<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Protokoly svobody]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freedom Protocols. Essays on money, freedom and the technologies reshaping both.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fp1c!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ea401a0-d08f-4298-bf35-61a278978479_216x216.png</url><title>Protokoly svobody</title><link>https://www.alexpilar.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:12:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.alexpilar.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[alexpilar@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[alexpilar@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[alexpilar@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[alexpilar@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Digitální identita jako infrastruktura moci ]]></title><description><![CDATA[O architektu&#345;e, kde matematika nahrazuje d&#367;v&#283;ru.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/digitalni-identita-jako-infrastruktura</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/digitalni-identita-jako-infrastruktura</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7aa4745d-ae97-4e4d-9c48-06b55bb835fd_1168x784.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita se dnes prod&#225;v&#225; jako technologick&#253; upgrade st&#225;tu, kter&#253; m&#225; ob&#269;an&#367;m zjednodu&#353;it &#382;ivot. Jako pohodl&#237;. Jako konec pap&#237;rov&#225;n&#237;.</p><p>Redukovat ji na odstran&#283;n&#237; formul&#225;&#345;&#367; je ale z&#225;sadn&#237; omyl. Nejde o komfort. Jde o moc.</p><p>P&#345;edstavte si jednoduchou situaci. P&#345;ihl&#225;s&#237;te se do banky, do zdravotn&#237; aplikace, nebo na soci&#225;ln&#237; s&#237;&#357; pomoc&#237; sv&#233; digit&#225;ln&#237; identity. V&#353;e funguje rychle a pohodln&#283;. Jedno p&#345;ihl&#225;&#353;en&#237;, jeden &#250;&#269;et, jeden identifik&#225;tor.</p><p>A pak p&#345;ijde chyba. Nebo spor. Nebo zm&#283;na pravidel.</p><p>Najednou je va&#353;e identita zablokov&#225;na. Ne bankovn&#237; &#250;&#269;et. Ne konkr&#233;tn&#237; slu&#382;ba. Cel&#225; identita. Nem&#367;&#382;ete se p&#345;ihl&#225;sit nikam. V digit&#225;ln&#237;m prostoru p&#345;estanete existovat, dokud v&#225;m st&#225;tn&#237; &#250;&#345;ad nevr&#225;t&#237; p&#345;&#237;stup.</p><p>Technicky je to efektivn&#237;. Politicky je to naprost&#225; koncentrace moci. Ani&#382; si toho n&#283;kdo v&#353;imne, ani&#382; sn&#283;movna p&#345;ijme po dlouh&#233;m boji z&#225;kon &#8220;&#352;pehujme v&#353;echny, v&#353;ude a nav&#382;dy&#8221; najednou m&#225; st&#225;t moc, o kterou mo&#382;n&#225; ani v&#283;dom&#283; nest&#225;l. Moc, kter&#225; byla skryt&#225; v z&#225;kout&#237;ch technick&#233;ho n&#225;vrhu, kter&#233;mu nikdo po&#345;&#225;dn&#283; nerozum&#283;l.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>&#218;&#269;et, nebo d&#367;kaz?</strong></h3><p>A pr&#225;v&#283; proto je dosavadn&#237; debata o digit&#225;ln&#237; identit&#283; neuspokojiv&#225;. A navrhovan&#225; &#345;e&#353;en&#237; je&#353;t&#283; v&#237;c.</p><p>Z&#225;sadn&#237; ot&#225;zka, zda m&#225; b&#253;t digit&#225;ln&#237; identita postavena na d&#367;v&#283;&#345;e v centr&#225;ln&#237; autoritu, nebo na decentralizovan&#253;ch, matematicky ov&#283;&#345;iteln&#253;ch d&#367;kazech, z&#367;st&#225;v&#225; stranou.</p><p>Hroz&#237;, &#382;e za p&#225;r let a n&#283;kolik stovek milion&#367; korun pozd&#283;ji zjist&#237;me, &#382;e syst&#233;m funguje p&#345;esn&#283; tak, jak byl navr&#382;en. A &#382;e probl&#233;m nebyl v implementaci.</p><p>Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita nesm&#237; b&#253;t &#250;&#269;et v datab&#225;zi &#8211; st&#225;tn&#237;, evropsk&#233; ani korpor&#225;tn&#237;. &#218;&#269;et existuje jen pokud to spr&#225;vce dovol&#237;. To nen&#237; identita. To je z&#225;vislost.</p><p>Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita mus&#237; b&#253;t kryptografick&#253; d&#367;kaz pod kontrolou u&#382;ivatele. D&#367;kaz se neud&#283;luje. D&#367;kaz se ov&#283;&#345;uje.</p><p>V&#353;echno ostatn&#237; je kompromis.</p><p>Postav&#237;me-li identitu jako &#250;&#269;et, vytvo&#345;&#237;me centr&#225;ln&#237; bod, kter&#253; lze napadnout, vypnout &#269;i zablokovat a t&#237;m i koncentraci moci, jak&#225; v analogov&#233;m sv&#283;t&#283; nikdy neexistovala.</p><p>Postav&#237;me-li ji jako kryptografick&#253; d&#367;kaz, vznikne rovnov&#225;ha mezi legitimn&#237; autoritou st&#225;tu a svobodou ob&#269;ana.</p><p>Architektura nen&#237; technick&#253; detail. Je to rozd&#283;len&#237; moci.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Jednoduch&#253; test digit&#225;ln&#237; identity</strong></h3><p>Aby digit&#225;ln&#237; identita neohro&#382;ovala va&#353;i svobodu, mus&#237; st&#225;t na n&#283;kolika jednoduch&#253;ch pravidlech. Nejde o slo&#382;itou kryptografii. Jde o principy.</p><p>M&#225; n&#283;kdo kontrolu nad cel&#253;m syst&#233;mem a m&#367;&#382;e v&#225;s centr&#225;ln&#283; vypnout?<br>Existuje jedno &#269;&#237;slo, kter&#233; v&#225;s propojuje nap&#345;&#237;&#269; v&#353;emi slu&#382;bami?<br>M&#367;&#382;ete prokazovat jen jeden konkr&#233;tn&#237; &#250;daj bez odhalen&#237; cel&#233; identity?</p><p>P&#345;edstavte si cestovn&#237; doklad. Leti&#353;tn&#237; kontrola nepot&#345;ebuje vlastnit jeho kopii. Pot&#345;ebuje jen ov&#283;&#345;it, &#382;e je platn&#253; a &#382;e ho dr&#382;&#237; opr&#225;vn&#283;n&#225; osoba. Platforma jako YouTube nepot&#345;ebuje zn&#225;t va&#353;e skute&#269;n&#233; jm&#233;no. Pot&#345;ebuje jen d&#367;kaz, &#382;e spl&#328;ujete v&#283;kovou hranici.</p><p>Je cel&#253; syst&#233;m otev&#345;en&#253; a ve&#345;ejn&#283; auditovateln&#253;?</p><p>Je ka&#382;d&#233; ov&#283;&#345;en&#237; dotazem do centr&#225;ln&#237; datab&#225;ze?</p><p>P&#345;edstavte si, &#382;e jste v baru. Ov&#283;&#345;&#237; se v&#283;k, dostanete pivo. Z&#367;stane v centr&#225;ln&#237;m syst&#233;mu kopie z&#225;znamu o tom, &#382;e jste si tu noc ov&#283;&#345;ovali v&#283;k pr&#225;v&#283; v tom baru na rohu? Nebo byl d&#367;kaz proveden lok&#225;ln&#283;, bez spojen&#237; s centrem?</p><p>Rozd&#237;l mezi kopi&#237; a d&#367;kazem je z&#225;sadn&#237;. Kopie vytv&#225;&#345;&#237; datab&#225;zi. Datab&#225;ze m&#225; spr&#225;vce.</p><p>D&#367;kaz vytv&#225;&#345;&#237; jen odpov&#283;&#271;: ano, nebo ne.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Pseudonymita nen&#237; chyba. Je to pojistka.</strong></h3><p>Dob&#345;e navr&#382;en&#253; syst&#233;m umo&#382;&#328;uje odd&#283;lit role. Jinou identitu pou&#382;&#237;v&#225;te v bance, jinou na odborn&#233;m f&#243;ru, jinou na soci&#225;ln&#237; s&#237;ti. To nen&#237; trik. Je to z&#225;kladn&#237; bezpe&#269;nostn&#237; princip: odd&#283;len&#237; kontext&#367;.</p><p>Postoj, &#382;e soukrom&#237; nepot&#345;ebujete, proto&#382;e &#8222;nem&#225;te co skr&#253;vat&#8220;, je stejn&#283; naivn&#237; jako &#345;&#237;ct, &#382;e nepot&#345;ebujete svobodu slova, proto&#382;e nem&#225;te co &#345;&#237;ct.</p><p>Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita by proto nem&#283;la automaticky prozrazovat &#8222;kdo jste&#8220;, ale jen to, co je v dan&#233; situaci nezbytn&#233; &#8211; v&#283;k, opr&#225;vn&#283;n&#237;, status. Bez povinn&#233;ho odhalen&#237; jm&#233;na. Bez jednoho trval&#233;ho identifik&#225;toru, kter&#253; v&#225;s prov&#225;z&#237; nap&#345;&#237;&#269; v&#353;emi slu&#382;bami.</p><p>Jakmile v&#353;echny interakce odkazuj&#237; ke stejn&#233;mu &#269;&#237;slu, vznik&#225; mo&#382;nost propojit je do jedin&#233;ho souvisl&#233;ho profilu. Nejde o to, zda to n&#283;kdo d&#283;l&#225; dnes. Jde o to, &#382;e to architektura umo&#382;&#328;uje &#8211; a p&#345;itom by tomu m&#283;la br&#225;nit.</p><p>V takov&#233;m syst&#233;mu je pseudonymita jen dekorace. A pod n&#237; se skr&#253;v&#225; star&#253; dobr&#253; centr&#225;ln&#237; registr.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong> Architektura rozd&#283;luje moc </strong></h3><p>Dnes se v Evrop&#283; formuje konkr&#233;tn&#237; podoba digit&#225;ln&#237; identity. Nen&#237; to abstraktn&#237; &#250;vaha. Je to prob&#237;haj&#237;c&#237; n&#225;vrh.</p><p>&#268;esk&#225; implementace eIDAS je sice posun, ale architektonicky z&#367;st&#225;v&#225; z&#225;sadn&#237;m kompromisem, kter&#253; st&#225;le vych&#225;z&#237; z logiky centr&#225;ln&#237;ch registr&#367;.</p><p>Zem&#283; se sv&#283;tovou reputac&#237; v kyberbezpe&#269;nosti a kryptografii, kter&#225; dala sv&#283;tu Avast i BIP39, by m&#283;la m&#237;t v&#253;razn&#283; vy&#353;&#353;&#237; ambice a navrhnout architekturu, kter&#225; se stane referen&#269;n&#237;m modelem pro Evropu a v&#253;vozn&#237;m artiklem.</p><p>Takov&#225; cesta existuje. Nizozemsk&#253; open-source projekt Yivi/IRMA ukazuje, &#382;e identita nemus&#237; b&#253;t datab&#225;ze. M&#367;&#382;e b&#253;t d&#367;kaz.</p><p>Evropsk&#253; r&#225;mec nikoho nenut&#237; stav&#283;t dal&#353;&#237; centr&#225;ln&#237; registry. Pokud &#345;e&#353;en&#237; spln&#237; spole&#269;n&#233; standardy a projde posouzen&#237;m shody, mus&#237; b&#253;t do syst&#233;mu za&#269;len&#283;no.</p><p>Prostor pro decentralizovanou architekturu zalo&#382;enou na otev&#345;en&#233;m k&#243;du a modern&#237; kryptografii tedy existuje. Ot&#225;zka zn&#237;, zda ho vyu&#382;ijeme.</p><p>Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita se stane z&#225;kladn&#237; infrastrukturou digit&#225;ln&#237;ho prostoru &#8211; stejn&#283; samoz&#345;ejmou jako dnes bankovn&#237; &#250;&#269;et.</p><p>P&#367;jde o centr&#225;ln&#237; registr ob&#269;an&#367; s novou appkou?</p><p>Nebo o decentralizovan&#253; protokol, kter&#253; nedovol&#237; koncentraci moci?</p><p>Zd&#225;nliv&#283; je to technick&#253; probl&#233;m.</p><p>Ve skute&#269;nosti jde o politick&#233; rozhodnut&#237; o rozd&#283;len&#237; moci a o tom, zda bude svoboda syst&#233;movou vlastnost&#237;, nebo jen politick&#253;m slibem.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Return of Physics: AI and the Cloud Tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[How AI Repriced the Cloud and Made On-Prem Strategic Again]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/the-return-of-physics-ai-and-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/the-return-of-physics-ai-and-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:58:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9cf9af06-7c63-4d3d-851d-2c91f2dffa5e_1360x768.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A year ago I wrote <em>VMware&#8217;s Fall and the &#8220;Cloud Tax.&#8221;</em></p><p>It wasn&#8217;t really about VMware.</p><p>It was about what happens when enterprises outsource infrastructure competence without a credible plan to reclaim it. Once pricing power shifts and leverage disappears, they are boxed in.</p><p>It was also a reminder that steady, predictable loads belong on infra you own and control, and that on-prem was never dead, only dismissed by cloud ideology dressed up as strategy.</p><p>So what changed in the last 12 months? </p><p>Quite a lot.</p><h3>When the Illusions Broke</h3><p>In Web 2.0, cloud captured margin quietly. It was the price of speed and convenience.</p><p>In the AI era, that margin is no longer small &#8212; and neither is the control being surrendered.</p><p>Cloud bills didn&#8217;t go down. If anything, AI made them climb.</p><p>GPU-driven AI doesn&#8217;t behave like traditional cloud workloads. It doesn&#8217;t spike and disappear. Once it moves into production, it runs. Inference isn&#8217;t occasional. Models stay loaded. Data stays put.</p><p>And you pay for all of it. All the time.</p><p>At scale, outsourcing core compute is not flexibility.</p><p>It is margin transfer.</p><p>That&#8217;s when the real questions surface:</p><p>Where does the compute run?<br>Who controls the model?<br>Where does the data live?<br>And who ultimately controls the cost structure behind it?</p><p>Because AI is not software in the classic sense.</p><p>It is industrial compute. It is critical infrastructure.</p><p>And that&#8217;s where the second illusion breaks.</p><div><hr></div><h3>&#8220;We Have an API Key&#8221; Is Not a Strategy</h3><p>If your AI strategy is: &#8220;We have an API key.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s not strategy.</p><p>That&#8217;s access to someone else&#8217;s model, infrastructure, and critically -  pricing power.</p><p>Access that can be repriced, throttled, or blocked.</p><p>And that&#8217;s before data sovereignty even enters the conversation.</p><p>When sensitive workflows, code, or customer data flow through external models, you&#8217;re not just consuming compute, you&#8217;re exposing context. IP leakage in the AI era is often incremental and invisible. Even with enterprise-grade systems, the provider controls the infrastructure and the keys. Ultimate authority resides under its jurisdiction, not yours.</p><p>When you depend on third-party APIs, you are not building capability. You are renting it. And rented leverage is not leverage.</p><p>It is exposure.</p><p>In an AI decade where models shape products and margins, confusing access with strategy may be one of the most expensive category errors a board can make.</p><div><hr></div><h3>The Reversal of Cloud Absolutism</h3><p>This shift is no longer anecdotal.</p><p>A Barclays CIO survey found that 83% of enterprises plan to move workloads back to on-prem infrastructure, up from 43% in 2021. That&#8217;s not noise. </p><p>That&#8217;s structural shift. For a decade the narrative was binary: &#8220;Everything to cloud.&#8221; Nuance was treated as resistance or almost treason.</p><p>Now the language has evolved.</p><p>&#8220;Hybrid strategy.&#8221; &#8220;AI-aligned architecture.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s elegant.</p><p>Cloud absolutism has pivoted into hybrid pragmatism. Boardroom mini-politics is remarkably flexible. But that&#8217;s fine. Outcome matters more than narrative.</p><p>If inertia prevented full lock-in, good. If a failed migration preserved optionality, even better. And yes, containerization and Kubernetes literacy would have helped. </p><p>Cloud wasn&#8217;t the mistake. Surrendering control was.</p><p>The real question now is simple:</p><p>Are companies prepared to rebuild infrastructure competence?</p><p>Or will hyperscalers capture AI margin and control the way they captured web margin?</p><p>That&#8217;s where the battle is.</p><div><hr></div><h3>The Physics Problem</h3><p>Cloud abstracted complexity away.</p><p>It was convenient. Almost addictive.</p><p>Infrastructure decisions moved into procurement. Naive cloud absolutism was rewarded. Engineers became invoice and SLA reviewers.</p><p>AI brings complexity back.</p><p>Now power density matters again. Cooling matters. Networking fabric matters. Hardware utilization matters.</p><p>Suddenly this annoying physics is back in the boardroom.</p><p>Companies that understand compute - deeply, operationally - will outperform those that only know how to buy subscriptions.</p><p>Because subscriptions don&#8217;t build capability. Competence does.</p><p>It is almost poetic.</p><p>The pendulum is swinging from:</p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t own servers.&#8221;</p><p>to</p><p>&#8220;Own what gives you power.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><h3>The Real Constraint: Talent, Not Capital</h3><p>The case for on-prem AI is increasingly rational. At scale, high-utilization GPU clusters can outperform hyperscaler pricing. The math works.</p><p>But there is a problem.</p><p>Most enterprises dismantled their hardware competence years ago. They optimized for abstraction, outsourced complexity, and turned infrastructure teams into cloud consumers.</p><p>Running high-performance compute clusters is not a procurement exercise. It is operational craft.</p><p>You do not rebuild that competence with a hiring round.</p><p>It is institutional muscle memory. Infrastructure DNA.</p><p>And culture erodes faster than hardware.</p><p>You can buy GPUs.</p><p>You cannot buy operational maturity overnight.</p><p>So while the economic argument for on-prem AI strengthens, the organizational capacity to execute it often weakens.</p><p>Enterprises may want the margin.</p><p>The question is whether they still have the DNA to earn it and courage to execute it.</p><div><hr></div><p>Cloud made infrastructure invisible in boardrooms.</p><p>AI is forcing it back and making it strategic again.</p><p>In the AI decade, those who own capability will capture the margin &#8212; and the power that comes with it.  Those who rent it will fund someone else&#8217;s.</p><p>Physics doesn&#8217;t negotiate.</p><p>It always wins.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[VMware’s Fall & The Cloud Tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally published on LinkedIn February 14, 2025]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/vmwares-fall-and-the-cloud-tax</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/vmwares-fall-and-the-cloud-tax</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:35:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/75cad82f-5619-4404-b7e7-51b3b7131feb_800x600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><strong>How badly are enterprises getting squeezed by public cloud?</strong></h3><p>AWS recently reported over 60% gross margins&#8212;no surprise to many of us. We saw it coming. The &#8220;cloud-first&#8221; ideology can make perfect sense for SMEs, but for large enterprises with IT infrastructure and talent, it was always a trap.</p><p>We now have mature open-source tools covering automation, virtualization and containerization, it&#8217;s all slashing costs and giving us real flexibility. What&#8217;s left? Convenience, risk aversion... and vendor lock-in.</p><h3><strong>The Best Strategy Was Always a Hybrid One:</strong></h3><ul><li><p>Run predictable, stable workloads on your own, well utilized private cloud.</p></li><li><p>Use public cloud for bursts, peak loads, temporary high-density computing and edge cases.</p></li><li><p>When using public cloud, go fully containerized to maintain freedom to move where compute, cost, and security are best aligned.</p></li><li><p>Keep collaboration tools (email, chat, video conferencing, etc.) in the cloud&#8212;it&#8217;s lightweight, convenient, no point wasting time with that.</p></li><li><p>Encrypt your data. Do not trust a cloud provider. Not your keys, not your security. BYOK.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>The Worst Choice? A Full Cloud Migration.</strong></h3><p>Moving legacy apps to the cloud without containerization turns you into a hostage&#8212;permanently exposed to subscription price hikes (because that 60% margin has to come from somewhere, and spoiler alert: it&#8217;s coming from you).</p><p>And now it&#8217;s not just public cloud. <strong>Look at VMware.</strong></p><p>Broadcom took over and wasted no time screwing over VMware customers. Perpetual licenses? Gone. Your ability to run infrastructure on your own terms? Gone.</p><p>Instead, you&#8217;re being forced onto their bloated subscription model, paying indefinitely for software you already own. And let&#8217;s be honest, this was always the play. Buy a company with deep enterprise penetration, kill off flexible licensing, and squeeze customers. Great business.</p><p>If you&#8217;re still locked into VMware, this is your warning sign to start looking at alternatives like Proxmox, OpenStack, or even bare metal Kubernetes before you get squeezed even harder.</p><p>Reversing bad cloud decisions is hard. By the time you realize you&#8217;re overpaying, you&#8217;ve lost your infra, your licenses, and your people. A repatriation project only makes sense when running workloads on-prem is at least 60-70% cheaper than your cloud bill&#8212;and that might take another year or two to materialize.</p><h3><strong>What Can You Do Now?</strong></h3><ul><li><p>Ignore IT ideology&#8212;follow the facts. Private clouds run 40-50% cheaper than being extorted by public cloud providers.</p></li><li><p>Unblock investment in your infrastructure and empower your Private cloud team. Even an average on-prem solution beats AWS&#8217;s 65% margin tax&#8212;and with AI-driven design, execution and automation, you have no excuse not to build cheaper and smarter than ever.</p></li><li><p>Start your VMware exit strategy. Broadcom isn&#8217;t stopping. Explore Proxmox, OpenStack, or bare metal alternatives before you&#8217;re trapped in yet another subscription racket.</p></li><li><p>And most importantly - protect your talent.</p></li></ul><p>Oh, and have you noticed? Big cloud providers barely talk to their enterprise customers anymore. AI is their new best friend, and corporations? Just another line item on their monthly, ever-increasing subscription invoices.</p><p> Enjoy.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[21 = 3 x 7]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Long Road from 21 to Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/21-3-x-7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/21-3-x-7</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:50:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7b9c7026-cd38-4c71-8df1-34d964bed197_1002x620.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you remember elementary school math?<br>Factoring numbers into prime factors?</p><p>That&#8217;s how we measure today one of the core capabilities of quantum computers.</p><p>In 2001, IBM managed to factor the number <strong>15</strong> using a quantum computer.<br>Eleven years later, in 2012, researchers in the UK factored <strong>21</strong>, which remains the <strong>largest number ever factored by a genuine implementation of Shor&#8217;s algorithm on quantum infrastructure</strong>.</p><p>Since then, setting aside hybrid shortcuts, there has been <strong>no further progress</strong>.<br>We have now been waiting <strong>14 years</strong> for the factorization of <strong>35</strong>, which would already represent a meaningful milestone given the <strong>exponential growth in energy requirements, system stability, and error correction</strong>.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/283df4a2-9d83-4105-bdfd-64d0c0dc26ad_830x630.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/283df4a2-9d83-4105-bdfd-64d0c0dc26ad_830x630.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>To even begin talking seriously about threatening modern cryptography, we would need to solve a quantum problem equivalent to factoring numbers on the order of 1024+ bits &#8212; that is, integers with roughly 310 decimal digits. </p><p>Yes. </p><p>Between 21 and 1024+ bits stands a mountain of hard, unresolved physics. </p><p>And that number <strong>21</strong>? We&#8217;re quite used to it in Bitcoin. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architektura důvěry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cypherpunks p&#345;edali pochode&#328;. Bitcoin u&#382; nen&#237; rebelie, ale protokol d&#367;v&#283;ry stoj&#237;c&#237; na matematice, ne na slibech. Druh&#225; generace m&#225; ten nejt&#283;&#382;&#353;&#237; &#250;kol: mus&#237; dok&#225;zat, pro&#269; na tom z&#225;le&#382;&#237;.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/architektura-duvery-manifest-druhe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/architektura-duvery-manifest-druhe</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:32:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b46d910-769d-4586-92b4-c85c72367bc3_1408x736.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bitcoin stoj&#237; na rozcest&#237;. U&#382; to nen&#237; pouh&#225; vzpoura, ale prvn&#237; skute&#269;n&#253; pokus postavit &#345;&#225;d na n&#283;&#269;em jin&#233;m ne&#382; na d&#367;v&#283;&#345;e v autority. M&#367;&#382;e se st&#225;t kotvou civilizace v &#233;&#345;e, kter&#225; pochopila, &#382;e m&#237;sto slep&#233; v&#237;ry pot&#345;ebuje d&#367;kaz, a m&#237;sto lidsk&#253;ch slib&#367;<strong> pravdu m&#283;&#345;enou energi&#237;.</strong></p><p>Prvn&#237; generace dok&#225;zala, &#382;e funguje.<br>Ta dal&#353;&#237; m&#225; &#250;kol daleko t&#283;&#382;&#353;&#237;: <strong>mus&#237; dok&#225;zat, pro&#269; na tom z&#225;le&#382;&#237;.</strong></p><p>Cypherpunks zap&#225;lili z&#225;palnou &#353;&#328;&#367;ru a te&#271; p&#345;ed&#225;vaj&#237; pochode&#328;. Druh&#225; generace rozhodne, co v&#353;echno nech&#225;me sho&#345;et. Bitcoin se zrodil z jejich k&#243;du, ano, ale jeho smysl sah&#225; daleko za jejich &#233;tos, u&#382; jim nepat&#345;&#237;. Pat&#345;&#237; v&#353;em, kdo ch&#225;pou, &#382;e v dob&#283;, kdy selh&#225;vaj&#237; instituce, <strong>s&#225;zka na decentralizovan&#253; sv&#283;t d&#225;v&#225; hlubok&#253; smysl</strong> - sv&#283;t postaven&#253; na energii, matematice a ne&#250;platn&#233;m konsenzu. <strong>Nov&#253; troj&#250;heln&#237;k moci, kter&#253; nelze zkorumpovat.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Od anarchie k architektu&#345;e</strong></h3><p>Prvn&#237; generace vid&#283;la Bitcoin jako anarcho-kapitalistick&#253; &#250;nik - cypherpunk, libertarianismus, steaky, memy a number go up.</p><p>Druh&#225; generace mus&#237; jeho principy zakotvit v samotn&#253;ch z&#225;kladech civilizace: v energii, v pr&#225;vu a v etice. M&#237;sto hesel mus&#237; mluvit o podstat&#283; suverenity, o technologi&#237;ch postaven&#253;ch na fyzice m&#237;sto na v&#237;&#345;e a o energii jako ne&#250;platn&#233;m z&#225;kladu hodnoty i civiliza&#269;n&#237;ho &#345;&#225;du. <strong>Proto&#382;e energie je jedinou skute&#269;nou m&#283;nou v tomto bankrotuj&#237;c&#237;m sv&#283;t&#283;.</strong></p><p>Tohle nen&#237; &#250;t&#283;k z civilizace. Tohle je pokus ji znovu zalo&#382;it na pevn&#283;j&#353;&#237;ch z&#225;kladech.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Kdy&#382; se sign&#225;l zm&#283;n&#237; v &#353;um</strong></h3><p>Hayek a Mises n&#225;m dali mapu. My z n&#237; ud&#283;lali plak&#225;t na ze&#271;.</p><p>Memetika nahradila my&#353;len&#237;. &#8222;Money printer go brrr&#8220; a laserov&#233; o&#269;i byly symboly doby, kdy &#353;lo o p&#345;e&#382;it&#237;. Fungovaly skv&#283;le, byly <strong>sign&#225;l</strong>. Dnes je to <strong>&#353;um</strong>. Zn&#237; jako parodie na to, &#269;&#237;m m&#283;l b&#253;t Bitcoin: <strong>nejv&#225;&#382;n&#283;j&#353;&#237; civiliza&#269;n&#237; experiment od vyn&#225;lezu internetu.</strong><br>Civilizace se neposouv&#225; memy a tri&#269;ky. Posouv&#225; se idejemi, kter&#233; p&#345;e&#382;ij&#237; generace.<br>Dokud jazyk Bitcoinu z&#367;stane uv&#283;zn&#283;n&#253; ve f&#243;rech a ozv&#283;nov&#253;ch komor&#225;ch, nikdy nevstoup&#237; tam, kde se rozhoduje o energii, pr&#225;vu a budoucnosti.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Smrt ideje v deriv&#225;tech</strong></h3><p>Pokud Bitcoinu ned&#225;me nov&#253; r&#225;mec, p&#345;elo&#382;&#237; si ho Wall Street po sv&#233;m: v&#253;nos, expozice, diverzifikace, rizikov&#225; v&#225;ha. U&#382; te&#271; mluv&#237; jin&#253;m dialektem: jazykem index&#367;, deriv&#225;t&#367;, ESG a &#8222;odpov&#283;dn&#233;ho investov&#225;n&#237;&#8220;.</p><p>Wall Street je stroj, kter&#253; semele ka&#382;dou ideu, rozdrt&#237; ji na deriv&#225;ty, provede prefront&#225;ln&#237; lobotomii a prod&#225; v&#225;m ji zp&#225;tky s fanf&#225;rami. <strong>Zachov&#225; formu, odstran&#237; du&#353;i.</strong></p><p>Bitcoin m&#367;&#382;e dopadnout stejn&#283;: <strong>v&#237;t&#283;zstv&#237; v cen&#283;, por&#225;&#382;ka v my&#353;lence</strong>. P&#345;e&#382;ije jako aktivum, ale zem&#345;e jako idea - bez z&#225;kazu, bez revoluce &#8211; jen tich&#233; zapomenut&#237; toho, co mohlo b&#253;t, v kolonk&#225;ch &#269;tvrtletn&#237;ch zpr&#225;v.</p><p>Bitcoin nem&#225; akcion&#225;&#345;e, p&#345;edstavenstvo ani hlasovac&#237; pr&#225;va. &#381;ije jen z hashratu a konsenzu &#8211; z &#269;ist&#233; energie a incentiv. To je jeho genialita. A z&#225;rove&#328; jeho k&#345;ehkost. Co nelze ovl&#225;dnout p&#345;&#237;mo, lze zkrotit p&#345;&#237;b&#283;hem.<br>Kapit&#225;l nem&#367;&#382;e zm&#283;nit pravidla s&#237;t&#283;. M&#367;&#382;e ale zm&#283;nit jazyk, kter&#253;m se o n&#237; mluv&#237;.<br>A&#382; se &#8222;dr&#382;et vlastn&#237; kl&#237;&#269;e&#8220; stane margin&#225;ln&#237;m feti&#353;em a &#8222;m&#237;t expozici&#8220; normou,<br>finan&#269;n&#237; suverenita zem&#345;e potichu v regulovan&#253;ch fondech a povinn&#253;ch &#8222;hosted&#8220; pen&#283;&#382;enk&#225;ch.</p><p>Druh&#225; generace proto mus&#237; chr&#225;nit Bitcoin nejen p&#345;ed st&#225;tem, ale i p&#345;ed n&#225;mi samotn&#253;mi: p&#345;ed na&#353;&#237;m pohodl&#237;m, obavou riskovat a ochotou ke kompromisu.<br><strong>Jinak vyhrajeme v&#225;lku a prohrajeme m&#237;r.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Stolet&#233; hled&#225;n&#237; skute&#269;n&#233; hodnoty</strong></h3><p>Dojemn&#225; v&#237;ra fiat-bros, &#382;e sou&#269;asn&#225; st&#225;tn&#237; forma pen&#283;z je ta posledn&#237; a kone&#269;n&#225;, je z&#345;ejm&#283; <strong>nejv&#283;t&#353;&#237; slepota modern&#237; doby.</strong> Je stejn&#283; roztomil&#225; jako v&#237;ra jejich d&#283;de&#269;k&#367;, &#382;e k&#367;&#328; je vrchol dopravy &#8211; jen s p&#345;idanou aroganc&#237; <strong>elity, kter&#225; u&#382; p&#367;l stolet&#237; &#382;ije mimo fyzickou realitu a v&#283;&#345;&#237;, &#382;e to tak z&#367;stane nav&#283;ky.</strong></p><p>Historie ale nesn&#225;&#353;&#237; &#8222;nav&#283;ky&#8220;. V&#382;dycky p&#345;ijde n&#283;co, co vypad&#225; nemo&#382;n&#283;, a&#382; do chv&#237;le, kdy se to stane realitou. Bitcoin je dokon&#269;en&#237; stolet&#233;ho hled&#225;n&#237; jedin&#233; v&#283;ci, kterou lidstvo doposud nedok&#225;zalo zm&#283;&#345;it objektivn&#283; a nem&#283;nn&#283; &#8211; ekonomick&#233; hodnoty.<br>M&#283;&#345;&#237;me &#269;as atomov&#253;mi hodinami. Vzd&#225;lenost sv&#283;teln&#253;mi roky. Teplotu kelviny, ale ekonomickou hodnotu st&#225;le m&#237;rou d&#367;v&#283;ry a rychlost&#237; tisk&#225;rny. Ta nejcenn&#283;j&#353;&#237; informace tak nad&#225;la z&#367;st&#225;v&#225; v moci politik&#367; a centr&#225;ln&#237;ch bank.</p><p>Bitcoin nen&#237; revoluce. <strong>Je to posledn&#237; chyb&#283;j&#237;c&#237; jednotka sv&#283;tov&#233;ho m&#283;&#345;ic&#237;ho syst&#233;mu.</strong><br>Prvn&#237; m&#283;&#345;&#237;tko ekonomick&#233; hodnoty, kter&#233; nelze zfal&#353;ovat, z&#345;edit ani ohnout.<br>Prvn&#237;, kter&#233; stoj&#237; na termodynamice a matematice, ne na slibu a arm&#225;d&#225;ch.<br>Prvn&#237;, kter&#233; pat&#345;&#237; v&#353;em a nikomu.</p><p>Je to <strong>metrologie civilizace</strong>, vyvrcholen&#237; cesty, kter&#225; trvala v&#237;ce ne&#382; sto let.<br><br>Henry Ford (1921&#8211;1930s) p&#345;edstavil my&#353;lenku m&#283;ny kryt&#233; energi&#237; s podporou Thomase Edisona.<br>Frederick Soddy (1920s&#8211;1930s) definoval bohatstv&#237; jako energii organizovanou inteligenc&#237;.<br>Buckminster Fuller (1960s&#8211;1970s) vid&#283;l budoucnost v glob&#225;ln&#237;m syst&#233;mu energetick&#233;ho &#250;&#269;etnictv&#237; pro cel&#233; lidstvo.<br>Satoshi Nakamoto (2008 &#8594; ) vy&#345;e&#353;il stoletou h&#225;danku pen&#283;z. <strong>Ukotvil hodnotu ve fyzick&#233; realit&#283;:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Vz&#225;cnost opevnil z&#225;kony matematiky</p></li><li><p>d&#367;v&#283;ru nahradil decentralizac&#237;,</p></li><li><p>slib nahradil energi&#237; - skrze Proof-of-Work, kde v&#253;po&#269;et se st&#225;v&#225; d&#367;kazem a energie m&#283;&#345;&#237;tkem pravdy.</p></li></ul><p>Co Ford a Fuller pouze tu&#353;ili, cypherpunks prom&#283;nili ve skute&#269;nost. Prvn&#237; z nich vlo&#382;ili do pen&#283;z energii a smysl. Druz&#237; p&#345;idali k&#243;d a vz&#225;cnost. Spolu uzav&#345;eli cel&#253; oblouk: dokon&#269;enou alchymii &#8212; od energie &#8594; ke k&#243;du &#8594; k vz&#225;cnosti &#8594; k d&#367;v&#283;&#345;e.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Od &#8216;fuck the banks&#8217; k civilizaci</strong></h3><p>Pot&#345;ebuje ale nov&#253; jazyk. &#8220;Fuck the banks&#8221; konverzaci ukon&#269;uje. My ji pot&#345;ebujeme otev&#345;&#237;t: &#8222;Jak zajistit spolehlivou, nezkorumpovatelnou jednotku ekonomick&#233; hodnoty v dob&#283;, kdy v&#353;echny instituce selh&#225;vaj&#237;?&#8220; Z popela mem&#367; se rod&#237; jazyk, kter&#253; m&#237;sto v&#253;k&#345;ik&#367; nab&#237;z&#237; smysl.<br>Bitcoin pot&#345;ebuje znovu usadit &#8211; filozoficky, kulturn&#283;, eticky &#8211; do p&#367;dy, kter&#225; ch&#225;pe jeho v&#253;znam: ne u&#382; jako n&#225;stroj revoluce &#269;i spekulace, ale jako <strong>architektura d&#367;v&#283;ry v &#233;&#345;e ned&#367;v&#283;ry.</strong></p><p>Nejde o &#8222;zru&#353;en&#237; st&#225;tu&#8220;. Jde o to jak udr&#382;et moc pod kontrolou, kdy&#382; se p&#345;el&#233;v&#225; z politiky do k&#243;du a komplexita sv&#283;ta p&#345;es&#225;hla schopnosti v&#353;ech centr&#225;ln&#237;ch autorit. <strong>Decentralizace nen&#237; ideologie. Je to jedin&#225; zn&#225;m&#225; architektura, kter&#225; zvl&#225;d&#225; komplexitu vy&#353;&#353;&#237;ho &#345;&#225;du.</strong></p><p>Nejde ani o &#8222;separaci pen&#283;z a st&#225;tu&#8220; &#8211; to je star&#253; libertari&#225;nsk&#253; refr&#233;n. Jde o radik&#225;ln&#283;j&#353;&#237; a civiliza&#269;n&#283; nezbytn&#283;j&#353;&#237; odluku: <strong>odluku lid&#237; od moci nad pen&#283;zi druh&#253;ch lid&#237;</strong>. St&#225;t nen&#237; jedin&#253;, kdo m&#367;&#382;e pen&#237;ze znehodnotit. Bitcoin nedovol&#237; m&#283;nit pravidla hry. Nikdo nem&#367;&#382;e devalvovat, cenzurovat a konfiskovat v&#225;&#353; majetek.</p><p>Proto nejde o &#8222;svobodu jednotlivce&#8220; v romantick&#233;m slova smyslu. Jde o znovu nastaven&#237; z&#225;kladn&#237;ho vztahu lidstva k ekonomick&#233; realit&#283;, ve kter&#233; energie nahrazuje slib, konsenzus autoritu a decentralizovan&#225; s&#237;&#357; centralizovanou moc.<br><strong>Bitcoin odd&#283;luje ekonomickou hodnotu od lidsk&#233; libov&#367;le.</strong> Je to protokol d&#367;v&#283;ry -  decentralizovan&#253;, energeticky podlo&#382;en&#253;, matematicky ov&#283;&#345;iteln&#253;.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Pro&#269; je ten p&#345;&#237;b&#283;h tak t&#283;&#382;k&#233; pochopit?</strong></h3><p>V&#283;t&#353;ina lid&#237; &#382;&#225;dn&#253; probl&#233;m nevid&#237;. Jejich sv&#283;t toti&#382; zat&#237;m funguje, &#382;ij&#237; v komfortu delegovan&#233; moci a sv&#233; s<strong>vobody jsou p&#345;ipraveni se vzd&#225;vat za slib pohodl&#237; a bezpe&#269;&#237;. </strong>Bitcoin po nich vy&#382;aduje p&#345;evz&#237;t odpov&#283;dnost... suverenitu, a to je pro mnoh&#233; obt&#237;&#382;n&#225; volba. A kdy&#382; vstoup&#237; do m&#237;stnosti, kde se mluv&#237; o &#8222;otroctv&#237; fiatu&#8220;, &#8222;suver&#233;nn&#237;ch jednotlivc&#237;ch&#8220; a &#8222;slunci na varlatech&#8220;, vid&#237; vzpouru a riziko, ne budoucnost.</p><p><strong>Dokud se Bitcoin bude r&#225;movat jako &#250;t&#283;k z &#345;&#225;du a ne jeho vy&#353;&#353;&#237; forma, z&#367;stane nepochopen&#253;.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>V&#253;zva</strong></h3><p>Bitcoin m&#367;&#382;e b&#253;t odpov&#283;d&#237;, ale ne, dokud o n&#283;m neza&#269;neme mluvit jinak, zaslou&#382;&#237; v&#237;c ne&#382; memy o inflaci a laserov&#253;ch o&#269;&#237;ch. <strong>Zaslou&#382;&#237; si filozofii. Zaslou&#382;&#237; si kulturu. Zaslou&#382;&#237; si nov&#253; jazyk.