We are facing an onslaught of intrusive regulation, especially in the digital world: age verification, chatcontrol, kill-switches in cars, and self-incrimination thru mandatory reporting of digital assets.

All because centralised institutions can afford to “boil the frog” when people are sufficiently reliant on them. This power equation explains all institutional capture, including the sad corposloppification of BTC.

Permissionless, sovereign, anti-fragile technology is The Way. In my talk, I will show what I found interesting and useful as of late:
the new XMR402 payment standard, TollGate routers, Framework computers, local AI, Open-Source Blueprints for Civilization, 3D-printing, and a few interoperable protocols.

I will also give a glimmer of hope for the ever-coveted mass-adoption: these things have the Cool Factor long lost by most tech. Open-source modularity simply is good design, while Monero has always felt like a gem.