support

Ways to give.
All optional. None require an account.

The value-for-value reasoning is on the value page; this is the how. Direct channels go to me. Referrals go to products that run this stack. Time and talent count too. The book is forthcoming.

direct

Pay directly, no platform in between

Lightning Address

Pay-what-you-want over Bitcoin Lightning. A few sats say "this saved me time." Every article also has its own zap button in the footer, so you can pay the specific post that helped, from any Lightning wallet, no Nostr account needed.

Open in wallet →

Show QR (scan with any wallet)

If your browser blocks the wallet link, scan this or use Copy above.

Nostr (comments + follow)

Zapping no longer needs Nostr: any Lightning wallet works, here or from an article footer. Following works over Nostr or plain RSS. What Nostr alone still does is comments, which land on the relays, not on a platform.

Open on njump.me →

Tome

Forthcoming. Sovereign AI: First Principles.

Buying the book is the most direct way to pay for this work and the one channel that doesn't exist yet. When the draft becomes a release, this card flips to a Lightning pre-order with a per-format download. Until then the signal that says "tell me when it lands" is a follow on Nostr.

Follow on Nostr → See the outline →

referrals

Products that actually run this stack

All four are products I use daily. Same price for you, small bonus for me. No KYC on any of them. Inside articles, the same links are auto-marked at their first and last mention with a Bitcoin-orange Affiliate link. You support sovgrid at no extra cost to you. See /support. badge. The disclosure block at the bottom of this page explains what the marker means.

BitBox02

Swiss-made hardware wallet. Open-source firmware and hardware. What I use to cold-store Bitcoin off Alby.

Buy a BitBox02 ₿ →

ppq.ai

Frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) over an OpenAI-compatible API, topped up per query with Bitcoin Lightning, no account. The no-KYC cloud fallback behind the local stack. Why and how.

Top up ppq.ai ₿ →

Time and Talent count too

Not everything is sats. Two channels carry real weight.

Talent. Spotted an error, broke a setup guide, or have a better fix, benchmark, or counter-take? Nostr for blog-article corrections and discussion, GitHub Issues for the two public OSS repos (sovereign-mcp, vps-healthcheck) where a reproducible bug or a PR is the right shape. Every fix makes the next article better, and contributors get credited.

Time. A repost moves the project further than a small zap, because it lives on discovery. Copy this line and paste it anywhere:

Reply or repost on Nostr → Open a GitHub Issue →

Affiliate disclosure

A Affiliate link. You support sovgrid at no extra cost to you. See /support. after a link means it is an affiliate link to a product I actually run (Alby, BitBox02, Flokinet, ppq.ai). Same price for you, a small commission for this site. A plain just marks an ordinary external link opening in a new tab, with no affiliate relationship.

No tracking pixels, no analytics on click. Plain HTTP redirect through the vendor's own affiliate URL, with rel="sponsored" set. Hover or keyboard-focus the Affiliate link. You support sovgrid at no extra cost to you. See /support. after any affiliate link to see this note.

How links are marked on this site

Every link in the writing tells you where it goes before you click. Each kind has its own cue. The live examples below are real links, so you can see and test each cue right here:

  • Internal, stays on this site: green and underlined, no marker. Example: Start Here.
  • Learn term, a jargon word explained on this site: body-coloured with a dotted underline and a small ⓘ, no new tab. It links to a plain-language entry, less a link to chase than a "there is a definition here" cue. Example: OOM. Browse them all under Learn.
  • External, leaves the site: body-coloured, underlined, ends with a ↗ and opens in a new tab. Example: the Bitcoin whitepaper.
  • Affiliate, a referral to a product I run: the link is green and underlined, followed by a distinct Bitcoin-orange ₿ badge (no ↗). Example: FlokinetAffiliate link. You support sovgrid at no extra cost to you. See /support..
  • Anchors and controls, in-page # jumps and toggles like this expander: neutral, no marker. They are not navigation to other content, so they deliberately do not look like internal links. Example: jump to this section. Buttons and call-to-action links keep their own button styling and carry no marker either.