Nostr notes by c03rad0r

SX1280

2026-04-10T23:25:47Z

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SX1280

Thanks for clarifying @nprofile…qaxf, I wasn't sure whether ...

2026-03-21T14:14:12Z

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Thanks for clarifying SatsAndSports (nprofile…qaxf), I wasn't sure whether to call it a Spilman channel or not. Either way, an efficient way to transfer money in both directions would be really useful regardless of whether it's two Spilman channels or a single bidirectional channel.

I head there will be bidirectional channels soon!

2026-03-17T14:25:09Z

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I head there will be bidirectional channels soon!

GitWorkshop & Ngit have gotten really easy to use again ...

2026-03-16T22:18:35Z

GitWorkshop & Ngit have gotten really easy to use again DanConwayDev (nprofile…ntqg) . Thanks for all the hard work you put into this!

Hast Du einem Lonk Zum artilel @nprofile…5d67 ?

2026-03-15T22:48:39Z

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Hast Du einem Lonk Zum artilel markusturm (nprofile…5d67) ?

Seems to work. Thanks @nprofile…mt7m

2026-03-14T22:56:03Z

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Seems to work. Thanks redshift (nprofile…mt7m)

Hi Blue

2026-03-14T22:09:49Z

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Hi Blue

@nprofile…mt7m

2026-03-13T17:06:08Z

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redshift (nprofile…mt7m)

@nprofile…mjel

2026-03-13T17:05:55Z

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Blue (nprofile…mjel)

I want to use it! When main net @nprofile…22jg ? ...

2026-03-02T07:08:37Z

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I want to use it! When main net vnprc (nprofile…22jg) ?

@npub148alhgz53wvh3wgtj8fxpdz47fesn78eft2dsmq8xa68eq5uewks0nh5r8 told me there is an end-point for the owner of a mint to mark lightning invoices as paid. Perhaps this could be used as a workaround to get a preview of the e-hash future?

You don't pay your llms?

2026-02-27T11:48:03Z

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You don't pay your llms?

Master just has markdown files. Which branch do you recommend ...

2026-02-11T08:47:52Z

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Master just has markdown files. Which branch do you recommend Roland (nprofile…hd69) ?

Do you have an ansible script for this? Have you published ...

2026-02-11T08:37:37Z

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Do you have an ansible script for this? Have you published itanywheree?

People who appreciate your contribution might zap you

2026-02-06T22:09:16Z

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People who appreciate your contribution might zap you

Have you considered contributing to @nprofile…94rw in the hope ...

2026-02-06T22:08:48Z

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Have you considered contributing to TollGate (nprofile…94rw) in the hope of getting zaps? It's on ngit (gitworkshop.dev), so you don't even need a GitHub account

I haven't tried it in open code yet, but Gemini worked fine ...

2026-02-02T19:07:13Z

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I haven't tried it in open code yet, but Gemini worked fine with images in roo code. I hope to try open code in the coming days. Will report back on how it goes..

Gemini pro should work

2026-02-02T10:47:08Z

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Gemini pro should work

Thanks for the follow up. Yes your explanation at the Thursday ...

2026-01-31T16:46:41Z

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Thanks for the follow up. Yes your explanation at the Thursday demo helped me to understand it better. Looking forward to seeing the adoption!

Yes it sounds a lot like epoxy. Epoxy could probably still ...

2026-01-27T10:06:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…3nes
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Yes it sounds a lot like epoxy. Epoxy could probably still benefit spillman channels and more adoption though..

https://github.com/Origami74/nostr-epoxy-reverse-proxy

I think they used cashu (pre spillman). It was demoed I'm an ...

2026-01-26T23:47:06Z

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I think they used cashu (pre spillman). It was demoed I'm an earlier cohort..

As in every website comes with a paid socks5 proxy? This reminds ...

2026-01-26T23:42:54Z

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As in every website comes with a paid socks5 proxy? This reminds me of Epoxy, a paid socks5 proxy for nostr relays that hzrd149 (nprofile…evew) and Arjen (nprofile…6htm) worked on. That could definitely benefit from spillman channels..

#nevent1q…zjm7

2026-01-22T08:49:46Z

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quoting nevent1q…zjm7
This is the application form:
https://sovereignengineering.typeform.com/SEC-07?typeform-source=primal.net

@nprofile…qaxf is there an npub for cashu tube yet?

2026-01-21T16:30:27Z

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SatsAndSports (nprofile…qaxf) is there an npub for cashu tube yet?

@nprofile…94rw

2026-01-21T16:29:41Z

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TollGate (nprofile…94rw)

@nprofile…9m52 any chance you can make it?