</strong><br>Mluvme jako ti, kdo buduj&#237; civilizaci, ne jako ti, kdo s&#225;zej&#237; na jej&#237; kolaps. To znamen&#225; p&#345;estat b&#253;t hlasem v ozv&#283;nov&#233; komo&#345;e a vys&#225;zet jazyk, kter&#253;m se bude ps&#225;t p&#345;&#237;&#353;t&#237;ch sto let ekonomick&#233; reality.<br>Ot&#225;zka nen&#237;, jestli Bitcoin p&#345;e&#382;ije,<strong> ale jestli p&#345;e&#382;ije v n&#225;s. </strong></p><p>Jestli ho nech&#225;me pohltit TradFi a rozlo&#382;it v jeho teflonov&#233;m tr&#225;v&#237;c&#237;m traktu, nebo ho zasad&#237;me do z&#225;klad&#367; civilizace, kter&#225; p&#345;ijde po n&#283;m.</p><p>Druh&#225; generace nedostala pochode&#328;, aby ji schovala do trezoru.<br><strong>Dostala ji, aby zap&#225;lila sv&#283;t.</strong></p><div><hr></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Architecture of Trust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cypherpunks have passed the torch. Bitcoin is no longer a rebellion, but a trust protocol built on mathematics, not promises. The second generation has the hardest task yet: to prove why it matters.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/the-architecture-of-trust-the-second</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/the-architecture-of-trust-the-second</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:06:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3cceeadc-f27a-4c19-b530-a340a355433c_1408x736.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bitcoin stands at a crossroads. It is no longer just a rebellion, but the first real attempt to build order on something other than trust in authorities. It can become the anchor of civilization in an era that has realized that instead of blind faith, it needs proof, and instead of human promises, <strong>truth measured in energy.</strong></p><p>The first generation proved it works.<br>The next has a far harder task: <strong>to prove why it matters.</strong></p><p>The cypherpunks lit the fuse and are now passing the torch. The second generation will decide what we let burn. Bitcoin was born from their code, yes, but its meaning now reaches far beyond their ethos&#8212;it no longer belongs to them. It belongs to everyone who understands that in a time when institutions are failing, <strong>betting on a decentralized world makes profound sense</strong>: a world built on energy, mathematics, and incorruptible consensus. <strong>A new triangle of power that cannot be corrupted.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>From Anarchy to Architecture</h3><p>The first generation saw Bitcoin as an anarcho-capitalist escape&#8212;cypherpunk ideals, libertarianism, steaks, memes, and number go up.<br>The second generation must anchor its principles into the very foundations of civilization: energy, law, and ethics. Instead of slogans, it must speak of the essence of sovereignty, of technologies grounded in physics rather than faith, and of energy as the incorruptible foundation of both value and civilizational order. <strong>Because energy is the only true currency in this bankrupt world.</strong></p><p>This is not an escape from civilization. It is an attempt to rebuild its foundations on firmer ground.</p><div><hr></div><h3>When the Signal Becomes Noise</h3><p>Hayek and Mises gave us the map. We turned it into a poster on the wall.<br>Memetics replaced thinking. &#8220;Money printer go brrr&#8221; and laser eyes&#8212;symbols of a time when survival was at stake. They worked brilliantly as <strong>signals</strong>. Today, they&#8217;re just <strong>noise</strong>. They sound like a parody of what Bitcoin was meant to be: <strong>the most serious civilizational experiment since the invention of the internet.</strong><br>Civilizations do not advance through memes and t-shirts. They advance through ideas that outlive generations.<br>As long as Bitcoin&#8217;s language remains trapped in forums and echo chambers, it will never enter the tables where energy, law, and the future are decided.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Death of an Idea in Derivatives</h3><p>If we do not give Bitcoin a new frame, Wall Street will translate it into its own: yield, exposure, diversification, risk weight. They already speak a different dialect: the language of indices, derivatives, ESG, and &#8220;responsible investing.&#8221;</p><p>Wall Street is a machine that grinds every idea, crushes it into derivatives, performs a prefrontal lobotomy, and sells it back to you with fanfare. <strong>It keeps the form and kills the soul.</strong></p><p>Bitcoin could end the same way: <strong>victory in price, defeat in meaning.</strong> It will survive as an asset, but die as an idea - no ban, no revolution - just quiet oblivion in the columns of quarterly reports.</p><p>Bitcoin has no shareholders, no board, no voting rights. It lives only on hashrate and consensus, pure energy and incentives. That is its genius. And its fragility. What cannot be seized directly can be tamed by narrative.<br>Capital cannot change the network&#8217;s rules. But it can change the language used to talk about it. The day &#8220;hold your keys&#8221; becomes a marginal fetish and &#8220;having exposure&#8221; the norm, financial sovereignty will die quietly in regulated funds and mandatory hosted wallets.</p><p>The second generation must therefore protect Bitcoin not only from the state, but from ourselves: from our comfort, our fear of risk, our willingness to compromise.<br>Otherwise, <strong>we will win the war and lose the peace.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>The Century-Long Search for Real Value</h3><p>The touching faith of fiat-bros that their money marks the end of monetary evolution is t<strong>he greatest blindness of our age</strong>. It is as endearing as their grandfathers&#8217; belief that the horse was the pinnacle of transportation &#8212; only with the added arrogance of an <strong>elite that has lived outside physical reality for half a century and believes it can stay there forever.</strong></p><p>But history hates &#8220;forever.&#8221; Something always comes that looks impossible&#8212;until it becomes real. Bitcoin is the completion of a century-long quest for the one thing humanity has never been able to measure objectively and immutably: economic value.<br>We measure time with atomic clocks. Distance in light-years. Temperature in kelvins, but economic value is still measured by trust and printer speed. The most precious information remains in the hands of politicians and central banks.</p><p>Bitcoin is not a revolution. <strong>It is the last missing unit of the global measurement system. </strong>The first true standard of economic value that cannot be counterfeited, diluted, or bent. The first one grounded in thermodynamics and mathematics, not promises and armies. The first that belongs to everyone and no one.</p><p><strong>It is the metrology of civilization</strong>, the culmination of a path that took more than a hundred years:<br>Henry Ford (1921&#8211;1930s) proposed an energy-backed currency, supported by Thomas Edison.<br>Frederick Soddy (1920s&#8211;1930s) defined wealth as energy organized by intelligence.<br>Buckminster Fuller (1960s&#8211;1970s) envisioned a global energy-accounting system for all humanity.<br>Satoshi Nakamoto (2008 &#8594; ) solved the century-old money puzzle. He anchored value in physical reality:</p><ul><li><p>Scarcity forged in mathematics,</p></li><li><p>Trust replaced by decentralization,</p></li><li><p>Promises replaced by energy - through Proof-of-Work, where computation becomes proof and energy the measure of truth.</p></li></ul><p>What Ford and Fuller only sensed, the cypherpunks turned into reality. The first ones infused money with energy and meaning. The second added code and scarcity. Together they closed the arc: the completed alchemy&#8212;from energy &#8594; to code &#8594; to scarcity &#8594; to trust.</p><div><hr></div><h3>From &#8220;Fuck the Banks&#8221; to Civilization</h3><p>The memes got us here. Now we need a language to go further.  &#8220;Fuck the banks&#8221; ends conversations. We need to open one: &#8220;How do we secure a reliable, incorruptible unit of economic value in an age when every institution is failing?&#8221; From the ashes of memes rises a language that offers meaning instead of shouting.</p><p>Bitcoin must be re-anchored - philosophically, culturally, ethically - into soil that understands its significance: no longer as a tool of revolution or speculation, but as <strong>the architecture of trust in an age of distrust.</strong><br>This is not about &#8220;ending the state.&#8221; It is about how to keep power in check when it flows from politics into code and the world&#8217;s complexity exceeds the capacity of all central authorities. <strong>Decentralization is not ideology. It is the only known architecture that can handle higher-order complexity.</strong><br>It is not even about &#8220;separation of money and state&#8221;, that is an old libertarian refrain. It is about a far more radical and civilizational necessity: <strong>the separation of people from power over other people&#8217;s money</strong>. The state is not the only entity that can debase money. Bitcoin simply does not allow anyone to change the rules of the game. No one can devalue, censor, or confiscate your wealth.<br>That is why this is not about &#8220;individual freedom&#8221; in the romantic sense. It is about resetting humanity&#8217;s fundamental relationship to economic reality, where energy replaces promises, consensus replaces authority, and decentralized networks replace centralized power.</p><p><strong>Bitcoin separates economic value from human arbitrariness.</strong> It is a trust protocol: decentralized, energy-backed, mathematically verifiable.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Why Is This Story So Hard to Grasp?</h3><p>Most people see no problem. Their world still works. They live in the comfort of delegated power and <strong>are willing to trade freedom for the promise of convenience and safety. </strong>Bitcoin demands they take responsibility... sovereignty. That is a difficult choice for many. And when they walk into a room where people talk about &#8220;fiat slavery,&#8221; &#8220;sovereign individuals,&#8221; and &#8220;sun on your balls,&#8221; they see rebellion and risk, not the future.</p><p><strong>As long as Bitcoin is framed as an escape from order rather than its higher form, it will remain misunderstood.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>The Challenge</h3><p>Bitcoin can be the answer&#8212;but not until we start talking about it differently. It deserves more than inflation memes and laser eyes. <strong>It deserves philosophy. It deserves culture. It deserves a new language.</strong><br>Let us speak like people who are building civilization, not like those betting on its collapse. That means stepping out of the echo chamber and planting the language that will write the next hundred years of economic reality.</p><p>The question is not whether Bitcoin will survive, <strong>but whether it will survive in us. </strong></p><p>Whether we let it be consumed by TradFi and decomposed in its Teflon digestive tract, or plant it as the foundation of the civilization yet to come.</p><p>The second generation was not handed the torch to lock it in a vault.<br><strong>It was handed the torch to set the world on fire.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em>This essay was originally written in Czech. The original version is also available on the Substack.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protocols of Freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally published on May 9, 2024 on CzechCrunch in Czech. Reposted here as part of the archive.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/protocols-of-freedom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/protocols-of-freedom</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:03:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e18360a7-c09e-460d-93ac-3ae7375083cc_282x178.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does the language we speak have anything in common with computer code? And if so, is it important? Today, we will explore how language and computer code shape our rights and freedoms, and why their interrelationship is key to understanding current technological and social challenges.</p><p>Forty years ago, between the written and oral exam in Mathematics III at Czech Technical University, my friend and I set out to defend the Czech language at the Institute for the Czech Language. We disagreed with the discussed change to remove i/y in the past participle and write only soft i. If only hard one! We considered it a betrayal. To our surprise, we weren&#8217;t taken away by the STB from the reception, but by a brave associate professor who informed us that we were the first demonstration in defense of the Czech language in the institute&#8217;s history, dating back to 1891. We were pleased. She promised us she would defend hard y with her own life and told us to get out and go to that exam.</p><p>I mention this to show that I am a veteran in defending language and open protocols in general, so this is no random shot. Just as our satirical protest decades ago stood against regulations that threatened to limit our freedom, the same is happening on the internet today. This parallel shows that the fight for freedom of speech is endless, whether it&#8217;s about words or code.</p><p>The freedom to express your thoughts and control your own property is the foundation of a free life. And just like language, Bitcoin&#8212;a decentralized and incorruptible form of money created in computer code&#8212;is a tool that protects this fundamental freedom. That&#8217;s why a similar struggle is taking place at their core: the fight against manipulation and censorship, and the effort to preserve their true essence.</p><p>Computer code is a language like any other. It serves to express our thoughts and ideas, and although it hasn&#8217;t looked like it in recent weeks, it is even protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects not only what we say but also how we express it.</p><p>My favorite novel character, the philosopher and doctor Amadeu de Prado in <em>Night Train to Lisbon</em>, says: &#8220;Words must be immaculate like polished marble and pure like tones in Bach&#8217;s partita, which transforms everything that is not themselves into perfect silence.&#8221;</p><p>In this brilliant reference to the power of words to preserve meanings in their purest form, he expressed not only the hope that words remain transparent carriers of true thoughts but also concern about their vulnerability. Today, this reference is more important than ever.</p><p>Why? The most important and oldest communication protocol of humanity&#8212;our language&#8212;is becoming a battlefield. It&#8217;s an attack on words, their power, meaning, and our ability to understand them and have the courage to defend them. Words like race, woman, patriot, Judaism, gender, or justice are today as safe as juggling with unpinned grenades.</p><p>Why have we started to fear words? And what else will we fear?</p><p>Words are the basic building blocks of our understanding of the world. If we allow their degradation and abuse by an endless parade of pseudo-sensitive topics, they lose this ability. Wokism, a story as old as humanity. We started with the best intentions and ended up as always. The effort to recognize one&#8217;s privileges, maximize equality, and minimize oppression has evolved into a puritanical authoritarian farce that dogmatically censors everything within reach, erases people from public life, and discards abused, emptied words along the way.</p><p>Language evolves to reflect the world and maintain our ability to describe it. But this is something fundamentally different.</p><p>When people cannot rely on the meaning of words and lose the ability to communicate and navigate the world, the foundations of democratic discourse weaken, and our shared identity is lost.</p><p>When people cannot rely on a financial system that is supposed to serve them, not spy on them, censor their transactions, and devalue their assets, it undermines not only the foundations of economic independence but threatens the entire economy and questions personal financial sovereignty.</p><p>In a time when both words and money face attacks on their credibility and independence, protecting them as the foundations of a free society becomes imperative. Bitcoin and language&#8212;as pillars of decentralization and free expression&#8212;remind us how closely financial sovereignty and freedom of speech are interconnected. Protecting one is defending the other.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Do Governments Fear Bitcoin? Because They Print Money on a Massive Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally published on December 16, 2020, on Seznam in Czech. Republished here as part of the archive.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/why-do-governments-fear-bitcoin-because</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/why-do-governments-fear-bitcoin-because</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:35:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/af1103ff-ca73-4a16-97a9-44f91a26c5d0_320x213.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over 20 percent of all U.S. dollars in circulation were printed this year.<br>Economic elites are hiding behind a version of the fairy tale &#8220;Little Pot, Cook!