On zapstore you can get Sherpa, that's a text to speech engine, and voca, that's a reader app that uses the engine. Voca is very early development so its not yet great. There is @voice app too, but that's closed source and you need to install Aurora Store to get it.
The TTS PDF is just a regular PDF but without page numbers and page titles so it makes listening better.
Yup, you can read it in any nostr client.
Yeah, doing "actually good" audio book recordings is a pain in the ass... So no pressure!
I'll probably get to a point where I'll do it in half a year.
Idk, maybe earlier if enough people bug me about it.
Oh, I also made a text to speech friendly PDF that might work for you, get it at towardsliberty.com/pop
It just fetches any profile and displays all the uploaded audio or video files as a podcast feed.
So just post on primal or whatever client and it'll automagically work.
New in this edition of the book is a dedicated chapter about nostr with much more depth about Why it works, what is possible with it, and where it needs improvement.
It's probably the first praxological treatise mentioning Nostr!
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I'm really happy how the preface and conclusion turned out.
If you only have 10 minutes to read, start there.
Compared to this, the first version was very bad, sloppy logic all over the place.
"If you're not embarrassed by your first release, you've released too late."
Let's see how this one ages.
It might be the first book published in dark mode PDF tho...
Nah, nostr:nprofile1qqstsw3gkljwt5stm9svt7htvcjlj4ffze4chkcyt4pxxj30xkgeg5qpr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshs257akr did too I think?
No, I'll wait for some more review of the logic and keep fiddling with it for a bit before it goes in print & audio.
Thanks man!
I hope this one is much more rigorous than the previous.
You can just upload a mp3 / wav / ogg and nostr:nprofile1qqszaqx80w9eg8uf39l527h8znumq0jcxdav2h0kdgwy08e3p87wfrgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcke6zfw will automatically turn it into a podcast.
I was planning to do the audio book a bit later, this isn't the final version yet, would be happy to hear yours tho!
This book is in the making for a couple years, just not got the time to rework it for v0.2.0.
The other articles recently where when I got distracted from this work...
I finished the second version of my book!
## The Praxeology of Privacy
### Economic Logic in Cypherpunk Implementation
Austrian economists theorize but cannot build. Cypherpunks build but lack theory. This book synthesizes both traditions into a unified strategy for making the state irrelevant.
Three axioms. Twenty-one chapters. One conclusion: cheap defense defeats expensive attack. When theft becomes unprofitable, the state withers.
Public Domain. v0.2.0. Published on Nostr.
Thanks a lot to Stephan Kinsella and Eric Voskuil for their tough feedback on the first version, please join them in demolishing the logic of this second edition and help me make the arguments better!
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Table of Contents
Preface
Austrian economists theorize but cannot build. Cypherpunks build but lack theory. This book synthesizes both to make the state irrelevant.
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Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Nature of Privacy
Privacy is selective disclosure, not hiding. Breaking adversary observation through the OODA loop is strategic defense. Cheap privacy defeats expensive surveillance.
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Chapter 2: Two Traditions, One Conclusion
Austrian economics and cypherpunk practice converge independently on privacy's importance. Theory explains why; code demonstrates how. This book synthesizes both traditions.
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Part II: Philosophical Foundations
Chapter 3: The Action Axiom
The Action Axiom proves privacy is structural to human action. Deliberation is internal; preferences are subjective; information asymmetry is inherent.
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Chapter 4: The Argumentation Axiom
Argumentation ethics demonstrates self-ownership through performative contradiction. Denying it while arguing presupposes it. Privacy rights follow directly from self-ownership.
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Chapter 5: The Axiom of Resistance
The Axiom of Resistance assumes systems can resist control. Mathematics, empirical evidence, and similar systems support this well-grounded but non-self-evident assumption.
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Part III: Economic Foundations
Chapter 6: Information, Scarcity, and Property
Information is non-scarce and cannot be property. Privacy is protected through self-ownership, physical property rights, and voluntary contracts, not intellectual property.
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Chapter 7: Exchange Theory and Privacy
Privacy enhances exchange by protecting deliberation and enabling negotiation. Surveillance distorts prices and chills transactions. Better privacy means better functioning markets.
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Chapter 8: Capital Theory and Entrepreneurship
Privacy infrastructure is capital requiring present sacrifice for future capability. Entrepreneurial discovery drives innovation. Markets coordinate heterogeneous privacy tools most effectively.
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Chapter 9: Monetary Theory and Sound Money
Sound money emerges spontaneously from markets, not decrees. Bitcoin implements digital soundness with fixed supply and censorship resistance; privacy requires additional tools.
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Part IV: The Adversary
Chapter 10: Financial Surveillance and State Control
Financial surveillance enables state control through observation. CBDCs complete the architecture. Privacy breaks the OODA loop at observation, making theft unprofitable.
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Chapter 11: Corporate Surveillance and Data Extraction
Corporate surveillance extracts behavioral data for prediction products. State and corporate surveillance are deeply entangled. Markets are responding to growing privacy demand.
