33: ASMap, nix, and nix-nostr w/ Julien
Published: July 26, 2026
Duration: 1:35:09
"There is no real address book for the internet."
Julien & Gigi take a walk.
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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 same sovereignty problem. The first part of the walk goes deep into ASMap: why Bitcoin Core cares which autonomous systems its peers live in, how eclipse attacks turn peer discovery into a security question, and why mapping the internet is harder than it looks.
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