{"id":699,"date":"2020-12-30T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T20:42:34","slug":"cypherpunk-philosphy-as-i-attempt-to-build-an-embassy-to-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/cypherpunk-philosphy-as-i-attempt-to-build-an-embassy-to-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cypherpunk philosphy (as I attempt to build an Embassy to demo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just attempted to build the software for the Embassy, a device that helps you run your own Lightning and Bitcoin node. <a href=\"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hosting-important-digital-things-easily-with-embassyos\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"642\">I gave a mini-review of it here<\/a>. One of my concerns then was that I didn&#8217;t have root access to the device and hadn&#8217;t seen that anyone had built the software themselves. I haven&#8217;t interacted with the community, but I was just giving my impressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon on YouTube shared a guide Start9Labs released for those who wish to build the software. Long story short, I wasn&#8217;t sure what OS to build on so used Mac but it failed because it&#8217;s looking for losetup, a gnu+linux tool. There&#8217;s something similar on Mac called hdiutil which didn&#8217;t work. Ahh the joys of building software&#8230; I&#8217;ll try it next on Ubuntu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That Embassy would be built on Linux makes total sense, and got me thinking about the topic of this post: <strong>Cypherpunk philosophy.<\/strong> What does it mean? Why can&#8217;t we just use website and apps for everything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some key principles for you budding cypherpunks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom &#8211; As long as you&#8217;re not hurting anyone, you should be able to explore and build what you like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Privacy &#8211; Enables justice to rise above tyranny. Too often in history have tyrants eroded privacy to quell dissidents and maintain power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trustlessness &#8211; Trusting no-one removes hidden agendas to simplify reasoning about the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decentralization &#8211; Cypherpunks support decentralized protocols because they can be designed with the above in mind.\u00a0 With no head to cut off, decentralized systems imitate the unrelenting and immortal power of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty cool, right? Seriously, though cypherpunks have been behind some of the greatest recent inventions in cryptography, networking and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, next is to deal with the software-building issue. Hopefully in a future video, I can show a full tour of my second embassy, running software fit for a trustless world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just attempted to build the software for the Embassy, a device that helps you run your own Lightning and Bitcoin node. I gave a mini-review of it here. One of my concerns then was that I didn&#8217;t have root access to the device and hadn&#8217;t seen that anyone had built the software themselves. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}