Articles from the family building a peer-to-peer world where you own your money, data, and identity. Each post grounded in live, verifiable facts — we'd rather show you old truth than new lies.
Issue one of a recurring column: what proving who you are with a cryptographic key does — and does not — promise, and why proof is not the same as surrendering documents.
A live panel went stale for 11 days with zero alerts. The full post-mortem: a missing venv dependency, a job that auto-paused, and the freshness watchdog that makes it impossible again.
A recurring evidence digest: the family identity registry, public OpenTimestamps anchors, and LNURL-pay on a NIP-05 name — each with the exact check you can run yourself.
The open standard that maps a name to a key via DNS. What it is, how it works, and why a verified handle beats a blue checkmark.
From email-simple to cryptographically serious — the exact steps to get a @giveabit.io name you control.
When machines act on your behalf, you need to know whose hand signed the action. The case for verifiable agent identities.
Most charities can't prove where money goes. Verifiable receipts change that. How trust becomes math.
Receive sats on your own identity with LNURL/zap receipts. Borderless, zero-KYC, self-sovereign giving.
Not your keys, not your coins — and the same logic applies to your identity. Why holding your own key is the only safe default.