No Solutions

No Solutions

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  • 20: Archipelago Meshtadels w/ Shadrach

    "Bitcoin doesn't need more believers. Bitcoin needs more understanders."

    Shadrach & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07.

    Listen on sovereignengineering.io

    Projects & tech mentioned:

    • Archipelago (sovereign home node and mesh network platform)
    • Archipelago Foundation
    • Archipelago promo video
    • AtoB (interoperable service protocol, co-authored with Jesus)
    • Angor (Bitcoin-native crowdfunding; Archipelago placed 2nd in the Angor pitch contest)
    • Podcasting 2.0 (open podcast ecosystem)
    • #DeMu (decentralized music on Nostr)
    • Fountain (podcasting app with value-for-value)
    • castr.me (Nostr-to-RSS podcast feed)
    • Indie Hub (independent film distribution on Archipelago)
    • Plebeian Market / Shopstr / Conduit (Nostr marketplaces)
    • Zap Store (Nostr-based app store)
    • White Noise / MLS / PICA (encrypted messaging on Nostr)
    • Fedimint (federated eCash)
    • Cashu (eCash on Bitcoin)
    • Framework (modular laptop hardware)
    • Meshtastic / Meshcore (mesh networking)
    • Start9 / Umbrel (existing node platforms)
    • SyncThing (decentralized file sync)
    • GrapheneOS (privacy-focused Android)
    • Rayhunter (EFF's cell-based surveillance detection)
    • Tollgate (mesh network toll gates)
    • Bitchat (mesh chat, bitchat.free)
    • Spilman channels (unidirectional payment channels for nano-sat streaming)
    • John Vervaeke (the universe is dialogical)

      • People mentioned:

      • Sir Spencer (venue npubs, live streaming)
      • Duh Laurien (#DeMu)
      • Oscar Merry (Fountain)
      • Fountain
      • Adam Curry (Podcasting 2.0 godfather)
      • Joe Martin (value-for-value musician)
      • Zaza (Archipelago builder)
      • Martti Malmi (Nostr VPN demo)
      • Gzuuus (encrypted state machines, AtoB protocol)
      • Cobrador (balloons)
      • Tollgate (mesh network toll gates)
      • Bugle

        • In this dialogue:

        • The episode opens discussing the podcasting 2.0 publishing workflow: AI models can now generate the XML spec, value splits and all, from a simple instruction
        • Spencer's idea: every venue gets an npub, the venue starts the live stream rather than the artist, creating a proper mapping from real-world locations to cryptographic identities
        • Shadrach's #DeMu journey: tried to orange pill Austin musicians, but they were too disillusioned to believe music could be monetized directly. Pay-to-play venues, Spotify killing label revenue. No traction at all.
        • Value for value as social signaling: free-to-play games make millions from cosmetic skins. We still don't do anything like that on Nostr. Adam Curry gets it -- his listeners aren't listeners, they're producers.
        • Shadrach's path: punk rock DIY ethos to sysadmin, industrial Bitcoin mining in Texas (2017-18), briefly a crypto hedge fund ("That sounds terrible. That's two words."), S9 miners sold for scrap metal
        • The Meshtadel: a network of citadels meshed together. Any node can be taken out and the system routes around the failure. The name means both literal mesh networks and communities connecting in a mesh topology.
        • "I'm here to orange pill the Amish": Shadrach moved to Lancaster, PA for food security, rented a farmer's market stall just to talk about Bitcoin. The Amish save in dollars, didn't raise prices through COVID, are partly a gift economy. The most insulting thing you can do is give exactly the same gift back.
        • Printed Cashu certificates: Shadrach's dream is physical eCash notes the Amish can trade at the market, then drive their horse and buggy to a Bitcoin bank drive-through to redeem them. Fedimint stability pools make this more feasible now.
        • "Bitcoin doesn't need more believers. Bitcoin needs more understanders."
        • Archipelago: a sovereign home node built on Framework laptop hardware. Plugs into your TV, runs a dashboard, companion app, modular and upgradeable. Scalable from a simple home node all the way to a community server.
        • Indie Hub partnership: watch independent films on day one. Directors upload movies, set their own pricing schedule, everything distributed via paid torrents. "Make torrents great again" is a recurring theme at every SovEng cohort.
        • The reversed marketplace: instead of broadcasting what you sell (which leaks privacy and enables enforcement), broadcast what you want to buy as an encrypted blob on Nostr. Agents match buyers and sellers. Your daughter looks for a lamp, gets three offers, never buys a rug she didn't need.
        • "Salespeople will hate it." -- "I know."
        • AtoB protocol: Shadrach co-authored it with Gzuuus to make ride-sharing apps (Ridester, Drivester, Trotter) interoperable. Two devs refactored their entire packages in a day using AI.
        • Gzuuus's encrypted state machines for commerce: requests, responses, agreements, work done. Wraps up ride sharing, package delivery, online sales into one framework.
        • Web of trust is Nostr's killer feature: people wrote about it in the seventies, PGP signing parties never caught on, but Nostr makes it natural because the social graph is the web of trust
        • Nostr VPN: every device gets an npub, devices find each other the same way people find each other on Nostr
        • Nostr clicked for Shadrach immediately after growing up with PGP. In his last job in international finance, they still used PGP for sharing sensitive information.
        • SovEng experience: "the most incredible experience I've ever had in my life" and also "some of the most exhausting mentally, physically, socially"
        • On retirement: moved to Lancaster thinking he'd chill out, immediately started driving to meetups and flying to check on a beef ranch in Oklahoma. "I give up."
        • The universe is dialogical: podcasts as time capsules, searching for truth by speaking it out loud. Karl Popper, David Deutsch, the longest chain wins.
        • "We are back again in the early days. And we just have to make it work."