2026-01-21T15:52:21Z

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Kris (nprofile…9m52) any chance you can make it?

We might be able to add this to your software defined modem quite ...

2026-01-21T15:34:42Z

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We might be able to add this to your software defined modem quite easily..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code @nprofile…4dh7

2026-01-21T15:33:09Z

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code

MolonLabeVC (nprofile…4dh7)

Feel free to add your things in the comments if you want them to ...

2026-01-21T12:21:32Z

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Feel free to add your things in the comments if you want them to go on the agenda:

https://primal.net/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpslz866785q0rze0favgmrxmc4yxfzl8vx7ajzqjrpklgcpa0j4fqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqjqamnwvaz7tmzd968xct59ekk7mr0dekxzcn99e5x7mryd9hxwue0qq08gmmvd3nkzar9943k7mtdw4hxjare943kzmrv94skwetwv3ssze2ad2

That's a pity, your missing out.

2026-01-19T22:02:52Z

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That's a pity, your missing out.

It uses spillman channels in the backend to pay for the ...

2026-01-19T19:13:43Z

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It uses spillman channels in the backend to pay for the infrastructure rather than using your attention to pay for the infrastructure that you used

What, people still use YouTube even though cashu tube exists? ...

2026-01-19T17:34:54Z

What, people still use YouTube even though cashu tube exists?

quoting
nevent1q…3pm5
Next step in the Cashu Spilman channel system is to redesign the backend to make it easier to plug in any storage system that you like, e.g. sqlite, nostr, in-memory.

I want to wrap up the functionality into easy-to-use high level functions, such as 'validate_payment', in order to make it very easy for service providers to start accepting payments via these Cashu channels. Some of those functions will need efficient ways to reach out to state management systems, but I don't want to hardcode one particular system into this library.

The core code will stay in Rust for now, as that can be easily exposed (e.g. via WASM) to other languages. And I'll probably write these "bridges" for TypeScript [for continued use within the Cashutube blossom-server] and Python.

So here's an LLM description of what I'll likely work on this evening, although I expect I'll want to convince the LLM to change some of the details of this plan before executing:

== LLM description: ==

nevent1q…54qy

#nevent1q…v3gl

2026-01-19T08:59:57Z

quoting nevent1q…v3gl

@nprofile…qpd7 how are your plans for SEC-07 coming along? ...

2026-01-17T14:44:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…pgl6
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giacomozucco (nprofile…qpd7) how are your plans for SEC-07 coming along? There will be a satellite dish pointed at QO-100 and we will work on turning it into a regular TollGate (nprofile…m2rw) so that anyone can be an internet service provider.

Cc: MolonLabeVC (nprofile…4dh7) BitSatRelayHQ (nprofile…shvs)

quoting
nevent1q…nt36
“Later, the coffee gets cold,
Later, people grow up,
Later, words go unsaid,
Later, you lose interest,
Later, opportunities slip away,
Later, the day turns into night,
Later, you regret not doing something,
Later, life goes by…
And you had the chance.”

— by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

One day my bitaxe will be attached to a money printer that prints ...

2026-01-17T11:00:38Z

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One day my bitaxe will be attached to a money printer that prints e-hash in real time as the bitaxe works. The bitaxe will be selling internet for said e-hash!

vnprc (nprofile…22jg)

It's family friendly

2026-01-16T17:21:46Z

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It's family friendly

Looking forward to your nsite demo at the cohort @nprofile…6vxs ...

2026-01-16T17:21:08Z

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Looking forward to your nsite demo at the cohort AU9913 (nprofile…6vxs) ! 😀

Yes reticulum is something I want to learn more about and I want ...

2026-01-16T17:19:51Z

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Yes reticulum is something I want to learn more about and I want to build on. u32Luke (nprofile…j6yf) please join us to make sure reticulum isn't overlooked. The value of in person collaboration like this is that we can (politely) help each other discard bad ideas, which helps us to focus our efforts on the things that could work.

Aah that's a pity..

2026-01-14T16:06:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…s60h
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Aah that's a pity..

This is the application form: ...

2026-01-14T13:28:02Z

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This is the application form:
https://sovereignengineering.typeform.com/SEC-07?typeform-source=primal.net

#naddr1qq…a4u5

2026-01-12T20:06:38Z

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quoting naddr1qq…a4u5

The internet is amazing. Or at least, the promise of the internet is amazing: anyone, anywhere, can publish anything and reach the world. No gatekeepers. No borders. Just packets flowing freely between peers.

But that's not the internet we have.

What we have is geoblocking, deplatforming, and censorship. Closed systems masquerading as open ones. Infrastructure that was originally built for resilience is now optimized for control.

