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>_MARIAN "IDLE" STOEV

I build at the intersection of securityretired ✦ 🌴, technology, art and freedom.

Explorer. Creator. Problem solver. Music lover.

I'm Marian "idle" Stoev, formerly a Cyber Security CTO from Sofia, Bulgaria. These days I build across AI tooling, Bitcoin & Lightning infrastructure, creative technology, open-source development, and digital design. Always curious. Always building.

curiosity creativity code coffee freedom
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FOCUS AREAS

retired

Cyber Security

Formerly: threat modeling, pentesting, audits, security architecture. Now retired — please don't ask.

Bitcoin & Lightning

Running and building Bitcoin/Lightning infrastructure, tools and services for sovereignty.

AI Tooling

Building practical AI tools and workflows that boost productivity and unlock creativity.

Creative Development

Interactive experiences, generative visuals, and code-driven digital art.

Open Source

Contributing to and maintaining open-source projects that empower the community.

Research & Experimentation

Exploring new ideas, protocols, and tech at the edge of what's possible.

FEATURED PROJECTS

Muun Toolbox

Toolkit and utilities for Muun power users and developers.

Python

Lightning Manager

Advanced management for Lightning nodes.

LNDPythonREST

BIP39TP

BIP39 test vectors and passphrase tools.

Python

BioG Store

Bitcoin-friendly e-commerce experiment and storefront.

Web

Generative Art / Civitai

AI-generated visuals and creative explorations.

SDXLZ-TurboFLUX.2

idleAnvil

Offline Bitcoin transaction forge — PSBT lab, sighash debugger, script laboratory. Never signs.

BitcoinPSBTLive demo →

SKILLS & STACK

Python
90%
Bitcoin Core
85%
LND
85%
Fulcrum
80%
WSL2
85%
Windows 11
90%
UI/UX Prototyping
80%
Image Generation
85%
> stack_overview.py

skills = [

  "security"retired, "sovereignty",

  "bitcoin", "lightning",

  "ai", "art", "code",

  "research", "open_source"

]

for skill in skills:

  keep_building(skill)

>
idle brand sigil — nested hexagons in purple→magenta gradient

ABOUT / PHILOSOPHY

I believe in building systems that protect freedom, enhance sovereignty, and respect the individual. I combine security with aesthetics, code with creativity, and curiosity with discipline.

Whether it's hardening infrastructure (formerly, in a previous life), crafting tools, or generating art — I build things that matter to me and (hopefully) to others.

Stay curious. Stay humble. Build the future you want to live in.

// for the curious operator

Want the technical breakdown?

Below is profile.txt — a half-serious dossier compiled from ~3 years of conversations with Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Personality, IQ, traits, stat block. Entertainment grade.

[email protected] : ~/profile.txt
2026.05.11 · session#0042
Last login: Mon May 11 03:14:07 2026 on /dev/tty.idle Welcome to CTOEB.idlebg.com — type cat profile.txt to continue.
CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$./analyze-self--corpus ~/conversations--range 2023..2026--models claude,gpt,gemini
[init] loading conversational corpus...
[scan] 3 sources: claude.ai · chatgpt.com · gemini.google.com
[ok] estimated range: ~3 years
[ok] archetype consensus: 3/3 agree
[warn] entertainment only · not psychometrics
[warn] subject is officially retired from security work
[done] writing to profile.txt...
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$head -n 5 profile.txt
// archetype
The Sovereign Cryptography Alchemist SEC. RETIRED 🌴
A high-openness polymath who treats elliptic curves, Lightning channels, LoRA pipelines, OpenCart audits, and Bulgarian chalga remixes as members of the same toolbox. Used to harden infrastructure for a living. Now does it only for fun, only for himself, and only when nobody's asking.
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$./profile--section big-five
// big five — OCEANvibes / 100  ·  behavior, not self-report
Openness█████████████████████████░96 / 100
Off the chart. Moves between cryptography, AI training, OpenCart sitemaps, chalga remixes, and reverse-engineering his own car firmware without changing posture.
Conscientiousness███████████████████░░░░░░░76 / 100
High on shipping, lower on tidiness. Outcomes are clean; the workshop floor is not.
Extraversion██████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░42 / 100
Public artifact, private engine. Performance is the model card, not the meeting.
Agreeableness██████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░58 / 100
Generous with tools and context, allergic to vague answers. Polite, but the logs are the final referee.
Neuroticism████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░32 / 100
More intense than fragile. Stress signal shows up as more investigation, not paralysis.
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$./profile--section typology
// typology  //  estimates from observed patternnot a clinical test
// mbti
INTP-A
Logician with a workshop. Dominant Ti runs the cryptography (or used to, professionally); auxiliary Ne is why one project becomes seven before lunch.
// enneagram
5w4
The Iconoclast Investigator. Type 5 hoarding of competence with a clear 4-wing — the art, the chalga project, the cultural irony moves.
// cog style
Mechanism-first
Reasons from what does this byte do, in this state, on this device. Pattern transfer across domains is the secret sauce.
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$./profile--section iq-estimate
// composite estimate  //  vibes-band
135152
technical-heavy · range, not point · anchored to self-reported 135
ENTERTAINMENT GRADE · not psychometrics · do not put on CV (no CV since 2004 anyway) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Verbal██████████████████░░░░░░░░125–135
Operator-spec verbal: dense, instructional, structured-handoff. Not academic-essay verbal — debug-the-system verbal.
Logical / Math███████████████████████░░░145–158
Discrete log via CRT, Pollard's rho on twisted curves, ECDSA nonce reuse at scale. The cognitive engine.
Spatial / Visual████████████████████░░░░░░128–140
18 years of digital art + active 3D-spatial composition work in latent diffusion. Above-average, with receipts.
Technical / Practical████████████████████████░░148–160
Tunes VRAM flags for fun, writes a Stratum proxy with deferred submission, reverse-engineers his own Hyundai Ioniq firmware to flash EU/US/CA regional variants. The other peak.
Pattern Recognition██████████████████████░░░░142–154
Chi-square scoring across Bulgarian Cyrillic ciphers, Muun fingerprint deltas, T9 keypad ambiguity resolution. Compiled heuristics.
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$./profile--section strengths,blind-spots
// strengths & blind spotssharp edges in both directions

