📍 Chicago | Founder, Bright Builds LLC

Chicago-based agentic engineer building free, open source, decentralized tools across AI, Bitcoin, and the web.

I care about software that expands freedom, reduces dependence on closed systems, and helps push the world toward more liberty and prosperity.

• OpenLinks (repo) - A free, open source, version-controlled link-in-bio platform for people who want to own and customize their online presence.
• Free The World (repo) - A research-driven registry tracking where AI, open source, Bitcoin-native coordination, and distributed manufacturing can break overpriced corporate moats.
• Win3Bitco.in (repo) - An open Bitcoin mining experiment that lets anyone try real mining, inspect the proof, and understand where consumer and home mining fit in a more open future.

These projects look different on the surface, but they all point in the same direction: more user ownership, more open coordination, and more room for disruptive ideas that do not require permission from gatekeepers.

I am interested in tools, protocols, and services that move power outward: toward users, builders, open networks, and smaller teams.

• Freedom is good.
• Open systems tend to outlast closed ones.
• AI keeps compressing expertise and raising the ceiling for small teams.
• Bitcoin makes more decentralized coordination possible.
• Software should expand human agency, not just lock people into another box.

I write about Bitcoin, open systems, software, and the strange ways the future sneaks up on incumbents.

• Peter Schiff Accidentally Proves the Internet Is Worthless - A light satirical aftertaste on why lazy anti-Bitcoin arguments often collapse into anti-internet arguments.
• Substack - Notes, essays, and ideas in progress.

If you are building in AI, Bitcoin, open systems, developer tooling, or weird and disruptive internet projects, I would love to hear from you.

• OSS contributors welcome
• Podcast and speaking invites welcome
• Best inbound: send me a message on Primal

• OpenLinks: prizz.github.io/open-links
• Primal: primal.net/peterryszkiewicz
• Bright Builds: brightbuilds.us
• Writing: peter.ryszkiewicz.us