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Big Bad John
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CEO at Synonym, creators of Pubky, Bitkit, and Blocktank.

The Lisbon Bitcoin Maximalists meet again!

This, week the Synonym team is meeting up in Lisbon, so I decided to try and combine that with a re-union of the LBM... for a MEGA MEETUP!

New location: Delirium Cafe

April 8, 6:30PM

RSVP here:

https://www.meetup.com/lisbon-bitcoin-maximalists/events/307123239/

What's your hot nostr take?

In an ocean of content, one ignorant post is enough to get blocked or muted.

Be the signal, or be forgotten.

Thank you for your concern, but again, the Pubky protocol is already open-sourced, so you are raising the alarm about one repo of unfinished code for a new app that isn't ready for use - AND all of its testing users have access to that code too if they want.

The PKARR aspect itself, one of the most novel aspects, has been open-sourced for a lot longer and has been proposed to Nostr devs for more than a year.

What makes Nostr people interested in other things is simply whether they were made by Nostr people for Nostr people - it isn't science, it's loyalty.

All of the protocol has been open source for months. Literally only one repo is not open source yet because it isnt safe to use yet, and we specifically offered all beta testers access to that repo as well.

You guys keep looking for excuses to avoid this instead of understand it.

I understand why, it is just disappointing.

Vibe check: How much do you actually care about zapping/tipping in your bitcoin-y/nostr-y apps these days?

Liar. If you watched the episode you would know I have been building with Lightning since the beginning.

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Starting yesterday, I am no longer a Synonym employee.

I am thankful for John for taking a chance on me and empowering me for the past few years. without such chance I don't think I would have had the time, resources, or confidence to design what is now the foundation of Pubky.

I loved working with that team, and I am confident that they will be able to materialise what was and still is our shared vision for the Web.

This post is meant to clarify, for anyone who cares that;

1. If you are following me merely for being a Synonym employee, you should consider that I no longer speak on their behalf nor have access to anything you don't.

2. If you were interested in Pkarr or Pubky, then rest assured that I will remain a resource for you if you needed help, especially Pkarr as it has matured and won't change going forward, while Pubky still has a room for improvement and innovation and design challenges, and I might not be able to influence that, at least not in Pubky's name.

3. Once you feel the agency of designing and building, it is too difficult to stop, so while I might be distracted for some time consolidating and taking care of my responsibilities, I can't think of a future where I am not building the things I wanted to see in the world.

4. Usually developers don't abandon projects they are passionate about for lack of resources, but isolation and apathy can definitely take a toll, so I intend to start working very publicly again as I did very early on with Pkarr which caught the eyes of engineers (on Twitter) that helped me in many ways, and I am hoping this is a new opportunity to make more of these precious friendships.

Ar entered Synonym as a frontend web dev and left as a next-web protocol rockstar.

Now, he knows more about the trends, people, and projects in P2P research than anyone.

He is a force to be reckoned with, and if you are strong enough to collaborate with such force, beautiful things can happen.

Pubky is the result of years of arguments and research to discover the very best solutions for digital freedom. Few people could have grinded through it all like we did at Synonym, with Ar.

I cherish the time we had working together, and all that we learned and designed together.

I doubt this is the end of our story, but for now, it must be.

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Several, why? When the app is released, it will be open-sourced and you will be able to see how to interface with the indexer.

Sometimes it's simply disappointing to see people respond with prejudice when they don't have any info, nor made any sincere effort to compare anything at all.

Those aren't the kind of people I want to please, so I guess it is a good heuristic at least...

Probably all of your questions are answered in our blog:

https://medium.com/pubky

I highly recommend reading each post that feels relevant to your questions.

Generally, we created "public key domains" that are censorship-resistant. You sign your DNS settings and place them into Mainline DHT (largest, most decentralized network in the world - it powers torrents).

Those DNS records can point to anything you want for the identity: a website, your posts, your files, your payment endpoints, etc.

Your key also allows you register sessions with one or more "homeservers" which can also be hosted, or self-hosted. This allows key delegation, and cold key storage.

If any of your DNS endpoints censors you, you can simply update the record to point to a new provider, or your own self-hosted server.

All our public code for it is here:

https://github.com/pubky/

You can get an overview on the code and how it works together here:

https://pubky.org

You can read about the overall vision of Pubky, and the app we are building for it, here:

https://medium.com/pubky/pubky-the-next-web-3287b35408f1

You can also find me on any recent podcast, or ask any questions you have to me, or in our chatroom here:

https://t.me/pubkycore