          • Related dialogues:

          • #02: There is No Global w/ Pablo
          • #04: Ecash Fixes 402 w/ Calle
          • #12: The Windy Lawnmower Stuff w/ Pete
          • #22: Sovereign Engineering w/ Yo
          • #24: Building FIPS w/ Johnathan Corgan
          • #31: Buzz, Mosaico, and Other Stuff w/ Pablo

            • Recorded at 943,357.

            1 hr 44 min
          • 19: Romantically Shitting on Paywalls w/ Pablo

            "I need to build something to test the thing."

            Pablo & Gigi take a walk. Recorded December 2025.

            Listen on sovereignengineering.io

            Projects & tech mentioned:

            • TENEX (multi-agent coordination on Nostr)
            • Agora (Nostr client for local communities, by Pablo & Leopoldo Lopez)
            • NDK Swift & NDK Kotlin (native ports of NDK)
            • nostrdb (embedded Nostr database)
            • NIP-60 (Cashu wallets on Nostr)
            • Podcasting 2.0 (open podcast ecosystem)
            • #DeMu (decentralized music on Nostr)
            • Olas (rebuilt with TENEX agents)
            • castr.me (Nostr-to-RSS podcast feed)
            • ants (Nostr search)
            • Boris (reading and highlighting)
            • Pyramid (fiatjaf's invite-tree relay)
            • Kevin Kelly's 1,000 True Fans

              • In this dialogue:

              • Agents tried to fix world hunger: made a Google Doc and a React app, nothing worked, world hunger still not fixed
              • "We're behaving like LLM agents: never learn"
              • Everything Pablo builds is a way to test TENEX: "I need to build something to test the thing"
              • Agora: a Nostr client starting from the premise that you only care about your immediate surroundings
              • Invitation-based trust networks: cryptographic proof of who invited whom into a relay, similar to fiatjaf's Pyramid
              • Citizen journalism use case: pseudonymous publishing where a known figure vouches for a source without revealing identity
              • NIP-60 wallet baked into Agora: your key is no longer just identity, it's also money
              • Social key recovery via Shamir secret sharing: select people you can reach (not necessarily trust), hidden behind follow events
              • Identity migration for stolen keys vs. key loss recovery: two different problems, solvable with similar tools
              • "Fiatjaf had the right ideas around community-based backup and recovery"
              • Romantically shitting on paywalls: you cannot box content in, no matter how hard you try
              • What you can monetize is not the content itself but the relationship, the access, the live interaction
              • Twitch figured it out: everything is free, everywhere, always. People pay for something else entirely.
              • Substack's unfixable problem: it's a function of size, always Pareto, 20 people making a killing out of millions
              • "You're prostituting yourself for nothing because you're playing in a winner-takes-most market where there is already a winner"
              • The Matthew principle: to those who have everything, more will be given
              • All content types competing under the same lens: why every platform turns into TikTok
              • "Scaling Nostr is hard, so it will always fragment" -- and that's the feature
              • Nostr's promise: many small markets strictly superior to one big centrally planned instance
              • Digital fast food: platforms serve maximally engaging slop, like lucid dreams generated on the fly
              • The health food analogy: McDonald's still exists, but a whole industry grew around health-conscious people. Digital health is next.
              • Young people craving real connections over influencer slop, drawn to vinyl and gramophones for the same reason
              • Walking the Roman path: 3,000-year-old cart tracks still visible, "look at the UX of that thing"
              • "I switched my whole online identity to Nostr because this thing has legs and will still work 30 years from now"
              • Email marketers already know: own the list, everything else is a funnel
              • Relays as magazines: you don't quit magazines because one magazine is bad
              • Most people perceive Nostr as "the crypto app" -- we're not at the "email is a protocol" stage yet
              • Special-purpose clients: a posting-only client with an empty text field, ants for search, Boris for highlights
              • "I'm amazed at how well things work. Blossom every day without thinking about it."
              • "We've been on this professionalizing mode for the past six to nine months. Technically, we're in very good shape."