&#8221;&#8212;or modern monetary theory&#8212;and claim that money printing can continue forever. If you don&#8217;t believe it, read Stephanie Kelton&#8217;s book <em>The Deficit Myth</em>. We&#8217;re not interested in what Venezuela thinks, and the result doesn&#8217;t surprise us. But that a government controlling the global reserve currency and 80 percent of all trade transactions thinks this way certainly does.</p><p>What would G&#233;rard Debreu, Nobel laureate for his work on general equilibrium theory, supply and demand, say about this? He might ask how we like flying in a plane whose designers ignored the laws of aerodynamics. And then he might pose the question: Wouldn&#8217;t it be better if experts designed planes instead of political elites?</p><p>The long-term and fundamental distrust of the cypherpunk community toward the world of state currencies culminated 12 years ago in the greatest innovation we&#8217;ve ever seen in the financial sector. The world discovered digital programmable gold. Bitcoin emerged outside financial institutions, universities, and research institutes, and even entirely outside the economic sphere.</p><h3>When Currency Is Built by Engineers</h3><p>Thanks to this, the same engineering practices were used in the design and construction of Bitcoin as when building a house or an airplane. Mathematics and critical thinking. More than 30 years of hypotheses, experiments, and failures. For the first time in history, mathematicians, cryptographers, and software engineers took on the design of money technology, not politicians, kings, or sultans.</p><p>It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that many smart and powerful people and institutions have long tried to attack, stop, ridicule Bitcoin on technical, economic, and finally legislative levels. There are legions of them. This has been going on for twelve years and leads nowhere.</p><p>Only now are the first significant deserters appearing among the biggest players in the financial world. Why?<br>Because more and more people are stopping believing that money can be printed indefinitely and are starting to think that it&#8217;s perhaps better to trust mathematics than politicians and central banks.</p><p>Bitcoin is such a different form of money that the vast majority of people don&#8217;t understand it and just repeat society&#8217;s majority views. Yet it&#8217;s probably never been more important to form your own opinion.<br>For the generation entering economic life, this could be an absolutely fundamental opportunity. The Titanic analogy is a worn-out clich&#233;, but Bitcoin is exactly that lifeboat that everyone can decide whether to board or not.</p><p>We need to cultivate public discussion. It&#8217;s not possible to use arguments from ignorance against a technology that has been working completely reliably for 12 years. Unacceptable. The proofs have been done. Show me a bank that hasn&#8217;t had a planned outage in 12 years. It doesn&#8217;t exist. Objections must be based on real knowledge, facts, and not a bunch of repeated half-truths and worn-out media stories.</p><h3>A Unique Way to Store Value</h3><p>Bitcoin certainly isn&#8217;t without risks, but it represents a huge leap forward in money technology and offers a unique way to preserve wealth. The world of finance will never be the same, and the view of money will change forever.<br>A cryptographically secured, decentralized protocol won&#8217;t allow more than 21 million bitcoins to be created. It won&#8217;t allow your bitcoin to be spent twice and guarantees that if you hold the key, no one can deprive you of it. It&#8217;s independent of governments and banks, without the risk of inflation, confiscation, and censorship, and offers true economic freedom to all people everywhere in the world.</p><p>This is one of those rare moments when you want to  invest your own time, energy, and effort. Study and understand the basic theses and what role Bitcoin can play in your future. No one will do it for you. The establishment will discourage you, claiming they&#8217;re protecting you. They&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re protecting themselves and endangering you.</p><p>In a few years, Bitcoin might be taught in all schools, its creator Satoshi Nakamoto will be a popular exam question, and &#8220;Little Pot, Cook!&#8221; will return to children&#8217;s libraries. Or maybe not.</p><p>It&#8217;s up to us whether we create such a future and whether the freedom and financial sovereignty that Bitcoin offers are worth the effort and risk it represents today.<br>If you conclude that it&#8217;s not for you, that&#8217;s fine. But if out of laziness to think and lack of courage you go with the majority, you might be making your biggest mistake.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Confession to Digital Identity: An 800-Year-Old Trick]]></title><description><![CDATA[The confessional had a grid; digital identity has a QR code. Same principle, different interface. If we want freedom, we must reprogram it once more.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/from-confession-to-digital-identity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/from-confession-to-digital-identity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:21:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3116fb90-e10f-4ce9-be4d-f625c7df5d08_600x400.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1215, the Church introduced mandatory confession&#8212;<em>Omnis utriusque sexus</em>&#8212;the greatest invasion of privacy in the Middle Ages. It was a brilliant move to repurpose existing church infrastructure for a new goal. The McKinsey boys would be thrilled&#8212;&#8221;asset sweating&#8221; in the 13th century. All it took was adding small booths with grilles in churches, creating a monopoly on salvation and control over the powerful that lasted for centuries. If those damned reformers and atheists hadn&#8217;t spoiled it, it could still be running today.</p><p>But today&#8217;s powers-that-be needn&#8217;t mourn. They have an even more perfect tool&#8212;social networks. No need for mandatory confessions. Human vanity, the need for recognition, and the desire for attention ensure that people voluntarily spill everything about themselves. They add timestamps, photos, video documentation, and even geolocation for immediate practical application. A wet dream for all spies.</p><h3>Surprise from the North</h3><p>There&#8217;s just one hitch. Some of our fellow citizens still live under the mistaken impression that they have a right to privacy&#8212;that they can use pseudonymous accounts and even complicate the state&#8217;s determination to protect us by encrypting their private correspondence. As if they didn&#8217;t know that email isn&#8217;t real mail!</p><p>Fortunately, the Danes have it figured out.<br>&#8220;We must rid ourselves of the completely erroneous notion that using encrypted communication apps is a civil right,&#8221; explains Peter Hummelgaard, Denmark&#8217;s Minister of Justice, highlighting one of the priorities of Denmark&#8217;s EU presidency.</p><p>And so, just as the Church eight hundred years ago used its infrastructure to introduce mandatory confession, the European Union today is implementing centralized digital identity eIDAS 2.0&#8212;the EU wallet. On paper, it promises convenience, but in reality, it ties your identity, finances, communication, and civic rights into a single point that can be switched off at any time. A confessional with a QR code.</p><p>In the past, the state had to revoke a passport, driver&#8217;s license, or freeze a bank account. It needed police, courts, authorities, banks. In the future, a single click might suffice&#8212;and you won&#8217;t even go for a beer.</p><h3>From Monopoly on Salvation to Monopoly on Identity</h3><p>But that wasn&#8217;t all. The Church didn&#8217;t maintain its monopoly on salvation just through mandatory confession. As the legendary George Carlin said: God loves you... but he needs money. And so came another masterstroke&#8212;monetizing sin and guilt. Indulgences. Pay up, and everything was erased. A business that built cathedrals and funded papal wars.</p><p>The same trick is repeating today, just with different indulgence technology. Emission allowances and carbon credits. ESG scores. Verified accounts on social media. Pay and you&#8217;re clean. Pay and your voice is more credible. Pay, shut up, and your profile is green again. Same principle, different tech.</p><p>And what if someone didn&#8217;t obey? In the Middle Ages, excommunication followed&#8212;exclusion from the Church, ban on sacraments, social death. Today, it&#8217;s deplatforming&#8212;cutting off from social networks, banking, payment gateways, or digital services. In both cases, it means the same: exclusion from society.</p><p>The Church once monopolized salvation and brilliantly cultivated and monetized our sense of guilt. Today, states and corporations monopolize identity and monetize every click. And just like back then, it&#8217;s not about faith or security&#8212;it&#8217;s about control: the ability to enforce obedience, turn guilt into a business model, and keep every person in a system from which there&#8217;s no escape.</p><h3>Is There Still a Way Out?</h3><p>Yes&#8212;just like five hundred years ago from church confessions and indulgences. Back then, it came with the Reformation, the printed word, and the courage of people not to let the Church dictate what to believe and how to live.</p><p>Without technology, however, Martin Luther would have remained just a local rebel in Wittenberg. The printing press turned his 95 Theses into a revolution that changed the world forever.</p><p>Today, we face a similar challenge. We need a digital reformation&#8212;freedom in technology, freedom tech: systems not controlled by states or corporations, but by people themselves. Decentralized networks, open-source, open social, auditable platforms, and peer-to-peer tools that remove counterparty risks, separate money from state power, and protect our identity from total control.</p><p>If we don&#8217;t seize this opportunity, we await a fate similar to the Middle Ages&#8212;only it won&#8217;t be excommunication, but the risk of exclusion from digital society: cut off from social networks, banking, and modern life.</p><p>The way out exists, but it requires courage, innovation, and resistance to centralized power. Think it&#8217;s impossible? It is possible.</p><p>You know who recently won Idea of the Year? Tropic Square from Prague&#8212;with the world&#8217;s first open and auditable security chip. And on October 21, 2025, this chip was launched in the new model of the hardware wallet Trezor Safe 7&#8212;the world&#8217;s first consumer electronics device entirely based on open-source principles, transparency, and auditability.</p><p>These are the innovations that show the way out.</p><p>Yeah, and someone has to write that code.<br>Cypherpunk.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This essay was originally written in Czech. The original version is also available on this Substack: <a href="https://www.alexpilar.com/p/od-zpovedi-k-digitalni-identite-800">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/od-zpovedi-k-digitalni-identite-800</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Net-Zero Hysteria Broke Europe and How to Fix It]]></title><description><![CDATA[physics over ideology &#8226; engineering over activism &#8226; price signals over subsidies]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/how-net-zero-hysteria-broke-europe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/how-net-zero-hysteria-broke-europe</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:29:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c3e849c-6f0d-48ac-99cd-932434f8928f_2369x1329.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Zero sympathy</h2><p>Bill Gates now admits we &#8220;overdid the climate stuff.&#8221; Too late. The moral crusade he helped bankroll turned science into slogans, peer review into peer pressure, and excommunicated any scientist who dared ask questions &#8212; as if that weren&#8217;t their job.</p><p>The damage is done. Europe, once the world&#8217;s industrial engine, kneecapped itself by worshipping carbon dashboards. Factories shuttered, nearly a million manufacturing jobs vanished, power prices doubled &#8212; or worse. The continent that built the modern world is now scared to build anything at all.</p><p>What began as &#8220;save the planet&#8221; turned into a tax on productivity and a subsidy for compliance. Eurocrats, ESG priests, and carbon-credit peddlers replaced engineers. Emissions became sin; energy abundance became immoral.</p><p>Perverse incentives everywhere: bureaucrats chase scores; consultants monetise fear; entrepreneurs optimise for subsidy capture over substance. How did we let this happen? </p><p>Debating &#8220;did we go too far?&#8221; is yesterday&#8217;s fight. The only question left: how fast do we unwind the wreckage and restore common sense?</p><h2>The Pivot: From Virtue Theatre to Hard Engineering</h2><p>Upgrade the OS: physics over ideology, engineering over activism, price signals over subsidies.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the baseline for a post-hysteria policy.</p><p>Energy is the closest thing we have to a base currency. You can&#8217;t print watts. A century ago, Henry Ford proposed an energy-denominated money; Thomas Edison backed him. The point isn&#8217;t to revive Ford&#8217;s scheme &#8212; it&#8217;s to remember the hierarchy: <strong>mess with energy, you mess with civilisation.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dQMJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9133cbeb-4746-45e4-b2f9-449e06d264b9_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dQMJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9133cbeb-4746-45e4-b2f9-449e06d264b9_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">New York Times , December 4, 1921</figcaption></figure></div><h2>The Way Out: Five Non-Negotiables</h2><ol><li><p>Technology over ideology &#8212; merit-based, engineer-led.</p></li><li><p>Emissions &#8800; morality &#8212; outcomes over virtue signalling.</p></li><li><p>Kill carbon credits &#8212; end the offset casino. If anything survives: metered methane/HFC only, continuous monitoring, independent audits, clawbacks, auto-sunset in 2030.</p></li><li><p>End the subsidy addiction &#8212; kill the fake price signals propping up terrible ideas.</p></li><li><p>Energy abundance is the foundation of civilisation &#8212; cheap, reliable power first. The data are brutal: more watts = more wealth = longer, better lives. Stop apologizing for progress.</p></li></ol><p>For the record: climate change is real, and CO&#8322;e is a problem. The doomsday narrative and manufactured urgency are <strong>fake</strong>; what&#8217;s tragic is Europe&#8217;s industrial suicide in its name.</p><h2>Now is the time.</h2><p>The climate cult is over. That&#8217;s not defeat, that&#8217;s growing up. We can protect the planet without turning Europe into a de-industrialised, energy-poor appendage to other people&#8217;s supply chains. For too long, boardrooms enabled the theatre and suppressed common sense. Now is the time.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p><em>Sources: Eurostat (940k jobs lost 2019&#8211;2024); IEA (industrial power +100&#8211;170% in UK/PL/HU); Gates&#8217; &#8220;Source Code&#8221; memo (Oct 2025).</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Od zpovědi k digitální identitě: 800 let starý trik ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zpov&#283;dnice m&#283;la m&#345;&#237;&#382;ku, digit&#225;ln&#237; identita m&#225; QR k&#243;d. Stejn&#253; princip, jen jin&#233; rozhran&#237;. Jestli chceme svobodu, mus&#237;me si ji znovu naprogramovat.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/od-zpovedi-k-digitalni-identite-800</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/od-zpovedi-k-digitalni-identite-800</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:26:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/56cd68bb-152c-4480-8ffb-b262f0433c63_600x412.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Roku 1215 zavedla c&#237;rkev povinnou zpov&#283;&#271; &#8211; *Omnis utriusque sexus* &#8211; nejv&#283;t&#353;&#237; z&#225;sah do soukrom&#237; lid&#237; ve st&#345;edov&#283;ku. Byl to geni&#225;ln&#237; tah, jak vyu&#382;&#237;t existuj&#237;c&#237; c&#237;rkevn&#237; infrastrukturu k nov&#233;mu &#250;&#269;elu. McKinsey boys by byli nad&#353;en&#237; - &#8220;asset sweating&#8221; ve 13. stolet&#237;. Sta&#269;ilo v kostelech p&#345;istav&#283;t mal&#233; budky s m&#345;&#237;&#382;kami a vznikl monopol na sp&#225;su i kontrolu mocn&#253;ch, kter&#253; fungoval cel&#225; stalet&#237;. Kdyby jim to ti zatracen&#237; reformist&#233; a ateist&#233; nekazili, mohl by b&#283;&#382;et dodnes.</p><p>Ale dne&#353;n&#237; mocn&#237; nemus&#237; truchlit. Maj&#237; n&#225;stroj je&#353;t&#283; dokonalej&#353;&#237; &#8211; soci&#225;ln&#237; s&#237;t&#283;. Nepot&#345;ebuj&#237; povinn&#233; zpov&#283;di. Lidsk&#225; je&#353;itnost, pot&#345;eba uzn&#225;n&#237; a touha po pozornosti za&#345;&#237;d&#237;, &#382;e lid&#233; na sebe sami a dobrovoln&#283; vysypou &#250;pln&#283; v&#353;echno. P&#345;idaj&#237; &#269;asov&#233; raz&#237;tko, fotky, videodokumentaci, a dokonce i geolokaci pro okam&#382;itou praktickou aplikaci. Mokrej sen v&#353;ech &#353;picl&#367;.</p><h3>P&#345;ekvapen&#237; ze severu </h3><p>Je tu ale jeden z&#225;drhel. N&#283;kte&#345;&#237; na&#353;i spoluob&#269;an&#233; st&#225;le &#382;ij&#237; v myln&#233; p&#345;edstav&#283;, &#382;e maj&#237; pr&#225;vo na soukrom&#237; &#8211; &#382;e mohou pou&#382;&#237;vat pseudonymn&#237; &#250;&#269;ty a dokonce komplikovat st&#225;tu jeho odhodl&#225;n&#237; n&#225;s chr&#225;nit &#353;ifrov&#225;n&#237;m sv&#233; soukrom&#233; korespondence. Jako by nev&#283;d&#283;li, &#382;e email nen&#237; &#382;&#225;dn&#225; po&#353;ta!