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The *arr Stack: How Self-Hosted Media Automation Actually Works
Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Seerr and friends: what each piece does, how they talk to each other, why hardlinks matter, and where the whole thing breaks.
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Prediction Markets: What the Price Knows, and Who Decides What Happened
How prediction markets turn bets into probabilities, why the price is sometimes wrong, why the oracle is the real product, and how Trueo is trying to build the version Vitalik Buterin has been asking for.
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The Agentic Payments Stack: x402, MPP, AP2, ACP, and L402
Five protocols want to let AI agents pay for things. They turned out not to be competing — mostly. A map of who sits where, and which numbers you shouldn't trust.
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Multisig: What It Actually Protects You From
How multisig works on Bitcoin and Ethereum, why MPC isn't the same thing, and why the largest multisig theft in history didn't break a single signature.
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Where Randomness Actually Comes From
True RNG vs pseudorandom, how your machine actually collects entropy, why 100 dice rolls make a Bitcoin seed, and the three different things people mean when they say 'random'.
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The ERCs and EIPs That Shaped Ethereum
A chronological tour of the Ethereum standards that actually mattered — from ERC-20 to account abstraction — and why each one changed what you could build.
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BitTorrent: The Protocol That Refuses to Die
How BitTorrent actually works — peers, pieces, choking, DHT, magnet links — and why a 23-year-old protocol is still the best way to move large files across the internet.
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ERC-8004: Building a Trust Layer for AI Agents Onchain
ERC-8004 gives AI agents verifiable identity, reputation, and validation on Ethereum. Here's what the standard actually defines, why it matters, and where it's headed.
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Full Map
Mastodon, Bluesky, Farcaster, Nostr, Loops, Pixelfed, PeerTube — what they are, how they work, and what each one is actually betting on.
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MegaETH: The Case for a Real-Time Blockchain
MegaETH claims 100,000 TPS and sub-10ms block times on Ethereum. Here's what the architecture actually does, what it enables, and what it's betting on.
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Privacy in Crypto: Monero, Zcash, and What Ethereum Is Trying to Become
Every transaction on a public blockchain is permanently visible to anyone. Here's how Monero, Zcash, and Ethereum's RAILGUN are trying to fix that — and what they're each betting on.