                • Related dialogues:

                • #18: Rewriting TENEX w/ Pablo
                • #11: 10x Less Productive w/ Pablo
                • #23: Shipping Violently w/ Justin Moon
                • #30: Napplets w/ Sandwich
                • #31: Buzz, Mosaico, and Other Stuff w/ Pablo

                  • Recorded at 929,730.

                  1 hr 11 min
                • 18: Rewriting TENEX w/ Pablo

                  "You're yelling at someone who is lying to you."

                  Pablo & Gigi take a drive. Recorded December 2025.

                  Listen on sovereignengineering.io

                  Projects & tech mentioned:

                  • TENEX (multi-agent coordination on Nostr)
                  • NDK (Nostr Development Kit)
                  • NDK Swift & NDK Kotlin (native ports of NDK, vibe-coded)
                  • nostrdb (embedded Nostr database)
                  • Negentropy / NIP-77 (efficient event sync)
                  • NIP-60 (Cashu wallets on Nostr)
                  • Vercel AI SDK (multi-provider LLM abstraction)
                  • Notedeck & Nostur
                  • Olas (rebuilt with TENEX agents)

                    • In this dialogue:

                    • Bitcoiners in cars getting coffee: recording from the sun visor, Seinfeld style
                    • TENEX rewritten "about a hundred times," now in TypeScript on Vercel AI SDK
                    • The pain of supporting every LLM provider: Gemini returns encrypted reasoning tokens, every API has different subtleties
                    • Removing structure to improve performance: deleting 80% of agent code makes agents work better
                    • Agents defining their own workflow phases instead of having phases imposed on them
                    • Composable workflows: the CEO agent doesn't need to know what the engineering director's workflow looks like
                    • The parallel to human organizations: you can't hold all the information in your own mind
                    • John Vervaeke and the idea that dialogue is how you solve the really hard problems
                    • Participatory knowing: you don't understand Bitcoin until you actually use it
                    • Agent wallets removed because "there was nothing for them to actually buy" -- a commune with no walls
                    • $700/month running Opus for everything, replacing "like fucking 30 people"
                    • Context windows are a non-issue when the hierarchy is deep enough: each atomic agent finishes fast
                    • Henry Ford's insight applied to agents: each worker does an incredibly stupid task that takes five minutes
                    • Agents are bad at self-correction, so they delegate competing implementations in disposable work trees, then compare notes
                    • Confidence scores: the delegating agent monitors every 5-10 messages, checks if the sub-agent is going off the rails
                    • "Once they are convinced that humans have seven legs, they will make up scientific papers to prove it to you"
                    • NDK ported to Swift and Kotlin without looking at a single line of code: outbox compilation, negentropy syncing, offline publishing, NIP-60 support
                    • Cross-platform frameworks are dead: "if you're just programming in English, React Native makes no sense"
                    • The developer experience right now is "as bad as it's been, at least in our lifetimes"
                    • "You're basically yelling at someone that is lying to you, that will take all the shortcuts"
                    • Vibe coding flow state: sculpting code like marble, micro-adjustments every five seconds
                    • "What if all I know of development is actually problematic? What if I just let go?"
                    • Non-developers building real apps on Nostr thanks to vibe coding
                    • The naming podcast: "Claude Opus, make up a name. Just put a U."
                    • "I'm on vacation. The agents have been running the entire time. They've done amazing work."

                      • Related dialogues:

                      • #19: Romantically Shitting on Paywalls w/ Pablo
                      • #11: 10x Less Productive w/ Pablo
                      • #23: Shipping Violently w/ Justin Moon
                      • #30: Napplets w/ Sandwich
                      • #31: Buzz, Mosaico, and Other Stuff w/ Pablo

                        • Recorded at 929,726.

                        47 min
                      • #17: Organic Tech w/ Arjen

                        "Nostr is organic tech. Data will flow more naturally instead of going out and fetch, going out and coming back, going out and coming back."

                        Arjen & Gigi take a long walk. Recorded October 2025.

                        Projects & tech mentioned:

                        • Blossom (self-healing links)
                        • noDNS
                        • Tollgate (router-to-router payments)
                        • Wally (Cashu wallet connect)
                        • innpub (positional audio, innpub.dergigi.com)
                        • Citrine (Android local relay)
                        • Amber (Android signer)
                        • nostr-relay-tray
                        • Applesauce (code snippets)
                        • Wingman (remote dev assistant)
                        • CDK (Cashu dev kit)
                        • NIP-03 (OpenTimestamps)
                        • ants (Nostr search)
                        • OTRTA / Routstr (pay for LLM compute with Cashu)
                        • Notedeck & nostrdb
                        • gitworkshop.dev (Nostr-native git collaboration)
                        • Boris (reading and highlighting)
                        • Spotstr & Earthly.city (maps on Nostr)

                          • In this dialogue:

                          • Convincing hzrd to make Blossom more of a protocol
                          • Self-healing links: content addressing like Nostr but for blobs
                          • Blossom pacemaker: a tool that monitors your notes and blobs, rebroadcasts and re-uploads as needed
                          • Local first: local relays, local blossom, local cash, local signers
                          • "I still get shit for the audio quality"
                          • Verschlimmbesserung: the German word for making something worse by trying to improve it
                          • "We should reclaim localhost"
                          • Every Nostr app should work in airplane mode
                          • Citrine roadmap: auto-rebroadcast local events once you're online again
                          • Tollgate v0.2.0: router-to-router payments, released at btc++
                          • "Some people just hate e-cash" -- "Those people can't be helped"
                          • Cashu and CDK: making it easy for devs to use e-cash without managing wallets
                          • Wally: Cashu wallet connect, like NWC but for e-cash, runs local
                          • Install Wally and you're good to go with everything Nostr
                          • Special-purpose components that do one thing well
                          • Zero configuration: if there's a local relay, use it; if there's a local signer, use it
                          • innpub jukebox: zap the jukebox 200 sats to play a song with positional audio
                          • Moving away from subscription hell: attach e-cash to your requests
                          • noDNS deep dive: traditional DNS records published on Nostr instead of Cloudflare
                          • Self-signed TLS certs verified through Nostr identity
                          • The human approach: ask around your group of friends vs the authoritarian approach: one central authority
                          • Pi-hole would be perfectly fine running noDNS
                          • NIP-03 / OpenTimestamps: indisputable proof of profile existence over time
                          • "We went back to basically having mainframes and thin clients"
                          • The vision: everything is a relay, offline or online shouldn't matter
                          • Damus relay wiped multiple times, nobody cared -- that's resilience
                          • Data should accumulate in the right places by your pattern of usage
                          • The Nosterverse: every client is a different lens, there is no global
                          • "Nostr is organic tech"
                          • Vibe coding setup: Roo Code, Claude, code snippets from hzrd and Pablo
                          • "Claude 4.5 is very agreeable -- I could rile it up and start a revolution together"
                          • The dream flow: just speak voice memos into your phone, code updates 20 minutes later
                          • Screenless coding: the underutilized interface
                          • ants search: took npub.world plus nostr.band, crossbred them
                          • "Software evolution is crossbreeding, not merging back into the original repo"
                          • Maps on Nostr: the social part is what makes Google Maps useful, Nostr can provide it
                          • Sovereign Engineering cohort 5: "we really know what we're doing now"
                          • "The future is already here, we just have a lot of building to do"
                          • "If you want to build something, the easiest way right now is Nostr"
                          • We're gonna make torrents great again

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                            Recorded at 918,425.

                            1 hr 14 min
                          • #16: One Click and Run w/ SEC-05

                            "You have a roaming army of servers."

                            The crew continues on the pirate boat. Recorded October 2025.

                            Projects & tech mentioned:

                            • Paygress (VM provisioning over Nostr)
                            • Error 402 (HTTP payment required)
                            • nostr-relay-tray
                            • Pyramid Relay
                            • castr.me
                            • PM Tiles (offline maps)

                              • In this dialogue:

                              • The dream: press record, press save, everything auto-publishes to Nostr
                              • Zero post-processing, zero editing
                              • Error 402: endpoints that can be paid over the protocol level
                              • nginx 402 module: it takes lightning, it takes e-cash
                              • Paygress: buy a VPS just knowing an npub
                              • Get an IP address, a Docker container, SSH access, and a VPN
                              • "You have a roaming army of servers"
                              • Self-healing infrastructure: move your servers around like Blossom relays
                              • "Who will run the mints?" -- hide them behind Paygress, move them around
                              • We're still underutilizing payment required
                              • Paid relays, but also: attach e-cash when you want reliability
                              • Free but unreliable vs paid and reliable
                              • First Bitcoin client was an executable on Windows because Satoshi wanted it easy to start
                              • nostr-relay-tray: one of the easiest ways to run a local relay
                              • "We need to dockerize everything and make it really easy to run"
                              • Sane defaults, one click and run
                              • uTorrent: you just clicked it and it worked
                              • Enough weird people on Nostr willing to run mints, blossom servers, relays
                              • "It's still too hard to set up"
                              • The bar is higher now: demos improved thanks to vibe coding
                              • Vibe coding is more art than science
                              • "The more you do it, the more you learn"
                              • Maps and location data on Nostr
                              • Almost every data has some kind of location
                              • PM Tiles: offline maps you can download and use
                              • Local relay as the universal cache: don't build your own, just use a relay
                              • 48 hours left in the cohort, more demos to come

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                                Recorded at 918,200.

                                10 min
                              • #15: Make Localhost Great Again w/ SEC-05

                                "127.0.0.1 -- that's the only IP address we're gonna need."

                                The crew passes the mic around on a pirate boat. Recorded October 2025.