In February 2025, LaLiga ordered Spanish ISPs to block Cloudflare IP addresses to stop pirate streams of football matches. GitHub went dark. So did ChatGPT, Instagram, Bluesky, X, and some 3,300 other websites. Millions of Spanish users couldn't reach half the internet because one court order hit one infrastructure provider.

They were trying to stop football streams. They accidentally broke the internet. This is just one example of many.

Cloudflare went down again on 5th December - third major outage in three months, affecting 28% of Cloudflare's traffic. X, Zoom, Canva, banks, and many others went down. One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.

We need a better internet, and that's exactly what we are exploring in the upcoming SEC-07 cohort. We want to spend the better part of April exploring how we could re-imagine the network stack to be more robust, more resilient, and more resistant to control.

As of today, the internet's architecture is a series of permission layers. DNS translates names into addresses, but ICANN controls the root, and your domain can be seized with a court order. IP addresses route your traffic, but they can be blocked, tracked, and geolocated by any ISP in the chain. Certificate Authorities vouch for encrypted connections, but a handful of companies decide who's "trusted," and they can revoke it overnight.

This isn’t a theoretical threat, as various headlines of the last couple of months clearly show: The UK's Online Safety Act requires age verification to access social media. Australia banned under-16s from platforms entirely, no parental consent exceptions. The EU's proposed Chat Control would mandate scanning all encrypted messages - Signal, Threema, and Proton said they'd leave Europe rather than comply. Brazil blocked X nationwide for two months and fined users $9,000/day for using VPNs to bypass it. The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the TikTok ban, affecting 170 million users. India had 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, second only to Myanmar's military junta. Kashmir went 552 days without internet. In Myanmar, you can get six months' jail for having a VPN installed.

The question of who controls internet speech isn't new. John Joink drew this cartoon in 2011, during the SOPA/PIPA debates. The mechanisms of control were already in place. What's changed is the scale and the brazenness - governments across the political spectrum, from democracies to dictatorships, now exercise this control openly and in lockstep.

We now have the tools to fix this, and SEC-07 is dedicated to exploring them - routing discovery through pubkeys instead of registrars, building connectivity without exposing addresses, establishing trust through cryptographic proof instead of corporate authority.

The goal is to explore questions such as: How can we make ICANN and IANA irrelevant, DNS optional, and Certificate Authorities unnecessary?

We're joined by the Tollgate team for SEC-07. Tollgate is one of the projects that came out of Sovereign Engineering - alongside noDNS, FIPs, Paygress, and others built during SEC-05. They've been deep in the network stack. They know where the bodies are buried.

SEC-07 runs March 30 - April 17, 2026. Three weeks. Focused work. In Madeira. See all upcoming cohorts.

SEC-07 applications are now open.

If you're building the plumbing for the self-sovereign internet, we want to hear from you. Greybeards and veterans of the network stack, those who watched the open internet's promise fade, we especially want to hear from you, your expertise is needed. If you know someone like that, send them our way.

Great weather. Ocean as far as the eye can see. No shortage of hard problems to solve.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions Podcast

Are there any @nprofile…94rw operators for Adopting Bitcoin in ...

2026-01-10T22:51:54Z

Are there any TollGate (nprofile…94rw) operators for Adopting Bitcoin in South Africa yet?

I haven't started this year's conference list yet, but would love to make this the first conference of the year 😀

https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate?tab=readme-ov-file#events

Veronika (nprofile…agd8) takinbrrrr (nprofile…tzpz) Btrust (nprofile…6lmj) dimi (nprofile…2884)

Plenty of time to figure it out with us on the Island 😀

2026-01-10T22:38:12Z

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Plenty of time to figure it out with us on the Island 😀

@nprofile…jejl

2026-01-10T22:18:11Z

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Thefux (nprofile…jejl)

@nprofile…69ha

2026-01-10T22:17:11Z

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MathJud (nprofile…69ha)

@nprofile…rscr

2026-01-10T22:03:58Z

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leo (nprofile…rscr)

@nprofile…qaxf

2026-01-10T21:40:01Z

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SatsAndSports (nprofile…qaxf)

#nevent1q…re23

2026-01-10T21:24:21Z

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quoting nevent1q…re23
The 7th sovereign engineering cohort is an opportunity for us to figure out how to communicate without relying on authorities like IANA or ICANN.

