Notes
Field writing
Short, sharp notes — anti-hype, SA-rooted, educational. Not financial advice.
From Rings of 16 to the Whole Chain: What FCMP++ Changes
Monero-class privacy already hides recipients, amounts, and spenders with a small ring. Full-chain membership proofs aim to replace that fixed decoy set with membership across the ledger — without a forced address migration.
2026-09-11 · privacy, monero, fcmp
Receive-Only Lightning Is Not a Merchant Stack
Most Lightning talk collapses into shop tills or routing businesses. Receive-only tips need a payable request, inbound capacity, and often a static entry point — not a merchant stack.
2026-09-09 · lightning, receive-only, bolt-11
Autonomi Without the Data Map Is Just Scattered Ciphertext
Most decentralized storage talk collapses into cloud with a token. Autonomi’s educational core is client-side self-encryption, the Data Map, and pay-once content-addressed writes.
2026-09-07 · autonomi, decentralized-storage, self-encryption
Self-Custody Without Verify-Before-Trust Is a Slogan
Not your keys, not your coins is still the right first sentence. It is also incomplete — keys only stay yours if software, addresses, and assumptions are things you can check.
2026-09-06 · self-custody, verify-before-trust, wallets
NIP-11: How Nostr Relays Advertise What They Can Do
Nostr is often introduced as notes and other stuff transmitted by relays. That slogan is accurate and incomplete. Clients speak a small event protocol; relays decide what they store.
2026-09-03 · nostr, nip-11, relays
Local and Peer-to-Peer AI: Data Residency Without the Hype
Most people meet large language models through a browser tab or an API key. That path is convenient: someone else owns the GPUs, the ops, and the uptime. It is also a trust and dependency bargain.
2026-09-02 · deai, local-ai, open-weights
What Transparent Ledgers Leak — and Why On-Chain Privacy Matters
Most public blockchains advertise transparency as a virtue. That claim is half-true. Anyone can verify the rules of the system; anyone can also scrape a permanent graph of who paid whom.
2026-09-01 · privacy, monero, nostr