Episode Details

"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 (