Calling on all mesh networking wizards to unite for weekly in person demos, barbecues and hiking to solve problems that would otherwise seem difficult. Join us!

naddr1qq…92je

Cc:

florian (nprofile…8ltw) dimi (nprofile…2884) hzrd149 (nprofile…evew) nprofile1qqs9r04kvqw0deppagj3x3klfw3dztg7prl7ksecgn2fgq8z646zpeqkj46xv (nprofile…46xv) Lightrider (nprofile…ex6x) remyers (nprofile…383m) Christian Decker (nprofile…9stm) Juraj (nprofile…f2el) giacomozucco (nprofile…5yt6) dr.orlovsky (nprofile…sda7) takinbrrrr (nprofile…tzpz) Peter Todd (nprofile…yrsy) florian (nprofile…8ltw) arbadacarba (nprofile…cy97) Ben Arc (nprofile…f224) rootzoll (nprofile…d245) jeff (nprofile…vyxy) elsirion (nprofile…n5a2) whiteafrican (nprofile…vea9) obi (nprofile…hu7t) Peter Todd (nprofile…yrsy) Martti Malmi (nprofile…ptz7) Nathan Day (nprofile…lgxk)

The 7th sovereign engineering cohort is an opportunity for us to ...

2026-01-10T21:19:27Z

The 7th sovereign engineering cohort is an opportunity for us to figure out how to communicate without relying on authorities like IANA or ICANN.

Calling on all mesh networking wizards to unite for weekly in person demos, barbecues and hiking to solve problems that would otherwise seem difficult. Join us!

quoting
naddr1qq…92je

The internet is amazing. Or at least, the promise of the internet is amazing: anyone, anywhere, can publish anything and reach the world. No gatekeepers. No borders. Just packets flowing freely between peers.

But that's not the internet we have.

What we have is geoblocking, deplatforming, and censorship. Closed systems masquerading as open ones. Infrastructure that was originally built for resilience is now optimized for control.

In February 2025, LaLiga ordered Spanish ISPs to block Cloudflare IP addresses to stop pirate streams of football matches. GitHub went dark. So did ChatGPT, Instagram, Bluesky, X, and some 3,300 other websites. Millions of Spanish users couldn't reach half the internet because one court order hit one infrastructure provider.

They were trying to stop football streams. They accidentally broke the internet. This is just one example of many.

Cloudflare went down again on 5th December - third major outage in three months, affecting 28% of Cloudflare's traffic. X, Zoom, Canva, banks, and many others went down. One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.

We need a better internet, and that's exactly what we are exploring in the upcoming SEC-07 cohort. We want to spend the better part of April exploring how we could re-imagine the network stack to be more robust, more resilient, and more resistant to control.

As of today, the internet's architecture is a series of permission layers. DNS translates names into addresses, but ICANN controls the root, and your domain can be seized with a court order. IP addresses route your traffic, but they can be blocked, tracked, and geolocated by any ISP in the chain. Certificate Authorities vouch for encrypted connections, but a handful of companies decide who's "trusted," and they can revoke it overnight.

This isn’t a theoretical threat, as various headlines of the last couple of months clearly show: The UK's Online Safety Act requires age verification to access social media. Australia banned under-16s from platforms entirely, no parental consent exceptions. The EU's proposed Chat Control would mandate scanning all encrypted messages - Signal, Threema, and Proton said they'd leave Europe rather than comply. Brazil blocked X nationwide for two months and fined users $9,000/day for using VPNs to bypass it. The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the TikTok ban, affecting 170 million users. India had 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, second only to Myanmar's military junta. Kashmir went 552 days without internet. In Myanmar, you can get six months' jail for having a VPN installed.

The question of who controls internet speech isn't new. John Joink drew this cartoon in 2011, during the SOPA/PIPA debates. The mechanisms of control were already in place. What's changed is the scale and the brazenness - governments across the political spectrum, from democracies to dictatorships, now exercise this control openly and in lockstep.

We now have the tools to fix this, and SEC-07 is dedicated to exploring them - routing discovery through pubkeys instead of registrars, building connectivity without exposing addresses, establishing trust through cryptographic proof instead of corporate authority.

The goal is to explore questions such as: How can we make ICANN and IANA irrelevant, DNS optional, and Certificate Authorities unnecessary?

We're joined by the Tollgate team for SEC-07. Tollgate is one of the projects that came out of Sovereign Engineering - alongside noDNS, FIPs, Paygress, and others built during SEC-05. They've been deep in the network stack. They know where the bodies are buried.

SEC-07 runs March 30 - April 17, 2026. Three weeks. Focused work. In Madeira. See all upcoming cohorts.

SEC-07 applications are now open.

If you're building the plumbing for the self-sovereign internet, we want to hear from you. Greybeards and veterans of the network stack, those who watched the open internet's promise fade, we especially want to hear from you, your expertise is needed. If you know someone like that, send them our way.

Great weather. Ocean as far as the eye can see. No shortage of hard problems to solve.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions Podcast

Cc:

florian (nprofile…8ltw) dimi (nprofile…2884) hzrd149 (nprofile…evew) nprofile1qqs9r04kvqw0deppagj3x3klfw3dztg7prl7ksecgn2fgq8z646zpeqkj46xv (nprofile…46xv) Lightrider (nprofile…ex6x) remyers (nprofile…383m) Christian Decker (nprofile…9stm) Juraj (nprofile…f2el) giacomozucco (nprofile…5yt6) dr.orlovsky (nprofile…sda7) takinbrrrr (nprofile…tzpz) Peter Todd (nprofile…yrsy) florian (nprofile…8ltw) arbadacarba (nprofile…cy97) Ben Arc (nprofile…f224) rootzoll (nprofile…d245) jeff (nprofile…vyxy) elsirion (nprofile…n5a2) whiteafrican (nprofile…vea9) obi (nprofile…hu7t) Peter Todd (nprofile…yrsy) Martti Malmi (nprofile…ptz7) Nathan Day (nprofile…lgxk)

Vielleicht sehen wir uns ja am hackday @nprofile…krdr ? 📍 ...

2026-01-07T14:57:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…78sz
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Vielleicht sehen wir uns ja am hackday Ronin (nprofile…krdr) ?

📍 Location: Freifunk-Raum, Lausitzer Str. 10, 10999 Berlin Kreuzberg
📅 Date: 15.02.2025 from 12:00
📐 Coordination: https://github.com/freifunk-berlin/meta/issues/198

[DE] Am Hack Day kommen wir zusammen, um in entspannter Atmosphäre an Geräten und Software zu basteln. Bring gerne dein eigenes Projekt mit, lass dich vor Ort unterstützen oder schließe dich einem anderen Projekt an. Es gibt immer viel zu tun, unabhängig von deinem Wissensstand.

[EN] On Hack Day, we get together to tinker with devices and software in a relaxed atmosphere. Feel free to bring your own project, find support on site, or join another project. There is always plenty to do, regardless of your level of knowledge.

Du könntest heute zum Freifunk Stammtisch ab 20 Uhr in c-base ...

2026-01-07T11:56:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…78sz
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Du könntest heute zum Freifunk Stammtisch ab 20 Uhr in c-base kommen. Da findest Du bestimmt weitere Leute die meshtactic benutzen.

Ich persönlich habe meshtactic Geräte anzugeben, weil ich auf TollGate (nprofile…m2rw) und WiFi HaLow (802.11ah) umsteige.

Dejavu

2026-01-06T23:19:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…v8xm
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Dejavu

An amateur radio satellite based TollGate already exists - ...

2025-12-30T09:56:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…c73s
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An amateur radio satellite based TollGate already exists - MolonLabeVC (nprofile…kq7x) built it. Its just a question of time till its compatible with the TollGate protocol and accepts bearer instruments 😃

Buy internet from the airline ...

2025-12-30T09:03:05Z

Buy internet from the airline

Give away internet for free to confirm that there is demand

Charge for access to the gateway

Altitude & location of internet purchase

Well said!

2025-12-26T16:15:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…ud9g
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Well said!

It seems to me like DNN has the same set of tradeoffs as noDNS, ...

2025-12-26T15:31:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…yvxm
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It seems to me like DNN has the same set of tradeoffs as noDNS, but DNN has a global state thanks to Bitcoin. Where does DNN store the IP address that a name resolves to? Does it use nostr for this? Apologies if you already explained this..

When trying to understand new systems, I like to try to place ...

2025-12-26T15:26:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…54hr
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When trying to understand new systems, I like to try to place them on that triangle to reason about the tradeoffs...

Are you familiar with zookos triangle? ...

2025-12-26T15:26:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…54hr
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Are you familiar with zookos triangle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

Aah, so the name is human readable, but the TLD is a large random ...

2025-12-26T15:25:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…dr38
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Aah, so the name is human readable, but the TLD is a large random string - ie. the entropy that makes it secure. That makes sense. Does this mean I need to check the large random string like checking an npub to make sure I'm being redirected to the right IP address?

Thanks for the patient explanation @nprofile…u4cn. Getting a ...

2025-12-26T14:48:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…tpuh
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Thanks for the patient explanation Freakoverse (nprofile…u4cn). Getting a sense of the tradeoffs helps a bit, but I must admit that I still need to give it more thought before I fully grock your system. What do you mean by "no name scarcity"? Can others claim the same name that I have already claimed? I guess the cost of doing a Bitcoin transaction is what rate limits my ability to claim as many names as I want right?

That sounds really promising! It makes sense that Bitcoin would ...

2025-12-25T13:09:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…0sw0
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That sounds really promising! It makes sense that Bitcoin would be the anchor for a global naming system, because Bitcoin is the closest approximation to a truly global database that we have.

Have you heard of the spaces protocol? I managed to set up the DHT client on my computer, but haven't tried securing and/or resolving a name yet. Would be interested in your thoughts...

https://spacesprotocol.org/paper/
https://docs.spacesprotocol.org/getting-started/fabric-dht
https://github.com/spacesprotocol/sips/blob/main/sip-0002.mediawiki
https://github.com/spacesprotocol/fabric

Unfortunately soveng is in person only, but it would be incredible if your able to join. The 7th cohort is all about networking, so your project would fit in perfectly..

Cc: Gigi (nprofile…205a)

#nevent1q…eqss

2025-12-25T03:35:55Z

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Interesting. How do you ensure that other people can't claim ...

2025-12-25T03:34:33Z

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Interesting. How do you ensure that other people can't claim the same name you already claimed? Ie. how do you ensure you have a global state?

Have you considered coming to SEC-07?

@nprofile…xz43

2025-12-25T03:13:01Z

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Who is going to tell them? ...

2025-12-24T15:30:42Z

Who is going to tell them?

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/widerstand-gegen-debanking

Wouldn't want to be flying a plane over those branches

2025-12-24T11:48:40Z

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Wouldn't want to be flying a plane over those branches

## BudaBit Demo Day application ### Title: TollGate auto connect ...

2025-12-22T09:42:45Z

## BudaBit Demo Day application
### Title: TollGate auto connect with data measurement

Pitch:
TollGates turn on, connect to eachother automatically and start reselling access to the gateway while measuring data rather than time. The user can connect other devices to the password protected SSID of their TollGate to get regular WiFi UX without needing software that tops up their session on their user devices.

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2025-12-20T18:18:24Z

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Making retirement cool again

2025-12-20T03:40:43Z

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Making retirement cool again

Remember talking about the cockroach that carries a ...

2025-12-16T17:21:22Z

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Remember talking about the cockroach that carries a TollGate (nprofile…508p) Gzuuus (nprofile…w8n2) ?

@nprofile…zqac also knows a lot about this stuff. If only he ...

2025-12-12T18:36:33Z

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vnprc (nprofile…zqac) also knows a lot about this stuff. If only he had a proxy running on main net already.

Oh, by the way vnprc (nprofile…zqac) I think I finally understand why latency is important even though bitaxes are happy to run at a loss in certain scenarios (like when it improves the UX of something). Apparently pools reject high latency shares because miners who do care about their margins don't want to be mining with high latency miners who don't care about margins.

Does this mean we need special pools for high latency miners or am I overlooking something?

The smallest useful thing you can broadcast is the latest block ...

2025-12-12T18:32:11Z

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The smallest useful thing you can broadcast is the latest block hash. The second most useful thing is the latest block template (see sparse pool by DNS4SATS.XYZ (nprofile…924l)). These things can be obtained for free from block stream because it's a one way broadcast of data that everyone cares about.

Traffic from miners is different from traffic from Netflix, because the miners have very little traffic, but the traffic that they do have is very valuable on a per Byte basis.

Your two way link is especially interesting for miners who want to get their nonces to a pool ASAP. These miners already have a block template from spares pool or from block stream, but they need transportat to get their nonces out reliably. Depending on the energy source, they may not have an economically viable uplink, unless if they pay per Byte to use your satellite dish..

#nevent1q…028u

2025-12-09T12:15:41Z

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Jail DDoS incoming

2025-12-09T12:12:47Z

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Jail DDoS incoming

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2025-12-06T16:09:10Z

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The internet is amazing. Or at least, the promise of the internet is amazing: anyone, anywhere, can publish anything and reach the world. No gatekeepers. No borders. Just packets flowing freely between peers.

But that's not the internet we have.

What we have is geoblocking, deplatforming, and censorship. Closed systems masquerading as open ones. Infrastructure that was originally built for resilience is now optimized for control.

In February 2025, LaLiga ordered Spanish ISPs to block Cloudflare IP addresses to stop pirate streams of football matches. GitHub went dark. So did ChatGPT, Instagram, Bluesky, X, and some 3,300 other websites. Millions of Spanish users couldn't reach half the internet because one court order hit one infrastructure provider.

They were trying to stop football streams. They accidentally broke the internet. This is just one example of many.

Cloudflare went down again on 5th December - third major outage in three months, affecting 28% of Cloudflare's traffic. X, Zoom, Canva, banks, and many others went down. One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.

We need a better internet, and that's exactly what we are exploring in the upcoming SEC-07 cohort. We want to spend the better part of April exploring how we could re-imagine the network stack to be more robust, more resilient, and more resistant to control.

As of today, the internet's architecture is a series of permission layers. DNS translates names into addresses, but ICANN controls the root, and your domain can be seized with a court order. IP addresses route your traffic, but they can be blocked, tracked, and geolocated by any ISP in the chain. Certificate Authorities vouch for encrypted connections, but a handful of companies decide who's "trusted," and they can revoke it overnight.

This isn’t a theoretical threat, as various headlines of the last couple of months clearly show: The UK's Online Safety Act requires age verification to access social media. Australia banned under-16s from platforms entirely, no parental consent exceptions. The EU's proposed Chat Control would mandate scanning all encrypted messages - Signal, Threema, and Proton said they'd leave Europe rather than comply. Brazil blocked X nationwide for two months and fined users $9,000/day for using VPNs to bypass it. The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the TikTok ban, affecting 170 million users. India had 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, second only to Myanmar's military junta. Kashmir went 552 days without internet. In Myanmar, you can get six months' jail for having a VPN installed.

The question of who controls internet speech isn't new. John Joink drew this cartoon in 2011, during the SOPA/PIPA debates. The mechanisms of control were already in place. What's changed is the scale and the brazenness - governments across the political spectrum, from democracies to dictatorships, now exercise this control openly and in lockstep.

We now have the tools to fix this, and SEC-07 is dedicated to exploring them - routing discovery through pubkeys instead of registrars, building connectivity without exposing addresses, establishing trust through cryptographic proof instead of corporate authority.

The goal is to explore questions such as: How can we make ICANN and IANA irrelevant, DNS optional, and Certificate Authorities unnecessary?

We're joined by the Tollgate team for SEC-07. Tollgate is one of the projects that came out of Sovereign Engineering - alongside noDNS, FIPs, Paygress, and others built during SEC-05. They've been deep in the network stack. They know where the bodies are buried.

SEC-07 runs March 30 - April 17, 2026. Three weeks. Focused work. In Madeira. See all upcoming cohorts.

SEC-07 applications are now open.

If you're building the plumbing for the self-sovereign internet, we want to hear from you. Greybeards and veterans of the network stack, those who watched the open internet's promise fade, we especially want to hear from you, your expertise is needed. If you know someone like that, send them our way.

Great weather. Ocean as far as the eye can see. No shortage of hard problems to solve.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions Podcast

Sounds like it's going to be a really useful framework 😀

2025-12-06T07:34:03Z

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Sounds like it's going to be a really useful framework 😀

And @nprofile…wtmf satellite dish is still up too 😀

2025-12-05T09:42:41Z

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And MolonLabeVC (nprofile…wtmf) satellite dish is still up too 😀

I guess a question of efficiency. Having things pre-installed ...

2025-12-03T12:20:26Z

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I guess a question of efficiency. Having things pre-installed makes sense if I only need them briefly and a large portion of my costs are setup & teardown. Perhaps what your making here is a framework for people to make their custom pre-installed environment...

Perhaps I'm missing the objective..

2025-12-03T12:17:04Z

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Perhaps I'm missing the objective..

I like the idea of being able to pay for small amounts of compute ...

2025-12-03T12:15:46Z

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I like the idea of being able to pay for small amounts of compute and/or small periods of time. However, my concern is that the service might be specific to a very niche use case.

Can I run anything I want on it in the same way that I would with a VPS that I rented for 3 minutes?

Is this whole thing a layer on-top of VMs/containers for SATs? I ...

2025-12-03T08:37:19Z

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Is this whole thing a layer on-top of VMs/containers for SATs? I still think there is value in having super generic machines that users can run whatever they want on...

Absolutely, and this machine is probably more beefy, so it should ...

2025-12-01T07:07:16Z

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Absolutely, and this machine is probably more beefy, so it should be able to run CDK..

I need to catch up quite a bit with my understanding of stage 2. ...

2025-11-30T08:55:22Z

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I need to catch up quite a bit with my understanding of stage 2. I'll be sure to bring our older notes where you explained blinding/unbinding next time we meet 😀

Aah yes, if I recall correctly, at the time we thought stage 2 ...

2025-11-29T22:19:03Z

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Aah yes, if I recall correctly, at the time we thought stage 2 wasn't necessary and we thought wallets were just doing it for the sake of storing unlocked proofs. I guess stage 2 did have a purpose which we were overlooking at the time then..

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2025-11-27T16:10:33Z

Testing

https://lnbits.molonlabe.holdings/bitsatcredit/6e1faaf6356b43029124fdeb5f93a297

Incredible, this is the most long range @nprofile…3stq I have ...

2025-11-26T10:28:38Z

Incredible, this is the most long range TollGate (nprofile…3stq) I have ever seen! There is no excuse not to be part of the network anymore. Let's transfer the cost of our infrastructure to it's users and let's figure out how to navigate large networks without authorities like IANA and ICANN.

We have more questions than answers. Join the 7th Sovereign Engineering (nprofile…3ra5) cohort to help us figure out how to sync our Bitcoin nodes and to run nostr relays without relying on authorities.

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Thanks for making it happen @nprofile…4s3d , @nprofile…ah2e ...

2025-11-23T23:10:08Z

Thanks for making it happen Nind (nprofile…4s3d) , Nathan Day (nprofile…ah2e) Et al.

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Bitfest was incredible! Most of the people I spoke to belong at #SovEng

Bitfest was incredible! Most of the people I spoke to belong at ...

2025-11-23T22:58:36Z

Bitfest was incredible! Most of the people I spoke to belong at #SovEng

Meeting notes: Dimi x86 based TollGate that runs in a VM and ...

2025-11-22T00:34:32Z

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Meeting notes:

Dimi x86 based TollGate that runs in a VM and works over wireguard

Notes:
The x86 image is useful for machines like start9. Wireguard is required for the enterprise ISP features that will transform Elzonte in no time.

Could add reticulum to this. It deals with double NATing etc.

Compression for smaller routers:
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/pull/63

Merged and released dual SSID:

https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/commit/e9aa0356a8691a9c32fe3bd3fa06b32e307d0ae9

Notes:

You can now connect to your TollGate's second password protected SSID to get internet access from your own router without paying it. This is good for your UX.

New version of release explorer:

https://releases.tollgate.me/

Notes:

Beautiful new release explorer. Has search. Can see raw events. Architectures are now in a drop down menu. The compressed package will be shown as a separate download button for the same architecture.

Conferences:

https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate?tab=readme-ov-file#events-tollgates-will-be-operated-at

TollGate was already at 17 conferences this year

For better scalability: Call for ambassadors or people willing to demo at conferences or meetups

21 routers from einundzwanzig
Vote for 21 TollGate compatible routers to be distributed to meetups:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgdpfmj9t765dhtxqtaw08dapfqr4m3nnrssstrzqds3ahwln2gdcf360w6

Questions from the community

Notes: Casa De Lavada needs help updating its TollGate
https://sovereignhybridcompute.com/

Key: dbfd62df35f789d7

2025-11-21T12:41:57Z

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For some reason the zaps aren't showing in Amethyst. This is ...

2025-11-21T10:55:07Z

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For some reason the zaps aren't showing in Amethyst. This is an issue on my end right? Do you already have a client that renders proof of burn events?

I think Marco has one, but I'm not sure how to access it. I ...

2025-11-20T08:23:04Z

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I think Marco has one, but I'm not sure how to access it. I treat things as persistent once they can be stored without the need of an email address...

@nprofile…g4th

2025-11-18T22:09:21Z

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Pedro 🧨 (nprofile…g4th)

@nprofile…3g9u

2025-11-18T19:43:28Z

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That's fine, we don't need to know your running a mint

2025-11-09T22:04:52Z

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That's fine, we don't need to know your running a mint

Will you run a node for Uncle Jim?

2025-11-09T22:01:31Z

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Will you run a node for Uncle Jim?

Run your own mint

2025-11-09T21:56:21Z

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Run your own mint

Yes exactly. It would be great to have a library that does this, ...

2025-11-08T11:36:01Z

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Yes exactly. It would be great to have a library that does this, so that people who don't want to run a cashu mint can still have the cashu UX natively on their BOLT12 lightning node.

You could get a similar UX natively on lightning if you stack ...

2025-11-07T07:24:24Z

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You could get a similar UX natively on lightning if you stack LNURL withdraw codes of various denominations in a cashu wallet instead of proofs from a mint. Now you have a set of bearer instruments that you can give to a vendor even though your offline.

Obviously you need to run the lightning node that issues the withdraw codes yourself if you want it to be non custodial.

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2025-11-05T20:24:34Z

Remember

The nice thing about WiFi is that it uses OFDMA. Low frequencies ...

2025-11-03T20:49:34Z

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The nice thing about WiFi is that it uses OFDMA.

Low frequencies no longer mean low throughput. In theory you can use infinitely narrow frequency bands at low frequencies if you have infinitely linear hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiple_access