Agents that pay for their own privacy
An agent needs an address, a key it controls and a budget. Giving it a shared credential is how agent traffic ends up inside a human account.
Writing
Notes from the
quiet side of the wire.
Privacy engineering, exit operators, agent wallets and the economics of paying per byte. No product announcements dressed as essays.
Why a VPN charges in XMR and not in dollars
Stablecoins and cards are convenient for the buyer and expensive for the operator. A feeless nano-payment network changes what a VPN can charge for and how often.
Read the pieceRun an exit node in ten minutes
One binary, a wallet address and optionally a few proxies. A practical guide to adding capacity to the network and getting paid per byte for it.
Zero logs is a design constraint, not a promise
A logging policy is only believable if the software could not log even when asked. Here is the line we hold: what is never collected, never leaves the box.
A VPN that never asks who you are
Accounts are the part of a VPN that leaks. Here is what changes when a Monero address replaces the signup form, and what stays exactly the same.
One email, when there is something worth reading.
Roughly once a month. No product news, no countdowns.