                                Projects & tech mentioned:

                                • Beacon
                                • noDNS
                                • innpub
                                • MOQ (Media Over QUIC)
                                • ContextVM
                                • Chrysalis (self-replicating Cashu mint)
                                • Paygress (VM provisioning over Nostr)
                                • BloVM (blossom server monitor)
                                • HyperNote

                                  • In this dialogue:

                                  • "How was Sovereign Engineering for you?" -- "Inspiring. Stressful."
                                  • Most exciting demo? Beacon has been trending
                                  • noDNS mentioned by basically everyone
                                  • Mapping projects: putting OpenStreetMap tiles on Nostr/Blossom
                                  • MOQ working live in innpub, eight people hanging out yesterday
                                  • Pete's demo day race condition: a literal race to claim e-cash
                                  • "There is no global, but there's also kind of a global"
                                  • Chrysalis: a self-replicating Cashu mint that pays for itself and moves
                                  • "Who's gonna run the mints?" -- "Nobody. They're gonna run themselves."
                                  • Andreas Antonopoulos talked about self-sustaining Bitcoin services eight years ago
                                  • noDNS explained like I'm five and drunk: "Websites and you don't have to ask daddy"
                                  • Instead of buying domain names, you claim yours via your npub
                                  • Conflicts resolved with web of trust and proof of work
                                  • Self-signed TLS certs trusted through Nostr identity
                                  • HTTPS websites with zero certificate authority involved
                                  • "That's also what triggered Justin into writing his own browser"
                                  • "Most browsers like to babysit their users quite a bit"
                                  • Dolphin sounds
                                  • ContextVM: MCP over Nostr as a transport layer
                                  • "MCP is not just for LLMs, it's a protocol for anything"
                                  • "Make localhost great again" -- 127.0.0.1 is the only IP we need
                                  • Interrupting chicken (the joke didn't land)
                                  • "Europe who?" (Australian humor)
                                  • Ending on a hug, as always

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                                    Recorded at 918,196.

                                    15 min
                                  • #14: Building Browsers w/ Justin

                                    "I want Nostr to be the perfect thing just for me."

                                    Justin & Gigi drive to the airport. Recorded October 2025.

                                    Projects & tech mentioned:

                                    • Blitz (Rust HTML/CSS renderer)
                                    • QuickJS (lightweight JavaScript engine)
                                    • Dioxus (Rust UI framework)
                                    • Iroh (peer-to-peer networking)
                                    • MOQ (Media Over QUIC)
                                    • White Noise (MLS-based private messaging on Nostr)
                                    • Ladybird (independent browser by Andreas Kling)
                                    • VRChat

                                      • In this dialogue:

                                      • Driving to the airport
                                      • "Don't say anything that could be used against you"
                                      • The low quality of this podcast focuses the mind of the listener
                                      • You need proper headphones
                                      • Walking focuses you, and stops you after 90 minutes
                                      • Justin's adoption curve: hater first, builder later
                                      • "I'm the ascending left curve"
                                      • Bitcoin hating, Lightning hating, Nostr hating
                                      • Audio calling with npubs: Nostr as signaling & identity layer
                                      • First version: Iroh for peer-to-peer, Nostr for lookup
                                      • Calling Paul Miller's npub from a CLI
                                      • innpub: a 2D pixel art level with rooms you can hang out in
                                      • The killer feature of positional audio
                                      • VRChat Bitcoin meetups during COVID, thanks to Udi
                                      • Twitter Spaces, Clubhouse, and why one big room encourages attention seeking
                                      • Positional audio lets you hide in a corner
                                      • WebRTC is Google Meet shipped as a "web standard"
                                      • Safari and Firefox just shipped Google's code
                                      • MOQ (Media Over QUIC) as the simple alternative
                                      • CDN-style mesh relays for binary data
                                      • What if MOQ relays were Nostr-style, and you'd pay to relay?
                                      • E2E encrypted group audio in the browser using White Noise / MLS compiled to WASM
                                      • "Let's make Nostr fast"
                                      • The web is dying: Chrome blocked ad blockers and Justin just stopped visiting websites
                                      • No SQLite in the browser, no TypeScript in the browser
                                      • Why do I need a domain name? Why certificate authorities?
                                      • Building a browser in 3 days
                                      • Blitz + QuickJS = a browser that runs a React counter app
                                      • "This would have taken me months"
                                      • Andreas Kling: built a browser as part of a 12-step program
                                      • Ladybird proving that you can build a browser from scratch
                                      • Vibe coding: 20-30 projects in six weeks
                                      • Nerd-sniped into implementing Mosaic in Zig, then dropping it in two days
                                      • What Nostr got right: "good enough"
                                      • Binary transport for Nostr relays
                                      • Getting rid of DNS: a theme every week at SovEng (noDNS)
                                      • Claiming names via Nostr events, no .com needed
                                      • Web of trust for conflict resolution
                                      • Self-signed TLS certs trusted through Nostr identity
                                      • Social handles already replaced URLs in practice
                                      • "Build for the nerds, not the mass market"
                                      • "I want Nostr to be the perfect thing just for me"
                                      • Building blocks crystallizing: mesh networking, noDNS, better relays, search
                                      • Relays in the browser
                                      • The synergistic ecosystem
                                      • "You're gonna miss your flight"

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                                        Recorded at 917,999.

