The notebook
Writing
Essays where the cryptography meets the critique — on delegated action, coordination, portable proof, and the impossibility of writing. Kept on Medium; mirrored here as it appears.
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Masters Do Not Allow, Slaves Can Not Prove, Nomads Will Not Fit
A self-criticism on Accountability Economy: friends, foes and marginalized
I have stood in front of that gate. You have too. You are not allowed, and no one is accountable If you find a way in, then there is a counter. There is a person behind it who is not unkind, that is the part that undoes…
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A Manifesto for the Age of Delegated Action — v1.0
How can authority, evidence and responsibility move through systems as quickly as action does?
No consequential action should be allowed to erase the relations that made it possible. An intelligent system acts. It recommends a treatment, refuses a payment, deploys software, moves an asset, negotiates a contract…
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Portable State Is Not a Bridge
How do we transport an object between chains?
Toward a cross-chain client-side validation runtime For years, the blockchain industry has treated interoperability as a transportation problem. One chain has an asset; another chain wants it; therefore we build a…