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If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the world celebrated the end of one of history’s most oppressive regimes. East Germans stormed the headquarters of the Ministry for State Security — the... Read more

Two inexorable realities have come into sharpened focus over the last month or so. Both are themes we have been exploring and monitoring – one, since practically the very beginning of this service, the other, over the last year or so. The first is the unsustainable nature of the global... Read more

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. A recurring and particularly damaging element in the campaign against Equibit Group founder Chris Horlacher has been the repeated disruption of his access to banking and payment systems — commonly referred to as de-banking.... Read more

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. In December 2020, shortly after beginning to document what he believed was coordinated surveillance, Chris Horlacher deployed a honeypot on his home network named “Equibit-DEV”. What happened next provides some of the most intriguing technical... Read more

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. By December 2020 CSIS was deep in default of filing its defense, and Chris Horlacher suspected they would attempt to undermine the lawsuits via other means. After experiencing persistent and strange internet behaviors... Read more

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. In one of the clearest examples of technical surveillance in his case, Chris Horlacher discovered and documented a DNS-based Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack that was intercepting and potentially monitoring his internet traffic. Discovery of the... Read more

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. Chris Horlacher has documented multiple sophisticated intrusions through his Microsoft ecosystem. These incidents go well beyond ordinary malware and align with key moments in his legal activities. They indicate a close collaboration between... Read more

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. In the ongoing campaign of digital harassment and sabotage documented by Chris Horlacher, one of the most technical and intrusive episodes involves repeated compromises of his home routers in Mexico. These incidents... Read more

In fact, we made it inevitable. Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread, unanimously opposed and viscerally aghast since... Read more

Dilution, Spreads, and the Modern Bitcoin Investor’s Dilemma via Kane McGukin at the Mesh Point This paper is the final in a three-part series examining Bitcoin Treasury Companies (BTC-TC). This third and final piece establishes the framework for viewing Bitcoin Treasury Companies as nothing more than new age version of... Read more

  Ratcheting Ourselves Through the Inflection Point Ray Kurzweil always framed the Singularity as a moment — some techno-rapture threshold humanity would stumble through like a portal in a video game. One side: regular civilization. Other side: incomprehensible machine superintelligence. Roll credits. About a year ago I put out a... Read more

  The Comfortable Collapse: Canada’s Decade of Managed Decline Originally via @JoeyTweeets on X There is a concept in ecology called a “shifting baseline.” It describes what happens when each generation accepts the degraded state of its environment as normal, because no one can remember what things looked like before... Read more