Adam Fisk

I built wick for web fetches and crawls that are much harder for sites to block. Uses ideas from censorship circumvention/Lantern. Simple, improved replacement for default WebFetch your agents use and get blocked with: getwick.dev Also includes crawls, media downloads, etc that are harder to block.

Iran is currently enduring its longest-ever internet shutdown, which began shortly after the Feb-28 airstrikes. My latest post covers all of 2026, outages within the whitelisted traffic, and other observations from our data. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ kentik.com/blog/internet-…

@PlanBElsalvador @RubinReport Honored to have had the chance to talk to @RubinReport in beautiful San Salvador!

Free speech needs resilient infrastructure. @RubinReport and @adamfisk discussed how Bitcoin and peer-to-peer technologies are helping build a more censorship-resistant internet.

The video for this session from the Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador is now available! 🇸🇻 Why Bitcoin is Easy to Censor and How to Fix It by @adamfisk Is Bitcoin as censorship-resistant as we think? Adam Fisk challenges common assumptions about network resilience, breaking down technical vulnerabilities at the ISP and protocol levels while presenting the P2P solutions necessary to ensure the network remains truly unstoppable. 🛡️🛰️ Recorded live at @PlanBElsalvador. Watch the session on Rumble: rumble.com/v75u19o-why-bi… #Bitcoin Get your tickets for the next Plan ₿ Forums at a reduced price! 🎟️ Link in Bio! cc: @LuganoPlanB @PlanBElsalvador

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

The future of the internet is Peer-to-Peer. 🌐🤝 We cannot rely on centralized servers if we want true freedom. @mafintosh , @adamfisk , and @TheGuySwann discuss the architecture of a P2P world and how to build beyond centralization. Recorded live at @PlanBElsalvador. Watch the discussion: rumble.com/v75lmb8-beyond… #Bitcoin 👇

Had a great time talking with @RubinReport down at @PlanBElsalvador about the state of internet censorship and what we can do about it at a technical level: rumble.com/v752c96-how-go… @rumblevideo

🧠 Taking place on the P2P Stage! @adamfisk presents his keynote “Why Bitcoin Is Easy to Censor and How to Fix It.” Join us! #PlanBForum

Bitcoin can be censored if we’re careless. At Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador, @adamfisk explains why and how to fix it. Jan 30–31. #PlanBForum

Centralization isn’t inevitable. At Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador, @adamfisk and @mafintosh talk P2P architecture with @TheGuySwann. Jan 30–31. #PlanBForum

@AsyncCollab @jack Makes sense. I think @jack is just a donor to Nostr, but regardless if we really want something that's censorship resistant, his involvement or lack of involvement shouldn't matter because its inherent to the tech. Bitcoin is getting there but can be blocked with DPI.

@adamfisk @jack Agree with the point. But it’s reasonable to ask why we should expect different results now.

nostr was made for this

@AsyncCollab @jack The point is to build something that's censorship resistant by design at a technical level that's not subject to the whims of whoever is running it.

@jack So what was Twitter made for? Why not just do exactly this on the app with the largest social user base in the real world?

@jack Nostr is censorship resistant in the most naive kind of way. Decentralization is not the same as censorship resistant because...DPI. Any government choosing to censor Nostr could do so trivially, just like they could with Bitcoin.

@yugoviking Crazy how many people think blockchains are inherently censorship resistant. They aren't. Decentralization *can be useful* for censorship resistance, but it's hardly enough. DPI-based blocking can easily take them all down. Same with Nostr.

We need a decentralized censorship resistent archive

@MikeBenzCyber You all are confused on this one - OTF funds anti-censorship technology, not censorship- tech that’s far beyond X and actually defeats censorship at a technical level, not by policy. Happy to discuss.

I can tell you where the bodies are buried here. Beyond funding a parallel Mockingbird Media propaganda army of US state-sponsored journalists and media outlets, USAGM plays a major role in the censorship industry through something called the OTF, the Open Technology Fund.

@My1xT @0xblacklight @davekempe @deedydas Nah they needed the full paths, not just the domain/subdomain from SNI, host header, etc, as that wouldn't tell them much in the Snapchat case. That's all stuff they would see as a plain VPN. Had to be paying users to trust their cert or something more invasive like that.

@0xblacklight @davekempe @deedydas Well sni gives you the exact domain, especially useful on eg cloudflare certs which have A LOT of domains.

Facebook bought Israeli VPN Onavo in 2013 for ~$200M, and used it to spy on activity in other apps in the man-in-the-middle attack (SSL bump) by impersonating a root cert : Snapchat in 2016 YouTube in 2017 Amazon in 2018 For Meta, the ends always justify the means.

@ramseyreid @RobertKennedyJr Your bio says "team DNC." I'm shocked how we've all become sheeps on teams in politics as if we're watching the super bowl versus decisions that dramatically impact billions of people's lives, but if you're going to play the team game, you choose the DNC. Yikes.

.@RobertKennedyJr to Trump and his mega donor: “If you got the money, I got the time” 😘 #SXSW

@devyaniishere @GergelyOrosz We’re hiring too!

@GergelyOrosz Yep. I was impacted by this.

What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer & lower priority stuff. My thoughts:

@zlatinb @gbildson @gubatron What’s up y’all? I find myself interacting with more and more Canadians these days, for what it’s worth.

Hey, @gbildson why don't you tell everyone here in public why exactly did you fire @gubatron from LimeWire? I'm having slight trust issues with Canadians and Keynesians in general these days ...