06-13, 16:00–16:20 (Europe/Berlin), Dorfkonsum
Nostr (notes and other stuff transmitted via relays) is a simple protocol for exchanging information in the form of signed JSON. User generated public keys serve as identities and all business logic is executed client side to minimize reliance on 3rd party infrastructure. Thanks to social media clients, users have started to create lists of public keys that they want to receive content from, thus creating the first web of trust that bootstrapped successfully. However, I just use nostr as an overlay network, which allows me to ignore low level networking details when I want to implement application layer tooling for mesh networks.
c03rad0r grew up with access to less than 8GB of internet per household per month at a data rate of less than 250 kbit even though the WiFi routers clearly weren't the bottle neck. Hence, c03rad0r set out on a mission to build a neighborhood mesh network that bundles the gateways (MultiWAN) for better throughput. Unfortunately, people didn't want to share this scarce resource without any accounting. c03rad0r knew that he needed a way to pay his neighbors for access to their internet gateway, but he didn't know how to do it. Now he finally knows how to make tooling that enables his neighbors to serve him as ISPs and TollGate is taking shape.