Towards Liberty Podcast

Episode42 covers White Noise group polls, offline app sharing with Myco, Marmot history recovery, Nostr releases and ongoing protocol work. Synthetic narration is followed by Max’s recorded contributions. TL;DR: Synthetic narration and Max’s recordings cover White Noise polls, Myco app sharing, Marmot history recovery, Nostr releases and ongoing protocol work. Contributor: nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455...

We finally stopped being lazy and brought a guest onto the Roundtable. Max Hillebrand joins Steve, Jeff, and I to talk about the absolute madness happening in the freedom tech space right now. Max has been using AI agents to solve challenging computer science problems for White Noise and the Marmot protocol. We talk about the possibility that we are moving toward a future where the average user ba...

Max, Form* and Infinity x2 discuss encrypted messaging, mesh networking, Nostr application releases, signer improvements, long-form articles, and media attachment metadata. Guests: nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt · nostr:npub1qu7dsd44275lms4x9snnwvnnmgx926nsppmr7lcw9dlj36n4fltqgs7p98 · nostr:npub15gkmu50rcuv6mzevmslyllppwmeqxulnqfak0gwud3hfwmau6mvqqnpfvg Newsl...

Max covers signed Git workflows, browser publishing, Nostr client updates, protocol implementation, and how URI links and event references work. Guests: nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt Newsletter 39 · Nostr Compass Android source 0:00 Signed git workflows move CI, private repositories, and releases onto Nostr Max opens this edition’s nine recordings with the n...

Max and Sam discuss FIPS mesh tools, private messaging, Nostr application releases, relay operations, custom emoji, and video events this week. Guests: nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt nostr:npub1yzfm42rzr3dj2h50flpvdl0uzrv22kv2y4ghve804w5xqu6lzqcqkyfxu5 Newsletter 41 · Nostr Compass Android source 0:00 Welcome and Nostr Compass Android app Max opens the asynch...

Max Hillebrand is a cypherpunk, crypto anarchist, and author of the new book “The Praxeology of Privacy”, a 587-page work bringing Austrian economics and cypherpunk engineering together. He is a contributor to White Noise, a decentralized encrypted messaging app built on Nostr and the Marmot protocol. In this episode, we dig into his new book, the gap between Austrian economics and the cypherpunk...

In this episode i speak to praxeologist, cryptoanarchist and cypherpunk, Max Hillebrand, about the unseen cost of fiat, the austrian school of economics and the importanse of privacy. How long can people stay in a system that is fundamentaly built on theft? What is the unseen cost of fiat? And what does it take of each and every one of us the exit the system? Enjoy! Follow Max´s work on: https://t...

A weekly briefing on the people, software, and protocol work shaping Nostr. ### Chapters - **0:00 — Episode intro** - **1:17 — Voca 1.0 reads verified Nostr notes and subscriptions aloud on Android** - **3:06 — nostream expands relay-side DVM routing and authenticated operation** - **3:32 — NDK for Dart fixes negentropy, multi-relay request lifetimes, and signature verification** - **4:11 — Divine...

The complete audiobook of The Praxeology of Privacy by Max Hillebrand. Surveillance is industrial. Privacy is engineering. This work joins Austrian economics and the cypherpunk movement to explain why privacy matters and how it can survive.

Ohne Forks stirbt Bitcoin – so lautet die überraschend einhellige Erkenntnis aller Podcast-Teilnehmer. Doch wie kommen Max Hillebrand, Jan-Paul und Robin Linus zu diesem Schluss? Die Diskussion beginnt mit einem kritischen Blick auf Lightning und dessen Grenzen und führt weiter zur Erkenntnis, wie entscheidend Softforks und Hardforks für die Zukunft von Bitcoin sind. Dabei geht es genauer um eine...

### News - **00:00 Intro** Welcome to Nostr Compass Podcast #37 covering Postr, Nail's key-free mail notifier, Chama's escrow timer defect, Snort and Ditto NIP-22 reply rollout, and Six Years of Nostr Augusts. - **00:12 Postr launches as a small Android composer** Postr 1.0.0 is a deliberately small Android composer for kind 1 notes with NIP-55 Amber custody, a durable outbox, account-specific pri...

### News - **00:00 Intro** Welcome to Nostr Compass Podcast #36 covering Amber relay-auth hardening, Citrine phone relay hosting, Nail email bridge, six open NIPs proposals, and deep dives on NIP-58 badges and NIP-22 comments. - **00:17 Amber 6.5.0 closes a relay-auth confused deputy and encrypts stored secrets** Amber 6.5.0 closes a NIP-42 confused deputy that let callers obtain kind 22242 auth e...

### News - **00:00 Intro** Welcome to Nostr Compass Podcast #35 covering post-quantum identity keys, MDK Marmot convergence hardening, Amber grouped signing, and deep dives on NIP-09 deletion and NIP-56 reporting. - **00:16 nostr-wot-extension 0.4.0 adds post-quantum keys beside a Nostr identity** nostr-wot-extension 0.4.0 derives ML-KEM-1024 encryption and ML-DSA-87 signing keys from 24-word seed...

### News - **00:00 Intro** Welcome to Nostr Compass Podcast #34 covering Sandstr client simulations, nostr-mill browser signing, nostrord relay groups, six merged protocol changes, and deep dives on NIP-50 search and NIP-84 highlights. - **00:20 nostr-mill 1.6.0 puts signing consent and account recovery in the browser** nostr-mill 1.6.0 asks consent by event kind with decoded content preview, time...

Paul Rosenberg, Rockstar Dev, Francis Pouliot, Lloyd Fournier, and Max Hillebrand discuss how Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and privacy technology can shift power away from centralized institutions. The BTC Prague panel covers self-custody, surveillance, practical privacy, personal threat models, and the cypherpunk tools people can use to protect their money and data. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:0...

### News - **00:00 Amethyst 1.13.1 follows its Nostr apps launch with authenticated group and Blossom access** Amethyst 1.13.0 opens napplets and NIP-5A nsites in an isolated keyless browser with consent-gated window.nostr, plus Git repos, Concord communities, NIP-29 groups, Buzz chat, wiki, RSS, and BOLT12 offers. 1.13.1 adds CORD-02 dissolution, kind 9008 deletion, NIP-29 host-relay authenticati...

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### News - **0:00 IndieSats drops its publisher role and relaunches as open Nostr music infrastructure** IndieSats retired key custody, its whitelist, and mandatory 2% revenue cut on July 20, relaunching as open relay, player, and discovery infrastructure where artists publish under their own keys. v1.1.5 changed track publication to the event format Amethyst and other music clients expect, with o...

### News - **0:00 Intro** This episode follows Nostr Compass #31 across Concord group messaging, tagged releases, unreleased commerce and signer work, six open NIP proposals, and a NIP-99 deep dive. - **0:15 Vector v0.4.0 moves Group Chats from Marmot to Concord** Vector v0.4.0 retires Marmot as the default Group Chat transport in favor of Concord (CORD-01 through CORD-07), with Tor routing, NIP-4...

🎙️For years, I wanted to understand the difference between Austrian and Keynesian economics. I searched for explanations but never found the conversation I was looking for. So I created it. In this episode, I sit down with Max Hillebrand, who masterfully explains the foundations of these two very different schools of economics and what truly separates them. I genuinely believe this is one of those...

A single-key wallet has one weakness: one person, one device, or one moment can make you lose everything. The July 2026 Coldcard firmware flaw let attackers drain wallets whose seeds were generated with weak, predictable entropy. Multi-vendor multisig is the setup that defends against exactly that. In this one-hour session, Max Hillebrand explores multisig (multi-signature) wallets as a strategy t...

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### News - **0:16 — FIPS v0.4.0** FIPS v0.4.0 ships Nym mixnet outbound transport, opt-in mDNS/DNS-SD LAN discovery, a data-plane overhaul with per-peer crypto workers, hitless FMP/FSP rekey under packet loss, a rewritten fipstop TUI, Prometheus show_metrics, and OpenWrt apk plus Nix flake packaging, all wire-compatible with v0.3.0. - **6:40 — Whitenoise Linux desktop client** Whitenoise Linux is...

### News - **0:00 – Intro** This episode follows Nostr Compass #28 across Buzz and Napplets launches, commerce protocols, tagged releases, unreleased work, and a June retrospective. - **0:16 – Amethyst v1.12.1–v1.12.6 follow-ups** Amethyst shipped six rapid patches after v1.12.0: Health Connect Workouts and deterministic Tor Active in v1.12.1, Road Events and collapsable replies in v1.12.2, relay-...