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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. 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

The Walls Are Going Up: Capital Controls Have Already Arrived in the First World     You’re not going to wake up one morning to a news alert that says “CAPITAL CONTROLS IMPOSED.” That’s not how it works in G20 countries. There’s no dramatic peso-style freeze, no Malaysian-style currency peg,... Read more

  The Politics Of Institutionalized Predation. “I become stronger as you become weaker, I absorb strength as yours flows into me. I become capable of this because I do not experience your pain, I don’t care about your loss, and I feel no regret about using, abusing, and devouring you.”... Read more

Personal Freedom In The Age of Mass Compliance What follows are a couple of excerpts from the last Bitcoin Capitalist Letter, which was a long-form piece that was a refinement of my overall long term investment thesis. It corrects for my biggest mistake in the previous model: the belief that... Read more

  This is Happening, This is Really Happening On New Year’s Day, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of the financial capital of the world, with his hand on a copy of the Koran, and in his inauguration speech, he proclaimed: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and... Read more