Hi. I am Radivis. That deliberately constructed alias stands for “Radical Visionary”. At heart, I am a philosopher with a keen interest in possible futures. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I have involved myself in the philosophy of transhumanism, the radical pursuit of the improvement of the human condition through science and technology. I have even co-founded the German Transhumanist Party, which went defunct half a decade later.
So, yeah, I am interested in politics. There is however no popular label I am eager to subscribe to. The best label I have come up with is: "Social libertarian decentralist" - that certainly makes everything clear, right? Well, at least it's a start!
As someone who sees the problems in our current systems, I am deeply frustrated with the overall state of the world. Therefore I spent some time about thinking how to make it better. That’s certainly quite an interesting challenge - especially if you want to do it right! Some results of my thinking can be read on the Fractal Future Forum, which was initiated by me.
Of course, thinking is not enough. Occasionally, I tried packaging my ideas into science fiction stories. Well, I definitely love world building, but taking an ambitious novel to completion is something else. My current best shot at that is the novel “Future Shockfront”, which is at a late alpha stage. It is basically about the conflicts humanity experiences as AI research approaches the stages of artificial superintelligence, and explores a setting I now call the “Dark Alignment War”. You can actually read the alpha draft here: Future Shockfront Draft - Canonical Coherence - Fractal Future Forum – Envisioning and creating a better future
The point of this introduction is not to advertise my novel, however. Thinking about systems has become a passion for me. In the realm of economics, I wondered how the economy of the future could look like. An interesting result of my reflections is the peer-to-peer reputation-based economy system called Quantified Prestige. Here is my introductory article on that:
It turned out, that Nostr is a really good protocol for implementing such ideas. That's one reason why I am here.
Another reason is that I felt inspired by my visit of BTC Prague in 2025. It was the first major Bitcoin convention I visited. I was positively surprised by the general vibe, and came to the conclusion that this is my tribe!
While transhumanists were mostly only talking about the future, the Bitcoin community is building an integral part of it! Actually, I have to be more precise here: While most of the discussions of transhumanists are theoretical, the areas of longevity research and especially AI have made significant progress recently!
Anyway, I recently quit my regular dayjob as full stack web developer in the geo information space, because the vibes went out of sync. Now I am doing a full pivot towards crypto, because I want to co-create the actual future. Quantified Prestige is not my only idea that can be realized in this ecosystem, but it’s definitely the most ambitious one.
There is certainly much value in developing the Lightning / Nostr ecosystems further, in order to increase their adoption. That is why I am currently busy with a full time dive into the technologies of Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr.
My GitHub contains a couple of learning projects, most recently an implementation of an actix-web sever guided by the tremendously practical book “From Zero to Rust in Production” by Luca Palmieri: https://github.com/Radivis/zero2prod.
There are also two little React-based games I made just for fun / as exercise:
- https://github.com/Radivis/html-color-memory - a color memory game with some twists, playable on https://memory.radivis.com/
- https://github.com/Radivis/combinatio - a mastermind clone with some extreme difficulty modes, playable on https://combinatio.radivis.com/
In general, I like gaming, reading, biking, and discussing all kinds of topics.
I am optimistic about the future, because we have internet, Bitcoin, and AI, and almost nobody has fully understood the ramifications of these technologies!
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