</p><p>Na&#353;t&#283;st&#237; jsou tu D&#225;nov&#233;. Ti v tom maj&#237; jasno.</p><p>&#8222;Mus&#237;me se zbavit zcela chybn&#233;ho dojmu, &#382;e pou&#382;&#237;v&#225;n&#237; &#353;ifrovan&#253;ch komunika&#269;n&#237;ch aplikac&#237; pat&#345;&#237; k ob&#269;ansk&#253;m pr&#225;v&#367;m,&#8220; vysv&#283;tluje Peter Hummelgaard, d&#225;nsk&#253; ministr spravedlnosti, jednu z priorit d&#225;nsk&#233;ho p&#345;edsednictv&#237; EU.</p><p>A tak, podobn&#283; jako c&#237;rkev p&#345;ed osmi sty lety vyu&#382;ila svou infrastrukturu k zaveden&#237; povinn&#233; zpov&#283;di, zav&#225;d&#237; dnes Evropsk&#225; unie centr&#225;ln&#237; digit&#225;ln&#237; identitu eIDAS 2.0 - EU wallet. Na pap&#237;&#345;e slibuje pohodl&#237;, ale ve skute&#269;nosti spojuj&#237; va&#353;i identitu, finance, komunikaci i ob&#269;ansk&#225; pr&#225;va do jednoho bodu, kter&#253; lze kdykoli vypnout. Zpov&#283;dnice s QR k&#243;dem.</p><p>D&#345;&#237;v musel st&#225;t odebrat pas, &#345;idi&#269;&#225;k nebo zablokovat &#250;&#269;et. Pot&#345;eboval policii, soud, &#250;&#345;ady, banky. V budoucnu m&#367;&#382;e sta&#269;it jeden klik &#8211; a nejdete ani na pivo.</p><h3>Od monopolu na sp&#225;su k monopolu na identitu</h3><p>Ale ani to nebylo v&#353;echno. C&#237;rkev si monopol na sp&#225;su neudr&#382;ela jen povinnou zpov&#283;d&#237;. Jak &#345;&#237;k&#225; legend&#225;rn&#237; George Carlin: B&#367;h v&#225;s miluje&#8230; ale pot&#345;ebuje pen&#237;ze. A tak p&#345;i&#353;el dal&#353;&#237; mistrovsk&#253; tah &#8211; monetizace h&#345;&#237;chu a pocitu viny. Odpustky. Sta&#269;ilo zaplatit a v&#353;e bylo smaz&#225;no. Byznys, kter&#253; postavil katedr&#225;ly a financoval pape&#382;sk&#233; v&#225;lky.</p><p>Stejn&#253; trik se opakuje i dnes, jen technologie odpustk&#367; je jin&#225;. Emisn&#237; povolenky a uhl&#237;kov&#233; kredity. ESG sk&#243;re. Verifikovan&#233; &#250;&#269;ty na soci&#225;ln&#237;ch s&#237;t&#237;ch. Zapla&#357; a jsi &#269;ist&#253;. Zapla&#357; a tv&#367;j hlas je d&#367;v&#283;ryhodn&#283;j&#353;&#237;. Zapla&#357;, zmlkni a tv&#367;j profil m&#225; op&#283;t zelenou. Stejn&#253; princip, jin&#225; technologie.</p><p>A co kdy&#382; n&#283;kdo neposlechl? Ve st&#345;edov&#283;ku n&#225;sledovala exkomunikace &#8211; vylou&#269;en&#237; z c&#237;rkve, z&#225;kaz sv&#225;tost&#237;, soci&#225;ln&#237; smrt. Dnes p&#345;ich&#225;z&#237; deplatforming &#8211; od&#345;&#237;znut&#237; od soci&#225;ln&#237;ch s&#237;t&#237;, bankovnictv&#237;, platebn&#237;ch bran nebo digit&#225;ln&#237;ch slu&#382;eb. V obou p&#345;&#237;padech to znamen&#225; tot&#233;&#382;: vylou&#269;en&#237; ze spole&#269;nosti.</p><p>C&#237;rkev kdysi monopolizovala sp&#225;su a geni&#225;ln&#283; vyp&#283;stovala a zpen&#283;&#382;ila n&#225;&#353; pocit viny. St&#225;t a korporace dnes monopolizuj&#237; identitu a monetizuj&#237; ka&#382;d&#253; n&#225;&#353; klik. A stejn&#283; jako tehdy, i dnes nejde o v&#237;ru &#269;i bezpe&#269;nost, ale o kontrolu &#8211; o schopnost vynutit si poslu&#353;nost, p&#345;etavit vinu v obchodn&#237; model a dr&#382;et ka&#382;d&#233;ho &#269;lov&#283;ka v syst&#233;mu, z n&#283;ho&#382; nen&#237; &#250;niku.</p><h3>Je z toho je&#353;t&#283; cesta ven?</h3><p>Ano &#8211; stejn&#283; jako p&#345;ed p&#283;ti sty lety z kosteln&#237;ch zpov&#283;dnic a odpustk&#367;. Tehdy ji p&#345;inesla reformace, ti&#353;t&#283;n&#233; slovo a odvaha lid&#237; nenechat si d&#225;l c&#237;rkv&#237; diktovat, &#269;emu maj&#237; v&#283;&#345;it a jak maj&#237; &#382;&#237;t.</p><p>Bez technologie by v&#353;ak Martin Luther z&#367;stal jen lok&#225;ln&#237;m rebelem ve Wittenbergu. Knihtisk prom&#283;nil jeho 95 tez&#237; v revoluci, kter&#225; nav&#382;dy zm&#283;nila sv&#283;t.</p><p>Dnes stoj&#237;me p&#345;ed podobnou v&#253;zvou. Pot&#345;ebujeme digit&#225;ln&#237; reformaci &#8211; svobodu v technologii, freedom tech: syst&#233;my, kter&#233; neovl&#225;daj&#237; st&#225;ty ani korporace, ale lid&#233; sami. Decentralizovan&#233; s&#237;t&#283;, open-source, open social, auditovateln&#233; platformy a peer-to-peer n&#225;stroje, kter&#233; odstra&#328;uj&#237; rizika protistran, odd&#283;luj&#237; pen&#237;ze od st&#225;tn&#237; moci a chr&#225;n&#237; na&#353;i identitu p&#345;ed tot&#225;ln&#237; kontrolou.</p><p>Pokud tuto p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itost nevyu&#382;ijeme, &#269;ek&#225; n&#225;s osud podobn&#253; st&#345;edov&#283;ku &#8211; jen to nebude exkomunikace, ale riziko vylou&#269;en&#237; z digit&#225;ln&#237; spole&#269;nosti: od&#345;&#237;znut&#237; od soci&#225;ln&#237;ch s&#237;t&#237;, bankovnictv&#237; a modern&#237;ho &#382;ivota.</p><p>Cesta ven existuje, ale vy&#382;aduje odvahu, inovace a odpor proti centralizovan&#233; moci. Mysl&#237;te, &#382;e to nen&#237; mo&#382;n&#233;? Je.</p><p>V&#237;te, kdo ned&#225;vno vyhr&#225;l sout&#283;&#382; N&#225;pad roku? Tropic Square z Prahy &#8211; s prvn&#237;m otev&#345;en&#253;m a auditovateln&#253;m bezpe&#269;nostn&#237;m &#269;ipem na sv&#283;t&#283;. A 21. &#345;&#237;jna 2025 byl tento &#269;ip uveden na trh v nov&#233;m modelu hardwarov&#233; pen&#283;&#382;enky Trezor Safe 7 &#8211; v&#367;bec prvn&#237;m za&#345;&#237;zen&#237; spot&#345;ebn&#237; elektroniky na sv&#283;t&#283;, kter&#233; cel&#233; stoj&#237; na principu otev&#345;en&#233;ho k&#243;du, transparentnosti a auditovatelnosti.</p><p>To jsou inovace, kter&#233; ukazuj&#237;, kudy vede cesta ven.</p><p>Jo, a n&#283;kdo k tomu mus&#237; napsat ten k&#243;d.  </p><p>Cypherpunk.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case for Auditable Silicon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally posted on LinkedIn on July 17, 2025.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/the-architecture-of-trust-is-broken</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/the-architecture-of-trust-is-broken</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:28:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/86afe896-2d96-4b47-ad22-158fed8def4f_1060x830.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><strong>Why a $20B Market Is Ready for a New Standard</strong></h3><p>In today&#8217;s global infrastructure, &#8220;trust&#8221; has become one of the most overused, and least examined, concepts. Nowhere is this more evident than in semiconductors, where we all rely on the blind assumption that a chip does what it claims, and only that. In 2025, that assumption no longer holds.</p><p>Beneath our digital infrastructure lies a hidden battlefield, where closed chips and national agendas determine who can trust whom. Nations blacklist manufacturers not because of proven malice, but because trust has eroded. No one can say with certainty what&#8217;s actually embedded in the silicon that powers our systems.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t just geopolitics. It&#8217;s a structural failure in the architecture of trust.</p><p>Today&#8217;s chips are opaque by design. Their logic is hidden. Their behavior isn&#8217;t verifiable. Layers of NDAs and proprietary licensing prevent even security researchers from understanding what a chip actually does. And when vulnerabilities are discovered, engineers are often legally barred from speaking out.</p><p><strong>This isn&#8217;t a strategy - and it sure as hell isn&#8217;t a security model.</strong> <strong>It&#8217;s a systemic risk.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Redefining the Problem from First Principles</strong></h3><p>Tropic Square isn&#8217;t here to patch a broken architecture. It&#8217;s here to replace it. Trust must be earned through <strong>auditability and proof</strong>, not granted politically or enforced through contracts.</p><p>That&#8217;s why <strong>TROPIC01</strong> was built: the world&#8217;s first <strong>open, auditable secure element</strong>, designed and manufactured in Europe. Not a vision. Not a prototype. <strong>In production. Shipping now.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Shift to Verifiable Infrastructure</strong></h3><p>Modern infrastructure can no longer run on unverified assumptions. From biometrics to decentralized physical networks, from medical devices to critical manufacturing - proving what your hardware does is no longer optional.</p><p>And yet, the secure element market is still dominated by legacy vendors clinging to closed architectures, operating under a Cold War-era model of trust. That&#8217;s no longer good enough.</p><p>Tropic Square isn&#8217;t just selling chips. It&#8217;s defining a new <strong>architecture of trust</strong> for the next generation of secure infrastructure, where:</p><ul><li><p>Verification replaces belief</p></li><li><p>Transparency beats opacity</p></li><li><p>Openness becomes a competitive edge</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Future</strong></h3><p>The future are chips that can be <strong>audited, tested, and verified</strong>&#8212;by anyone: regulators, researchers, partners, or adversaries. Because critical infrastructure must be <strong>trust-less. Verifiable by design.</strong></p><p>Tropic Square isn&#8217;t just a new chip. <strong>It&#8217;s the beginning of a new paradigm.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dobré úmysly dláždí cestu EU k digitální totalitě 21. století]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; vy&#353;lo 27.8. 2025 na Seznamu. Znovu zve&#345;ejn&#283;no zde jako sou&#269;&#225;st archivu.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/dobre-umysly-dlazdi-cestu-eu-k-digitalni</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/dobre-umysly-dlazdi-cestu-eu-k-digitalni</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:11:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0763c702-2f92-432e-a72b-867ab0875321_1250x703.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>V Bruselu se rod&#237; projekty, kter&#233; dohromady mohou z&#225;sadn&#283; prom&#283;nit ka&#382;dodenn&#237; &#382;ivot Evropan&#367;: digit&#225;ln&#237; identita, Chat Control, masivn&#237; regulace a digit&#225;ln&#237; euro. Pokud projdou, soukrom&#237; a svoboda ob&#269;an&#367; se ocitnou pod tlakem, jak&#253; Evropa dlouho nepoznala. Ot&#225;zka nyn&#237; zn&#237;, dok&#225;&#382;eme tomu zabr&#225;nit a jak?</p><p>Inovace nikdy nekon&#269;&#237; a z&#367;st&#225;v&#225; na&#353;&#237; nad&#283;j&#237;. Technologie je neutr&#225;ln&#237; &#8211; nem&#225; v sob&#283; zak&#243;dovan&#233; dobro ani zlo. Z&#225;le&#382;&#237; na tom, jak j&#237; rozum&#237;me a jak dok&#225;&#382;eme p&#345;edv&#237;dat jej&#237; d&#367;sledky. Minimalizovat st&#225;t v na&#353;ich &#382;ivotech a p&#345;etv&#225;&#345;et ho v protokol, kter&#253; m&#367;&#382;eme pohodln&#283; a bezpe&#269;n&#283; pou&#382;&#237;vat, je skv&#283;l&#225; cesta.</p><p>V&#283;t&#353;inu sv&#233;ho profesn&#237;ho &#382;ivota jsem se digitalizaci v&#283;noval v organizaci s miliony z&#225;kazn&#237;k&#367; a statis&#237;ci zam&#283;stnanc&#367;. V&#237;m tedy z prvn&#237; ruky, &#382;e hranice mezi dobr&#253;m &#250;myslem a no&#269;n&#237; m&#367;rou je skute&#269;n&#283; ten&#269;&#237; ne&#382; vlas.</p><h3>Star&#253; trik, nov&#225; hrozba</h3><p>Politika m&#225; osv&#283;d&#269;en&#253; trik: pojmenujete z&#225;kon tak, aby odpor proti n&#283;mu vypadal nelidsky nebo p&#345;&#237;mo jako zrada. Kdo by byl proti n&#225;vrhu &#8222;Chra&#328;me nevinn&#233; d&#283;ti&#8220;? P&#345;esn&#283; tak pro&#353;el v USA Patriot Act &#8211; jeden z nejhor&#353;&#237;ch z&#225;kon&#367; modern&#237; historie, kter&#253; znamenal masivn&#237; z&#225;sah do svobod ob&#269;an&#367; a jeho&#382; stopy Amerika c&#237;t&#237; dodnes.</p><p>Evropa pou&#382;&#237;v&#225; stejnou metodu. Pod atraktivn&#237;mi hesly v Bruselu vznik&#225; infrastruktura, kter&#225; m&#367;&#382;e p&#345;etvo&#345;it kontinent v prostor digit&#225;ln&#237; kontroly. A &#269;ty&#345;i kl&#237;&#269;ov&#233; projekty se postupn&#283; propojuj&#237; do jednoho celku.</p><h3>Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita &#8211; k&#253;m jste a kde jste</h3><p><em>Slogan: &#8222;U&#382;ite&#269;n&#225; inovace pro poctiv&#233; lidi, kte&#345;&#237; nemaj&#237; co skr&#253;vat&#8220;</em></p><p>Evropsk&#225; digit&#225;ln&#237; pen&#283;&#382;enka (EUDI Wallet podle na&#345;&#237;zen&#237; eIDAS 2.0) m&#225; propojit ob&#269;anku, &#345;idi&#269;&#225;k, zdravotn&#237; &#250;daje i bankovn&#237; identitu. Pohodln&#233; a praktick&#233;&#8230; ov&#353;em s masivn&#237;mi riziky.</p><p>Rakousk&#225; organizace Epicenter.works dokonce kritizovala Ivana Barto&#353;e (Pir&#225;ti) a &#269;esk&#233; p&#345;edsednictv&#237; Rady EU za oslaben&#237; ochrany soukrom&#237;, proto&#382;e zat&#237;mco francouzsk&#233; p&#345;edsednictv&#237; v roce 2022 vlo&#382;ilo do n&#225;vrhu kl&#237;&#269;ov&#233; pojistky, &#269;esk&#233; je v p&#225;t&#233; verzi kompromisn&#237;ho textu odstranilo. D&#367;vod? Dodnes bez jasn&#233;ho vysv&#283;tlen&#237;.</p><p>Co se zm&#283;nilo? Subjekty mohou nyn&#237; &#382;&#225;dat va&#353;e data bez kontroly, v&#353;echny z&#225;znamy lze spojovat do kompletn&#237;ho profilu, jeden identifik&#225;tor propoj&#237; zdrav&#237;, finance i osobn&#237; &#250;daje &#8211; a st&#225;t nav&#237;c m&#367;&#382;e kdykoli odebrat p&#345;&#237;stup k va&#353;&#237; identit&#283;. &#8218;Dobrovoln&#225;&#8216; pen&#283;&#382;enka se tak m&#367;&#382;e velice rychle st&#225;t faktickou povinnost&#237; i n&#225;strojem n&#225;tlaku. Argument &#8222;poctiv&#237; lid&#233; nemaj&#237; co skr&#253;vat&#8220; je fale&#353;n&#253;. Je to stejn&#233; jako &#345;&#237;ct, &#382;e nepot&#345;ebujete svobodu slova, proto&#382;e nem&#225;te co &#345;&#237;ct. Pr&#225;vo na soukrom&#237; nen&#237; &#250;nikem p&#345;ed z&#225;konem &#8211; je to z&#225;kladn&#237; pojistka svobody, od volebn&#237; urny po ordinaci l&#233;ka&#345;e.</p><h3>Digit&#225;ln&#237; euro &#8211; v&#237;me o v&#225;s v&#353;e. Soukrom&#237; kon&#269;&#237; zde.</h3><p><em>Slogan: &#8222;modern&#237; alternativa k hotovosti&#8220;</em></p><p>Bankovn&#237; tajemstv&#237; bylo v&#382;dy z&#225;kladn&#237;m pil&#237;&#345;em d&#367;v&#283;ry mezi ob&#269;anem a finan&#269;n&#237;m syst&#233;mem. Nechr&#225;nilo jen &#8222;zlo&#269;ince&#8220;, jak r&#225;di tvrd&#237; byrokrati, ale p&#345;edev&#353;&#237;m oby&#269;ejn&#233; lidi p&#345;ed zv&#367;l&#237; st&#225;tu.</p><p>Tento princip je nyn&#237; v ohro&#382;en&#237;. Digit&#225;ln&#237; euro otev&#237;r&#225; dve&#345;e k bezprecedentn&#237; kontrole finan&#269;n&#237;ho &#382;ivota ob&#269;an&#367;. Ka&#382;d&#225; transakce bude stopovateln&#225; a kdykoli blokovateln&#225;. Hotovost je anonymn&#237;, okam&#382;it&#225; a nez&#225;visl&#225;. Digit&#225;ln&#237; euro znamen&#225; prav&#253; opak: dohled a &#250;plnou z&#225;vislost na infrastruktu&#345;e st&#225;tu.</p><h3>Masivn&#237; regulace &#8211; jak se dus&#237; finan&#269;n&#237; svoboda</h3><p><em>Slogan: &#8222;boj s pran&#237;m &#353;pinav&#253;ch pen&#283;z a drogov&#253;mi kartely&#8220;</em></p><p>Hotovost byla po stalet&#237; symbolem svobody &#8211; mo&#382;nost nakl&#225;dat se sv&#253;mi pen&#283;zi bez &#382;&#225;dosti o povolen&#237;. Stejn&#253; p&#345;&#237;slib d&#225;v&#225; i krypto: finan&#269;n&#237; inkluzi, inovace a mo&#382;nost fungovat bez prost&#345;edn&#237;k&#367;. V EU ov&#353;em nastupuje p&#345;eregulace. Hotovost se st&#225;v&#225; podez&#345;elou, omezovanou a kriminalizovanou. Regulace MiCA (<em>pr&#225;vn&#237; p&#345;edpis Evropsk&#233; unie, kter&#253; byl p&#345;ijat s c&#237;lem vytvo&#345;it jednotn&#253; regulatorn&#237; r&#225;mec pro kryptoaktiva v r&#225;mci vnit&#345;n&#237;ho trhu EU</em>) vyh&#225;n&#237; finan&#269;n&#237; inovace i kapit&#225;l do USA nebo Dubaje. Unie se tv&#225;&#345;&#237;, &#382;e chr&#225;n&#237; ob&#269;any, ale ve skute&#269;nosti nechr&#225;n&#237;. Systematicky tla&#269;&#237; lidi k tomu, aby se vzd&#225;vali sv&#233; finan&#269;n&#237; svobody &#8222;ve vy&#353;&#353;&#237;m z&#225;jmu&#8220;.</p><p>Jen&#382;e pran&#237; &#353;pinav&#253;ch pen&#283;z se odehr&#225;v&#225; jinde. Podle mezin&#225;rodn&#237;ho fondu a Europolu prob&#237;h&#225; p&#345;es 96 % pran&#237; pen&#283;z p&#345;es tradi&#269;n&#237; banky. P&#345;esto se omezen&#237; zam&#283;&#345;uje na hotovost, krypto a ob&#269;any &#8211; je to politicky vd&#283;&#269;n&#233; a snadno viditeln&#233;.</p><h2>Chat Control &#8211; v&#353;e, co kdy nap&#237;&#353;ete komukoli</h2><p><em>Slogan: &#8222;chr&#225;n&#237;me na&#353;e d&#283;ti&#8220;</em></p><p>Evropa kdysi inspirovala sv&#283;t principem po&#353;tovn&#237;ho tajemstv&#237;. Dnes ale podkop&#225;v&#225; sv&#367;j vlastn&#237; odkaz. To, co je u dopis&#367; nedotknuteln&#233;, m&#225; b&#253;t u digit&#225;ln&#237; komunikace ignorov&#225;no. Pl&#225;n je prost&#253;: povinn&#233; skenov&#225;n&#237; v&#353;ech soukrom&#253;ch zpr&#225;v, post&#367;, e-mail&#367;, soubor&#367; i fotek, a to je&#353;t&#283; p&#345;ed jejich odesl&#225;n&#237;m. Ka&#382;d&#253; &#8222;z&#225;vadn&#253;&#8220; obsah m&#225; b&#253;t automaticky hl&#225;&#353;en. V&#253;sledkem ale m&#367;&#382;e b&#253;t z&#225;plava fale&#353;n&#253;ch poplach&#367;, kriminalizace nevinn&#253;ch lid&#237; a skute&#269;n&#237; pred&#225;to&#345;i se jen p&#345;esunou jinam. B&#283;&#382;n&#237; ob&#269;an&#233; p&#345;ijdou o soukrom&#237; a mnoho aplikac&#237; z Evropy jednodu&#353;e zmiz&#237;.</p><p>To, &#382;e jsme na to zvykl&#237;, by n&#225;s nem&#283;lo ukol&#233;bat &#8211; pr&#225;v&#283; naopak. U&#382; dnes kv&#367;li regulac&#237;m nem&#225;me p&#345;&#237;stup k technologi&#237;m, kter&#233; jsou jinde b&#283;&#382;n&#233;: autonomn&#237; auta, genov&#233; terapie nebo i trivi&#225;ln&#237; peer-to-peer platby v Apple Pay. Smutnou ironi&#237; je, &#382;e i kdyby tento syst&#233;m fungoval &#8211; a on nebude &#8211; probl&#233;m ne&#345;e&#353;&#237;.