188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto
Published: June 26, 2026
Duration: 2:23:53
Community, Mesh Networks, and the Plan to Build a Parallel Society on Bitcoin
– Polycarp Nakamoto is the masked, anonymous figure at the centre of Lab 484, a research laboratory and cluster of startups based in Austin, Texas, building for Web 5: a second internet that runs peer-to-peer on Bitcoin nodes rather than the centralised choke points of the web we use today. Through Lab 484 and its flagship Archipelago operating system, the community is assembling the hardware and software for a censorship-resistant mesh network, owned by nobody and run by everybody, that they believe will be needed when the internet as...