21: Hashtree, Nostr VPN, and Iris w/ Martti Malmi
Published: April 4, 2026
Duration: 1:17:59
"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.
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In this dialogue:
Martti's GitHub annoyance spawned Hashtree: a content-addressed file system on top of Blossom that adds directories, file chunking, and encryption. Everything encrypted by default using content hash key encryption (inspired by Freenet), so Blossom server operators have cryptographic deniability about what they host. git remote hashtree: set up a hashtree remote for any Git repo...