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Chapter 12: The Crypto Wars
The Crypto Wars pit states against privacy technology. Mathematics ignores legislation. Developers face prosecution. The fundamental conflict is permanent and intensifying.
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Part V: Technical Implementation
Chapter 13: Cryptographic Foundations
Cryptography provides mathematical privacy foundations: encryption, hashing, and digital signatures enable trustless verification. Implementation bugs and human error remain the weakest links.
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Chapter 14: Anonymous Communication Networks
The internet leaks metadata. VPNs help locally. Tor distributes trust through relays. Mixnets defeat global adversaries. Choose tools matching your threat model.
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Chapter 15: Bitcoin: Resistance Money
Bitcoin solves double-spending without trusted third parties. Sound money enforced by code. Base layer privacy requires additional tools like Lightning and coinjoin.
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Chapter 16: Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Zero-knowledge proofs enable verification without disclosure. SNARKs, STARKs, and Bulletproofs make different tradeoffs. Deployed in Zcash and rollups; broader adoption developing.
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Chapter 17: Decentralized Social Infrastructure
Nostr solves identity capture through cryptographic keys users control. Relays compete, moderation is market-driven, and the protocol extends beyond social posts.
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Part VI: Praxis
Chapter 18: Lessons from History
DigiCash, e-gold, and Silk Road failed through centralization and poor OPSEC. Bitcoin succeeded through decentralization, open source, and properly aligned economic incentives.
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Chapter 19: Operational Security
Operational security prevents adversaries from gathering compromising information. Threat modeling guides defense. Human factors are the weakest link. Perfect OPSEC is impossible.
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Chapter 20: Implementation Strategy
Start with honest assessment. Build progressively from basics to advanced. Find community. Privacy is not a destination but ongoing practice. Progress matters.
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Chapter 21: Building the Parallel Economy
The parallel economy grows through counter-economics. Cheap defense defeats expensive attack. When theft becomes unprofitable, the state withers. Build. Trade. Resist.
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The default is a random number between 30 and 70 I believe.
Probably even lower is good enough, but 50 is solid.
I hope this will help you:
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You've been trained since childhood to believe you cannot function without state permission and provision. The programming runs so deep that even reading this, you'll feel resistance to acting on it.
But learned helplessness has a cure: you must demonstrate to yourself that you have control by actually exercising it. This post maps the escape routes. The only question is whether you'll take one.
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This is great, been in the works for a while.
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Something as important as healthcare cannot be left in the hands of monopolistic bureaucrats.
Go to a freer place like south east Asia and see the private healthcare there, it'll blow your mind.
What if a state court says that the murder was accidental and doesnt punish the neighbor? In the state system you cannot do anything about that. In a free system the entire village might come for your defense.
You do notice that you repeated the main premise of the question, so I'd suggest you contemplate and broaden your imagination. You don't need to steal to get healthy or get justice!
Privacy IS.
Privacy OUGHT TO BE.
Privacy CAN BE.
Phil Zimmermann's 1992 vision for decentralized trust collapsed under its own weight. Key signing parties, trust levels, keyring management: the people who most needed encrypted communication couldn't navigate the bureaucracy.
Nostr inverts the model entirely. Every follow is an endorsement. Every mute is a warning. Every zap is an economic vote. Trust emerges from actions users already take, computed by tools like Vertex and npub.world into personalized reputation scores. The cypherpunk lesson: the best cryptographic systems are the ones users don't notice.
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Most resolutions dissolve by February. These are not those. They are not self-improvement projects or lifestyle optimizations. They are the ethical commitments that separate those who talk about freedom from those who live it. Seven principles, each actionable, together forming the foundation of a society built on consent rather than coercion.
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History remembers the revolutions that seized power. It forgets the quieter departures: the people who simply stopped showing up, stopped believing, stopped feeding the machine.
The latter changed more. We are not marching on anything. We are walking away from everything that requires our compliance to exist, and building something that does not.
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Thanks!
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Everyone overcomplicates wealth. They chase credentials, connections, luck, or schemes.
The mechanism is simpler: find problems, solve them, trade the solution. This works because value is subjective, your own frustrations are your greatest asset, and solving problems pays you twice: once in satisfaction, once in money.
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The point of the article is that we need much more than "just" money.
The cryptoanarchist vision is forty years old. The theory is complete. The tools exist. Yet we have almost nothing to show for it.
The bottleneck was never ideas or technology. It was always people willing to build. This is a call to those ready to act, and an honest warning about what that requires. nostr:naddr1qqgrqcmxvdskzetzxcmrxdmrxy6r2q3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65w62jx9s
It's difficult to sue the state in courts that are funded by the state...
Thanks, a lot of fun to write them!
Forty thousand Americans die on government roads every year, and nobody holds anyone accountable. Yet when libertarians suggest private alternatives, the response is always the same: "But who will build the roads?" The question itself is more interesting than people realize. It reveals not the impossibility of markets, but the depth of the state's success in making people unable to imagine alternatives to its failures. nostr:naddr1qqgxywfsxccxgdmxxscngcnx8qcnyq3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65wu8l4h8