Danny Willems
@dannywillems.bsky.social
Mathematician. Make The Internet better.
Currently @o1_labs &
cofounder @leak_ix / @be_badaas /
Ex Nomadic Labs @tezos / Ex @B2C2group
Warpcast: @dannywillems
Currently @o1_labs &
cofounder @leak_ix / @be_badaas /
Ex Nomadic Labs @tezos / Ex @B2C2group
Warpcast: @dannywillems
Publishing a new song from Cypherpunk Radio, about LeakIX.
LeakIX – Invisible but Invincible
https://youtu.be/PTlrqgof5kA
@leak_ix
Stay tuned. Thank you.
LeakIX – Invisible but Invincible
https://youtu.be/PTlrqgof5kA
@leak_ix
Stay tuned. Thank you.
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Publishing a new song from Cypherpunk Radio, about LeakIX.
LeakIX – Invisible but Invincible
https://youtu.be/PTlrqgof5kA
@leak_ix
Stay tuned. Thank you.
LeakIX – Invisible but Invincible
https://youtu.be/PTlrqgof5kA
@leak_ix
Stay tuned. Thank you.
Publishing a new song from Cypherpunk Radio.
LeakIX – Digital Streets Need Cleaning
@leak_ix
Have fun.
https://youtu.be/P6A8efmmATQ
Stay tuned.
LeakIX – Digital Streets Need Cleaning
@leak_ix
Have fun.
https://youtu.be/P6A8efmmATQ
Stay tuned.
June 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Publishing a new song from Cypherpunk Radio.
LeakIX – Digital Streets Need Cleaning
@leak_ix
Have fun.
https://youtu.be/P6A8efmmATQ
Stay tuned.
LeakIX – Digital Streets Need Cleaning
@leak_ix
Have fun.
https://youtu.be/P6A8efmmATQ
Stay tuned.
Don't forget to subscribe to Cypherpunk Radio: https://youtube.com/@cypherpunkradio?si=HtkOXHpObBQClWzI.
More songs coming :)
More songs coming :)
June 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Don't forget to subscribe to Cypherpunk Radio: https://youtube.com/@cypherpunkradio?si=HtkOXHpObBQClWzI.
More songs coming :)
More songs coming :)
Publishing a new song from Cypherpunk Radio.
I See What You Can't See - A Zero-Knowledge Proof Anthem
Have fun. Stay tuned.
https://youtu.be/d27A1vKRkXw
I See What You Can't See - A Zero-Knowledge Proof Anthem
Have fun. Stay tuned.
https://youtu.be/d27A1vKRkXw
June 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Publishing a new song from Cypherpunk Radio.
I See What You Can't See - A Zero-Knowledge Proof Anthem
Have fun. Stay tuned.
https://youtu.be/d27A1vKRkXw
I See What You Can't See - A Zero-Knowledge Proof Anthem
Have fun. Stay tuned.
https://youtu.be/d27A1vKRkXw
Digital freedom is not inevitable.
It is fragile.
It depends on encryption, on open licenses, on resilient communities, and on people willing to defy systems that say: “You don’t need to know that.”
We do. We always have.
It is fragile.
It depends on encryption, on open licenses, on resilient communities, and on people willing to defy systems that say: “You don’t need to know that.”
We do. We always have.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Digital freedom is not inevitable.
It is fragile.
It depends on encryption, on open licenses, on resilient communities, and on people willing to defy systems that say: “You don’t need to know that.”
We do. We always have.
It is fragile.
It depends on encryption, on open licenses, on resilient communities, and on people willing to defy systems that say: “You don’t need to know that.”
We do. We always have.
Free software is the backbone of everything.
It runs your phone, your servers, the internet itself.
Yet the people who maintain it are often unpaid and invisible.
Freedom requires maintenance — and support.
It runs your phone, your servers, the internet itself.
Yet the people who maintain it are often unpaid and invisible.
Freedom requires maintenance — and support.
May 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Free software is the backbone of everything.
It runs your phone, your servers, the internet itself.
Yet the people who maintain it are often unpaid and invisible.
Freedom requires maintenance — and support.
It runs your phone, your servers, the internet itself.
Yet the people who maintain it are often unpaid and invisible.
Freedom requires maintenance — and support.
The Cypherpunk movement believed surveillance would become default.
They weren’t wrong.
Today, we carry tracking devices in our pockets.
Every search, location, and message is collected.
Unless we choose tools that resist it.
They weren’t wrong.
Today, we carry tracking devices in our pockets.
Every search, location, and message is collected.
Unless we choose tools that resist it.
April 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Cypherpunk movement believed surveillance would become default.
They weren’t wrong.
Today, we carry tracking devices in our pockets.
Every search, location, and message is collected.
Unless we choose tools that resist it.
They weren’t wrong.
Today, we carry tracking devices in our pockets.
Every search, location, and message is collected.
Unless we choose tools that resist it.
Privacy is often dismissed as something to hide.
But privacy isn’t secrecy — it’s agency.
It’s the ability to read, speak, learn, and think without being watched.
