~/stack $ cat /etc/protocols // freedom_grade only
THE STACK
speech, money, privacy: the protocols under everything i build
[01] NOSTR
Your identity is a keypair you generate yourself. Your posts are signed notes. Relays are dumb pipes, and anyone can run one.
That's the whole protocol. There is no nostr company, no account to suspend, no server that owns your social graph. If a relay drops you, point your client at another one and keep posting: followers follow your key, so they come along. Everything on this site runs on it, from Marmot to Sakura.
One keypair signs everything you publish. No email, no phone number, nothing to reset and nothing to confiscate.
Notes go to several relays at once. Losing one costs you nothing; your identity and followers travel with the key.
Lightning tips are part of the protocol. Readers can send a few sats to any note in one tap.
Notes, profiles, DMs, group chats and file servers all share one signed-event format, so clients interoperate by default.
[02] BITCOIN
Money with a fixed supply that no government can print and a ledger no bank can edit.
21 million coins, ever, and the rules are enforced by everyone who runs a node. That's the part that matters: you verify your own money instead of trusting a bank's spreadsheet. I take sats over lightning for speed, and silent payments on-chain so nobody has to reuse an address.
The cap is consensus. Changing it would need the people holding the asset to vote against themselves.
A Raspberry Pi can check every rule of the system. You audit the money yourself, in software you can read.
Payment channels settle sats in milliseconds for fractions of a cent. Small enough to tip a note, fast enough to buy coffee.
Hold your own keys. Coins on an exchange are an IOU with your name on a list.
[03] MONERO
Digital cash. Sender, receiver and amount are hidden on every transaction, by default.
Bitcoin's ledger is public forever, which makes it great money and lousy cash: anyone you pay can browse your history. Monero closes that hole with ring signatures, stealth addresses and confidential amounts. Coins carry no history, so every coin spends like every other coin. That property is called fungibility, and cash needs it.
Your real input hides in a crowd of decoys. An observer can't tell which member of the ring signed.
Every payment lands on a fresh one-time address. Nothing on-chain links back to the address you published.
RingCT commits to amounts without revealing them, and the math still proves no coins were forged.
No tainted coins, no blacklists, no coin with a past. A monero is a monero.
[04] WHY ALL THREE
Nostr carries the words. Bitcoin holds the savings. Monero is the cash in your pocket.
Each one works alone. Together they cover a whole digital life: publish, save and spend without a single account that can be closed on you. Exits keep rulers honest, so build them, use them, fund them. Ready to climb on? The getting-started guide walks you through all three ▸
// the list of people who can shut this down is empty, i checked.