Monero on TAZ

// my lab | nodes, containers & virtual machines, zero trust

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is not a tutorial. It is a record of what is running, why it is running, and what it took to get there. The lab changes. This note changes with it.

This note is updated as the lab changes. Last updated: 03 Jun 2026.

the hardware decision

I am not going to go back to the beginning. What matters is where things are now, and what led to the current shape.

// your first sovereign wallet

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A practical guide to holding Bitcoin and Monero outside the system that was built to hold you.

I am not a financial adviser. I am a sovereignty and privacy evangelist. What follows is not investment advice. It is a map to a door most people do not know exists.

before you start

If you have read // what is money?, you already know why this matters. If you have not, read that first. This guide picks up where that one leaves off.

// what is money?

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How the system that was supposed to serve you became the cage around you, and what a cypherpunk mathematician did about it.

the promise | stored energy and the original contract

Before the banks. Before the central committees and the printing presses and the men in suits explaining why this time the numbers have to change. Before all of that, someone had a problem.

They had more grain than they could eat. Their neighbour had more timber than they could burn. Trade made sense, but it was clumsy. You could not carry a barn to market. You could not split a cow in half and hand someone Tuesday’s portion of it. What they needed was something in between. A vessel. Something that could hold the value of effort, carry it across distance, and release it again on the other side.

// the wake up call

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The internet was never what they told you it was.

Not a garage project. Not a hippie dream about connecting the world. Not a neutral platform that somehow, regrettably, got out of hand. That’s the fairy tale. It was always a fairy tale.

Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley documents what actually happened. The internet was built by the Pentagon. ARPA’s original vision wasn’t communication or collaboration. It was counterinsurgency. A system to track guerrillas, monitor dissidents, and manage populations during the Vietnam War era. Surveillance wasn’t a bug that crept in later. It was the architecture from day one.