4: Ecash Fixes 402 w/ Calle
“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.”
“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.”
“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right.”
“We do not have the answers."
“We have the chance of building the next iteration of the internet, and hopefully, not repeat the mistakes of the past."
The identity should be outside of the computer.
“Nostr is what the internet could’ve been.”
What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"?
It's gonna be permissionless or hell.
“It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption.”
With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money/identity/cryptography and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work.
“The age of the idea guys has begun.”
hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays.
What does it mean to build something \
“Nostr is what the internet could’ve been.”
“It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption.” - hzrd149 & Gigi take a stroll along the shore of cryptographic identities.
Martti Malmi walks through Hashtree, decentralized Git, Nostr VPN, Double Ratchet encrypted messaging, vibecoding with AI agents, the window of opportunity for freedom tech, and why AI will eat network effects.
Shadrach walks through mesh networks, orange pilling the Amish, printed Cashu certificates, sovereign home nodes, reversed marketplaces, and why we are back in the early days of networking.
“The human spirit should remain in charge.” - Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind.