Posts tagged: ipv6

ipv6.rs — Why Pay for an IP When You Already Have One?

ipv6.rs gives you a globally routable IPv6 address and tunnels it to your home machine. Who pays $3-10/month for this, and why?

Why Bitcoin's Original Design Needed IPv6 — And How Hurricane Electric Powers the Mandala

Bitcoin v0.1 already had IPv6 in the protocol. BSV's Mandala network needs it. Hurricane Electric provides it. The three-part story of how the original design maps to modern infrastructure.

The Intent Gap — Why Machines Need Bitcoin to Be Economic Actors

LLMs can generate output but not intent. This is not a philosophical problem — it is an infrastructure problem. IPv6 CGA identity, BSV IP-to-IP micropayments, and Indelible persistent memory give machines the economic agency their architecture lacks. The "glue" is not a metaphor; it is the overlay stack.

Bitcoin Was Designed to Leverage IPv6: The Lost Architecture

Bitcoin's whitepaper describes IP-to-IP transactions as the primary payment method — removed in 2011 by BTC Core. The deep architectural parallels between Bitcoin's transaction format and IPv6 headers, CGA addressing, and what it reveals about the original design team.