On this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with John Cantrell, the lead of the Juggernaut decentralized messaging project.

I'm very enamoured with the idea of decentralized, peer-to-peer, e2ee messaging. But there are so many drawbacks and pitfalls, and it's hard enough to get your friends to even use something like Signal, that I had begun to give up hope. Lately, however, a handful of Lightning-based messaging experiments have popped up, and it feels like they're on to something.

@JohnCantrell97

Juggernaut

Accouncing Juggernaut blog post

whatsat Lightning messaging demo

Lightning key send

OP_RETURN

"Micropayment"

Plex

GrapheneOS

The ecosystem is moving

Sphinx app

Dr. Maxim Orlovsky

Lightning Labs Loop

Decentralized Twitter

LN-Juggernaut on GitHub