PODCAST · technology
No Solutions
by Gigi
No solutions, only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet through freedom tech, open protocols, and sovereign engineering.
Episodes
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39: The Nostr Office Just Works w/ Thomas
"It should be super simple, super easy. It should just work." Thomas & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Thomas joined Sovereign Engineering through SEC-04 and found a place to keep building in Madeira. The name Nostr Office emerged because people kept saying, "Let's…
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38: Trusted Execution Environments and the Future of Human-Machine Interaction w/ gzuuus
"The future is very bright if we want it to be." Gzuuus & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Listen on sovereignengineering.io This dialogue starts with the hardware roots of confidential compute. Gzuuus walks through trusted execution environments, remote attestation, the jump from Intel SGX to AMD...
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37: Advanced Malware w/ Arjen
"How can we make maximum use of this technology without shooting ourselves in the foot too much?" Arjen & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Listen on sovereignengineering.io This dialogue begins in the afterglow and exhaustion of another Sovereign Engineering cohort. Arjen has been living with NixOS,...
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36: A Taste for Freedom w/ Zaza
"There is no creation without also being created." Zaza & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Listen on sovereignengineering.io This dialogue starts with a simple observation from the previous days at Sovereign Engineering: the conversations had been wandering from skateboarding to metaphysics, from...
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35: Drinking from the Firehose w/ SEC-08
"I have found my people, and that is the craziest discovery for me." The SEC-08 crew & Gigi pass the mic around on a pirate boat. Listen on sovereignengineering.io This one is not a single guest walk so much as a moving snapshot of the final days of Sovereign Engineering SEC-08: tired builders,...
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34: Female Engineering w/ Sherry
"The only one I need to convince is myself." Sherry & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Sherry came to Sovereign Engineering through gsovereignty, a long-running Bitcoin friendship from Hong Kong, and a sudden gap between contracts. One day she was ending a job. The next pitch…
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33: ASMap, nix, and nix-nostr w/ Julien
"There is no real address book for the internet." Julien & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Julien came to Sovereign Engineering through a strange path: Nix, Bitcoin Core, ASMap, Nostr, and a growing sense that packaging, routing, identity, and deployment are all part of the…
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32: Nostrology w/ WhisperHash
"No Solutions, do the homework." WhisperHash & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io 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...
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31: Buzz, Mosaico, and Other Stuff w/ Pablo
"You can always buy more tokens, not more time." Pablo & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Pablo and Gigi start with the FIPS map: the strange pleasure of seeing a protocol become a place, with nodes scattered across the world, Archipelago getting faster through a FIPS…
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30: Napplets w/ Sandwich
"You should be able to compose your clients." Sandwich & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Sandwich and Gigi spend the first 45 minutes or so talking through napplets: composable, sandboxed Nostr apps that can run inside a host shell while the host mediates signing, storage…
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29: State of the Mint and Mind w/ Calle
"You cannot look at something without touching it." Calle & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Calle and Gigi start with Cashu mint internals and end in embodied cognition. Along the way they unpack sparse Merkle trees, exclusion proofs, unilateral exit, trusted execution...
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28: Speak Human w/ MouxDesign
"We just need to speak human." MouxDesign & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Recorded in June 2026. Mo and Gigi keep circling one question: how do you build products for people who speak plain language instead of protocol jargon? From there they get into wallet copy, fee panic,...
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27: Separation of Business from State w/ gsovereignty
"It’s the people who receive Bitcoin as payment for something who decide what Bitcoin is." gsovereignty & Gigi take a walk. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Recorded in May 2026. They explore what it would take to separate business from the state, why a Bitcoin economy still depends on fiat...
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26: 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. Listen on sovereignengineering.io In this dialogue: How Zapstore grew out of the first Sovereign Engineering cohort in Madeira, earlier experiments like ZapThreads, and Franzap's...
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25: White Noise, MLS, and marmot w/ Jeff G
"What we're actually building is an unstoppable messenger." Jeff G & Gigi take a walk in Oslo. Listen on sovereignengineering.io In this dialogue: Jeff G explains how White Noise started as an attempt to build the most private messenger possible, then slowly mutated into something else: an...
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24: 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. Listen on sovereignengineering.io In this dialogue: Why FIPS started with Arjen asking for networking that does not depend on registrars, central authorities, or yankable domain names...
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23: Shipping Violently w/ Justin Moon
"I want to optimize for hackability and customization." Justin Moon & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07. Listen on sovereignengineering.io In this dialogue: Justin's new obsession: building Shadow, a hackable mobile operating system for people who want full control over the…
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22: Sovereign Engineering w/ Yo
“Permissionless, permissionless, permissionless.” Yo & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07. Listen on sovereignengineering.io In this dialogue: Gigi’s AI setup: voice prompts via vibeline to brainstorm, brainstorm to implementation plan, cron job that tackles one to-do every 20...
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21: Hashtree, Nostr VPN, and Iris w/ Martti Malmi
"We have this window of opportunity to steer the LLMs and the future of technology into a freedom-tech direction." Martti Malmi & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07. Listen on sovereignengineering.io In this dialogue: Martti's GitHub annoyance spawned Hashtree: a…
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20: Archipelago Meshtadels w/ Shadrach
"Bitcoin doesn't need more believers. Bitcoin needs more understanders." Shadrach & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Projects & tech mentioned: Archipelago (sovereign home node and mesh network platform) Archipelago Foundation Archipelago…
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19: Romantically Shitting on Paywalls w/ Pablo
"I need to build something to test the thing." Pablo & Gigi take a walk. Recorded December 2025. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Projects & tech mentioned: TENEX (multi-agent coordination on Nostr) Agora (Nostr client for local communities, by Pablo & Leopoldo Lopez) NDK Swift & NDK Kotlin...