                                        23 min
                                      • #13: The Linux of Social Media w/ hzrd149

                                        "The identity should be outside of the computer."

                                        hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays.

                                        Libraries & apps mentioned:

                                        • Applesauce
                                        • Boris
                                        • Citrine
                                        • nostr-relay-tray

                                          • In this dialogue:

                                          • Automation & robot armies
                                          • If this than that (IFTTT)
                                          • Permissioned vs permissionless automation
                                          • Self-hosting and the local-first people
                                          • "The identity should be outside of the computer"
                                          • Private vs public, local vs remote
                                          • DRM and other nonsense
                                          • Private means encrypted with my key
                                          • Nostr apps should be local-first, thanks to local relays
                                          • All nostr apps should work in flight mode, somewhat
                                          • Outbox model, writing, and reading 
                                          • Search & NIP-50 
                                          • Ants & thisishowyougetants.com 
                                          • 6 degrees of separation & FoaF
                                          • WoT 
                                          • Friend list curation & "circles" 
                                          • "Don't touch my follow list"
                                          • Bootstrapping a network by saying GM a lot
                                          • Recommendations usually suck
                                          • Nostr can shine
                                          • Vertex & figuring out who John is
                                          • NIP-05 & realness
                                          • Root-level domains & realness (e.g. @dergigi.com)
                                          • Zaps & realness
                                          • Nutzaps & realness 
                                          • Local-first & local algorithms 
                                          • nostrdb VS local relays 
                                          • Local data & relevancy 
                                          • noDNS, locality, local preference, and "good enough" 
                                          • Mostly online vs mostly offline 
                                          • "Servers aren't bad. Getting rugpulled is bad."
                                          • "Information is easy to spread but hard to stifle" 
                                          • Local hubs, community hubs, global hubs
                                          • "nostr was built for broadcasting" 
                                          • Building stuff badly & nerd-sniping people
                                          • Gigi's ants video 
                                          • Walking in circles 
                                          • DM metadata leakage 
                                          • "It shouldn't matter where the data comes from" 
                                          • "Deleting data is a lie" 
                                          • The impossibility of proving deletion 
                                          • Bitrot & data loss
                                          • Fighting bitrot with duplication & rebroadcasting 
                                          • Bouquet, blossom, and self-healing links
                                          • Local-first vs local-also 
                                          • Left-side of the bellcurve CDN 
                                          • The one whale relay 
                                          • Topic-based relays 
                                          • fiatjaf's pyramid relay
                                          • Torrents, early video content, game installers 
                                          • fiatjaf’s take on IPFS 
                                          • Why not rebuild Cloudflare? 
                                          • Censorship-resistance = 100% uptime = no rugpulls 
                                          • Getting offered weed on the streets 
                                          • Every app works in flight mode
                                          • No developer needs an API key 
                                          • "The data accumulates where it needs to accumulate" 
                                          • Browser history as an example of local data & user interests 
                                          • WoT is kinda local 
                                          • wot.dergigi.com 
                                          • Blossom is different; blobs are heavy 
                                          • American HODL's vlogs 
                                          • "Step 1 is to build a shitty version" 
                                          • HAVEN 
                                          • Nostr Repair Kit (Nostr pacemaker) 
                                          • Shout-out to Pablo's highlighter (fucking hell) 
                                          • Open-source & scratching your own itch 
                                          • Applesauce v4
                                          • "It's almost done" - famous last words! 
                                          • Outbox in applesauce, and how it makes everything more difficult 
                                          • Waves, routstr, Pete, Justin, Paul, Gzuuus 
                                          • Hzrd's SEC-05 highlights 
                                          • noDNS
                                          • Wally & Cashu Wallet Connect 
                                          • Crazy idea => Consensus => Implementation 
                                          • Difference between idea & implementation
                                          • "Domains are shitcoins" 
                                          • We've been living in a post-domain world for a while 
                                          • Independent browsers & project Ladybird 
                                          • Nostr-native browser - who will build it? 
                                          • "A different way of doing internet infrastructure" 
                                          • Is a world without APIs possible? 
                                          • Mainframe => Personal Computer => Smartphones 
                                          • Online sometimes => Offline sometimes 
                                          • Local LLMs
                                          • Nostr allows you to build less
                                          • Thin layers & special-purpose apps 
                                          • NIP-60 and finding spare change under the couch 
                                          • Does negentropy fix NIP-60 synchronization? 
                                          • Nostr is synergistic 
                                          • The beauty of nostr-relay-tray
                                          • Nostr works. We've come far!
                                          • It's all coming together
                                          • Boris
                                          • "You can always go back and build it right"
                                          • Just begin again.
                                          • Just begin again.
                                          • Just begin again.

