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Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.
Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.
Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.
The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.
The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.
This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.
Der Staat schlägt zu: Kommt das Bitcoin-Verbot in Europa? 🛑
Europa baut im Hintergrund ein Vermögensregister auf – mit MiCA & DAC8 droht das Ende der Privatsphäre. IT-Pionier Peter Kotauczek im unzensierten Talk ��ber staatliche Kontrolle und die Zukunft von Krypto.
🚫 Totale Schikane: Wie die EU Krypto-Automaten bekämpft.
🗂️ Kontrollzwang: Der Staat erzwingt die Klarnamen-Pflicht für Wallets.
⚠️ Enteignungsgefahr: Wann ungemeldete Bitcoins illegal werden.
@Do_not_sell_ Non cerchiamo l'anonimato, cerchiamo una moneta sana, non occulta. A parte questa piccolezza, solitamente si usa un indirizzo per ogni transazione. Anzi, non si fa neanche più, la maggior parte dei wallet stessi lo fanno di default. Ciao 😊
Oggi è il 1 aprile, ma qui NON SI SCHERZA!
Ho avuto il piacere di avere come ospite @tierotiero per parlarci di ARK, di @arkade_os e di tutto ciò che gira attorno a questo nuovo concetto.
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We can keep using barbaric manual shitcoins that rely on the authority of violence, causing endless conflict & politics.
Or we could upgrade to a peaceful software solution that runs on electricity and cannot be corrupted by politics or violence.
That's why bitcoin is worth it