</p><p>Podle statistik ale drtivou v&#283;t&#353;inu d&#283;tsk&#253;ch ob&#283;t&#237; zneu&#382;&#237;vaj&#237; rodinn&#237; p&#345;&#237;slu&#353;n&#237;ci a lid&#233; z nejbli&#382;&#353;&#237;ho okol&#237;. Skute&#269;n&#225; ochrana d&#283;t&#237; mus&#237; za&#269;&#237;t tam a nap&#345;&#237;klad p&#345;&#237;sn&#283;j&#353;&#237;mi, nikoli podm&#237;n&#283;n&#253;mi tresty &#8211; ne u &#353;m&#237;rov&#225;n&#237; v&#353;ech ob&#269;an&#367;.</p><h3>Digit&#225;ln&#237; totalita?</h3><p>Ka&#382;d&#253; z t&#283;chto projekt&#367; je s&#225;m o sob&#283; nebezpe&#269;n&#253;. Spojen&#233; dohromady ale mohou vytvo&#345;it syst&#233;m, kde st&#225;t v&#237;, co p&#237;&#353;ete a komu, k&#253;m a kde jste a za co utr&#225;c&#237;te.</p><p>A v&#353;e z toho m&#367;&#382;e zastavit, zak&#225;zat nebo st&#237;hat. Nejde o izolovan&#233; n&#225;pady, ale o &#269;ty&#345;i stavebn&#237; kameny jedin&#233; vize: Evropy, kter&#225; pod z&#225;plavou ideologie a naivn&#237;ho aktivismu buduje, mo&#382;n&#225; neuv&#283;dom&#283;le, model tot&#225;ln&#237; kontroly. Svoboda ob&#269;ana se vytr&#225;c&#237; nen&#225;padn&#283; &#8211; jako kdy&#382; kolem v&#225;s roste klec z neviditeln&#253;ch m&#345;&#237;&#382;&#237;, kter&#233; se zhmotn&#237; pr&#225;v&#283; ve chv&#237;li, kdy chcete odej&#237;t.</p><p>Nen&#237; to ale stejn&#233; v cel&#233;m z&#225;padn&#237;m sv&#283;t&#283;. Ve Spojen&#253;ch st&#225;tech neexistuje feder&#225;ln&#237; digit&#225;ln&#237; identita z obav o svobodu ob&#269;an&#367;, digit&#225;ln&#237; dolar byl Kongresem v&#253;slovn&#283; zak&#225;z&#225;n ze stejn&#253;ch d&#367;vod&#367; a hotovostn&#237; platby nemaj&#237; limit. Evropan&#233; dost&#225;vaj&#237; p&#345;esn&#253; opak: digit&#225;ln&#237; identitu, digit&#225;ln&#237; euro a kriminalizaci hotovostn&#237;ch plateb nad 10 000 &#8364;. Pro&#269;?</p><h3>St&#225;le to je&#353;t&#283; m&#367;&#382;e dob&#345;e dopadnout</h3><p>Budoucnost nen&#237; osud, ale suma na&#353;ich rozhodnut&#237;. Ve sv&#283;t&#283; je v&#237;c dobra ne&#382; zla. Ne o moc, ale je. A technologie to odr&#225;&#382;&#237;. Digit&#225;ln&#237; identita m&#367;&#382;e b&#253;t st&#225;le je&#353;t&#283; navr&#382;ena jako auditovateln&#233; open-source &#345;e&#353;en&#237;. Ne se slabou ochranou soukrom&#237;, zastaralou kryptografi&#237; a mo&#382;nost&#237; kdykoli odebrat p&#345;&#237;stup, ale na modern&#237;ch principech: decentralizaci, minim&#225;ln&#237;m sd&#237;len&#237; dat a technologi&#237;ch typu zero-knowledge proofs. Jen tak se z n&#237; stane n&#225;stroj, kter&#253; ob&#269;anovi slou&#382;&#237; &#8211; m&#237;sto aby ho vyd&#225;val st&#225;tu a korporac&#237;m na milost. &#268;esk&#225; republika si m&#367;&#382;e napravit reputaci a aktivn&#283; usilovat o to, aby Chat Control 14. &#345;&#237;jna v&#367;bec nepro&#353;el. A &#269;esk&#225; koruna z&#367;st&#225;v&#225; alternativou k digit&#225;ln&#237;mu euru. Mnoh&#233; je st&#225;le na n&#225;s.</p><p>Alexandr Sol&#382;enicin ve Souostrov&#237; Gulag napsal: &#8222;K&#233;&#382; by si ka&#382;d&#253; z n&#225;s pamatoval, &#382;e se v na&#353;em &#382;ivot&#283; m&#367;&#382;e st&#225;t chv&#237;le, kdy nebude &#382;&#225;dn&#233; &#250;to&#269;i&#353;t&#283;, &#382;&#225;dn&#253; &#250;nik. A jedinou ochranou p&#345;ed zlem bude odvaha postavit se mu.&#8220; Dnes to plat&#237; stejn&#283;.</p><p>Digit&#225;ln&#237; nesvoboda nep&#345;ijde s ostnat&#253;m dr&#225;tem a str&#225;&#382;n&#237;mi v&#283;&#382;emi. P&#345;ijde se sloganem &#8222;chr&#225;n&#237;me d&#283;ti&#8220;, &#8222;bojujeme proti pran&#237; pen&#283;z&#8220; a &#8222;modern&#237; alternativou k hotovosti&#8220;. A ot&#225;zka nezn&#237;, zda m&#225;me co skr&#253;vat. Ot&#225;zka zn&#237;, zda si chceme uchovat svobodu &#8211; nebo ji vym&#283;n&#237;me za pohodl&#237; a iluzi bezpe&#269;&#237;.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin není cesta, jak rychle zbohatnout, ale jak fatálně nezchudnout]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; vy&#353;lo 3.1.2021 na Seznamu. Znovu zve&#345;ejn&#283;no zde jako sou&#269;&#225;st archivu.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/bitcoin-neni-cesta-jak-rychle-zbohatnout</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/bitcoin-neni-cesta-jak-rychle-zbohatnout</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:18:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7657223d-91be-493f-a3f1-7a74bf1b36f5_1002x880.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark&#233;ta Irglov&#225; p&#345;i sv&#233; obdivuhodn&#233; &#345;e&#269;i p&#345;i p&#345;eb&#237;r&#225;n&#237; Oscara v roce 2008 &#345;&#237;k&#225;: &#8222;Nad&#283;je je to, co n&#225;s v&#353;echny spojuje, bez ohledu na na&#353;e rozd&#237;ly.&#8220; Mnohokr&#225;t jsem si na to od toho skv&#283;l&#233;ho ve&#269;era vzpomn&#283;l.</p><p>Jak to souvis&#237; s n&#225;mi?</p><p>P&#345;edstavme si sv&#283;t, kde jsou pen&#237;ze bezpe&#269;n&#253;m p&#345;&#237;stavem pro ukl&#225;d&#225;n&#237; ekonomick&#233; hodnoty. N&#283;co, na co se m&#367;&#382;eme spolehnout, o &#269;em nemus&#237;me p&#345;em&#253;&#353;let a kde nehroz&#237; ani devalvace, ani konfiskace. Sv&#283;t, kde se nemus&#237;te br&#225;nit inflaci riskantn&#237;mi investicemi, kter&#253;m nerozum&#237;te ani vy, ani jejich prodejce a kde nemovitosti nenahrazuj&#237; funkci uchovatele hodnoty. Tuto z&#225;kladn&#237; funkci pen&#283;z, ve kter&#233; fiat (z&#225;konn&#233; - pozn. red.) m&#283;ny selhaly, a t&#237;m u&#269;inily bydlen&#237; prakticky nedostupn&#233;, a to nejen nejen pro mlad&#233; rodiny. A kone&#269;n&#283; sv&#283;t, kde d&#237;ky otev&#345;en&#233;mu p&#345;&#237;stupu ke glob&#225;ln&#237; monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;ti mohou lid&#233; svobodn&#283; komunikovat ekonomickou hodnotu, ani&#382; by museli &#382;&#225;dat o povolen&#237;.</p><p>Experiment st&#225;tn&#237;ch pen&#283;z a odchod od zlat&#233;ho standardu, kter&#253; se n&#225;m p&#345;ihodil v minul&#233;m stolet&#237;, sk&#345;&#237;pe v&#237;c a v&#237;c a fiat pen&#237;ze se d&#225;le st&#225;vaj&#237; zdrojem stresu a starost&#237;, a to i v z&#225;padn&#237;m sv&#283;t&#283;. Nikdo toti&#382; ji&#382; nev&#283;&#345;&#237; v jejich schopnost udr&#382;et si hodnotu v &#269;ase. P&#345;ihodil p&#237;&#353;i proto, proto&#382;e nenajdete jedinou vl&#225;du, kter&#225; kdy m&#283;la volebn&#237; program zalo&#382;en&#253; na znehodnocov&#225;n&#237; vlastn&#237; m&#283;ny. Nicm&#233;n&#283; ovl&#225;dat tisk&#225;rny pen&#283;z je takov&#233; poku&#353;en&#237; a tak siln&#283; n&#225;vykov&#225; droga, &#382;e se nikdy &#382;&#225;dn&#233; vl&#225;d&#283; nepoda&#345;ilo s touto z&#225;vislost&#237; vypo&#345;&#225;dat a naopak v&#353;echny si sv&#233; d&#225;vky neust&#225;le zvy&#353;uj&#237;.</p><p>Bitcoin postupn&#283; p&#345;estane b&#253;t rizikovou investic&#237; a stane se kl&#237;&#269;ov&#253;m produktem na finan&#269;n&#237;m trhu - skute&#269;n&#253; spo&#345;ic&#237; &#250;&#269;et v m&#283;n&#283; zcela separovan&#233; od st&#225;tu, p&#345;&#237;stupn&#253; v&#353;em bez rozd&#237;lu. Zkuste si ud&#283;lat mal&#233; ment&#225;ln&#237; cvi&#269;en&#237; a denominujte sv&#367;j p&#345;&#237;jem za posledn&#237;ch p&#283;t let v dolarech, ve zlatu a v bitcoinu. Vid&#237;te to? P&#345;i&#353;el &#269;as denominovat ekonomick&#233; aktivity v bitcoinech, abychom vid&#283;li jejich skute&#269;nou hodnotu?</p><p>Je to poprv&#233; v historii a mo&#382;n&#225; i naposled, kdy drobn&#237; investo&#345;i maj&#237; &#353;anci do n&#283;&#269;eho tak z&#225;sadn&#237;ho vstoupit prvn&#237;, na &#250;pln&#233;m za&#269;&#225;tku a p&#345;edb&#283;hnout &#8222;velk&#253; kluky&#8220;, kter&#233; zdr&#382;uje jak jejich ego, tak i regulace. V norm&#225;ln&#237;m investi&#269;n&#237;m sv&#283;t&#283; se to nikdy nestane. Nejen prvn&#237;, druh&#233; a t&#345;et&#237; kolo financov&#225;n&#237; startup&#367;, ale i pre-IPO alokace jsou pouze pro &#250;zk&#253; okruh vybran&#253;ch investor&#367; a retail se k akcii dostane, a&#382; kdy&#382; je titul na trhu a velk&#225; &#269;&#225;st asymetrick&#233; v&#253;hody rizik je ji&#382; vyluxov&#225;na.</p><p>Ne v&#353;ak tady. Situace se rychle m&#283;n&#237;, velc&#237; hr&#225;&#269;i se probouzej&#237;, nicm&#233;n&#283; st&#225;le je &#269;ek&#225; spousta pr&#225;ce, ne&#382; spln&#237; podm&#237;nky trhu a regul&#225;tor&#367; a mohou do ar&#233;ny vstoupit naplno. Toto okno p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itosti se za&#269;&#237;n&#225; p&#345;iv&#237;rat. Pokud v&#225;m v&#225;&#353; finan&#269;n&#237; poradce ani dnes nen&#237; schopen dob&#345;e vysv&#283;tlit a p&#345;&#237;padn&#283; doporu&#269;it pro v&#225;s vhodnou strategii investice do bitcoinu, hledejte nov&#233;ho. Nebo je&#353;t&#283; l&#233;pe, ud&#283;lejte si vlastn&#237; n&#225;zor.</p><p>3. ledna m&#283;l bitcoin dvan&#225;ct&#233; narozeniny. Oslavil je sv&#253;m dal&#353;&#237;m maximem. T&#237;m potvrdil jak podez&#345;en&#237; dosud &#353;&#225;len&#233; ve&#345;ejnosti, tak i nejhlub&#353;&#237; obavy finan&#269;n&#237;ho establishmentu, &#382;e to ve skute&#269;nosti nen&#237; bublina, ale &#353;pendl&#237;k. &#352;pendl&#237;k, kter&#253; pr&#225;v&#283; te&#271;, p&#345;ed na&#353;ima o&#269;ima, propichuje bublinu fiat m&#283;n a nab&#237;z&#237; novou decentralizovanou alternativu pen&#283;z vytvo&#345;enou pro internet a 21. stolet&#237; a s t&#237;m i nad&#283;ji pro mladou generaci, &#382;e z toho v&#353;eho vede cesta ven.</p><p>Nev&#283;&#345;te nikomu, ov&#283;&#345;ujte v&#353;echno a spol&#233;hejte se na sv&#367;j vlastn&#237; rozum. Bitcoin nen&#237; cesta, jak rychle zbohatnout, je to zp&#367;sob, jak pomalu a fat&#225;ln&#283; nezchudnout.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin jako požírač energie. Ale co když je to naopak?]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; vy&#353;lo 4.3. 2021 na Seznam. Znovu zve&#345;ejn&#283;no zde jako sou&#269;&#225;st archivu.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/bitcoin-jako-pozirac-energie-ale</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/bitcoin-jako-pozirac-energie-ale</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:04:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4dff742d-3727-4299-80a8-06b69ae8d17c_1705x1280.avif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>V&#353;ichni mluv&#237; o cen&#283;. My budeme mluvit o energii.</p><p>Bitcoin toti&#382; spot&#345;ebuje spoustu energie. Ur&#269;it&#283; jste to u&#382; sly&#353;eli a je to pravda.</p><p>Co jste ale mo&#382;n&#225; nesly&#353;eli, je, &#382;e bitcoin p&#345;in&#225;&#353;&#237; na energetick&#253; trh p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itosti, kter&#233; tu nikdy nebyly. M&#367;&#382;e vyu&#382;&#237;t odpadn&#237;, uv&#225;zlou a nadbyte&#269;nou energii, stabilizovat provoz obnoviteln&#253;ch zdroj&#367; a zlep&#353;it vyu&#382;it&#237; kapacit, kter&#233; se zap&#237;naj&#237; jen tehdy, kdy&#382; je zle. P&#345;esn&#283; tak. To v&#353;echno je mo&#382;n&#233;. Jo, a tak&#233; um&#237; ulo&#382;it energii jako informaci. Cool? Jdeme na to.</p><h2><strong>Jachting a plyn</strong></h2><p>Za&#269;n&#283;me t&#237;m, co m&#225; spole&#269;n&#233;ho p&#225;len&#237; zemn&#237;ho plynu a jachting.</p><p>V&#353;ichni zn&#225;me obr&#225;zky z ropn&#253;ch pol&#237; osv&#283;tlen&#253;ch ohniv&#253;mi sloupci. Jsou vid&#283;t i z vesm&#237;ru. V&#237;te, pro&#269; producenti ropy p&#225;l&#237; zemn&#237; plyn jak &#353;&#237;lenci, m&#237;sto aby jej prodali? Odpov&#283;&#271; je jednoduch&#225;. Zachycen&#237; a transport plynu je mnohdy neekonomick&#233;. Tak se to prost&#283; sp&#225;l&#237;. Je to nejbezpe&#269;n&#283;j&#353;&#237; a nejlevn&#283;j&#353;&#237; pro t&#283;&#382;a&#345;e a naprosto negativn&#237; pro v&#353;echny v&#269;etn&#283; planety. Odpadn&#237; plyn jako vedlej&#353;&#237; produkt t&#283;&#382;by ropy je uv&#225;zl&#225;, nepou&#382;iteln&#225; energie, generuj&#237;c&#237; jen n&#225;klady a spaliny.</p><p>Tedy byla to nepou&#382;iteln&#225; energie, dokud firma Crusoe neza&#269;ala dod&#225;vat mobiln&#237; kontejnery obsahuj&#237;c&#237; turb&#237;nu, gener&#225;tor a datov&#233; centrum. Tato sestava um&#237; ukon&#269;it bez&#250;&#269;eln&#233; a neekologick&#233; p&#225;len&#237; plynu a vysvobozenou energi&#237; z&#225;sobovat t&#283;&#382;bu bitcoin&#367;, financuj&#237;c&#237; celou hru. Marty Bent z firmy GAM odhaduje, &#382;e jedna instalace za jeden m&#283;s&#237;c spot&#345;ebuje a zaplat&#237; plyn asi za $475k. Plyn, kter&#253; by jinak p&#345;i&#353;el nazmar. Ro&#269;n&#283; se na sv&#283;t&#283; bez u&#382;itku sp&#225;l&#237; asi 150 miliard m<sup>3</sup> plynu, co&#382; by &#268;esku sta&#269;ilo skoro na 20 let.</p><p>Sv&#283;tov&#225; banka m&#225; iniciativu na ukon&#269;en&#237; p&#225;len&#237; odpadn&#237;ho plynu do roku 2030, navzdory tomu se v roce 2019 sp&#225;lilo zase o 3 % v&#237;c. Pro&#269;? Producenti ropy maj&#237; skv&#283;lou lobby a minim&#225;ln&#237; ekonomickou motivaci. To se te&#271; ale zm&#283;n&#237;. T&#283;&#382;ba bitcoin&#367; nab&#237;z&#237; cestu, jak monetizovat nep&#345;enositelnou energii, a&#357; je, kde je. Nic takov&#233;ho dosud nebylo mo&#382;n&#233; a profit je skv&#283;l&#225; motivace.</p><p>V&#353;ichni asi v&#283;d&#237;, &#382;e se elektrick&#253; proud ob&#269;as prod&#225;v&#225; za negativn&#237; cenu. Distribu&#269;n&#237; s&#237;&#357; nen&#237; schopna p&#345;en&#233;st energii tam, kde je pot&#345;eba, a neum&#237; ji ulo&#382;it. Zvl&#225;&#353;t&#283; v&#237;kendy, kdy&#382; je jasno a fouk&#225; jako o &#382;ivot, tedy skv&#283;l&#233; po&#269;as&#237; pro jachta&#345;e, jsou smutn&#253;m &#269;asem pro v&#283;trn&#233; a sol&#225;rn&#237; elektr&#225;rny. Jsou bu&#271; odstaveny, nebo elekt&#345;inu nab&#237;z&#237; za z&#225;pornou, dotovanou cenu.</p><p>Jak to spolu souvis&#237;? Jednodu&#353;e. Probl&#233;m je v obou p&#345;&#237;padech stejn&#253;. Energie uv&#225;zl&#225; na nep&#345;&#237;stupn&#253;ch m&#237;stech nebo vyroben&#225; v nevhodn&#233;m &#269;ase. Vysoce mobiln&#237; a konstantn&#237; spot&#345;eba t&#283;&#382;by bitcoinu je p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itost, nejen jak monetizovat uv&#225;zlou a nedostupnou energii, ale i jak nahradit chyb&#283;j&#237;c&#237; odb&#283;r p&#345;i v&#253;rob&#283; elekt&#345;iny z obnoviteln&#253;ch zdroj&#367;.</p><p>Nikdy v historii energetick&#233;ho trhu neexistoval glob&#225;ln&#237; hr&#225;&#269; s tak brut&#225;ln&#237; ekonomickou motivac&#237; objevovat a spot&#345;ebov&#225;vat odpadn&#237;, uv&#225;zlou a nadbyte&#269;nou energii kdekoliv a kdykoliv na sv&#283;t&#283; a p&#345;itom m&#237;t naprosto neobvyklou toleranci k v&#253;padk&#367;m. T&#283;&#382;bu toti&#382; m&#367;&#382;ete p&#345;eru&#353;it kdykoliv a bez n&#225;sledk&#367;.</p><p>Je to nov&#253; fenom&#233;n, kter&#253; ve sv&#283;t&#283; energetiky spust&#237; vlnu inovac&#237;.</p><h2><strong>Baterie I</strong></h2><p>Zn&#225;te Dlouh&#233; Str&#225;n&#283;? Skv&#283;l&#253; projekt, budovali jsme je 18 let, dal&#353;&#237; se u&#382; nikdy nepostav&#237;. Co d&#283;laj&#237;? N&#283;co velice podobn&#233;ho. Jen p&#345;ebyte&#269;n&#225; elekt&#345;ina se pou&#382;&#237;v&#225; k p&#345;e&#269;erp&#225;v&#225;n&#237; vody do horn&#237; n&#225;dr&#382;e. V na&#353;em p&#345;&#237;pad&#283;, d&#237;ky inteligentn&#237; integraci energetick&#233; a monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;t&#283; m&#367;&#382;eme ukl&#225;dat energii jako informaci reprezentuj&#237;c&#237; ekonomickou hodnotu a p&#345;em&#283;nit zp&#283;t, kdy&#382; a kde je pot&#345;eba.</p><p>P&#345;&#237;kladem jsou &#269;&#237;nsk&#233; vodn&#237; elektr&#225;rny v obdob&#237; de&#353;&#357;&#367;, na jejich&#382; obrovsk&#233; p&#345;ebytky nep&#345;enositeln&#233; energie se sl&#233;taj&#237; t&#283;&#382;a&#345;i jako supi ka&#382;d&#253; rok. I d&#237;ky tomu se u&#382; dnes pod&#237;l obnoviteln&#233; energie p&#345;i t&#283;&#382;b&#283; bitcoinu odhaduje p&#345;es 40 %. EU m&#225; c&#237;l 20 % pro rok 2020 a kdyby byl bitcoin zem&#283;, byl by na &#353;pici, hned za &#352;v&#233;dskem.</p><h2><strong>Baterie II</strong></h2><p>Vl&#225;dy mnoha zem&#237; si plat&#237; z&#225;lo&#382;n&#237; kapacity na v&#253;robu elekt&#345;iny, kter&#233; jsou aktivov&#225;ny pouze v dob&#283; &#353;pi&#269;ek. Nap&#345;&#237;klad Polsko zaplat&#237; letos 32 miliard korun za zdroje, kter&#233; prakticky nepou&#382;ije.</p><p>U&#382; v&#237;me, &#382;e t&#283;&#382;ba se m&#367;&#382;e vypnout a zapnout kdykoli a odehr&#225;vat kdekoli. Um&#237;st&#283;me ji tedy do m&#237;st, kde nast&#225;v&#225; nedostatek energie nej&#269;ast&#283;ji a nejakutn&#283;ji. A pozor: ve &#353;pi&#269;ce m&#237;sto abychom zap&#237;nali rezervn&#237; kapacity pouze vypneme t&#283;&#382;bu. Oto&#269;&#237;me probl&#233;m na hlavu, z datov&#233;ho centra ud&#283;l&#225;me baterii. Kompenzovat t&#283;&#382;a&#345;e v dob&#283; &#353;pi&#269;ek bude &#345;&#225;dov&#283; levn&#283;j&#353;&#237; ne&#382; dr&#382;et z&#225;lo&#382;n&#237; elektr&#225;rny pou&#382;&#237;van&#233; p&#225;r dn&#237; v roce. Ji&#382; dnes s touto viz&#237; z&#225;pol&#237; americk&#253; start-up Layer1, kter&#253; nefinancuje nikdo jin&#253; ne&#382; Peter Thiel.</p><p>Vn&#237;m&#225;te, jak p&#345;ekvapiv&#283; rezonuj&#237; vize budouc&#237; energetick&#233; s&#237;t&#283; zalo&#382;en&#233; na &#269;ist&#253;ch, obnoviteln&#253;ch zdroj&#237;ch a glob&#225;ln&#237; monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;t&#283; umo&#382;&#328;uj&#237;c&#237; ukl&#225;dat energii jako informaci? Jejich synergie umo&#382;n&#237; vysvobozovat energii uv&#225;zlou v &#269;ase &#269;i prostoru.