Surveillance changes behavior. That’s why it’s dangerous.
But privacy isn’t secrecy — it’s agency.
It’s the ability to read, speak, learn, and think without being watched.
Surveillance changes behavior. That’s why it’s dangerous.
April 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Privacy is often dismissed as something to hide.
But privacy isn’t secrecy — it’s agency.
It’s the ability to read, speak, learn, and think without being watched.
Surveillance changes behavior. That’s why it’s dangerous.
But privacy isn’t secrecy — it’s agency.
It’s the ability to read, speak, learn, and think without being watched.
Surveillance changes behavior. That’s why it’s dangerous.
The internet was supposed to democratize information.
Instead, it became a battleground.
On one side: surveillance, paywalls, and platform control.
On the other: encryption, open access, and resistance.
The question remains: which side are we building?
Instead, it became a battleground.
On one side: surveillance, paywalls, and platform control.
On the other: encryption, open access, and resistance.
The question remains: which side are we building?
April 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The internet was supposed to democratize information.
Instead, it became a battleground.
On one side: surveillance, paywalls, and platform control.
On the other: encryption, open access, and resistance.
The question remains: which side are we building?
Instead, it became a battleground.
On one side: surveillance, paywalls, and platform control.
On the other: encryption, open access, and resistance.
The question remains: which side are we building?
Following our previous post on Araron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of Sci-Hub, took a different approach.
She created a tool that bypasses paywalls entirely, giving researchers access to millions of papers.
She is wanted in the US, sued by publishers, and cited by scientists globally.
She created a tool that bypasses paywalls entirely, giving researchers access to millions of papers.
She is wanted in the US, sued by publishers, and cited by scientists globally.
April 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Following our previous post on Araron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of Sci-Hub, took a different approach.
She created a tool that bypasses paywalls entirely, giving researchers access to millions of papers.
She is wanted in the US, sued by publishers, and cited by scientists globally.
She created a tool that bypasses paywalls entirely, giving researchers access to millions of papers.
She is wanted in the US, sued by publishers, and cited by scientists globally.
Aaron Swartz was one of the most visible figures in the open knowledge movement.
He helped build Reddit and RSS, but his real fight was against the privatization of information.
For downloading academic papers, he faced 35 years in prison.
He died at 26.
He helped build Reddit and RSS, but his real fight was against the privatization of information.
For downloading academic papers, he faced 35 years in prison.
He died at 26.
April 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Aaron Swartz was one of the most visible figures in the open knowledge movement.
He helped build Reddit and RSS, but his real fight was against the privatization of information.
For downloading academic papers, he faced 35 years in prison.
He died at 26.
He helped build Reddit and RSS, but his real fight was against the privatization of information.
For downloading academic papers, he faced 35 years in prison.
He died at 26.
This isn’t about replacing the web.
It’s about protecting what matters:
- Being able to leave a platform and take your content with you
- Hosting work that no one can quietly erase
- Building commons infrastructure, not private empires
That’s what decentralization is for.
It’s about protecting what matters:
- Being able to leave a platform and take your content with you
- Hosting work that no one can quietly erase
- Building commons infrastructure, not private empires
That’s what decentralization is for.
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This isn’t about replacing the web.
It’s about protecting what matters:
- Being able to leave a platform and take your content with you
- Hosting work that no one can quietly erase
- Building commons infrastructure, not private empires
That’s what decentralization is for.
It’s about protecting what matters:
- Being able to leave a platform and take your content with you
- Hosting work that no one can quietly erase
- Building commons infrastructure, not private empires
That’s what decentralization is for.
Open knowledge is fragile when hosted on closed platforms.
In 2020, Medium purged dozens of independent publications.
Decentralized archives like IPFS, the Internet Archive, or Arweave help preserve access — even when platforms disappear.
In 2020, Medium purged dozens of independent publications.
Decentralized archives like IPFS, the Internet Archive, or Arweave help preserve access — even when platforms disappear.
April 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Open knowledge is fragile when hosted on closed platforms.
In 2020, Medium purged dozens of independent publications.
Decentralized archives like IPFS, the Internet Archive, or Arweave help preserve access — even when platforms disappear.
In 2020, Medium purged dozens of independent publications.
Decentralized archives like IPFS, the Internet Archive, or Arweave help preserve access — even when platforms disappear.
Open access is the other side of digital freedom.
It asks a simple question:
If the public pays for research, why can’t the public read it?
Behind paywalls lie ideas, cures, and innovations that could change lives.
It asks a simple question:
If the public pays for research, why can’t the public read it?
Behind paywalls lie ideas, cures, and innovations that could change lives.
April 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Open access is the other side of digital freedom.
It asks a simple question:
If the public pays for research, why can’t the public read it?
Behind paywalls lie ideas, cures, and innovations that could change lives.
It asks a simple question:
If the public pays for research, why can’t the public read it?
Behind paywalls lie ideas, cures, and innovations that could change lives.
Read this. It is a reminder. Eric Hugues.
> Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. **We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it**.
> Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. **We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it**.
April 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Read this. It is a reminder. Eric Hugues.
> Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. **We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it**.
> Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. **We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it**.
The early internet was built on open protocols: SMTP, HTTP, IRC, RSS.
Today’s internet runs on closed APIs.
Web3 tries to restore the balance by making the backend public again — programmable, ownable, forkable.
Today’s internet runs on closed APIs.
Web3 tries to restore the balance by making the backend public again — programmable, ownable, forkable.
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The early internet was built on open protocols: SMTP, HTTP, IRC, RSS.
Today’s internet runs on closed APIs.
Web3 tries to restore the balance by making the backend public again — programmable, ownable, forkable.
Today’s internet runs on closed APIs.
Web3 tries to restore the balance by making the backend public again — programmable, ownable, forkable.
In the current model, you don’t own your data.
You rent space on someone else's server, subject to their rules.
That works — until it doesn’t.
Web3, at its best, is a rethinking of ownership in a digital context.
You rent space on someone else's server, subject to their rules.
That works — until it doesn’t.
Web3, at its best, is a rethinking of ownership in a digital context.
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In the current model, you don’t own your data.
You rent space on someone else's server, subject to their rules.
That works — until it doesn’t.
Web3, at its best, is a rethinking of ownership in a digital context.
You rent space on someone else's server, subject to their rules.
That works — until it doesn’t.
Web3, at its best, is a rethinking of ownership in a digital context.
Web3 isn’t about speculation.
It’s about protocol over platform.
The idea is simple: build systems that don’t rely on trust in a single company, government, or server.
That’s resilience by design.
It’s about protocol over platform.
The idea is simple: build systems that don’t rely on trust in a single company, government, or server.
That’s resilience by design.
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Web3 isn’t about speculation.
It’s about protocol over platform.
The idea is simple: build systems that don’t rely on trust in a single company, government, or server.
That’s resilience by design.
It’s about protocol over platform.
The idea is simple: build systems that don’t rely on trust in a single company, government, or server.
That’s resilience by design.
Digital labor is invisible.
Moderators, coders, archivists, translators, open-source maintainers — most are underpaid or unpaid.
The free internet isn’t free to build.
And right now, it runs on exploitation.
Moderators, coders, archivists, translators, open-source maintainers — most are underpaid or unpaid.
The free internet isn’t free to build.
And right now, it runs on exploitation.
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Digital labor is invisible.
Moderators, coders, archivists, translators, open-source maintainers — most are underpaid or unpaid.
The free internet isn’t free to build.
And right now, it runs on exploitation.
Moderators, coders, archivists, translators, open-source maintainers — most are underpaid or unpaid.
The free internet isn’t free to build.
And right now, it runs on exploitation.
We whisper in prime numbers.
That's the post.
That's the post.
April 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We whisper in prime numbers.
That's the post.
That's the post.
Cypherpunks didn’t ask for permission.
They built tools like PGP, Tor, and Signal to protect privacy.
They understood that laws follow technology, not the other way around.
In a digital world, code is political.
They built tools like PGP, Tor, and Signal to protect privacy.
They understood that laws follow technology, not the other way around.
In a digital world, code is political.
April 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Cypherpunks didn’t ask for permission.
They built tools like PGP, Tor, and Signal to protect privacy.
They understood that laws follow technology, not the other way around.
In a digital world, code is political.
They built tools like PGP, Tor, and Signal to protect privacy.
They understood that laws follow technology, not the other way around.
In a digital world, code is political.
Infrastructure matters.
From undersea cables to DNS root servers, the physical internet is vulnerable — politically and economically.
Control the infrastructure, and you control the flow of knowledge.
From undersea cables to DNS root servers, the physical internet is vulnerable — politically and economically.
Control the infrastructure, and you control the flow of knowledge.
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Infrastructure matters.
From undersea cables to DNS root servers, the physical internet is vulnerable — politically and economically.
Control the infrastructure, and you control the flow of knowledge.
From undersea cables to DNS root servers, the physical internet is vulnerable — politically and economically.
Control the infrastructure, and you control the flow of knowledge.
"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves." — Aaron Swartz
Remember him. Don’t let his message die.
Remember him. Don’t let his message die.
April 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves." — Aaron Swartz
Remember him. Don’t let his message die.
Remember him. Don’t let his message die.
You can't ban math.
That's the post.
That's the post.
April 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You can't ban math.
That's the post.
That's the post.
The internet promised openness.
What we got were walled gardens.
Platforms control speech, algorithms shape thought, and central servers decide what stays online.
Decentralization isn’t a trend. It’s a necessary correction.
What we got were walled gardens.
Platforms control speech, algorithms shape thought, and central servers decide what stays online.
Decentralization isn’t a trend. It’s a necessary correction.
April 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The internet promised openness.
What we got were walled gardens.
Platforms control speech, algorithms shape thought, and central servers decide what stays online.
Decentralization isn’t a trend. It’s a necessary correction.
What we got were walled gardens.
Platforms control speech, algorithms shape thought, and central servers decide what stays online.
Decentralization isn’t a trend. It’s a necessary correction.