Hello

This is the personal website of Vinney Cavallo.

Here are some recent things about me.
(last updated August 10, 2025):
  • I'm building a protocol called Catallax which is intended to facilitate uncensorable, decentralized labor markets and permissionless payments. Learn more at catallax.network
  • It's looking more and more every day like Whitepaper Books is going to become a reality. Buy (almost) any book with bitcoin. Wish me luck. Slogging through some useless tax bullshit right now.

In the unlikely event that you came to this site to figure out how to send me a Lightning network bitcoin payment, please use:

[email protected]

This address is the result of a very satisfying project I undertook to achieve a fully self-sovereign Lightning address running entirely on hardware and software that I control. When the future is at your doorstep, you build it a doggie door and invite it in.

I'm an engineer at OpenNode and a freedom technology enthusiast.

Prevously, I cofounded the Operating Function Company.

I live in Rhode Island with my wife. We used to live in Brooklyn but decided, in the spring of 2017, that we wanted a lot more living space, to own a(n old) house with land, and proximity to the ocean.

Below are some other (non-physical) places where I can be found.