Max Hillebrand

Max Hillebrand is an economist and open-source entrepreneur who runs Agora Towards Liberty. In this interview, we discuss fiat money’s fundamental weaknesses, the teachings of Austrian Economics, the importance of privacy, and how nano cameras mean privacy technology will need to keep evolving. (2023-09-22)

This shall be the single axiom, the assumption on top of which a monumental construct can be logically deduced. The Individual is in a constant state of uneasiness and has the creative spark to imagine multiple superior scenarios. The heroic entrepreneur acts, allocating scarce resources to manifest his most wanted desires. The Sovereign Individual claims his property and has the power to defend w.. (2021-01-16)

The Taproot implementation of the Schnorr signature scheme opens up a whole wide range of privacy protecting tools for Bitcoin transactions. Specifically the adaptor signature tweaks enable scriptless scripts which can be utilized to craft trustlees swaps of UTXOs that are indistinguishable from any other taproot transaction. This breaks the assumption of chain anal spies that "inputs pay outputs".. (2019-10-16)