                                            • Recorded at 917,886.

                                            1 hr 26 min
                                          • #12: The Windy Lawnmower Stuff w/ Pete

                                            “Nostr is what the internet could’ve been.”

                                            Pete & Gigi try to talk to lawn mowers.

                                            Websites & other stuff mentioned:

                                            • Sovereign Engineering
                                            • The Good Stuff

                                              • In this dialogue:

                                              • ECash fixes 402
                                              • Eucalyptus in Madeira
                                              • Pete’s time at Fedi
                                              • Lighting equals Swift, ecash equals payments
                                              • Chaum’s paper
                                              • ECash for Localism, farmer’s markets
                                              • Square terminals accepting bitcoin
                                              • BTCMap and merchants in Madeira
                                              • It’s normal to pay in bitcoin
                                              • Bitcoin for babysitters
                                              • 1st Lightning Conference in Berlin (2019)
                                              • Australian Bush Bashes
                                              • BTCPay terminals (with NFC and stuff)
                                              • Costa Rica: Bitcoin Jungle
                                              • Super easy, super fast, green checkmarks everywhere
                                              • Cash-only shops are incredibly based
                                              • Credit card fees
                                              • ECash to replace APIs
                                              • Subscription Hell aka the Netflix Problem
                                              • Open Router, Routstr, ppq
                                              • LAWNMOWERS
                                              • Dumb models vs smart models
                                              • Economics of LLMs
                                              • ECash fixes subscription hell & sign-up barriers
                                              • NIP-60/61 as pocket money
                                              • Corner stores and consumers taking the risk
                                              • Stripe excludes half the world
                                              • Aaron Swartz & RSS
                                              • Pieter Levels & his dad’s credit card
                                              • “You can just charge for things”
                                              • DHH vs Apple & his Rails keynote
                                              • KYC payments = begging for permission
                                              • Sovereign Engineering: build something new every week
                                              • Lemonade stands in cyberspace
                                              • Relocalization
                                              • Moving from AWS to bare metal
                                              • MORE LAWNMOWERS
                                              • Rent your excess compute & earn ecash
                                              • “The internet is fucked” - do regular people actually agree with that?
                                              • “nostr is what the internet could’ve been”
                                              • Old ladies cleaning up phones
                                              • UK’s child protection law: scan passport to watch YouTube videos
                                              • EVEN MORE LAWNMOWERS
                                              • Ideological use vs necessity
                                              • Sideloading apps & Zapstore
                                              • “Asking for permission is not a good pattern”
                                              • Payment deplatforming in the US: gaming, porn, gambling
                                              • “Fix the money, fix the internet”
                                              • We’ve come far!
                                              • “If bitcoin wouldn’t work I would literally starve”
                                              • The fact that nostr works is amazing
                                              • The norm in nostr is that there’s no global view
                                              • Nostr came incredibly far, considering it was only 3 short years and had very little funding
                                              • Funding: how could it be solved?
                                              • “Funding implies the wrong thing”
                                              • Benefit of AI: cost goes down, cheaper and easier to build useful stuff
                                              • Cost of experimentation needs to be low
                                              • If people are getting paid you don’t need to fund them so much
                                              • BitChat is a great example of a useful tool built on nostr
                                              • “Zaps are bitcoin?” —Normies
                                              • Compute is a scarce resource, as is storage
                                              • Paid relays, paid blossom servers, paid video hosting
                                              • Nostr is the largest bitcoin circular economy in the world
                                              • Still too small for businesses to move in though, probably
                                              • “There’s lots of ways to earn money and also be on nostr”
                                              • SoapMiner, Leathermint, Isolabellart, etc.
                                              • WIND
                                              • MORE WIND
                                              • Arbitrage opportunities in businesses & the value trap
                                              • Agents doing paperwork vs agents doing coding work
                                              • Using agents to create open-source mashups
                                              • Allen Farrington’s take: Vibe Capital Accumulating
                                              • LLMs and atom bombs
                                              • Vervaeke, Meaning, Salience Landscape
                                              • Abundance, Radical Life Extension, and Meaning
                                              • The Meaning Crisis & the Suicide Epidemic
                                              • The train meme
                                              • Pessimism vs Optimism
                                              • LLMs allow us to get away from the computer
                                              • Strong local communities, shake your farmer’s hand
                                              • Bitcoin is local & global at the same time
                                              • SovEng: good vibes, good ideas, good people
                                              • Shipping things, vibing, and getting the idea right
                                              • “I’m not as married to nostr as a I am to bitcoin”
                                              • No Solutions spawning The Good Stuff

                                                • Related dialogues:

                                                • #03: Data Ownership is a Lie w/ Pablo
                                                • #04: Ecash Fixes 402 w/ Calle
                                                • #20: Archipelago Meshtadels w/ Shadrach
                                                • #29: State of the Mint and Mind w/ Calle

                                                  • Recorded at 914,219.

