7/ Every release is special. Just like our cypherpunks. And this time we’re celebrating the man behind Penet remailer, Johan Helsingius nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqyfvpt7u8trpp6zwyl6pv3pz7gxy3mhld4gw5f80a02g252clgjyq6mmr6u 🎭

The Penet remailer (anon.penet.fi) was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan of Finland from 1993 to 1996. Its initial creation stemmed from an argument in a Finnish newsgroup over whether people should be required to tie their real name to their online communications. Julf believed that people should not-indeed, could not-be required to do so. In his own words:

> “Some people from a university network really argued about if everybody should put their proper name on the messages and everybody should be accountable, so you could actually verify that it is the person who is sending the messages. And I kept arguing that the Internet just doesn’t work that way, and if somebody actually tries to enforce that, the Internet will always find a solution around it. And just to prove my point, I spent two days or something cooking up the first version of the server, just to prove a point.”

Thank you, Johan, for fighting for our rights to digital privacy 🫡🧡

Possibly the same NIP. There were some short discussions about BOLT 12 but I don’t think anything has been proposed yet. Alby Hub at least only has receive support right now. Most likely once we add sending we will also propose some new NIP-47 methods