</p><p>Je&#353;t&#283; mali&#269;kost - teze, &#382;e bitcoin ni&#269;&#237; energii, je m&#253;tus. Ze z&#225;kladn&#237; &#353;koly v&#237;me, &#382;e energii nelze zni&#269;it, pouze transformovat. Bitcoin energii transformuje do informace reprezentuj&#237;c&#237; ekonomickou hodnotu. Energie se m&#367;&#382;e p&#345;el&#233;vat z watt&#367; do bitcoin&#367; a zase zp&#225;tky. To jsme nikdy neum&#283;li.</p><h2><strong>Zp&#283;t k jachtingu</strong></h2><p>I kdy&#382; t&#283;&#382;ba bitcoin&#367; otev&#237;r&#225; p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itosti, kter&#233; v energetice neexistovaly, a stane se jedn&#237;m z chyb&#283;j&#237;c&#237;ch kousk&#367; skl&#225;danky, nem&#225; d&#367;vod se za spot&#345;ebovanou energii omlouvat. Nab&#237;z&#237; toti&#382; lidem n&#283;co, co nelze koupit: finan&#269;n&#237; suverenitu a ochranu proti dlouhodob&#233; inflaci, jakou nikdy nem&#283;li.</p><p>Vize o decentralizovan&#233;, na vl&#225;d&#225;ch nez&#225;visl&#233; monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;ti, p&#345;&#237;stupn&#233; v&#353;em bez rozd&#237;lu, kde nikdo nem&#367;&#382;e konfiskovat, cenzurovat &#269;i devalvovat v&#225;&#353; majetek, za to prost&#283; stoj&#237; a elekt&#345;ina pou&#382;it&#225; k jej&#237;mu provozu byla, je a z&#367;st&#225;v&#225; &#250;&#269;eln&#283; vyu&#382;it&#225;. Jak to v&#237;me? Trh tuto ot&#225;zku zodpov&#237;d&#225; ka&#382;dou hodinu a ka&#382;d&#253; den ji&#382; dvan&#225;ct let.</p><p>R&#367;st produkce energie byl v&#382;dy v historii lidstva zn&#225;mkou pozitivn&#237;ho rozvoje spole&#269;nosti a velice &#250;zce koreluje s kvalitou &#382;ivota, kter&#253; &#382;ijeme. Snaha omezovat produkci a spot&#345;ebu energie je vedena pochopiteln&#253;m &#250;sil&#237;m chr&#225;nit na&#353;i planetu, nicm&#233;n&#283; moralizov&#225;n&#237; o tom, k &#269;emu ji vyu&#382;&#237;t, v&#253;sledky nep&#345;in&#225;&#353;&#237;. Jak dlouho ji&#382; v&#237;me, &#382;e dom&#225;c&#237; p&#345;&#237;stroje ve stand by spolknou za rok jen v US v&#253;kon 50 velk&#253;ch elektr&#225;ren, a jak dlouho u&#382; kouk&#225;me na ty ho&#345;&#237;c&#237; sloupy?</p><p>P&#345;ekvapiv&#283; se ukazuje, &#382;e masivn&#237; objem energie spot&#345;ebovan&#233; pro t&#283;&#382;bu bitcoinu je p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itost&#237; k akceleraci p&#345;echodu k &#269;ist&#253;m a obnoviteln&#253;m zdroj&#367;m, a to na ekonomick&#233;m z&#225;klad&#283; a motivaci.</p><p>Stejn&#283; tak je z&#345;ejm&#233;, &#382;e se t&#283;&#382;ba soust&#345;ed&#237; na obnoviteln&#233; a uv&#225;zl&#233; zdroje energie v m&#237;stech a &#269;asech, kdy nejsou k u&#382;itku nikomu jin&#233;mu. Ne proto, &#382;e jsou t&#283;&#382;a&#345;i hodn&#237; kluci, ale proto&#382;e jsou ekonomicky motivov&#225;ni a jedine&#269;n&#253; profil spot&#345;eby s mobiln&#237;m odb&#283;rem to umo&#382;&#328;uje.</p><p>Mnoho ot&#225;zek &#269;ek&#225; na odpov&#283;di, ale vid&#237;te, jak ta &#345;e&#353;en&#237; vystupuj&#237; z mlhy?</p><p>Nebylo by skv&#283;l&#233;, jednou v budoucnosti, se d&#237;vat na spot&#345;ebu energie se stejn&#253;m pocitem m&#237;ru, jako kdy&#382; dnes pozorujete plachetnice, kter&#253;m nikdo nevy&#269;&#237;t&#225;, &#382;e zb&#367;hdarma pl&#253;tvaj&#237; kinetickou energi&#237; v&#283;tru ke sv&#233; plavb&#283;? Jist&#283; ano, ale st&#225;t se civilizac&#237; Typu I ve &#353;k&#225;le rusk&#233;ho astrofyzika Nikolaje Kardashe nebude jen tak. Je to civilizace vyu&#382;&#237;vaj&#237;c&#237; ve&#353;kerou energii na planet&#283; a dostupnou z nejbli&#382;&#353;&#237; hv&#283;zdy. Carl Sagan odhadl, &#382;e jsme urazili 70% t&#233;to cesty. Ta t&#283;&#382;&#353;&#237; &#269;&#225;st je p&#345;ed n&#225;mi, ale dobr&#225; zpr&#225;va je, &#382;e monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;&#357; pro takov&#253; sv&#283;t ji&#382; m&#225;me a na t&#233; cest&#283; n&#225;m m&#367;&#382;e pomoci.</p><p>Pokud je V&#225;m bl&#237;zk&#225; vize finan&#269;n&#237; svobody, z&#225;le&#382;&#237; V&#225;m na kvalit&#283; prost&#345;ed&#237;, ve kter&#233;m budete &#382;&#237;t a hled&#225;te inspiraci pro V&#225;&#353; dal&#353;&#237; projekt &#269;i startup, p&#345;em&#253;&#353;lejte o tom.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protokoly svobody]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; vy&#353;lo 9.5.2024 na Czechcrunch. Znovu zve&#345;ejn&#283;no zde jako sou&#269;&#225;st archivu.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/protokoly-svobody</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/protokoly-svobody</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:47:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0da057e3-7601-4d1d-a841-470b9b3569e1_282x178.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>M&#225; n&#283;co spole&#269;n&#233;ho jazyk, kter&#253;m mluv&#237;me a po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;ov&#253; k&#243;d? A pokud ano, je to d&#367;le&#382;it&#233;? Dnes prozkoum&#225;me, jak jazyk a po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;ov&#253; k&#243;d formuj&#237; na&#353;e pr&#225;va a svobody, a pro&#269; je jejich vz&#225;jemn&#253; vztah kl&#237;&#269;ov&#253; pro porozum&#283;n&#237; sou&#269;asn&#253;m technologick&#253;m a soci&#225;ln&#237;m v&#253;zv&#225;m.</p><p>P&#345;ed 40 lety, mezi p&#237;semnou a &#250;stn&#237; zkou&#353;kou z matematiky III na &#268;VUT, jsme s m&#253;m p&#345;&#237;telem vyrazili br&#225;nit &#269;e&#353;tinu na &#218;stav pro jazyk &#269;esk&#253;. Nesouhlasili jsme s diskutovanou zm&#283;nou odstranit i/y v p&#345;&#237;&#269;est&#237; minul&#233;m a ps&#225;t pouze m&#283;kk&#233; i. Kdyby aspo&#328; tvrd&#233;! Pova&#382;ovali jsme to za zradu. K na&#353;emu p&#345;ekvapen&#237; n&#225;s z vr&#225;tnice neodvedla STB, ale odv&#225;&#382;n&#225; pan&#237; docentka, kter&#225; n&#225;m ozn&#225;mila, &#382;e jsme prvn&#237; demonstrace na obranu &#269;esk&#233;ho jazyka v historii &#250;stavu, kter&#253; sah&#225; a&#382; do roku 1891. M&#283;li jsme radost. Sl&#237;bila n&#225;m, &#382;e bude br&#225;nit tvrd&#233; y vlastn&#237;m &#382;ivotem a &#345;ekla, a&#357; u&#382; vypadneme a jdeme na tu zkou&#353;ku.</p><p>&#344;&#237;k&#225;m to proto, abych uk&#225;zal, &#382;e jsem veter&#225;n v obran&#283; jazyka a otev&#345;en&#253;ch protokol&#367; v&#367;bec a tohle nen&#237; n&#225;hodn&#253; v&#253;st&#345;el. Stejn&#283; jako n&#225;&#353; recesistick&#253; protest p&#345;ed des&#237;tkami let, dnes stoj&#237;me proti regulac&#237;m, kter&#233; hroz&#237; omezit na&#353;i svobodu na internetu. Tato paralela ukazuje, &#382;e boj za svobodu projevu je nekone&#269;n&#253;, a&#357; u&#382; jde o slova nebo k&#243;d.</p><p>Mo&#382;nost nakl&#225;dat svobodn&#283; se sv&#253;mi my&#353;lenkami i se sv&#253;m majetkem je z&#225;klad svobodn&#233;ho &#382;ivota. A stejn&#283; jako jazyk je i bitcoin, decentralizovan&#225; a nekorumpovateln&#225; forma pen&#283;z vytvo&#345;en&#225; v po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;ov&#233;m k&#243;du, n&#225;strojem, kter&#253; tuto z&#225;kladn&#237; svobodu chr&#225;n&#237;. I proto se v jejich j&#225;dru odehr&#225;v&#225; podobn&#253; z&#225;pas: boj proti manipulaci a cenzu&#345;e, a &#250;sil&#237; o zachov&#225;n&#237; jejich prav&#233; podstaty.</p><p>Po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;ov&#253; k&#243;d je toti&#382; jazyk jako ka&#382;d&#253; jin&#253;. Slou&#382;&#237; k vyjad&#345;ov&#225;n&#237; na&#353;ich my&#353;lenek a p&#345;edstav a i kdy&#382; to tak v posledn&#237;ch t&#253;dnech moc nevypad&#225;, je dokonce i pod ochranu Prvn&#237;ho dodatku &#218;stavy Spojen&#253;ch st&#225;t&#367;, kter&#253; chr&#225;n&#237; nejen to, co &#345;&#237;k&#225;me, ale i zp&#367;sob, jak&#253;m to vyjad&#345;ujeme.</p><p>M&#225; obl&#237;ben&#225; rom&#225;nov&#225; postava, filozof a l&#233;ka&#345; Amadeu de Prado v No&#269;n&#237;m vlaku do Lisabonu &#345;&#237;k&#225;: &#8222;Slova mus&#237; b&#253;t neposkvrn&#283;n&#225; jako vyle&#353;t&#283;n&#253; mramor a &#269;ist&#225; jako t&#243;ny v Bachov&#283; Partit&#283;, kter&#225; v&#353;e, co nen&#237; jimi sam&#253;mi, prom&#283;n&#237; v dokonal&#233; ticho.&#8220;</p><p>V tomto brilantn&#237;m odkazu na s&#237;lu slov uchov&#225;vat v&#253;znamy v jejich nej&#269;ist&#353;&#237; form&#283; vyj&#225;d&#345;il nejen nad&#283;ji, &#382;e slova z&#367;stanou pr&#367;zra&#269;n&#253;mi nositeli skute&#269;n&#253;ch my&#353;lenek, ale i obavu z jejich zranitelnosti. Dnes je tento odkaz d&#367;le&#382;it&#283;j&#353;&#237; ne&#382; kdykoliv p&#345;edt&#237;m.</p><p>Pro&#269;? Nejd&#367;le&#382;it&#283;j&#353;&#237; a nejstar&#353;&#237; komunika&#269;n&#237; protokol lidstva &#8211; n&#225;&#353; jazyk &#8211; se st&#225;v&#225; bitevn&#237;m polem. Jde o &#250;tok na slova, jejich s&#237;lu, v&#253;znam a na&#353;i schopnost jim rozum&#283;t a m&#237;t odvahu je br&#225;nit. Slova jako rasa, &#382;ena, patriot, &#382;idovstv&#237;, pohlav&#237; &#269;i spravedlnost jsou dnes stejn&#283; bezpe&#269;n&#225; jako &#382;onglov&#225;n&#237; s odji&#353;t&#283;n&#253;m gran&#225;ty.</p><p>Pro&#269; jsme se za&#269;ali b&#225;t slov? A &#269;eho v&#353;eho se je&#353;t&#283; budeme b&#225;t?</p><p>Slova jsou z&#225;kladn&#237; stavebn&#237; kameny na&#353;eho porozum&#283;n&#237; sv&#283;tu. Pokud dovol&#237;me jejich degradaci a zneu&#382;&#237;v&#225;n&#237; nekon&#269;&#237;c&#237;m z&#225;stupem pseudocitliv&#253;ch t&#233;mat, tuto schopnost ztr&#225;c&#237;. Wokismus, historka star&#225; jako lidstvo. Za&#269;ali jsme s nejlep&#353;&#237;mi &#250;mysly a skon&#269;ili jako v&#382;dycky. Snaha uv&#283;domit si sv&#225; privilegia, maximalizovat rovnost a minimalizovat &#250;tlak, se vyvinula v purit&#225;nskou autorit&#225;&#345;skou fra&#353;ku, kter&#225; dogmaticky cenzuruje v&#353;e v dosahu, ma&#382;e lidi z ve&#345;ejn&#233;ho &#382;ivota a zneu&#382;it&#225;, vypr&#225;zdn&#283;n&#225; slova odhazuje pod&#233;l cesty.</p><p>Jazyk se vyv&#237;j&#237; aby odr&#225;&#382;el sv&#283;t a udr&#382;el na&#353;i schopnost jej popsat. Toto je ale n&#283;co z&#225;sadn&#283; jin&#233;ho.</p><p>Kdy&#382; se lid&#233; nemohou spolehnout na v&#253;znam slov a ztr&#225;cej&#237; schopnost komunikovat a orientovat se ve sv&#283;t&#283;, oslabuj&#237; se z&#225;klady demokratick&#233;ho diskurzu a ztr&#225;c&#237; se na&#353;e spole&#269;n&#225; identita.</p><p>Kdy&#382; se lid&#233; nemohou spolehnout na finan&#269;n&#237; syst&#233;m, kter&#253; jim m&#225; slou&#382;it a ne je &#353;pehovat, cenzurovat jejich transakce a devalvovat jejich majetek podkop&#225;v&#225; to nejen z&#225;klady ekonomick&#233; nez&#225;vislosti, ale ohro&#382;uje celou ekonomiku a zpochyb&#328;uje osobn&#237; finan&#269;n&#237; suverenitu.</p><p>V dob&#283;, kdy slova i pen&#237;ze &#269;el&#237; &#250;tok&#367;m na jejich v&#283;rohodnost a nez&#225;vislost, st&#225;v&#225; se imperativem chr&#225;nit je jako z&#225;klady svobodn&#233; spole&#269;nosti. Bitcoin a jazyk, jako pil&#237;&#345;e decentralizace a svobodn&#233;ho projevu, n&#225;m p&#345;ipom&#237;naj&#237;, jak &#250;zce jsou finan&#269;n&#237; suverenita a svoboda projevu propojeny. Ochrana jednoho je obranou druh&#233;ho.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oddělte bitcoin od krypta, je to totiž úplně jiný sport]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; publikov&#225;no 14. 10. 2022 na Seznam. Znovu zve&#345;ejn&#283;no zde jako sou&#269;&#225;st archivu.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/oddelte-bitcoin-od-krypta-je-to-totiz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/oddelte-bitcoin-od-krypta-je-to-totiz</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:45:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3cfb634f-02b0-4b41-b6e2-c1196e15ed41_1276x1326.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bitcoin nen&#237; krypto. Sly&#353;&#237;te dob&#345;e a opakujte to po mn&#283;. Je to prost&#283; jin&#253; sport. A za&#269;n&#283;me u bitcoinu.</p><p>Kdykoli zm&#237;n&#237;m odluku pen&#283;z od st&#225;tu, padne ot&#225;zka: &#8222;Kdo bude m&#237;t odpov&#283;dnost za na&#353;e pen&#237;ze, kdy&#382; ne st&#225;t?&#8220; Odpov&#283;&#271; je prost&#225;: &#8222;To, co jste nen&#225;vid&#283;li celou st&#345;edn&#237; &#353;kolu: matematika.&#8220; St&#225;tu se ned&#225; s pen&#283;zi v&#283;&#345;it. Lidem se ned&#225; s pen&#283;zi v&#283;&#345;it. V&#367;bec nikomu se toti&#382; ned&#225; s pen&#283;zi v&#283;&#345;it. Tedy krom&#283; kryptografie a nezm&#283;niteln&#233;ho algoritmu. K jeho naprogramov&#225;n&#237; sta&#269;ilo pouh&#253;ch 9 &#345;&#225;dk&#367; k&#243;du, a p&#345;esto definuje monet&#225;rn&#237; politiku: ka&#382;d&#233; 4 roky se objem nov&#283; vyt&#283;&#382;en&#253;ch minc&#237; sn&#237;&#382;&#237; na polovinu a v roce 2140 skon&#269;&#237; &#250;pln&#283;. Nen&#237; to kouzeln&#283; jednoduch&#233;?</p><p>Odluka pen&#283;z od st&#225;tu ale neznamen&#225;, &#382;e n&#283;kdo jin&#253; bude m&#237;t moc rozhodovat o pen&#283;z&#237;ch. To je omyl. C&#237;lem je vtisknout monet&#225;rn&#237; politiku do protokolu decentralizovan&#233; s&#237;t&#283;, kde neexistuje riziko protistrany, transakce nemohou b&#253;t cenzurov&#225;ny, majetek konfiskov&#225;n, hodnota devalvov&#225;na a minulost m&#283;n&#283;na. Bitcoin. V mnoha oblastech na&#353;eho &#382;ivota ji&#382; algoritmy nahradily &#269;lov&#283;ka a vedou si skv&#283;le. Technologie pen&#283;z je jen dal&#353;&#237; v &#345;ad&#283;. Nen&#237; d&#367;vod br&#225;t si to osobn&#283;. Bitcoin je koncept decentralizace aplikovan&#253; na lidskou komunikaci hodnot, je to nekorumpovateln&#253; jazyk pro komunikaci na&#353;&#237; ekonomick&#233; hodnoty. Inovace tak vzd&#225;len&#225; dne&#353;n&#237;mu ch&#225;p&#225;n&#237; pen&#283;z, &#382;e n&#225;s nesm&#237; p&#345;ekvapovat, jak obt&#237;&#382;n&#253; c&#237;l to je, jak dlouh&#225; k cesta n&#283;mu vede a &#382;e ne v&#353;echno p&#367;jde podle pl&#225;nu.</p><p><strong>Nic nejde podle pl&#225;nu</strong></p><p>Muhammad Ali &#345;&#237;k&#225;val, &#382;e ka&#382;d&#253; pl&#225;n vydr&#382;&#237; jen do prvn&#237; r&#225;ny. V&#353;ichni m&#225;me p&#345;&#237;buzn&#233;, se kter&#253;mi nechceme b&#253;t tak &#250;pln&#283; spojov&#225;ni, a bl&#225;zniv&#233; str&#253;&#269;ky, kter&#233; nezveme ani na poh&#345;by. Vztah bitcoinu ke kryptu je podobn&#253; jako k p&#345;&#237;buzn&#253;m, o kter&#253;ch douf&#225;te, &#382;e v&#225;s nenav&#353;t&#237;v&#237;, nikde je nepotk&#225;te, a p&#345;esto na n&#283; nar&#225;&#382;&#237;te od r&#225;no do ve&#269;era a d&#283;laj&#237; v&#225;m ostudu po cel&#233;m Prost&#283;jov&#283;.</p><p>Bitcoinov&#225; komunita m&#225; ji&#382; dlouho hlubok&#233; podez&#345;en&#237;, &#382;e krypto je jeden velk&#253; podvod vezouc&#237; se na vln&#283; bitcoinu, kter&#253; jedin&#253; p&#345;edstavuje skute&#269;nou inovaci. Probl&#233;my fiat syst&#233;mu, kter&#233; bitcoin s takov&#253;m &#250;sil&#237;m odstra&#328;uje, krypto nad&#353;en&#283; znovu objevuje, vyu&#382;&#237;v&#225; ve sv&#367;j prosp&#283;ch a nikdy nekon&#269;&#237;c&#237; &#345;ada podvod&#367;, hackersk&#253;ch &#250;tok&#367; a bankrot&#367; sni&#382;uje d&#367;v&#283;ryhodnost v&#353;ech, mobilizuje regul&#225;tory a nov&#225;&#269;ky p&#345;iv&#225;d&#237; za hranici paniky.</p><p>Krypto komunita m&#225; zase pocit, &#382;e bitcoin nen&#237; dostate&#269;n&#283; z&#225;bavn&#253; a inovativn&#237;, bitcoinov&#253; maximalismus je protivn&#253;, a nech&#225;pe, pro&#269; by si nemohla vytvo&#345;it tolik kryptom&#283;n, kolik chce, tisknout si, co je napadne, a obrat ka&#382;d&#233;ho, kdo jde okolo. Prost&#283; jin&#253; sport. Z&#225;sadn&#237;m kamenem je decentralizace. Satoshi Nakamoto (zakladatel bitcoinu) to v&#283;d&#283;l a jeho odchod ve spr&#225;vn&#253; &#269;as byl geni&#225;ln&#237;m aktem, jak j&#237; dos&#225;hnout. Z kocoviny probouzej&#237;c&#237; se kryptosv&#283;t nyn&#237; zji&#353;&#357;uje, &#382;e v&#253;m&#283;na decentralizace za moc, u&#382;ivatelskou p&#345;&#237;v&#283;tivost a &#353;k&#225;lovatelnost nebyla ob&#283;&#357; v&#283;&#382;e, ale kr&#225;le. Pen&#237;ze toti&#382; mezi sebou nesout&#283;&#382;&#237; svou digit&#225;ln&#237; formou. To je omyl. V&#353;echny budou digit&#225;ln&#237;. Sout&#283;&#382;&#237; se mezi monet&#225;rn&#237;mi politikami, jejich stabilitou a m&#237;rou decentralizace.</p><p>Cesty se d&#283;l&#237;. Jedna m&#237;&#345;&#237; k centralizaci, regulaci a drtiv&#225; v&#283;t&#353;ina kryptom&#283;n na n&#237; tak m&#237;&#345;&#237; k nule, druh&#225; ke svobod&#283; a finan&#269;n&#237; suverenit&#283;. To, &#382;e vy&#353;ly ze stejn&#233;ho bodu, nen&#237; d&#367;le&#382;it&#233; a spole&#269;n&#233; ozna&#269;en&#237; krypto ji&#382; nen&#237; u&#382;ite&#269;n&#233;. Stejn&#283; jako typ pou&#382;&#237;van&#233; datab&#225;ze ne&#345;&#237;k&#225; nic o aplikac&#237;ch na n&#237; postaven&#253;ch, ne&#345;&#237;k&#225; pou&#382;it&#237; blockchainu a kryptografie nic o c&#237;lech projekt&#367;, kter&#233; na nich vznikaj&#237;. Tu p&#345;edponu jsme stejn&#283; ukradli kryptograf&#367;m, tak jim ji vra&#357;me.</p><p><strong>Z&#225;bava, nebo budoucnost?