GUN is an anti-authoritarian internet protocol (ex."http://",etc.) that lets people&machines communicate privately.
Its used by government Navy & large NGO humanitarian/nonprofit orgs, &was part of Jack's bluesky initiative.
Over 1% of the world's population has used my tech.⏬
Its used by government Navy & large NGO humanitarian/nonprofit orgs, &was part of Jack's bluesky initiative.
Over 1% of the world's population has used my tech.⏬
For the prior 5 years, there's been < 4 employees.
We grew from 72K monthly users in 2017 to peak 60M last year.
@marttimalmi was one of those on the team. He (sirius) was Satoshi's 1st contributor to Bitcoin, built the site, made the software installable/auto-start etc. ⏬
We grew from 72K monthly users in 2017 to peak 60M last year.
@marttimalmi was one of those on the team. He (sirius) was Satoshi's 1st contributor to Bitcoin, built the site, made the software installable/auto-start etc. ⏬
Satoshi trusted him,&IMHO, Martti was more important:he made Bitcoin actually usable&sticky.
Compare to Satoshi - Satoshi abandoned their child to wolves when CIA came asking questions.He wasn't a self-sacrificial hero,but a bad dad selfishly paranoid. (I'm a single dad of 2) ⏬
Compare to Satoshi - Satoshi abandoned their child to wolves when CIA came asking questions.He wasn't a self-sacrificial hero,but a bad dad selfishly paranoid. (I'm a single dad of 2) ⏬
Martti went on to build the Identifi algorithm in 2013, a more genius *moneyless* alternative to Bitcoin, futuristic but equally less understood.
I found it in 2017 &was 🤯. I hired him to continue building out its app, Iris, for my math.free.eco economic system.
I found it in 2017 &was 🤯. I hired him to continue building out its app, Iris, for my math.free.eco economic system.
I had prev raised few million from Benioff of Salesforce,the legendary Tim Draper,&others, including cypherpunk foundations like NLnet &later FireFox's Mozilla builders, Balaji,etc.
But when Martti joined, @peterthiel wanted to chat. Fun story for another time(he didn't invest).
But when Martti joined, @peterthiel wanted to chat. Fun story for another time(he didn't invest).
GUN pretty much single handedly funded & powered Iris. Everything is open source.
But app adoption was empty.
The world likes to complain about lack-of-privacy > they care to use privacy.
Cause what'd they complain about then? Smug.
Until @Snowden started tweeting about Iris.
But app adoption was empty.
The world likes to complain about lack-of-privacy > they care to use privacy.
Cause what'd they complain about then? Smug.
Until @Snowden started tweeting about Iris.
Snowden doesn't know who I am, but he saw it because @jack.
Jack has good intentions but causes absolute rekt havoc in nearly everything he touches: chaos & drama in bluesky, twitter, TBD, web5, & now… #nostr.
Jack has good intentions but causes absolute rekt havoc in nearly everything he touches: chaos & drama in bluesky, twitter, TBD, web5, & now… #nostr.
https://twitter.com/marknadal/status/1502683508392615937
&this is where we get to the bad part.
Even tho I tried to get Martti&Iris involved in Jack's bluesky in late 2019 when @paraga (then CTO)was reviewing GUN, Martti seemed uninterested.
But a month ago, Martti saw (like Snowden) Jack's tweets & in my view, completely betrays me.
Even tho I tried to get Martti&Iris involved in Jack's bluesky in late 2019 when @paraga (then CTO)was reviewing GUN, Martti seemed uninterested.
But a month ago, Martti saw (like Snowden) Jack's tweets & in my view, completely betrays me.
He hides all mention of GUN in Iris UI&starts saying its a nostr app.
Which gets Jack's attention
so he works nonstop to add nostr support
(I'm fine with that conceptually,nostr uses same "relay" concept GUN pioneered since 2014&scaled to 200K+users/sec)
Which gets Jack's attention
so he works nonstop to add nostr support
(I'm fine with that conceptually,nostr uses same "relay" concept GUN pioneered since 2014&scaled to 200K+users/sec)
https://twitter.com/marknadal/status/1503790294692638720
So I feel totally cuckold after 5years.
He publicly manipulated people into a story NOT born of proper credit while hiding info.
Confront him about it privately. 0 empathy,
claiming he's not *technically* gaslighting me b/c if someone specifically asks, he'll tell the truth.
He publicly manipulated people into a story NOT born of proper credit while hiding info.
Confront him about it privately. 0 empathy,
claiming he's not *technically* gaslighting me b/c if someone specifically asks, he'll tell the truth.
So I'm asking again, now publicly. But I expect the response will be silence.
Interesting news here! Well I'm happy to help, the more civilian systems to exist & scale the better. My complaint isn't against it, just recent status/drama by (other) humans. The tech seems good.
https://twitter.com/CapitalistDog1/status/1621314940765085696
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