Shows
No Solutions32: Nostrology w/ WhisperHash"No Solutions, do the homework."
WhisperHash & Gigi take a walk.
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WhisperHash came to Sovereign Engineering by following breadcrumbs: Bitcoin first, then small solo miners, then Nostr, then No Solutions, then the strange realization that the protocol was not just another social network. After losing a valuable Instagram handle to platform control, the idea of cryptographic identity stopped being abstract. If you do not hold the keys, you do not own the thing.
The mining part of the walk starts with NerdMiner and ESP32 tinkering, moves into BitAxe...
2026-07-261h 27
No Solutions26: Zapstore w/ Franzap"The user joins the community, and the community does a lot of the heavy lifting."
Franzap & Gigi take a walk in Oslo.
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In this dialogue:
How Zapstore grew out of the first Sovereign Engineering cohort in Madeira, earlier experiments like ZapThreads, and Franzap's frustration with closed mobile app stores
Why Ninite, app stacks, and curated discovery mattered as much as the raw "permissionless app store" idea
What it means to run Zapstore as a real marketplace: breaking the chicken-and-egg problem by pre-populating supply, signing apps under the Zapstore...
2026-05-311h 07
No Solutions24: Building FIPS w/ Johnathan Corgan"Don't be afraid of going your own way."
Johnathan Corgan & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07.
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In this dialogue:
Why FIPS started with Arjen asking for networking that does not depend on registrars, central authorities, or yankable domain names
Johnathan disappearing for a month after Costa Rica, then returning with a protocol design that scratched the itch
FIPS as a self-organizing peer mesh: no privileged coordinator, only what each node can enforce locally
Transport-agnostic networking: Ethernet, Bluetooth, UDP overlays, Tor, serial links, and whatever else...
2026-04-1635 min