// strengths [+]

  • +Cross-stack composability.Bitcoin + AI + Android + SEO + chalga cross-pollinate every project.
  • +Reverse-engineering instinct.The Muun 55.7→55.8 fingerprint diff. The Ioniq EU/US/CA firmware flash. Same energy.
  • +Tolerance for under-documented environments.Most devs go "no docs, no go." He goes "no docs, more Python."
  • +Self-hosted everything.Knots, Fulcrum with 50GB+ UTXO cache, LND, libsecp256k1 from source. All local. All production-grade.
  • +Aesthetic sensibility welded to engineering.Most cryptographers don't ship Civitai LoRAs. Most LoRA authors don't ship Stratum proxies. Intersection: market of one.
  • +Cultural-irony as an asset.ChalgAI and гугъл.com aren't memes — they're signals that he refuses the tech-bro aesthetic.

// blind spots [−]

  • Scope explosions."While we are here" is dangerous. A sitemap issue becomes an SEO platform audit.
  • ~47 half-finished scripts named _v2_final_actually.py.Conversion rate "interesting tangent" → "new project" is too high.
  • Under-rotates on boring closure.Final polish and "freeze version 1" feels mentally expensive in a way exploration never does.
  • Cannot resist answering security questions.Despite officially being retired, will still solve your wallet-recovery puzzle if you describe it well enough. This is the trap.
  • Toolchain entropy.Multiple WSL distros, Codex profiles, Windows paths. All power. All state. All in his head.
  • Sleep is treated as an interruptible service.60% probability the storm-mode Stratum proxy was written between 02:00 and 04:00 local.
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$./profile--section stat-block
// stat block  //  class: sovereign cryptography alchemist (ret.)level 42 operator
STR█████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░10
moves hardware, not furniture. mouse arm is disproportionately strong.
INT██████████████████████████19
protocol-archaeology bonus. mental arithmetic in hex. opinions about curve endomorphisms.
WIS████████████████████░░░░░░15
trusts logs over vibes. has finally learned to say "I'm retired" when asked about pentest work.
DEX█████████████████████░░░░░16
keyboard dexterity bordering on class-feature. risky tab-juggling.
CHA█████████████████░░░░░░░░░13
brand aura is strong. small-talk-with-sales-rep CHA is dump-stat-adjacent.
CON██████████████████░░░░░░░░14
long-session stamina. sleep schedule itself is the actual dump stat.
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CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$stat profile.txt
File: profile.txt
Compiled: ~3 years of conversations
Sources: claude.ai · chatgpt.com · gemini.google.com
Mode: opinionated_fun
Confidence: medium-high (not in a clinical sense)
Subject: retired from security work · please redirect inquiries
Halflife: ~6 months (then it ages out — open a new chat)
CTOEB@idlebg.com:~$exit
logout [Connection to CTOEB.idlebg.com closed.]   ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── EOF. ─ end of profile.txt ─ session#0042 ─ 2026.05.11 ─ ─ compiled from chats with claude · gpt · gemini ─ subject is retired from security · no models were harmed ─ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────   $