Took an anti-tetanus vax shot today

Feeling a strong urge to run Bitcoin Core v30

GM, just wanted to tell you that my butcher does not want to convert his bitcoin into worthless euro’s. I’ve tried many tactics, scaring him, pushing him into some nice spending… can’t get him out of his bitcoin.

He’s become a hodler, I’m impressed.

# BOOK LAUNCH!

# The Praxeology of Privacy

v0.1.0 Now Available

I'm excited to announce the publication of **"The Praxeology of Privacy: Economic Logic in Cypherpunk Implementation"** - a complete manuscript bridging Austrian economics with cypherpunk cryptography.

## What Is This Book?

This work proves that **privacy isn't just a preference—it's an economic necessity**. Through rigorous praxeological analysis, it demonstrates that privacy is logically required for rational economic action, property rights, and voluntary exchange.

### The Core Argument

I develop a **Three-Axiom Framework** showing how:

- **Privacy enables economic calculation** (building on Mises)

- **Privacy protects rational discourse** (extending Hoppe)

- **Privacy provides resistance tools** (following Voskuil)

The result? A systematic proof that surveillance systems create the same calculation problems as socialist planning, while cryptographic tools restore the conditions necessary for free markets.

## Why This Matters

For too long, privacy advocates have relied on moral arguments while economists have ignored cryptographic innovation. This book bridges that gap, showing that:

- **Cypherpunks** gain rigorous economic foundations for their tools

- **Austrian economists** discover how cryptography solves fundamental problems

- **Everyone** learns why privacy is essential for human flourishing

## What's Inside

~70,000 words across 21 chapters covering:

- Economic logic of digital signatures and zero-knowledge proofs

- How surveillance destroys market discovery processes

- Cryptographic property rights and enforcement mechanisms

- Practical framework for building parallel economies

- Original theoretical contributions to both traditions

## Download Now

**Complete manuscript available in multiple formats:**

- Light/Dark PDFs for reading

- Summary collection for overview

- Text-to-speech optimized version

- Individual chapters + full archive

👉 **Download here:** towardsliberty.com/pop

## The Best Part

This work is **100% public domain**. Copy it, share it, sell it, modify it—whatever helps spread these ideas.

## Next Steps

- **Researchers**: I welcome feedback, critique, and collaboration

- **Educators**: Use this material in courses and discussions

- **Practitioners**: Apply the framework to evaluate privacy technologies

- **Publishers**: Contact me about formal publication opportunities

I would love to get some serious review before we print the first batch, so please reach out with critique and improvement proposals.

This represents a couple years of research connecting two intellectual traditions that desperately needed each other. I believe it's the first systematic praxeological analysis of cryptography—and hopefully not the last.

**What do you think? Does this framework resonate with your understanding of privacy and economics? Do I make any logical flaws?**

I miss the time when luxury in a car meant leather seats and little to no plastic

As opposed to having a large touch screen tablet in the middle of the dashboard and RGB ambient lights

Bitcoin Knots is also packaged with Wasabi Wallet, as the full-node option.

MIGHT WRITE A BOOK CALLED “WHY BITCOIN SUCKS”

JUST TO COUNTERBALANCE THE HOPIUM IN EVERY BOOK WHICH IGNORES THE ISSUES JUST TO PUSH “BULLISH” NARRATIVES

WOULD ANYONE READ OR CONTRIBUTE?

What is the most important thing in life? Otis Sha (anagram for Satoshi) gives us a clue. Curious what is most important for you when you see this?

I'm very curious to learn how this happened but good thing it was caught so quickly. They say a contributor key was compromised. Do they know which one? How many contributors can make releases? That's kind of a sensitive issue.

Is the installer not signed? Who has access to these signing keys?

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