Shipping Nostr Infrastructure: VPN, Double Ratchet, and Hashtree
2026-06-10 , Prague West (↑ upstairs)

Don’t fight network effects. Build tools that are useful for one person or a small group, but can scale organically.

Nostr VPN is a Tailscale alternative with no third-party accounts. It runs on the Nostr-based FIPS network, using Nostr pubkeys instead of IP addresses.

Iris Chat is a Signal-like messenger built on Nostr Double Ratchet.

Hashtree is Nostr-native “IPFS lite”: Blossom, file chunking, directories, and encryption.

Bitcoin dev in 2009-2011, Nostr dev from 2022-