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Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009. — TFTC

The US 30Y Note Yield officially hit its highest level since July 2007, at 5.19%.

The U.S. Dollar has lost 30% of its purchasing power over the last six years

“Socialism does not come from the people; it is a doctrine of intellectuals who had the arrogance to believe they could plan everyone’s life.” — Margaret Thatcher

Most people still don’t understand that Bitcoin it’s competing against human corruption.

Rothbard: if your property is being stolen by Smith, you have the right to repel him, but not by bombing a building and murdering innocent people. If you do, you are as much a criminal aggressor as Smith is. The same standard applies to states waging war.

There’s something deeply satisfying about the days you don’t buy Bitcoin… and the zaps on Nostr buy it for you instead. ⚡ Post. Contribute. Share signal. The internet is finally learning how to reward value directly. Stack sats. Earn zaps. Spread freedom. 🚀