</strong></p><p>Pokud viz&#237; bitcoinu je odd&#283;lit pen&#237;ze od st&#225;tu, c&#237;lem drtiv&#233; v&#283;t&#353;iny projekt&#367; v kryptu je odd&#283;lit pen&#237;ze od jejich majitel&#367;. Ned&#225;vn&#225; studie uk&#225;zala, &#382;e 97,2 % token&#367; na krypto burze Uniswap bylo podvodn&#253;ch. Regul&#225;to&#345;i nemohou nekonat, kdy&#382; jim n&#283;kdo okr&#225;d&#225; retail. Krypto ekosyst&#233;m se stane pln&#283; regulovan&#253;m, cenzurovan&#253;m prost&#345;ed&#237;m s integrovan&#253;mi procesy KYC/AML. Majitel&#233; a management nebudou m&#237;t jinou volbu, pokud necht&#283;j&#237; str&#225;vit &#382;ivot na &#250;t&#283;ku. Bitcoin tak bude pokra&#269;ovat sv&#367;j osam&#283;l&#253; boj. Nejodoln&#283;j&#353;&#237;, nejrobustn&#283;j&#353;&#237; a nejbezpe&#269;n&#283;j&#353;&#237; s&#237;&#357; bude d&#225;l stav&#283;t z&#225;klady glob&#225;ln&#237;ho decentralizovan&#233;ho finan&#269;n&#237;ho sv&#283;ta. Krok za krokem, blok za blokem. Bez kompromis&#367;. Energie, kterou nelze zastavit.</p><p>Sv&#283;t se m&#283;n&#237;. A m&#283;n&#237; se zp&#367;sobem tak zoufale podobn&#253;m v&#353;em p&#345;ede&#353;l&#253;m. Bez pl&#225;nu a c&#237;le, chaoticky, na ruin&#225;ch p&#345;edchoz&#237;ch po&#345;&#225;dk&#367;. Ale s nad&#283;j&#237;, &#382;e n&#283;kter&#233; karty se budou rozd&#225;vat znovu. Krypto je z&#225;bavn&#253; park s kasiny, opi&#269;kami, horskou dr&#225;hou a atmosf&#233;rou Chicaga dvac&#225;t&#253;ch let minul&#233;ho stolet&#237;. Nem&#225;m proti tomu v&#367;bec nic. Fiat sv&#283;t m&#225; sv&#233; Las Vegas, Atlantic City a V&#225;clav&#225;k. Ale i babi&#269;ka z Orlick&#253;ch hor (RIP Tom&#225;&#353; Je&#382;ek) ch&#225;pe, jestli je ve &#8222;Spo&#345;ce&#8220; v Barto&#353;ovic&#237;ch, nebo v MGM Grand v Las Vegas. V kryptu si nikdy nejste jisti. Pokud to chcete opravdu zkusit, polo&#382;te si jednu ot&#225;zku: Jdete investovat do otev&#345;en&#233;, decentralizovan&#233; pen&#283;&#382;n&#237; s&#237;t&#283;, kde neexistuje cenzura, konfiskace a devalvace, nebo se jdete bavit do kasina, s&#225;zet na jackpot a jezdit na horsk&#233; dr&#225;ze?</p><p>Bitcoin, nebo krypto?</p><p>A jako v&#382;dy na z&#225;v&#283;r: Nev&#283;&#345;te nikomu, ov&#283;&#345;ujte v&#353;echno a rozhodujte se sami. Bitcoin nen&#237; zp&#367;sob, jak rychle zbohatnout, ale jak pomalu nezchudnout.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Je v bitcoinu zakódovaná svoboda?]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; publikov&#225;no 5. 7. 2021 na Seznam Zpr&#225;vy]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/je-v-bitcoinu-zakodovana-svoboda</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/je-v-bitcoinu-zakodovana-svoboda</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:33:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/15f7ef5a-6d6c-4422-b964-08db5b5e7e1b_2560x1440.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Skute&#269;n&#253;m kouzlem, kter&#233; geni&#225;ln&#283; a nav&#382;dy spojilo n&#283;kolik existuj&#237;c&#237;ch technologi&#237; a t&#237;m dalo vzniknout bitcoinu, je Teorie her. Je jako Prsten moci ukut&#253; v puklin&#225;ch Hory osudu, jen s t&#237;m rozd&#237;lem, &#382;e p&#345;esto&#382;e ji mnoz&#237; st&#225;le usilovn&#283; hledaj&#237;, nen&#237; sopky, ve kter&#233; by mohl b&#253;t zni&#269;en.</p><p>Vineet Raj Kapoor &#345;&#237;k&#225;: &#8222;Teorie her spo&#269;&#237;v&#225; ve zkoum&#225;n&#237; svobody volby a rovnov&#225;hy, kter&#225; vypl&#253;v&#225; z pochopen&#237; d&#367;sledk&#367; t&#233;to svobody.&#8220; Skv&#283;l&#233;. Kdyby tak jen v&#353;ichni v&#283;d&#283;li, co to je Nashova rovnov&#225;ha a jak hledat spr&#225;vn&#233; stimuly, a&#357; u&#382; &#345;e&#353;&#237; obchodn&#237;, spole&#269;ensk&#233; nebo geopolitick&#233; probl&#233;my, sv&#283;t by vypadal jinak. Nicm&#233;n&#283; zp&#283;t k na&#353;emu t&#233;matu. Teorie her, decentralizace a jedine&#269;n&#233; nastaven&#237; incentiv pro v&#353;echny z&#250;&#269;astn&#283;n&#233; zaru&#269;uje, &#382;e a&#269; se navz&#225;jem ani neznaj&#237;, a vedeni pouze sv&#253;mi sobeck&#253;mi ekonomick&#253;mi z&#225;jmy, chovaj&#237; se racion&#225;ln&#283; a t&#237;m chr&#225;n&#237; a udr&#382;uj&#237; monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;&#357; Bitcoin v dynamick&#233; rovnov&#225;ze.</p><p>Je ale mo&#382;n&#233;, &#382;e existuje je&#353;t&#283; jedna, skryt&#225; hra, kterou tv&#367;rci ud&#283;lali t&#233;m&#283;&#345; neviditelnou a kter&#225; se a&#382; dnes pomalu za&#269;&#237;n&#225; vyno&#345;ovat z hlubin bin&#225;rn&#237;ho k&#243;du?</p><p>V internetov&#233;m profilu tv&#367;rce bitcoinu Satoshiho Nakamota je uvedeno datum narozen&#237; 5. dubna 1975. Je to stejn&#233; datum, kdy feder&#225;ln&#237; vl&#225;da Spojen&#253;ch st&#225;t&#367; vydala o des&#237;tky let d&#345;&#237;v, v roce 1932, na&#345;&#237;zen&#237; &#269;. 6102, kter&#253;m bylo soukrom&#233; vlastnictv&#237; zlata ob&#269;any prohl&#225;&#353;eno za nez&#225;konn&#233;. Mimochodem to trvalo 41 let. Bitcoin &#8222;White paper&#8220; byl publikov&#225;n 31. listopadu 2008, tedy na v&#253;ro&#269;&#237; dne, kdy podle tradice Martin Luther roku 1517 vyv&#283;sil na dve&#345;e kostela v n&#283;meck&#233;m Wittenbergu sv&#253;ch 95 tez&#237;, kter&#233; nastartovaly protestantskou reformaci.</p><p>Nem&#283;lo by n&#225;s tedy p&#345;ekvapit, &#382;e ambice tv&#367;rc&#367; daleko p&#345;esahuj&#237; rozm&#283;ry samotn&#233;ho k&#243;du a &#382;e na cest&#283; kr&#225;li&#269;&#237; norou spolu s Alenkou objev&#237;me je&#353;t&#283; mnoho zaj&#237;mav&#233;ho. T&#345;eba to, &#382;e ve sv&#283;t&#283; neust&#225;le rostouc&#237; kontroly, z&#225;kaz&#367; a omezov&#225;n&#237; lidsk&#233; svobody p&#345;in&#225;&#353;&#237; bitcoin nad&#283;ji t&#237;m, &#382;e d&#283;l&#225; p&#345;esn&#253; opak. Posiluje suverenitu a postaven&#237; jednotlivc&#367; na &#250;kor autorit. Neexistuje &#382;&#225;dn&#253; jin&#253; nen&#225;siln&#253;, glob&#225;ln&#237; fenom&#233;n, kter&#253; m&#225; schopnost odeb&#237;rat moc instituc&#237;m a st&#225;t&#367;m a p&#345;ed&#225;vat ji jednotlivc&#367;m. &#381;&#225;dn&#253;.</p><p>D&#283;l&#225; to klidn&#283;, bez k&#345;iku, dramat a barik&#225;d. Den za dnem, rok za rokem, blok za blokem. To, &#382;e to mnoz&#237; nevid&#237;, nesm&#237; rozptylovat. Sta&#269;&#237; si p&#345;ipomenout, co &#345;&#237;kala prvn&#237; influencerka sv&#283;ta Mary Kay Ash: &#8222;Na sv&#283;t&#283; jsou t&#345;i typy lid&#237;: ti, kte&#345;&#237; ho m&#283;n&#237;, ti, kte&#345;&#237; se d&#237;vaj&#237;, a ti, kte&#345;&#237; se ptaj&#237;, co se to stalo.&#8220;</p><p>Bitcoin stoj&#237; s&#225;m.</p><p>V&#353;ichni ostatn&#237; se skl&#225;n&#283;j&#237; a uh&#253;baj&#237; p&#345;ed neust&#225;le rostouc&#237; silou glob&#225;ln&#237;ch korporac&#237;, moc&#237; st&#225;t&#367; a jejich instituc&#237;, jejich&#382; ambice vl&#225;dnout je pouze srovnateln&#225; s jejich neschopnost&#237; tuto moc efektivn&#283; vykon&#225;vat.</p><p>St&#225;ty, firmy &#269;i jednotlivci sice mohou koupit spoustu bitcoin&#367; a tak&#233; to d&#283;laj&#237;, ale nemohou kontrolovat a manipulovat decentralizovan&#253; protokol tak, jak to d&#283;laj&#237; ve sv&#283;t&#283; st&#225;tn&#237;ch pen&#283;z. V&#353;echny takov&#233; pokusy kon&#269;&#237; ne&#250;sp&#283;chem, ztr&#225;tou kredibility a &#269;asto i vyobcov&#225;n&#237;m z komunity. Ka&#382;d&#253; je jen mal&#253;m kouskem glob&#225;ln&#237;, decentralizovan&#233; monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;t&#283;, kter&#225; je otev&#345;en&#225; v&#353;em, aby tam ukl&#225;dali svou ekonomickou hodnotu a prov&#225;d&#283;li transakce, ale nikdo nem&#225; moc ji cenzurovat, konfiskovat &#269;i devalvovat.</p><p>Nab&#237;z&#237; se ot&#225;zka, zda nakonec nebylo skute&#269;n&#253;m c&#237;lem to, co naz&#253;v&#225; Alex Gladstein ve sv&#233;m skv&#283;l&#233;m textu &#8222;Trojsk&#253; k&#367;&#328; svobody&#8220; schopnost&#237; bitcoinu p&#345;etv&#225;&#345;et chamtivost na svobodu. Mo&#382;n&#225;, &#382;e tv&#367;rci skute&#269;n&#283; tu&#353;ili, &#382;e je t&#345;eba zahr&#225;t na hlub&#353;&#237; struny lidsk&#233; podstaty, probudit v lidech, zem&#237;ch a instituc&#237;ch ekonomick&#233; z&#225;jmy a touhu vlastnit digit&#225;ln&#237; zlato, jedin&#233; aktivum s kone&#269;n&#253;m objemem, a t&#237;m nastartovat adopci n&#283;&#269;eho, co pod vlajkou uchovatele hodnoty skr&#253;v&#225; je&#353;t&#283; jednu a d&#367;le&#382;it&#283;j&#353;&#237; schopnost, a to je uchovatel svobody. Na prvn&#237; pohled t&#283;&#382;ko uchopiteln&#253;m c&#237;lem bitcoinu je toti&#382; nab&#237;dnout alternativu ke st&#225;vaj&#237;c&#237;mu syst&#233;mu.</p><p>Tak jako fotosynt&#233;za, jej&#237;&#382; n&#283;kter&#233; aspekty n&#225;m st&#225;le z&#367;st&#225;vaj&#237; utajeny, pou&#382;&#237;v&#225; slune&#269;n&#237; energii k p&#345;em&#283;n&#283; oxidu uhli&#269;it&#233;ho na cukry a kysl&#237;k, rozkl&#225;d&#225; bitcoin, pomoc&#237; stejn&#233; energie a tak&#233; trochu zahalen tajemstv&#237;m, byrokracii centr&#225;ln&#237;ch instituc&#237; na decentralizovan&#253; protokol a svobodu.</p><p>Nic v&#237;c.</p><p>P&#345;esn&#283; v duchu hnut&#237; cypherpunk a s kouzelnou ironi&#237; vlo&#382;il Satoshi do geni&#225;ln&#237;ho vyn&#225;lezu digit&#225;ln&#237;ho zlata je&#353;t&#283; jednu hru. V hloubce k&#243;du se toti&#382; skr&#253;v&#225; malware svobody a osobn&#237; odpov&#283;dnosti a nebude to nic jin&#233;ho ne&#382; chamtivost sv&#283;ta, kter&#225; se postar&#225; o jej&#237; adopci.</p><p>A jako u&#382; tolikr&#225;t v minulosti lid&#233; rozhoduj&#237;c&#237; se podle sv&#253;ch vlastn&#237;ch hodnot a p&#345;edstav na tuto budoucnost s&#225;zej&#237; sv&#367;j talent, &#269;as a energii. Neztr&#225;cej&#237; &#269;as bojem se star&#253;m sv&#283;tem a nekone&#269;n&#253;mi diskuzemi s lidmi, skr&#253;vaj&#237;c&#237;mi se ve zbab&#283;l&#233;m p&#345;&#237;tm&#237; anonymn&#237;ch &#250;&#269;t&#367;. Soust&#345;ed&#237; se na budov&#225;n&#237; otev&#345;en&#233; alternativy, kter&#225; vznik&#225; paraleln&#283; k existuj&#237;c&#237;mu syst&#233;mu a ten star&#253; sv&#283;t ji vlastn&#283; ani p&#345;&#237;li&#353; nezaj&#237;m&#225;, ani p&#345;&#237;li&#353; nep&#345;ek&#225;&#382;&#237;.</p><p>Je jedno, kdo a s jakou motivac&#237; za&#269;ne pou&#382;&#237;vat bitcoin. Nez&#225;le&#382;&#237; na tom. A&#357; chce, nebo nechce, st&#225;v&#225; se toti&#382; sou&#269;&#225;st&#237; otev&#345;en&#233;, glob&#225;ln&#237;, monet&#225;rn&#237; s&#237;t&#283; a t&#237;m posiluje jej&#237; schopnost vytv&#225;&#345;et a uchov&#225;vat jak ekonomickou hodnotu, tak i individu&#225;ln&#237; svobodu. Kdo by to kdy &#345;ekl, jak u&#382;ite&#269;n&#225; m&#367;&#382;e b&#253;t chamtivost a jakou roli sehraje Teorie her zak&#243;dovan&#225; do programovateln&#233;ho, digit&#225;ln&#237;ho zlata.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proč se vlády bojí bitcoinu? Protože tisknou peníze ve velkém]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#367;vodn&#283; publikov&#225;no 16. 12. 2020 na Seznamu. Znovu zve&#345;ejn&#283;no zde jako sou&#269;&#225;st archivu.]]></description><link>https://www.alexpilar.com/p/proc-se-vlady-boji-bitcoinu-protoze</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexpilar.com/p/proc-se-vlady-boji-bitcoinu-protoze</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pilař]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:27:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ef025895-05c3-4ccd-bd3b-4702b77a8d89_520x292.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>P&#345;es 20 procent v&#353;ech americk&#253;ch dolar&#367; v ob&#283;hu bylo vyti&#353;t&#283;no letos.</p><p>Ekonomick&#233; elity se za&#353;ti&#357;uj&#237; verz&#237; poh&#225;dky Hrne&#269;ku, va&#345;! neboli modern&#237; monet&#225;rn&#237; teori&#237; a tvrd&#237;, &#382;e tisk pen&#283;z m&#367;&#382;e pokra&#269;ovat nav&#382;dy. Pokud nev&#283;&#345;&#237;te, p&#345;e&#269;t&#283;te si knihu The Deficit Myth od Stefanie Keltonov&#233;. &#381;e si to mysl&#237; Venezuela, n&#225;s nezaj&#237;m&#225; a v&#253;sledek nep&#345;ekvap&#237;. &#381;e tak uva&#382;uje vl&#225;da kontroluj&#237;c&#237; glob&#225;ln&#237; rezervn&#237; m&#283;nu a 80 procent v&#353;ech obchodn&#237;ch transakc&#237;, jist&#283; ano.</p><p>Co by k tomu &#345;ekl G&#233;rard Debreu, laure&#225;t Nobelovy ceny za pr&#225;ci na teorii v&#353;eobecn&#233; rovnov&#225;hy, nab&#237;dky a popt&#225;vky? Mo&#382;n&#225; by se zeptal, jak se n&#225;m l&#237;b&#237; let&#283;t letadlem, jeho&#382; konstrukt&#233;&#345;i ignorovali z&#225;kony aerodynamiky. A pak by mo&#382;n&#225; polo&#382;il ot&#225;zku, jestli by nebylo lep&#353;&#237;, aby letadla kreslili m&#237;sto politick&#233; elity odborn&#237;ci.</p><p>Dlouhodob&#225; a z&#225;sadn&#237; ned&#367;v&#283;ra cypherpunkov&#233; komunity ve sv&#283;t st&#225;tn&#237;ch m&#283;n vy&#250;stila p&#345;ed 12 lety v nejv&#283;t&#353;&#237; inovaci, kterou jsme ve finan&#269;n&#237;m sektoru kdy vid&#283;li. Sv&#283;t objevil digit&#225;ln&#237; programovateln&#233; zlato. Bitcoin vznikl mimo finan&#269;n&#237; instituce, univerzity a v&#283;deck&#233; &#250;stavy, a dokonce zcela mimo ekonomickou sf&#233;ru.</p><h2><strong>Kdy&#382; m&#283;nu buduj&#237; in&#382;en&#253;&#345;i</strong></h2><p>D&#237;ky tomu byly p&#345;i designu a konstrukci bitcoinu pou&#382;ity tyt&#233;&#382; in&#382;en&#253;rsk&#233; postupy, jako kdy&#382; budujete d&#367;m nebo stav&#237;te letadlo. Matematika a kritick&#233; my&#353;len&#237;. V&#237;ce ne&#382; 30 let hypot&#233;z, experiment&#367; a ne&#250;sp&#283;ch&#367;. Poprv&#233; v historii se designu technologie pen&#283;z ujali matematici, kryptografov&#233; a softwarov&#237; in&#382;en&#253;&#345;i a ne politici, kr&#225;lov&#233; &#269;i sult&#225;ni.</p><p>Nen&#237; tedy p&#345;ekvapen&#237;, &#382;e se mnoho chytr&#253;ch a mocn&#253;ch lid&#237; i instituc&#237; dlouhodob&#283; pokou&#353;&#237; bitcoin napadnout, zastavit, zesm&#283;&#353;nit, a to na technick&#233;, ekonomick&#233; a kone&#269;n&#283; i legislativn&#237; &#250;rovni. Jsou jich z&#225;stupy. Trv&#225; to ji&#382; dvan&#225;ct let a nikam to nevede.</p><p>A&#382; te&#271; se objevuj&#237; prvn&#237; v&#253;znamn&#237; dezert&#233;&#345;i i mezi nejv&#283;t&#353;&#237;mi hr&#225;&#269;i finan&#269;n&#237;ho sv&#283;ta. Pro&#269;?</p><p>Proto&#382;e v&#237;ce a v&#237;ce lid&#237; p&#345;est&#225;v&#225; v&#283;&#345;it, &#382;e lze pen&#237;ze tisknout donekone&#269;na, a za&#269;&#237;n&#225; si &#345;&#237;kat, &#382;e je mo&#382;n&#225; lep&#353;&#237; v&#283;&#345;it matematice ne&#382; politik&#367;m a centr&#225;ln&#237;m bank&#225;m.</p><p>Bitcoin je tak odli&#353;n&#225; forma pen&#283;z, &#382;e mu drtiv&#225; v&#283;t&#353;ina lid&#237; nerozum&#237; a jen opakuje v&#283;t&#353;inov&#233; postoje spole&#269;nosti. P&#345;itom asi nikdy nebylo d&#367;le&#382;it&#283;j&#353;&#237; vytvo&#345;it si sv&#367;j vlastn&#237; n&#225;zor.</p><p>Pro generaci vstupuj&#237;c&#237; do ekonomick&#233;ho &#382;ivota to m&#367;&#382;e b&#253;t p&#345;&#237;le&#382;itost naprosto z&#225;sadn&#237;. Analogie s Titanikem je sice obehran&#233; kli&#353;&#233;, nicm&#233;n&#283; bitcoin je p&#345;esn&#283; ten z&#225;chrann&#253; &#269;lun, o kter&#233;m se ka&#382;d&#253; m&#367;&#382;e rozhodnout, zda se nalod&#237;, &#269;i ne.</p><p>Je t&#345;eba kultivovat ve&#345;ejnou diskuzi. Nen&#237; mo&#382;n&#233; pou&#382;&#237;vat argument ignorance k technologii, kter&#225; funguje zcela spolehliv&#283; ji&#382; 12 let. Nep&#345;ijateln&#233;. D&#367;kazy byly provedeny. Uka&#382;te mi banku, kter&#225; nem&#283;la 12 let ani pl&#225;novan&#253; v&#253;padek. Neexistuje. N&#225;mitky mus&#237; st&#225;t na skute&#269;n&#253;ch znalostech, faktech a ne b&#253;t sn&#367;&#353;kou opakovan&#253;ch polopravd a ohran&#253;ch medi&#225;ln&#237;ch p&#345;&#237;b&#283;h&#367;.</p><h2><strong>Jedine&#269;n&#253; zp&#367;sob, jak uchovat hodnotu</strong></h2><p>Bitcoin jist&#283; nen&#237; bez rizik, ale p&#345;edstavuje obrovsk&#253; skok dop&#345;edu v technologii pen&#283;z a nab&#237;z&#237; jedine&#269;n&#253; zp&#367;sob uchov&#225;n&#237; majetku. Sv&#283;t financ&#237; u&#382; nikdy nebude stejn&#253; a pohled na pen&#237;ze se nav&#382;dy zm&#283;n&#237;.</p><p>Kryptograficky zabezpe&#269;en&#253;, decentralizovan&#253; protokol nedovol&#237; vytvo&#345;it v&#237;c ne&#382; 21 milion&#367; bitcoin&#367;. Nedovol&#237;, aby byl v&#225;&#353; bitcoin utracen dvakr&#225;t, a zaru&#269;&#237;, &#382;e pokud dr&#382;&#237;te kl&#237;&#269;, nikdo v&#225;s o n&#283;j nem&#367;&#382;e p&#345;ipravit. Je nez&#225;visl&#253; na vl&#225;d&#225;ch a bank&#225;ch, bez rizika inflace, konfiskace a cenzury a nab&#237;z&#237; skute&#269;nou ekonomickou svobodu v&#353;em lidem a v&#353;ude na sv&#283;t&#283;.</p><p>Je to jeden z t&#283;ch z&#345;&#237;dkav&#253;ch moment&#367;, kdy mus&#237;te investovat sv&#367;j vlastn&#237; &#269;as, energii a &#250;sil&#237;. Studovat a pochopit z&#225;kladn&#237; teze a jakou roli m&#367;&#382;e bitcoin hr&#225;t ve va&#353;&#237; budoucnosti. Nikdo to za v&#225;s neud&#283;l&#225;. Establishment v&#225;s bude odrazovat s tvrzen&#237;m, &#382;e v&#225;s chr&#225;n&#237;. Nechr&#225;n&#237;. Chr&#225;n&#237; sebe a v&#225;s ohro&#382;uje.</p><p>Za p&#225;r let se mo&#382;n&#225; bude bitcoin u&#269;it na v&#353;ech &#353;kol&#225;ch, jeho tv&#367;rce Satoshi Nakamoto bude popul&#225;rn&#237; maturitn&#237; ot&#225;zka a Hrne&#269;ku, va&#345;! se vr&#225;t&#237; do d&#283;tsk&#253;ch knihoven. Anebo tak&#233; ne.</p><p>Je na n&#225;s, jestli takovou budoucnost vytvo&#345;&#237;me a jestli svoboda a finan&#269;n&#237; suverenita, ji&#382; bitcoin nab&#237;z&#237;, n&#225;m stoj&#237; za &#250;sil&#237; a riziko, kter&#233; dnes p&#345;edstavuje.</p><p>Pokud dojdete k z&#225;v&#283;ru, &#382;e to pro v&#225;s nen&#237;, je v&#353;echno v po&#345;&#225;dku. Pokud ale z lenosti myslet a nedostatku odvahy p&#367;jdete s v&#283;t&#353;inou, dopou&#353;t&#237;te se mo&#382;n&#225; sv&#233; nejv&#283;t&#353;&#237; chyby.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>