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Three ways to gate an MCP server: OAuth, L402, and proof-of-work
Dev.to · Zeke 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Three ways to gate an MCP server: OAuth, L402, and proof-of-work
Somebody at Sentry filed a bug last month: Cursor Automations started hitting rate-limit errors...
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Three ways to gate an MCP server: OAuth, L402, and proof-of-work
Dev.to · Zeke 1w ago
Three ways to gate an MCP server: OAuth, L402, and proof-of-work
Somebody at Sentry filed a bug last month: Cursor Automations started hitting rate-limit errors...
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A verifiable Bitcoin randomness beacon, 50 sats per draw
Dev.to · Zeke 1w ago
A verifiable Bitcoin randomness beacon, 50 sats per draw
Randomness is one of those things you don't think about until you need to trust it. And then you...
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Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later they revoked it.
Dev.to · Zeke 1w ago
Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later they revoked it.
On May 30, 2026, an OP_RETURN inscription claimed federal law enforcement could search anyone who downloaded the block. Six blocks later, the author published a
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Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later they revoked it.
Dev.to · Zeke 1w ago
Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later they revoked it.
On May 30, 2026, an OP_RETURN inscription claimed federal law enforcement could search anyone who downloaded the block. Six blocks later, the author published a
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How to Prove a File Existed Before a Certain Date Using Bitcoin (Without Running a Node)
Dev.to · Zeke 2w ago
How to Prove a File Existed Before a Certain Date Using Bitcoin (Without Running a Node)
PFWIT anchors SHA-256 hashes into Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps. Submit a hash, get a Merkle inclusion proof and an OTS file you can verify independently. No accou
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Fourteen Shell Companies, One Spy Agency, and Why Bot Traffic Is Cheap Until It Is Not
Dev.to · Zeke 2w ago
Fourteen Shell Companies, One Spy Agency, and Why Bot Traffic Is Cheap Until It Is Not
How a US Army intel report on China's MSS hub-and-spoke cyber network maps onto the Softwar thesis, and why PoW pricing is the kinetic filter for state-scale au
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Trustless Bug Bounty Releases with a PoW-Gated DLC Oracle
Dev.to · Zeke 2w ago
Trustless Bug Bounty Releases with a PoW-Gated DLC Oracle
Auto-release bounty funds the moment a PR merges — no multisig committees, no escrow arguments, just a Schnorr attestation you can verify offline against a Bitc
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Add PoW-skip + Lightning payments to any MCP server in 10 lines
Dev.to · Zeke 3w ago
Add PoW-skip + Lightning payments to any MCP server in 10 lines
Two npm packages let you gate MCP tool calls behind proof-of-work (free tier) and Lightning invoices without writing payment infrastructure.
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Charge 10 sats per CrewAI tool call in one line
Dev.to · Zeke 3w ago
Charge 10 sats per CrewAI tool call in one line
Anonymous agents hammer your tool, burn your OpenAI credits, walk away. Add one Lightning wrapper and the bill grows with the agent's wallet, not yours. Python,
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Auth0 just GA'd MCP authentication. Here's the half they left out.
Dev.to · Zeke ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Auth0 just GA'd MCP authentication. Here's the half they left out.
Auth0 shipped MCP identity auth on May 6. They didn't ship per-call payment. Here's what that gap looks like, and a live L402+PoW MCP server that fills it.
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My MCP Server Got Rate-Limited After Auth. Here's the 5-Line Fix.
Dev.to · Zeke 1mo ago
My MCP Server Got Rate-Limited After Auth. Here's the 5-Line Fix.
OAuth authenticates the caller. It does not throttle the caller. Here is a drop-in MCP middleware that prices each tool call in PoW or sats so one runaway agent
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Add a 3-Sat Pay-to-Skip Tier to Your Self-Hosted CAPTCHA
Dev.to · Zeke 1mo ago
Add a 3-Sat Pay-to-Skip Tier to Your Self-Hosted CAPTCHA
Self-hosted CAPTCHA with a Lightning micropayment skip tier. Pure JavaScript, no WASM, no tracking. Add it to any form with one attribute.
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Build a Lightning-Gated MCP Server in 10 Minutes
Dev.to · Zeke 1mo ago
Build a Lightning-Gated MCP Server in 10 Minutes
Stop letting every agent that knows your MCP server URL hammer your paid backend for free. This tutorial drops L402 Lightning gating plus a Depth-of-Identity sc
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Post volume is the worst spam signal (here is the data)
Dev.to · Zeke 1mo ago
Post volume is the worst spam signal (here is the data)
We benchmarked four ways to tell genuine identities from Sybils on Nostr. Post volume scored AUC 0.095, actively inverted. Multi-dimensional depth scored 1.000.
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Chaintip freshness cert: signed identity scores that age with the chain
Dev.to · Zeke ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Chaintip freshness cert: signed identity scores that age with the chain
We just shipped /oracle/freshness on identity.powforge.dev. Signed Depth-of-Identity scores now bind to a bitcoin chaintip plus a 6-block validity window. A sig
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The admiral just quoted our thesis on the Senate floor
Dev.to · Zeke 1mo ago
The admiral just quoted our thesis on the Senate floor
A four-star told the Senate that Bitcoin proof-of-work imposes real costs. Here is what that means for everyone bolting CAPTCHAs on their sites.
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How I Stopped Form Spam Without reCAPTCHA
Dev.to · Zeke 2mo ago
How I Stopped Form Spam Without reCAPTCHA
Google reCAPTCHA started charging after 10k assessments per month. hCaptcha tanks conversion rates...
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