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18: Rewriting TENEX w/ Pablo
"You're yelling at someone who is lying to you." Pablo & Gigi take a drive. Recorded December 2025. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Projects & tech mentioned: TENEX (multi-agent coordination on Nostr) NDK (Nostr Development Kit) NDK Swift & NDK Kotlin (native ports of NDK, vibe-coded) nostrdb...
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#17: Organic Tech w/ Arjen
"Nostr is organic tech. Data will flow more naturally instead of going out and fetch, going out and coming back, going out and coming back." Arjen & Gigi take a long walk. Recorded October 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: Blossom (self-healing links) noDNS Tollgate (router-to-router payments)…
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#16: One Click and Run w/ SEC-05
"You have a roaming army of servers." The crew continues on the pirate boat. Recorded October 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: Paygress (VM provisioning over Nostr) Error 402 (HTTP payment required) nostr-relay-tray Pyramid Relay castr.me PM Tiles (offline maps) In this dialogue: The dream: press...
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#15: Make Localhost Great Again w/ SEC-05
"127.0.0.1 -- that's the only IP address we're gonna need." The crew passes the mic around on a pirate boat. Recorded October 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: Beacon noDNS innpub MOQ (Media Over QUIC) ContextVM Chrysalis (self-replicating Cashu mint) Paygress (VM provisioning over Nostr) BloVM...
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#14: Building Browsers w/ Justin
"I want Nostr to be the perfect thing just for me." Justin & Gigi drive to the airport. Recorded October 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: Blitz (Rust HTML/CSS renderer) QuickJS (lightweight JavaScript engine) Dioxus (Rust UI framework) Iroh (peer-to-peer networking) MOQ (Media Over QUIC) White...
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#13: The Linux of Social Media w/ hzrd149
"The identity should be outside of the computer." hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays. Libraries & apps mentioned: Applesauce Boris Citrine nostr-relay-tray In this dialogue: Automation & robot armies If this than that (IFTTT) Permissioned vs permissionless automation Self-hosting and the...
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#12: The Windy Lawnmower Stuff w/ Pete
“Nostr is what the internet could’ve been.” Pete & Gigi try to talk to lawn mowers. Websites & other stuff mentioned: Sovereign Engineering The Good Stuff In this dialogue: ECash fixes 402 Eucalyptus in Madeira Pete’s time at Fedi Lighting equals Swift, ecash equals payments Chaum’s paper ECash…
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#11: 10x Less Productive w/ Pablo
What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"? Pablo & Gigi want to encourage you to apply for SEC-05. Books & websites mentioned: Stackoverflow is dead by Gergely Orosz Sovereign Engineering by Gigi and Pablo In this dialogue: Gigi's vibeline & vibeline-ui Pubcastr aka castr.me...
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#10: Walking with Jesus w/ gzuuus
"It's gonna be permissionless or hell." Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia. Books & articles mentioned: AI 2027 DVMs were a mistake Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams Takedown by Laila michelwait The Ultimate Resource by Julian L. Simon Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling Momo by Michael…
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#09: No Strudelutions w/ hzrd149
"It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption." hzrd149 & Gigi take a stroll along the shore of cryptographic identities. This dialogue explores how cryptographic signatures fundamentally shift power dynamics in social networks, moving…
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#08: Navigating the Vibe w/ Pablo
"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money, identity, cryptography, and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work." Pablo & Gigi are getting high on glue nostr. Books and articles mentioned: Saving beauty by...
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#07: Zig Multiplatform w/ Justin
“The age of the idea guys has begun.” Justin & Gigi vibe about Zig. Articles mentioned: LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo How our interfaces have lost their senses by Amelia Wattenberger Talks mentioned: The Art of Bitcoin...
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#06: The Winds of AI w/ Pablo
“The human spirit should remain in charge.” Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind. In this dialogue: Wind More Wind Information Calories, and how to measure them Digital Wellbeing Rescue Time Teleology of Technology Platforms get users Hooked (book) Feeds are slot machines Movie Walls Tweetdeck and...
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#05: Prompt & Pray w/ Paul
"What should the next iteration of the internet look like?" In this dialogue: Paul and his awesome nostr t-shirt Are we all just nostalgic? Where did the optimism of computing and the information superhighway go? We went from interop to pay-to-unlock. Do we have to live in the digital gulags...
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#04: Ecash Fixes 402 w/ Calle
“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.” Calle & Gigi philosophize about nuts. Books and articles mentioned: - Who Owns the Future? - The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Cryptography is Not Enough - Bitcoin is Time In this dialogue: - Where is the Utopia that the internet promised? -...
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#03: Data Ownership is a Lie w/ Pablo
“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right” In this dialogue: 01: Start Ugly 02: There is No Global Concept of ownership & “Read, Write, Own” Shamir Secret Sharing and Timelocks “No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.” You can’t prove deletion of a key (or anything…
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#02: There is No Global w/ Pablo
“We do not have the answers." In this dialogue: What is this No Solutions thing anyway? Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important Why is nostr exiting for developers? Evolution, Life, and nostr What is the perfect nostr app, and why can’t there be THE perfect nostr app? Why there is…
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#01: Start Ugly w/ Pablo
“We have the chance of building the next iteration of the internet, and hopefully, not repeat the mistakes of the past." In this dialogue: Why starting ugly and shipping early is hard The ugliest thing that Pablo ever shipped “Happiness is shipping” Make it real first, you can make it pretty…
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#00: Test Recording / Teaser w/ Pablo
A teaser. Recorded at 882,688.
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No solutions, only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet through freedom tech, open protocols, and sovereign engineering.
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