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Fees, difficulty progress, Tor relays, Nostr NIP-11 sample — no prices, no buy/sell calls. Updated 18 Sept 2026, 09:55 SAST when upstreams answer.
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PSBT and Air-Gapped Signing: Keep Keys Offline While the Network Watches
BIP 174 PSBT roles and air-gapped signing — online watch-only builds, offline signs, sealed packet in between. Protocol literacy, not a shopping guide.
2026-09-18
NIP-65: Relay Lists, Outbox, and Inbox — Routing Beyond One Home Relay
NIP-65 kind:10002 advertises per-pubkey write (outbox) and read (inbox) relays — routing beyond one home relay, beside NIP-11.
2026-09-16
Open Weights Were Not Enough: DeepSeek Harness, Cordis, and the Local Agent Stack
Open weights solve half of sovereignty. DeepSeek Harness and Cordis open the other half — a replaceable agent runtime you can point at local inference.
2026-09-14
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