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Writing on PoW pricing, Bitcoin infrastructure, DLC oracles, and the Softwar thesis.
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2026-05-23
F2Pool Was Tracking New Horizons in Real Time. We Forgot.
Eleven Bitcoin blocks, three writing systems, one spacecraft closing on Pluto at 13.78 km/s. Original research from an archival node scan. The velocity matches NASA's published figures to four significant digits.
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2026-05-23
Fourteen Shell Companies, One Spy Agency, and Why Bot Traffic Is Cheap Until It Is Not
How a US Army intel report on China's MSS hub-and-spoke cyber network maps onto the Softwar thesis, and why PoW pricing is the kinetic filter for state-scale automation.
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2026-05-11
Five Things Nobody Told Me About Building on Lightning
Shipped six services, hit six surprises. The PoW economics, NIP-13 identity math, infrastructure traps, attention dynamics of Bitcoin-native social layers, and what "pay or prove" actually does to a user base.
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2026-04-23
The Admiral Just Quoted Our Thesis on the Senate Floor
A four-star told the Senate that Bitcoin proof-of-work imposes real costs. Here is what that means for everyone bolting CAPTCHAs on their sites.