cypherpunks are required and stuff like privacy-based technologies are a must have, we can’t survive and go into the future of the society we’d like to build with just them.
Zero-knowledge proofs have become a central tool for blockchain privacy and scalability. I will give a few examples of such proofs, starting from toy examples requiring no math, and ending with the state of the art zk-SNARK constructions based on elliptic curve pairings.
What's crypto's line of self defense against hegemony and centralisation? This talk will analyze privacy projects, macro economy and crypto narratives through the scope of lunarpunk and historical lessons.
We live in a capitalist society that is constantly sending out inputs that stimulate our senses on a daily basis.
It almost seems like we've lost control over our own perception, and we're slaves of Marketing.
Is there any way out? Can Cybernetic Senses give us the key to pure perception of nature and life?
In this conference I will develop my theory on how Cybernetic Senses allow us to escape an hyper-stimulated reality and connect with the pureness of the physical realm.
Any issue that a government is either unwilling, incapable or unable to address to the community’s satisfaction can be resolved by the community itself in a fully transparent, documented, participatory manner.
Just as Bitcoin is designed to bypass banks, PhD shows communities how to bypass the upper layers of their governments and self-govern into efficient, self-sustainable entities.
In the digital age, everything in the physical world has its representation in the digital world, including ourselves. What happens to our digital self without privacy? The talk explores the notion of digital self, future ahead and how decentralisation can help.
Unsorted musings about the world in 2030: Geoeconomics, war, and new alliances.
In this talk, inventor Scott Beibin will be sharing the Mandelbot Ecotech philosophy that he developed for ecological machine design that respects human freedom and autonomy.
Using distributed networks to create a solutions for the growing number of victims produced by the cancel culture and institutionalized education. Furthermore, learn about my story of escaping communist Australia, and my observation of the local rebilion groups.
A panel discussion featuring Rachel-Rose O’Leary, Amir Taaki, Pavol Luptak and more
What happens in cryptocommunities when members bow to the state's monopoly on regulatory violence to become compliant in order to achieve mass adoption? How does having "skin in the game" conflict with Cryptoanarchist ideals, and what form does this take in our public discourse?
Insurance is usually thought of as something boring, required by governments, and ideally purchased inexpensively, never actually used, and forgotten about.
Given that so many of the serious problems facing us today were created by past technologies, is it possible to create tech that overall helps, rather than harms? This talk explores this important question.
The Transformative Autonomous Organization (TAO) is a DAO subclass, and includes six foundational elements: autonomous adaptivity (α), anonymous functioning (φ), labor dissolution (δ), synergetic coexistence (χ), cosmic stewardship (σ), and autarkic experimentation (ε).
The closing speech of 9th annual Hacker's Congress Paralelni Polis