                                                  1 hr 37 min
                                                • #11: 10x Less Productive w/ Pablo

                                                  What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"?

                                                  Pablo & Gigi want to encourage you to apply for SEC-05.

                                                  Books & websites mentioned:

                                                  • Stackoverflow is dead by Gergely Orosz
                                                  • Sovereign Engineering by Gigi and Pablo

                                                    • In this dialogue:

                                                    • Gigi's vibeline & vibeline-ui
                                                    • Pubcastr aka castr.me
                                                    • Pablo's thread about TENEX
                                                    • Alex Gleason's MKStack
                                                    • What is the essence of nostr?
                                                    • What are nostr's values, and can LLMs extract them?
                                                    • Agents and workflows living on nostr
                                                    • Agent specialization and Roo code
                                                    • “What would Jesus do?”
                                                    • What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"?
                                                    • Hierarchy of agents
                                                    • Generalists vs specialists
                                                    • Top-down constraints and bottom-up emergence
                                                    • Wise architects VS efficient diff-merging LLMs
                                                    • Where does the human fit in?
                                                    • Distributed cognition: agents and humans
                                                    • Hiring agents via nostr
                                                    • "If the human has to intervene, something is catastrophically wrong."
                                                    • Confidence levels of an agent's action
                                                    • Giving agents money using mcp-money
                                                    • Offering bounties to solve problems
                                                    • Stackoverflow is dead
                                                    • Stock photography is dead
                                                    • Real vs fake photography test
                                                    • Vibe-coding vs regular coding, and how it relates to the switch from analog to digital photography
                                                    • What is economical, and what isn't?
                                                    • Dialogue and Dia-Logos with LLMs
                                                    • Specialization in a multi-agent world
                                                    • Adding a small vibe-coding widget to every app (allowing users to customize stuff)
                                                    • Multiplicity VS canonical design
                                                    • Money is singular, language is not
                                                    • Jack's original sin: the twitter Bootstrap theme
                                                    • The "other stuff" initiative
                                                    • What's missing from TENEX? Why isn't it fully working just yet?
                                                    • Rebuilding everything every 3 weeks
                                                    • Voice vs text, sentiment analysis vs tone
                                                    • The power and informational density of silence
                                                    • In-person vs online communication
                                                    • Letting agents learn lessons
                                                    • "Where do you get your ideas from?"
                                                    • Anonymity vs pseudonyms vs government ID
                                                    • Agents need identity, money, and reputation
                                                    • "I own this dude." —Pablo
                                                    • Owning agents
                                                    • Vibe-coding lessons: don't look at the code, and in the best case don't even look at the IDE
                                                    • Human-agent communication: typing vs speaking
                                                    • Why some meetings couldn't have been an email
                                                    • Clearly defined problems vs undefined problem spaces
                                                    • Why TENEX will be in perpetual alpha
                                                    • What is Sovereign Engineering?
                                                    • Why should you sign up for it?
                                                    • How come so many awesome things came out of it? Blossom, nsite, Zapstore, etc.
                                                    • Who should come, and who shouldn't?
                                                    • How did it start?
                                                    • What's the idea?
                                                    • "Fix the money, fix the internet."
                                                    • "Ship stuff that lasts."
                                                    • Keep it pure. No monetization.
                                                    • Focus on exploration and ideation
                                                    • What's the structure?
                                                    • 6 weeks, 21 participants
                                                    • Same structure every week
                                                    • Monday Mornings: Orientation
                                                    • Tuesday Talks
                                                    • Wednesday Workshops
                                                    • Thursday: No Agenda
                                                    • Friday: Demo Day
                                                    • Weekend: Hikes
                                                    • SEC-05: YOLO Mode
                                                    • Empower users
                                                    • Optimize for self-sovereignty
                                                    • Bitcoin works
                                                    • Lightning works (Gigi's post)
                                                    • Build the future you want to see
                                                    • Madeira: you can pay in bitcoin almost everywhere
                                                    • tl;dr: Listen to every single No Solutions conversation to get an idea of what Sovereign Engineering is

                                                      • Related dialogues:

                                                      • #18: Rewriting TENEX w/ Pablo
                                                      • #19: Romantically Shitting on Paywalls w/ Pablo
                                                      • #23: Shipping Violently w/ Justin Moon
                                                      • #29: State of the Mint and Mind w/ Calle
                                                      • #31: Buzz, Mosaico, and Other Stuff w/ Pablo

                                                        • Recorded at 901,069.

                                                        1 hr 40 min

                                                      About No Solutions

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                                                      No solutions; only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet.