> When did you start working on Spasm and why?

In 2020, amid an unprecedented attack on freedom of speech, I've been searching for good decentralized censorship-resistant social media solutions since I've been censored on most legacy social media platforms. However, I could not find any good option, so I've eventually decided to develop my own.

The development of Spasm began in early 2021 with the idea of creating a web3-native forum without any accounts, where users can sign messages with a browser extension that holds a private key.

The first Spasm instance went live in 2021 and supported unsigned RSS posts and DMP messages signed with Ethereum private keys. Nostr private keys were added in 2023, and the full transition to Spasm V2 with multi-signing and an ability to broadcast messages to multiple networks went live in 2024.

You can read more about Spasm history here:

https://monero.top/news/note1whtyfc6xcyntfurs6ndk395jr8vxxdp3aynmhatrp5gqpxpp0cyslk62ry